Holl chairot Gustafson all gotta go this blue line needs to be revamped will it happen no but i wish it did happen. Gotta get a goalie who can play 45-50 games who can play that much and be consistent I know there no option in free agency that will be available but if he’s available maybe we try getting thatcher demko from Vancouver
dylan is right when he says there were good things to take away from this season specifically with the young guys coming up. ❤ lgrw forever, i’ll be at the game tmrw cheering on the boys as always 🐙
stevie fucking killed this team with his terrible contracts but luckily offset some of that with his solid/great drafting and developing of his picks. imagine if we didn’t have marco and simon and aljo on this team? we coulda been easily clinching the bottom of the east
No real moves for last two seasons and we wonder why it’s a repeat Yzerman is responsible he can do better the Red Wings team deserve better.I really hope as a fan things change and get back to what that WING represents
I'm still a firm believer that the 26-27 season will be huge for this franchise.
Another bit of a puzzle again next season with maybe one or two new FAs and maybe a prospect or two on the depth chart. I think people who say the "'Yzerplan' is a bust" is just crazy. There are at least 8-9 prospects with a serious chance of playing good hockey in the NHL. It's just going to take some time before all positions are developed simultaneously and a real core is grown.
The management team is responsible for the overall capability and performance of the team,irrespective of the results. Every organization has to set goals and steward the results and progress. If Ilitch is satisfied that Yezerman is on track to provide a competitive team, then so be it. But this a waypoint ,and sooner or later, Steve and his group will either be declared a winner or loser. It's a wait and see game.
Larkin is delusional. They won "big" games? Really? Which ones? Definitely some good things, young guys played well, but in the end it is more of the same. But to see our captain refuse to live in reality says it all. They stink. Glad to see he said the PK was awful. That's honest, at least. Still, is there hope for next year? I don't think so, so much dead weight on thus roster. Steve needs to fire his whole pro scouting department.
Very long-time Red Wings fan, so genuinely no ax to grind. I am sorry to have to say this, but this team needs a new captain's: on and off-ice input; public 'voice'; and real fire, come the start of next season.
Dylan Larkin definitely has his positive points (and many fans), but I have long felt that his 'deer in the headlights' act at pressers, in post-defeat locker rooms, etc, is little different than what other Red Wings players likely see from him when he is away from the media spotlight. Under first, Jeff Blashill, then Derek Lalonde, and finally (on down days) under Todd M, it's always been much the same story from Dylan, I'm afraid: the low-energy, monotone mumbling; the seemingly unfocused, semi-vacant stares; the endless — and increasingly tedious — waffling, post-game platitudes about what the team needs to do in the next game(s) (before they then frequently go out and fail to do it🤯), etc. Frankly speaking, it's just become so annoying to put up with, year in, year out, and it's therefore surely now past time for a captaincy change, as a result, I believe.
Over the years, I have been a staunch and public defender of Steve Yzerman's tenure as Wings GM, on this channel and elsewhere. However, over the last 12-18 months, I have slowly come to feel that Steve Y's own tough, emotionally testing 'early years' playing period in Detroit (and the harsh criticism that was sometimes an unpleasant part of it) has left an indelible mark on his GM mental outlook, when it comes to the contemporary 'DRW captaincy' issue. This is NOT a positive!
Remember it took a long time for the Red Wings to finally get over the hump and actually hoist those back-to-back Stanley Cups back in the late nineties, and Steve, personally (and his initial leadership of the team) had to put up with some pretty sharply worded criticisms from both hockey journalists/reporters and a disgruntled minority of (then) Detroit fans, on route to the first of those memorable highs (in a city that hadn't been able, back then, to actually witness a Red Wings team captain hoisting a Stanley Cup aloft in victory, for some 42 years beforehand). As a result, Steve Y. has, I believe, decided deep down (at some past point), that Dylan Larkin will be given all the time, patience and runway that he needs, to get this team to where we all want it to go. Unfortunately, though, as we finish another season where the Red Wings could not even grab a (playoff) spot in the NHL's top sixteen (of its' teams), it surely is now time to face up to the harsh realities of the team's current long spell outside the playoffs, and strike out in the kind of fresh, positive and hopefully inspiring (for players and fans alike) direction that this team clearly sorely needs to embrace.
