{"id":19338,"date":"2019-12-12T08:40:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T13:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=19338"},"modified":"2019-12-12T08:40:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T13:40:14","slug":"its-time-to-pull-the-plug-stevie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=19338","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s time to pull the plug, Stevie&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.haven&#8217;t really talked a lot about sports lately but with the debacle that is my Red Wings, it&#8217;s time to wade in with my two cents.\u00a0 Stevie Y, it&#8217;s time to pull the plug on Jeff Blashill and go a different direction&#8230;after all, we are nearing a club and league record of losses and the Wings are in last place so what could it hurt? You have a Cup winning assistant on the bench in Dan Bylsma and even if he isn&#8217;t your long term solution, this situation shouts that there is change needed&#8230;I know that firing Blashill won&#8217;t magically give the team more talent, but with the young players on the team, there is a real danger that some of them could be permanently damaged by losing, losing and losing&#8230;.and the prospects of luring top level coaching talent for next year is going to decrease with every loss so why not now? I wince every time I see the box score from a Wings game now when I used to look forward to every game and I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m alone in that&#8230;.Stevie, think of the fans who have supported you and the Wings for their entire lives&#8230;it&#8217;s time to try to give them some hope by doing something, anything that starts us on the road back to respectability&#8230;it&#8217;s too damn hard to watch my Wings the way things are&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;.haven&#8217;t really talked a lot about sports lately but with the debacle that is my Red Wings, it&#8217;s time to wade in with my two cents.\u00a0 Stevie Y, it&#8217;s time to pull the plug on Jeff Blashill and go a different direction&#8230;after all, we are nearing a club and league record of losses and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=19338\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s time to pull the plug, Stevie&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[38,2379,2378],"class_list":["post-19338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-jeff-blashill","tag-steve-yzerman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19339,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19338\/revisions\/19339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}