kylee 727 Report post Posted March 16, 2017 I just want Blashill fired at the end of the year - that's really the only thing I'm looking forward to with this franchise 3 SwedeLundin77, HadThomasVokounOnFortSt and Detroit \# 1 Fan reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SwedeLundin77 460 Report post Posted March 16, 2017 48 minutes ago, kylee said: I just want Blashill fired at the end of the year - that's really the only thing I'm looking forward to with this franchise Agreed, Blashill and his staff have to go. You can only rag on the players for so long until you HAVE to turn your eyes on the coaching staff. This is not a terrible team, on paper. I'm not saying they should be in the playoffs but losing to the lowly Avalanche and only generating a single goal?!? That's some serious sadness right there. There's little to no heart on this team, Hank can only do so much. Serious changes need to come down the pipe and it has to start with the coaching staff getting replaced. I just pray we can land Hitchcock (if he's planning on sticking around for a few seasons at least) or Gallant. I'm sure there are others, but those are my top two candidates to come in in the offseason. 1 Detroit \# 1 Fan reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kylee 727 Report post Posted March 16, 2017 (edited) 56 minutes ago, SwedeLundin77 said: Agreed, Blashill and his staff have to go. You can only rag on the players for so long until you HAVE to turn your eyes on the coaching staff. This is not a terrible team, on paper. I'm not saying they should be in the playoffs but losing to the lowly Avalanche and only generating a single goal?!? That's some serious sadness right there. There's little to no heart on this team, Hank can only do so much. Serious changes need to come down the pipe and it has to start with the coaching staff getting replaced. I just pray we can land Hitchcock (if he's planning on sticking around for a few seasons at least) or Gallant. I'm sure there are others, but those are my top two candidates to come in in the offseason. On paper the rhetoric going into the season was that we were better than the previous year's team. I thought we would be a bubble team again and it says a lot that we are nowhere close to that and nearly every player is having a bad year stats-wise. Send the AHL coach back where he came from. Edited March 16, 2017 by kylee Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LeftWinger 4,953 Report post Posted March 16, 2017 Blashill will still be the coach next season and Liljegren will be your #1 pick by Holland. That's truth, get ready, because, well, Ken Holland. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Detroit # 1 Fan 2,204 Report post Posted March 16, 2017 Wow, I fell asleep after the second period. We now own the distinction of having the least amount of regulation wins in the entire league. We may not be the worst team in the league, but we are certainly the least competitive. #FireBlashill Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HadThomasVokounOnFortSt 878 Report post Posted March 16, 2017 Fire blashill. I'm a wings fan don't get me wrong. I got a bunch of wings stuff on my car, room and still wear shirts. That being said, I have zero desire to watch them. I check in on scores every once and awhile but that's about it right now. Sucks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dabura 12,207 Report post Posted March 16, 2017 I fell asleep ten minutes before puck drop and slept through the whole thing. Seems like someone up there is looking out for me. Don't look now, but the Coyotes could pull within a single point of us tonight. Translation: finishing 29th overall is still very much a possibility. 1 kickazz reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kickazz 5,459 Report post Posted March 16, 2017 Lets go Red Wings!!! The road to Nolan Patrick!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GMRwings1983 8,794 Report post Posted March 16, 2017 I want Blashill to be publicly fired by both Vince McMahon and Donald Trump. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
joesuffP 1,746 Report post Posted March 16, 2017 How are the Avalanche that far behind for last place it's ridiculous.? Anyways finishing 2nd last and firing Blashill is best case scenario for this team at this point Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GMRwings1983 8,794 Report post Posted March 16, 2017 5 minutes ago, joesuffP said: How are the Avalanche that far behind for last place it's ridiculous.? Anyways finishing 2nd last and firing Blashill is best case scenario for this team at this point Not sure what happened to them this year. They have several players that have way more upside than anyone on the Wings. They've underachieved for sure. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kliq 3,755 Report post Posted March 16, 2017 2 hours ago, Jonas Mahonas said: Why fire the coach when he loses when we need to lose? There is a lot of truth to this comment. We are out of it, to fire him now and bring in say a Hitchcock who could possibly turn it around to the point where we shoot up the standings and just barely don't make the playoffs would be worst case scenario. 2 Hockeymom1960 and krsmith17 reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChristopherReevesLegs 7,022 Report post Posted March 16, 2017 2 hours ago, joesuffP said: How are the Avalanche that far behind for last place it's ridiculous.? Anyways finishing 2nd last and firing Blashill is best case scenario for this team at this point Talk to any Av's fan, and they'll tell you It's lack of depth. Outside of Landy, Duch, Mac, Barrie, and Johnson, they have nothing. And those guys are good players, but not good enough to put the entire roster on their back. