buddha
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penn state and usc too.
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carter mazur is the real loser here. how do keep him over a guy like finnie? i mean, they WILL, but finnie has been outplaying all of them. can we deal some forward prospect depth for a defenseman?
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finnie and mbn should both make the team but wont. asp isnt ready yet but probably has a better chance to make it (he wont) because their bottom defenders are so weak. wallinder has been unimpressive. buium looked good until he got hurt. they looked real good against toronto tonight. especially the forwards forechecking. elmer, finnie, copp, larkin, mbn, everybody. even rasmussen.
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asp and gustafsson? good lord, who will play defense?
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some team is going to hire her or dawn witherspoon in the next few years.
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they outplayed the hawks for the most part. hawks spent a ton of time on the power play and couldnt score becuase they're the hawks. i know its a preseason game, but bedard does not look like a generational player. however, its way too early. it took kane a while to turn into a great player too. johannson had a bad game. got walked for the hawks' only goal, took a bad penalty too. larkin and raymond were sleepwalking in that game, which is fine, just dont get hurt. talbot looked good. caveat: its the hawks. mbn looks like an nhl player. very physical. finnie too. elmer? looks like a 4th liner. cant skate. but he did have a nice defensive play tracking back to break up a 1 on 1. asp is going to get targeted and smashed. hope he eats his wheaties.
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ask kilian hayes.
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for all the good feelings about the wings' prospects to start the pre season, the last few games have been a whole lot of bad.
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dumba did crosscheck him but that was the pittsburgh game. dirty play, but its dumba and thats what he does.
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duren is already a better shooter than ausar. ausar will never be a good shooter. he might one day achieve enough to be adequate, but i doubt it. he does other stuff so well that you can live with it, but it will be hard to craft a lineup with him in it that doesnt have plus plus shooting at other spots.
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Mactavish re-signs with anaheim. so we can end the pipe dream of him being traded here. soon to come: ending the pipe dream of any other big name udfa coming here when they re-sign. the only one who might is kyle connor because he's older and winnipeg are skint.
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ryan day agrees. 🙂
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Alabama has consistently been a top 5 program the entire time smart has been at georgia. its not too much of a surprise that his record has been poorer against them. the last couple of losses have stung though.
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cossa continues to make the case for why he is not ready to play nhl games.
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you would think he would mellow with age but he's only gotten worse. like vitale, its become all schtick. side note: he went to my high school.
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welcome to the club.
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i tend to buy the "youre overrating your own prospects" argument combined with the "you only have so many years with skubal so try to win with him" argument more.
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i love a top farm system as much as the next guy, but they didnt have to dismantle the farm system to pick up some useful additions at the deadline, or make a deal before then (or, as you agitated for, sign an alex bregman to fill their massive hole at third base). sometimes the "but that contract will look terrible in three years" argument shouldnt rule the day when you only have so long with your best player. i think its a case of the "smartest guys in the room" syndrome. can we combine harris' scouting with dave dombrowski's ability to make trades?
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i was all in on their trade deadline. i thought they would identify guys who had positives and that they could fix the negatives. i figured they knew what they were doing. and i - like them - were very very wrong. i know harris is going nowhere. i know they have a seemingly talented bunch in the minors. but nothing is guaranteed. you have one of the best sp's in baseball who you will likely lose after next season, and you may have just wasted your last chance to win with him.
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last year they had a horseshoe up their butts for the final 40 games. this year the exact opposite. baseball is a funny ol game.
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wait yil you hear about the 80s tigers' clubhouse...
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they deserve to lose given the hubris they showed at the trade deadline. it was either hubris or stupidity. i'm not buying the illitch spending argument. i more buy the harris arrogance and inexperience argument.
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given this almost unprecedented collapse and the allegations of the old boys club in the front office, is harris in danger of losing his job? if not, should he?
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Meh lineup produces a meh game. still not really seeing anything from wallinder except skating.
