GDT: Game 67 Red Wings vs knights 1:00 pm et 3/16/25
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since there is no sense to talk about our chances here, my question is whether Jack wakes up sometimes in the middle of the night thinking where he would be right now if he stayed with Sabres?
I don't care what happens anymore, I just want to see the Kane-Kasper-Cat line out there all night.
He's not getting fired. And it's silly to call for that
I think he has two seasons. If we don't start moving forward with McLellan, I think Yzerman gets moved and the new GM picks the new coach.
Just based on our remaining schedule I don't think we are making the playoffs. I don't see us winning more than 4-5 games the rest of the way at best. Maybe we beat Utah, Montreal, Boston, St. Louis one other and then we are in need of stealing games against teams much better than us. Maybe we win 1 or 2 against the better teams, but even a .500 record isn't enough to get in, and I don't think we will even do that good. .500 gets us to 84 pts which isn't even close to getting us in.
This is not an automatic loss.
Vegas is 15-17 on the road
Detroit is 17-18 at home
(Basically the same)
Not to mention Vegas is on tail end of back to back road games and Detroit has been waiting for them. They also lost to Buffalo today, so not exactly a ‘hot’ team.
Actually a decent spot to take advantage… see if our Wings have even the faintest pulse left.
Vegas is 15-17 on the road
Detroit is 17-18 at home
(Basically the same)
Not to mention Vegas is on tail end of back to back road games and Detroit has been waiting for them. They also lost to Buffalo today, so not exactly a ‘hot’ team.
Actually a decent spot to take advantage… see if our Wings have even the faintest pulse left.
Yeah. Not trying to be a downer, but if you look at the schedule realistically, there might be one game out of 16 you would say the Wings are favored to win. It's just an absolutely brutal close - they could play their best hockey of the year and still go .500 and as you said, not even get close.
I was picking Utah as the only game where I would say we should win. Ottawa for whatever reason has our number, Montreal is playing better than us right now, Boston is a team we don't have great success against, and Stl still has a better roster than us to me. The rest of the teams are the cream of the crop for the most part.
I had Boston at home as the "should" win, if you just go by record. It's tough.
if kasper can legit b a 2c i like our chances next year. would b 4 home runs in a row seider raymond ed kasper.
cossa goalie so diff developement curve.
asp and danielson cominh soon too.
Bad night for us, as Ott, Mtl and NYR all win, and now Pitt is also tied with us.
He is not a legit 2c. it is fairly obvious this year that at his best he is a passenger on a line with Kane and Cat. this is not how a legit top6 center looks like.
Clearly he's fully developed and has peaked at age 20. Solid take.
it is called comparison by example. I've seen first seasons of Fedorov, Datsyuk, Zetterberg. Also seen first season of Filppula. At very best, if everything goes well, we are getting Filppula out of Kasper. Which is nice but far away from 2C on a cup winning team.
Datsyuk was 23 and Z was 22. Kasper is 20. The team they joined was far better than this one.
Filppula was a 2C on a cup winning team.
This is a garbage take.
He’s a rookie that wins corner battles, plays well defensively and drives the net. The 1st line was at its best when he was on it and the 2nd line looked supremely dangerous with him on it. As center. Sorry that his toe drags/60 doesn’t meet your expectations.
Compher and Copp are seasoned pros that played with the above. None of them made either line look good. THEY are the definition of passengers.
Datsyuk was 23 in his first NHL season.
Bad nights are sort of good, this way, the wings can keep both options open, they are 4 pts from EC2 and 3 pts from 8OA pick, right now, we are in a have your cake and eat it too situation...we'll see which team shows up the rest of the way!
The wings play the Caps in their barn on Tuesday, they are the most likely WC2 opponent....fun times for sure, but if the wings cannot hold home for those remaining 6 games and go at least 1 game over 0.500 on the road, the odds of WC are real slim, so they best start finding ways to win some games.
