Red Wing Rubbish

@SenWarren Here the thing. If he gave the government $7B as you demand, between fraud and inefficiency no one would get insulin or food and you still wouldn’t STFU. So why do it?

Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.

@D1SCO8 @stabbymcdanger You can debate all you want about whether a 1st made sense or not. Reasonable arguments for and against. But there is no debate about not getting lottery protection. It is mandatory!!!

@RedWingRubbish @stabbymcdanger I didn't like giving up a 1st for Faulk, but its not the end of the world bad either. Personally i would've done less. I wouldn't give up 1st at this stage unless it was for players that have atleast a 3+ year contract and with potential for being resigned for more.

Ofc, it's honestly just dumb fabs that say something else. SY is doing a good job.

@stabbymcdanger @D1SCO8 Giving up a first for Faulk is fine. But not getting top 10 protection is absolute malpractice.

@D1SCO8 Never a top 3 since 1990 and refusing to give it all up. Never trade like Nashville, Vancouver…stingy is more than frustrating but now the wolves are gonna latch on to that 1 pick to for Fualk. No pleasing the football casuals

Over the past 2 seasons by my estimate (I know I might have missed one) there have been 13 first round draft picks traded. That includes picks traded by Colorado Tampa and Dallas. Only two have not been lottery protected. Detroit in Faulk trade. Dallas in Ceci/Grandlund. #lgrw

@JonThompso25 Do something to try to shake things up. It’s worked for teams in the past. And there were other times this season when Cossa was playing like a star when they could/should have brought him up. We can all speculate whether it would’ve worked, but we know not doing it didn’t work.

@RedWingRubbish How about the players stop waiting until the 3rd period to start playing hockey? Cossa hasn’t even been the best goalie on the Griffins over the last month. Not sure what you’ve been watching

Awesome Wings with the 4th ranked prospect pool. Except our #1 prospect Cossa is buried in the AHL while our beloved Red Wings are falling apart and dying for just the type a jolt a coaching change OR a sensational rookie goalie could provide. Make it make sense. #lgrw

@rurallubrarian There are plenty of examples of teams turning their season around by turning to a goalie who gets on a roll. Wings could have and should have tried that at several points this season. What do you have to lose? By your logic they won’t bring him up next year either.

@RedWingRubbish What good does it do to bring him up to play with a team who consistently throws their goalie under the bus by not showing up?

@AGretz Yeah brilliance by Dubas and our GM could learn a lot from watching how he works. I think Penguins GM is a no win job and said so when Dubas took it. Still think there will be some tough times ahead and that this year is an anomaly and not a sign of bright future in Pitt.

Between these moves, the way they replenished all of those draft picks in other moves, the Kindel pick, the Mantha, Brazeau and Wotherspoon signings, Kyle Dubas should be the runaway GM of the Year. This roster is ... what ...70 percent new from a year ago?

Egor Chinakhov in 29 games with Columbus: 3 goals, 3 assists, 6 points Chihakhov in 40 games with Pittsburgh: 17 goals, 16 assists, 33 points Elmer Soderblom in 39 games with Detroit: 2 goals, 1 assist, 3 points Soderblom 16 games with Pittsburgh: 4 goals, 4 assists, 8 points

@MannyMac_ If your ENTIRE plan is to build thru the draft you should never be hired. You need to acquire FA, make trades and waiver claims to build a team. Problem isn’t the drafts it all the other stuff he has done/forgotten to do. No other GM in the league would survive this.

Yes. Give him one more season, if it doesn't work out then you can consider a change. His draft picks are finally making the jump. You can finally determine his success after the season. The entire plan was to build through the draft after all. #LGRW

The need for one upgrade at F was obvious from day 1 and Yzerman couldn’t fill it the entire season. Team had no clue how to get Kasper going. Ras and JT I just don’t know what to say. No way they can be back next year. No way! Mismanage your prospects much!?! #lgrw

@RedWingDiehards Waiting 20 games too long to call Simon up in 23-24 and missing playoffs by a point. Signing UFA Copp rather than trading for Monahan who netted MTL two 1sts. Sleeping on Marchment, Fowler, Thompson, Chychrun. Could have had Bert back 2x as UFA. Not protecting 1st traded to StL.

