OT - Babcock addresses future with Detroit
ESPN article: http://espn.go.com/blog/nhl/post/_/id/35672/mike-babcock-on-coaching-fu…
Essentially says what is most likely to be expected of him to say, but it's at least an answer trending toward him staying.
I’ve got a great family and my wife loves me and [if the Red Wings] like me enough they’d keep me here -- to be honest with you. The rest of the stuff doesn’t matter, we’ve got a game today and that’s my total focus.”
You're forgetting that Babcock will be the next hockey coach at the University of Michigan ;)
Psh move over, come to Toronto. Honestly, I am not that selfish as a Leafs fan. Stay in the state of Michigan and keep your sanity.
April 18th, 2015 at 10:31 PM ^
PLEASE
So Toronto is not in play.
Wings need to make more moves. Holland has done jack in the last few years.
Fire Holland being in Stevie Y
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No chance KH gets fired but sure would be awesome to get Stevie home
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The only truly bad moves I remember him making are over paying Mule and Howard. Franzen was somewhat understandable because the injury bug hit him right after the contract which was unforeseeable, but the Howard deal was a little optimistic. Otherwise he's just been unwilling to trade away the team's youth, and I am totally ok with that. The Wings' main problem for a long time was age, and he's certainly addressed that. We're a couple enforcers and a few less injuries away from being dominant. We saw that during the great run earlier in the year.
either that or you've forgotten about signing Weiss, or trading for Legwand, or lettting Filpulla go, or going half a decade needing to add defense and somehow not managing to do it once. He's drafted well and managed to not make any super nova fuck ups with a core of established players but it's a stretch to say he's done a particularly good job lately, especially considering his great drafting is due in large part to Andersson's excellent scouting.
It's probably time for him to move on to greener pastures and let someone who can actually go out and get some free agent or trade help take over. He's set them up nicely for the future, but the team is going to need a change of leadership from the top down if it wants to bring this young group of players to cup contention.
Yeah they gave up a fuck ton for legwand. Don't know if they'll ever recover from that deal
but if you are OK with just throwing those guys away for literally nothing, then it's a fine deal
27 points in 80+ games makes you a top 50 prospect? He'll he was the 51st player taken in his draft year.
Weiss signing was terrible, but Filpulla was not worth the money either. Glendening had as many goals as Filppula this year, plus he was -14 on a very good Tampa team. Striking out on Suter was the biggest mistake he ever made.
And they could easily fit him in if they weren't paying the corpses of Franzen and Weiss to not play hockey the last 2 years. They signed Weiss to literally the same contract as Filpulla and got zero out of him. That's a giant fuck up
April 19th, 2015 at 10:13 AM ^
I bet you miss Juri Hudler too.
Just because Filpulla put it all together in Tampa doesn't mean he would have if he stayed a Wing. He was given every opportunity to figure it out in Detroit, he didn't.
April 19th, 2015 at 12:02 AM ^
What did Filppula do while here?
To be fair regarding the defense, Holland didn't know Fischer was gonna have a medical and Rafalski was going to retire. Those hurt -- combined with Smith not developing.
And he had hoped Stuart would want to stay, not return to San Jose.
April 19th, 2015 at 12:00 AM ^
Bringing back Sammy was horrible.
Pay him.
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Sounds good for us
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To me that says he is the heir apparent for Red.
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The fuck kind of question is this to ask before a playoff game?
Yost is closer than the Joe from the burbs... Assuming he's in the Novi/FH area
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Holland and most of the Swedes live in novo, except zetterberg, who lives in Birmingham. I think he's coming back, assuming Wings offer at least 4 yrs/$15M.
That sounded kind of stalkerish
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they all had accounts and came in from time to time. Holland always came with his kids, and Manny Legacy always had a different girl. both were super nice though.
Blockbuster.... Can't wait to tell my future kids about renting VHS tapes.
Ha. I lived there
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At least you had a story for it
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April 19th, 2015 at 12:53 AM ^
Did any of them rent "Happy Scrappy Hero Pup"?
April 18th, 2015 at 10:00 PM ^
I thought he lived in Ann Arbor
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oh boy!!!
Wouldn't hate it if next year Babcock and Holland turned into Blashill and Yzerman.
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April 19th, 2015 at 12:48 PM ^
I assume you mean "hasn't" done jack. In that case, may I remind you he hasn't done jack except to keep the longest playoff appearance streak in major sports alive, while turning over the roster multiple times.
I am essentially agnostic on Babcock staying in Detroit at this point. He has won one playoff series in the past four seasons, assuming Tampa Bay knocks them out which seems pretty likely after how they have played the past two months. I think that his career here has run its course and a change of scenery might be good for both him and Detroit. I wouldn't complain if he stayed but the Grand Rapids coach seems like he has potential to be a great one and maybe this is his time.
Re Holland:
He has had some very poor offseasons over the past five years but with all of the good and bad, it's still 24 years in a row in the playoffs while Boston and LA just missed them. San Jose missed them too despite looking like they were on the cusp of breaking through five years ago and Toronto hasn't done jack shit in 20 years despite being perfectly willing to spend lots of money. The Avs are poop again. Anaheim never got close to the Cup after 2007. Things could be worse.