lordstanley

The Wings lost long well enough to accumulate enough top picks. Top 10 picks seven years in a row - two by Holland, five by Yzerman. Problem is only three are proven hits so far and none are superstars.

Only the 6th player since 1900 to get 4 hits in MLB debut on Opening Day.

Do you want to known what was the score of the Tigers game on Opening Day 1984?

Are his legs even bigger than before? That was my first thought watching today.

On the out of town scoreboard, Poland comes from behind and beats Albania 2-1!

Yes, final game at Tiger Stadium.

Javy strikes out. But the Tigers are on pace to score 5,832 runs this season.

McGonidouble. 3-0!

Tigers lead. Can McGonigle get a grand slam in his first at bat?

This would be a perfect time for a Tork-bomb

Game is on MLB Network so I will be able to watch. Maybe already mentioned this spring, but price of MLB At Bat has doubled. Those gripping oppo taco commercials must have driven higher demand! I might stick with my Sirius XM subscription because it has audio for all Tigers, Wings, Pistons and Lions games but the problem is it lags by a minute or two, worse than At Bat.

We talk about the Wings not having lottery luck, but of course there's drafting luck too. Otherwise how did the knucklehead organization that picked Kotkaniemi at #3 and David Reinbacher at #5 also be brainiacs in between then by picking Lane Hutson at #62 and Jacob Fowler at #69. Yzerman's rebuild in Tampa benefited immensely from picking Vasilevsky at #19, Brayden Point at #79, and Anthony Cirelli at #72. We're waiting for such drafting luck.

Agree with both of your sentences.

Here's Corey Pronman ranking the Red Wings' prospect pool at #7 entering the 2018-2019 season, just months before Yzerman took over the so-called wreckage of a franchise. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/459786/2018/08/30/pronman-2018-19-nhl-farm-system-rankings/ Here's the Bleacher Report ranking the Red Wings' prospect pool at #10 in 2015. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2505679-re-ranking-every-teams-prospect-pool-after-2015-nhl-draft All Yzerman can hang his hat on now is prospect pool, prospect pool, prospect pool. The Wings had highly-regarded prospect pools throughout the 2010s so what do we have to show for missing the playoffs 9 straight years, maybe 10.

I'm not saying that any of Buffalo, Montreal, Anaheim, Ottawa, Columbus etc. are teams to emulate. Just that Yzerman is really no further ahead than teams that were just as bad or worse a few years ago. Also, Holland had two big top 10 misses - Zadina at #6 and Rasmussen at #9. That's it. In his last four drafts before that he got Mantha at #20, Larkin at #15, picked Svech at #19 where busts aren't unusual, and made up for his #20 Cholowski pick by picking Hronek at #53. Yzerman hasn't set the world on fire with his drafting, yielding nothing outside of the top 15 in his first four drafts 2019-2022 apart from Albert Johansson, being generous.