LeftWinger

Lets Go Devils! ...and of course Lets Go Wings!

Wait, where the f*** was AA? He's your bet ******* player at the moment!

sarcasm?

funny, pierre had said it's "pucker up time" for Detroit....

team is horrendous.....bet we have the same lineup tomorrow outside of Mrazek....

******* skate the ******* puck out!!!!

wtf abby? thats a $4.75M play there....sheesh!

lol!

lol, pierre said ericsson slow to get over....******* sucks! f*** E!

lol, jimmy

All we need to do is overtake boston, don't even think about philly....

get totally embarrassed last game, dont change any lines....thats a winning formula!

Ericsson should be the scratched one...

Tonight we are all Jets fans! Lets Go Buff!

...ok, ok, I know I said I wasn't going to re-hash the Yakupov thing, but.... https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/nail-yakupov-s-agent-says-client-needs--fresh-start--190221267.html definite conection with Larionov being his agent, PLUS everything Igor says in the article points directly to him having Datsyuk as his ideal center...at least those are the lines I read between! Yakupov to Detroit at draft? He needs fresh air and we need fresh breath! ...and for the record, I want #91 in the rafters. I was never mad at him for leaving, he has and always will be my favorite player.

If that were to happen, Quebec would no doubt move into our division. We'll take them and Columbus and give them Florida and Tampa.

the $75M question is, IF Stamkos comes here does he get to wear #91?

May the pucks be with us! 7 games left 5-2 gets us in IMO. Or any combo of 10 points between us winning and Boston losing...of course I do have fuzzy math! AA plays great again tonight.....still stuck with Richards on Glendening though.... I can only wish that he'd be placed on Dats line with Mantha.

The way the Leafs handled Detroit last game, maybe he will choose them over us! I just have a hard time believing he would come here either. I like the rumors, and its nice hearing it from some hockey guys, but I do remember the rumor Suter had a verbal agreement pending the OK from his boss (wife) and we see how that turned out...

and that was well worth breaking the streak! We MADE the playoffs and got Larkin at #15, Holland screws the fans and gets to probably move up 1 spot from there....Holland is a joke. BUT, not to harp on him too much here, there are plenty of threads to do that! Maybe we'll get a higher pick within the lottery system....and then trade that for something we need! How about we get the #1, trade it to Chicago for Kane? Ok, I kid....

Well that would certainly help to step in the right direction...add Yandle on the back end and we're looking good. But must cut salary first...even if we land Stamkos, we cannot go forward with the same defense, just minus KFQ. We MUST cut some fat on the back end... Fixing this mess starts with AA and Mantha both getting (and staying) top 6 minutes and line mates...add and subtract from there. I'm telling you, AA-Dats-Mantha would be a lights out line...

I don't hate on Tatar....just Nyquist. I thought Eberle had better stats, until I looked into his career (which is why I posted the where did he earn $6M question after the first post.) I guess we have no choice but to let our guys develop and see where they go...can't afford to trade for a Malkin type player. Maybe we should tank for the next 5-6 years and get 4 or 5 top 3 picks in that span...I don't know. Maybe there is no "fix" this year... Or just all in on Lucic (because he would change the makeup of the team) and Yandle (because he is better than our D-men right now and would be our #1.) I'd also like to ink up Okposo...

Speaking of Edmonton....at what point in Hall's career did he play well enough to warrant $6M per year? Same with Eberle? Maybe Nyquist's contract is not so bad afterall!

We didn't get Nash because it was inter-divisional and the price was high...same as Kessel and Hamilton. Kesler had a NTC and didn't list Detroit as a destination. That I agree, we were a victim of. But I think it would cost less to get someone from the West...

We've all known for a while that we have a team full of bottom 6er's. We've touched on it before. We had hoped that the likes of Tatar and Nyquist would emerge as something more or better, but they have not. Of course we have Dats and Z who can be 1st line players on most teams, but really, in the shape they are in, they are better suited 2nd on and lower. Not knocking them at all, and God bless them for still leading our team, but we really do have a team full of (outside of a couple of kids now) bottom 6 players. What makes that even worse is we have the 3rd highest payroll in the NHL. I agree with some above that we need to actually focus on having 2-3 superstar players and then our support players won't "look" as "bad" as they have. If we could land those two players to play with Larkin, we'd be in great shape. Now, how to get those players. There's always the UFA route, but then there is the trade route as well. Problem is, as addressed above by KRSmith, we have a great amount of secondary and depth players, Holland needs to find a team with an over amount of potential superstar type, higher end players that are in need for depth on D, and secondary scoring type players. One team that comes to mind is Edmonton maybe. They have a bushel of higher end young forwards that could maybe be dealt for players that may suit them better. But who? I am not going to bring up Yakupov, but Eberle always seems to be talked about in trades for D depth or even cheaper secondary scoring. Not sure what it would cost for him, but could a top line comprised of, lets say : Eberle - Larkin - Lucic be something that could spark our offense? I am sure Eberle would be pricey to attain, not going to get into prices, but a 1st and a 20-30 goal scoring roster player would be in the mix...along with a established NHL defender and maybe a player like Pulk or Jurco... I would love a lineup like that, especially if we strike out on the Stamkos sweeps (which we probably will.) Lucic - Larkin - Eberle AA - Dats - Mantha Abby - Z - Tatar (or Nyquist if one or the other is dealt) Helm - Sheahan - Glendening Don't shoot me over the line orders, just because Z is listed 3rd C, doesn't mean he's a 3C player, I pretty much just put groups together.