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This.

I really like Evan Bouchard. Could be this year's big sleeper. Serron Noel is intriguing.

OH MAH GAWD! HYPE! LGRW

Green, Booth, Jensen, Nyquist, Ouellet, Mrazek, Witkowski. I think that's the realistic list of trade bait candidates. And I'm ok with that. I don't think blowing it up is feasible, because I don't think any one of our bigger contracts can be moved without us retaining salary or throwing in a sweetener or taking back someone else's problematic contract. Might as well just keep those players and let them guide us to a couple more seasons like the one we're currently having. It'd be one thing if we had a number of stud prospects knocking on the door and we had to make room for them on the roster, but that isn't the case. As for the draft...we do need to get lucky, yes. We do need to hit a home run or two or three over the next few drafts, yes. But I feel like a lot of Wings fans are a little too hung up on picking 1st/2nd/3rd overall. Getting lucky in the draft doesn't only mean picking in the top three. Consider: Erik Karlsson was drafted 15th overall Mark Stone -- 178th Mike Hoffman -- 130th Nikita Kucherov -- 58th Brayden Point -- 19th Mikhail Sergachev -- 9th P.K. Subban -- 43rd Roman Josi -- 38th Filip Forsberg -- 11th Vladimir Tarasenko -- 16th Colton Parayko -- 86th Mark Scheifele -- 7th Nikolaj Ehlers -- 9th Jacob Trouba -- 9th Zach Werenski -- 8th Alex DeBrincat -- 39th Duncan Keith -- 54th Mathew Barzal -- 16th David Pastrnak -- 25th Brad Marchand -- 71st Patrice Bergeron -- 45th David Krejci -- 63rd Sean Monahan -- 6th Johnny Gaudreau -- 104th Dougie Hamilton -- 9th T.J. Brodie -- 114th Ivan Provorov -- 7th Shayne Gostisbehere -- 78th Sean Couturier -- 8th Claude Giroux -- 22nd Rasmus Ristolainen -- 8th Anze Kopitar -- 11th Vincent Trocheck -- 64th James Neal -- 33rd Shea Theodore -- 26th Evgeny Kuznetsov -- 26th John Carlson -- 27th Oliver Ekman-Larsson -- 6th Clayton Keller -- 7th Derek Stepan -- 51st Brock Boeser -- 23rd Hampus Lindholm -- 6th Rickard Rakell -- 30th Brent Burns -- 20th Logan Couture -- 9th Joe Pavelski -- 205th Kris Letang -- 62nd Jamie Benn -- 129th John Klingberg -- 111th Justin Faulk -- 37th Max Pacioretty -- 22nd Brendan Gallagher -- 147th Shea Weber -- 49th Ryan McDonagh -- 12th Dylan Larkin -- 15th Anthony Mantha -- 20th Andreas Athanasiou -- 110th Not a single one of those players was a top-five selection. Food for thought.

We might not even have to sell hard to finish in the bottom three. I'm just saying that if we continue to get the results we've been getting (or the lack thereof), we should be in a pretty good spot in terms of lottery placement -- and if we sell a significant piece or two, that could seal it. There are really only two teams in the league that are unequivocally worse than us this season (Arizona and Buffalo).

https://www.nhl.com/standings 6th from the bottom, and that's with an extremely cushy schedule through these first three months. We could absolutely finish 3rd from the bottom, especially if we sell hard. Just sayin',

I fell asleep during the 3rd. boooooooo

Flyers score. 4-3.

Agreed.

End of 2nd. 3-3. I'll take it.

Mantha credited with an assist on the Nyquist goal.

Flyers score. 3-3. First NHL goal for Robert Hagg. Have to get the puck out when you have a chance. We've been tempting fate all night long on that front. Sloppy.

Flyers very nearly tie it up. Can't say this game hasn't been exciting.

Zetterberg with the assist.

Eat it, refs.

NYQUIST! 3-2! lolol

Flyers score. 2-2. Knew it was coming. Way to go, refs. Timely reminder that Wayne Simmonds grew up a Red Wings fan.

PK Ooooooo that is a soft, soft call right there.

HI MIKE! Pierre pointing out that Glendening took a puck to the hand/wrist area in the 1st, hasn't been on the bench here in the 2nd. Nyquit hits the post. Nyquist is hardcore cursed this season.

Larkin and Athanasiou with the assists.

GREEN! PPG! 2-1!

PP. 4 minutes!

THANKS, CAPTAIN OBVIOUS. Larkin and Green with the assists on the Frk goal, btw.

Update: Larkin is still awesome. End of 1st. 1-1. Lots and lots of high-quality chances for both teams. Wings played a pretty solid road period overall.

FRK! PPG! 1-1!