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I'm torn on Rasmussen. On the one hand, I think he should be playing against men. On the other hand, he's been mostly invisible. Needs to bulk up, get quicker, work on his puck protection. I was expecting more out of him. Sad!

It was a rhetorical question, but thx fam. xoxoxoxo

I heard he took BOXING LESSONS. You know, to HELP WITH THE GRIT. LOT OF GOOD THAT DID. BOY I TELL YA WHAT. TALL DRINK OF WATER.

Here's how I'm choosing to look at it: We've built up some pretty good secondary and tertiary depth over the past four or five years and now we're gunning for top-end talent. On the one hand, it's a daunting task, because elite NHLers are so hard to come by. On the other hand, we only need a couple of those players. With the bottom probably falling out this season (if these first five games are any indication), we should be well-positioned for some lottery luck in 2019 and possibly 2020.

Here are my thoughts on this game: Jack Hughes. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

We committed to a rebuild late in the 2016-17 season. So it hasn't even been two full seasons yet. We've had two drafts in the rebuild era and we got a lot of players out of them. We're gonna need at least a couple more drafts like the one we just had, and we're gonna have to hope we can get at least one player who's even better than Zadina, because Larkin+Zadina+Cholowski is not going to be a good enough core if multiple championships is the goal. The team is getting younger. The youth doesn't appear to be quite up to the challenge of leading an NHL team to a respectable record at this time, but, again, we're in transition. Where you see hopelessness and no progress whatsoever, I see some reasons to be optimistic. It's easy to bash Holland and Blashill and Nyquist and anyone who's pissing us off on any given day, but, personally, my hope and expectation is that all of this will be a distant memory after a couple more years.

There's no rush on Zadina. I mean, say he scores 20 goals as a Red Wing this season. Is that great for him? Sure. Does it actually change our situation in a meaningful way? Not really. It's about the future. We have to hope Larkin becomes a legit 75-point 1C. We have to hope Zadina becomes a legit 30-goal scorer. We have to hope a couple of our D prospects overachieve and become really good top-four defensemen, and on top of that we need to find a legit 1D. Neither Howard nor Bernier is a long-term solution in goal. Blashill probably won't be around much longer. Holland probably won't be around much longer. Point being, this is a team (and organization) in transition. We're gonna have to suck for a while. There's really no way around it. We can hate on Nyquist, but every team has a Nyquist. The problem isn't that Nyquist is on the team, the problem is that Nyquist is arguably the most dependable scoring winger on the team.

We'll suck for however long it takes to get a really good young core in place. Nyquist, Kronwall, Nielsen aren't really the problem. It's that we don't have a group of top-tier players.

Witkowski, sadly.

We are calling Cholo Chow Yun-fat. We've been over this. I will die on this hill.

Cholo update:

They IP banned me years ago.

He scored 24 goals last season. It's not a big stretch to say he'll score 30 or more this season. You're being a baby. Just my two cents.

We shouldn't rule it out after FOUR GAMES, is my point.

It's been four games, dude.

Ayo I missed the game because I was having sex with Alessandra Ambrosio. Nick Jensen = next captain?

HYPE! LGRW!

Wings are perfecting the art of the respectable tank.

I hope you kicked him in his face.

Jack Hughes. Keep your eyes on the prize.

Jack Hughes