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Pat Kirwan from Sirius XM NFL Radio had Freeling for Detroit’s pick in their mock draft today.

Hooker was the 68th overall pick. That’s more like a $100 lottery pick.

How are we feeling about the Faulk trade today?

Don’t trade up to take him in the third round, Brad.

I stumbled across this site which shows ice time for various line combinations: https://frozenpool.dobbersports.com/ Just for grins I looked up Marco Kasper. People talk about a sophomore slump but last year he spent almost half his even strength ice time with Larkin/Raymond or Kane/Debrincat. This season he spent less than a quarter of his even strength ice time with them. This is not so much a sophomore slump as it is the obvious consequence of pairing a kid with linemates who are replacement level or worse.

Yes, but one of the challenges for a young defenseman is learning how to assert yourself offensively while remaining responsible defensively. It is exciting to see him flash that skill though.

Win

OMG. ADB.

How many impossibly close goals are going to go against this team?

What happened to Faulk?

Great play by Edvinsson. At 6 and a half feet tall!?!

If only Vrana wasn’t a coke fiend. Allegedly.

Stevie’s best chance is to get lucky finding a team that is hungry for a goalie. It is the one area where the system might have some assets with relative trade value.

The Mantha trade has not worked out. If there is a culture problem in Detroit, the explanation for it runs through the question of why both Mantha and apparently Soderblom are flourishing in Pittsburgh when we couldn’t get rid of them fast enough.

There is clearly something off in the locker room. I don’t know what it is. Maybe there is something stifling about the culture of the old Red Wings dynasty in the front office. Maybe it is just that they have a lot of small players, and big players who play small. I tend to think the latter explains a lot. They are still relying a lot on hired guns. The interesting thing to me about this season is what’s going on in Grand Rapids. The Griffins are having a great season, despite injuries to Danielson and Mazur. I get that a lot of those players are past prospect status and a lot of the prospects will never make it. But the kids are now playing meaningful hockey in a system where they have to earn their ice time. This is a big offseason for Yzerman. He can’t do nothing. I believe he took a swing at Thomas and at Petterson at the trade deadline and couldn’t make either work. I expect him to bring in a top-six forward with some size. Fingers crossed.