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2g, 3a tonight in a 10-6 Michigan win over Ohio State. Now has 25 points in 18 games this season as an 18 year old freshman. I wasn't excited about this pick when it happened but I am now. Kid looks awesome and has since the wjc.

I want Larkin to spend another year at U of M. I got to watch a lot of his games and while he dominated play sometimes on certain shifts, it was exactly that. On certain shifts. I'd love to see him get stronger and take another step forward before moving to the AHL. He should be dominating most shifts, if not all and controlling the play whenever he's on the ice. I want him to get used to being "The guy" on the ice before moving to more difficult competition. This year he had Hyman and typically it was Hyman that was "the guy" even though Larkin wasn't far behind. He will be a leader on the wings in the future and I want to see him practice being that at U of M first.

My theory is we got too many points too quickly. A few weeks ago we were locks for the playoffs and battling for the top spot in the east. For the first time in a few years we weren't battling for our playoff lives for the entire season. We started to relax because we were definitely going to make the playoffs. Then we relaxed more. Now we can't seem to get it going again. It'll come. Hopefully.

Kronner out with lower body injury, Kindl in. Per khaaan.

Grimesy I'm so proud of you!

I'm very confused by this. Why again would we hope for our leading goal scorer to get hurt?

Well when the starters are Matt Stafford and Jimmy Howard it's not hard to see why. Decently solid, struggle to win the big games.

While I'm not advocating for trading Jimmy, I can see the logic behind wanting to trade him now. There are several reasons. 1. His value is higher now than it would be after he lost his starting job. You could get more for him. ie that puck moving defenseman or a Jordan Eberle. 2. Expansion draft. Rumor has it that Las Vegas will have a team to start the 2016 campaign. Trading Jimmy now allows us to sign a veteran guy that can play 30-40 games to a two year contract with the intention of protecting Mrazek and exposing said veteran. If we go in with two goalies that we want to protect, we will lose something that we don't want to. Whether it's a skater or one of the goalies, we'll lose something. This would allow us to protect against that. 3. It currently appears that the team plays better in front of Mrazek. His puck moving abilities change the dynamic of the breakout and helps us defend less. It's not a fluke that we score more goals in front of Mrazek. It's actually Mrazek.

Ericsson was -1 today. The only Red Wing to be a minus in a 5-1 victory. Huh.

http://m.hkref.com/m?p=XXplayersXXhXXhowarja02.html I don't care how bad the defense has been an NHL starting goalie needs to have better numbers than he has had recently.

You say this in literally every gdt. It's okay to have expectations, frank.

When Helm gets back I'd like to try Cole-Pav-Helm Gus-Z-Abdelkader Tatar-Sheahan-Jurco Miller-Glendening-Andersson

Miller-Andersson-Jurco/Weiss is a line of veteran defensive specialists? Since when? I agree with your take on the defense though.

I don't care who wins so much as long as it doesn't go to OT. Also, Go Colorado and Minnesota! Gotta keep up on the West too and our potential eventual Stanley Cup competition.

I think he'll get something somilar to Reilly Smith's new deal. 2-3 years at around 3-3.5.

Unless he makes the team better. Then it's not. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Marchenko will be in Grand Rapids.

Vancouver, Ottawa and the Leafs. I don't care if Florida, Boston or Philly make the playoffs but the farther the Leafs can get from McDavid the better.

1g, 3a in a dominant performance tonight as Michigan beat Ohio State 5-2. I fully expect him to spend 1 more year at Michigan and then go to Grand Rapids. This kid continues to impress.

I don't see an official report, but this article says Jurco has been demoted. http://www.foxsports.com/detroit/story/gave-wings-likely-to-stand-pat-as-trade-deadline-looms-022015

Pulks back up per Khan "@AnsarKhanMLive: The Wings have recalled forward Teemu Pulkkinen from the Grand Rapids Griffins."

Because we've had 2 PP's and they've had 0.

Callahan won't get a shot soon at all because he's out for the year with an ACL tear.

I don't think, at this point, you can say who won and who lost. They both flipped pieces they didn't want/need/weren't in the long term plans for pieces that they did need or want. Good deal for both sides when you consider where the teams are right now.

We wouldn't give up the first anyway. Oh well. Who else is out there?