RED WINGS FANS MAY NOT WANT TO HEAR THIS… A BRUTALLY HONEST ASSESSMENT OF STEVE YZERMAN THIS SEASON

RED WINGS FANS MAY NOT WANT TO HEAR THIS… A BRUTALLY HONEST ASSESSMENT OF STEVE YZERMAN THIS SEASON

H. So, it’s time to get brutally honest here, people. But before we dive into that, I wanted to give a big shout out over to the Hockey Town Rundown podcast. They do some pretty good work, and I stumbled across a tweet posted by one of their hosts earlier this week. It’s a brutally honest take on the Red Wings and Steve Eisermanman. And I thought that this was interesting enough to bring up here on the YouTube channel. So, big shout out over to Hockey Town Rundown as well as Zack Traven from the show. This is a long one and I stumbled across this. It’s got 16,000 views and you know, there are some pretty good conversations that you could bring up in response to some of these thoughts. So, I’ll let Zach take the floor and we’ll read his tweet together, shall we? Here it is. a brutally honest assessment of Steve Eerman and the Detroit Red Wings. Zach says, “I get plenty of people saying to me, you are not critical enough on Steve Eerman.” Okay, here you go. Steve Eerman has made some questionable moves this off season. You traded a second plus a fourth plus Peter Morazzic to get Gibson and let Alex Lion walk, who has a 3.07 07 GAA and a .907 save percentage in 12 games played. That would be leading the team. Now, before we continue with the rest of the points here, that is something that we probably should have mentioned at some point earlier on in the season. Amidst all these conversations of Red Wings goalenders being bad, not up to snuff, can’t tell but this, John Gibson that, you talk about Alex Lion. He’s been doing really well this season with the Buffalo Sabres. And I wanted to also dive into just that conversation over here. Lion, 32 years old, playing for Buffalo. He has an 899 save percentage. Okay, it dipped a little bit from when the tweet was originally made. That’s because of two straight games with a 783 save percentage and a 333. But if you take a look at how the season opened up for Lion, I mean, he had a 933 against Boston, 919, shut out against Florida, 900, 912, 897, 818, then a 943. I mean, this guy was nothing short of a solid NHL goalender, which is something you can’t really say about some of the other guys that exist in the Redwing system at the moment. Okay, no shade at all to John Gibson, but this is what the tweet continues to say. The Hamik experiment would have been good if he was the seventh D, but he unfortunately continues to be rotated as the sixth D with Jacob Bernard Docker. I said many times if he plays more than five games played, there’s a bigger issue with the team. He is at 15 games and is a minus 10 plus minus. Now, we’re not going to sit here and pretend like plus minus is the be all and end all, but Travis Hamick has not been good. So, yeah, you could probably agree with that sentiment there. JVR has finally found somewhat of a groove, but was MIA for the first month and a half of the season, albeit he didn’t train with the team until the season started. Mason Appleton has reverted back to a checking role where the offense has completely disappeared. But here’s a reminder. This is kind of what people wanted. Steve did what he could to leave room for rookies and other players to earn their way onto the lineup. ASP, Finny, MBN, Danielson. More than likely, we’ll see more if this team continues their trajectory of the season. players on the team with less than 164 games played in the NHL, which is two full seasons. You’ve got Edmonson, Aljo, JBD, ASP, Finny, Danielson, and MBN, who was on the team and then who got sent down. Zach says almost onethird of this roster is still getting used to the NHL. This is to be expected and it will happen. But from a veteran standpoint, we cannot just expect Eerman to wave a magic wand and expect him to make this team better based on what we expect out of him. He got what he could get without potentially hurting the franchise for years down the line. And don’t forget that it takes two to tango. Not every one of your favorite free agents is going to want to come to Detroit. Blame the GM all you want, but getting that player to commit to one spot where there are 30 other choices isn’t the greatest odds of getting the player you might want. Essentially, what this thought is is kind of addressing two Red Wings fans perceptions at the moment. You’ve got a crowd of folks, and I’m not even saying these are two separate crowds of folks. They could be the same, but you’ve got one idea that says, “Hey, Stevie Y, the Wings are not good. Add players. Make them better. Grab the necessary talent and inject it onto this team to allow them to be better. And then you have another idea that in a way contradicts that that says, “Hey, you just got to get younger. Let these young guys come in. Let them develop. Let them get up to speed. And then we can start to take competing and contending seriously as a franchise. But I like what Zach does over here. Even though there were guys that were added and that haven’t necessarily been the most amazing, you can say Hamik, you can say JVR took a while to get going. You can say Appleton has regressed, but this is kind of what people wanted. Room for the rookies, room for the young guys, and a roster that was relatively young put together on paper. And they’re relatively inexperienced, too. almost a third of the roster is still getting used to the National Hockey League. And so ultimately, I think it’s a pretty eyeopening thought that allows us to just look at the Red Wings more as how they are rather than with the improvements that need to be made. Yes, it is true the goalending needs to be better. Yes, it’s true. There is somewhat of a bizarre lack of drive that exists in some moments of this hockey team’s execution. That is certainly a questionable coaching, leadership, personnel issue, but it’s not something that can be directly addressed by adding a guy or adding two guys or adding three guys or removing some of the guys that are on the team right now. I think there are bigger fish to fry when it comes to addressing the status quo of the Detroit Red Wings and specifically on that work ethic engagement issue. I mean, a lot of Red Wings fans have been saying it. It’s been kind of there for a while. It’s been multiple years of that kind of stuff going on. Heading back over onto the tweet over here, Zach says he’ll close off with this. Remember when Steven Stamco was a UFA and everyone was pissed that Steve didn’t get him here because the narrative was Ilick is too cheap? Well, Stamco has seven points in 23 games and a plus minus of – 10 this year. So, for the sake of this post, what would you have done and what do you think Steve Eisermanman should have done differently? Go back, look at the past UFA classes and trade options and let’s have a real conversation about this. Now, I think the right answer would be to take a bet on every guy that was guaranteed to being good, like Justin Brazzo, a Morgan Geeky, like all the diamonds in the rough that ended up actually providing significant value. That’s what you could do with hindsight. But of course, that’s with hindsight. You can’t say that Morgan Geeki was going to be a top NHL goal scorer back when he was sent away from wherever it was he was before to Boston. At the end of the day though, this is a pretty interesting dissection of Stevie Y and what he has done so far. It’s true that some of these moves are kind of bizarre and probably mistakes, but when you look at the team and the problems that I think a lot of fans have with this team, there are a number of things where it’s like, yeah, well, if you get one, you can’t necessarily have the other. If you want to get the young guys, you can’t necessarily add all these extra pieces. But then again, is that more important to this team right now? You can let me know your thoughts in the comments section below. Again, big shout over to Zack Traven and the Hockey Town Rundown podcast because of course they were the folks that provided the tweet that I thought was really interesting to read here. So, let me know your thoughts in the comment section below. A brutally honest assessment of Steve Eisermanman and the Red Wings. How do you feel about this entire idea? Thoughts in the comment section. And I hope you enjoyed this Vish Roll 9.

