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I don't think he's on the hot seat but if the Wings start the season badly he might be. I do have some bones to pick with him. He seems to be reluctant to use timeouts to calm the team down when games are slipping away, maybe sticks with some line pairings too long too. And a few times he's explained plays / his defensive system and it feels much too rigid and kinda odd at times. Maybe they just don't have the personnel to run it correctly? All that being said I think a coach's impact on wins and losses in the NHL is fairly minimal these days so I am not clamoring for him to be fired. It'll be interesting to see if he grows as a coach as the roster gets better.

I think Edvinsson will start the season in Detroit, just not on Seider's pairing. I kind of like the idea of having them separate anyways, at least one of them will be on the ice 2/3 of the time (theoretically).

Newsy kinda looks like Dan's kid, but he always kinda looks like a giant baby to me anyways 😂

A lot of progress has been made on my neighborhood pyramid. There was a Spanish speaking "news outlet" (I put in quotes because it seemed like a low budget affair) doing reports on it this morning it seemed like

I wouldn't want to hang around Aaron Rodgers either

Ya I'm starving for any Wings news / info so I figured I'd do a pretty pointless update there lol. Really itching for them to get the Seider and Raymond deals done. Apparently Plante looked really good for USA during that summer tournament, I'm really excited about adding him to the prospect pool. I have forced some more "info" in!

Sounds like they are walking back the MBN starting in Detroit stuff, sounds like he's expected in the SHL this season which makes sense in the end. I was hoping he'd get a good look to see how he fits in with Detroit, they could use his forechecking prowess and shot but if they think he's better served playing top minutes in Sweden (looks like he's practicing that way) then giddy up.

Liking what I see of Rakestraw in run support here

Nate Sudfield must be great in the QB room...

It is a pleasant surprise seeing him, I had no clue he'd be on the announcing crew.

My only guess is something for a tv show or movie but ya lack of permit + other info just makes it seem super sketchy. Might have to go get a closer look later tonight haha.

I guess it fits here, but I came home from a week long trip working at Gen Con and our neighbors across the street have apparently started building a.......pyramid in their front yard??? Doesn't seem like it should be legal to me, I'm so confused over it haha.

Looking forward to reading whatever thought pops into your head next!

Kostin randomly had a strong playoffs before too so there was some hope he had some untapped skill. I think Klim thought so too because I always thought he tried to do way too much with the puck...

Sounds about right! I know he had locker room problems early in his career too.

Cheap depth scoring for them but there's a reason no team will give him a long contract or much money. I'll miss his wicked shot when it was on but he didn't do a whole lot else.

I think Veleno is a way better player than Kostin though (at a more valuable position too), and while I agree it feels high... in looking at similar players on similar contracts it doesn't seem that crazy to me honestly: Kurashev kinda makes it look bad, but he signed that deal after a 25 point campaign the season before. Joe won 49% of his faceoffs and played both ways on special teams. In the end it might be a slight overpay but it seems pretty in line with the rest of the league and the cap is going up. The filters I used were players aged 23-25 that play center and have a cap hit between $1 million and $2.8 million. You can see their stats on the right there, I wish it saved bigger though.

Ouch that's Zadina territory 😂

I'm honestly not counting on it, I don't think he has enough hockey sense in the end.

No arbitration hearing. I'm not a huge fan of Veleno's so this feels a little high to me but not by much I guess. I saw a few projections ~$200-300k less per year. I will say every now and then he does stuff that makes you think there's a productive player in there somewhere, so hopefully he finds some consistency with more experience and maturing.

This is super intriguing to me, usually if they expect a player to play in Europe / Sweden (Raymond, Edvinnsson, Kasper) they don't come back to Detroit for their camp. Reading between the lines there's a decent chance he's playing in the AHL or even NHL depending on how camp goes. This would be his first season with Skelleftea so I'm guessing they want him at their camp just in case he does end up back in Europe in the SHL. MBN did say Yzerman told him that they want him to make the NHL club out of training camp, but my guess is they tell every prospect coming to camp that?

Ya I believe she's in the last year of her residency in New York or something like that? I can't blame him as much as it sucks for the Wings. I blame that Brooks guy in New York media for leaking the trade info:

I've seen it reported a few places that they had a trade in place and Trouba said no

MBN is signed!