If the rush isn't enough, how about knowing he could be getting paid $8-10M a year if he played like this consistently? Is millions and millions of dollars a year not good motivation?The part that confuses me, and I’m sure everyone else on here, we know he’s capable of games like this. Capable of stretches like this (5 goals, 7 assists in the last 5 games)...With how ****ing great this must for him to have a night like tonight, how does he not bust ass every single night to feel the same rush?
Fantastic numbers.Mantha 45pts/64gp=70pt pace & Bert 63pt pace w/44pts/70gp..
If the rush isn't enough, how about knowing he could be getting paid $8-10M a year if he played like this consistently? Is millions and millions of dollars a year not good motivation?
Fantastic numbers.
Obviously AA and Larkin have great numbers too. Hirose's got a good pace but obviously, sample size.
If Hronek, Cholo take strides and we add a couple of good high end pieces, one on forward and one on the back, we could easily make the playoffs next season.
Seriously. Imagine this forward group with a defensive group that isn't god awful. Ugh.
Only TBL, CGY, CBJ & COL are hotter than us in the last 10 & we're 7-3. Glad for:
Mantha 45pts/64gp=70pt pace & Bert 63pt pace w/44pts/70gp..
Hirose's 1st G & 6pts/7gp
Hronek 2pts
Bowey's hit on the angry hobbit
Kronner adding to his pt total
Howard with 3 wins over the B's this year
Turgeon's call up
Witter's hit & fistacuffs
I kind of do too. I don't want to jump the gun but we could be next years Arizona. Finish the year super strong and then carry it over.I mean, I like our team
The Wings traded down when Chychrun was the slam dunk pick just waiting for them.
And Dach is playmaking Anthony Mantha. Possibly including playing wing...
I kind of do too. I don't want to jump the gun but we could be next years Arizona. Finish the year super strong and then carry it over.
We've got to fix our D for that to happen, though.
thanks for the correction, forgot to multiply by 82...sleep deprivation.Mantha' 45p in 64 games is a 57 point pace, not a 70 point pace
Likewise, Bertuzzi's 44p in 70 games is a 52 point pace, not a 63 point pace.
This also, of course, hinges on Hronek and Cholowski re-establishing/maintaining their status as top 4 guys.I agree a million percent.
If these guys do this consistently with another top flight defenseman we’re a playoff team.
We have the talent. That’s evident. We’re fast, we’re tenacious and we’re resilient. They just need to find consistency.
I do think Blash is... doing a good job coaching this year.
I don’t believe fans should be completely down about a lower pick now. Let these young guns grow. Let them score and build confidence
Fantastic numbers.
Obviously AA and Larkin have great numbers too. Hirose's got a good pace but obviously, sample size.
If Hronek, Cholo take strides and we add a couple of good high end pieces, one on forward and one on the back, we could easily make the playoffs next season.
Seriously. Imagine this forward group with a defensive group that isn't god awful. Ugh.
I'd do Hronek for Chychrun and leave Cholowski out of it, at this point...And nothing that has happened since has proven them at all wrong for making that move. Remember that they still weren’t aware that Stamkos wouldn’t talk to them so they needed Datsyuk 7.5 off the books. (Which I think had more to do with Toronto’s kitchen sink, full court press than anything to do with Detroit. Stamkos saw how nuts teams were gonna go and he didn’t want to deal with that.)
I’d do Cholo and Hronek for Chychrun all day every day and twice on Sunday. Chychrun scares me as a long term prospect with the injuries.
I mean, Hronek in 42 games has 18 points. Chychrun in 52 has 20.
I mean, sure the Wings don’t just go by next on Central Scouting’s lists, but they’re also generally not... wrong. The guys they pick higher have tended to be NHL caliber players, if a little underwhelming in the league. If they trade down from a Zegras or Podkolzin, I’d actually trust that move to be an alright one