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We’re talking about a brutally honest assessment on Steve Yzerman’s work heading into this year’s Detroit Red Wings season.

This video is taking place after the 2025 NHL Entry Draft, and after the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

The 2025 NHL Draft 1st Round went as follows:

1st) New York Islanders, Matthew Schaefer
2nd) San Jose Sharks, Michael Misa
3rd) Chicago Blackhawks, Anton Frondell
4th) Utah Mammoth, Caleb Desnoyers
5th) Nashville Predators, Brady Martin
6th) Philadelphia Flyers, Porter Martone
7th) Boston Bruins, James Hagens
8th) Seattle Kraken, Jake O’Brien
9th) Buffalo Sabres, Radim Mrtka
10th) Anaheim Ducks, Roger McQueen
11th) Pittsburgh Penguins, Benjamin Kindel
12th) Philadelphia Flyers (from New York Rangers via Vancouver Canucks and Pittsburgh Penguins), Jack Nesbitt
13th) Detroit Red Wings, Carter Bear
14th) Columbus Blue Jackets, Jackson Smith
15th) Vancouver Canucks, Braeden Cootes
16th) New York Islanders (from Calgary Flames via Montreal Canadiens), Victor Eklund
17th) New York Islanders (from Montreal Canadiens), Kashawn Aitcheson
18th) Calgary Flames (from New Jersey Devils), Cole Reschny
19th) St. Louis Blues, Justin Carbonneau
20th) Columbus Blue Jackets (from Minnesota Wild), Pyotr Andreyanov
21st) Nashville Predators (from Ottawa Senators), Cameron Reid
22nd) Pittsburgh Penguins (from Colorado Avalanche via Philadelphia Flyers), Bill Zonnon
23rd) Ottawa Senators (from Tampa Bay Lightning via Nashville Predators), Logan Hensler
24th) Pittsburgh Penguins (from Los Angeles Kings), Will Horcoff
25th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Toronto Maple Leafs), Vaclav Nestrasil
26th) Nashville Predators (from Vegas Golden Knights via San Jose Sharks), Ryker Lee
27th) Washington Capitals, Lynden Lakovic
28th) Winnipeg Jets, Sascha Boumedienne
29th) Chicago Blackhawks (from Carolina Hurricanes), Mason West
30th) San Jose Sharks (from Dallas Stars), Joshua Ravensbergen
31st) Los Angeles Kings (from Edmonton Oilers via Philadelphia Flyers and Pittsburgh Penguins), Henry Brzustewicz
32nd) Calgary Flames (from Florida Panthers), Cullen Potter

This video is also taking place after 2025 NHL Season, and after the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs, where the Florida Panthers defeated the Edmonton Oilers in the Finals.

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