Detroit Redwings Downfall

[BFLO]

Yikes. All that smugness and then doesn't know the difference between implied and inferred.

D'oh. I never claimed I could write above a 6th grade level.

I actually do know the difference. But I'll deservedly eat the humble pie for that mistake.

 

[MarkusNaslund19]

D'oh. I never claimed I could write above a 6th grade level.

I actually do know the difference. But I'll deservedly eat the humble pie for that mistake.

The funny thing is, I wasn't following the thread closely enough to see who was right about the point you made being comprehensible or not, but your sad point about the literacy rate in the U.S. is true, depressing, and devastating.

I just couldn't let that little bit of hypocrisy go.

But you owned up like a real one and it's all in good fun anyway

 

[strattonius]

Reading posts like these and many others speaks to how uninformed the average fan truly is.

The reality is that a long rebuild was anticipated because of how deep of a hole Holland left behind.

“Yzerman needs to make more trades” they say while ignoring the fact he traded hronek Mantha bertuzzi which landed them Cossa, ASP and Debrincat. All of these moves are/project to be upgrades to the long term trajectory.

Red Wings fans understand that “everything is fine” because they understand it was always intended to be a deep rebuild. With that in mind 60% of yzermans draft picks are 21 or younger and even his oldest draft picks are yet to reach their prime.

The team is on the right track but more patience is necessary. Ya’ll are expecting him to turn water into wine but forget the best wines age for years before you enjoy them.

Not uninformed. Team was a mess when Yzerman arrived. He deserved a lot of rope. But the last 3 years have been extremely underwhelming.

There are hopeful prospects to turn this team around but that still isn't enough in the NHL for your organization's fortunes to change. You need to be adding better players in free agency and through trade as well.

It's pretty unbelievable that you're willing to defend Yzerman after that showing in free agency and then the predictably poor start to the year. The Red Wings have no pulse and this big bright future you're waiting for is hopeful at best. Even if the prospects hit, it's still a bleak group. That's basically what people against Yzerman are trying to say.

 

[ShakenNotStirred]

This team will be better when the placeholders are gone in the next couple years.

Tank is one of the worst defensive players on the team but he gets Selkie votes when he plays next to Kane. That dude is one dimensional and he doesnt score anymore.

The defense can't keep up with the speed of the game, outside of 53 and 77.

Talbot has been fantastic. Lyon was last year and husso the year before that.

Hopefully the deep prospect pool can plug some of the holes in the next few years. I will bust out pitch forks if they come in and bust out.

 

[SnuggaRUDE]

It's a 32 team league now. Rebuilding a team is going to take longer (or more luck) than people are accustomed.

 

[WarriorofTime]

Reading posts like these and many others speaks to how uninformed the average fan truly is.

The reality is that a long rebuild was anticipated because of how deep of a hole Holland left behind.

“Yzerman needs to make more trades” they say while ignoring the fact he traded hronek Mantha bertuzzi which landed them Cossa, ASP and Debrincat. All of these moves are/project to be upgrades to the long term trajectory.

Red Wings fans understand that “everything is fine” because they understand it was always intended to be a deep rebuild. With that in mind 60% of yzermans draft picks are 21 or younger and even his oldest draft picks are yet to reach their prime.

The team is on the right track but more patience is necessary. Ya’ll are expecting him to turn water into wine but forget the best wines age for years before you enjoy them.

Here's the rub from my perspective. In no way do I think it should be acceptable for the Red Wings to pick between 8th and 15th after this season. They've picked between 8th and 15th for three consecutive seasons. Not good enough to make the postseason, not good enough to pick high. If they do end up picking between 8th and 15th, then a very real question should be "well then why the heck were they only picking 8th back in 2022 and not making a higher selection?" In no way can you convince me that a team needs to "mid out" for four consecutive seasons as a necessary and proper step of the rebuild.

So that's the issue we run into, on the one hand, people want to praise the Red Wings for raising from the basement of the League to the... not basement. However, that rise has not actually correlated with anything meaningful. They've been stuck in the mud, spinning their wheels while "waiting for the kids" because "it's a long rebuild". It seems some want it both ways. If it's a long, slow rebuild, you may as well have gone all in on bottoming out for more than just a season and really positioned yourself for better picks. Had they picked higher the last few years, with the rest of their prospect pool through excess picks and the like, they'd be in a much better position today.

I don't think in good faith the veteran free agent signings can be justified with "building a culture" or "learning how to compete". Those are junk words used to indicate a fear of tanking because ownership or ego gets in the way. That stuff doesn't take four seasons. Larkin was on one of the worst teams ever back then, is he forever damaged goods because he didn't "learn how to win"? But he himself was extended long-term presumably to win. Either those free agents were supposed to get Detroit into the playoffs and were bad signings, or they were part of a foolish strategy to intentionally nerf the value of the players you can select in Consecutive Non-Playoff seasons. Framing it as though everything was done with the exact intent of what it produced would just make Yzerman's whole "plan" look really stupid. I'd rather a GM make some small mistakes than have a foolish plan to begin with.