Shinzaki Posted December 19, 2024 Posted December 19, 2024 7 hours ago, buddha said: how is buffalo so bad every year? Trading Tage Thompson to us will fix them 1 Quote
slothfacekilla Posted December 19, 2024 Posted December 19, 2024 14 hours ago, buddha said: how is buffalo so bad every year? Bad ownership and bad luck would be my guess? They keep hiring bad GM's and bad coaches, they haven't "hit" on a pick outside of the first round since 2020 (2nd rounder RW with 103 points in 191 games) and there isn't much in their later rounds going further back honestly. Outside of Dahlin I'd say their first round picks have been middle of the road at best too, though I haven't watched Power much. I have no idea if their prospect pool is stacked but they haven't gotten much NHL production from their drafts in a while. At least the Wings have Seider and Raymond I guess, I would take them over the Sabres 1st rounders in the same timeframe. I certainly wouldn't have hired Lindy Ruff as coach too. Quote
lordstanley Posted December 20, 2024 Author Posted December 20, 2024 Yeah I think of Lindy Ruff as being from the same coaching era as Marc Crawford and Jacques Lemaire, hard to see why he is still around. I remember Sabres already getting restless way back in 2015. Then when they secured the # 2 pick in 2015, in Jack Eichel, it was expected they’d have a brighter future. 9 years ago. Quote
buddha Posted December 20, 2024 Posted December 20, 2024 2 minutes ago, lordstanley said: Yeah I think of Lindy Ruff as being from the same coaching era as Marc Crawford and Jacques Lemaire, hard to see why he is still around. I remember Sabres already getting restless way back in 2015. Then when they secured the # 2 pick in 2015, in Jack Eichel, it was expected they’d have a brighter future. 9 years ago. i always had a soft spot for buffalo, but not anymore now that theyre in the east. but of all their picks, losing eichel was a killer. power doesnt seem to be earth shattering. dahlin turned out pretty well but they messed up his contract situation so badly he now makes more than almost every other top defenseman! 1 Quote
slothfacekilla Posted December 20, 2024 Posted December 20, 2024 They really should have just let Eichel do what he wanted in regards to rehabbing his neck injury, they handled all of that awfully from what I can recall. Quote
lordstanley Posted December 24, 2024 Author Posted December 24, 2024 North Vancouver’s Macklin Celebrini plays at the Canucks for the first time tonight. Any chance he will have as good of a career as North Van’s Connor Bedard? Incidentally, both Celebrini and Bedard are cousins by marriage with phenom Gavin McKenna who likely will go first overall in 2026. Quote
lordstanley Posted December 24, 2024 Author Posted December 24, 2024 Glowing feature in The Athletic today about the turnaround on and off the ice of Utah HC. Have we reached a point as Wings fans where there's reason to be envious of the former Arizona Coyotes? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6013288/2024/12/23/nhl-utah-hockey-club-future/ Andre Tourigny’s club has won seven games in a row on the road and is 6-0-2 in its past eight, 8-1-3 in its past 12 and pulled within a point of a playoff spot in the Western Conference Sunday with a shootout loss to Anaheim. This is no longer the Coyotes, where Armstrong’s edict was simply to meet the cap floor, acquire dead-money contracts for essentially retired players to help him do that and gobble up as many draft picks and prospects as possible. Yet because of the latter, the future in Utah is bright with a core that includes Keller, Guenther, Logan Cooley, Lawson Crouse, Nick Schmaltz and Michael Kesselring (who has soared in the wake of injuries to Sean Durzi and John Marino) and prospects on the horizon such as Maveric Lamoureux, Tij Iginla, Dmitriy Simashev and Daniil But. Quote
Motor City Sonics Posted December 24, 2024 Posted December 24, 2024 (edited) While the Wings flop around like fish out of water, the Pistons are a team that fights. This team that won 14 games all of last year is now 13-17 and may equal last year's win total before the New Year. They beat the Lakers on the road. They could have melted down with this "West Coast Road Trip" excuse thing that the Wings used this year. They've been up and down, but they scratch and claw in most games and rarely get blown out and are only a couple of plays away from being .500, which doesn't seem like much, but for this team it's a near miraculous turnaround. So now the Lions, Tigers and now the Pistons have all passed the Red Wings. This lifeless squad is back at the bottom. Ken Holland's been gone for six years now, can't blame him anymore. (and Jaden Ivey is a much more important player than most of us believed, they are a much better team when he plays. Monty Williams wouldn't play him last year). If the Pistons can turn things around, why can't the Wings? Edited December 24, 2024 by Motor City Sonics Quote
Hongbit Posted December 24, 2024 Posted December 24, 2024 The Pistons 13-17 start is a great turnaround but they are just a Cade injury away from finishing the season 17-65. They haven’t really built much yet. Quote
