Detroit Red Wings

Unfortunately, I think it's safe to say Datsyuk, Ericsson, Mule, Helm, and Howard will all miss some time with injury. DeKeyser had his biggest workload last year, I think there's a good chance he wears over the course of the year too.

Fortunately, they're hedged against injuries better than last year because of the system. While they have a good chance at taking a nasty string of injuries again (like more than half the league), they are much better suited to deal with the injuries.

If I'm a Detroit fan, I think there's a really good chance to have a very strong team come the spring, especially in the East, but they're going to need the studs healthy and one more top 9 and a top 4 added to the mix as many have already stated in one form or another. I don't think they'll have to worry about fighting with the number 4 spot in the metrosexual division for the 8th seed. Buf, Ott, and FLA aren't as good as Detroit either. I don't think they'll have to worry about watching the scoreboard everynight like last year either. TB won't be as big of a surprise with Cooper anymore and Toronto still has Carlye. In other words, I don't think getting to the postseason will be as stressful and I think Datsyuk going down now instead of later might actually help make the ride a little easier.

I think health and conditioning/experience with the long schedule are going to be the only two things that make getting to the postseason really tough to make. Even if Babs is a distraction and/or losing the lockerroom, there are too many players fighting for ice time for that to really be a problem imo. I don't see 100pts, but I think 95 or 96 will be reasonably attainable even with a string of injuries.

 

I'll take that in a heart beat. Some have Detroit pegged as last in the Atlantic. I dont care where they finish, just hope for the playoffs.

 

Blackhawks vs Red Wings tonight at the JLA.

 

Does anybody outside of the Doom-and-Gloom wings fans have them finishing below Buffalo?

 

I read this and I am thinking: "how can anyone peg Detroit to finish below Buffalo?" The mere suggestion does not ding that person's credibility, it completely destroys it. I do not believe that the Wings are a lock for the playoffs, but Buffalo is a lock to finish below them.

 

I tried to find the article, but I cant. I wish I would have quoted it. It wasnt anyone significant anyways, but they had the Wings battling for last with Buffalo and both behind Florida. I remember thinking that I sure hope they were joking or flat out wrong.

The Wings are looked at by most others as somewhere in the middle of the conference. The highest i seen them in the preseason prediction machines (which imo are just meaningless anyway) was 13th.

 

I also should have been more careful in the wording. It wasnt 'some' it was just an article i happened to come across. My bad... wont happen again. I didnt use the proper wording.

 

It's more like being a flat out fucking idiot! I can see someone making a case for Florida; they could have a very good season in the mold of what the Avs did last year. But for that, everything would have to break right for them and they'd still need some luck. I expect Florida to contend for a low playoff position, but they're a year or two away from being better than the Wings. (Even here were need to discount the fact that Detroit has a very impressive pipeline and as for overall prospect depth one that I like better than Florida's.)

Buffalo? Buffalo! That guy is a fucking idiot!

 

i smell bleacher report.

 

Gotta be; you nailed it. Bleacher reports can make most CBSSports posters look erudite.

 

May have been the BR... dont know for sure.


Hearing delay's to the start of tonights game. Maybe 60-90 minutes because the Blackhawks had problems with their plane.

 

Might start at 8pm... plane had mechanical problems.

 

Blackhawks just arriving at 7:40.

 

Puck drop in 30 minutes.

 

Tatar from Sheahan and Eriksson, 1-0 Wings after 20.

No stream, no radio... gotta search the webs for updates. Hell it's only preseason, but it still the Hawks and Wings. wtf?

 

http://livetv.sx/en/eventinfo/254615_chicago_detroit/

pay no attention when they say it's another language. that rarely proves to be the case - i'd say well under 1 in 100.

 

ok duh, belay that - two of them non-functional, and my chaperone refused to let me go to the middle one.

 

1-0 Wings, after 40. SOG, 27-14 Wings.

I hear the game is only being recorded for 'internal' purposes only. There's video being shot in case the NHL needs to see something... hence the no public feeds. If I understand things correctly.

 

it's strange, i see bunches of links for it - but they all either don't work, or have something else (college football)