lordstanley

I can’t wait for a #58 overall pick of Yzerman to approach 500 NHL career games and record four 20+ goal seasons including 30 goals once. Doubt it will be 2019 or 2020’s 2nd round forwards Mastrosimone, Niederbach, or Hanas.

Yeah, it hasn’t been a total collapse in play like it was during last year’s 7 gamer. Clunker hosting Columbus, nice comeback at Columbus that should have gotten at least a point, clunker hosting Carolina, good 1st period but then fell off hosting Utah, good first two periods but then fell apart at Washington, played well enough last night in Ottawa to get at least a point. So 1-4-1 would probably have been a fairer representation of their play than 0-6-0. But even with those extra 3 points they’d still be in precarious position.

Puck was well past the red line with 4.5 seconds to go. Why didn’t McLelland argue for more time.

Wings “score” a split second after time expires. Funny, I thought the clock after icing should have had more than 3 seconds on it. https://x.com/shaynagoldman_/status/1899284376153669897?s=61&t=don8lQTnTq5FKXq14p2GMw

Sens convert 12 seconds in. Of course.

Raymond robbed! And now Seider sent to the box for dubious reason.

Wings playing with some urgency. The Larkin tying goal probably should have been stopped.

Ottawa ahead 1-0 after 2. If the Wings lose tonight, even in overtime, they’d be 4 pts out of the playoffs having played one more game than Columbus and Ottawa

A lot of chances for the Wings on that powerplay - after giving up a 2 on it 1 early in it - but still 1-0 Ottawa. Wings outshooting Sens 34-18 and have had a whopping 25 shots in the 2nd period.

Why not start Mrazek tonight?

0-0 late in the 1st. Wings just missed chance after a nice setup by Larkin.

But I am getting the game on Amazon Prime, with massive closed captions that I didn’t ask for and haven’t yet been able to turn off.

5 Red Wings games, 10 Tigers games. https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/red-wings-announce-plans-five-143718184.html

Summer of 2023 was nothing to write home about either, although I did and still do like the DeBrincat trade. Signed Daniel Sprong, Klim Kostin, Alex Lyon, J.T. Compher, Christian Fischer, Justin Holl, Shayne Gostisbehere and James Reimer. Sprong, Kostin, Fischer and Reimer didn't work out, but didn't really cause any harm other than the opportunity cost of not finding others instead. Holl made no sense from day one. Compher has disappointed. Gostisbehere matched or exceeded expectations for 1 year @ $4.125mm, but then was lost after one season due to cap management priorities - 35 pts in 56 games this season is a bargain for Carolina at $3.2mm per season. Lyon was a solid signing, good value at $900k/yr.

Same age as Davis, both have played 7 years. Reed has played 12 more games than Davis, including a total of 8 more the past 3 years.

Speaking of selfies:

Good news for fans in Windsor, Sarnia and Chatham. Unfortunately for me in Vancouver, my time shift affiliate for CBS, NBC and ABC are all Detroit's, but Fox is Rochester, NY.

We will see. All we know so far is that he has hit on his three top #6 picks of Seider, Raymond and Edvinsson. Other than that it is too soon to tell. I don’t want to completely forget how the Wings played under McLelland in January and February. That bought Yzerman more time with me. But it has been a disastrous March so far.

My daughter arrived home from college for spring break last Thursday. The Wings have gone 0-5 while she's home. Good news (only from a Wings' perspective), she returns to Montreal later tonight! Our luck might turn.

5-2. Shorthanded goal. Total collapse. This week, this month.

4-2. Nice shot, but Talbot MUST start stopping those.

Caps score early in the 3rd and the Wings trail 3-2. Scorer is Chychrun, another player that with some creativity the Wings probably could have acquired in the past year or two.

Larkin scores from behind the goal line.

I would have traded Larkin and two firsts for signed Rantanen.