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10-22-2015, 04:36 PM
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Rick Watkins Professional Journal
 Entry: October 8th, 2014 The Season kicks off for the Detroit Red Wings October 11th against the Florida Panthers at The Joe. There’s a buzz around the whole facility from the front office staff down to the building maintenance crew and the fans around the city are pumped up. The chance to defend the cup has put a charge in this team and heightened everyone’s emotions, you can see it in the players at practice. Coach Babcock has drilled into the players all preseason that they’ll have to do everything they did last season with twice the intensity and twice the precision if we are to repeat as Stanley Cup Champions. I love Babs’ leadership. In the front office we’ve set our scouts schedules and as per usual they’ll be spending just about 100% of their time in Canada watching CHL games. Each time we have a meeting to discuss scouting and the 2015 draft I can’t help the fact that I want to get Connor McDavid. Everyone chuckles and says that if we have the first overall pick we’re all going to lose our jobs. They’re right, it would take an epic catastrophe of injuries for this team to receive the number 1 pick. I look at that guy though and see the next Yzerman…. Put a C on that jersey and twenty years later his number is in the rafters. Nevertheless we’ll have to see how it fleshes out.
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10-22-2015, 04:37 PM
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Detroit Red Wings 2014-15 Full Schedule
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10-23-2015, 12:33 PM
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Rick Watkins Professional Journal
Entry: November 1st, 2014 The team started off the season with two difficult home losses including getting shut out by the Panthers the night we put the Stanley Cup Championship banner in the rafters. Fortunately the boys got their legs back underneath hem and we finished up October 5-3 and in good position within the division. The predominant news in the Detroit Free Press outside of game to game results is that Coach Babcock is on the last year of his contract and he hasn’t been able to reach a deal with management. In my dealings with his people it’s been a bit of a strange ride. In one meeting it seems like they’re falling over themselves to work towards a deal and then the very next day they’re acting like he’s already got another position lined up. Babs is a top notch coach and we want to keep him for sure but we’re confident that we can find someone else to fill the spot behind the bench and do a great job. Other than the above there isn’t much news around the organization. The team has been healthy and the guys in Grand Rapids are working hard. The league as a whole seems to have had a moratorium on player movement. It seems like each franchise is only willing to add bodies through the draft and ditch their bad contracts as they expire.
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10-23-2015, 12:34 PM
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October 2015 Results
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10-23-2015, 12:35 PM
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November 2014 Schedule
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10-26-2015, 03:32 PM
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Rick Watkins Professional Journal
Entry: December 1st, 2014 The Red Wings went 9-5 in November and solidified a spot near the top of the division. So far we’ve been able to stay fairly healthey except for a couple lost games from Kindl and DeKeyser on the blue line. Fortunately we’ve got Brian Lashoff in Grand Rapids who is a very capable sub in for spot duty. Coach Babcock has been moving guys around between lines to try to find a solid combination. Between Sheahan, Weiss, & Andersson we’ve got an excess of centers who at this point in their careers are essentiall role players. Weiss is solid and a good leader so he’s consistently in the lineup. Sheahan and Andersson are basically the same player though. Both two way centers who can’t win a faceoff. Basically one get the start on the wing while the other remains a healthy scratch most often. Coach Babs and I have discussed what to do with them and we realize this is a good problem to have but these are two young guys who we want to get ice time in the NHL. For now we’ll have to keep the status quo as there aren’t any real takers for Andersson and I’m not willing to dump Sheahan yet as I think his potential is still high. Off the ice I’ve still got Connor McDavid in the back of my mind. The Islanders are terrible this year and it looks like they’ll secure the number 1 pick. I asked an assistant to do some research on the down low about what it might take to get him. If news got out we were seeking this move then the price would go up I’m sure. I’m told we’d have to give up at least three draft pick and maybe three more young players. I’ve been stewing on this and can’t decide if it will be worth it or not.
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10-26-2015, 03:33 PM
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Red Wings November 2014 Results
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