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Buch had two assists after this so he's up to 28 points in 29 games, tied for second in the KHL

I thought this was interesting, he had a typo it should say "Only 3 teams have a lower dump-in rate at 5v5 this season than they did last season (NYI, SEA, DET). " I'm a bit shocked the Wings have trended towards less dump and chase this season.

Life comes at you fast when you coach in the NHL... All fired now.

Coming out of hiding to say the Wings should fire Lalonde and run to hire Montgomery right now.

“Almost every time Buchelnikov appears on the ice, he is superbly active both with and without the puck,” noted KHL TV commentator Anton Vasyatin. “Now he is a key player for the team.” Recent analytics provided by the KHL Smart Puck show Buchelnikov and Maxim Mamin of CSKA Moscow as the faster skaters in the KHL. Each has displayed a top seed of 39.5 km/h. He’s also among the most accurate passers in the league. He accurately connected on 335 of his passes" He's also close to the KHL scoring lead right now, think he's in third TWITTER EMBEDS ARE WORKING AGAIN!!

Whoops I double posted

LOL. This is sad….

Wow Lyon has looked bad tonight. Can’t let that goal in…

Ugh sounds like Edvinsson is in the dressing room? I hope that shot block didn’t hurt him too badly…

Blah and the ducks score as I sent that last message. I thought Zegras didn’t score anymore!

It never gets old seeing Edvinsson man handle smaller guys after whistles. He loved doing it in Grand Rapids I wondered if it would continue in the NHL.

Finally found an illegal stream that works, have to love local blackouts. That Kasper goal was quite a release! He looks like he’s going to be a useful player, hopefully his offense blossoms a bit.

I certainly haven't written off Wallinder but I tend to be higher on guys than most (I mean just check out this post...). But he's only 22, seems to have filled out his frame a little bit and he was slated to get big minutes with GR pre-injury. This is only his second season in GR too, but this season and the next will give us a good indication of where he's headed I would imagine. His range of outcomes is still very wide in my opinion. Last season it seemed like they had him working on his defensive side so we'll see if the offensive stuff opens up at all. At least it seemed like he acclimated fine to the smaller ice. I think we'll finally see some later picks contributing soon (or I hope). Dmitri Buchelnikov is near a PPG in his second full season in the KHL (first season with Vityaz) still only 21. His contract is going to keep him overseas longer, but he did train in Detroit this past offseason so fingers crossed. Mazur should join the team's middle / bottom six in the next couple of seasons. He's even showed that his shot plays more than I thought it would in the AHL. Amadeus Lombardi looks really good in Grand Rapids this season, if he puts on a little bulk I could see him hanging in the NHL in the next couple of seasons. Jesse Kiiskinen was on a tear before his injury over in Europe. Now I will go full prospect homer and say even Elmer Soderblom has looked kinda.... good? in the Griffins clips I've seen this season. These taller guys take a lot longer to get used to their bodies, but I had kinda written him off at this point, but maybe there's something there. He's already had NHL games so if he keeps up good play I think he's a good candidate to take a roster spot. And I would be shocked if Danielson and MBN aren't there in a season or 2, hopefully ASP joins them among the first rounders. Cossa looks on track to put himself in the backup mix next season. We have to hope most of the roster spots opened up the next two offseasons by Motte, Fischer, Tarasenko, Petry, Lyon, Husso, Chiarot, Holl, Gustafsson and Kane stay free for these guys (Berggren, Johansson and Veleno have RFA deals expiring too). I would hope that Yzerman would see the prospects as far enough along to do that this time. At the very least, as you can see with that list of names up there they're positioned to transition from this current roster based on contract expiration. If they want to... I don't disagree with much of anything that's been said in here, it sucks they don't have a better roster right now, but I am hopeful moving forward. Probably means I'm a sucker but what can you do.

I think people really underestimate how hard it is to identify talent, develop them, and get them to the NHL quickly in the draft outside of the first half of the first round. Even if you look at the back half of the first round in these three drafts they are littered with misses and marginal players, let alone the rounds after that. Plus for the most part teams aren't giving up huge NHL talents in trades for just draft picks (or at all), so unless you're looking to fill the team with more Andrew Copp's I'm not sure it is a great strategy to trade your picks away even if you've randomly decided you somehow can't draft at all. And that's still ignoring all the cap space you're forgoing with players' controlled rookie contracts.

I'm having issues even sending a link to the tweet, but Luongo was on the Spitting Chiclets podcast and revealed that the Red Wings gave him an offer sheet when he was traded to Vancouver (didn't have a deal at the time) but he turned it down. It ended up being more money than he got from Vancouver too. That would have been quite interesting.

Seider needs to make some sort of adjustment he can't keep getting beat wide like this...

2-2 I didn't see their goal, but feels deflating after the good start. Maybe I'll go make dinner...

Really bizarre play where I guess Puljujarvi wasn't looking where he was skating (though I swear he sees Raymond) and neither was Raymond. Raymond definitely didn't see him and it looked like Puljujarvi braced a bit, bad collision for Raymond who limped to the bench. Hope he's ok...seems like they're working on his shoulder on the bench.

Wings are up 2-0 about half way through the game. Petry actually made a good play clearing the puck to Tarasenko to start a rush the other way. Tarasenko fed it to Berggren and he scored his first of the season! Raymond made a nice puck retrieval, then Larkin a nice pass to Kane on the PP to go up 2-0. I was just about to type that they're getting way more chances than the Pens but Rust just made it 2-1 after walking around Seider, ugh.

I thought the Wings played pretty well in the first there (12 shots!) but it is against the Pens.

Man Twitter still won't embed for me, lots of nice Lombardi and Danielson plays I want to show off! MBN only has two goals this season in the SHL but allegedly has the highest expected goals for of the team, so hopefully he starts taking off soon. Also checking in on everyone's favorite goalie argument Wallstedt vs Cossa: Wallstedt has a .869 save percentage in the AHL and Cossa is 7th in the league at .935. Cossa is younger than all the goalies above him, outside of Askarov (only 5 months older than Cossa I didn't realize he was that young) the other goalies are 2+ years older and a few guys much more so with NHL experience.

https://v.redd.it/wmvtecdhlp0e1 Looks like Nate is getting comfortable down in Grand Rapids, nifty play

Haha great point! I feel like I just remember Sergei being more of a "I'm going to do this all myself" type of player when he was locked in whereas Datsyuk always struck me as more of a facilitator when he was firing on all cylinders. Which says a lot because he sure could score and play defense too. Both were generational players in my opinion.

I've come around to firing Lalonde with how uninspiring the team's play can be for starts of games and long stretches. Plus I find his in zone defensive coverage systems a bit weird at times. Mostly it is more of a "it can't get any worse" feeling for me to try something, I don't know. I guess I don't feel super strongly either way about keeping or canning him.

Fedorov has to be last on the list because everyone is spelling his name wrong! I never saw Delvecchio, I honestly rate Fedorov and Datsyuk about the same with a slight edge to Sergei. He was probably a touch less creative than Datsyuk but had more power to his game and could play any position on the ice. Datsyuk had one more Selke win but Fedorov had a Hart trophy on his resume. Pavel did elevate his linemates a little more I think, but could just be my faulty memory. Either way I feel lucky that they were both Wings.