AtlantaHotWings

Kinda digging the whole youth thing as I believe we are doing what Jersey did last year. Semi throw in the towel let the kids gain experience and hopefully get some more help at draft time. I have accepted no playoffs this year and watch the games with eye towards the future.

Maybe Holland does a Burke and lands the number 1 and number 2 and we get both Dahlin and Svech. Holland then drops the mic and retires...but then I always wake up...

Off mlive this morning doors about to open to the Red Wings not making playoffs sale.... http://www.mlive.com/redwings/index.ssf/2018/01/detroit_red_wings_should_open.html#incart_river_index

During lunch reading this http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/sportsnets-2018-nhl-draft-prospect-rankings-january/ and noticed the following of the current top 10 potentials and understand they can drop others come up etc. But 5 of the top 10 are D 7 of the top 15 are D 9 of the top 20 are D so the chances of us having a high pick and getting a semi-stud of a defenseman might happen obviously getting number is our current goal.

This sentence from the article made me laugh... "I don't want to say just a checker, I don't mean it in that sense but Kirk Maltby had 50 goals when he played junior and people that didn't see him play junior might not know that. " If you EVER watched a game when Maltby played it was mentioned a FEW times he was 50 goal scorer in juniors. .....

Line up getting younger and faster experience is a good thing and a high draft pick even better

Big thing will be after this layoff if Jimmy is still tender in the lower regions PM gets the start and has had a week to work his butt off getting ready. If he comes in and lays an egg of suck then.......I am still wondering what happened around the time of his birthday when he was playing almost lights off then faded. Someone get pictures of him doing something bad and are blackmailing him for the last 2 years?

Well that wasnt good

Its was the PROCESS that made the victory possible!! All hail the PROCESS

I only want guys who follow the process

Aaah 2017-18 season shall be called the season of Wings roulette as you never know what team you are getting on a nightly basis. But hey that's called growing pains ..right?

and why ? Because of the process and you take a semi legit top 6 player and throw him on the 4th line..why? For the process

Loser point = fake news makes us look better than we are

Little late to the party but aren't they the same? Pens fan = Spawn of Satan or are those Hawks or Leafs fans. Can't keep track ...

Well Barbra-Sue is kinda hot and this is the south after all....

Okay so do you continue this situation or do you pull the ripcord? Did Blasbabs get a crap roster sure but IMHO you then coach to whatever you have as a strength. If its up tempo all 60 minutes then you do it. If your talent forces you to play a trap then you do it until you have pieces to turn it another way. Either way if you can't make players buy in then maybe you ain't right for the job. Right now it seems we have no clue what to do and that starts from Chris I down to Blasbabs to the players who get a crap ton of OUR money via sales to perform at their best. Ping Bylsma or Tippett see if there is interest and blow things up mid year? Bylsma is only 47 plus a pretty decent resume and from MI so maybe he has always wanted to be the coach of the team. Tippett is 56 and has a great resume have getting a lot of nothing in AZ. Would either of these choices get us out of the ashes of this season? What if they do and we magically get a playoff spot thus potentially screwing us out of a great draft pick how bad will this place blow up? I lived through the Dead Wings era and it wasn't fun but I will continue to root for this team and hope these last 2 seasons were simply the bounce for upward movement. My .02

Already paid for the Feb 24th game along with plane tickets etc. Oh well get to see a "game" in new arena and see family that weekend. Hello Haloburger in Flint!

Went to a game a few years ago in Raleigh and the Canes were out of the hunt it was a like a Wings home game. Met people who had drove from VA and other surrounding states to get to the game ..why cause of deals like I got 4 rows off the ice @ almost center ice 95 per ticket well worth my 6 hour drive one way. When Atlanta had a team they didn't do too bad with sales when teams with loyal fan bases like Wings, Rangers(we have a lot of NYers here) Hawks etc. What killed them is Atlanta fans are fixated on SEC football 7x24x365 so when Braves, Hawks etc semi suck seats are empty and that ain't changing anytime soon let alone a sport played on ice. Plus as I heard many times when in attendance at Phillips folks around me thought hockey was nothing but goon time. Funny you mentioned Miami being an event town yet the NHL put a team in the biggest event town in the USA this year. I say move the Panthers to QC. umm AA while that's super great I prefer you not to do that and come down wrong and blow a knee....just my thinking as an owner

For my sanity thats how I am looking at the next 3 years...

ain't no big thing kliq

Bingo Krsmith sorry I wasn't clear on my position. I think we have to get picks and build this house back up as I think we have a few foundation pieces of a potential solid house. I don't see us lifting Lord Stanley this year or next at a minimum unless we somehow channel the ducks of 2002-03 with Jimmy channeling Giguere....

My worry is that Holland will NOT trade assets if we are sitting in third thus miring us in "almost" good enough or speak the mantra of "once you are in the playoffs you never know what might happen" territory.

This should be music to your ears... http://www.mlive.com/redwings/index.ssf/2017/10/red_wings_jeff_blashill_among.html#incart_river_index

another full view of the festivities...

Just a subjective ranking but figured its kinda interesting vs the normal pitchforks against Holland and Blash http://www.mlive.com/redwings/index.ssf/2017/11/ranking_the_best_and_worst_det.html#incart_river_index