Son of a Wing

It's amazing to me the amount of whining going on about the details of this event. As a fan, I'd much rather see these rosters... Vanek Kopitar Hossa Boedker Neilson Gaborik Tatar Grabovski Grabner Zuccarello Eller Neiderreiter Josi Chara Ehrhoff Sekera Sbisa Seidenberg Halak Andersen Hiller AND Galchenyuk Nugent-Hopkins Mackinnon Huberdeau McDavid Saad Strome Couturier Scheifele Gaudreau Monahan Drouin Rielly Hamilton Ekblad Jones Ceci Trouba Gibson Fucale Subban Then these rosters... Neiderreiter Andrighetto Brunner Bartschi Bodenmann Cunti Gardner Hollenstein Moser Pluss Romy Suri Streit Josi Sbisa Weber Mueller Diaz Hiller Berra AND Gaborik Handzus Hossa Tatar Kopecky Panik Jurco Surovy Bartovic Marcinko Zaborsky Olvecky Meszaros Chara Sekera Marcincin Visnovski Baranka Halak Budaj I just want to see high level hockey with the best players possible. At this point, I do not see this as a replacement for the Olympics. If that happens, my views would definitely change.

Wait... so Jones and Talbot are not better than Quick and Lundquist despite having better stats? That's just crazy...

Holland has also stated he has no interest in rentals or guys with 1 year left. If he makes a trade, it'll be for someone with term.

I really wish I could "unsee" that...

Infinity +1

I'd hardly call them "up and coming". All of Suter, Parise, Vanek, Pominville, Koivu are over 30 years old. They've got some good young players, but who doesn't? They seriously lack depth on defence and a good starting goalie.

Swinging the gloves is kind of Chara's thing now isn't it? Big Bad Bruins Bears Beets Battlestar Galactica! Unleash the Loooooooooooch!!

I hope it haunts Suter everyday for the rest of his career. Parise, I couldn't care less about with that contract.

Jonas Gustavsson? It's Gustavsson isn't it? I bet it's Gustavsson....

Can he play defence?

Gotta admit....I saw a 6-page, McGrattan thread, created less than 24hrs ago and I was like...WTF... I was not disappointed...Kudos to e_prime and Kip....and an obvious shout out to Frank for not letting us down. edit...had to change from 5 pages to 6...lol

Is Klingberg really much of an upgrade over Jensen/Marchenko/Sproul?

Saw this on Reddit

I'm going to guess you're thinking of Rocco Grimaldi....

Absolutely. Guys like Quincey and Ericsson need to keep their game simple. That's when they're most effective. Same as a lot of our grinding forwards. Simple Simple Simple.

I've felt this way for a while. Quincey just summed it up nicely for me when talking about his D pairing. We play not to lose and our style of game reflects that. As do the results. Our defence is stifling. We don't give up much but we're also not playing on instinct. We're playing safe and taking a ton of games to overtime. It's working for now but I don't see it having long-term success for the playoffs.

That's exactly what he was describing. I just see it translating to a team-wide philosophy. Nobody wants to take a risk/shot/chance in fear of being "that guy" that cost his team a goal. Don't get me wrong... defence comes before anything and everything. I just don't like when people develop a habit of making decisions based on of fear of screwing up.

Our team philosophy in a nutshell... "Our focus is to minimize mistakes," Quincey said. "Our job is not to win the game; it's to not lose the game. http://www.mlive.com/redwings/index.ssf/2015/01/mike_babcock_red_wings_danny_d.html

The Wheel Deal @Bill_Roose Follow Babcock says #RedWings will go with same personnel tonight, though line combinations will be jumbled. Weiss, Helm rejoin Datsyuk line. 2:25 PM - 6 Jan 2015 Sweet Jesus

Last time I checked Yahoo bloggers can't commit tampering...

Well obviously. Shanahanman is nowhere to be seen while we're winning. A few loses and *POOF* his rays of sunshine come down on the forum.

Should've thrown in a "Looch" reference for good measure...