How often do they lay and paint the ice? I know during the season they put a cover over the ice and lay the basketball court over it if it's an arena with hockey and basketball
We the faithful stand behind you. Best season in 7 years. We all willed those goals to go in at the end. Would have loved the playoffs this year. Those games had so much passion in them. LGRW
In a 2 year span the Florida Panthers went from 86 points and missing the playoffs to Presidents trophy winners. Then they dipped again and barely made it into the playoffs last year as an 8 seed, but ended up in the Cup final. Progress in the NHL is not linear. No one can predict five years out. All you can do is progress, and that progress is evident and inarguable in Yzerman's tenure as GM of the Wings.
@@mattm3729 Lucas Raymond had more points this year than Reinhart had last year. Raymond could we’ll be that guy for Detroit and that’s my point. Players grow. Teams progress.
If he walks because we are stuck paying Ras and Copp big dollars then WTF?!! We need to keep Kaner on the Wings. He'll be even better with a full offseason of pain-free conditioning. He wants to regain explosiveness and I am positive that he can improve on that. We're a better team with him in so many ways. Sure hope he returns.
I hope he returns and finishes his career with the Wings but hopefully not for a few more years. I know age is catching up to him but he's a leader, a gamer, and is the kind of teammate and role model our young guys need.
Stevie , play Lyon more he was super good! Play the goalie like steady.... so they get momentum and confidence!! This happened in yrs back Nhl and it worked just fine!! Every goalie is up & down pretty much. Get wings D to stop drifting around watching O players and pucks going in the net. Tell D men to CHECK ,TAKE THE DAM BODY
So grateful that Lyon joined us and that he played so much better (along with Reimer) than Husso. If he can shore up his 5-hole woes then we'll continue to win games next year, especially if we stop turning the puck over.
I wish that we'd have moved on from Ras. There's not one area that he excels at and we need big guys that know how to use their size because he is too weak, gets knocked down about as easy as DDK did, isn't a power forward, and simply doesn't deserve the contract he had or the extension he received. I trust Stevie Y completely but can't understand why Ras was retained. I know that Kenny, Mickey, and many others are impressed by this guy but we need better players who are gamers and Ras just isn't good enough.
I guess I’m trying to understand why somebody would look at their watch and a 20 and a gas pump like I owe them 20 something of some time… That’s not the case I’m not a criminal and I’ve never been to Puerto Rico so they have no judgment calls or anything against me whatsoever… I’ve never committed a crime in Puerto Rico whatsoeverand that’s about it… I will walk the fuck out of here at any given point in time
What an awesome end to last season & this.year..He said he building from below..as usual we face goalie issues...we were still the #1 watched team all season!
NEWSY KNOWS WHAT IT TAKES TO WIN! HE HAS WON AT EVERY LEVEL HE'S COACHED! HE ALSO SHOWS A REAL ENTHUSIASM FOR WHAT HE DOES! TEAM HAS A BRIGHT FUTURE! YZERPLAN IS WORKING
Lucas was crushed that they didn't get in, but he'll realize how much he has accomplished and what he means to the team. That disappointment will help him build determination and a sense of perspective that helps weather tough stretches. I personally haven't seen a season of growth like his in any other player, he's risen to an elite level. He'll be re-signed, compensated well and back for at least the next several years.
Every hockey player should have this attitude, both toward the team and themselves. This pain drives determination and motivation, which will certainly carry over to next season and onward.
