slothfacekilla

I see that Kastelic KO'ed Seider in a fight last night, embarrassing that the team is letting Seider get his ass whooped like that I'm glad I didn't watch a second of the game.

Turned this one off in the second as well. This team sucks.

The Wings front office is notoriously tight lipped but we've still been hearing plenty of rumors that they're poking around in the trade market, I think he's trying. Outside of a couple teams, the standings are fairly tight so there might not be too many selling teams at this point of the season. Something needs to happen somehow though. At a minimum I would have said call up Lombardi but he got hurt. Maybe call up Cossa just to see him but maybe you don't want him behind this defense right now. I turned last night's game off pretty early on, with the way they were playing it didn't seem like they had a chance to win. The Wings really needed ASP to keep his hot start going (and for Edvinsson to be alive) if they wanted this group to look half-way solid every night. Crappy teams like the Predators look like worldbeaters on offense against them. But hey I had fun playing Arc Raiders last night, so that's cool.

Soderblom has been making some solid plays tonight, getting more from him would be big

Cat stays hot with a nice power play goal, 1-1 in the second

He has the best face off percentage on the team, surely another team can fix him!

Part of me hopes that some of the scratching is to keep him from getting hurt so he'll be included in some trade (cmon some dumb gm has to see a tall first round pick reclamation project) but it probably is just that he sucks at the nhl level.

Tralmarks and Shine had hat tricks. Looks like Lombardi is hurt again

Feels like a loss to the lowly Preds tonight for some reason

I am not looking forward to the Quinn Hughes trade rumors, already seen a couple people mention Detroit lol

Petry is currently holding down 14 and a half minutes per night on the Panthers, so it isn't like the Wings are the only team with these "issues"

My guess on the Holl vs Hamonic decision is that the Wings want that roster spot eating PK minutes as a crease clearer and be hard to play against. Hamonic theoretically brings that stuff to the table, whether he can do that in practice at this stage of his career is up for debate though.

Well my Holl post was a joke so I feel bad that you wrote a long post off of it. I do disagree that Holl passes any sort of eye test, to me he largely plays fine and then is responsible for really weird mistakes and busted coverage. He isn't as bad as people on the internet make him out to be, but I wouldn't say that means he's "good". There's a reason he's been buried in the minors two seasons in a row and no one wanted to claim him. Ya his contract sucks but I'm sure the Wings would be giddy to trade him with major salary retention, if nothing more than to get rid of a veteran contract in GR because right now they have to rotate sitting veterans because of the vet rule in the AHL. Slotting him in instead of Hamonic is really just moving deck chairs around on the Titanic. Wings are probably trying to showcase Gustaffson hoping he plays well enough that a team gets desperate with injuries. Wallinder probably gets the AlJo treatment where he makes the Wings when he has to pass through waivers. But I don't know anything, just guesses.