Patrick Kane To Make Red Wings Debut Tonight

I’d put ol’ Pat the Fountain second on the U.S. list. LaFontaine was amazing in his day. 

He was a true Chicago man.  I never thought he would EVER be a Red Wing. A few years too late but will still be cool to see.  I shouldnt be surprised though. Look what happened with Chelios.

kaner!

trust the yzer-plan.  its working.  

LGRW.

I think Kane deserves the title as greatest US player ever.

There was a good story about his surgery in the Athletic the other day. By all accounts from the doctors and team staff, he's physically back to where he was two years ago. That would be a huge boost to Detroit's power play.

Don't look now, but they're only 6 points away from the top of the league. Lyon has been a difference maker.

Well we won't find out his productivity ceiling against the sharks.

My two cents (or 20), I don't care for the guy...

Police say the cab driver was beaten because he did not have 20 cents in change to give Kane, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2007 draft and the NHL rookie of the year the following year. The 62-year-old cab driver, identified as Jan Radecki, said he was punched, grabbed by the throat and had his glasses broken.

My buddy and I grabbed 2 tickets as soon as the news dropped yesterday. Didn't want prices to shoot up. Can't wait to see Kane down at LCA tonight!

Kane is first on the list -- he's above modano / chelios

PSA - Duel in the D tickets on sale today with code BAND. On sale to general public tomorrow morning. I just grabbed 4 seats in the lower bowl - row 9!

It's funny that you mention Mike Modano because this feels a bit like Modano's swansong with the Wings, too.

I kinda think of it as stunt casting. There was the suspicion that signing all those middle of the road players in the off-season was part of an ownership-driven attempt to get the Wings into the playoffs no matter what long-term implications,simply for the $$$ now. Adding a guy like Kane - big name but high chance he's done soon if not already - doesn't really do much to dispel such notions.

Unfortunately, so far it looks like Filip Zadina’s bet he placed on himself isn’t paying off. 

My Patrick Kane story.

I live in Chicago, in a house that happens to have been owned (a few owners ago) by Stan Bowman and his wife when he was in the Chicago front office (but before he was GM).  When the Blackhawks drafted Kane, he was still 17 and his parents didn't want him living in Chicago on his own.  Bowman volunteered a room in his basement, where Kane lived for a while.  The neighbors report they used to see him in the kitchen area eating cereal in the morning.  (They also report that Stan and his wife Sue were lovely people.  We still occasionally get mail addressed to Sue - usually charity requests.)

So we have a room in the basement that we've dubbed the "Patrick Kane Room".  Once we get the basement refinished (had some flooding damage last year) it will be my home office.

It will be interesting to see if he can return to being an impact player.  It sounds like the next person to return to form after hip resurfacing will be the first.

I disliked Kane intensely circa 2009-13, when the Hawks were gradually supplanting the Wings as the class of the Western Conference, but those days are long gone. At this point I'd be pulling for his comeback regardless, but all the more so now that it's going to be in red and white. This team might still be a season or two away from real Cup contention (or maybe not, we shall see!) but I think the playoff drought definitely ends this year. Love what Stevie's doing, feel like his trajectory has been similar to Jim's: the old hero the fans wanted to come home and rescue the team, but maybe the turnaround hasn't been as quick as hoped for. Jim had a four-year head start on Stevie, hoping patience will be similarly rewarded soon. LGRW!

This has been an interesting -- and fun -- Wings season.  At the price/term of the deal, and with the diligence the Wings did, Kaner was too good to pass up.  It's win all around -- if he's really back, you are adding another point per game scorer, guy with serious playoff chops, etc.  And if we don't catch the playoffs in a very tough East, you trade him at the deadline to someone who does. If he's not back, it's one year and he won't play much; Wings are not desperate for scoring.   Wings need to be better 5 on 5 in terms of shots.  Doubt they will sustain the shooting percentage all year, but some of that due to how well they move the puck.  Goaltending is the hangup now -- Husso does not seem to have made the leap; getting excellent backup goaltending now but that issue needs to get sorted.

Google search says it’s on espn+. How does everyone watch if it’s not on tv? 

JFC what an annoying game.  I’ve hated the sharks since they beat the Wings in the 94 playoffs.  
 

But man Husso is underwhelming and our D core isn’t so hot either.  

This team gets a 4-0 lead and then the entire defense (including goaltending) acts like it just ate an entire package of Exlax. 

Husso came into tonight's game with an .891 SV and a 3.48 GAA. You're going exactly nowhere with goaltending like that. Is Lyon the long term answer? Not sure. But I do know that Husso isn't getting it done this year, and this defense is abysmal with a sizeable lead. 

This is likely a playoff team. But they're getting bombed in the 1st round with a back half like this.