lordstanley

When Steve Simmons gets in on it you know Yzerman-bashing has jumped the shark. It's probably a good sign. https://torontosun.com/sports/where-did-steve-yzermans-golden-touch-go-in-detroit

Walt seemed like a good guy. I was Facebook friends with him for quite a few years when his kids were really young. He lived in Minnesota, I believe. For some reason I vaguely recall him posting on the Red Wings section of Motownsports.com, but I can't clearly remember. I think his username was just "Walt", maybe a couple of digits behind it, but I think that's it.

Sweep!

Hit a ball right over my head and up and over the right field of at Tiger Stadium. Probably ‘77 or ‘78.

Hoping. DeBrincat is a bit of a wildcard. Was a tale of two halves for him last season. Or first 1/3 of season’s output vs final 2/3 of season’s output.

I think our forward lines are slightly upgraded since April. I will take Tarasenko over Perron for example. And we haven’t downgraded like losing Kane without a replacement would have done. I think goaltending is a slight upgrade too, with Talbot-Lyon-Husso being better than Husso-Lyon-Reimer. I’d also be comfortable shipping out Lyon if an opportunity arose. I think our defense is downgraded but that might not be the case by December if we’ve traded for a defenseman like I think we will and brought in Edvinsson and Johansson. Overall, another playoff bubble team at the moment.

Alexander is a career minor leaguer so salary dump I guess. $4mm savings, I believe? Fine. Wings could ice a team of 6 goalies for a shift in pre-season. EDIT: career minor leaguer might be a bit dismissive. He's only 22. Still, salary dump I'm sure was main motivation.

Gostisbehere to Carolina at 3 x $3.5mm. I would have done that. Yes, defensive shortcomings to say the least, but 54 points.

this was from earlier. Leafs fans have no idea how much they’re going to hate OEL.

Kid’s surname using up all of the jersey width.

Lindholm and Zadorov to the Bruins. Looks like Perron to Ottawa for 2 x $4mm.

Nashville is frenzied.

Good for the Wings if so, surprising Kane would agree to that.

Eiserman goes at #20.

I had a bad business experience with a Norwegian but I won’t let that muddy my view of the pick.

Someone on the Sportsnet panel, sounds like Brian Burke, said Buium was 4th on his board.

I forgot it was tonight. The SCF going until June 24 has thrown me off.

Walman for whatever reason was perceived as damaged goods by the Wings and maybe around the league. On ice or off ice issues, who knows. But clearly not good news because he is another player like Vrana and Ned in net who came here, looked like a neat pick up for awhile, then washed out. We need some of these to hit and stick.