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I want the Knicks in the #4 spot and I want REVENGE!!!

Sometimes you trade a player to clear a roster spot for a better player. The return isn't quite as important then...

Clark could easily take over LF. Or RF. And if Parker falters... CF and push Parker over to RF. BTW: Carpenter would probably be a better play in LF than in RF... but that only happens if Greene is moved somewhere (like to a different team in a trade...).

Neither would I. I think Tork-Greene-Carpenter have all peaked. ALL of them will need to be traded when the time is right because I wouldn't extend ANY of these 3 guys. I'll let Scott Harris work out those details though... Their time will come soon enough. I predict at least one move this coming offseason... Can't say who/ which is the first domino to fall... But it's (the transition away from these 3 guys) coming... IMO.

So... Play harder. Dump soft players... add grit. SY... go have a conversation with DC and Holmes if you need to "get the message".

Yes. And yes.

I didn't do a good enough job explaining myself (my bad) so let me try again... I'm calling this: "What I WANTS" (think... BECK!!!): 1) I WANT SY to go ALL OUT and sign Alex Tuch this offseason. Pay him what he wants. Overpay him. I WANTS a top-line of Larkin-Raymond-Tuch. And if Raymond wilts in the back half of the season again... I am perfectly fine with a Kasper-Larkin-Tuch top line. IMO. 2) The second line would be Copp-Cat-Finnie, unless SY and Kane want him back here for another season. I am OK with either way. He's still got it... but what I WANTS, is for our 3rd line (Kasper-Danielson-MBN) to PUSH HIGHER and become our 2nd line. Even giving our top line a run for the money. But that's up to them, and McLellan to GET them there. They have to get THEMSELVES there... and I'm OK if they only show themselves to be a good 2nd line and that's it. They haven't even shown that yet, however. But I'm running them together and pushing them hard the entire year. IMO. 3) SY can find a couple checking BANGERS with little to no (or possibly even "some") offense; simply to take on 1st lines and hound them. To add some "grit" on this team. Appleton can center them until someone better pops up on their radar screen. Maybe next trade deadline SY can find someone to better the team either by pushing Copp down here or a guy who adds offense as well as grit to the 4th line. A lot of "To be determined" on this line... but that's OK. 4) 1st pair is Mo-Edvinsson, that's easy... And I think Simon has a lot of room to grow. What I WANTS, is for Buium to earn, and take over, 2nd pairing with Faulk next year. I think Buium benefits hugely from having Faulk as his 1st NHL partner. And vice verse. Chiarot looked like a bad fit with Faulk. Buium needs to step up, IMO. 5) That pushes Chiarot to 3rd pair. Perfect. He was a good match for ASP. But ASP needs to grow on defense. Too much a sieve. Too bad we can't squish JBD (bigger, more responsible defensively, little-to-no-offense) and ASP (LITERALLY, the opposite of JBD) into one player. McLellan may even be forced to dress 7 defensemen and protect ASP by using him on PP's and offensive zone whilst swapping him out for JBD for defensive zone play. So I WANTS ASP to improve significantly on defense; although we just might not get that and be stuck with a JBD-ASP matchup game. 6) I WANTS Wallinder and Cossa on the Red Wings roster the entire year. They either figure out the NHL, or not. If Wallinder is responsible enough defensively, maybe he can take some 3rd pair games away from Chiarot on back-to-backs. If McLellan could convince him to play harder/ (tougher)... maybe he could get more playing time than that. But if all he turns into is a 7th defenseman, we'll just have to live with that. And I am perfectly fine with that. Let him sit in the press box. If he wants to earn soem NHL ice time, PLAY TOUGHER!!! As for Cossa, I do NOT need him to be amazing, I just want him to be NHL-blooded, for a full season. To be a good 1B to Gibson's 1A. I WANTS Cossa to take over the 1A from Gibson... but I can be patient on that end... at least for a little while. So my big SY moves this offseason are: Clearing roster space. Signing Tuch (OVERPAY if you MUST Stevie!!!). And putting it all on the kids... to sink or swim. But that's just me. It's "What I WANT"...!

A little easier to see here:

I don't believe an asset would have to be traded to deal Ras. I believe that is incorrect. He might not garner much in trade, but I do NOT believe he has negative trade value. Minute? Sure. 5th or 6th rounder maybe, maybe even "at best". And I know Compher will cost... so don't trade him, dump him. Stretch his contract. You're missing my point. I'm not trying to build a Stanley Cup this offseason. I'm stripping this team DOWN. And turning it over to all the kids. So to answer your question: roster spots. I want ROSTER SPOTS this offseason. I want ALL of Cossa, MBN, Finnie, Danielson and Kasper on the Red Wings roster the entire season. Sink or swim. I want at least one, or both, of Buium and/or Wallinder as LHD on the Red Wings roster for all of next year. I don't even care if Wallinder is 7th D. We have Edvinsson, Chiarot, Buium and Wallinder. So I will happily take a 3rd or 4th for Johansson. He is superfluous to me. Which I conceded earlier. Copp would be easier to trade than Compher. But I'd rather just dump Compher for nothing but a stretched contract... and hold on to Copp. If there are any "veterans" on the Red Wings roster that are worth holding onto (not their top players but secondary players) ... I would consider those to be Copp, Appleton (just a plug-in-player when needed that plays decent defense but not much offense for a bottom-6 forward...), Faulk (under contract for 2026-27), and JBD (still young, no offense-RHD but he's responsible defensively...). Top Veteran Starters for the foreseeable future are Larkin, Raymond, Cat, Mo, Edvinsson. Gibson. Maybe Kane I guess if SY still wants to keep signing him back. Other than those two tiers of veterans... I'm clearing space simply for the roster spots. Just my 2 cents.

