How many won selkes before 22? Take your time researching.
Larkin has about as much chance at the Vezina as he does at the Selke. If he was Barkov, okay. He isn’t.
How many won selkes before 22? Take your time researching.
Odd? It's quite simple. Build new arena. Jack up prices. Price out fans. Sell lower bowl to corporations. Like it or not the tickets are sold.
You don't understand how things work then! Corporate people buy many tickets at many of the big arenas, to give to clients as gifts. Many of those people either can't or don't want to go, and either don't or can't give the tickets to anyone else, thus a lot of the paid for "sold out" seats are left empty. Obviously they have worse attendance due to our sucking right now, but it still gets listed as a sellout because of stuff like this, and it works like this for all teams, that list sellouts. Even in Toronto who is never not sold out, will have empty seats that were paid for, but people couldn't make it to that game, such as season ticket holders.
Yeah ok buddy. lol.
Declaring someone will never win a selke by 22 ....Larkin has about as much chance at the Vezina as he does at the Selke. If he was Barkov, okay. He isn’t.
Declaring someone will never win a selke by 22 ....
Especially considering being defensively sound is the reason he was drafted mid 1st... the offense just ended up being a bonus.
Those players are all super different. Kopitar uses his massive frame, Bergeron is cerebral, and Jonathan Toews is absolutely overrated the poor guy had prime Keith and Seabrook behind him.If you think that Larkin is going to be a Kopitar/Bergeron/prime Toews level player, that’s fine but your opinion is the fringe one, not mine.
Those players are all super different. Kopitar uses his massive frame, Bergeron is cerebral, and Jonathan Toews is absolutely overrated the poor guy had prime Keith and Seabrook behind him.
Larkin uses speed speed speed in a game that's transforming to speed. He's not going to get burnt often and has enough quickness to recover. I don't think he's ever going to win a Selke IMO, but saying he can't be a 70 point great defensive player like the others noted is absurd. Not to mention Toews has hit 80 points how many times....? He's only hit 70 once. Larkin put up 63 last year on an abysmal Wings team. Bergeron has hit 70 twice and that was 12 years ago bud.
Bergeron didn’t have the media recognition, but he was still on the best defensive centers in the game in 10-11. Larkin is not.
If you’re heading into the playoffs with Dylan Larkin as your 1C, you’ve got it circled as an area of weakness. You can adopt the preds model and try to win in spite of that but all you need there is a handful of legit #1 D’s And a vezina caliber goalie.
It was a marketing gimmick, and I don't understand why other team's fans act like we use it as a badge of honor or something.You may be right but I don't believe it. In any case it's a bad look. Hockeytown they are not and never were.
And how much elite talent was Toronto's system until they landed Matthews? How much did Winnipeg have before they landed Laine?
Yeah they need 1 or 2 elite pieces for sure, but that's what they will hope for by being one of the league's worst teams.
Toronto and Winnipeg both had a lot of pieces before landing Matthews/Laine, including a handful of other top 10 picks. Reilly, Marner, Nylander, Kadri; Byfuglien, Trouba, Wheeler, Schiefele, Ehlers. Even if the Wings are fortunate enough to win the draft lotto (which is a complete crapshoot with the current odds), 1 great talent is never enough. The 2017-18 Edmonton Oilers should be all the proof anyone needs of that. Detroit probably has a long road ahead of it.
Cholowski is arguably one of the best rookies of this season so far. Larkin is easily a capable #2C if not a #1C. Zadina has high-end talent. That's the obvious names, not mentioning guys like Veleno, Rasmussen, Berggren, Hronek, Mantha etc.Toronto and Winnipeg both had a lot of pieces before landing Matthews/Laine, including a handful of other top 10 picks. Reilly, Marner, Nylander, Kadri; Byfuglien, Trouba, Wheeler, Schiefele, Ehlers. Even if the Wings are fortunate enough to win the draft lotto (which is a complete crapshoot with the current odds), 1 great talent is never enough. The 2017-18 Edmonton Oilers should be all the proof anyone needs of that. Detroit probably has a long road ahead of it.