The Official 2026-2027 Detroit Red Wings Thread: Everywhere I look it's a darkness

[neuartillery]

Stooter scores, Grieg needlessly knocks it back into the net

[hotnickelsyo]

I really want this line to work (MBN - Finnie - Debrincat)

[neuartillery]

DeBrincat, scoring one for his old fans in Ottawa

[sutterfamily]

Ersson looking really solid to start the game, oozing confidence.

[neuartillery]

I really want this line to work (MBN - Finnie - Debrincat)

On paper it seems like it should work

I like Finnie at center

[neuartillery]

If the Wings kill this penalty their % might double

[hotnickelsyo]

You simply knew it was going to happen

[neuartillery]

Of course Larkin scores

Seems like mostly cheers

[neuartillery]

The penalty was the first time I noticed Copp

Always a good sign

[hotnickelsyo]

It's still possible that AI tells Ilitch to fade away and let the GM work. Ed gets signed, Larkin plays out the year. Things aren't AS bad?

[neuartillery]

I wish I could be optimistic on Edvinsson, but the rumors I've heard -- they're willing to take prospects / picks in a trade for him, they offered 8.5 x 6 -- are not encouraging. Maybe if you'd offered 8.5 x 6 last summer we wouldn't be in this mess!

Larkin having his wife and kid by the glass feels like a plea for leniency, but I do wonder if he'd prefer to stay close to family.

[hotnickelsyo]

I saw it as them just trying to be there for him. It cannot be easy to take that warm-up.

Yzerman should have had Edvinsson signed, no question. I just really want the rumors to be wrong.

[neuartillery]

Weird seeing Larkin without the C

[neuartillery]

Didn’t think they were actually going to call the hold

[hotnickelsyo]

Well that was fun, see, Dylan, fun?

[neuartillery]

Arvidsson burying another one on the PP

[neuartillery]

Four goals or four shots

What a move by Faulk

Hoping for a Kolesar rush goal just before that felt like a bridge too far

[neuartillery]

Didn’t want to get too big of a head, back to abysmal PK coverage

[hotnickelsyo]

I still love how excited Ken and Mickey get when a fourth liner gets a breakaway. Oh! Here we go! [it's the animated corpse of Dan Cleary]

[neuartillery]

Darren Helm had the biggest disparity between excitement over a breakaway and odds of a positive finish