LeftWinger

Watched the goals on NHL.com. That's what we need! Will Mantha take off now? Larkin showing his skill and Ras showing why we drafted him! Proving me wrong once again! I'll take it! Actually she used him plenty...and Bure...and Iglesias...and....

Looks like I'm missing a good one! We had our 6th grade band concert though, so... I'll watch the 3rd. Hope it's not a jinx.

He used that plenty.

HYPE!

In all honesty, if Nyquist indeed nets 60 points, there will be plenty of contenders calling us at the TDL for him. I know he has to waive the NTC, but a 60 point player could get us that 1st we covet, and then some!

Here's what I call "Shaking The Tree" and "Being Aggressive." Trade a couple of players by the TDL, in no particular order examples being Ericsson, Nielsen, Nyquist, Howard, Daley, Helm or Glendening for no other purpose but to acquire MANY draft picks and to open up some cap space for the summer. We don't need to trade all of them, but just enough to get a more picks and clear a bit of cap. Win (hopefully) the draft lottery. Draft Jack Hughes. Out of our hands though. Entertain the idea of signing Nyquist and Howard in the off season, even if we've already traded them, but both at less money. Howard may accept, but Nyquist may want, and deserve a raise, in that case, he can sign elsewhere. Re-sign Jensen at a similar rate, or he can go elsewhere. No interest in re-signing Vanek, Witko or Kronwall. Seriously think about buying out Ericsson if we get into a cap crunch. His hit will only be $1.4M for two seasons compared to his $4.25 for the one season. Pursue Karlsson with all our might, minimum $11M per. When Trouba, again, doesn't get a fair offer from Winnipeg, trade our 2020 2nd, 2021 1st and an NHL ready/quality player for him. Immediately sign him to the max extension, minimum $8M per. Top D will be Karlsson - Trouba followed by Cholowski - Green. PLUS How does this look for a top 6? Mantha - Larkin - Zadina AA - Hughes - Rasmussen Hopefully this is similar to what Jimmy D means as well. Honestly, it won't require too many, nor outrageous trades. Trade Daley to a Cup contender, trade Glenny to Toronto, trade Nyquist to a Cup contender. Offer Karlsson the world. The hardest part will be acquiring Trouba, BUT, if Cholowski continues his growth, do we really need to trade for Trouba if we already signed Karlsson? We could always wait for him to become UFA and see if he wants to come home to play.

...and the hockey world has never been the same! Super Hype!

Don't be surprised when Ras is back in juniors this weekend.

...and one by one the kids are disappearing.

Start by firing coach. It needs to be done.

Ilitch wants his own Sports Network. Here's an idea, first why don't you worry about the state if your sports teams before you lose all your fans. This just proves it's all about the money for him. Until the fans hit him in his pocketbook, we may never see change. Remember when The Wings and Tigers were important to the owner and were fun to watch? https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2018/10/25/ilitches-weigh-starting-own-sports-tv-network/1756233002/

AGAIN!

He has a new one that he used a few times in Florida: "Lightning in a Bottle." At this point if a player gets a hattrick you should get a years worth of fries. Btw, I find it funny or ironic that politics are against forum rules, yet I'm being overwhelmed by advertisements from the Democrats at the top of each page I go to here. Funny... I know they're random, but it's just ironic.

https://www.capfriendly.com/teams/redwings CapFriendly shows it a done deal. With this signing, we are now at $15Mish in cap space, plus Franzen LTIR of $3.9M for about $19M. With our need to sign a G, could we still swing a deal for Faulk? I think it would cause cap hell if we did, he makes $4.8M and we'd be probably trading away 1 or 2 players that aren't even impacting our cap at the moment, AA and Svech. It might put us in a bind to re-sign Mantha, Larkin and bring up Ras along with signing Zadina and Veleno. I fully believe that Ras, Zadina and Veleno should all be on our roster come October. Anyhow, there are no "terms" provided yet with Green's deal. But all in all, its not a bad one, unless it involves a NMC.

Their paychecks should be performance based. They could go 0-82 and still get their millions. In the end, its all about their wallets. They lose, hey guess what, they still got paid and they'll just "try" again tomorrow.

His teammate, Lavoie, is 2019 draft eligible and would be a great early 2nd rounder or with one of our later 1st round (hopefully) picks acquired. 18 points in 13 games, not too shabby! Plus Zadina is also a former teammate of these two. Zadina - AA - Lavoie! Nice! Getting ahead of myself, sorry!

