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Playing Interstate Love Song re: Wings penalties always makes me laugh, I don't know why it's so funny to me.

I've come to really appreciate him over the past couple of years. He's a tone-setter.

Kinda poo brainy. Bad puck management, lots of turnovers.

[thinks about it] You may be right, actually.

FILPPULA TOOK THE SHOT HE DIDN'T SCORE BUT THAT'S NOT THE POINT

Cholowski's been pretty rough, IMO. But Hronek's a beauty. With DeKeyser out, he's been forced into a really demanding role. So far, he's handling it well.

Imagine having Pacioretty & Stone on your team and your team is struggling to score goals. Hockey is weird.

I seed you, Spud. Come home.

If I have a "second team," it's prob'ly the Knights. I like the city of Vegas and I don't really have any personal Wings fan beef with the team (yet). So these games (Wings-Knights games) are pretty comfy for me.

If Fabbri has two of those goals, the building is going to explode.

So I've heard, lol.

sup mabus sup 'loo sup 'buto sup everyone let's do that hockey

Just sayin'. You can usually tell how things are gonna go by reading what Khan and to a lesser extent HSJ have to say.

Khan says some of our contracts are "not moveable": https://www.mlive.com/redwings/2019/11/red-wings-steve-yzerman-seeks-value-in-low-risk-trades.html Khan is a mouthpiece for the organization, so if you were hoping for any of our albatross contracts to get moved this season, you should adjust your expectations accordingly.

The Yzerplan is dead, long live the Yzerplan!

Major props to Byfield for making things interesting. I know it's still early days, but it sure is looking like he's the only one who's capable of overtaking Lafreniere. I don't know if he'll go 1st overall (again, early days), and I don't know if I'd want Yzerman to take him 1st overall. We'll see. If he does go 1st overall, I think age will have been a factor; Lafreniere is ten months older. (In fact, Lafreniere missed being eligible for the 2019 draft by a month.) Here's the thing tho: Would they really rig it like that for *the Ottawa Senators*, of all organizations? ...Actually, on second thought, don't answer that.

No but srsly, why is everyone in this organization Italian?

HYPE! LGRW!

Knew I was forgetting someone. Regula would never get us Perlini.

Can we talk about how great this win was? It was pretty great. Some hiccups, for sure. The last five minutes or so of the 2nd were dreadful. Total hold-on-for-dear-life deer-in-the-headlights hockey. Took our foot off the gas. Can't do that, ever. Other than that, pretty good. Bertuzzi was absolutely loving life. Setting up Fabbri's goals. Finishing checks. Getting under people's skin. Shutting down the best line in the NHL. Ho-hum. Speaking of shutting down Boston's top line...yeah, that was a thing. The Larkin line won that matchup. Pastrnak had an assist on the Krug goal. Nothing for Bergeron. (Larkin more than held his own in the faceoff circle.) Nothing for Marchand, who got frustrated and probably hurt his team more than he helped it. I don't think he liked that Hronek dropped the gloves. I don't think he liked that all the jawing in the world didn't seem to rattle a bench that was supposed to be lacking confidence and composure. I don't think he liked that Mantha is actually a better shutdown (or, power-versus-power) player than people give him credit for. Speaking of Mantha...I think I finally get it. I think he finally makes sense. Dude was playing like he was sleepwalking last night. Except, he wasn't sleepwalking. He was engaged. "We've always known that's a thing with him. He's big, so he can cover a lot of ground without exerting as much energy as a smaller guy like Bertuzzi. People see it as laziness. It's not." Right, sure, but that's not really what I'm not talking about. It's more that he looked like he was stuck in slow motion while everyone else was playing at normal speed...and yet, it was more than a few times that the Bruins players playing at full speed seemed to struggle against him. It looked like he wasn't putting a ton of effort into anything he was doing...and yet, he seemed to cause some serious problems for the Bruins. I guess the word I'm looking for is..."effortless"? Sure. At times last night, he looked effortlessly effective. Maybe it's a fine line between A) not putting in enough effort and B) pulling stuff off so well that you make it look like it's nothing. I think what's finally clicked for me is the notion that an Anthony Mantha who has realized his full potential is a guy who routinely makes big-time plays look effortless. I'm thinking the challenge he's been facing is figuring out how to walk the line between playing hard, hard, hard and trying to become a Zetterberg-esque playmaker who's so freakishly good at slowing the game down that he can stand still with the puck in an o-zone pocket for what feels like ten seconds without the opposition swarming him and stripping him of the puck. He's doing that Zetterberg thing now where he just holds the puck and then maybe loses the puck but then gets it right back and just kind of circles around the o-zone like a shark, and the other team isn't quite sure what to do so they just kind of cautiously shadow him and wait for him to give a sign that he's about to make a play, at which point they try to close him off and shut him down. I think Mantha realizes this and I think it's exactly how he's always wanted things to be. He wants to be big and dangerous on the ice, yes, but just as big and dangerous in opposing players' heads. I think players are starting to treat him as a legit dynamic offensive threat who can burn you in a second, in any number of ways. While that means tighter checking and less time and space, he's hitting his prime and really coming into his own, which I think sort of offsets things. "Power versus power." Does that make any sense? I feel like I'm doing a s*** job of explaining this. The following (Mantha's empty-net goal) is absolutely not a perfect example of what I'm talking about, but I like the contrast between exhausted-looking Bergeron and confident-looking Mantha: https://www.nhl.com/video/t-310452140/c-4553264

DLR for Fabbri. Ehn for Fleury. Helm for Puljujarvi. Abby for Honka. Kuffner for Kunin. Let's f***ing go, boys.

https://mynhltraderumors.com/nhl-rumors-and-notes-mathew-barzal-haydn-fleury-and-ranger-musings/2019/11/09/ LOOK MAN I'M JUST SAIYAN