I did not watch the game but yeah, team defense is what wins Cups unless you have TBL/Avs type firepower. Trotz has taken lesser teams to the playoffs, and it's boring hockey TBH, but effective way to win when you only have one decent center.Not vintage stuff, but to keep a high scoring team to 1 without the goalie having to stand on his head is pretty good given how many players the wings have out. Suter was never that great, but my god he's been awful this season. At least Zadina is trying to compete as best he can and having the odd good play. Both look on their way out.
Obviously this is the most important topic, lol.Did Mick get some new veneers? His teeth are practically glowing.
UM vs. MSU mayn.
Swap him out for who?????
Berggren is back from injurySwap him out for who?????
3 page GDT?
For a win?
#FireBenchNow
Well the silver lining is that this means Bench’s next cap hit will be lower due to non-performance.
Erbe rubs the guy out, turning a 3-on-2 into a 2-on-1. Also, he rubs out the least dangerous guy on the rush.Erne's play is fine. He took out his man. That 2 on1 is entirely Seider's fault. Chiarot had to cover the pass.
Suter has been so bad this year. This was at least his 3rd game this year where I counted at least 3 plays where the Wings offense just died on his stick, or he bungled a scoring opp. He’s been worse than Erne was last season. He’s worse than Zadina. He’s in the Oesterle tier for me at this point.Husso needs to be starting going forward, Raymond was great. Zadina quietly had a good game imo, so did Chairot.
Not to complain, but Suter was atrocious, at least 3 developing scoring chances this game I counted when a pass was on his tape and he fumbled it. He was entirely ineffective, swap him out.
My 3 stars, in no particular order, are…This team is missing Bertuzzi, Vrana, Rasmussen, Fabbri.
They had Smith (who I thought did well) and Luff (who??) in the lineup.
Raymond didn't just get off the schneid. He looked like peak Raymond from last season
Erne made great plays with the minutes he was given
Husso looks like a starter
Looks like Seider is finding his game
The Wings looked slow and got outworked in the 1st but managed to turn it around and come away with a regulation win
It may not have been pretty but holy hell I'll take a win like that under the circumstances