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42 Comments
I rather have Lyon an cossa over husso
Depth. Goaltending.
The garbage patch…end of story.
So with 1 – 4th overall and 1 – 9th overall in the last what, 10+ years? How are they suppose to get a 100pt guy?
Next year they'll make it
D mac bring that flannel guy on and hit him harder than you did with claude
Bad management, bad coaching, bad defense, bad goaltending, and continued stubbornness to keep the talent in GR.
You guys say the obvious too much.. They had a chance and blew it tho'. They choked! Future looks fine but again.. Obviously.
you dont need a 100+ guy, everyone knows thats not the formula. when the blues won the cup they didnt have a guy over 77pts. its all about the depth. the wings had 9 players with 40+ points. very few other teams that could say that. with better goaltending and stronger depth defense this Wings team is going on a run next season. Theres plenty of talent coming down the pipe. Horrible take D-Mac – Dylan is the 1C. I want to see just about the same group come back next season, another year of growth and seeing how tight this team is, they are going to surpass what they did this year without a doubt. What happens if you get a 100+ guy and he gets hurt during the season? you cant rely on that.
DMAC after smoking his 5th joint before breakfast: DUUUURRRRR IM A TARDD DUHHHHH
Lalonde has no passion, can’t motivate the team when it counts, doesn’t hold players accountable for their mistakes, makes excuses and makes stupid lineup decisions. With a better head coach this team makes the playoffs, he needs to go
neither panthers or vegas have 100 point players
It's A Shame the way they got eliminated 😡
Torts pulled his goalie when tied
And Not knowing that the Wings eliminated them tying ….?
Thanks Torts and Caps😡
You didn't help yourselves or us
You only helped the team we both didnt want to win!!!
Also The Stupid rule of tiebreaker….Caps lost 2 more games then we did in OT and they get in?
Cant have an awesome goalie with zero defemse
Playoffs next year, or Lalonde and Yzerman need to go. NO EXCUSES
We scored more goals than VAN, VGK, LAK, WPG, NYI, WSH, FLA, BOS, and 1 less than CAR. All due respect to D-Mac but I don't care who puts it in the net, as long as it gets in. This is not a scoring problem. This is a D problem and a system failure. We need more size and speed on D and more backchecking and speed on O.
My take, I don't think you NEED a 100+ point guy. Look at Dallas or Carolina. Robertson has 80 and Aho has like 90. More than Wings players yes, but I don't think you need a 100+ point player to be at the top in this league.
I believe we will take a step forward next year and here is why. Unpopular opinion maybe, but chemistry and experience is getting overlooked here. Our team has changed drastically pretty much every year over the last 4-5 years. Its tough to build chemistry when new players are constantly brought in and shipped out. I'm not harping on Yzerman for this, it's absolutely a part of the rebuild process and that's fine. I think with Raymond taking a huge step forward, Larkin taking a step forward from a leadership standpoint, Debrincat being here for a year, Seider taking a step, some younger players getting experience and figuring out their roles, etc. Our CORE is coming together and that's so much more important than people realize.
Obviously I do think our defense needs to be improved and the goalie situation needs to be figured out, but even if we make zero changes, this team makes the playoffs next year. This last month of the season was not pretty, but it was the experience we needed amd sometimes that's all it takes.
All in all, I do hope we make a few "bigger" moves during the offseason, I beg Kane resigns, I hope Berggren is full time next season, but we will be a playoff team next year, and we will be a contender 3-4 years down the road. Yzerman is doing this perfectly. It's just hard to see without looking at the situation from a birdseye view.
The team lacks continuity in passing and flow of the game. The passing is atrocious,the constant line changes meant that these guys can't remember how a certain guy plays. Yzerman knows better than anyone what needs to be addressed.
I'm so proud of our team for fighting as hard as they did. To me, they made the playoffs and next year we'll be stanely cup contenders
Stevie knows,
He drafted all those guys.
We were a 500 team at best and Larkin seem to literally carry this team in big stretches obvious in his absence.
Look guys this isnt the 90s as muuch as i want that!
Think of it as the end of the dead wings era,
We dont have a superstar yet.
But Raymond,Seider,Edvinson are shaping up nicely.
Look we were lucky to be in the run the entire season all the way up until the last game be appreciative
They need another good center, 2 defenseman and a better goalie.
Woah didn't expect D-mac to be repping my hometown there with the hoodie!
Vegas has one guy that’s over a point a game and not by much.
These are the problems or blind spots the Wings have as I see it. There are some good things they are doing, but if we want to get back on top, I think this is what we need to see.
1. Scoring: We do not have a single Elite player. We have some good players on offence, some decent players on Defense. Larkin and Kane and a couple others are really good goal scorers, but they are not Austin Matthews or Nakita Kucherov or Connor McJesus. Kane used to be an Elite scorer but I do not think he is there anymore. Not saying he isn’t good but he isn’t at the level he used to be. We need at least one, preferably two elite goal scorers. If you look at the 20 years we were a dynasty, we had about 5 maybe more elite goal scorers.
2. Physicality: this Is one area where I think the wings are completely worthless in. We do not have a single player who is really physical. There are reasons why the Leafs, Bruins, and Florida are at the top of the pecking order and one of them their physical play. Again, If you look at the 20 years we were a dynasty and we were one of the most physical teams in the league. Even Larionov and Yzerman would get physical once in a while. Right now rather than laying people on their backs, we pull up and skate around them. Like seriously, lay that hit on them and let them know they are playing the Detroit Red Wings. . We do not have a single enforcer on our team. we allow ourselves to get thrown around the ice by teams that are really physical Again, in the 20 years we had a dynasty, we had numerous enforcers and EVERYONE on the team got physical and laid out the hits.
