GDT: Game 71: Red Wings at preds 5:00 pm et 3/23/24 (ESPN+, BSD)

[LongTimeDRWF]

Kasper will replace him, could be next game

I think he can play 8 games before he loses his slide statues, as he played 1 game last year. This is his last year for a slide, so yeah, I can see bringing him up for a good look, I hope they do.

 

[lilidk]

I think he can play 8 games before he loses his slide statues, as he played 1 game last year. This is his last year for a slide, so yeah, I can see bringing him up for a good look, I hope they do.

Kasper is just 2 inch shorter than ideal Czarnik size. He will bring a lot of energy and physicality

 

[Axel Sandy Pelikan]

They need more guys that can win puck battles. Players who can actually forecheck. That’s also required if you want to make a deep playoff run sometime soon.

It's almost like they've drafted exclusively those guys to come up in the next year or two (Kasper, Mazur, Danielson). You're not unique in thinking they need guys like that. Believe it or not, Yzerman knows about how to play hockey too.

 

[Axel Sandy Pelikan]

lol what

What's the point in reacting if you can't react with a hot take, I guess. Then when we win the next game "WOOOO BOOOY PLAYOFF BOUND!"

 

[OldnotDeadWings]

Was a lot like the recent Vegas game. Good effort, but late bounces end up on the sticks of guys who can do something with it, Marchessault and Forsberg. And similar too IIRC that Wings got stuck in their own end with not fully completed shift changes, Petry this time not able to get off for Seider. Nashville just doesn't give up very much and they have Josi being a boss back there and a good goalie. Forsberg is great, O'Reilly and Mcdonagh very solid. They will be a tough out in the playoffs.

This game was what fans and the team wanted going into this season, a meaningful, playoff-style, important game in late March. Can't fault the effort and doesn't make much sense to criticize how they got to this point. Sprong or Berggren for Czarnik wasn't going to change anything except give Nashville the lead much earlier.

Biggest issue going into the season was secondary scoring and they've largely accomplished that, shutout notwithstanding. Next season they have to focus on being a lot better in their own end; a couple more skilled defensemen and wingers with both the skill and strength to win board battles and do something more useful on zone exits than hoping a shot or pass bounces off them outside the blue line. We're still a couple seasons and half a roster away.

 

[HoweFan]

Sorry, I didn’t follow the game until it was over. Was Berggren a scratch? I didn’t see him in GR’s lineup either

 

[Oddbob]

It's almost like they've drafted exclusively those guys to come up in the next year or two (Kasper, Mazur, Danielson). You're not unique in thinking they need guys like that. Believe it or not, Yzerman knows about how to play hockey too.

What does Yzerman know about playing the game?

 

[14ari13]

Was a lot like the recent Vegas game. Good effort, but late bounces end up on the sticks of guys who can do something with it, Marchessault and Forsberg. And similar too IIRC that Wings got stuck in their own end with not fully completed shift changes, Petry this time not able to get off for Seider. Nashville just doesn't give up very much and they have Josi being a boss back there and a good goalie. Forsberg is great, O'Reilly and Mcdonagh very solid. They will be a tough out in the playoffs.

This game was what fans and the team wanted going into this season, a meaningful, playoff-style, important game in late March. Can't fault the effort and doesn't make much sense to criticize how they got to this point. Sprong or Berggren for Czarnik wasn't going to change anything except give Nashville the lead much earlier.

Biggest issue going into the season was secondary scoring and they've largely accomplished that, shutout notwithstanding. Next season they have to focus on being a lot better in their own end; a couple more skilled defensemen and wingers with both the skill and strength to win board battles and do something more useful on zone exits than hoping a shot or pass bounces off them outside the blue line. We're still a couple seasons and half a roster away.

I think Sprong had and has to be in the lineup and he is a difference maker. We don't have anyone but Larkin. Lyon was it in January. Kane and Raymond are close, but not there.
DeBrincat, Fabbri, Perron are completely useless and invisible. Sprong is the only one who scores from B and C chances, while the others can't bury A chances, specially DeBrincat. DeBrincat has had at least 5 glorious chances last 10 games. He has not scored in 12.
This is his 2nd slump this season. Last one 10 games, this one 12 and counting. It is a quarter of the season, it is beyond terrible. The only good thing he has done is bringing Kane.

It will be interesting to see who starts in net tomorrow.

 

[Henkka]

They just can't seal these games to overtime. It's gonna be the lack of loser points, like only 2-3 extra points, which are gonna drop us out from the playoffs, if something.

Philly and Caps have 9 loser points, NYI has 15.

Red Wings have only 6.

We have the best ROW of these teams.

 

[heyfolks]

Moral victories in late March have no value. It was a well played game. Good teams find ways to win them. Fischer over skating the puck, Petry unable to clear then he and Ras puck watch instead of taking the body, led to a loss.

Lalonde says he'll take that effort in every game to follow.

Illness going through the team. Walman had his first full skate today. However, Petry is now under the weather. Looks like Simon is going to play and be ineligible for the Calder.

 

[ricky0034]

They just can't seal these games to overtime. It's gonna be the lack of loser points, like only 2-3 extra points, which are gonna drop us out from the playoffs, if something.

Philly and Caps have 9 loser points, NYI has 15.

Red Wings have only 6.

We have the best ROW of these teams.

the Flyers and Capitals also have more regulation wins than the Wings do though

so really all that stat comes down to is the Wings being better than them at 3 on 3/shootouts

 

[14ari13]

the Flyers and Capitals also have more regulation wins than the Wings do though

so really all that stat comes down to is the Wings being better than them at 3 on 3/shootouts

Had we managed 2-3 ot losses we would have been tied with flyers for 7th with game in hand, and the caps would feel it is a must win vs us. Now we feel the pressure we have to win. If we lose next game vs Caps we are out of the playoffs.

 

[ricky0034]

Had we managed 2-3 ot losses we would have been tied with flyers for 7th with game in hand, and the caps would feel it is a must win vs us. Now we feel the pressure we have to win. If we lose next game vs Caps we are out of the playoffs.

The Wings have had basically exactly the same amount of games go to overtime as the Flyers and Capitals have though(17 each for the Wings and Flyers, 16 for the Capitals)

they've actually in fact gotten more points out of their overtime games than those other teams purely due to doing better at 3 on 3

 

[Henkka]

It's not about the game amounts. But losing games to 0 points on final minutes, when you should close them to OT to get some points.