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Here We Go, Kenny

10/05/2017 at 3:20pm EDT

I fully anticipate a Red Wing victory tonight to "open" Little Caesars Arena. Why? Because they're good?

No. Oh no, Kenny. This team that you (de) constructed is not good. You've made sure of that.

But, the adrenaline and the novelty and the crowd and the fact that the Wings are playing Ingalls sisters, minus Laura, and everyone's healthy (minus Kronwall, of course and Glendening, I think)...yeah, I think you can count on a win tonight.

And then? Just 39 more and you get your streak back, Kenny. Because, we all know that since around 2010? That's all you've really cared about...hence our position as the shittiest team in hockey.

40 wins got Toronto in last year. It's a reasonable goal, if your goal is the playoffs, this year.

What a shit show of a summer. What a shit show of a year. What an absolute dumpster fire of a GM.

Ah well, at least Athanasiou's signed. I mean, that's what Ken Holland's always done, right? String them along, convince them to take a little less for the good of the team? The Red Wing Way.

Shittttttt, what way we talking about again?

Look. No. I'm not completely pessimistic. Not completely. I mean, yes, Ken Holland is so far out of his element right now that's it's honestly laughable. I'm not even angry anymore. He's just a hapless guy holding on because no one has the hubris to hoist his ass overboard. He's a cartoon.

But the team...there are possibilities. There is, in fact, youth and speed and talent up front. And, umm, if Larkin and if Nyquist and if Abdelkader and about five others have even good years...

There is, actually, quality goaltending.

There is absolutely no defense. At all.

But, it's a new season. It's the spring time of our fading years. Because October is our spring. If Ernie Harwell used to was poetic about the voices of turtles, we can discard the disdain we have for the most inept GM in all of hockey for a few weeks and allow ourselves to dream...

...of what? An 8 seed?

Yeah. There's your legacy, Kenny. On October the frigging 5th, the best we can muster is a fleeting hope for a (nother) first round exit.

But...it is spring. It is the commencement of yet another season that could shock us.

40 games, Kenny. That's all we ask in order to reach your ultimate goal, the 8 seed. Not out of the realm of possibility. And, I know, most people would say, "40 games, Blash. That's all we ask..." But Blash is you Kenny. Blash is Holland. We are alllllll Holland.

God help us all and Let's Go Red Wings.

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