GDT: Game 18: Red Wings at sharks 10:30 pm et 11/18/24

[FMichael]

This is getting painful to watch! Every night getting outshot 2:1. They underestimated the value of Perron, Ghost and Walman.

I'm honestly at the point where I don't care...With Fester around you'll know what to expect.

 

[FMichael]

+parking+refreshments+merchandise

I hope he took advantage of 'Newsie Night' and was one of the first 7,500 fans to have entered the LCA for the free Coach Lalonde mask give away...

 

[HisNoodliness]

I'd argue that you're underselling MBN, Danielson and Kasper a bit.

I take your point on non-first round players, but it seems like there's a legit chance Buch hits, and if he does, he's going to hit big and make all of the other non-first round misses irrelevant.

I hope that I am underrating MBN, Danielson and Kasper. I think if all of our good prospects maximize their potential, we'll be fine. ASP could become a star D, MBN could become a top line winger, Cossa could become a starting goaltender and Kasper/Danielson could become 2/3 pieces of a Selke caliber second line. Outside of them, we have a reasonable chance with the two Johanssons, Berggren, Wallinder, Augustine, Bunch and Mazur becoming worthwhile NHLers. If every one of these pieces hits, are we as good as Florida last year? Maybe. But that's if everything works out. We'll be lucky if half of that happens and then we're barely a playoff team.

i think that your extremely extremely extremely underestimating steve yzermans capabilities as an nhl general manager . the guy is an absolute sharpie

I honestly think he's among the best in the league. I think that we have a bad pro scouting staff, an average amateur scouting staff and a bad coach. A GM that usually wins his trades and gets good value on resigning players can't overcome an entire management team of mediocrity. Ultimately, it's Yzerman's job to recognize the numerous issues with our team and address them. That's what a sharpie does.

 

[deca guard]

I hope that I am underrating MBN, Danielson and Kasper. I think if all of our good prospects maximize their potential, we'll be fine. ASP could become a star D, MBN could become a top line winger, Cossa could become a starting goaltender and Kasper/Danielson could become 2/3 pieces of a Selke caliber second line. Outside of them, we have a reasonable chance with the two Johanssons, Berggren, Wallinder, Augustine, Bunch and Mazur becoming worthwhile NHLers. If every one of these pieces hits, are we as good as Florida last year? Maybe. But that's if everything works out. We'll be lucky if half of that happens and then we're barely a playoff team.



I honestly think he's among the best in the league. I think that we have a bad pro scouting staff, an average amateur scouting staff and a bad coach. A GM that usually wins his trades and gets good value on resigning players can't overcome an entire management team of mediocrity. Ultimately, it's Yzerman's job to recognize the numerous issues with our team and address them. That's what a sharpie does.

imo you are seriously underestimating how important early , top 15 , 1st round draft pix are . they make EVERYTHING else pale in comparison , they are how you address the vast majority of issues . without those pix , and yzermans nailing every single one of them (he owns the draft floor) , you will NEVER build a championship organization . he knows this and all his activity since taking the helm has been focused on making the most out of the 1st rounders , including trading away good players while signing iffy players as the machinings it takes to enhance the early 1st round pix . hes doing an absolute expert job at it ! and like i said he did not want the team to eek into playoffs the past few seasons by adding better short term players than those hes added because it would have done damage to those early first rounders that are CRUCIAL . yzerman is like having sir francis drake at the helm of your ship