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Went and saw that new movie 1917 last night. Won't post spoilers, but I was kind of disappointed. First off it's not a war movie, it's like a slow paced journey film following one soldier not fighting 90% of the time. So don't get suckered in like me thinking you are gonna see waves of soldiers getting machine-gunned in the trenches. You're not. It's one of these movies that's good to watch once, but you'll probably never watch it a 2nd time. Very slow paced at times. Sort of a lack luster conclusion. Beautifully set and beautifully shot, if you can look past the constant close up camera angles on one character for an entire movie. When they do fight in the movie it's super frustrating to watch. Guys literally hip-firing long rifles and stuff. Bullet impacts hitting places that make no sense based on the angles. All in all 5/10, but probably 6/10 on the big screen due to the cinematic value of the movie. And that's your monthly mooooooooovvvvvvvvvieeeeeeee review!

Veleno sucks and should be murdered

So then why the down year? He didn't need elite wingers last year to get it done. He has over 300+ career games now, this player should have things figured out. And again we're right back to "Larkin needs elite wingers to be a stud". He objectively didn't need elite wingers last year to be studly. What's changed? His "middlesix" wingers Bertuzzi and Fabbri are out-pacing him in scoring right now. If anything he's benefiting from playing with them. Having a down year, AKA gave up on the season in October and would rather f*** around and party with AA. Nice strawman Larkin is our supposed best player and face of the franchise. That's both a blessing and an extra burden he has to carry. If he was having a down year personally but the Wings were okay I'd be inclined to look the other way, but he's having a down year and the team is record breakingly bad. He's absolutely gonna face more finger pointing than an Ehn would.

Hmmm ur opinion of Nagle did a 180 pretty quickly... Larkin has the expectation to be a PPG player or be close to one. Bertuzzi and Fabbri carried no where close to that level of expectation. We traded a 4th line PKer for Fabs for pete sake and Bertuzzi has never hit 50 pts in his career. Both Bertuzzi and Fabbri are having tremendous up years by their standards and deserve generous praise. The bar will be set a lot higher for both of them next year. Sorry that I have the honesty to be able to admit when a player is having a down year I guess? You danced around my question though. Your excuse for Larkin is he has crappy wingers. I'm saying he doesn't. And he was able to score 73 pts and 32 goals last year with pretty much the same wingers, so what's his excuse for this year? Drugs? Partying? Not caring? Keep beating that drum. You anti-Howard bois always lose lol. So when players are playing well we should praise them, but when they are playing bad we should remain silent? f*** that gatekeeping honestly Welcome to being the fan of a bad team. Everyones lazy and sucks and deserves to be traded right now. Even the guys I praise like the spaghet bros Bert and Fabs. No doubt. Forsberg is a good player.

Zadina has looked a lot better through the last 7-10 games. Credit where its due. In fact, to rope in my Larkin bashing into this, I think he's shown more of a scoring touch than Larkin has, even despite Larkin's recent offensive uptick. If given Larkin's icetime he prolly outscores Larkin this year. Unfortunately for Zadina we need Larkin's defensive presence which Zadina doesn't bring. With Bertuzzi there definitely is/was a different standard of expectations. Only like 40% of 2nd rounders are gonna move on to the NHL. Meanwhile a #6 pick has like a 90% chance of making the NHL. 2nd round players tend to become on average about 0.2 pt per game players (Dmen and goalies included in that number) and top10 picks tend to average 0.4 - 0.8 pts per game (D and G included) over their careers. So there's a huge difference there. I'm not only expecting Zadina to easily make the NHL fairly quickly, I'm also reasonably expecting him to become top6 winger on the team, and I'm hoping a first line winger. Any butthurtness from me over Zadina is cause I personally don't see that 1st line potential I'm hoping to see. Bertuzzi on the other hand, if he doesn't make the team it sucks but whatever really. Lots of 2nd round players never workout. If he does make it and contributes in the bottom 6 yeah yayyyyyyy. But my comparison to Bertuzzi was really only meant in terms of what they are as players right now, and not what my expectations are. But lets address it anyway. Bertuzzi never got noticed for the great player he is today I think firstly because of his skill set. Bertuzzi isn't very naturally talented. His skating, his hands, his shot, etc etc is all pretty average and boring. He seems to make up for all of that with incredible IQ and having a big fearless personality. To detract a little, I care a lot more about personality these days than I ever did or thought I would. I think Bertuzzi and Seider are phenomenal examples of players who seem to dictate the game almost purely on sheer will and refusal to be intimidated. We need 300 players like this. But back to my point about IQ, I think the problem with IQ is it's incredibly hard to scout for for guys like you and me. Most of the time we are just casually watching the game, but I think to scout for IQ you really need to pick the player you want to learn about and focus only on them throughout the whole game. I do do this, but very rarely, and only with players I'm very excited about aka Zadina and Seider. So yeah maybe if I had done this with a 21/22 year old Bertuzzi I would have noticed something there? IDK I don't wanna say I'm that good, but maybe, who knows. And I admit there's also quite a huge observers bias going on here. Because they are both under my microscope the tendency to nit pick or over exaggerate one positive or negative is definitely a thing. My evaluation of Zadina and Seider are also both based on my own personal taste. Seider is how I would design a Dman. Almost to a T. Zadina isn't necessarily exactly what I hoped for so far. So it's not hard to imagine why my duality of one being amazing and one sucks exists. Don't get me wrong Bertuzzi is probably my favorite player on the team right now. I just have zero tolerance for losing. If Yzerman thinks he can make a deal that makes this team better and it involves Bertuzzi then F Bertuzzi honestly. Let heads roll.

