Get a better coach on the Red Wings before Zadina is completely fried/ruined like Blashill has actively done to Anthanisiou and many other Wings players.
Recalled/Assigned: Zadina Recalled from GR
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Dotter
THE ATHLETIC IS GARBAGE
Zadina with a secondary assist since being called up. Gives the puck away too much,
Send him back down, he's not doing anything. Let him go get a PPG pace in the AHL and play big minutes. Pointless having him here.
Send him back down, he's not doing anything. Let him go get a PPG pace in the AHL and play big minutes. Pointless having him here.
Henkka
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Yeah yeah.
Athanasiou was moved on the 1st line and Zadina on the 1st PP unit.
Bettere start scoring when the opportunity is given. Blashill is not preventing them to score.
Blashill is preventing them to score with his garbage line combinations, shitty coaching style, and useless dump n chase. f*** him
Henkka
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Pretty sure he does not need to prevent anything. Those 50% AHL-rosters can blow the games just by themselves.
It's the coaches job to play the players to their strengths, and create a system that works. He has failed to do that for 5 years now. Time to kiss his sorry ass goodbye
Seemed to have a fair bit of jump in his step this game. Hes putting in the effort still and just not getting the reward. Shows good character.
Lol shows good character. Meanwhile, Quinn Hughes is looking like a franchise dman, has 21 points in 25 games as a rookie, and is going to win the Calder. We f***ed up big time with drafting Zadina
Henkka
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Sorry to spoil your whinefest, but Makar wins the Calder pretty easily.
And when we sign Tory Krug at next summer, we have both Zadina ja prime-"hughes" at same package.
Yeesh. More Quinn Hughes shit huh?
Quinn Hughes plays cookie cutter, sheltered minutes and makes routine passes to Pettersson and Boeser on the PP which racks him up a ton of secondary assists. I'm talking blindfolded routine passes.
He can not win a puck battle on the boards, I will give him credit in that he tries but once the forechecker gets the puck he can do whatever he wants with it because Hughes is 120 pounds. That's why you see him out there against 3rd and 4th lines where the damage is minimal. Not, for instance tonight, against McDavid, Drisaitl, and Kassian. Why? Because Hughes would get eaten alive. But what do I know, I watch the games.
He can skate and is smart with the puck, that's about it. Franchise defenseman? Sure. Yea. He is. If you say so.
Quinn Hughes plays cookie cutter, sheltered minutes and makes routine passes to Pettersson and Boeser on the PP which racks him up a ton of secondary assists. I'm talking blindfolded routine passes.
He can not win a puck battle on the boards, I will give him credit in that he tries but once the forechecker gets the puck he can do whatever he wants with it because Hughes is 120 pounds. That's why you see him out there against 3rd and 4th lines where the damage is minimal. Not, for instance tonight, against McDavid, Drisaitl, and Kassian. Why? Because Hughes would get eaten alive. But what do I know, I watch the games.
He can skate and is smart with the puck, that's about it. Franchise defenseman? Sure. Yea. He is. If you say so.
With Edler injured early in the 1st Hughes had to take harder minutes. Quinn proceeded to shut down McDavid with the game on the line tonight and dominated the Oilers at both ends of the rink all night. Overall has been quite solid defensively this season. A smaller player can defend well with superior skating, good smarts/positioning, and a good stick/insane hand eye coordination and Hughes it doing it really well. He is a franchise defence man. I think Zadina will be good too, I don’t think RW fans should worry too much about Hughes because every single team in the league has multiple players they could’ve drafted and kick themselves for not drafting.
I guess we watched two different games then because that's not what I saw.
For the record I think Hughes is a fine hockey player, certainly wouldn't complain with him on my team. Let's not pretend he's some world breaker though, eh?
For the record I think Hughes is a fine hockey player, certainly wouldn't complain with him on my team. Let's not pretend he's some world breaker though, eh?
Gniwder
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Hughes wouldn't fix any of the issues we have on the PP anyways, it's really the coaching. Plus the team only has 2 guys that can score consistently, and one of them is out with an injury. There's no way any defenseman can rack up points on this team, Hughes or otherwise.
Plus we could play this game of hindsight drafting all day long with a whole number of players.... what's the point, right?
JediOrderPizza
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Yeah the we should've took Hughes shit is old already. We didn't and Zadina still has a chance to become a good player.
The team has scored 3 goals since his call up and he was involved in one of them.
Maybe the coach should play him with offensive players.
Not to mention he’s playing with a center who has 1 assist in the entire season and gives visibly low effort all over the ice
Henkka
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And?
That's where he got the assist.
Bottom 5 power play on the league, he should be printing points.
Henkka
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People are saying that Zadina does not play with offensive players, when he plays with them on the 1st PP unit.
So are we blaming the coach or not about that?
So are we blaming the coach or not about that?
Remember, it's never Zadina's fault he can't produce at the pro hockey level. It's everybody elses! Sheesh, the guy's supposed to be a bonafide goal scorer and the only way he can score is being setup for one-timers. Would be kind of nice to see this 6th overall pick create some actual offence himself
Gniwder
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He's got less than 7 minutes of PP time in the 4 games, plus as previously mentioned the PP sucks anyways.
Also, we need him to be more than a PP specialist, he needs to get ES time with better players tp develop. Otherwise just send him back down and put Perlini on the third line.
You actually have the worst takes on this site. Zadina is a 20 year old rookie. He isn't going to jump into the league and put up 50 goals and even if he were to do so the team isn't good enough to be a bubble team give him time to develop his game. Christ sake, this board went to shit when the team did it's just I feels/what have you done for me lately and zero logic used these days.
Dotter
THE ATHLETIC IS GARBAGE
You just said it yourself in the bolded part; the team doesn't have any offensive players.
Dude I've been following him ever since he was drafted by us and he has not shown to be a pure goal scorer whatsoever which is what he was billed as to all of us. He's more of a checking forward who can score on the powerplay in the right situation. More Nyquist like than Ovie goal scorer. That is disappointing because you can't rebuild a team around a Nyquist but you can around your 40+ pure goal scoring talents like Ovechkin, Matthews, etc.
