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I have not, is he bad on the podcasts? I generally like his tweets and articles.

The "writer" lost me at this : My assumption would be that he hits long-term injured reserve prior to the 2019-2020 season (the Wings could probably cite his back injury) and as such, the Wings can obtain some cap relief. It’s worth pointing out that Zetterberg’s contract is subject to a cap recapture penalty if he retires early, so LTIR will have to be the way around his cap hit. OMG FOR THE MILLIONTH TIME YOU CAN'T MAGICALLY PUT SOMEONE ON LTIR UNLESS THEY'RE INCAPABLE OF PLAYING. No you CAN'T put Zetterberg on LTIR and "cite" his back injury. He has to actually have a permanent OFFICIAL injury. The only one good writer that website is Kyle. I usually read his stuff. Prashant Iyer (the guy who wrote this) is a statistical genius (and I've used him as a reference plenty of times) but his inability to differentiate reality from some of his fantasized narratives is astounding.

Neither would this guy:

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Between 2009 (when Tavares came into the league) and until Nielsen's last season with the Islanders. They played a total of 87 minutes together "on the same line". Mind you that's 87 minutes out of like 7000-8000 minutes (rounded up). On the powerplay they played together a total of 700 minutes or so but that's nothing compared to the overall amount of minutes Nielsen played between 2009 and 2015 for the Islanders (precisely 7847 minutes since 2009). I know you hate the signing but you need to fact check yourself. Read above and go ahead and add it to your burn book.

I give up my hope on the top 5 pick btw. Might as well enjoy going down with them in their long term sinking ship. In other news Zetterberg has 899 points and AA, Mantha are close to 20 goals.

Still watching the coverage, hopefully their goalie is okay.

Why is Zetterberg the only one kneeling for injured goalie? You're supposed to kneel while someones injured guys. Seems like a very serious injury.

Nielsen doesn't play with Tavares, they were both Centers on two different lines.

My opinion is that as we find success, as our younger players become better and we groom a super star or two, we won't have issues bringing players here (if there truly is an issue). Chelios is wrong imo that Babcock is the cause. Maybe I'd have agreed with him last year but with the way FA was you can tell this overall is a league issue. Also that cap really needs to go up more. These players are too expensive for the cap space. Not to mention that NMC and NTC are awful, can the next CBA just get rid of those dam things?

Yep. They either re-sign (Stamkos), go home (Parise), or get overpaid by somenone else. If not that, then if it's a top contender, the players will go there.

This reminds me of the 2009 "feud" Article from 2009. https://www.google.com/amp/www.mlive.com/articles/2831884/jeremy_roenick_apologizes_to_c.amp "A day after San Jose forward Jeremy Roenick said Wings coach Mike Babcock does not respect Chris Chelios and accused him of holding a grudge against American players, both Babcock and Chelios said Friday that the situation needs to be put to rest and that there's no issues between them." http://prev.dailyherald.com/story/?id=295636 Another one: Cheli added his own perspective Friday and tried to clear up his relationship with Babcock. "I've never had an issue or problem with him," Chelios said of his head coach.

Nobody good wanted to come here even after Babcock left. We ended up with Frans Nielsen... Free Agency had Stamkos, Eriksson, Ladd, Radulov, Okposo, Lucic, Backes. I guess I'm just sick of the organization making excuses and trying to blame others. I believed in the narrative that Babcock was a big reason but it looks as tho the issue is we suck all over the place from a bad future outlook, to now a bad coaching staff, to a managerial system that was exposed the last few years for some bad decisions. But most of all, there's no reason to blame anyone, free agency in the NHL sucks period. Most players resign with their team and the few who don't get overpaid to be someone else.

Bowman definitely garnered more hate than Babcock did. A good chuck of players actually like Babcock, it's a few bitter ones that *****. Rumors were that Bowman basically was pushed out of Pittsburgh because Mario Lemieux didn't like him. And how many cups did Mario win after Bowman left?

Babcock is right. Chelios is wrong. Idk what Chelios was smoking for the last 13 years but all we did WAS sign veterans under Babcock. Modano, Alfredsson, Weiss, Hasek, Bertuzzi, Rafalski, Samuelsson, Drake, McCarty.

Christ, Yzerman sweats like a beast

BEN WALLACEEEE!! *gong hits in the background* Great series

Yeah man, there are. They're all bandwagon annoying s***s.

I refuse. The sooner we get better players and better picks the faster I can put this s*** season behind me. Was at a pickup game a few weeks ago and the amount of s*** some of the people I play with were talking about Detroit. "f*** hockeytown". "Chicago's the real hockeytown". "Detroit sucks". "Welcome to being a bottom feeder for the next 10 years". No way I'm already sick of hearing the trash talk. I played with a lot of bandwagon Patrick Kane and Zach Parise fans that game rocking their ugly ass Blackhawks and Wild jerseys. Some of them are from out of state working/ going to grad school here in Detroit. But some of them are actually from Detroit suburbs just being annoying and glamorizing Kane, Kieth etc.

Don't dude. Don't even go there. We're not a petty spoiler team like Carolina, Florida, Edmonton of the last 10 years. We're the Red Wings. We have to go back to being on top and rather than try to spoil it for others, be that one's that are targeted by the s*** teams.

Where are the members who were cheering for the Penguins last year in the playoffs saying they're ok with Crosby because he "matured"?

Quick edit your post so people don't know what we talk about

Btw you do know this is the Draper thread and not a PM right?

True love has no explanations.

Dr. Echolalia, don't be judging! Also did you match??