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Fun With Standings

03/08/2018 at 7:00pm EST

With 16 games remaining and a hermit's ass chance of making the playoffs, I thought we'd take a little ditty around the playoff standings and see just how pathetic Ken Holland truly is.

Steve Yzerman, the man who should be GM if not for the ego of Tick Tock? Oh we know he's in. He's way in. Not just in, but buried. Like plan a parade in.

Mike Babcock, the man Holland drove out of town because he mismanaged a roster, a cap and refused to leverage the best years of Hank Zetterberg, Pavel Datsyuk and the last four good years of Nick Lidstrom? He's in.

Pittsburgh? The team Jim Rutherford and before him, Ray Shero, continued to stock despite a cap, the men who actually make trades, a talent Ken Holland has never had? In. Again. And again and again.

Columbus? The team the Wings used to absolutely own? In. No real comparison to Holland here but anything good happening in that city is a disgrace and if I have to blame someone for anything I'll blame Holland for this too.

Nashville. Interesting. If you think about it, theyve been successful for a long stretch of the Wings run until Kenny flushed the team down the toilet. And still, they are. A cup contender? Maybe not. But competetive...oh, and they're arena is filled every night. In Nashville.

Minnesota is in and Kenny? Would we be if you'd been able to land Parise and Suter? Well, Kenny? Would we?

Vegas.

Fucking Vegas, Kenny. The team the Wings play tonight and the expansion team that is alllll the way in while we gaze wistfully, licking the window and wishing.

Almost in?

Denver, Kenny.

Anaheim, San Jose, the Kings, Jersey, Philly and Washington Lots of teams we see every year, Kenny. Did they need a rebuild? Anaheim? When? San Jose? When? Washington? When?

Pathetic.

It's a live blog, bitches. LGRW and FKHASAP

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