Listening to 97.1 on the way home, and those jokers brought up that tweet, and were acting like it is him.
Augustine/Michigan State with a couple wins over Notre Dame this past weekend. He’s up to 8-1 with .931 and 1.89 this season.
Just how bad is it in Detroit? At five-on-five the Red Wings are generating close to the same amount of offense as the 2019-20 version — the one that played at a 45-point pace. That team actually scored more often. Ouch. It’s shaping up to be a long season in Motown.
What Yzerman has done well to me, is draft especially at the top and replenish the abdolute barron prospect pool he inherited especially considering the absolute lack of lottery luck. He also inherited maybe one of the worst situations we've seen in NHL recently between talent on roster and prospect pool, and given his lack of lottery luck this was going to be a LONG rebuild. Where he is failing and I think losing people is he seems to lack any urgency to speed up the process and his FA decisions have been pretty bad. But worse of all, he seems uninterested in correcting things that obviously aren't working. For a guy who we've deemed has an Yzerplan, he doesn't seem to actually have much of a plan outside of continuing to ride out this roster and staff until hopefully his picks hit. That can work in a shorter rebuild, but the fan base has lost interest in that now and his mistakes are getting highlighted and his refusal to change anything is just turning people more against him. I can't see this going into the offseason and him keeping his job. The fact lalonde hasn't been fired yet tells me they probably won't do it during season
It appears he is because Tarasenko is playing with Compher and Berggren now. Lalonde is just asking to be fired now playing Motte on 1st line
I was at the game tonight. They did lookalike thing on the Jumbotron. The theme was magicians, and they put Javi Baez picture up there. Whole fucking crowd boooed.
I meant to post this the other day but Edvinsson is likely going to end up the best D on this team. It’s amazing what he’s doing this season in such a ridiculous deployment. Yzerman needs to get him locked up long term next summer.
At this point just tank with Lalonde, fuck it. Montgomery was worth making a move but I don’t want a guy like Gallant in here.
I know I'm beating a dead horse at this point. But Yzerman holding pat and allowing Lalonde to keep coaching and not trying a change is my last straw. Embarrassing stuff
Yzerman is the reason this team is in this position to begin with. If he was anybody else he'd be fired two years ago.
While I agree,I think you have to reframe that. If his name wasn't Yzerman, ownership (and the fanbase) wouldn't have given him the same patience. That GM would have had to push "forward" with more urgency. If anything, that patience that Yzerman got may benefit the team more in the long run than had they pushed forward sooner That said, free agency hasn't been particularly fruitful... patience is running thin (some lottery luck would have helped). The prospect pool was garbage when he arrived and there is quantity and quality now, which is great. But it's painfully obvious the current roster isn't very skilled, the defense is garbage, and something seems amiss with systems/motivation.
Team dominates possession opening 4 minutes, but can't even manage to get puck on net. Next thing you know, down 1-0