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  • Jackets for 16! Thursday in Washington.
    Dan Patrick: What was your reaction to [Urban Meyer being hired]?
    Brady Hoke: You know.....not....good.

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    • Amazing, Tortorella is good

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      • Pittsburgh keeps its 17 game winning streak

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        • Mike Ilitich has passed away at the age of 87. I wasn't aware that he was in failing health. Sad day. He was the best owner Detroit has ever had.

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          • Tomas Jurco and Brendan Smith traded.

            Looks like the big sale may have started. Good. Now let's see who the highest bidder is for the services of Tomas Vanek. The Red Wings have overbid for guys in the past. Maybe we can benefit from that dynamic for a change.

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            • So far the Wings have picked up the following draft picks:

              2017 Senators second rounder
              Chicago Third rounder

              2018 Rangers 3rd rounder
              2012 Detroit Lions Draft: 1) Cordy Glenn G , 2) Brandon Taylor S, 3) Sean Spence olb, 4) Joe Adams WR/KR, 5) Matt McCants OT, 7a) B.J. Coleman QB 7b) Kewshan Martin WR

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              • Better than I was hoping for.

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                • Easy moves - No-brainers - Biggest asset Holland has is Mike Green and that’s when REAL rebuild starts. The Red Wings problems aren’t fixable. And the person you are relying to correct this mess is the one who got him in this situation.


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                  • Vanek is probably the most tradeable guy though. Granted, you only get him for one year, but he comes with a comparatively tiny cap hit, so pretty much anyone can squeeze him in. Hopefully, somebody who sees a short Stanley Cup window will grab him and pay up for him big time. What we got for Smith and Jurco is encouraging.
                    Last edited by Hannibal; February 28, 2017, 05:18 PM.

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                    • The Florida Panthers are the winners of the Tomas Vanek sweepstakes.

                      Only a 3rd round pick and what looks like a castoff defenseman. Very disappointing.
                      Last edited by Hannibal; March 1, 2017, 12:38 PM.

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                      • Holland is pathetic, just getting abused at this point by other GMS. He could of picked up this FLA D when he was waived.

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                        • The Red Wings are now 12 points out of a playoff spot with 17 games left. They are third from the bottom on the NHL. The streak is all but officially over.

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                          • I posted in the Lions forum that Jeff Moss is reporting the team might be going up for sale (?).

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                            • I hope that doesn't happen and that the Ilitch family continues to run the team the way that they have done it for 35 years.

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                              • Its not the same with Chris Ilitch running the show now. Ken Holland taking credit the Stanley Cup's -

                                Jeff Moss

                                Ken Holland was a Western scout for the Wings organization until 1994 when he became the assistant General Manager under Jimmy Devellano and Scotty Bowman. Ya might have heard of them or seen their busts on Yonge Street in Toronto at the Hockey Hall of Fame. Holland didn’t take over as GM until AFTER the Red Wings had already won their first Cup in 1997.

                                And do you want to know what Holland’s first piece of business was once he finally got the reins of this team? He got embroiled in a bitter contract dispute with the greatest two-way forward to ever lace it up for the organization. Which resulted in a poison-pill deal that left bitterness between Sergei Fedorov and Mike Ilitch that lasted for decades. But I will get to that momentarily.

                                So Holland didn’t become GM until 1998 — before then he was busy telling Scotty and Jimmy D. to draft Denis Potvin clones like Jamie Pushor and Jesse Wallin — and any Wings fan knows the FOUNDATION for this sustained success and the playoff streak and whatever went with it was built in 1983 and 1989.

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