3. Defense: our defense absolutely sucks. We don’t hit, we don’t win puck battles in our zone, We need some solid defensive players. I love that we got Petry, the son of a hometown hero, but he is just an OK defenseman. We need better defensemen.
4. The Crease: for the love of all that is holy, stop giving up the crease freely. If a player is gonna set up in front of the crease, he needs to know, he is going to pay a heavy price for that sliver of ice. Right now they set up there without fear or consequence. Remember the punishment Holmstrom used to take for the team to set up in the crease?
5. Shooting: last night’s game against the caps was the highest shooting we have had in a long long time. However, it is pretty comment to leave the first period with less that 10 shot, usually it is only 5 or 6. We have gotta put pucks on goal.
6. Coaching: Lalonde has got to go. He is not making any adjustments to play. There was no change when we were on that eternal losing streak. No firing up the players. Nothing.
7. Enthusiasm: it makes me sick when I see the team come out and they are skating like they are dragging parachutes and then in the waning seconds of the game it is like it is a totally different team out there. They turn on the jets, the passing is on point and they are putting shots on net. If they can do that in the final minutes of the game then they can do that for the entire game.
If we could get that 1C in this draft would be awesome
The wings don't have a number 2 center! That's a problem!
additionally, if your team falls apart when your captain is out with injury that is a problem. I thought Kane might hold the team together but that didnt happen so we need someone who can stand in and keep the game on track wen injury prone Larkin goes out
FIRE LALONDE: I would have believed in giving him his 3rd year to have 3 chances at doing something with this team, but the "breaker" for me to want him gone are his postgame interviews and practice interviews over the month of April. Just awful comments. Upper management should be realists, not coach making such comments. HE SAID "We overachieved" to Trevor Thompson after kane won the shootout!!!!! Thats not for his position to be saying publicly!!!!!
Need better Defense and Goaltending !!!!
Lelonde is totally not worth keeping as Coach.. his Press conferences are terrible.. he basically calls this season a "Cute" type season.. 🥴🙄😡
I stand by Yzerman, he just needs a big name Coach, If I were Yzerman I would try to bring in Jon Cooper from Tampa.. since Yzerman hired him there, plus Tampa is heading into a rebuild after the playoffs is over… Plus he needs to spend money on FA's or acquire a All-Star Defenseman to pair him with Seider
Define a check? Define a check in your own zone! Separate the player from the puck. We did play to win. And this young kid on this podcast is about circling the wagon in damage control for personal purpose. This ass whipe would never make a c team
Goalie.
Bullshit Darin. Goal tending? Knowbody takes the body in the defensive zone. That's why I feel hockey is completely fixed. The ref's where only calling blood for penalties. La penguin needs to get hacked.
The Wings totally collapsed and blew the playoffs. Anybody giving them a break is weak minded.
Yzerman has work to do, but dealing Berggren to move off of Husso or Chiarot might be the first decision. Can buyout Holl for very little. Can deal Fabbri for a pick swap.
The glaring problem is defense and goaltending. We need two more defenseman and an NHL goalie.
They were a 100 point team if they had had only a mediocre March so I don’t buy the argument they weren’t ready. What happened in March? Larkin and flu bug?
If ya wanna bring up Cossa, you gotta sure up that defence first, no way you ship a kid out there with that, if we dont, then keep him GR next year and him and Trey can rotate
PROUD of the team- have bene so since the DeadWings days of the 80s. NOT a bandwagon fan here. BUT – — NEED A COACH – not a cub-scout mom who kisses boo-boos. 2.)Need an enforcer – no more Dylan and Lucas getting beaten up and injuredSIGN D-MAC FOR A 30 SECOND SHIFT PER GAME FOR CHRISS SAKES! But seriously – it's time other teams know they can't pick on our stars. 3.)This is the hard one: A real goalie. I said this when the playoff spot was ours, I say it now. Hoping for the best.
Fire lalonde & add GRIT & TOUGHNESS or continue the ineptitude
As much as I want to see us have better goaltending , I hope they don’t rush Cosa’s development. I think we need better depth in our defense but idk we’ll see. I still trust yzerman , just takes time
Who's to blame? Nobody but if you wanna place blame its with the players who didn't step up when Larkin and Lyon were out or do we blame them for getting injured? Back at the trade deadline some were yere mad Stevie Y didn't bet the farm and i said then its not time to bet the farm Stevie still figuring out what he actually has and DMac to his credit tried to tamp down the excitement because he knows what a playoff contending team looks like and ive watched 45yrs of hockey and ive seen teams bet the farm and ive seen the Wings in the 25yr playoff run. Look at the leafs they have 4 or 5 of the top forwards in the league and other than that what do they have? No championship! The Wings are knocking on the door now and had they got in they would've gained good experience but the playoff push was good experience too and they now know what it takes to get there and that the last quarter of the season you cant let up and it gets harder and harder closer to the end of the season so bank every point early. Next year full time Edvinson? Kasper? Johansson? Lombardi? Cossa? Hopefully someone better than Reimer as back up. Point is the future is hella bright and were about to be spoiled with playoff runs every year so hold on and let it simmer