LeftWinger

Right! Like I said, if it's Ottawa, LA or Anaheim, I can't really be that mad, but really ANY other teams that may get the #1, NO WAY!

honestly here is the way I look at it, even though we will get a heck-uva quality player at 4, I think if we do fall to 4, it'll just seem like a huge slap in the face because we fell as far as we could. Even if we just fell to 3, it wouldn't feel as horrible. There is only 3 other teams though I wouldn't mind us falling to in reality, Ottawa, LA, Anaheim. That's it. Nobody else deserves to jump us to #1, especially perennial tankers like NJ and Buffalo. Screw the rest of the bottom 15, they've all had their picks in the #1-#3 range over the past several years...and it's gonna stink if Montreal or pulls that upset and Pittsburgh gets the #1...I would actually puke. I'd rather a team get the and keep the #1 and we get #4 than to see Pitt, Edmonton, Chicago or Toronto get the #1.

No, but I wanted to remain positive.

10 more days until we find out if we draft Lafrienere or not!

Honesty, when it comes down to the playoff format and giving teams that are "IN" also the shot at #1 OA, I do think 'Parody" is a very appropriate way to describe it!

Honestly, I wish they would just leave the commentary out too....tired of the same repetitive/generic verbiage by Ferraro and company, I could be winning 7-0 and have a guy score his 2nd goal, every time Ferraro says "You better be looking for the hat-trick" No, Ray, it's the 3rd period, 1 minute left, it's now 8-0, hat-trick is not needed...and Snoop Dog gets on my nerves.

Detroit will draft no lower than 4th. So one of Lafrienere, Drysdale, Byfield, Stutzle, Rossi, Perfetti or Raymond. I think we'll be ok at #4. Lets hope it turns out this way though!

who is going to **** themselves if or when Yzerman pulls Hall and Krug out of his butt? Add those two to Lafrienere and I think we can say goodbye to lottery picks for awhile! Stranger things have happened!

Honestly, when they signed him, along with when they first signed Mike Green, they were both pretty sought after for their veteran experience, especially Daley having won 2 Cups back to back with Pittsburgh. Unfortunately, and call me wrong if you want to, but they just weren't coached very well here, and then injuries of course! I was not mad at either signing, but it just came time to go away from the old and injury prone, to the young and fresh. Godspeed Green, Daley and Ericsson!

It will be funny to see who jumps back on the LGW bandwagon once we get back to the playoffs...heck they might even start coming back if we are lucky enough to draft Lafrienere. Honestly, the few of us that are here still should get some badges or something for keeping this place afloat!

Lost in all the essay writing posts, Yzerman has signed 2019 2nd round pick Albert Johansson to a 3 year ELC.

No way! Purely coincidence! The spamming for sure!

this is getting out of hand! (although I do like the name RidgeHog)

Here is a link to the new Youtube live stream channel to get some updates on our Wings! This is the debut episode and they had interviews with Ryan Martin and Johnathan Bernier. This is hosted by Art Regner and Daniella Bruce. Subscribe and click for alerts and you can catch this each day it broadcasts. Next episode on Thursday. If it's the same, the it will be 12:00 to 2:00.

WTF!?!?! Can we do something about this crap?

I hope these two guys don't skate under Yzerman's radar! We need some good writers for The Wings nowadays!

It looks like along with the bottom 7, any 8 of the below teams will all have a shot at the top 3 picks. I call it BS and hope that the team(s) that deserve it most get the players. NO WAY does Pit deserve a shot at #1. I know they traded the their 1st but it is non-playoff protected and is they lose the play in round, they have the option to send the 2021 pick instead... BS!

Also, here is the official Brome singing and Stevie also signed 6'5 goalie from the 2019 6th round Victor Brattstrom.

Come on Lottery! (just sayin)

since the PA agreed to the 24 team playoff, then it should be a 7 team lottery and that is it. I don't care if team 7 wins the lottery and we fall to 4 if that's how they want to do it, although I do think the format should still remain that gives Detroit and Ottawa no lower than 2 and 4. People like to complain about Detroit "tanking" but look at teams 6 and 7...Buffalo? New Jersey? There is no more than can be said about those two teams. But even if they went with the same rules for the 7 teams, so be it, just do NOT include any of the 8 teams that would've NOT been in the playoffs in a normal season. Are you gonna reward Montreal with the #1 pick overall if they make it past the first round? What if they do eliminate a top seed in the 1st, does that seed now get a lottery chance because they were eliminated in the 1st? Do you hold the draft now with the same 15 teams, Columbus wins they lottery, then miraculously goes on a run in the playoffs and wins a Cup or damn close? How fair is that for the 7 teams that aren't getting a playoff chance? If that's the case, then lets hold the draft with normal rules, normal odds, 15 teams, then after that have a 31 team playoff, best of 3 1st round? Can't have your goose, cook it and eat it too. It's either playoffs or lottery. You CANNOT win a shot at The Cup AND get rewarded with Lafreniere or even a top 7 pick unless you've traded for it. Isn't it good enough that Montreal gets a shot in the playoffs and STILL could get a #8 overall? That will be a pretty damn good player for your efforts AND the playoffs!

