ChristopherReevesLegs

I would really hate to see Fabbri go buttttt If Yzerman turned a waiver pick up into say Yaroslav Askarov, that would be ******* legendary on his part. That appeals to me.

Can't wait till the lottery has passed and we know our draft position. Get a poll thread going to see who everyone wants. I think if we're not the #1 pick the general consensus will be Stoots

You think Jimmy is elite I like that about you

You might be right. A 0.53 ppg player and a 0.66 ppg player for one 1.52 ppg player leaves a difference of 0.33. Fuqq it, Holland can have Green AND Helm on top of that too.

It's pretty much decided that Yzerman is taking Stutzle After that we fire Blash and hire Uwe Krupp Than we trade Larkin and Athanasiou to Holland for Draisaitl

In 56 drafts the Detroit Red Wings have never once selected an elite goaltender. But I'm sure we'll find one in the late rounds this year, definitely. Maybe in 5 years he can even make the squad? Or ya kno... we take Askarov, who can probably actually play soon.

What was McCollum? Like 1st round, 3 millionth overall?

If Yzerman waives Ehn at all I'll be ******* pissed. I really don't think Yzerman is that stupid though.

If DLR gets claimed AND gets traded for Fabbri straight up. U kno Ehn is gettin' claimed.

Oh boy more Jake Paterson's

I think teams that suffer a cheap shot and don't respond with a fight or at least a scrum within 2 minutes after the cheap shot, should be fined. We'll call it the nancy tax

I hear ya. I would just avoid those 2 players as a GM for the same reason a lot of GMs would right now. Was it the Wings? Or was it them? nothing to do with their caphits. It's the same reason why FA's don't wanna go to bad teams in the first place. Could possibly wreck your career. Both Abby and Niels are probably better at D than most folks realize. Could Abby stil get 2 mil in the NHL tomorrow? Meh I highly doubt it. Glendog, Fil, and Helm can still serve teams well thou

We gotta fix the net brah

Respect it and understand the motivation, still disagree. Sports are a drug. U like light beer. I like hard liquor. I wanna see the toughest nastiest craziest s*** out there. These guys risk their health night in and night out. But that's the job. A lot of jobs require risking your health for far less pay. I mean, to take the extreme example, look at the military. Base pay is like 20K a year and these men and women are signing up to literally risk their lives and possibly have overwhelmingly traumatic experiences for that. Meanwhile base pay in the NHL is 700K a year. Far more than I'll ever make in a year even with my cushy corporate job. So sorry Johnny hockey, but you can afford to be clipped at the knees and crosschecked in the lower back a few times. Don't like it? Get a regular job like the rest of us. You know exactly what you signed up for.

Nielsen plays 14 minutes a night Abby plays 12 Idk how anybody feels about giving them a job thou. I wouldn't unless they signed for almost league min for no term. Kinda like Ennis or Spezza.

"Muh Cartoons" Disgusting

I mean why ignore the bottom 6? We're never going to have 6 ELC players with top6 potential ready to play responsible NHL hockey year after year. We absolutely need solid bottom 6 players like Ehn and Glendening down there. Hunting for new ones every year and overpaying them on the UFA market doesn't seem like a very wise choice. There's a reason Glendening will have decent value on the trade market. Competitive teams need players like this. We're not competitive yet, but hopefully by the time Ehn is 26/27 we will be. Eh I think Glendog is solid 3rd liner on a lot of teams. 4th liner on a very deep one. I often advocate re-signing Glendening when trade talks come up because he's so great at his role I want to keep him. He's an upscale bottom 6 PK forward. Those aren't as easy to find as one would think, and most teams keep these guys once they have them.

