buddha

i guess if the leafs re-sign marner for big money and still want tavares they wouldnt sign knies, but i wouldnt give up a first and third for him. maybe a second. big winger who can score?

"Minnesota Wild’s Marco Rossi, Toronto Maple Leafs’ Matthew Knies, Edmonton Oilers’ Evan Bouchard, New York Rangers’ K’Andre Miller and Will Cuylle, New York Islanders’ Noah Dobson and Alexander Romanov and Buffalo Sabres’ JJ Peterka and Bowen Byram." All those guys will be rfas unless they re-sign before the offseason. if you sign one for $4.58 million it will cost you a second round pick if the other team doesnt match. $4.5-6.8 costs you a first and a third. 6.8-9.1 costs you a first, second and a third. $9.1-11.4 costs you two firsts, a second, and a third. over 11.4 costs you four firsts. i'm not sure if you could sign any of those guys for 4.5m per year. if so, i would do it if it put the other team in a cap bind. but with cap going up, i dont see too many situations where teams wouldnt match a 4.5m offer for any of those guys. MAYBE the rangers. would you pony up a first and a third to sign miller to an offer sheet at 6.8m per season? i'm not sure i would if the wings are picking top 10. but that's probably the only way you can get one of the guys on that list.

i think every team will double cade and take the ball out of his hands. they may end up starting shroeder because of that. or giving him a lot more playing time. its why losing ivey was so huge. marcus sasser time!

the nba has backed themselves into a corner by even bringing it up in the first place. now they HAVE to enforce it and do something or they look weak and dumb. they never should have said anything in the first place. its a celebration almost everyone does a version of, from the nba to grade school.

i think he was upset after they got upset and he made an emotional decision. but i could be wrong. he could have had conversations with wings mgmt and decided this waa a better place than splitting time in GR. heck, the wings might have agreed considering all the bad goalies they have blocking cossa's path. and honestly, if cossa DOES want to earn it, he only has to beat out 39 year old cam talbot or washed up petr mrazek. or whatever 6 3rd string goalies yzerman decides to put in his way. in all seriousness, if cossa cant beat out talbot or mrazek he doesnt deserve to be in detroit. my fear is that he DOES beat them out and they send him to GR anyway.

that's a comparison some of us made at the time. look, no one hits on every pick. brad holmes has made the lions one of the most talented teams in the nfl. he's a great gm. he can draft all the brodrick martins he wants if he keeps getting amon ra, kerby joseph, brian branch, sam laporta, etc etc etc. he's been one of the best drafters in the nfl.

ras is a nice tool, but its become one of the most over-relied upon tools in the twitter-sphere.

like trading multiple picks for brodrick martin? 😉

ovechkin is a great goal scorer. maybe the greatest of all time. but wayne gretzky also had 1200 more assists than ovechkin. yes, it was a higher scoring era, but gretzky was an offensive phenomenon who made everyone around him better in a way ovechkin could never be by lining up at the left circle and waiting to shoot.

i still have high hopes for lombardi. i think people still underrate him. if he hadnt gotten hurt this year it would have been a goalfest for him, imo.

i'd almost rather play the knicks than the pacers.

it left me bored watching guys miss open shots.

watching the ncaa and then watching the nba is like watching two different sports. the skill level in the nba is far and away so much better. watch an nba game from the 80s or 90s. not a finals game, but a regular season matchup between the hawks and the kings or something. in many ways its dump the ball in the paint, then watch the wrestling match that ensues on any rebound. rinse, repeat. there are lots of issues with today's nba. but the players are so skilled at shooting and so athletic its hard for me to say its definitely worse than the nba i grew up with and romanticize. i dislike the constant iso ball of a guy like harden, and i too hate the refs calling so many fouls on jump shots and the shooter manipulating contact just to draw a foul. i also think theyve neutered any defense and taken too much physicalness out of the game. but the skill level is amazing. and the athleticism too. off the charts. that alone makes it interesting.

anthony davis plays great in the 10 games per year he's healthy.

msu isnt paying big money for hockey players. nobody who has a serious basketball or football team is spending a lot of money on hockey.