GDT: Game 47: Red Wings at flyers 7:00 pm et 1/21/25

[schuelma24]

The JT Compher drop off has been shocking.

Maybe wishful thinking, but wonder if a playoff team really really desperate for a center would want him in March. I'd love to get out of his contract, especially with Marco looking good and Danielson almost ready.

 

[RRhoads]

Holl needs to go. He keeps making bad decisions. His best decisions with the puck last night giving it away to the opponent in the neutral zone instead of his own zone. He is painful to watch.

 

[FMichael]

Not every player wins a Cup. What makes him more special than guys like McDavid or Mathews who also haven’t won a Cup? Matthews hasn’t even come close.

Agreed - Larkin isn't special...While he's very good - he's nowhere near McDavid and Matthews.

Just putting things into perspective; Larkin in his late 20s, only 5 games of playoffs on his resume (2015/2016 with Dats and Hank), it may be a few seasons until the team is good enough to consistently make the playoffs (fingers crossed), and then if we're lucky a few more seasons where we'll see Detroit compete for the Conference Final and possible the Cup.

So yeah that's like 6 to 8 years from now at the pace we're going

 

[LongTimeDRWF]

Why was Soderblom so good looking? Outside of his size next to Kane/Rasmuseen at one point, I barely noticed him(also a catch 22). * No one wants to be noticed because they're clearly bad. It's one game too, hopefully Wings keep him up awhile honestly if he's not looking out of place.

This was a game where Wings needed that other Center/star to show up outside Larkin/Raymond. Lyon had a good game, defense was 'alright', offense was pretty woeful and boring game.

Some things I noticed on Elmer that he lacked 2 years ago, his skating is notably better, his backing checking was pretty decent given no real practice time (he was first forward back several times, despite being on the forecheck) and he was quite disruptive on several occasions, which will only improve as he gets used to the NHL pace.

He did not look out of place on the 4th line (I suspect he was paired with Ras, as that was a former line-mate), but he did look a little like a deer in headlights a couple of times watching others,

My only "bad" notice was he tended to get caught out on the ice too long sometimes, but that will get better with practice too. I think the coach just let him loose for the night to see what natural tendencies he has.

Hopefully they keep him up long enough to get in some real practice time and we'll see how he adjusts.

I could see T-Mc giving him some time on 1LW when they move Kasper to 2C on one of the evaluation shuffles. I think too soon to do it on the next shuffle, but never say never.