dragonballgtz

Would it be much of a stretch to say that Holland's biggest career mistake will be Franzen over Hossa? It hurts to think how good our top 6 would be with Hossa, especially given he only makes a million or so more than Franzen.

Big stretch. It was either Hossa or Mule+depth, which Holland with rather have a balanced team over a top heavy squad. Even with Hudler over seas for the 09-10 season we were still right at the cap. That extra million with Hossa would've meant more depth loss besides just Sammy.

Mule could be a 50G guy IMO if he played with passion game in and game out. It's like he has the Fedorov emotion bug.

I think getting Nash would have damn near the same impact of us getting Shanahan back in the day. To bad that a cap system is in place now, if it wasn't for it he would already be a Wings player IMO.

I really appreciated reading all this bidness about Nash, even though I'll probably never understand the numbers game.   However, doesn't the fact remain that the Wings' biggest priority is a defenseman?   What with Lidstrom's quasi-imminent retirement and Stuart's leaving for the West Coast and family?

Not to mention if Jimmy has another Vezina-esque season he pretty much will double his salary cap.

Joey can finish out the year here but I wouldn't want him to be our backup come next season. He has played decent the last couple of games but his rebound control scares the living crap out of me. I believe playing in GR regularly has allowed him to find his groove unlike Ty. But will he be able to find it when he is sitting on the bench like Ty does for most of the season?

Joey gave it right to him.

I mentioned the juicy rebounds that he allows to happen last GDT. The Wings defense cannot be there to clear them every time.

Datsyuk should join him. His passes lately have zero zip on them and you can tell that his wrist is bothering him.

There were times in the first period that our guys looked like an AHL team.  No chemistry, iffy passing, and NO idea what to do with the puck.  And the five on three?!  Downright scary at times.

Yep, Mule looks like he doesn't give a s***, the passing has been off the marks all game long, Z looks like he is skating in sand. Hell I've been more impressed with Homer than most of our top players. His passing is way better than some of our top wingers.

I think people are forgetting that Kronwall was standing still on the first goal scored while Stuart was out of position. And you all expect Ty to stop redirects so close? No one was even getting Gagner out the way. Let's just leave a guy alone who was dominate last game and is showing signs of doing the same thing tonight. Pretty stupid on the Wings part.

I would've cried like a little baby at the end of the game if I was one of those players.

It's just horrible 2 were on Jimmy 2 were on the D. On that 4th goal he looked like he was not even ready for the shot.

Hey Howard stopped the shot, it's up to the defense (Kindl) to clear the puck. Howard is not to blame here the Canadiens are just making our defense look like a minor leaguers. Just pure dominance on the Canadiens part.

To bad they cannot outright fire Semin

I hope he gets (legally) freight-trained in his first game back.

I have no doubt that someone will take a run at him.

At this point put Abby, Helm, and Eaves all out there while on the PP. I would rather see their crash the net style instead of this weak passing no movement PP we been icing.

Okay and for the millionth time, in the NHL RULEBOOK, they are not fair game. Period. Its really not that hard to understand.

Did I say they were fair game? I said they SHOULD be fair game.

My sentence wasn't that hard to understand.

Goalies should be fair game when they come that far out.