As a superhero in a wheelchair and the legs of a man in a wheelchair who played a superhero on TV, you'd think we'd get along

Your lack of faith in Ehn just plain baffles me Whenever I or someone else poops on young players you're always the one who jumps to their defense. Give them time you say, or they're still young. Hell we've exchanged pages and pages of you defending this rando 24 year old AHL goalie we got for Saarijarvi, who we seem to all agree is poop. Now we have this young Swedish defensive forward and you want nothing to do with him. I just don't get it. I know he's not exciting to watch, but this kid has had a pretty impressive career for a forward with minimal offensive talent. He gets called up to play in Sweden's highest league for a couple games as a very fresh 17 year old, an impressive feat. Proceeds to get drafted in the 4th round by the Red Wings (a Hakan Andersson pick). Gets called up again as an 18 year old for Frolunda's playoff run. Makes Frolunda's team full time at 19... again pretty impressive. Holland brings him to NA at 22, and he basically skips the AHL entirely and makes the Red Wings squad shortly into his first season, jumping clean over some very solid AHL players and prospects. Now he's 23 and on the 4th line delivering solid defensive work and playing the system (maybe you disagree) and he has the next 3-5 seasons to develop further and grow... and you have no interest in him *visible confusion* He's never gonna be a flashy Jurco type or offensive guy, but I think we have young solid 4th C shutdown guy, potentially 3C shutdown guy on our hands. It's not a big piece, but it's a piece to build our bottom 6 around. I never thought Glendog was gonna be more than a 4th liner, but look at him now. Playing up and down the lineup with an A on his chest as a guy who just plain plays textbook hockey. I'm seeing a lot of similarities there. Ehn just needs to get stronger and heavier on the puck at this point. He sucks in relation to my expectations for this player. Lots of players far below him in his draft class are hitting or approaching 100, 200, and even 300 GP in the NHL already. And here he is as a 19th overall pick with 20 GP and he's a mediocre AHL player. I know the year lost to injury is an excuse, but to say this doesn't SUCK and isn't a huge disappointment would be a tremendous lie on my part. The windows are closing for this kid and his ELC is up this year. I mean Rinne was never really gonna get a shot until Vokoun and Mason left that team. Once they did he was shutout city. Howard "developed late" too but I could see a clear argument that he and Rinne could have probably made the NHL a lot sooner in different organizations. Howard was stuck behind Osgood, Hasek, and Legace for what like 4 seasons? He's like the poster boy for over-ripening. But I do agree that probably gave his career some longevity. Mr. Mrazek is the poster boy for under-ripening... WE only saw 2 games of Comrie... Yzerman and co had him in Red Wings practices for over 2 weeks. I'm sure Comrie is a fine kid, they just saw no real future there, otherwise they would have found a way to keep him. Yzerman should absolutely be concerned about tendy depth. I think you're exaggerating a bit about our depth struggles and Comries ability to alleviate them. We have no depth in the NHL right now sure, but GR is fine. Pickard is your standard AHL goalie. Poulin is your standard AHL goalie. Nagle is an ECHL goalie but has played well in the AHL so far... And Comrie is your standard AHL goalie. I don't think adding Comrie to GR suddenly gets us the Calder Cup.

Does anyone remember all those weird paper transactions with Zadina? Where Yzerman was sending him up and down, but not actually sending him back to GR? Was just thinking about this and what it means for the Yzerplan. I think if these strange payroll transactions are an indicator of anything it's that Yzerman intends on maximizing and weaponizing his payroll budget and therefore cap space at the deadline. Basically what @nyqvististhefuture has been advocating for for some time. We take on all the dead weight in the NHL in exchange for picks. Some of the more obvious trades I think we can make: Helm + Perlini for picks + prospects Green + Bowey for picks + prospects I think those are 4 players I can see Yzerman wanting to move on from at the TDL. I think he will be smart enough to hold on to AA and trade him at the draft, or this summer. Some of the more creative trades (bare with me, they're just ideas): Howard for Quick + picks. Kings get to escape that contract while they still have Doughty and Kopitar around, giving them a chance to re-open their playoff window. Howard plays out the season for them and is then let go. Yzerman reunites Bernier and Quick and now Yzerman doesn't have to go goalie shopping in the offseason. Plus we get at least a first rounder I would think? Ericsson for Alzner + picks Montreal again get to escape that contract and revive their team. You guys get it. It's trading in exchange for term. The only trouble is it definitely helps extend the rebuild. But with Nielsen and Abby on the roster for another 3 years, why not just add players like Quick and Boychuck who have another 3 years too? Then we can use buyouts as needed as the team grows. Plus a compliance buyout is coming from Seattle soon. IDK

