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grand rapids gets beat again. cossa finishes with the worst save % on the team this year (he finished ahead of augustine, but he just got there so we'll cut him some slack). meanwhile, jesper wellstadt just started a playoff game and gave up 1 goal to dallas. #yzerplan.

you should be more concerned with the anti-semitic candidates who will be sitting on your board soon. says a lot about the democratic party as a whole, and the university of michigan's future.

Detroit is the first #1 seed in 27 years to never have a lead in game one of the opening series.

JJ was a great teammate too. not sure about milton. To your point, Underwood didnt seem to get much coaching last year. Let's see how he responds to actual coaching this year. so far, not good.

in better news, i made $20 on my magic moneyline pick tonight! and its only one game. plenty of time to bounce back. but they'll need a HUGE game from cade to do it.

psssst....some of us have been saying this all year long. jenkins is a nice story, but he'll be exposed when other teams pick it up. the team has no spacing and the duren/cade lob action is easily stopped in the playoffs. duncan cant guard and is past his prime. will be exposed in the playoffs. JB is a great regular season coach, but was fired from cleveland because he cant get it done in the post season. This was the year to make a move to get a star. instead they traded for heurter and now have to pay duren. how is the team going to be with duren as their second highest paid player? JB's hatred for ausar is a fireable offense.

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not yet.

ref show in cleveland.

there's a british sideline reporter? wtf?

i forgot jalen green was on phoenix. man, who do you root against? the triumverate of ass hole that is steve kerr, draymond green, and jimmy butler or the unique piece of **** of dillon brooks combined with the guy who thinks he's better than cade, jalen green?

the best part about phoenix-golden state is that one of draymond green or dillon brooks is going to lose.

there was a lot of that. once they were down 30, ball started going one on five and scoring.

as much as I bag on ep40 for being soft and the most overpaid player in the league, im almost positive vancouver will get more than just two god awful overpaid players like compher and rasmussen in return.

that's just silly. any such arrangement without trevor linden is meaningless!

i like the play in round. i hate the nba playoff schedule tjat refuses to show more than one gane at a time and results in 3 or 4 days between games. they should be playing roughly every other day.

AJD Melting Pot. really good substack from one of the mgoblog boys. i think the wings' problem is not yzerman per se, but that yzerman has allowed the wings' front office to become the wings' retirement home. yzerman led a really good front office in tampa bay, one that has continued to be good after he left. here, he has draper and horcoff. guys who have been here for a decade. a decade of losing and tiny improvements on the ice and - outside of three top 6 picks - has failed in the draft. why are they still here? why are the only additions to the staff nick kronwall and lidstrom? julein brisebois never played an nhl game in his life and now he's the best gm in hockey after being there with yzerman. it takes talent to find that guy. it takes no talent to find kronwall or lidstrom, theyre literally contacts in his phone. time to overhaul this mess. go get the next julien brisebois, and if yzerman isnt ruthless enough to fire his underperforming ex-teammates, then go find someone who will.

multiple good pieces out there in the substack-verse on the need to overhaul the front office. "Look, those are the three most important picks Yzerman has made, since they were the highest. But you also get less credit for nailing them. Getting a really good hockey player out of the 6th, 4th, and 7th overall picks should be the baseline expectation for any GM in the National Hockey League. But can you get really good (or even just regular good) players when you pick 9th or 14th or 20th? Or out of the 2nd or 3rd rounds? That’s what differentiates strong front offices from average/weak ones, and what elevates rebuilds into contenders. Right now, it’s not great. Only seven Yzerman draft picks played more than 40 games for the Red Wings this season, in year #7 of a rebuild. Of those seven players, one is a third pair defenseman, one is a young D who was clearly not NHL ready, and the other is a former 7th rounder who scored 30 points. The final name is Marco Kasper, who went from one of the most exciting players at the end of last year to scoring just 19 points. That is close to a five-alarm fire for me. As it stands currently, Detroit doesn’t have a single impactful NHL player out of the 2022 or 2023 drafts. Maybe that will happen in the future but I’m not feeling great right now. Nate Danielson, the 2023 first rounder, came up and played 28 games, making little impact. Together with the Kasper, the players you picked 8th and 9th overall in ‘22 and ‘23 combined to score 26 points. "

you wrote that you didnt think they were far from being the top team in the conference. i think theyre miles from being the top team in the conference.

is it a coincidence thar kawahi played exactly 65 games this year? the bare minimum.

$25k. pocket change for him.

he could "shoot" back in detroit. the difference is that when he was in detroit after he signed the big deal, he thought he SHOULD be shooting. now he is just a bit player who shoots in garbage time for the laughs.

i like this new keith gave.

i'd be surprised if they do anything this year. they'll suspend him for a couple games next year.

he was really good the second half of the season. he dominated tarris reed in the post, reed was one of the best players in the tournament and mara shut him down. michigan kind of unlocked mara's passing too. good vision for a big man. he'll get walked physically for a while, but he can defend the paint and pass.