buddha

**** you boston

i brought a family of four. once you get drinks, snacks, and merch it cost a lot of money.

i took the familly to a game two years ago and was amazed at how expensive it was. but all hockey games are like that. hawks tickets face value are ridiculously expensive.

it'll be izzo.

wait....he thinks he IMPROVED and is doing those things correctly now? oh my.

all the good guys who were available who would be good fits for detroit will be signed. good players dont usually become available unless they demand to be traded.

that would be a great way to get people to protest them. lol.

And just like that the pistons have cut it to 28! not even george blaha can get excited about this crappy team.

tom gores is doing the hiring. curb your enthusiasm.

the worst product in the company's history is also a sign of a poorly run organization.

please let gores hire tom izzo as president of the team. make our humiliation complete.

JEIII with the "big changes are coming" headline. then drops the big news that the pistons might hire a president of basketball operations! and that everyone is likely to return next year. lol. tom gores is a buffoon. who could it be? what flashy, big name person who has either never been in charge or hasnt been in charge for such a long time that theyre out of the loop on modern nba basketball? have to go with a big name that gets attention. lets see... Mark Jackson? rick pitino? jeff vangundy? charles barkley? ISIAH THOMAS? phil jackson? does arn tellum have a cousin we dont know about? the article rehashes some of gores' inane comments from his mid season interview which just sound more vapid knowing what happened the rest of the season. this franchise is so ****ed.

just put us out of our misery already.

philly wins. washington winning. pitt still to come.

do we really think this team would be that much better with ollie as head coach? maybe a little bit because monty has been so atrocious, but probably not a lot. then again, its really hard to be this bad. not even **** vitale was this bad.

as much as i am resigned that its over, all of that scenario is quite possible.

maybe we need to attach berggren to a deal in order for a team to take holl's contract? kidding. sort of. i dont really rate berggren that much but maybe another team thinks they can get something out of him?

that wasnt even an nba game. and ivey still played like ****. it sure looks like he's just quit.

wallace was one of the best players in the league when he out his mind to it. he was just lazy and addicted to pot. ras has shown maybe two weeks worth of games where he is a difference maker. reminds me more of james wiseman. a guy with ideal size and immense talent who just cant put it together. actually that's harsh. ras is at least a contributor. wiseman is one of the worst players in the league.

otoh, do you want to be the wings or the islanders? the islanders traded for very good but not elite players and are capped out with a few of them and nothing in their system. they hired a "torts" type coach who will yell and scream and get immediate results and soon flame out. they "went for it" and will likely end up in the 8th seed and beat soundly in round 1. is that what we want? did we want to deal #1 picks and solid prospects for bo horvath? or do we want sandin-pelikka and danielson? to me that was the choice because the wings did not have anything of substance in the farm system pre-yzerman other than hronek, who got them ASP.

i know nobody wants to hear excuses and patience, but the timeline is really the next two years when the new draft picks should reach the big leagues. if there is one criticism of yzerman, its the inability to turn the cap space they had into a difference making player and/or massive amounts of draft capital. instead, they spent on "steady" vets like copp, compher, perron, and chairot. i understand the reasoning of trying to be competitive. you dont want to be the pistons and have nothing but young players and no vets to provide substance and leadership. otoh, if you spend all your money on average players you get average results. and that's exactly what weve seen from them.

you would expect to see gains from edvinsson, johannson, kasper, and mazur next year. i still think danielson might be a sneaky addition but yzerman appears to be from the holland school of slow promotion. but now half those guys are blocked by the holls and petrys of the world. to me, rasmussen and debrincat are the big disappointments this year. you really saw rasmussen at times last year turn into the big power forwars he was drafted to be. this year he turned back into the weak player we saw in the previous year. in defense of ths current administration, this is where the failure in the 2016-2018 drafts kill them. they have nothing of substance to show from all those picks holland obtained and then wasted. especially top ten picks in ras and zadina who should be in their primes right now.

the NHL likes to move into smaller, fast growing US cities early (see vegas, raleigh, and salt lake). San Antonio/Austin could be a location. but the lure of Houston's massive population may be too strong. Atlanta's population and its MLS success could also come calling. those two cities have been magnets for migration, the nhl could bet that this time it will be different because the population makeup has changed so much.

winnipeg is a strong candidate to relocate again. its just not big enough to support an nhl franchise anymore.