Red Wings

[WingsFan]

You have to believe if MR I was still capable of running the team he would not have let Ken Holland drive the Ferrari into the ditch.

[jaadam4]

Blashill is dog shit. Hire Gallant now before he's gone. How are guys like Hitchcock and Gallant without coaching jobs and this jackhole is quoted as giving more ice time to a guy that is minus 18, 0 goals and 7 assists on through 50 games.

What the fuck is wrong with this person?

[WingsFan]

He takes his orders from Holland jaadam

[FVD]

Blashill is dog shit. Hire Gallant now before he's gone. How are guys like Hitchcock and Gallant without coaching jobs and this jackhole is quoted as giving more ice time to a guy that is minus 18, 0 goals and 7 assists on through 50 games.

What the fuck is wrong with this person?

Maybe he feels Sheahan is due? Maybe he needs glasses and thinks its Shanahan out there?

[jaadam4]

I've never seen anything like this from the Wings. I've seen us holding guys back in favor of vets but never have I witnessed someone playing so shitty who continues to be given more opportunity to dig out of a 0 goals in 50 game streak.

That's FIFTY! And Blashill defends himself saying he sat him ONE time this year to put his foot down. And he responded with ZERO goals! Now that its out of the way lets give him PP time.

Unreal

[jaadam4]

Maybe he feels Sheahan is due? Maybe he needs glasses and thinks its Shanahan out there?

This is a Morningwig taking the wind type situation. There's big time red flags going off here.

With how weak this draft is with high end talent I was hoping we'd make the playoffs just to keep the streak going but that's just down the tubes. We need real help.

Miss the playoffs and Blashill is gone. I don't know if Holland keeps his job but I'm concerned at who we'd even bring in to replace him. Nill orYzerman aren't going anywhere.

[WingsFan]

You know I don't like Jeff Moss hes a tool who personally called me out on Facebook (by my name) over Michigan football a couple months back.

But he knows the Red Wings it seems, anyway he claims Holland is a religious nutjob who likes players who have good moral (Sheehan) values like his and lets his views cloud his mind when its comes to management. Yea its crazy, but something is not right with this guy Holland .

[chemiclord]

I dunno about the religious nutjob part... but yeah, the consensus about Holland is that he's a guy that values "morals" and "character" more than the bulk of his peers. Historically, it hadn't stopped him from rolling the dice on high talent players with red flags, though.

No, I suspect this current downturn is that at this point, Holland only has one goal... maintaining the playoff streak at any cost. Playing younger players that inevitably make mistakes would ruin that for him. So, he's going down with the "it's a man's league" ship. He's gambling that the veterans will right the ship rather than tank the season with the youngins.

[jaadam4]

Last one then I'm going to bed. Holland is a dumbass.

He just waived Marchenko who was subsequently picked up on waivers by.... The Leafs = Shanny and Babcock. What a f'ng tool! He could have waived Ericsson whom no team in the NHL would touch because of his inflated salary which is on the books for many more years.

Instead he gives up a 5-6th dman who's been hurt all year and has showed steady play in the past. March will never be a PP QB or a top pairing D player but he's more than serviceable. This team has to be ran by Matt Millen via Kenny Holland.

[WingsFan]

He could have waived Ericsson

Didnt you hear jaa, Ericsson is one of the new 'Bruise Brothers 2' according to Balshill !! Not sure if hes Probie or Joey Kocur ?

[Malto Marko]

Didnt you hear jaa, Ericsson is one of the new 'Bruise Brothers 2' according to Balshill !! Not sure if hes Probie or Joey Kocur ?

He is not close to either by any standards.

[jaadam4]

Ericsson and Sheahan should be waived immediately.

Unbelievably, the Wings have won 2 in a row. I'm all for tanking to get rid of Blashit and Holland. They cannot make the playoffs!

[jaadam4]

Man I knew it was bad but f*#k I didn't realize we were cap strapped as well

per detnews

But therein lies the larger issue for the Red Wings. Their issues are entrenched, and not easily solved. As problematic as the math is in the standings, it’s equally so on the financial side. Amid talk of a flat salary cap in the NHL, Detroit faces a serious numbers crunch for the foreseeable future thanks to all the long-term contracts Holland has handed out at ownership's behest, spending good money after bad to keep that treasured playoff streak alive.
There’s almost no wiggle room for next season, and they’re locked into more than $50 million for just 10 healthy players in 2018-19, if you include cap hits for Johan Franzen and the Stephen Weiss buyout.

[Topweasel]

Not taking the amnesty cut of Franzen no matter how great he has been for us in the past was a collosal fuckup everyone saw coming.

[jaadam4]

Don't just stop there.

Stephen Weiss' contract will be around for awhile longer

Ericsson's shit contract

Howard

Nielsen

Abby

Helm

lol and that's just whats still on the books through next year (and beyond!)