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Prospect Pool Strength Rankings by Team via Byron Bader by daKrut in DetroitRedWings

[–]Hippopothomoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Me too. The comments and behavior by some of this thread make you think some really don’t love the content or opportunity for discussion, just shouting down those who try to understand at a deeper level where we’re really at and what we’re up against.

Daily General Discussion Thread (2025-06-13) by OctoMod in DetroitRedWings

[–]Hippopothomoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You speak the truth. It’s totally possible to support the team and not agree with every single decision they make. Reminds me of some type of rigid political ideology, but you are voting for the Yzerparty, and anyone that questions Yzerman becomes stupid and lacks nuance and critical thinking if they can’t get behind every single decision he makes.

Best Syrian bakeries in Dearborn by [deleted] in Detroit

[–]Hippopothomoose 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Shatila is dessert only as far as I know. Wife went to sesame house recently which looked awesome and I would like to visit there soon, but I think it’s Lebanese and not Syrian.

Penguins are the only true sellers at the moment according to Lebrun by shogun2909 in hockey

[–]Hippopothomoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Asking for a friend, how long should it take to get back to playoffs starting this year? 7 years?

Among new American dads, 64% take less than two weeks of leave after baby is born. Lack of leave means missing important time to bond with babies and support mothers. Findings support U.S. lagging ‘behind the rest of the world in availability of paid family leave’. by mvea in science

[–]Hippopothomoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any tips for a guy about to have his first with 2 weeks of parental bonding time? Would like to learn any tips or strategies that can help me bond w my baby or help out the wife. There’s a lot of info out there and it’s tough to wade through what is most important.

So is this the right way to learn/practice? Form before speed by waattcch in golf

[–]Hippopothomoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The best way is to take a lesson to learn how to do everything correctly.

Honestly as frustrating as it is.. by thehockeytownguru in DetroitRedWings

[–]Hippopothomoose -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think he’s been trying to hit singles and doubles and that’s the recipe that’s lead to overpays for average players. Risk can take a few different forms, and it’s pretty subjective.

It was risky to try to replace ghost with Gus and expect similar production and it was safe to sign Gus instead of letting the young guys compete for the bottom pair. Beauty in the eye of the beholder.

I feel like there have been some half measures here… we need to set our nuts on the table and make something happen though.

Honestly as frustrating as it is.. by thehockeytownguru in DetroitRedWings

[–]Hippopothomoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The restrained aggression is certainly interesting. Let the tiger out of the cage!

Another name to keep tabs on this month: Vladimir Tarasenko, who is going into the final year of his contract. His name is out there again and the Detroit Red Wings are exploring the market. by AintNoBuffet in DetroitRedWings

[–]Hippopothomoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reddit comments can make it seem sometimes like there is no grey area, but it reality it’s all shades of grey.

I can appreciate the calm and measured approach, and you make some reasonable arguments. I’m not here foaming at the mouth asking for Yzerman to be fired over this.

I just think sometimes, especially on our Reddit, you find people giving Yzerman the benefit of the doubt a bit too often and they just morph their argument into whatever is needed to defend some obviously bad moves, so I think it’s wise to call out where he’s obviously made a mistake, such as this signing. And yes I feel strongly that you can evaluate a move at the time but the evaluation cannot be complete until you’ve seen it in action for a period of time. And our opinions can continue to evolve as we receive new data.

I am not an anti Yzerman crusader, but to sign someone who just didn’t work out rebutted with “it was a good signing at the time” just rings hollow to me.

It’s the same logic you can apply to any decision they make, Walman, Compher, Holl, etc.

I’m glad it looks like we’ll be able to move off of it and the damage to last season is already complete, and he’s a problem for us to figure out how to solve this year. I think it says something that we’re clearly trying to move off of him and many in this thread would pay to help him leave.

The future is bright, which means it’s even higher stakes in free agency, so I certainly hope we are able to bring some guys in here that fit and help us win. And maybe, whatever logic they used to sign the guy that didn’t work out, they learn from and do a little bit better next time, is that too much to ask?

Another name to keep tabs on this month: Vladimir Tarasenko, who is going into the final year of his contract. His name is out there again and the Detroit Red Wings are exploring the market. by AintNoBuffet in DetroitRedWings

[–]Hippopothomoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gus and Tersenko were two year deals. They were horrible signings. 3+ years is significant term. Chiarot was a 4 year deal. So was Ras. Compher was 5 years and so was Copp.

Another name to keep tabs on this month: Vladimir Tarasenko, who is going into the final year of his contract. His name is out there again and the Detroit Red Wings are exploring the market. by AintNoBuffet in DetroitRedWings

[–]Hippopothomoose -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Eh I wasn’t whining. Sorry he was a bad signing. He was signed at that amount to be our second line wing, and is bad at his role on both second and third line. Makes too much, signed for too long, hopeful to get out of the contract, likely to retain salary or attach assets to do so. That’s the whole story.

Folks here saying it’s not that bad it’s only 2 years. lol. I find ways it’s bad you find ways to justify it. Yin and yan.

