How on earth is 62 points or 69 points... which is still abysmally ****ing terrible not stealing from the fans if 45 points is?
If you don't understand that point by reading it, I can't do more to explain it.
The Wings aren't trying to be bad, they just don't have much in the way of acquiring impact pieces right now without severely draining their assets they want to hold onto. Sure, let's go out and sign, **** I don't know, Vesa Toskala. Any goalie worth a damn is under contract. Bernier was even playing fine. They put forth this team thinking it would be the 62 point roster that you are apparently okay with and it's been decimated by injuries. So now, you either ride out a bad roster with very little depth or you go crazy plugging in random pieces around to spark something. Which is actually what Yzerman has done with Erne, Perlini, and Fabbri and what he tried to do with Comrie.
You could go trade Perlini for an Anton Forsberg right. Take that shot in the dark. Forsberg SHOULD be better than Howard.
Maybe a Dustin Tokarski comes real cheap.
Basically, Yzerman went into this season knowing they'd be bad and it would be trying. He didn't know that one of his few capable D would be on the shelf all year. That one or more of his best offensive players on a team with a dearth of offensive talent would be out for an extended period. AND that Jonathan Bernier would actually turn in an okay season and that HE would get hurt.
Maybe you go find out what Jonas Johansson costs in Buffalo and see what he's worth.
If you want to piss and moan about a wasted season... getting 62 points would be just as bad as this. Being kinda bad and being historically bad really isn't a huge change for this roster.
Bravo. You're defending historically bad.
Where is a Bernier-like goalie on the open market right now that you can sign inexpensively or trade a meaningless asset for?
Georgiev is widely known to be on the market.
Here are some UFAs Gs on teams not going to the playoffs.
Crawford. Dell. Ryan Miller.
You think any of those guys come at a high cost?
You have to maintain some kind of minimum standard.
Firing Blashill is flipping over the cushions on the deck chairs on the Titanic. It is so insignificant to the Wings fortunes this year that it is embarassing that so many people stump for it. Blash is probably not that great a coach, but he's operating with about 6 players on any given night who are NHL caliber and 12-13 who are damn lucky contracts are guaranteed. I still will never understand your desire to fire Blashill and keep Dan Bylsma as the interim until the end of the year. So, you fire one guy and put another who is already on the staff of underperforming coaches on as a lame duck. I am glad you are not the GM or owner of a franchise.
Bylsma is a better, more proven coach. He's won a cup.
He's coached bad teams and improved the,
He's coached Buffalo teams that were NEARLY Blashill bad.
And when he did, he improved them.
And when he left, they returned to Blashill bad levels.
I don't care if it's Bylsma. But he's the simple, easy interim answer that can stabilize this bullshit until Yzerman determines the long-term option.