Yeah I mean on paper we have a decent young core Bertuzzi - Larkin - Mantha Fabbri - Athanasiou - Zadina Hronek Defense and goaltending is lackluster, but that's still a forward group that should be scoring A LOT. And if your core isn't working, the solution is CHANGE THE CORE. Like a growing tree Yzerman needs to prune the weak branches so the good ones can grow stronger. I think that starts with Athanasiou...

We have a team literally littered with losers. Some are worse than others but they all suck at the end of the day. They should all be in fear of being traded.

Best player under contract with the Red Wings

Larkin apologizes for his ASG comments Good on him for apologizing. Say dumb stuff. Win dumb prizes.

Eh I much prefer Gudas Edmundsson is getting less minutes in Carlolina than he did with STL. He has zero offensive skills whatsoever. His physicality hold its own but im not overly impressed with it. Generally a pretty boring Dman like Nemeth that I'm not interested in having more of. Gudas can at least put up 20+ pts with limited icetime. And he will absolutely level opponents on a consistent basis. 100%. People don't realize Gudas's scoring per60 is higher than Ekman-Larsson's, Quinn Hughes, Pietrangelo, McAvoy, Chabot. Gudas scores when he's on the ice pretty consistently.

Why? We have Pickard and Nagle in GR. Why would we need ANOTHER minor league tendy? Mantha's not struggling, besides with his injury. Bertuzzi and Fabbri are having great years. What's Larkin's excuse? So how was Larkin able to have such a great season last year? There was no pastranak or marchand on that team Howard will play more NHL games than Comrie will next year. So wait if Zadina has a great year next year you want me to keep crapping on him? Because one should "take a stance and stick with it"? That's so hilariously clown world level lol. If Larkin has a bad season, or Mantha has a bad season, or anyone has a season below their capabilities I'm going to call them on it. If they have good seasons I'll compliment them on it. That's pretty rational and pretty fair I feel llike... No ur absolutely correct. Draft spot shouldn't matter. Talent matters. And Zadina doesn't have enough of it. But because of his draft pedigree I think we could sucker another team into overpaying for him while he's still young. I have written pages about his shortcomings. No one ever responds to them. That's what's frustrating. I'll try to dig my last one up momentarily here. EDIT: Here,

"Larkin doesn't need an elite winger, but also he does" Ok? Bertuzzi, Fabbri, and Mantha aren't capable linemates? Please extrapolate on this Larks is the best C on this team. That being said he should have another center put on top of him. 300+ NHL games and he's regressing. 1C or 2C it doesn't matter to me. He hasn't been good enough this year. If the team was at least winning or holding their own I could prolly see to it to look the other way. But that isn't the case.

Every year there is some terrible Dman that everyone advocates for for some reason. Like a sleeper pickup or something. Specifically I remember someone on this board raving about Mark Fayne one year. Edmundsson is that guy. If you want another Nemeth then yeah, Edmundsson is a good pick. In my view thou that's just a place filler. I'm done with that after this year. I'll take Gudas, he at least adds an edge to this team. Emundsson is more like a depth Dman you should be adding for a playoff run.

Average top6 wingers seem to be our bag these days

1. Larkin sucks and does drugs

Yeah so we can pick late in the first round and extend this dead wings for another 30 years yeah

No doubt Zads is in an upward trajectory right now. I have no complaints about that We just need another Yzerman, not another Tatar.

The only reason my position exists is because folks refuse to have rational conversation on the subject. Examining Zadina's game for better or for worse is basically inviting those to call u a doubter/blasphemer.

Why everyone thinks Georgiev is available?

Oi IDK why my numbers were wrong? Did I pull last seasons numbers or something? Larkin has the best linemates on the team If there's anyone on the team who can't complain about linemates it's Larkin. "If Larkin had Pastranak" is sucha bad argument. Ur basically admitting Larkin is only good if he has good line-mates. And the scariest part is he has had good line-mates. I'm not gonna be nice to Larkin cause he's young. He needs to be a lot better than he is, and in the the meantime I'm gonna call him a ******* loser as is deserved. Says the man a few months away from losing his job in the NHL Zetterberg never had an interview like this.

"Okay with being a 55 pt player" Loser "I'm not disappointed" Delusional loser "I wanna help this team win in a tight game, a playoff game, where it matters" Try getting to the playoffs first son

What projections have I been wrong about? What players have I flip flopped on? I suspect you have nothing to back any of this up. Meanwhile I can dig in to you on your bad player evaluations pretty easily. That's the difference. I warn and encourage you to go down this road.

Mackel is definitely more hardcore than me. He has all the balls in this sense. I view Zadina as a regular top 6 winger like Tatar and nothing more. That's still a great thing... I just wanted more out of a #3 ranked player. Whether that ask is fair is up to you. U avoided answering my questions on the subject for a while. That's all I mean and why I repeat them. Ur assertion that Comrie should play over Howard is where I truly draw issue. It's not hard for me to attack that, it's a pretty misguided notion even with Howards down year. And that's why Howard remains on this team and Comrie doesn't. Low hanging fruit honestly, I don't why you choose to eat it. Larkin is sitting around Zach Kassian, James Neal, and Brett Connolly in terms of points right now. He deserves every bit of scrutiny. This team sucks and anyone who tries to convince you it doesn't deserves the scrutiny too. If Larkin doesn't want the heat he needs to be better. Totes disagree. Larkin has no excuse. All the ice time. The best line mates on the team most of of the time. Yes. At least just as good really. Ur putting urself out there quite a bit for McColllum 2.0. It was a nice try, but in the end a low risk mistake.

U dont watch games. If u did ud realize how awful guys like Turgeon are. But u dont. I dont expect tangradi or terry to ever make the wings but theyre great ahlers. Also i thought u were ignoring me cause of ur period or something? Did it pass finally?