1984Echoes

OTOH... When Miggy retires after the season... A beautiful opening at DH blossoms wildly, allowing Hinch to put Malloy or Carpenter at DH, or in LF, or on the bench as a pinch-hitter, as needed.

They'll need to move multiple layers of air defense around the nuclear plant simply because... Who knows what the **** these ****ing Russian Nazi's will do...?

Unstoppable. They're making their case for sooner rather than later... Can we wait until the September callups?

Candy is 2.6 WAR to Lorenzen's 1.1... which is probably going to change after tonight... But it is sometimes hard to trade starting players at the deadline because most teams have their positions filled adequately or better... So there's that. But I'm with Lee. Don't care about the money. My choice would have been to have both Candy & Lorenzen on the roster... and I would have jettisoned Schoop because I had ZERO confidence in him this season and stated as such in the offseason... But that's just my own preference.

You wore Firehouse Red, right? "You coulda been a contendah..."

They still need to dump Bojan however... And then sign a support type guy who can 3 & D... I'm still voting for Jalen McDaniels.

To this point: Maybe they want to let Cade-Ivey-Ausar-Livers-Duren-Stew-Wiseman ferment for another year... If they couldn't swing a Cam Johnson (if they were that interested...) this year... then maybe just punt on this year and let the kids gel into whatever they can get to this year? Punt expensive contracts this year and take another look next year?

I think the Candy decision boils down to, in its most simplest terms, as: "Let's just move on."

I expected a 3-to-3.5-ish WAR season from him in 2023. Where's he at right now...? (don't be lazy, look it up 84...) Oh, 2.6. Exceeding expectations. So he's running at his 2021 level. Not to be unexpected.

Thank you. It ended up a money decision, and a roster changeover decision... Not a bounceback decision... IMO.

This was my point in the offseason. He was the one guy who I felt would have a recovery season that would turn him into a potential trade deadline asset... Not Schoop. Not Baez. (Not counting Eduardo as we're speaking about position players here... Eduardo COULD fit into this category... if he can get back pitching, and healthy, in July...) Candy.

They bought him out for $966K out of the $3 mill contract. Split between two years = cap hit $433K this year and $533K next year. So I guess they do save a chunk this year... But I still say they don't want him on the roster and no one was offering anything for him in trade... So about the roster spot, but also a nice chunk on the cap. I don't know how they're planning out their roster spots but... it seems the Oilers could have done that...

As problematic as Lindstrom is... That doesn't help us on Right-Side D... At least not... today.

They don't save $3 mill in cap because they still have to pay him. Maybe not $3 mill but... I don't think they're saving much by buying him out... And he gets to see if he can sign on with another team so... actually some class by the Wings to let him go shopping for another job early...

What's the roster limit? The only reason to carry him on the roster is if they can trade him for something. Buying him out probably only saves a few pennies so this isn't about potentially adding a ton of salary. It's all about the roster spot and I guess they don't really want him on the roster and no one was interested in trading anything for him. I'm just guessing but... my 2 cents.

Conversely to your prior statement (not this one)... Helping poor black people can also help poor white people, depending on the policy. IE: Eliminate salary caps on SS deductions and that will allow the SS % withdrawn to drop for everyone. Which reduces tax burden for everybody except for those that get above the reduced SS % at the appropriate salary level. Helping the middle class and poor disproportionately to versus the impact on the higher middle & upper classes that still draw salary. Of course, it requires employment to benefit...

Any votes on who will be this year's Mazur/ or Lombardi? I'm throwing my hat out for Kevin Bicker...

DO it Dark Biden!!!

I'm ready to update this now, and I do feel better about the depth of our prospects after this draft: Age on 10/1/2023: Red Wings Future 1st pair: Simon Edvinsson, LD, 20, 6' 6" 210 - Mo Seider, RD, 22, 6' 4" 204, 2nd pair: William Wallinder, LD, 21, 6' 4" 192 - Axel Sandin-Pellikka, RD, 18, 5' 11" 190 3rd pair options: Shai Buium, LD, 20, 6' 3" 210 - Antti Tuomisto, RD, 22, 6' 5" 205 Albert Johansson, LD, 22, 6' 0" 168 - Andrew Gibson, RD, 18, 6' 3" 190 Donovan Sebrango, LD, 21, 6' 1" 194 - Brady Cleveland, LD, 18, 6' 5" 210 Potential starting goalies: Sebastian Cossa, G, 20, 6' 6" 212 Trey Augustine, G, 18, 6' 0" 190 Ville Husso, G, 28, 6' 3" 200 Lines: Dylan Larkin, LSC, 27, 6' 1" 198 - Lucas Raymond, LW, 21, 5' 11" 176 - Michael Rasmussen, RW, 24, 6' 6" 212 Marco Kasper, LSC, 19, 6' 1" 184 - Carter Mazur, LW, 21, 6' 0" 170 - Jonaton Berggren, RW, 23, 5' 11" 197 Nate Danielson, RSC, 18, 6' 2" 190 - Amadeus Lombardi, LSC/LW, 20, 5' 10" 178 - Elmer Soderblom, RW, 22, 6' 8" 246 Other 3rd line/ 4th line options: Klim Kostin, C, 24, 6' 3" 215 - Dmitri Buchelnikov, LW, 20, 5' 9" 150 - Filip Zadina, RW, 23, 6' 0" 190 (I forgot we just added Kostin... I'll give him a 3rd/4th line possibility and see if he's worth signing after this year as an RFA...) Joe Veleno, C, 23, 6' 1" 203 - Theodor Niederbach, RSC/ LW, 21, 5' 11" 172 - Noah Dower Nilsson, LSC/ RW, 18, 6' 0" 180

That's the thing, exactly... We'll need to "find more goals" from anywhere in the lineup. Including if Yzerman can turn up a "hidden gem" or two, like Lombardi/ Mazur/ Soderblom... etc.

in the 6th depth goalie lottery ticket with Rudy Guimond, 6' 2".

Kevin Bicker with the 2nd 5th round pick, LW from Germany... Looks like a goal-scorer...

Jack Phelan, 6' 3" RHD. Almost no points so all D, very little O.

Larry Keenan, 6' 3" LHD. Grandfather played 11 years in the NHL. "Top-four potential" but he's untested against higher levels of competition...

Age maybe...? No... he's 18 like everyone else... OK... not interested in playing much D, makes bad passes, doesn't control the puck on his stick as well as he should... Now I see why he's a 3rd-round projection rather than a 1st/2nd-round talent... But... He's a goal-scorer.