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Wings lead! Not exactly a beauty, but I will take it. Sprong.

Devils have carried the play this 2nd period but the Wings had two good odd man chances in the past couple of minutes. And then Larkin point blank just now.

Koharski!

And I don’t think even that would get it done. You’d probably have to add another first or a recent first.

92 points, 9th in East.

Let's go!!

Got thumped last night by Vancouver, 8-1. Four goals by Brock Boeser.

I think Tigers fans’ perception of post-season baseball is shaped by the fact that the two championships of our memory, ‘68 and ‘84, were dream seasons where the Tigers were clearly the best AL team in the regular season and then deservedly won the playoffs. They were one-offs in that other Tigers teams of those eras came close a few times but never made it to the Series Despite the bad final week of the regular season, the ‘06 Tigers do fit the mould of a special season followed by an AL pennant, albeit not a World Series. But the Tigers’ most recent pennant of ‘12 will more likely be the norm going forward. Get a team that makes the playoffs multiple years, and chances are one of those times they will advance to the Series and even win it. Even though the year you do so may not be your best record from that era and your team may not have stood out among its peers going into the playoffs. The 2012 Tigers were not special …until October. So I won’t apologize if the Tigers win a Series with 86 wins some time in the future, because I think the Tigers deserved but didn’t get one Series title out of 2006, 2011-2014

https://thehockeynews.com/news/predicting-the-nhls-atlantic-division-rankings-in-2023-24 Everyone is picking the Wings 7th. Whatever, aim for the low 90s and see what happens

https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-top-players-numbers-10-to-1 NHL.con’s top 10 players. 1. McDavid 2. Mackinnon 3. Draisaitl 4. Makar 5. Pastrnak 6. Tkachuk 7. Matthews 8. Kucherov 9. Crosby 10. Rantanen

Season is on. Bedard made his debut last night against Crosby’s Pens.

I still haven’t bought NHL Centre Ice. I’m sure when push comes to shove I will end up doing so, but in Canada there were changes made last season that were not improvements. Like dropping guaranteed feeds of your favourite team. I will get all Wings games, but might get the Wings feed for only half or 2/3 of those.

AL East knocked out with a combined record of 0-7 in this post-season.

Pro sports is toxic in many ways. I look to very few, if any, in the industry as role models or fonts of wisdom or moral leaders. Billionaire owners, some of whom built family empires by nefarious means. Consider how even families with generally good reputations to the average fan, like the Illitches, have pulled a fast one with District Detroit. Coaches who use and abuse, with Babcock I bet being closer to the 2000s norm than an anomaly. Players in the NHL, NFL, NBA and MLB who are as often as not spoiled by riches or immature, not to mention the many, many that have criminal records or cheat on their wives, who gamble or overspend their way into bankruptcy or impregnate a girl in every port or do recreational drugs in the offseason. Those beloved championship teams of my youth? McLain of the '68 Tigers was a crook. The '84 Tigers? Gibby was a jerk. Morris was a jerk. Sure the '97 Wings had bad apples as well. I've seen people who weren't even born when Orr won his Cups or Nicklaus won his majors trash them both as being irredeemable just for being friendly with a certain ex-president. Then you have sportswriters covering all of this who get off on being obnoxious and divisive on air, with some overweight lushes among them being the first to call out Bertuzzi, Djokovic and Rodgers as supposed health threats and terrible humans for not getting vaxxed - I was fully vaxxed but that holier-than-thou scapegoating never sat well with me. Something like 690 of 700 NHL players wore the Pride jersey last season. In a polarized world where there are probably more than 10 NHLers who believe that aliens live among us or that the moon landing was fake, 690 of 700 should have been seen as a huge win. The 10 could have been ignored as irrelevant, rather than villified as the very worst degenerates in the league. But nooooo.... doesn't matter whether someone is a good parent or good spouse or volunteers in offseason or gives to charity, it's all for naught if you don't have the right icon in one's Twitter profile. On a day when there were hundreds of demonstrators in each of downtown Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver - literally steps away from the studios of sports radio stations - cheering the rapes and murders of hundreds of women this weekend, supporting a regime that would gladly throw every last LGBTQ+ off the roof of buildings if they got the chance, to come inside and see that this is what Canadian hockey media was instead up in arms about was surreal. Regardless of what the NHL does or does not do to honor honor gays, soldiers, cancer patients, Asian-Americans, etc., if a person has $150 to spend on a ticket and $100 on a jersey, they will be welcomed into an NHL arena with open arms. Without that cash, regardless of race, ethnicity, creed or orientation, they will be on the outside looking in. It's time to drop the puck and play some hockey!

Must be opening day of the new season because Canadian hockey media is picking up where it left off and is losing its mind over something - hockey tape - maybe a couple hundred people in real life care a whitt about one way or the other.

84-win team a win away from knocking off wn 100-win team. I would have little interest in watching any series involving Arizona going forward.

Packers fail to take advantage. Lions have a 2-game lead in the division.

Dumb call. 4th and 1 with 2 minutes to go, up by 4, and a chance to ice the game. Instead Raiders opt for a long field goal attempt that they missed. Same kicker who badly missed a5 end of 1st half.

Packers down 10-3 at the half. I don’t think they’re very good.

Less than 1/3 of the way in, but it really looks like the Lions are headed for the #3 seed. I’m about 80-90% sure they will win the North. Also very confident that regardless of whether they win or lose at Tampa this weekend, they will finish ahead of the South winner. Even though the Eagles are a better team than the Lions, I think they have a tougher divisional schedule than the Lions so outside chance the Lions could match their record for a #2 seed. But assuming a #3 seed, that’s a home playoff date against the 2nd of 3 wildcard teams - so someone like a Seattle or Dallas or Rams.

I pay $5 per month to my cable provider for time-shift so that I get Fox and CBS and CTV (Canadian network that covers NFL) affiliates from both Pacific and Eastern zones. So I got 11 of this week’s 16 games and have got every Lions games so far this season. I used to pay for Sunday Ticket when the Lions were bad because fewer of their games were picked up. I get Detroit CBS, NBC and ABC affiliates but not Fox for some reason.

I think the Tigers should try feeding Meadows radioactive carrots.