I like Dylan Larkin, his usually solid play, and his overall work-ethic (on and off the ice). However, if we are truly serious about taking it up several levels, in future seasons, in order to both consistently qualify for and then do well in the SC playoffs, then there MUST now be a captaincy change at this point in the team's current Yzer-journey, I believe.
Honestly speaking, the kind of captaincy change that I am suggesting above, would also very likely benefit Dylan Larkin, too, heading into 2025/26, as if it was actually put in place, then he would be able to concentrate almost exclusively on his own preseason preparations and early-season play, rather than perhaps spreading himself too thinly over too many other competing duties and team responsibilities. As John Tavares has showed in Toronto, this season, this kind of leadership change can ultimately end up benefiting everybody involved in it, IF it is handled both properly and professionally.
Anyway, if you have made it this far through my post, here, then thanks for reading👍!
Let's Go, Red Wings…still some points and pride to play for, out there🏒🥅🎯!!!
I didn’t expect playoffs this year or last year cause this is a team that’s still rebuilding and waiting for their whole young core and goalies to join the roster so i can see playoffs either next year or the following year cause we will definitely be younger the next 2 seasons
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Holl chairot Gustafson all gotta go this blue line needs to be revamped will it happen no but i wish it did happen. Gotta get a goalie who can play 45-50 games who can play that much and be consistent I know there no option in free agency that will be available but if he’s available maybe we try getting thatcher demko from Vancouver
"Disappointing" is in no way descriptive of this debacle of a season. Where's Walman & Gostisbehere? Both having 40 point seasons.
dylan is right when he says there were good things to take away from this season specifically with the young guys coming up. ❤ lgrw forever, i’ll be at the game tmrw cheering on the boys as always 🐙
Helen…. Seriously. Wtf are those questions. You need to go away.
Not heavy enough. Paid too much for a weak middle. Need more skill in bottom 6 upgrade 5-6 defenders
If only the pk was just bad instead of atrocious they'd probably be in the playoffs
Team needs way more speed and get bigger at LW.
Getting Seider a capable partner at LHD is also high on the priority list.
stevie fucking killed this team with his terrible contracts but luckily offset some of that with his solid/great drafting and developing of his picks. imagine if we didn’t have marco and simon and aljo on this team? we coulda been easily clinching the bottom of the east
Fire Yzerman
No real moves for last two seasons and we wonder why it’s a repeat Yzerman is responsible he can do better the Red Wings team deserve better.I really hope as a fan things change and get back to what that WING represents
I'm still a firm believer that the 26-27 season will be huge for this franchise.
Another bit of a puzzle again next season with maybe one or two new FAs and maybe a prospect or two on the depth chart. I think people who say the "'Yzerplan' is a bust" is just crazy. There are at least 8-9 prospects with a serious chance of playing good hockey in the NHL. It's just going to take some time before all positions are developed simultaneously and a real core is grown.
The management team is responsible for the overall capability and performance of the team,irrespective of the results.
Every organization has to set goals and steward the results and progress. If Ilitch is satisfied that Yezerman is on track to provide a competitive team, then so be it.
But this a waypoint ,and sooner or later, Steve and his group will either be declared a winner or loser. It's a wait and see game.
Larkin needs to go he sounds like a dead duck!
Larkin is delusional. They won "big" games? Really? Which ones? Definitely some good things, young guys played well, but in the end it is more of the same. But to see our captain refuse to live in reality says it all. They stink. Glad to see he said the PK was awful. That's honest, at least. Still, is there hope for next year? I don't think so, so much dead weight on thus roster. Steve needs to fire his whole pro scouting department.
