Darren McCarty breaks down to Neal Ruhl on why Detroit Red Wings fans need to keep calm and continue to trust GM Steve Yzerman. While D-Mac has been the leader on supporting the Yzerplan, some fans have recently begun to question some of the Wings moves. While the hopes are high for Hockey Town’s future, will faith in Yzerman remain? Like, Subscribe and leave your comment below!
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I give him 1 more ‘grace’ season. After that. Gotta get the show rolling here
Ill agree with Dmac. The team is better going into this season coming. Alot better? We’ll find out
Did you guys purposely leave out James Reimer? As that graphic was up. With all the new signings.
Justin Holl, LOL.
That’s all fine and dandy but where is the progress? Almost none in the last several years.
The only ones who don’t are people who don’t know puck and act like they know all these prospects more than everyone else. This isn’t the NFL draft, nobody knows these guys outside of bedard and fantilli
The Holl signing is terrible. The Compher signing is good but makes Copp even more overpaid (unless Copp bounces back significantly). Gostisbehere & Sprong are great signings.
Your absolutely right Big D the people complaining about the Job Stevie is doing couldn't manage a Kool aid stand let alone the Red wings. Your doing great Steve keep up the good work.
Time clock is Cossa. These pickups are to give current young players and the future prospects the ability to play with veteran accountability. Play defense and learn how to be effective on the PP and PK. These 1,2,3,5 yr contracts are set for the timing of the team and getting into the playoffs. Big splash signings do nothing if the farm isnt full 5 to 7yrs from now. Look at Toronto 2 top tier lines that dont forecheck and make up 3/4s the cap, 2 bottom lines with 700k to 900k players trying to keep up and new netminders every year.
The Penguins were already on the decline because they hadn't had a draft steal since Jake Guentzel in 2013 and traded most of their top picks away.
Biggest Yzerman mistake might have been holding onto Blashill too long lmfao.
Lmaoo. I cant believe they left out Reimer. Jesus. Guys.
Except Vasilevskiy was much better than Cossa at the same age…
I'm still with Yzerman. I know he's pouring his heart and soul into making the team better and making the decisions he thinks is best. I feel that the signings have been pretty low risk/short term deals.
Unfortunately it means he probably doesn't see that many NHL players who are developing within the next 3 years that are already in the system. So either he has to overpay in free agency (which wasn't worth it, maybe next year) or build from within which takes years to develop and a little bit of luck that the drafted guys pan out.
I also like how he has targeted signing players within the Red Wings age group (for the most part) and these have been players who were first round picks so I know that somewhere within their fan base there are fans who are like "ugh why didn't we give him a chance" – just like when someone of ours (ie Zadina) doesn't work out.
Many don't know about long-range plans and execution these days. The Wings are in excellent shape for now and a long time.
Misfits always play better
Is DMac hinting on Auston Matthews?!
Both Nylander and Matthews need new contracts in Toronto.
Cannot keep both.
If they sign Matthews next summer, it is over
Would love to hear Dmac's reaction to the Zadina news. Won't report if sent to GR? What a bust!!
Tbh, there is no reason why we shouldn't have signed Debrincat.
This segment almost feels like North Korean propaganda at this point😂 I love my Cap Stevie Y to death but the last 2 offseason's were so bizarre(especially what just happened), so nonsensical you would have to be a fool not to question what's going on here. BTW: McCarthy saying "The man simply comes out and tells you what his game plan is"- well thats the problem ya dope(love you too Darren but I felt that was the appropriate word after hearing you say that)! After another underwhelming draft Stevie tries to save face and immediately says "we are still in rebuilding mode" HIS FREAKIN WORDS! Im like OK cool we're still in rebuilding mode, he learned from last offseason perplexing, mistake of a shopping spree so that can be forgiven and we do the logical thing from now out aka gonna play the kids and try to get a lottery pick that we desperately(we missed out on Michkov and Leonard BY ONE PICK) need as a franchise next season(kind of what we should have done last offseason!) But what does Stevie do immediately after making that statement?? He goes on another ill-advised and downright BONEHEADED shopping spree and gives us Chariot 2.0, Copp 2.0 and another bunch of loose change. Somebody check Stevie's health because either he's losing it or he's taking orders from Holland because its mind boggling what's going on here and as a hardcore fan its sickening at this point how we just spend 1/4th of our cap the next 3+ seasons on 2 DMEN who cant play D and 2 centers who cant score! I mean this is GM malpractice at it's finest. Any other GM would be fired for doing something so nutty😫All we fans can do is ask "whyyyyyyyyyy Stevie for the love of God whyyyyyyy" and cry at this point😭
I am rooting for Stevie but this is his official PR team
Holland signed horrendous long term contracts and drafted poorly. We’ll pay for that for a few more years. My guess is Jim Nill was responsible for the cups.
Of course Darren is going for Yzerman bc he helps pay his bills and uses him as a puppet at games. Its a bust and when you have to restart your "plan" i think 2 or 3 times over you really don't know what you're doing. Yzerman is a great player but i don't know if he is gm material. He is over confident in his abilities and unable to produce but he is yzerman and he gets a pass in Detroit. These recent pickups are terrible and I don't blame you not talking about Reimer. For the people that are thinking this is a great build for the future with 1 and 2 year contracts i will bet half of this team will be gone in 2 years looking for better and longer deals if they are decent.
We took Danielson, not Zach Benson and Axel, not Colby Barlow or Oliver Moore. Have to go this way now because the Y man has spoken like when Scottie made a move you have to trust in the final decision. That is how we are gonna build a winner the Y man has a long-term vision of what it is going to take to be a top-tier team again. Believe in the master plan and commit to training camp where it's going to be earned. The wings will fly as a stronger flock this year great job Y man. 🛝
The wings are mediocre at best. Is there a goal scorer on the team? Anyone who can hit 40 goals a year, 50 is just too much to ask. Darren wants a team of 10 to 20 goal scorers, and says shame on you for wanting more. What we have is half a team and until we get a few good players on the team might as well quit
Yzerman knows what a cup winner needs to look like. However I seriously question the ability of the scouting staff to deliver the talent. Red wings scouting staff is a grind line echo chamber. Does this scouting staff know what high end talent looks like. Lucas Raymond is looking like a terrible pick as was pretty much every pick in the holland years.
💯 DMac