buddha

the problem with a trade now is that you dealt away a lottery pick for justin faulk. so you dont have the first to trade anymore and i dont know how comfortable i am with dealing another first rounder unless youre getting a star back. we can rewind to hongbit's argument (and max bultman's argument) about quinn hughes. should he have given up edvinsson for hughes? i didnt think so at the time and i still have reservations about it. that said, they need 5x5 offense and hughes/seider would bring that. the problem is that i dont think it would be enough because the rest of the team would still suck. as weve seen. and more than that, the STARS of the team have sucked. THAT'S the real reason theyve tanked in march/april the last two seasons. larkin and raymond havent been good enough. and the other reason being yzerman hasnt signed enough good secondary players to help them. debrincat, yes. but debrincat fell into his lap. he could have re-signed gosthisbhere but didnt. he could have kept walman. traded for guentzel. done SOMETHING other than sign quite marginal players. they signed a 60 year old jvr to PLAY ON THE FIRST LINE! only finnie's early season hot streak bailed them out there. and finnie has been bad for most of the second half of the season.

you would have to attach assets to trade compher or rasmussen. copp might get you a pick, but copp can still play. i wouldnt want to trade copp for a low round draft pick. johannson might get you a 4th round pick or so. maybe a 3rd. what did maata get? that's what i would expect johannson to fetch. and what does that do for you? not much.

good that cade is back. no need to work him too hard in a game where the other team is actively trying to lose.

the last time michigan won a basketball national championship the pistons won the nba title...

hey look, were in last place.

i understand the argument jason is making and that potential timeline, but if that IS the timeline, i dont think theyre actually on it. seider is an all star. raymond is close. edvinsson has potential. but kasper? danielson? asp? cossa? are they on that kind of track? if not, its not going to matter when compher comes off the books if youre just replacing him with compher 2.0. and if that WAS the timeline, then why did they trade for perron a few years ago and aign gosthisbere? those guys were old then. then they let them go and tried to replace them and failed. i think yzerman is on a seider/raymond timeline, not a larkin timeline. but seider/raymond's clock has started and he didnt do anything this year to help move it along. the more worrying part is kasper and danielson (and they already complained about lack of 2nd round hits when you had 6 chances). those guys have to hit. they HAVE to. and they have looked like average players so far. if they are, this rebuild goes nowhere.

compher isnt coming off the books for another 2 years. so we continue to dabble around the margins until larkin is 31?

every goalie in grand rapids has been amazing. so do his numbers say cossa is amazing, or that grand rapids defense is amazing? i would love to see cossa in detroit. unless they trade him, he WILL be in detroit next year. it could be yzerman being too conservative, or it could be that - like danielson, and like asp - he's not ready or not that good.

sure. but he didnt pull it off. that's the point.

we all said the same thing about asp and danielson and they both kind of sucked at the nhl level. i'm down on stevie right now but i'm not sure bringing up the rookies would have made a positive difference this year.

we all said the same thing last summer and we signed mason appleton and JVR.

who are 5 guys who will never do **** in the nba.

next year's draft class isnt as good, i wonder if we'll still see as much blatant tanking?

no, but this admin isnt organized enough to do anything about it.

once you made it legal, you opened the door to sports obsessed schools with huge, rich alumni to open their pocketbooks. michigan, ohio state, indiana... it was always a benefit to michigan once they got comfortable with the idea. now that they are, you see them winning. with that said, dusty may was the biggest part of that. football has more money than god but couldnt get out of its own way, michigan put together a great team, and then coached them well enough to win. dusty earned that big ol raise he's about to get.

the big ten is champs in football, mens bball, and womens bball. Money talks.

yes

did he steal those toys from his 15 year old "friends?"

normally i would assume keith gave is supporting mcclellan because mclellan is giving him information, but gave is retired, right? maybe larkin talks to him still. he's right to call out yzerman. its just the same stuff we've all been saying for the last couple of years, but some of us (me) gave yzerman a long leash until this year's collapse finally pushed everyone over rhe edge. what did we say last year: why is rasmussen still on this team? kane was "fine", but is he a guy busting his ass every night? compher is everyone's whipping boy. copp has disappeared. jvr and appleton are depth passengers. they have been very conservative.

keith gave coming out strong!

raymond is small and young. larkin is old and has been injured quite a bit in his career. it could just be bad luck and not because yzerman doesnt know what he's doing.

them being injured makes more sense. but then that is a problem because its two years in a row they've both been hurt at the end of the year. bad luck? or too small? who would stoney have gotten that info from? yzerman is notoriously tight lipped. if its true, it tells you everyone else sees him as a 3C just like a lot of draft experts did when he came out.

derozan was a sign and trade but that's kind of a free agent signing. ben wallace? carlos boozer?

the subaru driving population in chicago will be devastated.

lol. the university that brought you the bill belichick disaster decide to hire another pro guy to lead a college team. not sure what's going at unc.