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Whole game played at 5 in 5 so far, no penalties. Wings likely need to go 3-1 on this 4-game road trip to stay in thick of things.

Wings hanging in against Washington. 1-1 late in the 2nd.

2nd rounders pretty much come down to luck, so I don't really hold it against a GM for not getting hits in that round, but they can sure be nice bonuses that kickstart the rebuild. It's a numbers game that unfortunately hasn't fallen the Wings' way so far, but 2nd rounders do take longer to develop so we only have a year or two of them so far to evaluate. Canucks got 51 points out of their 2019 2nd rounder Nils Hoeglander last year, John Peterka has 51 points in 61 games this season for Buffalo as a 2020 2nd rounder, another 2020 2nd rounder Brock Faber made the U.S. 4 Nations team already as defenseman, Matthew Knies is a 2021 2nd rounder who put up 45 points last season for the Leafs (arguably inflated from playing with offensive stars), and Lane Hutson of the Habs is a 2022 2nd rounder who is one of this year's top rookies. Again, the fact that the Wings don't have one of those yet isn't that much of a knock on Yzerman, cause there are way more misses than hits down there league-wide, but until one breaks through I hesitate to say Yzerman has been "great" at drafting. Good or very good is fair enough.

That are Johansson are two pluses of 2025. Gotta start getting something out of our 2nd rounders, and now that’s one possibility.

10 am start actually, but yes was still breakfast time for me and the Knights.

Shutout for Mrazek.

Jennifer Botterill is as dull as bathwater. If your HR department insists you hire a woman as commentator, at least find one with sass and energy, like that former gold medalist Tara Lipinski who does Olympics figure skating with her gay best friend on NBC.

Best Wings game in awhile.

Wings holding their own against a stronger team. 1-0 Wings late in the 2nd.

Good, no. But the 2019 team had four 20-goal scorers under 25 years old. Two of them were 30-goal scoring centres. Plus had a future top pairing/top 4 d-man in 20-year old Hronek. The cupboard wasn’t totally bare.

In March 2019, "one of the worst teams in NHL history" that Yzerman inherited a few weeks later went 8-6-1 for 17pts that month on the way to a 74 point season. Man, would have killed for a March like that the past few years: March 2022: 3-8-3 (9 pts) March 2023: 5-9-1 (11 pts) March 2024: 3-9-2 (8 pts) March 2025: 1-6-0 (2 pts with 7 March games to go)

Hasn’t scored a goal in past 9 games. Does have 7 assists dusting that stretch.

Red Wings powerplay with exactly 4 minutes to go. Larkin made that happen with solo effort

3-1, ugh. Mrazek isn’t seeing puck well. This is like the 3rd period of the Washington game.

Bad start to 2nd period. Really made the Wings look silly on the 2nd goal.

DeBrincat with a late goal gives the Wings a 1-0 lead after 1. The Wings need to start winning games they're not supposed to - such as away to Carolina.

The Athletic posted its Tigers’ Fan Survey for 2025 today. I think it’s paywalled so I can’t post it all, but I assume a few of the charts are OK. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6201650/2025/03/14/detroit-tigers-2025-fan-survey-results-optimism-on-rise/?source=user_shared_article Detroit Tigers 2025 fan survey results: Optimism is on the rise 80% of fans surveyed expect the Tigers to win 80-89 games, 12% in the 70s and 8% more than 90. Riley Greene is the favourite of 31% of Tigers fans, Skubal 27% and Parker Meadows 13%.

I think the top 4 are set but perhaps with a late push he could slip by Stankoven. Wide variety of draft positions among the consensus contenders: Macklin Celebrini - 1st round #1 overall in 2024 Lane Hutson (defense) -2nd rondo #62 overall in 2022 Dustin Wolf (goalie) - 7th round #214 overall in 2019 Matvei Mitchkov - 1st round #7 overall in 2023 Logan Stankoven - 2nd round #47 overall in 2021 Kasper was drafted 1st round #8 overall in 2022

Brock Boeser will be available, with the Canucks expected to make only a half-hearted effort to sign him. He is no Marner, but did score 40 goals last year and would be much cheaper.

5 of the Wings' next 6 games are on the road. Every game is a team higher in the standings than the Wings (#22 in NHL, 68 points), with 5 of the games being against teams at least 13 points better than the Wings: - at Carolina (#6 in NHL, 82 points) - vs Vegas (#4 in NHL, 83 points) - at Washington (#1 in NHL, 94 points) - at Vegas (#4 in NHL, 83 points) - at Utah (#20 in NHL, 69 points) - at Colorado (#8 in NHL, 81 points) Of the Wings' final 17 games, just 6 are at home as the other 11 are on the road. Wings have their work cut out for them, to say the least.

The 4min 35s mark of this clip below is gold. Footage of Lochead’s winning goal taken from the vantage point of the opposite end blue line a few rows up from the Red Wings’ player bench. Crowd noise, no commentary. This is amazing too. The 50s mark is the Flames’ radio call of Lochead’s winning goal, as called by Jiggs Macdonald who later became well-known for calling Islanders and national games.

And screwed out of Pavel Bure, one of the most exciting players ever.