gehringer_2 Posted December 24, 2024 Posted December 24, 2024 (edited) 3 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said: While the Wings flop around like fish out of water, the Pistons are a team that fights. This team that won 14 games all of last year is now 13-17 and may equal last year's win total before the New Year. They beat the Lakers on the road. They could have melted down with this "West Coast Road Trip" excuse thing that the Wings used this year. They've been up and down, but they scratch and claw in most games and rarely get blown out and are only a couple of plays away from being .500, which doesn't seem like much, but for this team it's a near miraculous turnaround. So now the Lions, Tigers and now the Pistons have all passed the Red Wings. This lifeless squad is back at the bottom. Ken Holland's been gone for six years now, can't blame him anymore. (and Jaden Ivey is a much more important player than most of us believed, they are a much better team when he plays. Monty Williams wouldn't play him last year). If the Pistons can turn things around, why can't the Wings? and to think there was time a few years ago when I thought the Wings were only a couple of players away from being a good team. Edited December 24, 2024 by gehringer_2 Quote
gehringer_2 Posted December 24, 2024 Posted December 24, 2024 49 minutes ago, Hongbit said: The Pistons 13-17 start is a great turnaround but they are just a Cade injury away from finishing the season 17-65. They haven’t really built much yet. that's not that abnormal for a basketball team though. Spurs went from 60 wins to 20 when they lost Robinson for a year. ( then that 20 loss season got them Duncan and they got really good!) Quote
lordstanley Posted January 2 Author Posted January 2 This drama continues to be the talk of the town here in Vancouver. Quote
gehringer_2 Posted January 2 Posted January 2 (edited) 47 minutes ago, lordstanley said: This drama continues to be the talk of the town here in Vancouver. Yzerman hasn't left himself enough room to take on a $11.6M cap hit without doing some serious surgery. 🤔 Edited January 2 by gehringer_2 Quote
buddha Posted January 2 Posted January 2 9 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said: Yzerman hasn't left himself enough room to take on a $11.6M cap hit without doing some serious surgery. 🤔 not in the regular season... Quote
lordstanley Posted January 2 Author Posted January 2 But will Petersson, a 26 year old grown man, need to be treated with kids gloves? That’s not good. Quote
gehringer_2 Posted January 3 Posted January 3 (edited) 20 hours ago, lordstanley said: But will Petersson, a 26 year old grown man, need to be treated with kids gloves? That’s not good. That's the question - is Petterssen a baby man or does Tochet allow a room that no decent person should have to put up with? I have no clue either way but either could be true in the NHL. Edited January 3 by gehringer_2 Quote
lordstanley Posted January 3 Author Posted January 3 19 minutes ago, buddha said: down goes canada! AGAIN! It was a tumultuous tournament for Canada. Not sure they had one good game. Media and fans need to lighten up, way too critical of teens, these aren’t multimillionaire 20-something NHLers. Quote
lordstanley Posted January 11 Author Posted January 11 (edited) Eastern Conference standings at roughly the halfway point of the season, above, compared with same date last year, below. So the Wings are now just 3 pts back of where they were this time last year. Must have run gone on a run right after that because by late February they looked to be in comfortable wildcard position. 42 points in 41 games this season is on pace for 84 points; last season they finished with 91 points and lost the tiebreaker to Washington who also finished with 91 points. Big change this season compared to last is the rise of the Capitals and Devils and the drop for the Rangers and Islanders. Jackets and Sens have also moved in the playoff conversation this season after being also-rans last year. The Bruins look vulnerable though. January 11, 2025 January 11, 2024 Edited January 11 by lordstanley Quote
buddha Posted January 11 Posted January 11 (edited) 1 hour ago, lordstanley said: Eastern Conference standings at roughly the halfway point of the season, above, compared with same date last year, below. So the Wings are now just 3 pts back of where they were this time last year. Must have run gone on a run right after that because by late February they looked to be in comfortable wildcard position. 42 points in 41 games this season is on pace for 84 points; last season they finished with 91 points and lost the tiebreaker to Washington who also finished with 91 points. Big change this season compared to last is the rise of the Capitals and Devils and the drop for the Rangers and Islanders. Jackets and Sens have also moved in the playoff conversation this season after being also-rans last year. The Bruins look vulnerable though. January 11, 2025 January 11, 2024 rise of montreal too. and drop for the bruins. Edited January 11 by buddha Quote
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