Lets get the good out fo the way first. Jonatan Berggren continues to prove he is an important piece to the Red Wings rebuild, showing poise and skill under pressure. Robby Fabbri scored his first goal since returning from his THIRD ACL repair, and was laying out big hits. Jake Walman continues to be on a heater, playing fantastic. The teams 5v5 play continunes to improve. The bad news. THEY CAN’T SCORE. THEIR SPECIAL TEAMS HAS COMPLETLEY DISINTERGRATED. #lgrw
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We recorded before the news on Soderblom, we’ll talk about it Tuesday!
Honestly, this team has become basically unwatchable. Their are a few main reasons
1. The team simply lacks a single player that is a legitimate top line player. Larkin is very good, but he is a 2C on a competitive team. With him as 1C playoffs are a myth.
Regarding the Wingers, Raymond looked to have potential as a top line player, but has significantly regressed and it looks like his best case is now a second liner. Vrana WAS a legitimate top line player, but he has washed out (despite ridiculous claims that taking the risk of waiving a $5M dollar winger was somehow a “genius” move by our GM for the sake of keeping Gustav Lindstrom or Adam Erne)
Larkin/Raymond/Berggren is a good second line, but the first line is non existent and no one is on the horizon
2. The complete regression of Mo Seider is huge. He was a top pairing guy, now he is a 3rd pairing guy at best. Meanwhile Chiarot (while making $4M) is not much better than Staal. Hronek is decent offensively but a complete joke defensively
3. This teams power play has basically become a waste of time. They have no plan whatsoever and looks like 5 random guys just wandering around.
At one point against Toronto they had 3 defenseman on the power play. The power play also featured Adam Erne and Joe Veleno at times
4. The penalty kill is similarly lost and way too passive. If you ever see Filip Hronek or Oesterle on the penalty kill-that is not good!
The boys need to start getting it together, they need to start winning, to jump in front of teams and get back into a playoff spot,new week come on boys start it off strong with a w
Can’t keep dumping pucks
Like you guys said lots of 'good" players but lack true elite talent. Most teams have at least 1
Wings and Lions hope ends on the same weekend! I trust Yzerman–happy he held steady in contract negotiations. Can't wait to see what he does next. He set it up to where he can flip the entire team!
The previous management group (Kenny Holland) & ownership mortgaged this teams future by making moves to keep the 25 year playoff streak alive by just sneaking into the playoffs back in 2014, 2015, and 2016. Those teams should have been sellers at trade deadline not buyers. The Wings could have/ should have been picking at top of draft, not at 17th, 19th.
The result of that was not getting players like McDavid, Matthews, Eichel …etc. As much as I love Larkin, he's not a Superstar, just a very good player. You don't win in the NHL without Superstars, you just hang around the middle of the pack.
In the NHL today, the only way to become a contender is to draft Superstars, and you don't get those guys picking late in 1st rnd.Teans don't trade superstar centers and rarely do those guys get to free agency.
Also, the last few drafts of Holland's admin. we're absolutely AWFUL. Taking Zadina over Quinn Hughes is a perfect example.
The Wings would be smart to just sell off at the deadline and roll the dice on winning the lottery.
PK stinks, when they played it very agressivly they were good
SCOTTY!! We need a BET ONLIIIIIIINE!!! C'mon bro! 😆😆