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The management's decisions to stand pat over the past 11-or-so months has shown that the team tends to believe in the concept that prospect development plus a free agent signing or two = the way to go while "rebuilding on the fly," and Ken Holland basically confirmed that strategy while speaking to the Free Press's Jeff Seidel, who suggests that the Wings' playoff run has made him a "believer" in the Wings' organizational philosophy:

 

[W]e learned that the Wings have a ton of young talent. And now that young talent has something that is even better – playoff experience.

"I think the most important thing is they are pros, not potential,” Holland said.

Next year will be fascinating. The Wings will get a full season of Danny DeKeyser. And they should get several injured players back.

“Next year, we hope to have Darren Helm back,” Holland said. “We hope to have a healthy Todd Bertuzzi. We hope to have a healthy Mikael Samuelsson. You can look forward to September 2013, and think we are going to have a real good competition” at training camp.

This is a new look for the Wings. This team is not as dominant as in the past, but it is homegrown, and it’s the culmination of a plan that started back in 2005.

Well my fears are coming true, this may not be the best UFA group ever but there are some gems, which could help the Wings obviously the biggest piece is Clarkson but also guys like Ryder, Horton at a good pricetag would make sense.

Also at least one 1 spot has to be open for a big enforcer, Wings are going to face Orr, MacLaren, Thornton, Lucic, Chara, Clowe and Prust so I think a guy like Scott is a must-sign addition.

At least make room for the young guys and get rid off Bertuzzi, Samuelson, Filps, White .

So this quote has me worried a bit, the Wings are one of the richest teams in the league why not use the money to their advantage?

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My thoughts are as follows:

Well done Adobe, after destroying Macromedia and therefore flash (what a bugfest after you've bought it) now the next genius move just wow. I am sure, people are thrilled having to logon to a server in order to get their work done AND pay you a monthly fee for it, what a joke your company has become. The SaaS (software as a service) concept is nothing more than a big fat lie and a money grab, hopefully this idea will be gone soon.

I hate the cloud, hopefully in a few years this crap will be gone, not willing to logon into a company-servers just to get things done. Microsoft is trying the same with Office 365 and it flopped hard.

And of course they are killing Fireworks the best GIF Animation tool but whatever, f*** you Adobe.

Personally for me there are lot of things:

- bench clearing line-brawls

- enforcers dealing with pests

- thrilling trade-dead-lines, 1 of July and draft day

- creative contracts

- hockey played like a mans game

- less diving

- less political bulls*** flooding into the game

- powerforwards not getting called for clean-checks

- hipchecks! what happened to them?

- bone crushing clean hitts

- less suits in the arenas+

- players playing without helmets

- rivalries fueled with pure hatred for the opponent

- stacked line-ups probably one of the worst parts about the new new NHL is that so many teams are almost equal save for a few superstars

Given all these things, it doesn't surprise me how fast my interest in the NHL (not the sport iself) is dwindling down quickly.

Today I thought about how I've adored hockey back in the good old days, couldn't stop watching the games was thrilled to see "my" Red Wings play, watching so many great players on the ice and fantastique season was just gorgeaus but for whatever reason, I heavily dislike the new NHL. I don't agree with the stupid rule-changes, how they are treatening the fans and all this CBA crap.

To be honest for me as a fan, I am losing interest in the NHL fast, trade-deadlines and UFA days are not what they once were and tank to win teams are rising to the top or at least close to it every year. Speaking with some friends I am clearly not the only one, losing interest in the NHL.

So what about you? Do you think this league can be fixed or will it continue to lose fans because of idiots running the show and by doing so, ruinning this great sport.

Haven't watched the whole event, just a bit of them talking about the power behind this machine. After seeing some of the ingame graphics I must admit, I am amazed the PS 4 is an incredilbe powerhouse. Personally stuff like Netflix (I prefer to have my dvds in a shelf, even useable when I am offline!), Gaikai (never heard of them before) or some Amazon, Youtube apps are not what I am expecting from a console...these are nice to have but for sure not killerfeatures.

Things I love:

- 8 core

- 8 gb ddr 5

- no more loading times thanks to the suspend mode

- being able to play used games - thanks Sony screw you M$

- promise of streaming even PS I + II titles!

- new controller but where are the start and select buttons?

- BluRay-Drive but honestly that had to be expected

- play the game before the download is even finished

- stream the game from TV to my tablet, smartphone or whatever - awesome

Meh/Don't care:

- share button: if it want to share stuff I'll do it with my reallife friends or by using ICQ, MSN

- uploading a video, thats what youtube is for I don't need that and especially not on on the PSN

- Motion Eye bundle: just make it an external accessoire and drop the price a bit

Didn't like:

- PSN learning from my "buying behaviour"

- spectator mode: hello Sony privacy?!

- storing stuff like profiles, savings on the PSN "cloud" this looks more like a data-collection not my cup of tea

All in all I am really impressed with this beauty, the graphics are outstanding, I will not be a first day buyer but it looks like Sony has made their homework and is delivering a real powerhouse. Since I will not be using the internet on the console, the controller and graphical power paired with a Bluray-Drive are enough for me, to consider this thing. Doubt M$ has invested that much thought in their upcoming console.