Questionable DET NHL Roster Personnel Decisions since 2023: Moved off Hronek and his 30-40 points a year while he had one year left on his deal. Missed playoffs the following year via tiebreaker, not points. Got ASP in return which is a possible wash or upgrade, but it’s not immediate and it’s not a guarantee until it actually happens in the NHL. You could’ve waited a year and bet on him still fetching a first, especially if bolstering the offense for 23-24 was the plan. Is the vision clear or reactionary? Maybe he was worth the money for an extension too. Was max term truly unavoidable? Isn’t that the GM’s job to negotiate that down and sell a vision? Because the right side of our defense is still pretty suspect in 2026. Moved off Tyler Bertuzzi who is still outputting Top 6 offensive numbers (actually having a career year this season on a rebuilding team) for a first round pick that ended up being the pick used in the DeBrincat trade. If you remember this was a tough one in the Detroit locker room. Detroit still had other ammunition for a DeBrincat trade especially considering he leveraged himself to Detroit. Again one year before missing playoffs on a tiebreaker. The veterans we brought in since are certainly not scoring 30 goals a season. We do know you can’t win in the NHL without scoring goals right?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Trading Walman (plus a second round pick) and getting nothing back only for the team you traded him to flip him for a first round pick 7-8 months later. Not here to debate the trade but if you’re going to move real offensive output off your blue line you have to get something back. There is no arguing that if you trade away an NHL player getting you 10 goals and 20-30 points and replace him with nothing your team loses real NHL offense and has to make that up somewhere else. They haven’t done that yet, they’re on track to score less than 240 again. Worst optics of the Yzerplan so far from the outside looking in come from this trade.​​​​​​​ Mishandling of losing Gostisbehere and deciding to replace him with Erik Gustafsson. We can argue “Ghost didn’t wanna re-sign” but you got him to sign once and should’ve been able to get him to extend even 1-2 more years while you let ASP develop further. Seems like a pretty easy transition plan from a guaranteed 45-55 points on the back end. But you don’t and replace him with Gustafsson who has gotten you 18 NHL points in 2 years and in a way maybe forced you to rush ASP 1-1.5 years too early. This one is unique because it’s where the pro scouting blunders and the weird choosy player development patterns intersect.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Honorable Mention: Favoring aging Cam Talbot over Alex Lyon as which goalie to keep as you pursue John Gibson in the Summer of 2025 and let your goalie prospects develop for another year or two. Or did you just randomly decide down the 24-25 stretch that summer was the right time to acquire a better solution in your NHL crease? Again what is the vision? Is it clear or reactionary as we go? Gotta have good veterans as you rebuild. There are 100 ways to build a hockey team but if you cannot score goals you will be average to mediocre to bad. There is no good or great if you can’t score. The Red Wings have scored over 240 goals one time since 2010-11 and it was in 2023-24. I ask one last time, what is the vision? Is it clear or reactionary as we go? #LGRW

@BlueInNC16 @RedWingVictory Below are the trade deadline scraps. Or how about Mason Marchment who would have been perfect for the Wings and was traded twice this year? Or Logan Thompson or Jeff Chychrun. GoBlue! x.com/redwingrubbish…

@RedWingRubbish @RedWingVictory Who was acquired for scraps at the deadline? 🤨 basically everyone was overvalued on the trade market. We got a third for freakin Soderblom. Colorado traded a 1st for a center with 20 points. We gave a 1st, 3rd and a prospect for a 2nd line defenseman

Rasmussen, Compher, JVR, Appleton should all be gone Mazur Danielson Bear and MBN better be on the team #lgrw

For all the Wings fans defending Yzerman’s build thru the draft plan, look no further than what GMKH has done in #gohabsgo. Masterclass. Montembault has indeed turned out to be a dud this year but it hasn’t mattered and if Dobes or Fowler are legit Montreal has lapped us forever.

@johnnywharton @KeithGave Folding 3 years in a row. Does Yzerman know what this lineup needs? He keeps getting the wrong guys in free agency. Missed out on lots of players traded that would have helped this team. Whiffed at the trade deadline with Perron.

I'm out of excuses. Getting drubbed by one of the worst teams in the league isn't acceptable in December, nevermind a playoff chase in April. The apoligists can miss me with the "we don't want playoffs, we want Cups" bullshit. One comes before the other. It's not working.

@Jennife99697952 @HockeyWithDevin Faced the back up again today. Most back ups are solid but no one fears playing the wings. Not going to have to be physical, can rest your starter, shut down one line and you have an easy night. #lgrw

@RedWingRubbish @HockeyWithDevin Yeah, thats that confirmation bias. We don't pay attention when its not us lol. Yeah, Ersson has actually been good lately, but here's hoping he's due for a rough one!

Congratulations on scoring your first career goal, Porter Martone

@The_Mexinadian People need to stop making so many excuses. No GMs plan is ONLY building thru the draft. Thats madness. You can focus on the draft but every plan also needs FA, trades, waiver acqs. Yzerman deserves plenty of criticism at this point. Theres no GM who would have this much leash.

No. I really enjoy when people who don't actually cheer for the Red Wings talk about them like they pay attention. If you actually payed attention, the Yzerplan was always about building through the draft. Not getting a top 3 pick ever means most of your prospects take longer.

It’s hard not to be emotional.Playoff lives on the line and the team delivers a complete stink bomb. Why would Ras be put back in the lineup? He is the definition of a jersey. And Perron is basically a pylon out there. Nice deadline acquisition. Time for Yzerman to hand this off!

@m_bultman Good thing Ras is back. He might be the most useless player to ever play 400 games for the red wings. He is like having an observer on the ice.

Lot going on here: -Sandin-Pellikka in for Faulk - Rasmussen back in (Appleton out) - Kasper gets the bump up the lineup after being very noticeable in limited minutes last game.

Trade deadline acquisition David Perron acquired for a 4th has 0G 0A in 9 games. Meanwhile: McMann (2nd and 4th) has 8G 4A, Foegele (2nd) 5G 2A, Bunting (3rd) 1G 1A 👎 Laughton (3rd) 4G 2A, Strome (7th) 4G 6A, Carrick (3rd and 6th) 5G 1A. Things could be different!!