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i think its more on the talent on the team than mcclleland. lots of fragile players in that locker room, it seems. it could also be that when other teams turned up the heat and started playing hard, the wings cant compete. they may also have been playing through injury. regardless, i think its more on the team than the coach.

The question is whether he is a poor coach given that his team collapsed at the finish, or a good coach that had them playing way over their heads through a good part of the season until reality struck against other teams raising their games? Personally it always seems unlikely to me the personnel on this team should have been able to achieve and hold a divisional lead for as long as they did at all.

I have heard from multiple people that the ANWA is the best spectator experience, for what it's worth. I forget the mechanics of the lottery, but do have my calendar set for June 1.

The current Central standings are easy to remember.

McGonigle SS Torres 2B Keith DH Greene, R LF Dingler C Carpenter RF Torkelson 1B McKinstry 3B Báez, J CF

Thanks to @Tigeraholic1 for doing the game threads all year.

When you have record turnout like that...you have to think its can't be good for Orban. If he tries to stay, he will be thrown out by the mob.

FINGERS CROSSED!!! https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-2026-election-high-voter-turnout-viktor-orban-peter-magyar/

That wouldn't be fascinating. It would be depressing.

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.

Gainbridge Fieldhouse - Indianapolis, IN

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.

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...