# [VAN](/r/canucks) Vancouver Canucks (34-12-5) at [DET](/r/detroitredwings) Detroit Red Wings (26-18-6)
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by OctoMod
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Hope they come out with their game legs and play a complete 60. Welcome back to Red Wings hockey!!!
Guess who’s back, back again? 🎶
We made it
Finally!!
Ey boys, let’s go beat up on dem Vancouver Cafucks today, eh.
Excited to see Kane back in action! Hope everyone is well rested and ready for a grueling couple of months.
SET THE TONE EARLY BOYS!
And hopefully the boys are 78% sober after Cabo.
Is Kaner in btw?
I’ve lived in Michigan for 90% of my life, and today is the first time I ever watch the Wings play IN Detroit. LGRW!!!
The wait is over. Time to beat up on some canucks!
Woah, a game thread!?
Hockey is back in Hockeytown! It’s about time! LGRW!
Snagged some last minute tickets. Anyone know what is involved with the “kids day” promotion?
LGRW!
Going on a date with the husband to my first Wings game!!! Cheers friends let’s get this W
Love seeing a game day thread. Hate seeing the Leafs and Lightning are playing Ottawa and Columbus respectively while the Wings are playing the top team in the league. Hope the three games are all upsets and the Wings stay in the race for 3rd in the Atlantic
So Jersey Customization….My wife wants her Hockey Fights Cancer Jersey to be a Seider Jersey. Is there a place in Detroit to get that done?
IT’S A GAME DAY!!!
Let’s play some fucking hockey #LGRW
Man im ready for this game LGRW!
Beginning of the year, with the additions I said we will end up in 2nd place.
Boston has been a HUGE surprise – but I’m sticking to my guns here.
Panthers
Wings
Bruins
Leafs <—- WC1
Bolts <—–WC2
It all starts with 6 of 6 from an overachieving Vancouver team and a big win against a top heavy Edmonton team and a Sprong hatty one of those games
Wooohoo
Is….is…. Is that Red Wings hockey that I smell?? It’s about time, this break felt like an entire offseason. I kept thinking the draft and free agency were coming up soon
HEY. lgrw
HELLO OUT THERE, WE’RE ON THE AIR
Game day wow I could cry😭
Rooting for the Wings today 😀😍
Rooting for the Blue Jackets 😐
Rooting for the Bruins 😒
Rooting for the Sens 🤮
Happy hockey day! Up to #21 on the updates to [Scott Wheeler’s Prospect Pool](https://theathletic.com/5040065/2024/01/30/nhl-prospect-rankings-2024?source=user-shared-article) countdown. Still no sniff of Detroit 🙂
Inline reply has Scott’s criteria for anyone who doesn’t have the athletic but wants context.
* **32. [New York Islanders](https://theathletic.com/5040967/2024/01/30/islanders-nhl-prospect-pool-rankings-2024?source=user-shared-article)**: only team w/o top-100 prospect. That’s bad.
* **31. [Ottawa Senators](https://giphy.com/gifs/gross-jim-carrey-dumb-and-dumber-DsdVe5jhHWNC8)**: Fuck the sens
* **30. [Boston Bruins](https://theathletic.com/5114411/2024/02/01/bruins-nhl-prospect-pool-rankings-2024?source=user-shared-article)**: Poitras graduation drops them a bit. Otherwise, some pieces at the top and fringe everywhere else.
* **29. [Tampa Bay Lightning](https://theathletic.com/5190377/2024/02/02/lightning-nhl-prospect-pool-rankings-2024?source=user-shared-article)**: Got a little better, still bad.
* **28. [Toronto Maple Leafs](https://theathletic.com/5190753/2024/02/03/maple-leafs-nhl-prospect-pool-rankings-2024?source=user-shared-article)**: Decent depth but no top end. Raised eyebrows towards some late round goalies. Still a Tier 1 annoying fanbase with immense depth.
* **27. [Shittsburgh Penguins](https://theathletic.com/5193446/2024/02/04/penguins-nhl-prospect-pool-rankings-2024?source=user-shared-article)**: (Had to do it). Yager is really solid. Two goalies at 3 and 4, with lots of upside to Murashov. Basically nothing else bc Rutherford things (and to be fair, b2b cups…).
* **26. [Colorado Avalanche](https://theathletic.com/5196396/2024/02/05/avalanche-nhl-prospect-pool-rankings-2024?source=user-shared-article)**: [Darren McCarty’s Punching Bags](https://images.app.goo.gl/5E6NC7rBYbrXg7jcA) continue to get punched. Top NHL team but weak pool, which includes some redundancies that suggests moves are to be made.
* **25. [Edmonton Oilers](https://theathletic.com/5214044/2024/02/06/oilers-nhl-prospect-pool-rankings-2024?source=user-shared-article)**: Bad and getting worse, with many futures already mortgaged. Holland in the late-00’s-Wings mode there right now, understandably, with peak McDrai. I think they should be lower, and Wheeler acknowledged the same. Expect a drop when Holloway and Broberg jump. Save for miracle moves or crazy draft day stuff, I’m guessing bottom 3-4, at best, in next year’s rankings.
***Per Scott, rankings are moving into a new tier of teams that’s more or less jumbled around League average.***
* **24. [Florida Panthers](https://theathletic.com/5214492/2024/02/07/panthers-nhl-prospect-pool-rankings-2024?source=user-shared-article)**: Not a lot of top and talent here though, and Spencer Knight is back in the mix.
* **23. [Vegas Golden Knights](https://theathletic.com/5214501/2024/02/08/golden-knights-nhl-prospect-pool-rankings-2024?source=user-shared-article)**: No high end talent and missing RHD, but better than most recent champions. Had a bunch of maybes at goal, too.
* **22. [New Jersey Devils](https://theathletic.com/5235251/2024/02/09/devils-nhl-prospect-pool-rankings-2024?source=user-shared-article)**: Bunch of Meh, except that this still includes Nemec, so barring a miracle they’re really falling. Should be lower but c’est la vie. This is what happens when tons of elite talent makes the jump.
* **21. [Dallas Stars](https://theathletic.com/5239029/2024/02/10/stars-nhl-prospect-pool-rankings-2024?source=user-shared-article)**: Stankoven is near elite at the top. Borque a talented 2nd in line. Takes from there since Johnson made the jump, but a respectable pool for aSC contender.
I’ll start breaking these tiers up into different comment replies as they evolve, so the main comment doesn’t become annoying on the daily threads.
Good morning hockey town!! I’m so hype for today, going to watch the Red Wings game and then head out to the Griffins game with some old college friends 🙂 also we got sunlight for multiple days this week and I haven’t felt this good in a while lol
Any suggestions for stores near the arena I can pick up some wings gear? Bonus points if they have lions stuff as well?
Oh god oh fuck it’s finally happening
LGRW!!!
Downtown for the game today for the first time in a decade. LFGGGGG RED WINGS
Hey gang, we made it
*knocks sand, cobwebs, and dust out of megaphone*
LGRW!
Emmitt Finnie seems like he could be a sleeper. Also could just be the next Adam Marsh.
At least he’s not in the Q though.
https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=176736
LGRW!
https://preview.redd.it/vpjtkbfy6shc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a87200655c40dcb654b631749cb33371c9d02fe
Cuck the fanucks?
Big sporting day for me down here in the Crossroads of America Red wings are back and then tonight Purdue hopefully ragdolls IU