January Game Threads

[slothfacekilla]

Avs look like they're on a power play at 5 on 5, 3-0 Colorado

[lordstanley]

42 minutes ago, slothfacekilla said:

This early start really caught me off guard, already down 1-0 to the Avs

Had just went to NHL.com to check whether the Wings next game against the Avs was today or tomorrow. Just found out it it is today. A matinee. In 2nd period already. And now down 3-0. Ugh. 

[slothfacekilla]

Think I am turning this one off....got work to do anyways sadly

[lordstanley]

Surely the Wings have faced more 4-0 deficits than any team in the league the past month. 5-1 now. 

[gehringer_2]

30 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

Surely the Wings have faced more 4-0 deficits than any team in the league the past month. 5-1 now. 

Yeah - they like to win close and lose big.

[buddha]

posters ask what the wings need?

talent.  they need talent.

they signed a lot of professional veterans and they've improved the team, but they arent going anywhere unless seider/raymond/kasper/edvinnson or some other young draftees turn out to be great players.

the best teams in the league make the wings look slow in a way the wings almost never do to any team.  

as ive lamented many times, the talent deficit in the organization was so great when kenny left, it will take a decade to dig out from under it.

Edited January 16, 2023 by buddha

[lordstanley]

Seems like a long time since the Wings have outshot an opponent by such a wide margin after 2 periods. 30-11. Yet only tied 1-1, in Arizona.

[lordstanley]

Determined effort by Fabbri, sticking with it, creates the opportunity for Suter who makes it 2-1 early in the 3rd.

[MichiganCardinal]

I don't have cable, let alone whatever nonsense package or stream is required to watch games nowadays.

Getting a chance to listen to this one tonight. Funny to hear this Phoenix Arizona crowd (if the 5,000 can even be called that) get much louder for Wings goals than their own.

Also getting to listen to the Wings choke this one from a 1-1 tie to a 3-1 lead to a 3-3 tie against a terrible team in the span of like ten minutes.

[lordstanley]

14 minutes ago, MichiganCardinal said:

I don't have cable, let alone whatever nonsense package or stream is required to watch games nowadays.

Getting a chance to listen to this one tonight. Funny to hear this Phoenix Arizona crowd (if the 5,000 can even be called that) get much louder for Wings goals than their own.

Also getting to listen to the Wings choke this one from a 1-1 tie to a 3-1 lead to a 3-3 tie against a terrible team in the span of like ten minutes.

I think the 2nd goal was a bit of a softie on Hellberg, and then a huge rebound with a wide open net on the 2nd one.

[sagnam]

Shootouts are dumb

[buddha]

bad loss.

[MichiganCardinal]

Gross.

[lordstanley]

That's an unacceptable single point. No way Wings shouldn't have won being up 3-1 the way they were dominating. OT was pathetic, I think the Wings didn't touch the puck once the first 3 1/2 minutes of OT - Walman may have got his stick on the puck for 2 or 3 seconds. Rasmussen did have a great effort in final 15 seconds, if he had converted that steal to a goal it would have been a goal of the year candidate.

[gehringer_2]

5 minutes ago, sagnam said:

Shootouts are dumb

hate shotouts. There are bad enough always, but really sad when your goaltending is suspect!

[1984Echoes]

I'm already thinking of the deadline and if Stevie can somehow pull a rabbit out of his hat...

[Hongbit]

It’s been a decade since the move but what a disaster the Red Wings shift to Eastern Conference has been.   I know it’s all cyclical but it’s so much easier for teams in the West right now.   

[buddha]

4 hours ago, Hongbit said:

It’s been a decade since the move but what a disaster the Red Wings shift to Eastern Conference has been.   I know it’s all cyclical but it’s so much easier for teams in the West right now.   

except we cant even beat arizona.

[buddha]

pronman has his u-23 rankings out.  wings well represented but only seider in the borderline elite category.

i like pronman because he's a prolific writer and always puts out content, but there is no way to differentiate between a lot of these guys and no way he's scouted them all thoroughly.  i take his rankings and ratings with a big grain of salt   and the way he ranks them "poor, nhl average, nhl above averge" seems so random.  he has about 100 players with almost the exact same ratings. 

[buddha]

how can you rank lafrieniere above someone like kasper right now?  lafrieniere was benched!  

[slothfacekilla]

Guess I need to figure out a way to read these rankings now 😂

[buddha]

22 minutes ago, slothfacekilla said:

Guess I need to figure out a way to read these rankings now 😂

Moritz Seider (ranked 8

Lucas Raymond (ranked 18)

Simon Edvinsson (ranked 35)

Marco Kasper (ranked 65)

Carter Mazur (ranked 69...nice)

Elmer Soderblom (ranked 75)

Jonatan Berggren (ranked 91)

William Wallinder (ranked 98)

Joe Veleno (ranked 112)

Edited January 18, 2023 by buddha

[buddha]

lafrieniere was 27.

[buddha]

berggren at 91 is kind of silly seeing as where he placed the other wings prospects.

[slothfacekilla]

I fully have my prospect homer glasses on but I think Kasper and Wallinder should both be higher for sure.  Berggren feels low.  Actually pleasantly surprised at where Edvinsson is.  I think I saw in reddit comments that the Wings had the second most players on the list to Buffalo.