slothfacekilla

In a complete vacuum would I swap Edvinsson for Hughes? Sure, you would be dumb not to. But there are so many other considerations that go into this. The trade wasn't a one for one swap, there was a lot of value in addition to Buium in Rossi and a first round pick going the other way. Edvinsson is 4 years younger and is a restricted free agent after this season, with a projected long term deal at 7 years $7,700,000 per that I've seen. Hughes wouldn't commit to a long term contract (or couldn't? I never really looked into it) and he's a free agent after next season looking at a $12-14 million per year or more extension. So you're risking a guy walking for nothing, and if you do get him signed it is going to be at a significant cost of your cap space. Edvinsson has shown he works incredibly well with Seider on the top pair. He seems to be well liked by his teammates and coaching staff. I feel like I see him getting better and he seems to work hard. I am more than fine betting on his situation here. Especially when the Wings would still need to go out and get defensive help for the third pair imo. Swapping Hughes in for Edvinsson isn't going to completely alleviate that this season even if you force feed minutes to Hughes. And it isn't like suddenly the Wild are some unstoppable juggernaut with Hughes as they've gone 11-5-5 so just a game over .500 counting wins and losses. Somehow got spanked by the Devils and Jets back to back. So I reject the notion that this is the only way to navigate the current successful season.

I was curious what people were going to complain about now that the Wings are playing so well

This is such a fun roster, love to see a dominant win even when they’re missing edvinsson.

https://open.substack.com/pub/prashanthiyer/p/albert-johanssons-bounceback?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

From the slow downed video it looked like one of the ICE gang grabs the guy's gun and run away from the pile before the shooting started. I never saw the guy brandish it, it looked like ICE snatched it off of his holster. Crazy **** especially all the follow up shots and the ICE guy clapping. It is insanely depressing that these domestic terrorists do not see "the opposition" as people at the very least.

Despite the Wild driving a lot of the play I thought the Wings had a great chance to win that game. The goals against felt really frustrating because they felt preventable if defenders and Talbot weren't going scramble mode. But it's tough to argue with getting a point on the road on a back to back.

Lower body is all I've seen, no clue what happened

Non-joking, I'd rather do a package of picks and a different prospect than give up Danielson in a Thomas trade. I honestly have no idea what Thomas' value is on the trade market. He's an intriguing piece at his age and contract and I think he'd be a great addition to the Wings. Top 10 protected first round pick, second round pick (or two), maybe a future first with top 5 protection? Maybe you can entice them with Plante's great season so far? Feels like it would need to be more than Vegas got for Hertl but maybe I'm wrong?

Outside of his work with Santana I've never been a huge fan

Second shutout in a row for Postava. Shoutout to grand rapid's defensemen and new goaltending coach!

His best I think 😂

1-1 after one in Toronto. Leafs scored before I had the game on, Wings tied it up with less than a minute left. Seider and Raymond combined to get out of their zone after a faceoff, nice rush ended up in a Raymond to Edvinsson goal.

"After Jonas Brodin's unfortunate injury, Simon Edvinsson could be next in line to join the Olympic squad."

Fwiw from what I've seen this season Cossa passes the eye test as well, for me at least. I'm easy to please though.

The Wings probably have the strongest Goaltender pool in the league overall It's honestly nuts how well almost everyone is playing...