To all the inpatient fans: What do you think Yzerman could have realistically done differently that would have put this team in a spot to make the playoffs NOW, yet still somehow be set up for long-term success? He inherited a team with barely any NHL talent and a barren prospect pool, and was up against the cap with a number of horrible contracts that had to be bought-out, some of which we are still paying for. Then, to start the rebuild, we fell in the draft lottery multiple years in a row, and never selected higher than 4th overall. It cannot be understated how much that potentially set back the early stages of the rebuild. With how bad the team was during the first three years of Yzerman's tenure, we were in no way an attractive destination for high caliber UFAs to sign with, so it's not as though Yzerman could just go out and get a superstar, at least not without a major overpay that would have made it more challenging to round out the rest of the lineup. In regards to UFA signings, I see a lot of discourse surrounding Yzerman's UFA signings over the past two offseasons, which I will acknowledge has been a weak spot of Yzerman's front office. I see many argue that Yzerman made a splash in free agency a year too early; given how deep the 2023 draft class was, we should have tanked just one more year in hopes to draft at least in the top 5. Odds are we wouldn't have landed Bedard, but even landing a Fantilli, Carlson, or Smith caliber center would have been a franchise-chaning draft. I largely agree with this analysis, however, there are some things to consider: would this have realistically moved the needle in the immediate present? Would tanking last year have even guaranteed us a top 4 pick at all? Would we have been able to out-tank Anaheim, Columbus, Chicago or San Jose? Yzerman was asked this very question at the end of last season, and he admitted he had given this strategy some thought, but he believed he would have had to seriously gut the roster even more than he already had to achieve this outcome, and all that would have done is set the rebuild back even further. There's no way to know if his conclusion was correct, but at least he considered the option and made a sound calculation. And even if we would have drafted, let's say, Will Smith at 4OA, does that make us a playoff team this year, or even next year? Probably not. Yzerman chose to add some talent to the roster to try and make the team more competitive in the interim while our prospects develop and to develop a winning culture for the younger players that are on the Wings in the here and now, as well as to give the team something to build on year-over-year, which from I'm standing has been successful. We improved last year, and made even more improvement this year, and a simple tie-breaker is what kept us out of the playoffs. Has all his UFA signings been great? No, but at the end of the day, making this team more competitive has obviously made the Wings a more attractive destination for free agents to sign with. We got Patrick Kane for crying out loud. There could be a scenario where a player like Leon Draisaitl signs with us as a UFA, and that alone changes the whole game. This would be a direct result of Yzerman's free agency strategy paying dividends. Will these be the results? That remains to be seen, but I do think this is the rationale behind some of his decision making and I do think it's sound. Others have already made mention of our highly touted prospect pool, with many citing The Athletic #2 ranking as gospel truth. While I don't think The Athletic's opinion is the end all be all, I do concur that the praise is warranted. We don't appear to have that elite, game-breaking player just yet, but we undoubtedly have great players at just about every position, which will either one day slot directly into the lineup on a cheap, 3-year entry level contract, or will be packaged in a trade for a much better NHL player, in the same way we packaged a prospect like Donovan Sebrango to trade for Alex Debrincat. We have so many prospects at every position that we can likely do the same for another player in the future once the opportunity presents itself. These are things to keep in mind. I'm going to continue to practice the patience Yzerman preached the day he took over. I knew it would take a long time. Ken Holland was ambivalent towards entering a rebuild because even he knew they can take up to ten years in hockey, and he wasn't wrong. A lot of Wings fan are spoiled in that they've known nothing but success for decades, and have never had to live through the process of an actual rebuild, and how painstaking that process can be.
Hey Steve, Maybe look beyond the nepatism and politics in the goaltending position. For years, goaltenders playing on top youth teams are viewed as top goalies only because they play on top AAA teams. There are many smaller goalies who play in less talented teams who prove themselves over and over but get overlooked because you guys all want big goalies, yet these smaller goalies prove themselves game after game. Look beyond the Trey Augustine’s and you’ll find goaltending that is hands down better. I’d rather have a goaltender who have been forced to work much harder, getting outshot at minimum 2-1 game after game and yet they keep their teams in the game. For whatever reason, you guys are blinded by the big underachieving goalies.
We love you dylan larkin ...so sorry ..my heart is say 2024-2025 Detroit red wings playoff...and 2026 or 2026-2027 Detroit red wings Stanley cup champion ❤️❤️❤️
