GDT: Game 79: Red Wings at penguins 7:00 pm et 4/11/24 (BSD, ESPN+)

[Roomba With a Bauer]

Throwing the towel in this season. It feels like they aren’t trying for the postseason anymore.

With the coaching and roster decisions since the deadline I am more sure than ever that the postseason was never the goal.

Barely missing the playoffs is the worst of all possible outcomes and the best finish to the season is that the Wings either win every game and make it in or lose every game and potentially fall as far as 9OA. Winning two/three games only to miss the playoffs and end up 16OA is a f***ing disaster of a season...especially when you could have traded that pick and likely made the playoffs.

 

[Dotter]

Who is in for Copp tonight?

 

[Detroit Knights]

Who is in for Copp tonight?

lmao either a troll post or a massive airhead move.

not even mad about it. I actually respect it to be honest

 

[Dotter]

lmao either a troll post or a massive airhead move.

not even mad about it. I actually respect it to be honest

Isn't Copp out with a broken cheek bone? I have a job outside the internet and live 500 miles from the state of Michigan, so kinda hard to stay up to date on everything.

 

[Dotter]

Nevermind. After reading the first page I saw line combos with Berggren. Those aren't accurate. After googling and looking around online I found on Reddit that Reese is in.

Gotta go to Reddit to get info I guess.

 

[dalem177]

"Folks, it turns out that if you look at the inside of a bird called the penguin, their waddly, bowling pin shape is mostly spine, neck bones, and feathers. If you, in turn, look at the home team Penguins tonight, their internals turn out to be mostly Sidney Crosby. There's a long-standing grievance against Pittsburgh to be reminded of tonight, and if Detroit wants to keep their playoff hopes reasonably alive, the visiting Red Wings will have to demonstrate that they have some spine under their own feathers as well."

- Plausible Keats

 

[OldnotDeadWings]

It's not a Lalonde being afraid of rookies decision to use ZAR. It's just the latest move in an organizational decision made last summer to put the season in the hands of veterans, the more veterans the better. That's been the message all season. Veteran depth trumps all in both Yzerman and Lalonde's minds, but most of it falls on SY. He's in charge of call-ups; it's Lalonde's job to figure out how to use what SY gives him. I thought it made sense for two months with three goalies limiting roster flexibility and uncertainty about how injuries might affect things. It stopped making sense in December when Edvinsson wasn't called up during a lousy December despite the team being healthy and Berggren not brought back up again after a pretty positive stretch replacing Perron. But, they haven't fallen off so much that a good effort from key players and good goaltending can't produce a win vs. the Penguins, and then do whatever remains to be done after that. There will be time later for a post-mortem.

 

[Detroit Knights]

Nevermind. After reading the first page I saw line combos with Berggren. Those aren't accurate. After googling and looking around online I found on Reddit that Reese is in.

Gotta go to Reddit to get info I guess.

probably could have found it in the athletic too.

 

[The Real Pastafarian]

First drink of the evening: Rum Barrel (Kon-Tiki variation)

Second drink of the evening: Zombie Apocalypse (a Pastafarian original):

1 oz lemon juice
0.75 oz grenadine
0.5 oz Aperol
0.4 oz falernum
2 oz (-ish -- more is fine) Plantation Stiggin's Fancy rum

Shake all with crushed and dump into chilled glass, garnish with lemon peel, skull skewer, smoldering cinnamon stick (small plastic dinosaur optional)

 

[LongTimeDRWF]

Awesome Sportsnet using using the Bally feed tonight Ken and Mick!

 

[dalem177]

First drink of the evening: Rum Barrel (Kon-Tiki variation)

Second drink of the evening: Zombie Apocalypse (a Pastafarian original):

1 oz lemon juice
0.75 oz grenadine
0.5 oz Aperol
0.4 oz falernum
2 oz (-ish -- more is fine) Plantation Stiggin's Fancy rum

Shake all with crushed and dump into chilled glass, garnish with lemon peel, skull skewer, smoldering cinnamon stick (small plastic dinosaur optional)

Nice!

I'm going with Coke tonight. Booze-free, unfortunately.

 

[theYman]

Nice!

I'm going with Coke tonight. Booze-free, unfortunately.

Start with Coke and end with cocaine depending on how bad it gets

 

[dalem177]

Start with Coke and end with cocaine depending on how bad it gets

I've known a bunch of folks who did a bunch of stuff, but I never touched it. I'm kinda glad because I just KNOW I'm the type of guy who thinks he can "handle it."

 

[FabricDetails]

 

[Roomba With a Bauer]

Did the anthem singer forget the words and just go "la la la" for a while or did she stroke out for a minute there?

 

[JediOrderPizza]

Dcat with Larkin makes sense.

 

[dalem177]

Let's go, lads!

 

[The Real Pastafarian]

let's take the puck to the net tonight, very few unscreened untippable long shots, take that puck to within 10 feet

 

[JohanFranzenstein]

Does anybody GENUINELY believe Lalonde gets the axe if we miss the playoffs this year?

(also I can't use bold/italics, anybody know why?)

 

[JediOrderPizza]

Does anybody GENUINELY believe Lalonde gets the axe if we miss the playoffs this year?

(also I can't use bold/italics, anybody know why?)

Nope.

And nope.

 

[The Real Pastafarian]

Does anybody GENUINELY believe Lalonde gets the axe if we miss the playoffs this year?

(also I can't use bold/italics, anybody know why?)

that's a privilege you have to EARN son, by posting your drink of the evening, then bold/italics will be activated

 

[Steve Yzerlland]

If we miss the playoffs the majority of the reason is Debrincat. Literally did nothing for over a month of play...

 

[JohanFranzenstein]

that's a privilege you have to EARN son, by posting your drink of the evening, then bold/italics will be activated

I found a forum post from 2022, & fixed it myself


f***.

 

[The Red Line]

That's a goal.

 

[Bob Probert Owns You]

Debrincat is f***ing useless in the d zone.