I think you've been around the block a few times

Blashill looks like he'd make love to me. With passion and romance. Really treat me right. Make me feel special and loved. Babcock looks like he'd f*** me. Pure domination, but it would be exhilarating. Gallant looks he'd drink too much and touch me between the legs when I'm not looking

THEE Corey Pronman said that? Wasn't Corey also the one who was forced to begrudgingly admit that he was wrong about Seider during training camp this fall? That he had him ranked way too low at the draft and that he hadn't even watched Seider play that much prior? Seider was THE BEST player in his draft class. Better and more valuable than Jack Booos and Krappo Cracko. Years from now folks will do their little re-drafts and Seider will be #1 without question.

You quite literally said that: Have you been midday drinking again? That's fair to think. I think Turgeon will get better as a player, but I don't think he'll ever be an NHLer. I like Ehn a helluva a lot more than I ever liked Jurco/Emmerton/Andersson/Mursak/Frk/Ferraro/Nestrasil. He might have less offensive talent then all of those names, but he plays superb defense and almost always makes the right play. I can't say that about any of those other names, and that's probably why none of them have NHL jobs right now. Like Glendening, Ehn has found himself a nice little niche role. Maybe he'll be like Glendog and play higher up the lineup when he's older. Maybe he'll always be a 4th line PKer. If the later is the case that's fine with me. He's already pretty darn good at that role and I expect him to get even better at it with time. I'll remind you Ehn basically skipped the AHL entirely. This kids good at what he does. Well naturally he should have more potential. He's a first round pick. But that draft pedigree comes with much higher expectations. And by that measure Svech has been a massive disappointment so far. And for that reason he has my suck label, and yeah I would see if Carolina is interested in obtaining him for the right price. He REALLY needed to have a big season this year and it's been so underwhelming. I don't necessarily agree with any of this. Some good goalies take longer to develop. Many don't. The one's who do take a long time to develop tend to be crappy cast offs like McCollum and Comrie. You think Comrie has the potential to be similar to a Bernier? You know Bernier was already a full time back up at 22 years old right? Comrie is 24 already. Look at Winnipegs situation with Comrie. The only NHL caliber goalie on their roster is Hellebuyck who broke into the league at 22 just like Bernier. They are opting to keep Brossoit as their backup over Comrie, and Brossoit's play in net has been awful. I imagine if Chevy had any inkling that Comrie would ever be an NHLer they'd be getting him looks right now to see if he can replace Brossoit. I don't really buy into the meme that goalies are so difficult to gauge. I didn't see he anything noteworthy in his time here, and it appears Yzerman didn't either. I don't think Yzerman cares as much as you do about slightly improving the net-minding in GR. Poulin is historically an average AHL goaltender. Nagle has been good in GR this year. Pickard will be back there soon enough. Adding Comrie to the mix maybe could be a slight improvement for the time being, but I think it's slight enough for Yzerman to not really give a s***. I also look at it this way: Comrie had 2 years left on his contract. Yzerman will be looking to eliminate unwanted contracts and open up the roster this summer. He already has Pickard locked up as his AHL guy, so he may not want another permenant AHL goalie taking up a contract against the limit. And all in all having two AHL goalies locked up is redundant. I'm sure he's hoping Larsson or someone else will take that AHL back up role next year.

Different positions has nothing to do with it. 23 is young and still developing at any position. Different prime years has nothing to do with. 23 is young and still outside of prime for every player besides maybe super stars. Different developmental paths? Please explain how Comries path through hockey leaves Comrie with potential, but Ehn's path doesn't. You simply fail to fully understand my position, and falsely equate my use of the word "suck" for a player not having any potential. Svechnikov has potential. Ehn has potential. And even Comrie has potential. Svech has sucked and continues to suck this season which is why he remains in the AHL. Will he get better? Certainly. He's 23. Comrie sucked and that's why he's back in the AHL. Will he get better? Certainly. He's 24. Ehn has actually been able to hold down a job in the NHL, even if its not a very big one. He's a pretty decent 4th line PKer. Will ge get better? Certainly he's 23.