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GMRwings1983 8,794 Report post Posted March 16, 2017 1 minute ago, ChristopherReevesLegs said: Talk to any Av's fan, and they'll tell you It's lack of depth. Outside of Landy, Duch, Mac, Barrie, and Johnson, they have nothing. And those guys are good players, but not good enough to put the entire roster on their back. They, at least, have players you can build a franchise around. We don't. I wish we had those first two guys you mentioned. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChristopherReevesLegs 7,022 Report post Posted March 16, 2017 4 minutes ago, GMRwings1983 said: They, at least, have players you can build a franchise around. We don't. I wish we had those first two guys you mentioned. Yeah, we're like the exact opposite. Loaded with depth, middle tier, players. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hockeymom1960 5,107 Report post Posted March 16, 2017 20 minutes ago, GMRwings1983 said: They, at least, have players you can build a franchise around. We don't. I wish we had those first two guys you mentioned. I totally disagree. We have Larking, AA, Mrazek, Mantha, etc. that we can build around. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GMRwings1983 8,794 Report post Posted March 16, 2017 (edited) 12 minutes ago, Hockeymom1960 said: I totally disagree. We have Larking, AA, Mrazek, Mantha, etc. that we can build around. None of those players is in the same class as their top guys. There's a reason those guys were such high picks. And forget Mrazek. That guy needs to have an exorcism in the offseason to ever be the same. BTW, I hope Iginla (yes, he's still playing) is having fun there. Edited March 16, 2017 by GMRwings1983 1 ami reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ChristopherReevesLegs 7,022 Report post Posted March 16, 2017 4 minutes ago, GMRwings1983 said: None of those players is in the same class as their top guys. There's a reason those guys were such high picks. And forget Mrazek. That guy needs to have an exorcism in the offseason to ever be the same. BTW, I hope Iginla (yes, he's still playing) is having fun there. He plays for LA now Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GMRwings1983 8,794 Report post Posted March 16, 2017 10 minutes ago, ChristopherReevesLegs said: He plays for LA now Oh yeah. Shows how irrelevant he's become. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ami 273 Report post Posted March 16, 2017 2 hours ago, GMRwings1983 said: ... And forget Mrazek. That guy needs to have an exorcism in the offseason to ever be the same. I think Mrazek is capable to catching up with Hasek, though I think he'll skip Vezina and Stanley part of it, and end up playing some shadow corner beer league in Czech. They've got real good beer there! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
frankgrimes 1,836 Report post Posted March 16, 2017 Go Coyotes Wings still have a chance to outtank them Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
brett 1,029 Report post Posted March 16, 2017 How blashill still has a job after losing to the worst team in the league is beyond me. Organization is f***ed Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GMRwings1983 8,794 Report post Posted March 16, 2017 2 minutes ago, brett said: How blashill still has a job after losing to the worst team in the league is beyond me. Organization is f***ed We don't fire people, we make them quit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jacksoni 418 Report post Posted March 16, 2017 A good game! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BobL 28 Report post Posted March 16, 2017 We were at this one, which makes for a different view than on screen... It has been a couple years since the last time I caught a live game (also Denver, DeKeyser's debut)... it definitely convinced me that coaching is the issue here. Couple things I noticed: Zone entry on the powerplay is godawful. Own zone entry on the PK is even worse... There seem to be two complimentary issues there - on the PP they are getting stood up at the blue line as the opposing team closed with them and shut them off in the neutral zone. Conversely, on the PK, they are very quickly collapsing into their own zone, letting the other team walk in and work the puck around the outside and set up good shots. Nielsen looks a lot better in person as a player. Athanasiou and Larkin are fast as hell. Mantha is a giant. Z is carrying so much of this team right now. That Mike Green one timer from the point needs to get set up 10 more times a game. Oullet looks good. There are good players out there, especially forwards, but they seem to be holding back and second guessing their positioning because they are being told to do things that might not be the right things to do - the passing ends up being hesitant and they are rarely moving the puck effectively laterally - with all the high skill players they have, they should be able to move the puck so much better than they do. They came back hard after each Colorado goal, only to get sucked back into the above after a shift or two. Glendening and Miller looked awful. Anyway... just a few thoughts I had. 2 krsmith17 and Detroit \# 1 Fan reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
