So damn happy for Mantha tonight, my brother and i were freaking out when Mantha got the hatty...and the fourth as well. The man is litterally a unit out on the ice.
Another fantastic recap, Awood. Thank you for all your efforts. Another fantastic and entertaining game from the Wings. Kudos to Mantha for putting the team on his back tonight. Mantha 4 - Stars 3
We need some kids up. We essentially have one first line, one third line, and two fourth lines. With athanasiou we have a first and a second but still two fourths. We have no scoring depth right now. Could use svechnikov and zadina right now. Play one with athanasiou and hirose and the other with flip and Erne or someone
Lots of fans and some managements gave up and thought he should be traded. Just remember this is happening to Zadina. 19 years old and ppls already calling him a bust with only 2 years of North American hockey. Wait till he’s 22-23...kids already more skill and has a better two way game than Mantha at the same age, plus a deadly wrist shot and slapper.
Manthas confidence is sky high. Glad people are finally giving him the respect he deserves. Hated seeing all the critics hate on a growing kid while he was benched by blash.
LGRW 👏👏👏👏👏 So glad that the red wings won the home opener! Not only am I glad that Steve Yzerman is now the new GM, I am so excited that we got Valteri Filppula back in our lineup! Something tells me this will be a good season for the Red Wings! Anthony Mantha did a great job getting 4 goals to win the game and a fantastic save by Johnathon Bernier with a second left! GG Red Wings, keep it up!
Picking up where we left off last year. We got 1 line. Our secondary scoring starts wth AA. And he's not gna do it alone. Filp is 3rd liner at best anymore. The curve has gone up a bit. He hasn't changed much. He steals more which is cool. And our Kronnerless D looks about the same. Which is actually good in this case. Hope Mantha at least breaks the 30 mark again... Go wings!
Don’t understand why Pickard isn’t backing up Howard over Bernier. Guy didn’t have a good showing in preseason and this isn’t ideal, especially with how quick they tied it back it up after Mantha carried him. He did steal the game on the last save of the game, but once Howard is moved potentially, I’d rather see a Pickard-Bernier combo, since Pickard got displaced in COL where he was the bonafide starter before they traded for Varlamov in WAS.
True enough, but it's also true that the bottom 2 lines for the wings are abysmal (Ehn/Nielsen/Erne, Helm/De La Rose/Abby), and their second line would be a third or even fourth line on some elite teams. Enjoy the highs while they last, because there's a reason the Wings were picked to finish near the bottom of the league this year.
Nathan Byberg take a Valium and chill bro. If you're such a "hard-core fan" you would know I'm speaking nothing but the truth. It's not hate, it's stating the facts. And for your information I'm a Detroit native and a diehard Wings fan my entire life. You need to get out of the homer mindset and realize what a rebuild is all about. Does it seem like Stevie is trying to make the playoffs this year based on his actions during the free agency period? The man himself said it's gong to take time but we're going to do it the right way. Hey, maybe we'll do better than the "experts" predicted we'll do this year, but in the long run it would actually be better for us to miss the playoffs yet again this year.
drw1926: It May be a rebuild phase, but I have a lot of faith in Yzerman, and I have a feeling we will at least make the playoffs! We may not win the cup this year, but I feel that we will at least make the playoffs! That’s my opinion dude