You guys are garbage and lazy. Don't deserve anything.
Yzerman can stay, but he needs to fire his pro scouting staff.
Todd tried his best with what he had
Very long-time Red Wings fan, so genuinely no ax to grind. I am sorry to have to say this, but this team needs a new captain's: on and off-ice input; public 'voice'; and real fire, come the start of next season.
Dylan Larkin definitely has his positive points (and many fans), but I have long felt that his 'deer in the headlights' act at pressers, in post-defeat locker rooms, etc, is little different than what other Red Wings players likely see from him when he is away from the media spotlight. Under first, Jeff Blashill, then Derek Lalonde, and finally (on down days) under Todd M, it's always been much the same story from Dylan, I'm afraid: the low-energy, monotone mumbling; the seemingly unfocused, semi-vacant stares; the endless — and increasingly tedious — waffling, post-game platitudes about what the team needs to do in the next game(s) (before they then frequently go out and fail to do it🤯), etc. Frankly speaking, it's just become so annoying to put up with, year in, year out, and it's therefore surely now past time for a captaincy change, as a result, I believe.
Over the years, I have been a staunch and public defender of Steve Yzerman's tenure as Wings GM, on this channel and elsewhere. However, over the last 12-18 months, I have slowly come to feel that Steve Y's own tough, emotionally testing 'early years' playing period in Detroit (and the harsh criticism that was sometimes an unpleasant part of it) has left an indelible mark on his GM mental outlook, when it comes to the contemporary 'DRW captaincy' issue. This is NOT a positive!
Remember it took a long time for the Red Wings to finally get over the hump and actually hoist those back-to-back Stanley Cups back in the late nineties, and Steve, personally (and his initial leadership of the team) had to put up with some pretty sharply worded criticisms from both hockey journalists/reporters and a disgruntled minority of (then) Detroit fans, on route to the first of those memorable highs (in a city that hadn't been able, back then, to actually witness a Red Wings team captain hoisting a Stanley Cup aloft in victory, for some 42 years beforehand). As a result, Steve Y. has, I believe, decided deep down (at some past point), that Dylan Larkin will be given all the time, patience and runway that he needs, to get this team to where we all want it to go. Unfortunately, though, as we finish another season where the Red Wings could not even grab a (playoff) spot in the NHL's top sixteen (of its' teams), it surely is now time to face up to the harsh realities of the team's current long spell outside the playoffs, and strike out in the kind of fresh, positive and hopefully inspiring (for players and fans alike) direction that this team clearly sorely needs to embrace.
I like Dylan Larkin, his usually solid play, and his overall work-ethic (on and off the ice). However, if we are truly serious about taking it up several levels, in future seasons, in order to both consistently qualify for and then do well in the SC playoffs, then there MUST now be a captaincy change at this point in the team's current Yzer-journey, I believe.
Honestly speaking, the kind of captaincy change that I am suggesting above, would also very likely benefit Dylan Larkin, too, heading into 2025/26, as if it was actually put in place, then he would be able to concentrate almost exclusively on his own preseason preparations and early-season play, rather than perhaps spreading himself too thinly over too many other competing duties and team responsibilities. As John Tavares has showed in Toronto, this season, this kind of leadership change can ultimately end up benefiting everybody involved in it, IF it is handled both properly and professionally.
Anyway, if you have made it this far through my post, here, then thanks for reading👍!
Let's Go, Red Wings…still some points and pride to play for, out there🏒🥅🎯!!!
jusin holl..
I think a new captain is in order. I just don't see leadership from Larkin.
I am an old fan and I am still a huge fan too and will always be one.
LGRW!
Did Larkin play after 4 nations? Invisible, not a leader.
I didn’t expect playoffs this year or last year cause this is a team that’s still rebuilding and waiting for their whole young core and goalies to join the roster so i can see playoffs either next year or the following year cause we will definitely be younger the next 2 seasons