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Canes fans seem pretty hopeful about Darling still despite how incredibly awful he was for them last season. I don't share their enthusiasm. I chalk it up to the same "Mrazek Syndrome" we experienced here in Detroit/LGW. They can't bare to admit he's mediocre to below-average. For that reason, I think you're right, Mrazek will probably get more chances with the Canes than anyone suspects. I think those chances will go about as well as they did here regardless of the defensive unit. I maintain that Mrazek will find himself in Europe sooner rather than later. The Canes will not be his savior. He lost the flame war and he's knows it. No need to kick a downed man.

The verdict is in. And what do you know, it's both sad and hilarious! lol I'm a real clown. Completely unrelated, but do you wanna take bets on the Vezina trophy this season? People don't forget You're goddamn right

I can happily say we're now in the acceptance stage and recovering quickly This did not age well. Can anyone else believe that Philly didn't give a $4 million qualifier to a terrible back up goalie? Shocking, I know. Get f***ed nerds

Bump. Sorry, reading old threads and couldn't help myself.

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I enjoyed this highlight video way more than those "Goals of 2017-18" ones. More hype and well made. A lot less play before the goal thou. You can describe every goal anyway you want Lefty, I don't disagree with you. The kid is lightning in a bottle. So much fun to watch. Every single time he steps on the ice and I see #72 out there my brain goes "oh s***, Athanasiou's out there" in anticipation. When I tune in this season, Athanasiou is going to be one of the largest reasons why. Where I disagree with you is here: He's not a huge part of this team. Not yet anyway. Huge parts of teams approach 20 minutes a night. Athanasiou plays 15. Less than Helm and Nielsen. Huge parts of teams breach 50 pts. Athanasiou had 33. We can talk about how he had worse linemates and how Blashill's an idiot who doesn't give him enough minutes. But at the end of the day it doesn't change a thing. He's simply not a major integral part of the Red Wings... yet. And I'm not just being generous when I say "yet". I really think this kid has the chops to be a very very good player, and "legit huge part of this team". The kid can score with fashion. Dastyuk had fashion. And speaking of Datsyuk, and I feel like no one ever talks about this, but Athanasiou is totally underrated when it comes to stealing the puck. When he wants it and he works for it, it's his. He's got the same sneaky stick Datsyuk had. And this ties in nicely to my point, I want this kid to be a Datsyuk, or at least come as close as he can. We both know he can score... So now that we know that, my attention is on the rest of his game... I see he knows how to steal the puck, I just don't see the effort to do so on a regular basis. I think as a total package (right now) AA's game has a lot of resemblance to Thomas Vanek. And it sorta makes sense, they're gonna be paid identical salaries this year. AA and Vanek are both very talented offensive players, but outside of that area of their game, they don't bring a whole lot. One-dimensional. I don't want AA to be the next Thomas Vanek, I want AA to be the next Datysuk. And it's the Red Wings job to try to get him there while he's still young and learning. If he wants bigger minutes I would expect to see him improve his compete level at defense, and not just on single anecdotal plays, but every. single. shift... I think he has a lot of potential to make big growth there. I wanna see him winning more board battles. I admittedly wanna see more breakaways because I adore breakaways and I'm selfish, but I really wanna see more points coming from plays in the offensive zone, cycling the puck. I think that's really important, he's nowhere close to Larkin's high level instincts/vision/playmaking-ability yet. I think we can both agree that he shows the potential to be a really great player one day, but I would simply point out, he isn't there yet. When I see his game start to round out and grow, my opinion of him will grow with it.

But being serious, the argument i see FOR Mrazek is he's gonna have a much better defense in front of him and less competion from Darling I think

1. Zadina/Rasmussen 2. Zadina/Rasmussen 3......

WHO THE f*** VOTED FOR MRAZEK? DEFEND YOURSELF

I guess it's Cholowski then, I voted Hronek cause Cholowski hasn't proved dick yet

Geese > Batteries

Smith and Jurco ruined the Red Wings

Another one Karlsson with the handoff to Athanasiou These two already have great chemistry together

Karlsson to Athanasiou, HE SCORES! Erik wants to be a Red Wing so badly...

Should #91 be in the rafters? Local dumbass, Helene St. James, thinks so.

"He did what the team needed him to do in order to succeed" Oh, like faking an allergy to go on IR and avoid recapture penalties?

Datsyuk and Hossa reunion?

I've been calling him the new Franzen since the day we drafted him Honestly surprised LGW hasn't turned on him already. After the 2019/20 season is up Holland will re-sign Mantha to a bigger deal and let Athanasiou walk, for good reason, but I will ***** and moan that he shoulda chose AA over that stinkin' floater Mantha till the end of time. It's gonna be great.

Only thing worse than a Spaniard is a Portugesiard

Next contract for Mantha will be something like $3.9 mil for 11 years

Both useless nerds

I read this as you're going to impregnate your son

AA must be overpaid then too?

Why does the statue have real hair?