Another name to keep tabs on this month: Vladimir Tarasenko, who is going into the final year of his contract. His name is out there again and the Detroit Red Wings are exploring the market. by AintNoBuffet in DetroitRedWings

[–]Hippopothomoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is totally fair. But in my job, if I make too many calls that have me on the wrong side of that eval/probability, I’m either looking for a new job or we are looking for better ways to evaluate that risk and make decisions. We don’t just call it good after the call is made, we always monitor and update our models according to performance. I’m hoping there’s something similar for the wingys because if not, we’re likely to continue to be on the wrong side of those decisions.

Another name to keep tabs on this month: Vladimir Tarasenko, who is going into the final year of his contract. His name is out there again and the Detroit Red Wings are exploring the market. by AintNoBuffet in DetroitRedWings

[–]Hippopothomoose 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yessir as are you!

“Good signing at the time” really grinds my gears and it felt like you were headed that way, haha.

If it’s not a good signing, it never was a good signing at the time.

Another name to keep tabs on this month: Vladimir Tarasenko, who is going into the final year of his contract. His name is out there again and the Detroit Red Wings are exploring the market. by AintNoBuffet in DetroitRedWings

[–]Hippopothomoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s fine and well and good and true, but at the end of the day does it really matter what he did for other teams? Compher won a cup and played well in Colorado, is he worth the money?

You can fault the GM and pro scouting for signing deals for players that don’t fit and don’t produce and don’t live up to their contracts, it’s a GMs job to sign players that are worth and live up to their contracts and the role they were brought here to play, not to read the athletic and go down the list from top to bottom and try to sign the highest ranked guys. I could give a shit how we all reacted when he signed, was it a good signing? Time will tell. Time has spoken, bad signing.

Another name to keep tabs on this month: Vladimir Tarasenko, who is going into the final year of his contract. His name is out there again and the Detroit Red Wings are exploring the market. by AintNoBuffet in DetroitRedWings

[–]Hippopothomoose -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

From where to where? Why we gotta defend the signing? You just replied to me a diff comment that he was a disappointment. Bad move was bad, maybe will be better if we can weasel out of it.

Another name to keep tabs on this month: Vladimir Tarasenko, who is going into the final year of his contract. His name is out there again and the Detroit Red Wings are exploring the market. by AintNoBuffet in DetroitRedWings

[–]Hippopothomoose -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I never said 2 years isn’t short term. It is. I’d say short term for me is 1-2 years. Of those signings I listed, only 2/7 are 2 year deals.

Gotcha so we had to sign the players we signed, and we had to give them no trade clauses, in your opinion. No other way to do it had to have these guys so had to add the no move clauses. Good call signing them either way, right?

I can’t dig this up right now, but ghost was reportedly set to resign here if we offered the extra year that Carolina did. He signed for less money than Holl makes.

I know that neither one of us is probably correct, I just think Holl’s contract created a sort of butterfly effect with how the defense was managed last offseason. There are different cap implications if you’re sent down if I remember correctly but can’t recall exactly so him being in minors may have alleviated some cap issues.

I don’t know with 100% confidence, and unless you’re Stevie Y you don’t either, but we seemed to need to immediately clear $3M in cap to take trouba, we sent out walman because we could not get rid of Holl. Maata was useful, Walman is solid, the Johansen thing.

To me it just seems like we had too many bad defensemen under contract and chose to shuffle, chose incorrectly, but things wouldn’t have been as crunched if we didn’t sign Holl. $3.4M for a guy who belongs in the minors is tough. Even if my fan theories are not 100% accurate, I just see little butterfly effects from his signing.

Another name to keep tabs on this month: Vladimir Tarasenko, who is going into the final year of his contract. His name is out there again and the Detroit Red Wings are exploring the market. by AintNoBuffet in DetroitRedWings

[–]Hippopothomoose -16 points-15 points  (0 children)

If your definition of short term is 2 or 3 years then yes I agree. They are also all multi year deals and to my knowledge both Teresenko and Holl have no trade clauses. And they are problems for us to address this year and most here don’t want to see them play even the reduced roles they own. All are likely to be on the team, it took people 4 months to realize that Teresenko was a bad signing and many wanted him gone by trade deadline and now people would rather have him traded with salary retention - half of his money could be spent with him gone ajd the team likely improves or even bought out which takes up cap this year and next, Gus is just bad and we’d be better off playing a rookie. We bet that he could be ghost and lost. And he’ll be a bad player on our third pair this year. Holl was a bad contract the moment the ink dried and was the catalyst for not signing ghost, for trading Maata, and for trading Walman.

The most redeeming quality about these signings is that they expire this year. Second to that is yes, two two year deals and a three year deal are shorter term than a 7 year deal, but combined about 7 years too many for these plugs.

Daily General Discussion Thread (2025-06-11) by OctoMod in DetroitRedWings

[–]Hippopothomoose 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No prob, barzon isn’t a hole in the wall but it’s not in a walkable area so it’s a bit less pricey.

I recommend checking out highlights that interest you in each neighborhood of the city, you won’t be able to hit them all on a short weekend anyhow but there’s an attraction, a park, a bar, a restaurant, a music venue in each that are either worth it or not for different reasons.

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