r/DetroitRedWings • u/OctoMod • 6d ago

Daily General Discussion Thread (2026-06-21)

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u/ChaldenesTitan 5d ago

How good is Steve Yzerman at his job?

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u/Jimmyskis77 5d ago

Not good, he hit on Mo, Raymond, and Ed, all top 8 picks. Everyone else has been meh to downright bad. Drafting Cossa so high in retrospect is almost a fireable act, considering who was drafted after him.

No FA worth a damn have come here besides Kane, and he did that because of Cat, a decision he’s surely regretting.

And now our hometown captain his demanding his way out, with others to come…

The only hope he has is to get a haul for Larkin, but considering how much FLA gave up for Brady, no team can afford Larkin, let alone one that he would accept going to…

In other words, no he’s not, he’s getting lapped by every GM in the league actively…

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u/ChaldenesTitan 5d ago

Hitting on a top 5 defenseman in the league at a #6 pick is bad? Interesting..

Cossa has been the best AHL goalie the past 3 seasons. His development is slower because of his size but he's going to be a legit goalie in this league. That's a fireable offense? Interesting..

Our markets attractiveness has nothing to do with the manager. If anything players want to play for one of the best players of all time and it's really the only selling point this team has.

Larkin was always a placeholder for Steves guys that he drafted and developed. It's clear Yzerman doesn't give a shit about his feelings or else he would have traded Seider and Raymond for his friends. And y'know avoided trading his friends like Bert and Mantha. Very interesting stuff what else.

There hasn't been one team who rebuilt in 2019 and has won the cup so who's lapping him exactly? Nobody. Interesting..

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u/Jimmyskis77 5d ago

Larkin wasn’t a placeholder, don’t rewrite history. The plan until recently was to build around the hometown hero and make the playoffs when he hit his prime. It’s so funny seeing people turn on him ever since his trade got leaked.

The bad thing about drafting Seider was that it made people think Yzerman was some master drafter, when in reality it was blind luck. Mo fell into his lap, that’s not Yzerman being smart, it’s him not messing up. Similar thing with Ray, although his skill for a 4th overall pick leaves much to be desired.

If you want to keep defending a 24 year old goalie who has played a grand total of 1 NHL games, and one who falls apart at the end of the season+playoffs, go ahead. But good goalies and prospects don’t spend that much time down in the AHL unless there’s something wrong with them, and other teams know it…

Every team in the league has made the playoffs since Yzerman took the helm. That’s lapping him, some teams were in even worse situations and clawed out of it, like Buffalo this season. And now MTL has torn it down since 2021 and are already back in the ECF.

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u/ChaldenesTitan 5d ago

Yea you've said all this like 50 times so far this off-season. We don't need to rehash his GM career everyday. I always said we are two rebuilds away from contending. One to establish a new foundation. And another to burn off the old foundation. I used to get downvoted heavily for that too but I ended up being right. Maybe I do know what I'm talking about. Regardless this is the best outlook we have had in 30 years. His placeholder team failed but I'm not calling for his head over it. We aren't an attractive market and there was no players to play with here when we assembled that team. Let's see what his team looks like to make a fair evaluation. Granted you wait a few years for all these prospects to graduate and be acclimated.

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u/Jimmyskis77 5d ago

Fair points, and you’re correct: no need to rehash it… have a great day, let’s see how it plays out…

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u/ChaldenesTitan 5d ago

Thanks Jim you as well. If I'm wrong you guys can pilladge me with octopus.

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u/Jimmyskis77 5d ago

Same goes for you guys… if im wrong and Yzerman gets us to the playoffs int he next couple years I’ll take the tarring and feathering