shocky2002

Jurco has decent advanced metrics. Would've expected them to go hard after Corsi legend Tomas Tatar though.

I love Petr but he's getting destroyed today.

Look at the shot totals. He didn't blow anything, clown.

The Penguins don't play in Washington.

Capitals, 3-1

And then you realize, the schedule only gets worse from here on out

IMO, in order of importance to the cup wins 1. Bowman 2. Jimmy D 3. Hakan Anderson 4. Mike Ilitch 5. Steve Yzerman 6. Holland

5-2, St Louis

Considering how bad this team looks without The Magic Man this year, Has his standing on your all time (players you've actually seen) Red Wings list improved? I used to have him about 6th or 7th, now I've got no choice but to rank him 4th. Behind Nick Lidstrom (GOAT) and Sergei. I actually have him tied with Stevie Y, who might be better at his peak, but during the Red Wings golden run he wasn't any better than Datsyuk circa 2007-11. There's no argument at all for Zetterberg or Shanahan above him IMO.

Yay at the Wings for not trading their most valuable trade asset while he was at his peak value 3 months ago.

Lol

So you want the worst player on the roster to play even though fighting has historically had ZERO correlation with winning. Huh.

Mantha should never be fighting.

I'm a troll for pointing out that in Februray a bottom 7 team in the NHL is actually not very good, and unless they were injured/get a lot of good players back they are very unlikely to be playoff-bound? Are you people utterly delusional or something?

Julien is an elite coach, IMO. Bruins made a huge mistake. 1st CF% 1st xGF% 5th SCF% 30th Sh% 30th PDO The puck luck will be in the Bruins' favor soon, and the new coach will be credited with that success. No, they don't. They're not better than a healthy Tampa team, Philly, Toronto, Boston, Healthy florida. Sorry to burst your bubble, but this team sucks.

Islanders are a trash team. No doubt in my mind they'll be competing with us at the end of the year for a higher lottery position. Gotta lose this one

When was the last time a team that finished bottom 3 in the entire league became contenders within 3 years? The mid-00s Blackhawks? We're not getting a Patrick Kane level of player in the draft, btw DRW this season has had a fairly easy schedule and they're still doing so terribly. There's no doubt in my mind, after the grueling February stretch that they will only trail Arizona and Colorado in the reverse standings

Lol. I bet you think this bottom 5 team will contend within 2 years.

Nice call there Could easily replace the first 3 sentences with 'Holland' and 'Illitch'. Unadjusted plus minus means nothing. But yes, Mantha is good. Really good.

Powerplay's been an issue for years, but this year 11% lol.. That's almost entirely on the absence of Pavel IMO.. no creativity from any of the guys we trot out

IMO, 1) Steve Ott 2) Jonathan Ericsson 3) Drew Miller 4) Luke Glendening (Absolutely disgusting player, tbh.. fake hustle) 5) Jurco tied with Abdelkader

Life force of being a consistently awful possession player? He really is driving this abysmal team

Auston Matthews is so ******* good. Most DRW fans would rather extend a meaningless streak than have a better chance at getting a player close to his calibre next year, though.

48-26 SOG differential (65%).

Shouldn't even have gone to OT. Red Wings get another fluke point, are still not going to make the playoffs and are only getting worse draft position.