Good for you. Call me spoiled, but when you win four cups and go on deep runs, simply making it isn't good enough, and won't be good enough as an end goal once the rebuild starts to show results. To say I should be "happy" that we are behind the curve in that respect is misguided.I refuse to feel bad for anyone who says "my team won too much" or "my team was successful for too long."
This has been in the making since 2012 or so, and it's going to take a few years to shed some of Holland's dead weight contracts.
I refuse to feel bad for anyone who says "my team won too much" or "my team was successful for too long."
Spoken like a real fan of a team that sucks at tanking. Enjoy being the 2012-2016 Wings for a decade.
Better that than TANK TANK TANK OMG WE WON OMG OH NOES
Nah I still cheer for us to win every game. I’m just also not upset if we happen to lose because I understand the team is filled with rookies and the losses give us a chance at a potential star player that we desperately need. It’s really not that complicated and it makes going through a rebuild less painful.
We'll see. Detroit has some good young pieces in place already and have only entered year 1.5 or so of their rebuild. I'm not sure either of those guys will for sure be better than Zadina or what Larkin is becoming either. Ottawa also doesnt have their first this year which could be their most valuable asset they could have by the end of the season and are an absolute gong show of an organization with Melnyk in charge.
Even if Chabot and Tkachuk end up more valuable than Larkin and Zadina (which they might not), they wont end up more valuable than Detroits first rounder this year, Larkin and Zadina plus ownership who will pay players and make players want to stay there. Would the Illitches have ever considered letting Lidstrom walk away without throwing everything they could at him? No. Melnyk just did that with his version of Lidstrom
What do those contracts prevent Detroit from doing that they otherwise should be doing?
Chabot is a legitimate franchise D man. Tell me when you get one of those.
That is part of the problem.People said they were bound to decline back in 2010, and yet they made the playoffs every year until 2016-17. People said they should bottom out since 2015, and now here we are as they bottom out 3 years later.
I think Red wings fans should be happy to be behind the curve like this. They were more successful, and for longer, than anyone expected.
This can't possibly come as a surprise to anyone now. And it can't hurt too bad for Wings fans, who've enjoyed (objectively) one of the best franchises in pro sports for most of your lifetimes.
You've been reading the Canucks' board, haven't you?Better that than TANK TANK TANK OMG WE WON OMG OH NOES
Chabot is a legitimate franchise D man. Tell me when you get one of those.
Of all the teams that are rebuilding I feel Detroit is in the best shape.Yes theyvare a few seasons out but Kenny is doing ok in full rebuild mode.
Good for you. Call me spoiled, but when you win four cups and go on deep runs, simply making it isn't good enough, and won't be good enough as an end goal once the rebuild starts to show results. To say I should be "happy" that we are behind the curve in that respect is misguided.
That is part of the problem.
Cholowski is better than Hronek right now, and potentially in the future.To me the organization is completely depleted. Far from the best shape imo.
Outside of Larkin and Mantha and maybe Hronek I am not seeing too much core type talent. Zadina could get there. They definitely need to draft a couple cornerstones though. Jack Hughes would change things completely.
Okay, so what? My team has had a lot of success in my lifetime. I'm not going to throw it in your face but I'm not going to pretend just making the playoffs is some grand thing.You are spoiled. And all the credit to your team for making you so.
four of top 6 as of last nightThey're missing 3 of their top 4 D aren't they?
Yeesh. No way I am sitting in those crappy upper level overpriced LCA seats to watch that D operate.