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Two penalties within 4 seconds of each other so the Wings have a 5 on 3 for 1:56.

Just had to wait a few minutes. Buries his next chance! Tie game. https://x.com/hockeydaily365/status/1857626051511230512?s=61&t=don8lQTnTq5FKXq14p2GMw

Wow, Kasper alone in the slot with a golden opportunity for his 1st goal.

Ducks score just over a minute into the game. What’s the deal with Zegras? Would the Ducks give up on him, is he redeemable, and what could the Wings offer to get him?

Goalies are such wildcards. There are a handful that are above average for years, but there a bunch of others whose stats bounce up and down seemingly at random. I'm sure that the defense you're playing behind and the quality of the shots you see has something to do with that. Not all save % are created equal, let alone goals against average.

I agree it’s hard to draft and develop. So I also think people on HFBoards for example overvalue 2nd draft picks and prospect pools. And sure, you need luck. I don’t think Yzerman has been a lousy GM, but you sure look better if you have good luck and he hasn’t good that. - You’d think odds are that one of the six 2nd round picks in 2019-2020 would at least yield an equivalent to other non-1st round picks of years past like Hronek, Bertuzzi or AA. Didn’t happen - You’d hope to get lucky and have one of the many players you bought low on - Fabbri, Vrana, Walman, Ghostisbehere, Sprong, Kubalik - revive his career with the Wings and stick long-term. Nope, all gone for nothing. - Could pickups of Nedjlkovic and Husso, which both looked like great deals at the time, land your starting goalie? Nah, neither worked out - You’d think a couple of your top 10 picks would outperform his draft position, like Quinn Hughes did in Vancouver. Ok# 6 Seider did, although he is no Quinn Hughes. Maybe Edvinsson will. Raymond is about what you expect from a #4. Too early to say on Kasper, although at this point he’s as close to Rasmussen as he is to being a star i guess you keep trying I think Yzerman has had the right idea at many times, they just haven’t panned out as of yet

4 road games in 6 nights including a cross-country flight from Pittsburgh to California seems rough.

You only blow a team up if you have confidence the front office can successfully draft and develop players. So far the Yzerman regime hasn’t proven that. Remember the optimism in having 4 picks in the first 2 rounds in each of 2019 and 2020? Yeah, those six 2nd rounders contributed zilch. Nothing from 2021 below the 1st round will move the needle either - guys like Mazur who score 37 pts in the AHL in their 3rd season after being drafted MIGHT make an NHL roster and stick some day but likely a fringe add at best. This isn’t the NFL and Yzerman isn’t Holmes - can’t expect a few NHLers from each draft. So if we blow it up, we could be sitting here 5 years from now having added two gems equivalent to another Raymond amd Seider, a few promising prospects and a bunch of busts. If anything, the Wings might be better off trading all their 2-7th rounders for 2025 and 2026 for players further along. If you can’t break through by drafting and developing, you have to go to Plan B and try to do so by trades and signings, which is probably going to be riskier and more expensive but what other choices are there?

Let’s see what happens in Milwaukee now. Chance for an ultra rare occasion of the Wings and Pistons both winning on the same day. And oh yeah, both on the road. And both would be in OT to boot.

Edvinsson with the winner!

2-0 Wings when I went to take a shower. 2-2 when I came back out. Moral of the story: don’t bathe?

Pens will be ticked heading into tonight's game against the Wings. Lost 7-1 the other day to Dallas. Malkin even apologized to the fans. Yikes, as poor as the Pens are, they could unleash against the Wings like they did on opening night. At 13 points, the Wings are just 1 pt above the NHL basement, although they do have games in hand on many teams. https://www.nhl.com/news/evgeni-malkin-apologizes-to-pittsburgh-fans-after-loss-to-dallas

OJ had an all-time slash line of 61/11236/2 TDs, rushing yards and, ahem.

I read on one gaming site that what is now a 13 pt spread is the biggest the Lions have been favoured since 1995 when they played the Jags in the Jags’ inaugural season

Good question. I can’t really comment on Delvecchio, didn’t even see him on TV. Fedorov had a higher peak than Datsyuk, IMO. I wouldn’t argue strongly against anyone who placed either of them over the other.

Pavel’s Hall of Fame induction speech today. https://x.com/HockeyAgent1/status/1856158389610430559

This is really starting to feel like the ‘84 Tigers. A magical season. Of course the Lions still have to play the 2nd half and then win at least two playoff games to simply make the Super Bowl. But in June 1984 the Tigers still had to keep playing after 35-5 and then anything could happen in the short playoff series. But by early summer we and the national media knew something special was brewing. Just as we and the media know now.

https://x.com/nfl/status/1856027983120609546?s=61&t=don8lQTnTq5FKXq14p2GMw

As a target, Lions' post-season schedule? -Bye -vs. Atlanta -vs. Philadelphia - Buffalo (neutral field)

You had me going for a moment, ha.

Going back to the Texans’ situation with just under 2 minutes to go. 5 possible outcomes: A) - successful FG, lead by 3, give Lions ball back around Lions 30 yard line (after kickoff) with around 1:50 to go B) miss FG, tied, give Lions ball back at the Lions 48 yard line with 1:51 to go C) successful going for it on 4th and 4, tied, possess the ball with a 1st down at the Lions 35 yard line or closer D) - fail going for it on 4th and 4, tied, give Lions ball back around the Lions 40 with around 1:50 to go E) - punt, tied, give the Lions the ball back at, say, around the Lions 10-20 yard line with around 1:50 to go I think choosing C/D might have been the highest percentage play for the Texans over choosing A/B Why? I wonder what the stats would show are the odds of hitting a 58 yarder (factoring the Texans kicker’s strong leg) vs converting on 4th. Probably a bit under 50/50, maybe 40% for both? Missing the FG or being stopped on 4th down would be roughly equally bad. But would it be better to be successful on that FG or successful on the 4th and 4? The FG would have put the Texans ahead but the Lions would have the ball with plenty of time. Converting the 4th down would have kept the game tied, but the Texans would have a fresh set of downs closer to a reasonable FG range, with 3 downs to move it closer and/or run time off the clock and/or get the Lions to burn timeouts.

Trans Lions Fans are Lions Fans.

Dan Miller’s call of the final kick. I inadvertently cut it off right before Dan said “you ask the Lions to set the bar, the Lions say how high” Bates FG Beats Texans.m4a

The Lions could have run it one more time.

3 runs here. Don’t risk an incmeotion. Take chances with a 50 yr FG attempt m