Abel to Yzerman

Abel to Yzerman

Up To the Quad And To the Gymnasium

10/13/2016 at 6:00pm EDT

"We're...we're going streaking."

-Frank the Tank

Well, Frank. We'll see. We will just see about that. Miles and miles to go before we get to that point. For now?

"Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you."

Oh, yes I did. That just happened.

I quoted Frank the Tank and Steinbeck in one blog lead. Shit. Just. Got. Real.

Streaking? Perhaps. Discontent? Most definitely.

Holy sheep shit. We are one angry lot these days. Every week it's a different back hand to our whore mouths. Datsyuk gone. Helm for millions and millions. Stamkos guaranteed in the fashion of Weber and Parise...back to Tampa. Ott as a last resort. Vanek before him, as an experiment. Promised a defenseman and a whole lot of jack squat. Oh but there's one! Trouba wants to come to Detroit but Tick Tock Kenny doesn't have the assets.

It gnaws at us. You're right, Jack. It gnaws.

But it's early October and all is new. Despite the naysayers, games must be played. And so they shall.

And along with those games the 19 come marauding. Sputtering. Arguing. Obscenities and juvenalities.

There are no more Denvers in our world. No more Blues. The Leafs aren't ours to call rivals (again) yet. If we have one these days it's the team we play tonight. Playoffs should do that, if playoffs are evenly fought, or even fought at all. Last year was no fight. Our rightful father's team wasted no time.

Dark clouds of disgust lay on the horizon. But those clouds are scores and scores of games away. Optimism is authorized.

And so it begins. The season of our likely discontent. But funny thing about those games and how they require playing.

Start drinking. It's gonna be a long, hard, bumpy, hiccuping, high-scoring road.

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Welcome to Abel to Yzerman, a Red Wing blog since 1977. No other site on the internet has better-researched, fact-laden and better prepared discussions than A2Y. Re-phrase: we do little research, find facts and stats highly overrated and claim little to no preparation. There are 19 readers of A2Y. No more, no less. All of them, except maybe one, are juvenile in nature. Reminding them of that in the comment section will only encourage them to prove that.

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