Dabura

Sens also have two more ROW, so technically they'd have the better record even if they didn't have the game in hand.

HYPE!

Don't be ridiculous. It'd be Dahlin for Ouellet.

What a time to be alive.

And Arizona! https://www.nhl.com/standings/2017/league w00t!

Dude, What did you do to piss off the hockey gods???

For me, it's more just the fact that the Habs are the Habs, i.e. a team that we never beat + a fanbase that is insufferable. They traded away Subban and they are stupid. If I have to see Rasmus Dahlin in a Habs jersey five times a season, I will scream into a pillow. I don't like Melnyk as an owner, but I've never really had much reason to hate the Sens. They just kind of...exist. The Sabres have mismanaged themselves into oblivion, but I'm kinda sympathetic to their long-suffering fans, who seem to be pretty decent on the whole. To be clear: Chicago or Edmonton would indeed be the worst. I just don't think the Habs are far behind. Apparently my joke detection meter is broken, lol. Just like my spirit!

This simulator has always seemed to be a little more on the wild and crazy side, on average, which I kinda like: http://nhllotterysimulator.com/

We are only nine points from sole possession of last place. Madness!

Duemed.

If the Habs get Dahlin, we'll be seeing him five or six times a season, cuz they're in our division. Eff that. (Though, I agree: the Blackhawks and Oilers can go get bent.) As for the trade proposal...nah. For all we know, Boeser's a flash in the pan. I'm not sure Vancouver would even make that trade in the first place. Probably not, tbh.

Or the Habs.

It'd be awful, but it'd do us the good service of confirming that the system is in fact rigged. Of course, people are probably saying the same thing about the Wings.

The real point I want to drive home here, the reason why I'm kind of pushing back against you, toby, isn't about "I'm right, you're wrong." I mean, I guess that's part of it, because that's how we roll on the interwebz. But, no, srsly -- the point is that we as Wings fans should be thrilled about the possibilities this draft presents, even if we don't pick in the top three. I really mean that, 100%. If we pick fifth overall, I'll be ecstatic. Third overall would be pinch-me-I'm-dreaming territory. Second overall? I will s*** my pants. But even 7-9 would be huge for this organization's rebuild effort. And having two picks in each of the first three rounds is also huge. Good things are coming our way. HYPE!

Like, I get where you're coming from...but this is looking like a relatively deep draft. That's just facts. Dahlin is arguably on McDavid's level in terms of hypability. There are a few forwards that I might put on Eichel's level. There's a ludicrous number of sexy defensemen, 5+ of which could easily be as good as, say, Ivan Provorov or Mikhail Sergachev. I haven't been this jazzed about a draft class in a pretty long while. Miro Heskainen went third overall last year. He doesn't sniff the top ten in this draft.

what This is widely -- if not near-universally -- considered a deep draft. Maybe you're thinking of last year's draft...?

P.S. Andrei Svechnikov remains an elite-level talent and Filip Zadina is arguably his equal, at least at this point in time. So let's not rule out wingers. (IMHO.)

I mean, I'm no expert on any of this, but I've seen a lot of these players in action and I've tried to learn as much as I can about as many as I can, and, personally, I've found it kind of challenging to keep track of all of the players I find genuinely exciting. I wouldn't say the first round will be stacked with future gamechangers, but I do see a ton of promise. The other thing is you have to look at things from the perspective of the Wings organization and consider what even a not-necessarily-amazing-but-certainly-very-good player could mean for the rebuild effort. I'm not sold on Brady Tkachuk being a future cornerstone centerman, but having a group of young forwards that consists of Tkachuk, Larkin, Mantha, Athanasiou, Bertuzzi, Svechnikov, Rasmussen...that'd be pretty damn great for a team that's only missed the playoffs twice in the past 2.5 decades. Hell, throw Kupari or Veleno in there instead of Tkachuk and I might be equally excited. In terms of defensemen...for an organization that has been flat-out failing to produce legit high-end NHL defensemen, the Wings have gotta be licking their chops over the abundance of really good defensemen in the top two or three tiers of this draft class. (For the record, I don't fall into the "We have enough smallish offensive defensemen, we don't need any more" camp.)

Blue Jackets. Why did it have to be Blue Jackets? HYPE! LGRW

Sure, I'd expect him to be sheltered at this point in his career. But 9 minutes and 5 minutes, in two supremely weak team efforts? IMO, either there's more to it than just sheltering a kid (i.e. the fatigue issue) or Blashill is being a dick.

Tough call; our first pick could be anywhere in the 1-12 range and, if I have the rules straight in my head, Vegas's pick could pretty much be anywhere in the 16-31 range. And there's so many good players available and there's very little agreement in terms of consensus rankings, beyond Dahlin being #1 and maybe the other top four being more or less set (kinda, sorta, possibly, potentially). Assuming we pick, like, 9th (*groan*)...I guess I'd hope for Evan Bouchard. Assuming the second pick is, like, 22nd...maybe Rasmus Kupari? He probably doesn't fall that far, though.

I want to believe Svechnikov's gotten basically no icetime in these past two games because of the epic traveling he had to do just to get to Detroit on time for that Vegas game, traveling which saw him get basically no sleep. Add that to the fact that he's probably only very recently gotten over his neck injury from the preseason and the fact that fatigue often leads to injury in the pros, especially at the NHL level...and I think you could make a strong case for this simply being a wise precautionary move on Blashill's part. Or it's because Svechnikov's 21 and This Is a Man's League. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The nice thing about (future Wings GM) Draper's recent comments is that he seems to firmly believe that we need to speed up our standard timeline for getting our most promising prospects into meaningful NHL action. At the very least, this massive logjam bulls*** needs to stop being a thing.

THIS TANK STOPS FOR NO ONE CHOO-CHOO MOTHEREFFERS

Bertuzzi is really hungry tonight. Mickey, with all due respect, I think Frk's shot selection is the least of our PP's problems. You want to complain about how a missed Frk shot leads to the puck coming out of the zone and time ticking off the power play? Let's talk about how our power play has had a serious problem with holding the blue line for the past half-decade.

HELM! Wings tie it right up.