sputman

More of a Mitsubishi man, myself.

Call it petty or whatever, but I think that anyone who tried very hard to leave the team should not have their number retired, and that would include Fedorov and Datsyuk. Which sucks for Zetterberg, because I feel if you retire one you have to retire the other, and I don't think they'd retire Z and not D because that would be an obvious slight and create a maelstrom of debate.

Can they be called up?

What are you, like a hot chick or something?

It would not surprise me if Hitch was brought in. He's of the Scotty Bowman mold and could potentially turn things around if he wants to work for another 5-10 years.

Ya'll are crazy for rating Z so low. Yzerman - 10 Zetterberg - 10 Lidstrom - 8 Y and Z were both scorers whose bodies broke down later in their careers and they still battled harder than anybody else on the ice. Yzerman had many losing seasons early on, but at that point the team wasn't really expected to do much. Once the team started winning the pressure was to win cups with stacked teams, not to continue a playoff tradition with a poor team. Everyone in the hockey community but you jokers sings Zetterberg's praises for the effort he puts in every night and the example that he makes.

Oh good.

How many years do we have Helm?

He's still playing on my feed.

Sorry about the insult, Chubbs. I think there is still a lot of time left in the season to see our prospects, and I think for once in many years we will.

You dummy. How about Mantha? AA? Sproul? Jensen? Freaking Callahan? How long has this sell been going on? How long you been a fan? You know how long the Wings have historically kept their prospects in the A?

What strange posts. Do you think any of these players have anything to do with our rebuild? I'm not saying the Wings are tanking, but if they field a better team to win more games do you think being higher in the standings will help our rebuild? Do you understand how drafting positions work?

I was one of them

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/big-read-behind-closed-doors-nhl-trade-deadline-day/ Wonder if ole Kenny is one of those guys mentioned here.

This isn't on national television, is it?

Created by Scott Gomez I bet.

Quick thinking by E there

This is some uninspired hockey.

Man, I know we're only 3 minutes in, but this game is a snoozer so far.

Bruins are gonna be angry after their last game with us, should be pretty fun to watch.

Call me weird (most do), but it's kind of exciting to see what becomes of this terrible, terrible team. I grew up watching the Wings suck in the 80s, dominate in the mid 90s -2000s, and now suck again. There is going to have to be a philosophical and personnel sea change, and that really intrigues me. Can't wait to see the new incarnation, however many years that takes.

So Ott is playing?

Ott being punished for Sheahan's misgivings?

Is he talking about kicks to the groin?

Unreal