lordstanley

With the Wings seemingly having elevated themselves to a solid wildcard team now, I'm as interested as ever as to what injections of young talent we can expect to receive so that wildcards aren't the Wings' ceiling the next few years. Who realistically are upgrades to the current roster and when could they be expected to hit the NHL? Everyone on this thread has a better sense of this than I do, so please modify the stab I'm taking at it: - Edvinsson, D, 2023-2024 season (drafted #6 overall, 2021) - Kaspar, C, 2024-2025 (drafted #8 overall, 2022) - Danielson, C, 2024-2025 or 2025-2026 (drafted #9 overall, 2023) - ASP, D, 2026-2027 (drafted #17 overall, 2023) - Cossa, G, 2026-2027 (drafted #15 overall, 2021) Guys like Mazur, Wallinder, Soderblom, Baium, Lombardi I guess all have shots at making a future roster, but unlikely to move the needle, no? Anyone I'm missing?

Fabbri just seems so fragile though. Btw, Jakob Vrana has 2 goals and 4 assists for 6 points in 16 games for St. Louis. Tyler Bertuzzi has 5 goals and 4 assists for 9 points in 22 games for Toronto. Dominik Kubalik has 4 goals and 1 assts for 5 points in 20 games for Ottawa. Filip Hronek has 2 goals and 23 assists for 25 points in 26 games for Vancouver. Pius Suter has 4 goals and 0 assists for 4 points in 15 games for Vancouver. Adam Erne has 0 goals and 1 assist for 1 point in 12 games for Edmonton. Alex Nedeljkovic has a 2.18 GAA and .937 Save % in 5 games for Pittsburgh

Got me thinking as to what are the biggest brands in college football. Maybe something like this? 1. Alabama 2. Ohio State 3. Notre Dame 4. USC 5. Michigan 6. Georgia 7. Texas 8. Oklahoma 9. Clemson 10. Penn State Honourable mentions to teams like Oregon, Florida State, LSU, Florida, Tennessee, Wisconsin.

I think Rose Bowl ratings for Alabama-Michigan will be massive.

Wings have scored 2nd most goals in the NHL, with 90. Vancouver tops with 96. Leafs 15th with 76. Oilers 19th with 74. Remarkable given high-paid star power of Edmonton and Toronto.

Aaron Glenn called the Wings' dressing room during the 2nd intermission and gave the defensemen some pointers.

Larkin ENG on the 6 on 4!

1:07 to go. Hate to think how much this announcer will yell if the Sabres score here.

Terrible time for high sticking penalty! Wings will be shorthanded the rest of regulation.

Remember earlier in the year the Wings were falling behind but then coming from behind. Instead, despite a fine record of late, they've blown 3rd period leads recently to Toronto, NYR and Montreal.

4-3 with plenty of time left. I want 2 clean regulation points tonight, Sabres could be competing with the Wings by the end of the season.

Lions' road record is 5-1. Going for 6 on Sunday. Have the Lions ever won 6 road games? Looking at their 10-win seasons, with overall first then road record in parentheses. 2014: 11-5 (4-4) 2011: 10-6 (5-3) 1995: 10-6 (3-5) 1993: 10-6 (5-3) 1991: 12-4 (4-4) 1970: 10-4 (4-3) 1962: 11-3 (4-3) 1953: 10-2 (5-1) 1934: 10-3 (4-1) 1931:11-3 (3-3) *Portsmouth

Obnoxious. I step away for a bit, flip it back and he's yelling through the replays of the Buffalo goal. By the tone and loudness of his voice I was worried for a second that the Sabres had made a furious comeback. Then the score flashes as 4-1 Wings, lol.

PBP yells. Sabres booed off the ice. A lot of talk this summer about which if any of Ottawa-Buffalo-Detroit would step forward. At the moment, the Wings are 7 pts up on Buffalo with 2 games in hand, and 11 points up on Ottawa having played 4 more games.

