It's bad karma to be mocking the only team that is worse than the Wings. The Wings have the second longest active playoff drought, and tied for 5th all time now. The Wings are HISTORICALLY BAD. We can make excuses about the lottery, but that doesn't change the facts.
I'm beginning to think Burger/Kasper/Kane. Burger played well, and Kasper can make up for Kane's defensive deficiencies.
I said it in the GDT, I think Kasper's gonna stay on the team because this team sucks worse than Stevie expected, and now he's gonna have to play his best players to try to make the playoffs.
What?
There is nothing bad karma about saying how it’s mind blowing that a team who got all of the rebuilding luck you could ever want is stuck in limbo.
Buffalo has gotten all the pub of “they’re young and super talented. And they’ve had their lotto picks be really good players. And yet, by bad coaching decisions and riding mediocre goaltending while simultaneously trading away the types of players that the Wings are bringing in (Copp, Compher, Chiarot, etc) leaving a roster with a lot of talent but not a lot of will to win or hatred of losing.
And yeah, the Wings were screwed deep into the ground from 2013-2018 and they reached rock bottom in 2019-20.
They have to play well enough to make it this year… but it is just insane how people are so willing to discount how bad Holland let things get (while not getting any luck) and how the Red Wings simply didn’t survive two terrible stretches when Larkin went down last year and it cost them a playoff spot by a tie break.
The Wings are on an upward trajectory, no matter how much you hate the team. There is nothing historically bad about this roster anymore. 2019-20? Yeah, that roster was historically bad. Now? They’re a middle of the road NHL team that has a bunch of kids in GR on the verge of coming up