GDT: Game 69: nice Red Wings at knights 8:00 pm et 3/22/25

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It’s actually insane that I’m praying Petry gets back asap. f*** yzerman has been the most god awful d-core imaginable. Honestly pathetic
Thing is...we were talking about this in August. Such a frustrating year, but it's not all that surprising. We knew the D going into the season wasn't good enough, and apparently we were right.

Really not sure how Yzerman was comfortable with this team going into the season. Those 7 game winning streaks were fun at the time, but in hindsight, we were better off losing some of those games. Hoping we can get an actual skill player who can produce at the NHL level at 9th overall this year. Hopefully someone way better than Brandsegg-Nygard
 
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I don't think Larkin is a good leader and I don't think he should be captain. He essentially got the C because he's a hometown kid and was here before Seider/Raymond were. Seider could wear the C, or maybe Raymond, or maybe nobody right now. Larkin disappears anytime the games get tough and has been doing so for many years now. Raymond was at least willing this team into a playoff spot down the stretch last season.
Larkin is a #2C on a cup contender. Period.
 
He gets 0 f***ing help
Huh? Raymond is a way better player than him and has been for two seasons now. Last year Raymond was WAY better than him down the stretch and he did nothing to help the team get in. This year Raymond hasn't been great since the 4 Nations tourney either, but Larkin's been dog shit the entire time as well. He's a supporting cast player at this point and he sucks for what he's paid.
 
Thing is...we were talking about this in August. Such a frustrating year, but it's not all that surprising. We knew the D going into the season wasn't good enough, and apparently we were right.

Really not sure how Yzerman was comfortable with this team going into the season. Those 7 game winning streaks were fun at the time, but in hindsight, we were better off losing some of those games. Hoping we can get an actual skill player who can produce at the NHL level at 9th overall this year. Hopefully someone way better than Brandsegg-Nygard
How he thought this d-core would be anything but the worst in the league is mind boggling. Just awful GM’ing
 
blaming depth guys when your #1 dman is a -3 in the first period will never make sense to me
Your #1 dman is a -3 in the first period because the coach has to put him out against every single top line in the NHL game after game after game because nobody else on the defense has a pulse, because the GM is generationally talented at signing the worst free agents in the entire league every summer.
 
Huh? Raymond is a way better player than him and has been for two seasons now. Last year Raymond was WAY better than him down the stretch and he did nothing to help the team get in. This year Raymond hasn't been great since the 4 Nations tourney either, but Larkin's been dog shit the entire time as well. He's a supporting cast player at this point and he sucks for what he's paid.
Maybe you know he shouldn’t be relied upon to be a #1 Center. And if he’s going to be you need to have crazy good depth which we don’t at all
 
What kind of help is Larkin going to need to just get into the playoffs? We just want the playoffs man that’s not asking a lot
 
You're not wrong but we need way better than them. We have seen them on the team and still be a bottom 10 defense.
Cope.

Walman-Seider
Edvinsson-Maatta
Chiarot-Ghost
Johansson

10x better than what we have. Not even close. We win 5+ more games this year easy with that D core instead of rolling out Holl/Gus/Petry regularly. Steve Yzerman is incapable of assessing pro talent, full stop.

Listen man, he's a Detroit legend, but he's not been a good manager here and it's getting insane how much leeway he has.
 

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