No, I am not saying that all will actually want out, I was just saying that if things don't get better, at least competing game in and game out, they all may just be ok with waiving their NTC's to GTFO of this train wreck. Firing Blashill will be a step in the right direction. Like I said during the game, we can still compete for Jack Hughes all while competing on the ice. We have a team full of NHL talent, we just need a coach who knows how to coach in the NHL and utilize that talent. We need ownership that holds coaches and players equally responsible. We are great fans, proud fans, this is a proud franchise (or once was) and we aren't going to stand for 10 years of garbage of a "rebuild." We have our core, Larkin, AA, Mantha, Cholowski (showing great strides) Rasmussen (being ruined by Blashill.) Why waste that core's prime years? Make the necessary moves (coaching and then possibly players) NOW in order to utilize their prime years. Let's not just "wait" for contracts to expire (Kronwall, Ericsson, Howard, etc...) to make some moves, because, well, loyalty. We need an owner who cares about this team and this team exclusively. We need coaches that have fresh, NEW idea's and philosophies. I like Holland, he drafts well, he's make some shrewd deals recently, but he needs to be told to make more of them, forget this crap about being loyal to a fault. We have tons of cap space with the LTIR, make the necessary moves to put this team in the right direction NOW. Back in the early 90's that is what they did. They made a deal, signed a player, recalled a player and if none of those moves worked out, they dealt with it. They acquired Jimmy Carson for a (at the time) huge payload, when he didn't work out, they dealt him away. When better player(s) became available, they made the move(s) needed in order to acquire that player to move this team forward. They made some mistakes, but quickly atoned for those. It seems now, if they trade for someone, sign someone, they just won't atone for that mistake for fear of tarnishing their loyalty reputation or admitting they made an error. I like Nielsen, but has he worked out? No. He hasn't sucked, but he has not made this team better by any means. Trade him. He is now in his M-NTC portion of his contract and can submit a 10 team No-Trade list. That leaves 21 teams that he can be dealt to. Deal him, for whatever you can get. Plenty of these "vets" are tradeable, prove to your fans that you are interested in making this team better, one step at a time. I don't care what Mike Green did last season, he should have never been re-signed. That was a pure loyalty move because he chose to come here years ago. I am a huge DD fan, and don't see him being dealt at all, but at least open the phone lines on all of our "vets." I've had it. At least in the early 90's you saw the direction this team was headed. This team has no direction now. Sure we'd all like Jack Hughes, but at least compete on the ice and lose with dignity. Not the garbage I have been watching all season thus far...

This ownership is no longer the best in the NHL. It seems Chris is too afraid to make any moves that are needed in order to turn this franchise around. Rewind if you would, Jacques Demers just won TWO Jack Adams trophies in a row, 1987 and 1988. He coached the Wings to 1st place in the Norris again in 1989, then losing to Chicago in the 1st round. Missed the playoffs in 1990. FIRED! Back then, this ownership didn't take any s*** and didn't stand for mediocracy while "rebuilding." Bryan Murray came in and built the foundation (all while making the playoffs every year) and helped create the team that dominated the NHL. Is there a Bryan Murray or Scotty Bowman out there to take Blashill's place? Don't know. But if Demers can get fired for s***ting the playoffs and missing ONE playoff season after win Coach of the Year two years in a row, then Blashill has to go, immediately. We need ownership who cares about winning, cares about the fans, hold's both coaches and players accountable. It makes no sense that Blashill still has a job after the last 3 season's results. Maybe it's just not Blashill that has becomes stale, maybe the Ilitch's have become stale as well...again, bottom line is something drastic has to happen before I continue to sink my hard earned money into this franchise. It's way past time, it's way past acceptability.

Bottom line, this is unacceptable. He has to go. I'm done wasting my money on the product he's produced.

Like I said, these guys will ALL be waiving their NTC's just to get away from this train wreck.

....and I will cease to be a fan. It's already not as important as it used to be, but this absolutely disgusting. We can still compete for Hughes, while still competing on the ice. Blashill is a disgrace to The Winged Wheel.

I'm on Fort Street with you.

******* Blashill has to go. Bottom line. He is the problem. I'm so frustrated it's ridiculous. Enough is enough...

Didn't we draft Ras because he was a powerplay specialist? ******* Blashill ruined his game too. We need a coach that lets these players play to their game, not "The Process."

How the f*** does three people miss an open net?