With wins in 5 of past 6 games, the Wings are off to a fast start tonight in Buffalo. Goals by Larkin and Fabbri make it 2-0 midway through 1st Fabbri has 8 goals in 12 games.

https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2023/12/sec-championship-most-watched-alabama-georgia-fsu-acc-viewership/ For anyone inclined to believe that ratings influence the decision-making of the College Football Playoff committee, playoff-bound Alabama attracted the largest conference championship audience in five years, while snubbed Florida State played in the least-watched of this year’s “Power 5” games. Saturday’s Alabama-Georgia SEC Championship Game, the final edition of the “SEC on CBS,” averaged an 8.9 rating and 17.52 million viewers — marking the largest audience for any conference title game since the 2018 Alabama-Georgia SEC Championship. This year’s audience trails only that game and 2009 as the highest for any conference title game since at least 2000. (Keep in mind out-of-home viewing was not tracked in Nielsen final nationals until 2020.) Alabama’s win, which peaked with 22.35 million viewers, increased 58% in ratings and 61% in viewership from Georgia-LSU last year (5.6, 10.89M) and also increased 9% and 12% respectively from the previous Alabama-Georgia title game two years ago (8.2, 15.66M). For the season, the SEC title game trails only Ohio State-Michigan on FOX the prior week (9.0, 19.07M) as the highest rated and most-watched game on any network. See the full list of college football ratings this season here. Ranking a distant second for the weekend, the Michigan-Iowa Big Ten Championship averaged a 5.1 and 10.02 million — down 7% in ratings and 6% in viewership from Michigan-Purdue a year ago (5.5, 10.70M) and the least-watched Big Ten title game since 2020, when Ohio State-Northwestern averaged a 4.2 and 8.25 million in a Noon ET timeslot. The Wolverines’ win still ranked among the top five games this season (fourth or fifth, depending on whether one includes the Adobe Analytics audience for Ohio State-Notre Dame).

Portrait of the Artist as a Lions Fan

Which would give them the division title if the Lions topped out at 10 wins. It would still need 2 of Minnesota, Seattle and LA Rams to go 4-1 or better to knock the Lions out of the wildcard in that case.

Also, Anzalone might play against Chicago, McNeil likely won’t.

Like all of us, I'm "division title or bust", but when it comes to an actual playoff spot, you'd have to think that if the Lions win on Sunday to get to 10 wins they're all but mathematically in at worst the 3rd wildcard. Last year a 9-7-1 team and a 9-8 were the 2nd and 3rd wildcards (while the 9-8 Lions missed). Can't see three other non-division winners in the NFC getting up to 10. Dallas yes. But any NFC South non-division winner can't pass the Lions. So could two other non-division winners catch a 10-win Lions? Rams at 6-6 play the Ravens and Niners, Seahawks at 6-6 play the Niners and Eagles, and maybe one of 6-6 Minnesota/GB could get up to 10+ wins (and beat out the Lions for the division) but unlikely both would.

I think Georgia would be favored by Vegas over all four teams in the CFP. Ohio State would likely be favored over Washington and Texas. Keep in mind that FSU didn’t just lose out to one 1-loss team but to two. Texas was 3 spots below FSU going into championship weekend, and all they did win win more impressively over Oklahoma St than FSU did over Louisville. Oklahoma State was ranked 4 spots below Louisville going into the weekend though. Apart from Alabama, Oklahoma St is the only AP Top 25-ranked team that Texas beat (CFP added 4-loss Kansas State as 25 this week but that looks political). Texas beat 8-loss Houston by only 7, was taken to OT by 4-loss Kansas State, and beat 7-loss TCU by only 3.

Florida St. beats Georgia to finish 14-0 as ACC champion. Texas beats Washington, and Alabama again, to finish 14-1 as Big 12 champion.

C'mon, don't you know that all the Alabama players need ample time to submit term essays, study their notes, cram and write exams before a Christmas break.

Lions' Ragnow carted to locker room after suffering knee injury against Saints https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/nfl/lions/2023/12/03/lions-ragnow-carted-to-locker-room-after-suffering-knee-injury-against-saints/71792917007/ “Following the game, Lions coach Dan Campbell said the locker-room evaluation provided some optimism, but the team won't know more until Monday, after Ragnow undergoes an MRI in Detroit. At first, coming off, it was sounding like one thing, and then, after the fact, it sounded like something maybe a little bit different," Campbell said. "One, not as good, (the latter) one sounds more positive. I won't know until tomorrow."