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So is Kasper lately and he's only 20. The Toddfather put him on the top line and turned him loose and he's not a one-dimensional player AT ALL.

............and hockey coaches sure don't last long in the NHL anymore.

My general feeling is that Derek was coaching this team like saying "for the love of all that is holy, just don't make any mistakes" and they were always on their heels and they were so risk-averse that they were just bland and I am sure that does crush a player. Todd's way is more "Go get it, and if you make a mistake, you make a mistake, don't obsess over it or keep repeating it" When LaLonde was coaching they didn't look like they wanted to be out there and WE ALL SAW IT and since Todd came in it's fun again. Harkens back to "Aggressive Hockey is Back In Town" Playing not to lose is blueprint for failure. I just wish Steve would have recognized it about 2-3 weeks sooner, or at least made the move in early December. Maybe he was trying but needed to negotiate with Todd. This burst of 12-4 (and honestly, you can't hang Game 1 on Todd, he hadn't even seen a practice yet), so 12-3........this won't continue, but if they can be 9-6 with the next 15 games, great. But if they miss the playoffs by 1-4 points it's gonna be so frustrating because making this move a little bit earlier (WHEN IT WAS OBVIOUS TO EVERYONE IT WASN'T WORKING) may have meant playoffs. And they just need to end it with Husso. .866 SV% and 3.69 GAA..........that's awful and it's glaring when he plays. If you need more than 2 goalies give Cossa a look. If Cossa isn't good enough to get some spot starts at this point, then it might be time to start looking elsewhere

$5

So, Lord Stanley, did you go to Schwartz Deli for the smoked meat sandwich yet? Anyway, for those who can explain hockey better than I can. What exactly is Todd McLellan doing to prompt this very abrupt turnaround? Is it just the voice in the room needed to change or is there more to it?

What a difference a coach can make

I'm guessing less than 14 starts for Cobb and Torres hits about .235/.300/.650, OPS+ of 90, a WAR of 0.3 and 10 Home Runs. He doesn't have all those big bats around him now. And he'll be in the bottom 3 fielding 2b in MLB. This offseason sucks.

What a Snowflake.

"official report" LOL. Yes, Biden has a plane-steering machine.

It's actually worse than Idiocracy.

Bye Bye. Go ///// yourself.

I think Mammoth is a terrible name too. It's gonna end up being The Utah Hockey Team. I guess naming a team is an absolute nightmare now. Some stupid moron has probably copyrighted 200 names and will sue them for using it. Everything's just so broken now.

There's a retail company called Wasatch - they'll probably sue too.

The Utah Yeti had a great ring to it and the marketing would have been fantastic, but some stupid company had to get all lawyery about it instead of USING IT AS A WAY TO CROSS PROMOTE YOURSELF AND HAVE SOME FUN WITH IT !!!! So they own the word Yeti now? Like it didn't exist before they came along?

Guy signs with a team that is playing in a minor league stadium they are SHARING with an A team in a place with ungodly heat and humidity and thunderstorms nearly every day. The Tigers have Javy Baez still on the roster. I am changing my offseason from a C- to a D+. But a lot of us had this fear of "Hey, we made the playoffs, we don't need to do anything because EVERYONE will develop more on their own". I feel like Torres is every bit as likely to have a Javy Baez type season than to have one that turns his career around. And Alex Cobb. I'm hopeful he can maybe be Mike Lorenzen 2.0 but I feel like there is an equal chance he can be Kenta 2.0. But why the ever-loving **** is Baez still on this roster? He's done. I think what happened last year feels very flukey to me. It was miraculous. I don't think they repeat that - and that means that a team with this lineup and a rotation of Skubal-Cobb-Olson-Mize-???? will have to play over .500 all season and I just don't think they can do that. Not without another good starter or not without another good bat, which doesn't seem to be coming. And as far as Bregman goes, I really don't care about him anymore. I know we're the only team still in on him and this Houston thing is a play to get the Tigers to jump. I would love to have him in the lineup, but not for stupid money and I am glad the Tigers aren't biting, but it seems clear to me that he really doesn't want to come here and I'm like the rest of Detroit. You don't want us? We don't need ya, we've gotten through plenty without ya. Bye. I would have loved to have had Kim. OBP guy, does things that work great in a big ballpark. Would have been the best glove at any infield position (sorry, Sweeney, ,you're average). I'm like Lee, I think he would have been a better deal than Bregman when you add the potential finances into it, when honestly Lee should have been the primary target all along. So what if he misses the first 6 weeks, the 6 weeks they're gonna use to realize that Baez is finished.

The Democrats have a giant plane-steering machine. It's part of their hurricane machine

Well it';s a good thing the military will no longer support MLK, Holocaust Remembrance or Juneteeth, it was obviously distracting them from training.

No Utah Yeti. The cooler company threatened to sue them. Ridiculous **** lawyers. The Red Wing shoe company never threated our hockey team.

So far I am grading this offseason about a C-. This has been highly disappointing so far.

They kept Englert and Kreidler over Faedo? I don't that one. Faedo was pretty solid last year. Maybe because Faedo was initially drafted during the Obama administration and everything from then must be erased. Bet the Twins or White Sox take him and he owns us.

Nazi Pedo

All kidding aside, I can only imagine how good Bonderman would be with this current pitching coach. He was a decent pitcher, he was so close to getting there, but Fetter would have probably helped him get there.

wears his hat crooked?

As far as Detroit's bad image. That will never change with some people and let's not be too fooled here. As cool as it is to see a vibrant downtown again, a real city that I never experienced here in my life, the city is still pretty horrible outside of that. People ARE trying, no doubt, but I don't think the city will ever shake the image that you see at the beginning of Beverly Hills Cop. That'll ALWAYS be what Detroit is to some. Some hotshot millionaire ballplayer doesn't want to stoop to live in a high-end hotel for four months, then I say fine, we don't need ya anyway, we'll be just peachy. The athletes that do come here and give us a try and even have just a little success..........they seem to fall in love with the place, don't they? Hey, we're serious sports fans here. It's what got us through a lot of tough times. We know our ****e here and our media won't crap on you like New York or Philly.

No Baklava. People can't afford diabetes medicine anymore.