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The way free agency has unfolded i think the Lions are pretty much forced into taking an OT early. If they don't take one at 17 i would bet they trade up from 50 to get one. The tackles that are rumored to be there at 50 do not look like plug and play types and they must have a playable option coming out of the draft. They could make a trade, but that seems unlikely. It's probably more likely that they move up from 17 to get one than to wait until 50 to select one. When they needed a corner, they moved up to get Arnold. I think that is what they will be thinking here.

Insert Darryl Rogers quote here Sacramento Kings expected to retain head coach Doug Christie: Sources

Had anyone looked up Mo Mantha’s numbers in Pittsburgh this season. Hockey is weird. Kenny also made a few very good deals this season to put the Kings on the cusp of the playoffs despite having the 2nd fewest regulation wins in the league and also get a few extra draft picks while doing it.

Wow! This really is eye opening. Deported and held to lose custody of her child. Cruelty.....MAGA cruelty...

Alcantra vs. Skubal. Double no-hitter going into the 7th Seriously, we may see 30 Ks today in this game.

How do we know its something... Julie K. Brown is the person who knows more than anyone not on the inside...

https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-04-12/amanda-ungaro-from-sharing-soirees-with-the-trumps-to-being-deported-by-ice.html This is something.

Might as well win

Nixon leveraged the "mad bomber" thing pretty well to get out of Vietnam but had Kissinger doing his cold calculating thing to manipulate the rift between the PRC and Soviets. Meanwhile, the people who have grifted and grifted and diddled and diddled do not have a move to make because nobody fears TACO.

The general consensus among many fans seems to be that they will draft either a OT or DE/Edge in the first round. I don't necessarily agree with that take. I don't because Brad Holmes has shown us that time and again, he is drafting for talent over need and looking at talent + need when making selection. He wants to draft the best player available, with the most talent, who is a culture fit, and also fills some need on this team. But filling the need comes behind the other trains. Now, he's going to be realistic when drafting talent over need, so he's not going to take Ty Simpson at QB just because he may be the BPA on his board when he's picking at #17. But I think that also means he's not just automatically draft an OT or DE/Edge because fans or the media think it is such a big need they must draft only one of those two positions groups. So based on my theory of the case about Brad Holmes, I did a mock draft where he took neither a OT or a DE/Edge in the first round. In this case, I went with a safety in McNeill-Warren from Toledo. My reasoning here for taking a safety in the first is because there are long term concerns about the health and ability of Kirby Joseph and Brian Branch may not be back until mid-season. I still ended up taking a DE/Edge in the second round and an OT in the third. This is what I came up with using the ESPN Mock Draft Simulator.. 1st: Emmanuel McNeil-Warren: S/Toledo 2nd: Gabe Jacas: Edge/Illinois 3rd: Drew Shelton: OT/Penn State 4th: Kaytron Allen: RB/Penn State 5th: Will Kacmarek: TE/Ohio State 7th: Owen Heinecke: LB/Oklahoma 7th: Harrison Wallace III: WR/Ole Miss

We must never stop blaming Kenny! His failure was abject and complete and will still be felt for another five years. If anyone other than Yzerman was responsible for cleaning up the nuclear waste dump Kenny left, Hockeytown would have chewed them up and spit them out a long time ago. I haven't said a word about trading for Matthews. Not sure where that is coming from. Their best trade option is probably Edvinsson, once they sign him to an extension. I'm not sure I'd want to part with him now that he and Seider are the on the way to being the best pairing in the league. Would I consider trading him for Brady Tkachuk if he told Ottawa I'm not re-signing here and if we could get him extended? Now that would be interesting.

if tkachuk comes out and says "i will not sign an extension and will only sogn an extension with the detroit red wings" then we can probably trade for him. the red wings have a better chance of making the playoffs this season than that happening.

i think its too late to trade larkin.

come on, jason. 7th round pick hits are pure luck. getting a plugger like finnie is nice, but it doesnt show any particular acumen. gibson for a second was a decent trade. debrincat told ottawa he would not sign an extension and would only sign an extension in detroit. that's not yzerman finding a good deal, its having a deal thrown into his lap. i dont give him much credit for that. every prospect who we are expecting to be good will not pan out. we expected kasper to be good, buium, wallinder, tuomisto...where are they? he's reponsible for the final product and the final product hasnt been good enough. in fact, its failed in spectacular ways in multiple seasons now. none of us can say with any certainty that "firing yzerman wont help." how do you know that? the criticism about yzerman's plan when he started this was his signing middling talent to long term deals, thus raising the floor temporarily but in a way that prevents them from bottoming out long enough. the second criticism was in his drafting "try hard" players who dont have elite skills like danielson and kasper. well, how are they doing? third, the "plan" to get cap space and sign free agents failed because he refused to sign any top free agents while we had space and now EVERYONE has space and there is no one to sign. no kyle connor. no mitch marner. no gavrikov. no guentzle. and stop dreaming about trading for austin matthews because 1) they traded their asset for justin faulk; and 2) the bidding would start with mo seider. we need to stop blaming kenny for taking zadina over hughes and realize yzerman's failure to draft quality depth players and inability to sign quality players has resulted in this season's collapse.

Maybe MAGA sees this as a good thing—get all the “libtard f***ots” out of the armed forces and replace them with born-hard patriots.

I agree it is unlikely. But they traded DeBrincat to us. They traded Perron to us. Sure, different situations, but every situation is a different situation. If Ottawa doesn't think they can re-sign Tkachuk or doesn't want to re-sign him because he's American, he's exactly the kind of player Yzerman should be in on, especially if Yzerman does not intend to trade Larkin. Larkin needs someone to do the dirty work on the ice and in the locker room.

A prime example of Trump telling us, right under our noses, exactly what he planned to do and we were not quite sophisticated enough at the time to see it that way.

If you trade Larkin then you might as well start the rebuild over and keep on taking until you get a top line capable of putting up 90+ points in a season on the regular.

Yes and one of his seventh round picks was the best player on the ice yesterday. And he brought in the team’s best forward through a trade. And he signed Gibson who covered up for a full season of weak offense and almost dragged them to the playoffs. And he made a trade at the deadline like the players asked for last season and they still wet the bed. I don’t claim he is perfect, but yes, when we could have had Quinn Hughes and Kenny picked Zadina, when we could have had Martin Necas or Nick Suzuki or Robert Thomas or Jason Robertson and Kenny picked Rasmussen… you can go on and on down the list and see that good franchises still have players contributing and even leading their teams from draft picks made ten or more years ago. Any one of those players would have made this a playoff roster. Firing Yzerman is not going to help. In fact he is the only one who has the credibility to rebuild this franchise from the depths that Kenny left it in. Do they need more money in analytics? Do they need more help in scouting? Player development? I don’t know, but I think Yzerman should be on the phone to his peers across town who are leading franchise turnarounds. I think he needs to buy out Compher. I think he needs to let Mac call up some kids who will allow him to bench bottom six vets who aren’t playing with an edge. And I think he needs to listen to trade offers for Larkin, Raymond, Edvinsson, or a goalie prospect.

If the plan were to include possibly trading these guys, it might be kinda tricky to find real value in return. Riley would be the best candidate for a good return; Tork would have to go on a pretty good run to get interest from less-tuned-in GMs; I don’t think Carp is going to bring back anything substantial on his own. I’d be really surprised if it happened this year. I’d guess the most likely time would be the winter of 27-28. It may be at least as likely they all stay all the way to the end and we finagle a pick from whatever the system is at the time they go.

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