Cali-Wing-Nut

Lets just say that Abbey got screwed and move on.  He popped on the hit but he didnt shoot an elbow or shoulder straight at his head. 

 

We should worry more about actually getting a fkin net as we have been given ample opportunity and blew it out our arse.

Hey! Theres a 1 up there!  Me likey

 

If keeping some stupid playoff streak is the main goal, you're doing it wrong.

 

This roster needs some serious revamping.

No the roster is young.  They lack experience but they are just fine on the team.  Dropping multiple core players and the best defenseman in modern times doesnt help in the following year.

Put it on NHL network for puck drop

where are we supposed to see the beginning of the game when this hawks game goes too long?

You dont. That is unless you are in LA or Detroit and arent blackedout

 

OR contact marcaractac lol

I can say for once Im cool as a cucumber waiting for the real season to start.  Getting to 22 post-seasons was my hope this year, every number at the top of the page I see is gravy. 

what do you get when you multiply 11 x 2?  Helping out a 2nd grader

SMITH YOU ARE MY HERO!!!

/season

The big hangup from what I can tell are the Coyotes the Panthers and the other small market teams.  They are getting murdered with the salary cap floor.  While Det, Pitt, Van, Chi, Phi, NY ect are making massive profits, the small teams arent keeping up.  Since it is easy to say that they should move the team to a bigger market, that has a much bigger affect and isnt all that easy.

I think the cap should be the same.  I also think minimum salary should go up.  Last I think the cap floor should drop.  This will keep small teams from over paying players just to get above the cap floor.  This will also contract the inflation in salaries because of the floor.  More or less, if a player sees that some no name team is paying a top 40 defenseman top 20 pay because of the cap, the top 20 players are going to want pay that is exponetially higher.  This has a circular affect that keeps feeding on its self and over time making the problem worse.

I also would like to see the teams being able to release players the same way as the NFL.  If you get hurt, thats life, youre a millionaire that has a bad knee.  No need to keep the player under contract if they cant play.  Eaves is a perfect example for this, a great guy and good player but is dragging the finacials because he cant play but also cant be released. This is a bigger issue for teams with WAY less cash the DET.

Bettman needs to work it out, if he oversees another lockout I pray my wishes are fulfilled and he is sent packing.  We dont need such an anti player commisioner.

How do you know he didn't pursue other options before trade deadline or even before that? Remember, Holland didn't have a lot of cap room (or trade bait) to appeal a good trade.

Who could he have went after? What could he give up that DRWs could afford to lose? How much cap space did he have to work with before last year?

It's not like he had a lot of options when DRWs were up against the cap before last year, and last year there was no good FA. At deadline there was no good Dman available.

At least try to be realistic.

His job is to DO not to TRY.  You know you have a cush job when all you gotta do is "try" and its okay.

I dont think Illitch is a TRY type of owner.  Holland earned his mulligans but I think hes getting close to or fresh out of them after the last few years of non results.

I am a business owner and if I was in a sector that was as fast moving and cut throat as hockey was, Holland would have one last chance at this point.  Otherwise hes costing you money at the risk of no return.

I had to let go our shop foreman for this very reason, he got way to comfortable in his job and finally took advatange of our good graces one too many times.  Holland is on borrowed time unless he makes a monster deal to shore up our team.

Say what you will about Holland's job the past couple years, but you can't fault him for what happened with Parise and Suter.  He did just about everything he could to land Suter here.

Nope cant fault him for Suter and Parise (Detroit doesnt have farmland to drive a tractor around on), I can fault him for not having a good go to plan.  He rode out Nicky till he left and now hes in a situation that could actually cost him his job.

When it gets down to brass tacks, he makes some type of huge trade to get our team to where it needs to be or hes out.  If Im Illitch thats the only out I give you.  Then its Jim Nills turns until we can pick up Stevie if that ever happens or ever turns into a good idea.

I know they probably cannot do it but Caesars Palace would be fitting.  

Gordie Howe Pavillion

Red Wings Center

Motor City Arena

JLA Memorial  Auditorium

Olympia Colosseum

The Horn and absolutely without a doubt, the boards better make it over. I laugh everytime a national broadcaster or rival teams announcer comments about the "lively boards".  They are the most important thing about the JLA in my opinion.

You look at his performance in 2010-11 and compare it to 2011-12 when he made it verbally known that he wanted to leave.  

The performance was night and day.  He made Ericcson look like Nicky in comparison.  He skated away from the puck, made little effort to maintain puck possesion and although everyone looked crappola in the Playoffs this year, he was one of the worst out there.  

I dont understand the love fest for him when it was obvious he had zero intention of playing hard last season.

stats are games played, goals, assists, points, PIM, +/-

2010-11 Detroit Red Wings NHL 67 3 17 20 40 4




  2011-12 Detroit Red Wings NHL 81 6 15 21 29 16


He played less the year prior and had almost the same numbers, I dont look at plus minus because that is a team stat.  He wasnt helping as much and definitely wasnt manning up on guys like he did in the previous year.

Glad to see him gone.  Last year he stunk up the whole blue line most likely to be traded.  He got his wish going to the fkn Guppies, dont let the door hit you on the way out Brad.