Make a bold prediction

[Winger98]

I'm still going say "give it time" until I'm a believer. It's not like he didn't have stretches here where we were all thinking he finally turned the corner and looked like the prospect we were expecting. I know he's fooled me on more than one occasion.

And by the way he's not even playing with McDonagh since the 2nd or 3rd game. He's been paired with Holden.

So he's actually solidifying a different pairing and being a guy they are leaning on? I don't disagree about giving it time, but if he keeps playing well (not great, but well) we're either off on evaluating him or the Wings weren't putting him to the right use.

 

[Retire91]

It would be pretty damning to see Smith go on and have a successful career. But the thing is the wings have a vacuum in talent. Smith probably functions now that he is on a legit roster.

 

[Unfriendly Ghost]

The Wings draft outside of the top 10, and Holland uses that as a reason why the Wings don't need to rebuild.

 

[GrGriffins]

Im calling a reverse Gordie Howe hatrick: He scores on Howard, blows coverage leading directly to a goal, and makes a stupid play that another player has to protect him in a fight over.

Is is the Jonathan Ericcson hat trick?

 

[Ezekial]

Sounds more like a textbook Jakub Kindl hat trick imo.

Ericsson will throw down if he has to.

 

[waltdetroit]

Kindl does have a good shot

 

[Bench]

Green gets his mojo back in a larger offensive role and scores 50 points.

Swing and a miss. Green kept his offensive output about the same as last year, which appears to be a miracle on this year's roster.

Who here predicted ONLY Henrik "The Decline" Zetterberg would surpass all expectations? Yeah. Lots of crickets out tonight.

Looking at the stat line of the other players, it shows Zetterberg is in such a class of his own on this roster at forward. 21 more points than the next closest player. A team leading +15, despite the fact he's getting every brutal matchup. Only Mantha and Zetterberg have a higher +/- above 1. Oh right, and he still wins over 51% of his draws.

Zetterberg may not be what he was, but if anyone doubted what elite talent looks like, even in his golden hockey years, this was a display. Guy is getting no help and still produces. **** yeah, Zetterberg.

 

[The Zetterberg Era]

Swing and a miss. Green kept his offensive output about the same as last year, which appears to be a miracle on this year's roster.

Who here predicted ONLY Henrik "The Decline" Zetterberg would surpass all expectations? Yeah. Lots of crickets out tonight.

Looking at the stat line of the other players, it shows Zetterberg is in such a class of his own on this roster at forward. 21 more points than the next closest player. A team leading +15, despite the fact he's getting every brutal matchup. Only Mantha and Zetterberg have a higher +/- above 1. Oh right, and he still wins over 51% of his draws.

Zetterberg may not be what he was, but if anyone doubted what elite talent looks like, even in his golden hockey years, this was a display. Guy is getting no help and still produces. **** yeah, Zetterberg.

Some people predicted that Zetterberg would lead this team in scoring.

That wasn't popular this summer.

Of course I agree with those arguing we needed Larkin to.

 

[TheMule93]

Karlsson and Tavares leave their franchises at the end of their contracts and come here!

 

[NervousPerson]

Karlsson and Tavares leave their franchises at the end of their contracts and come here!

That would be amazing!

 

[Number1RedWingsFan52]

Karlsson and Tavares leave their franchises at the end of their contracts and come here!

Would be sweet, But no way we could afford both without moving out a lot of bad contracts seeing that both easily could get around $9 million per long term.

 

[TheMule93]

That would be amazing!

Nielsen could convince his old teammate and friend Tavares to come here. Then we got the Swedish mafia and all their connections to coerce Karlsson. Plus the brand new arena could be a nice attraction.

I feel like if we miraculously managed to bring Tavares here, that in itself could convince Karlsson to come here

 

[Frk It]

Nielsen could convince his old teammate and friend Tavares to come here. Then we got the Swedish mafia and all their connections to coerce Karlsson. Plus the brand new arena could be a nice attraction.

I feel like if we miraculously managed to bring even one of them here, that in itself could convince the other to bring their talents here.

And then you woke up... lol

 

[ricky0034]

that would be hilarious if both of them wanted to come here for some reason but because of all the awful contracts Holland had to pay like a first round pick or something to make room

 

[Ezekial]

Riley Sheahan will end the season with 5 goals.

 

[Hammettf2b]

Riley Sheahan will end the season with 5 goals.

This thread went from bold predictions to criminally insane!!!

 

[ricky0034]

Riley Sheahan will end the season with 5 goals.

all of them in the last game of the season against the Devils singlehandedly winning us the game and keeping us ahead of them in the standings

they go on to draft a superstar while 1 pick later we draft a bust,helping to ensure Sheahan's job security for decades to come(he will play until he is 50 and go on to score 7 more goals in his career,each of them will be legendary and be stories people tell their grandchildren about far into the future)

 

[Hammettf2b]

Nick Jensen will have a breakout year. Will be considered one of our best d-man.

 

[Oddbob]

Dylan Larkin will have a huge rebound year, and score 41 points. 9 more points babay!

 

[lilidk]

we going to lead NHL in penalty minutes. In 2018 we will going draft speedy and skilled players

 

[BinCookin]

We will for no good reason make it back into the playoffs. Pissing off everyone in the rebuild camp.

 

[jkutswings]

Detroit will get off to a hot start to the season, prompting ownership to extend Holland for 4 more years.

And then they'll fall apart again, missing the playoffs by 10+ points, but it won't change anything, because flukes can happen twice in a row, and soon enough all these really tall prospects will magically transform into The Broad Street Bullies, and everything will be awesome again, because reasons.

 

[Ezekial]

Tatar at least 60 points.

 

[RedHawkDown]

larkin scores 78 points

 

[Tatar]

This thread went from bold predictions to criminally insane!!!

Nicely done