March 2024 Game Thread

[Shinzaki]

3-0

Horrible....

[gehringer_2]

15 minutes ago, buddha said:

again, they cant clear the zone and they give up an early goal.

if there is one criticism of yzerman it is his love of average to below average defensemen who are "experienced."

look, if steve yzerman and sergei federov are your forwards you can afford to have veteran (old) defensemen.  especially if you have the greatest defenseman of all time on your blue line.  but if you have larkin (good) and compher (decent) in your top six, you cant be giving multi year deals to ollie maata, justin holm, and jeff petry and think you can be a playoff contender.

Not to mention a checking line like the Grind. Yzerman probably gets it from Scotty, who generally hated young defensemen. Wings did always bring in a lot of older Dmen back in the day, they could just get better ones - Murphy, Fetisov, Samuelson, Schneider, Coffey.....

[buddha]

must win game and theyre down 3-0 to an arizona team that traded half their team today.

totally pathetic how bad this team is whithout ONE GUY!!!!  you take larkin out and they're the san jose sharks.

[lordstanley]

Uh oh. 

[Tigerbomb13]

Talk about the dead things 

[Motor City Sonics]

Honestly, the only measure of success this year, to me, was making the playoffs.   Captain goes down and they fall apart?   Where's the depth that Yzerman is talking about?  If they had it they wouldn't be falling off a cliff.     Don't know about you, but shouldn't the seat start warming up for Yzerman if they fail to get in again?    Not impressed.     Getting their arse kicked by a horrible team that plays for 5.000 people.   Not acceptable.    Telling me there wasn't any real move to make here?   None?    Feels like the Wings are going to be one of those perpetual prospects team that never matures.    Yzerman is going to have his own episode of Hoarders soon. 

[lordstanley]

 

[buddha]

i hope the wings fans there booed them off the ice.

[gehringer_2]

They aren't as good as they looked on the hot streak, they do need more leadership in the room than just Larkin. Yzerman has done a good job of raising the general talent level to where the team is much more competitive, but he's got to do something in the way of swinging for the fences to increase the number of players on the team with top level will to win, which right now is pretty much just Larkin and Seider. I don't know if Kane was a player that used to supply some of that for the Hawks, if so maybe his role in the regard will grow.

[Motor City Sonics]

17 minutes ago, buddha said:

i hope the wings fans there booed them off the ice.

But Captain got hurt.  How can you expect to play well when Captain gets hurt.   I say it's best to just give up.   Mission accomplished.    Like the Tigers the first time Riley Greene got hurt last year.   They flatlined.        

[Shinzaki]

They perhaps need to bring up higher energy guys like Kasper or Mazur to join Bergrren.  

[lordstanley]

Wings @ Vegas tonight. 10pm start. Reimer in net. 

[lordstanley]

Behind again, 1-0 

Wings have been outscored 18-2 since being tied with NYI 3-3 late. That was only 9 days ago, feels like an eternity. 

[gehringer_2]

2-0 now and the shots are 16-3. Looks like freefall.

They gave up both both goals with the same five on the ice - Seider, Chairot, Veleno, Raymond and Berggren. Might consider not sending that combination out there again.

Edited March 10, 2024 by gehringer_2

[lordstanley]

Sure needed that last minute goal by Rasmussen on a tip-in of a Seider shot. 

[lordstanley]

Huh?

 

[lordstanley]

2-1 after 2. So still losing, but not getting blown like in recent games? Still getting outplayed, but not as badly as in the 1st period. Low bar, grasping for positives. 

[lordstanley]

Another Seider goal is tipped in. By Compher. Tie game with 17 to go in the 3rd. Let’s go!

[lordstanley]

Wings have 3 shots this period Vegas has 1 

Wings have 2 goals this period Vegas has 1. 

[lordstanley]

3 minutes ago, GoBlue23 said:

That was a wild sequence to tie it at 3.  

And a penalty that gives the Wings a powerplay. 

[lordstanley]

Holy crap, 3 great chances on one play for the Wings to take the lead but it somehow stays out. 

[lordstanley]

Wings are really coming on. 8-1 in shots this period. Tied with 3 minutes to go. 

[lordstanley]

Killer. Knights take the lead wth 2:44 to go. While Rasmussen is grimacing with sore hand after blocking a shot on the play. 

[lordstanley]

Two teams came into this game on 4 game losing streaks. Vegas will come out wth a win. 5-3. 

[Tigerbomb13]

This team is absolutely dead