slothfacekilla

Y'all are hilarious with your expectations and evaluations of the young guys. Zadina has worked hard on his two way game and has a better PPG than Kotkaniemi in the same draft. And he's 21. I fear what you all would expect from the kid if the Wings ever won the 1st overall.

Can't disagree with you here, I will usually side with the player especially when it comes to their own health.

What a crazy situation, he flunks his physical and gets the C taken away. Seems like it is 100% he is traded but is he healthy enough to get a good return?

You're not wrong but at least the Wings were without Seider, Edvinsson, Berggren (for most of the tournament), Johannson, Wallinder, Buium, Niderbach Tuomisto, Viro, Mastrosimone, etc etc from their top prospects while St. Louis was bringing 25 year old NHL playing goons. Raymond didn't play the last game, so without him and Berggren the already shallow depth was more exposed. Veleno was solid but disappointing that he didn't pop. I thought Brattstrom looked solid in net as I had not seen him play before. Raymond looked good especially as the tournament went on. It was cool to see some of Zito since he didn't play all last season it seemed like he got his legs a bit as the tournament went on. Tyutyayev was fun to watch and I didn't think he looked like he was getting pushed around at all. It would have been nice for the Wings to dominate the scrimmages but there was still stuff to be encouraged about imo. Even with Cossa looking like utter crap he's still super young and goalies are voodoo so who knows.

Glad we get to see T-Bone Codd's name a bit more in the beginning of camp.

Well that is... very disappointing. I believe the Bertuzzi's are having a kid soon as well. I hope he gets his "research" in and decides to get vaccinated. I wouldn't mind if the Wings took the stance other teams like the Blue Jackets/Isles are taking and just telling him to stay home.

One of those new posts was when I responded to you on Veleno haha! I think most evaluators don't see him as more of a line 3 center/maybe line 2 winger so he's settled into the lower tier of prospects it seems like. After seeing some of his game in the SHL I think he's going to be more valuable to a team than the evaluators think, but he won't be lighting it up on the scoresheet most likely. He seems to have put on a lot of strength and he still skates well so I hope he can provide some quality minutes for the Wings. His shot is actually better than I expected since everyone talked about how subpar it was around draft, so there is still a chance he develops more offense.

Hopefully the profile picture gives it away but this is drownwithyou. I haven't used that username anywhere else in a while so I'm taking this opportunity to switch it to something I currently use elsewhere. McIsaac got hurt in the prospect tournament, got hit from behind and was knocked out for a short time. Berggren missed the last game due to injury and they held Raymond out as a precaution.