I still maintain if they go with a 7 team lottery, it is unfair for a team to fall 3 spots. IMO The most a team can fall is 1 and the most a team can climb is 4. So again, that would put Detroit at #1 if teams 6 or 7 get picked. There is no other way to do it. Ottawa can only fall to 3 & 4, Detroit can only fall to 2. ANY team 1-5 can win. This is when Bettman should tell them to shove it. I am very interested in seeing a 24 team playoff though! Would it still be 4 rounds? Would it take more than 16 wins for The Cup? I wonder how that would work, would certain teams get a bye in the first Round Robin. 24 teams - 12 teams - 6 - 3?

now with the rumor of a 24 team playoff, that leaves 7 teams in the draft lottery. Only two more, I am sure there will still be rule changes about how many spots you can drop or jump. With only 7 teams, how fair is it that you still may be able to drop 3 spots? I like our odds, but it still gives perennial tankers like New Jersey and Buffalo a shot at #1 yet AGAIN! They should make sure that a team cannot move up more than 4. That means NJ and Buffalo won't get a shot at #1, but NJ could get #2, and Buffalo could get #3, which should be ok with them. Teams cannot drop more than 2 would be a good thing as well. that way Detroit and Ottawa won't be getting screwed. Even if NJ jumped to 2 and we fell to 3, I think all parties should be ok with that.

It wouldn't be the first time the NHL tilted the balls towards a specific team! Does anyone think it was just a coincidence that in 2005 Mario Lemieux was threatening to re-locate the Penguins, just so happened to be letting a young man stay at his home, then proceeds to win the lottery enabling him to draft said young man, Sidney Crosby? That stunk of a fix, and so who freaking cares if Detroit and or Ottawa, arguable the two worst teams in the league the last 3-5 years get a little help in their rebuild? Besides, when Detroit gets 2 compliance buyouts and gets rid of Abby's and Nielsen's contract's, and add to that the availability of Z's LTIR, Yzerman could very well throw the wallet at Hall, Krug and Holtby. Even if the cap fell a bit, he'll have about $50M in space (after Abby, Nielsen and Z) to get all three, PLUS re-sign the important RFA's to nice deals for both sides! Are the NHL Execs gonna ***** about Yzerman spending up to his cap and becoming 1000% better that way? Honestly, if we don't get Lafreniere, I really don't think we need another center. We have Larkin, Veleno and Rasmussen to be our top 3 C's, I guess we could draft one and make someone a winger, but I'd like to see our D bolstered. Which is why most of us were hoping that we went D instead of Holland drafting Zadina. But even now, if Yzerman drafted Drysdale, put him in the mix with Hronek, Seider and the possibility of Krug or similar? I think the other NHL teams just better watch out for Detroit no matter what happens this draft. Sooner than they think Detroit will be knocking on Lord Stanley's door and 30 other GM's will be shaking their heads wondering how it happened so fast, when they all conspired to keep Detroit from drafting a franchise LW back in 2020. It's funny how things work out in the draft, back in 1983, Detroit wanted LaFontaine SOOOOO bad, they were begging The Isles not to take him, so they "settled" for their next choice and we all know how that worked out. If we don't get Lafreniere, so be it, there is a great chance someone like Stutzle, Rossi or Drysdale just may end up being the better pick when it's all over 20 years from now. I'm just tired of Detroit getting worked over in the draft lottery. It's already bad enough that in a normal lottery our chances of falling to 4 are higher than retaining the #1 and that makes zero sense.

so it seems the NHL is re-thinking the process of the lottery because some executives say Detroit and Ottawa got too much privilege. Honestly, unless you wait until the playoffs are established, there is no other way of doing it. Columbus is 2 points out of a playoff spot, are you going to award them a lottery pick, possibly #1, then they could make the playoffs and go deep? If you don't finish the season and get the total amount of points, how fair is it to still have Detroit (and others) still drop up to 3 spots? How fair is it that New Jersey just might win a 3rd top pick in the last 4 years? How fair is it that Chicago may get it after just being 4 years out from winning their 3rd Cup in 6 years? Pittsburgh is only 5 points ahead of Columbus, so if they happened to falter and miss, and they get the 1st overall (their traded pick is protected) how fair is that? They are 2 years out of winning back to back Cups. The whole lottery is flawed there is no way an 80-90 point team (which Columbus may have after the season) should be getting a 1st overall pick while teams in the bottom 5 get screwed. https://twitter.com/TSN1200/status/1258133902763442179?s=20

we haven't won a Cup since this thread...maybe the ladies are the good luck charm? Ok, ladies, let's get the "alternative" going for the draft lottery!