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come on great 3 on 5 kill, they are not giving in

ah now I see and he got benched because Blash was following his secret plan to ruin our prospects. Must have been that way. Hirose´s call ups had nothing to do with his play in GR and Veleno was just another needle to demoralize Svech. It took time but once I figured it out it all became clear.

He played 21 games last season, so they gave him a chance. He just couldn´t grab hold of a spot because of his play. WPG needed a cheap forward to fill the roster and fortunately for him the injuries occured and he got a chance to move up the roster without playing great and this time it seems that he grabs that spot. Good for him.

Svech got promoted when Wheeler and Scheifele missed the last two weeks of October. An opportunity he took advantage of so far and he never had here. iirc pretty much all of us were hoping we would see him more but to be honest, he didn´t give a reason for doing so. He was behind Zadina in the depth chart which didn´t help. When he played and I have to admit I´ve only seen 2 full games with him in the lineup, he didn´t impress me. For a power forward there was little power. He´s not having a motor like Fabbri who plays more like one without the physical attributes. He just didn´t stand out. A change of scenery was probably the only thing that could help him.

Who would have thought we start the season 7-5-2 ? I´m really pumped about this team (obviously because it´s four o´clock in the morning..), haven´t had this much fun watching in years

put up a fight, never give up and good things will happen!! great game and effort

glad we never won the lottery

All they have to do is to start were they left yesterday. Go Wings!!!

Smith and Ehn were only thought of as 4th liners, Svech was supposed to push for a top six role which he didn´t do. His whole pro career went somehow how wrong for him so far. After his great first season in GR he gets injured misses the start of the season and got derailed a bit. From then on it all went a bit downhill for him. How much of that comes into play and how much Blash´s part is is something we might never find out.

Obviously is this Yzerman guy convinced enough that Blash is able to develop his players and to me that is more than enough to know.

He didn´t perform in GR the way he should have if he wants to be on an NHL roster. With 48 points, -14 in 108 games over the last two seasons it´s hard to make a case for yourself. Svech and probably Givani Smith as well are highly touted prospects who didn´t turn out. The Brome situation was bad for Svech as well because they hoped he would pan out but in the end only blocked a roster spot. WPG has quite a few injuries and a thin prospect pool. They are taking a gamble, like we did with Perlini, and think we made a mistake but wait another ten games or so and I bet they start overthinking the situation. I was hopeful for Svech but never really convinced. I wish him all the best because here he wouldn´t have found a happy place with all the young talent coming in. Is he? The Wings look highly motivated to me. Mantha, with all the talent he´s got, is not a player who is able to push himself on a nightly basis, but that is not Blash´s fault it´s Mantha´s.

How can he? He can push players but they still have to perform.

Gee I wonder why he benched him. Svech had injuries that interrupted his development badly and he never got on track again. He´s nothing special, didn´t perform. It´s unfortunated to "waste" a first round pick that way but he didn´t show that he´s worth it. 3 points on WPG´s first line is nothing special, Abdelkader could do that as well.

That comeback win gives confidence and Vegas is hit hard by the injury bug. I think two points are within reach.

what a beauty, now I can go to sleep

Seider game winner

me too, was thinking to go to bed after that lousy pp, luckily I didn´t

double bert

nice goal today and a few other nice moves and chances. He develops nicely. and Dower Nillson, as I said before I have a strange feeling about this kid

Suter 16sec in, a really dirty goal

Sheahan was never any good nor had he any sort of talent. I´m not a Blashill fan because I don´t like the way he let´s us play but I´m not sure it´s his fault that the player turned out the way they did. Svechnikov is playing 2nd line minutes and not producing for WPG and he wasn´t producing in GR. If he´s no standout player in the AHL, where he wasn´t coached by Blash, he´s not going to be a good NHL player.

seems a bit like it when you think that the top 4 U21 SHL players are Red Wings prospects, although I´m not sure about the amount of impact of the failure Blashill had. It looks to me that most of them didn´t have the quality to be good NHL players no matter who would have coached them.

I don´t really see your point, it´s not Blashill´s fault if the 1st and 2nd round picks don´t pan out. You can´t polish a turt, you can probably make a case he didn´t make them play 110%. The first seven(Mrazek excluded) are all bad players who didn´t pan out somewhere else as well. AA was an idiot and Mantha good but gone. The others are too young to write off.

try to stop insulting people around here with almost every second sentence, probably that will help you to find some consistency.

I was answering a quote, in the meantime Matt deleted the thread, big man and with him the gdt are history...