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  2. Empty seats in Hockeytown

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    3 hours ago, Bagwell said:

     

    I thought I read he wanted to play in front of his friends and family in Russia before his body gave out.

     

    I know it's easy to hate now, but winning was the status quo for the past 26 years in Detroit. Sure, maybe not a Stanley Cup every year, but we got to see the Wings play in April VERY consistently.

     

    It's looking pretty bleak right now, I'll admit. But, I wouldn't trade that previous success for anything.

     

     

     

    I am not really trying to place myself in the fair weather fan category.  I just can't support an organization that drops its commitment to exellence and dedicates itself to sustained mediocrity just to make the first round as many consecutive years as we can.  That decision set this organization back a decade at the least and completely squandered 6-7 years that could have been used to stock legit talent instead of other team's discarded veterans just to back into the playoffs and say yeay we made it again.

     

    I am all for making key trades when you have a legit "cup window" but to me there is no such thing as a "first round window".  Its push for the cup and improve the team or nothing to me.  The post cup post lidstrom team was not going to push for another cup but you would never know it with the trades and signings Holland made.  When you are trading away your first and second rounders and trading down when you have people like Justin Abdelkater playing first line minutes there is a huge disconnect somewhere.  And that disconnect lead this team straight to the bottom where it belongs the way Holland has managed the team.

  3. Empty seats in Hockeytown

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    I hasn't been surprising but rather predictable I think, immediately after the last cup the organization went from being world class to milk playoff revenue as long as we can mode.  Rather than rebuild the team properly with some fresh young tallent Holland added veteran mediocrity on top of veteran mediocrity for the purposes of making the playoffs bet never really competing again.  So the wings were good enough to make a playoff appearance with moves like the last year of Alfredson's career, or wasting a second rounder on 16 games of David Legwand to cover injuries.  Just to back into the first round and get completely DESTROYED by a competitive team.  The consequences of making the playoffs just to make them and then get destroyed led to late pick position after late pick position.  That is if Hiolland actually saved picks instead of blew them on moves like Legwand or Cole, again just to make the first round not actually compete.

     

    Holland's downward spiral lead to a team completely divoid of elite talent that can no longer play a puck possession game which makes for entertaining hockey.  The last elite talent actually bailed with a year left on his contract because he no longer wanted to play on a team that put Dan Cleary and Justin Abdelkater on your wing.  When a team throws a franchise contract at Justin Abdelkater you know you have hit rock bottom.  I can't tell you the last time I watched a readwings game let alone went to the arena to see Holland's dumpster fire.

     

    If they start out with some new management like they should have when Yzerman was available we would have a different story.  But the organization wasterd about 7 years of a rebuild window so any actual rebuild they do has to start from scratch when they are ready.  When the team can't manage to stay out of the bottom five and actually stands a shot of landing elite players then the team and arena might become relevant again.

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  9. Spreadsheet Changes

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    Posted · Edited by fukufuji

    Absolutely, also if you ever need to upgrade office again I might be able to get a full license for $15 through work.  Not sure I could do it after already purchasing one for myself but I would certainly look into it if needed.  If you ever need any excel consulting I can always take a look too.

    If you felt the need to make PCFL a pay league I would support that.

  12. Kucherov's Shootout Goal

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    Its a fun move but I kinda feel like goalies shouldn't be responsible to stop trickery.  You have less than a second to decide what you are going to commit to.  He is guilty of not following the puck but I always thought the shootout was a bad idea, just bring back the ties.

    This reminds me of playing Ice Hockey on the original NES when I used to pass it into the net instead of shooting you could totally fake out your opponent.  There was no auto goalie in that side scroll hockey gem.

  15. All Star Rosters

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    Posted · Edited by fukufuji

    Honestly its too close to call.  The only thing I can be sure about is Atlantic's forwards put that team last and Metro's forwards alone make me want to put them first.  Central is probably best all around team.  Pacific that goaltending is meh

  23. Yakupov article from STL NHL.com writer

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    Posted · Edited by fukufuji

    Yeah looks like a lot got in his head and he lives the kind of lifestyle where he has a lot of time to think.  I bet the Blues end up with a gamer.  My one concern is the Hitchcock effect like Filatov, we'll see.  I think Yak had a ton of talent if they put him in the right role with the right line-mates.

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