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Borom can start at RT next season. He’s very capable of being at least league average at the position. I’m more concerned about Mahogany at LG. He had a few nice games 2 years ago. He was not good last year. He’s always going to be an injury concern too. I’m not sure I feel any better with Frazier or Bartch in that spot either. That’s why Ioane is intriguing. I’d have far less concerns fitting him in at RG next to Sewell at day 1 than I would a new rookie RT. That would create a very strong line with solid depth everywhere except RT which they can address later in the draft.

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Has Melania ever spoken during the 5 plus years the idiot was president?

I hope there's not violence during the transition and I hope that the US is not in the middle of it.

if danielson and kasper arent 2 and 3 c next year with cossa in net and asp somewhere on the blue line, then the team is trouble OR theyve been traded for actual nhl talent.

i thought you mentioned a matthews trade at some point. my bad. i often wonder if detroit has shopped its prospects and people dont want them (other than edvinsson)? the "no one wanted danielson" rumors were all over the place. if true, it says a lot about detroit's drafting the last few years.

yzerman's success in drafting has been greatly exaggerated. to stanley's point, its still a little early for most of the picks. otoh, you could see seider/raymond as hits right away. edvinsson took a year. kasper has had 1/2 a good season and a flop. danielson flopped this year. asp was shown to be quite flawed. while every prospect develops in their own way, if they were going to be stars you would likely know it already. and the success of finnie and kasper on the top line next to raymond/larkin tells me more about larkin than it does about yzerman's drafting.

I think it's extremely likely they take an OT at #17 (or whenever they first pick). I've seen a couple mocks with Mauigoa falling to the Bengals at #10 or Dolphins at #11. If that happens, I wouldn't be super shocked to see us ship off next year's 3rd and some later round picks to move up... But I think they value Borom more than we do, for better or worse. I think they see him as an available stopgap if they don't go OT early. Holmes has quantified his number of "day one talents" before. Talked about Jameson Williams was one of their last day one talents, which is why they traded up. Talked about how both Gibbs and Campbell were day one talents on their board. If someone like Sonny Styles, Mansoor Delane, Caleb Downs, or maybe even Jeremiyah Love inexplicably fell into their laps, I think they pull the trigger on that pick, trust Borom can get it done, and maybe go get Cam Robinson or Jonah Williams on a one-year deal as an insurance policy or to at least add some competition to the room.

This trade deadline could be fascinating. If we are a sub .500 team, I could see many players on the chopping block, including Skubal, Greene, Mize and Carp.

It's looking increasingly likely that Peter Magyar is going to beat autocrat Viktor Orban in the Hungarian general election today and become their next leader. It looks like his TISZA party will get a strong majority over Orban's fascist Fidesz party as well. I hope this happens!!!

Apart from Larkin, Kenny had two #15 picks in 25 years! Yzerman has had seven #15 picks already. The year before Holland picked Larkin he picked Mantha at #20 - Mantha was handed to Yzerman in 2019 as a 24 year old coming off a 25G 48Pts in 67 games. Holland also picked Tyler Bertuzzi late in the 2nd round in the same draft as Mantha and Bertuzzi was handed to Yzerman in 2019 as a 24 year old coming off a 21 G 47 Pts season. Hronek, drafted late in the 2nd round in 2016, was handed to Yzerman as a 21 year old. Holland missed on two top 10s - Zadina and Rasmussen - but let's see how much better than those two Kasper and Danielson turn out to be. That's not defending Holland, just saying that apart from his three top 6 overall picks Yzerman's drafting hasn't yielded much ...yet. A 91 point season with 2 games to go, on the playoff bubble, isn't much different than what I expected last September. We'd feel differently about 91 points if: a) the points hadn't been frontended in the first 2/3 of the season followed by a 1/3 of the season collapse; and b) youth like Kasper, Danielson, ASP and Cossa had contributed to those 91 points.

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.

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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.

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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.