Actually... She looks like to me that she is channeling Jim Carrey in The Mask. Melania Mask? Madame Mask?

I want to see several trades by Yzerman this offseason: Dump Rasmussen for anything, a 7th rounder. Can we get anything better than that for Ras? I'll take whatever we can get. I believe JVR and Talbot and Perron are free to leave after this season. IMO... Yzerman should trade Albert Johansson. I don't see a future for him on this Red Wings roster. Who else can we/ should we... dump? Copp? I would prefer dumping Compher but I'm going to guess he would actually COST to remove him from the roster. Unless we stretch him (is that still a valid option?) just to get him off the roster without costing us anything... Who else? I want to CLEAN HOUSE on this roster. Dump the old non-productive "jerseys" and give the roster spots to the kids. Let the team sink or swim with the kids... IMO.

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I think that has shown up the past month but isn't half of Grand Rapids playing in Detroit the past month? I don't want to use that as an excuse... But... As to your 2nd string comment... Additionally, who would I want as a mentor for Cossa as he broke into the NHL...? Maybe... John Gibson?

American refineries are built to process mostly "heavy" crude oil... which comes from Canada and Venezuela. That means they refine sulfur and other "heavy" or "dirty" non-oil elements out of their input oil before they attempt to refine it into end-use products. American oil has almost always been "sweet crude" (very LITTLE contaminants); although I'm not certain if fracted oil is sweet or heavy. I'm not certain how many American refineries process sweet crude versus heavy crude... Maybe G2 can answer that. Before fracted oil, we imported a lot from Saudi Arabia. I don't know if today we import ANY oil from foreign countries aside from Canada & Venezuela... Maybe Mexico too? But no: This tells me that I don't think your "oil expert" is an oil expert. It sounds like complete bull**** to me. Ask G2 for the correct answers.

Just a WAG: When the weather warms up... I think they start playing better. I don't think this is a cold-weather team. IMO. PS: I can NOT explain last year though...

It's just too early for this. Not even a dozen games played yet...? Then again... Can't wait to see THIS!!!

So he is 75 points under on BABIP... When his BABIP stabilizes and if he can up his LD% to a significant degree (small sample size after all...); Sure, I think we'all could have a conversation on the effectiveness of any supposed changes that Greene made... Today: I don't think I'm there yet... give him another month or thereabouts...

I guess I should add Peck in there too... To see if he can take another step up at the higher level...

Cossa could have easily played 30-40 games this year, with Talbot used only during injuries/ emergencies or an occasional start on a back-to-back (or 3 games in 4 nights...) or a bad game by Cossa or Gibson (IE: coming in the 2nd period after the starter gives up 5 goals...). IMO.

This is just my opinion... But if we had had Sebastian Cossa as 2nd goalie behind Gibson all year, instead of Talbot... We'd be in the playoffs right now. I also believe Gibson would have played less the past month or so... in which McLellan has simply worn him down by overplaying him (Talbot started ONCE in March...), and BOTH: Gibson would be sharper in the games he has played... and Cossa would have won a couple games that Gibson got blown out in... I think he would have been worth 5 more outright wins for the Wings. IMO.

Interested this year in seeing if any of Pacheco, Strong, or Campos can take a step forward and move up to "real" prospect status, or do they just get stuck in "career minor-leaguer" purgatory... Yet to be determined... (IMO).

Didn't Klintman have some range? I don't want to call him a 3&D guy... but I thought he did have some range to his shot...?

I don't know how much Holmes has participated in sending out smoke screens... trying to get teams "off the scent" of who their actual target is... so to speak... But: I also was much. much higher on Quinyon Mitchell in that draft. If they truly wanted Mitchell... and word got out of their interest in him so Philly jumped Detroit in the 1st round to steal him... I would consider that a big loss. IMO. And Holmes, despite all the "We really wanted Arnold", if he TRULY had Mitchell higher... then rightfully should be both pissed, and scarred by losing out on his player due to rumors of their heavy interest. I'm just going to WAG here... Holmes is NOT in love with Proctor, yes Tater, visions of Aaron Gibson scare me too... Or at least I hope not, and this is just a smoke screen to hide who they truly have their top interest in... I also like Freeling, Lomu and Miller... a LOT. I think all 3 are 10 year guys at OT. I won't hazard a guess as to which one is Brad's favorite; but I believe all 3 are high character/ locker room leader types/ and athletic enough to be a top 10-15 OT in the NFL (well, OK, we'll see about all 3 of them getting to that level...). So... One more WAG: I think it's one of THESE guys that the Lions love, and they are doing their best to not give away the cards that they are holding in their hand. One of those cards is Ace High, IMO. Just my 2 cents.