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That is why I choose not to anymore. I would've loved to get to The Joe for the last season there and then The LCA, but I cannot imagine todays prices for my three sons and I to get tix, park, eat, drink and buy souvenir(s.) Let alone the price of gas to travel 350 miles to Detroit. Yikes! If I do get to a game, it'll be the Griffs. Much closer and much, much cheaper. Probably more entertaining too.

All pro sport's tickets are a ripoff. The Wings have not be relevant since 2012 and the ticket prices are astronomical. They want you to believe that Mr. I put his own money up for the LCA, well, YOU are paying for it. These inflated, WAY WAY inflated salaries, like $7M for a player who has never scored over 26 goals and only has 95 for his 5 year career (Mark Stone) that is why these prices are so high, that may be the "market value" for average players, but the reason the tickets are so high are these stupid salaries. I know the owners make millions and the players want their share, but if the ticket/food/parking prices were affordable (for a family of 4-5) then the owners would make less, way less, thus making "Market Value" for a average player way less. I may be in the minority, but it should not cost more than $100 each (suite prices) to attend a game, and if you are consistently scoring over 100 points, you don't get more than $5M a season. I love the Wings and the sport, but I will never attend a game, even if I were by myself. Same goes for the other Big 4 sports, in what world does it make sense that a Baseball player is making $30M a season? Or any player for that matter? When you are a starting pitcher with a W/L below .400 and an ERA of over 6? Where in the world does it makes sense that you are making $24M per season? Salaries, owners, players and prices are all out of control in every sport.

Yes, he also said that on Letterman the year he was traded. I'm sure it would've cost us Yzerman for sure. I'm glad he went to LA.

Well there you have it. Zadina - Larkin - Rasmussen Why not? Larkin setting him up, Rasmussen screening in front looking for the tip in, Zadina putting it home from the circle(s)

I mean, would this be a bad deal?

Should name it Erik or Karl in honor of his soon to be teammate. Girl? Well, Erika or Karla of course!

Hate to insinuate it, but if Fedorov didn't have Yzerman, maybe 94 Feds would have replicated many times. Remember, 93-94 is when Yzerman went down with the neck injury and Fedorov became "The Man." Yzerman missed 22 games and Fedorov took off from there. When Yzerman returned Feds was the #1 center. Remember also, 94 was the year Bowman had Yzerman dealt to Ottawa for Yashin. Guess he figured he had his new #1 guy.

I firmly believe that the problem with Fedorov "showing up" has a lot to do with his upbringing in the Soviet System. He was forced to live, eat, breathe, sleep, dream about, talk about, walk nothing but hockey in that system, so when he got his freedom to do what he wanted, whenever he wanted, and hockey was just a job, he mailed it in once in awhile because he could. For once in his young life other things mattered and were more important than hockey 24/7/365. If he did continue to give 110% every moment of every day, he would have likely rivaled Gretzky in his prime. Fedorov was that damn good. If ANYONE could flip a switch and change the momentum of a game, as good and as easy as Gretzky did, it was Fedorov. I am still in awe thinking that we almost had BOTH Fedorov AND Pavel Bure on this team!

All deleted, it was good reading, and figured it'd be nice to have some reading instead of just a bunch of links for once. It sure as heck was better than all the junk being posted around here, but I get it, it was a lot. What if there were no links? What if a user took their time and actually wrote all the articles on here? It'd still be a lot of reading, or a "Brick Wall" of posts, but it would still be good info and on subject. Trades/Signings/News, especially during the dog days of August. But I understand, nobody wants their screen clogged up with that much NHL information, even it is relevant. So I deleted them.

I'm wishing all the best for Rasmussen, and hope he plays in Detroit this season...BUT I am also hoping he isn't just a bigger version of Riley Sheahan. With our need on D we could've went with others at #9 Like Cal Foote or Liljegren instead. Either one may have been possibly our top D prospect. But I do hope he makes it and then becomes a great player for us.

Does Erik Karlsson or Jake Trouba play for the Griffins?

I mentioned that at the end of my last post.

I thought I'd come in here to read about the Griffins, not #1D and Erik Karlsson. Anyhow, I'd love to go see a bunch of Griffins games this season. It could be some very good entertainment, maybe even more so than watching the Wings. Nice cheap prices too! Especially if they get Zadina and some other prospects in there.

Not that I meant you, I meant MY comments from earlier in this thread, they were inappropriate, especially since nobody, except the parties involved, really knows what transpired to result in the situation. I wasn't saying your comments were appropriate, I was apologizing for my insensitive comments.

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And then they'll have 900 draft picks for 2019.

Title should be changed to "1 year" Z is done IMO. Too many "rumors" not enough saying "he's playing."

William Karlsson 1yr $5.2M So Larkin 6 yrs $5M AAV sounds just about perfect for him and team. Let's do this!

You guys are still counting on Zetterberg being there. I'm not.

Except we're going to get Jack Hughes, then Quinn Hughes is going to refuse to sign in Vancouver making him a NCAA UFA after a few seasons and then sign with us.

Seth Barton

How about some Alec "Count" Regula hype?