buddha

i felt pretty good against louisville. i knew that villanova game was a lost cause. that was a great villanova team. please dont sully this thread by mentioning michigan basketball.

no one is going to trade for ville husso. he's making $4.75 million and he isnt any good. were trying to REPLACE him.

draymond works because he has/had two of the greatest shooters in nba history playing alongside him. ausar doesnt have that and isnt going to ever have it. i agree with everything else youve said.

i dont hate him now. of course i wont hate him if he becomes a great goalie. if he bombs out will you hate him?

lyon has been ok. husso has been bad considering what were paying him. reimer has been as expected: not good.

the refs will always make mistakes (especially in dallas). i would like more of an acknowledgement from the league that those mistakes happened instead of a cover up routine to make me disbelieve my own eyes.

i dont have a problem with anything yzerman has done. if i wanted to quibble, i would say trading up for cossa, signing too many defensemen this year, and not taking enough draft chances on smaller skill players in lieu of big defensemen. but those are really small quibbles. its hard to go from the worst team of all time to a solid playoff team without lottery luck. wings are making slow progress, imo. i know their record is similar to last year, and i'm not happy with the goalies this year, but the team isnt getting run out of the rink anymore. baby steps. and im very excited for asp and danileson. i think those are home run picks.

im not against drafting goalies, i'm just against drafting them in round one. 🙂 i liked the augustine pick.

that was a huge win. the kings dominated them last year. kane may not play any defnese, but he's still got that top 1% skill.

washington has had some offensive stinkers in there. watch the arizona state tape. if you can make them one dimensional, you've got a decent chance to control penix. play a lot of zone, or throw johnson on oduze. but to win they need to control the game on the ground and not turn the ball over. washington's dline is not bama, or even ohio state. grind it out, control the clock, use jj's legs for once. be creative but not reckless. and for god's sake, dont muff any more punts.

because he's not making the right passing reads. he's turning the ball over a lot. the pistons roster doesnt suit ausar. you can have one non-shooter on the floor, but multiple non-shooters is offensive death. ausar plus killian or ivey or stewart or duren or wiseman or livers is death. the pistons simply dont have enough nba caliber players to play with ausar. i agree with your overall point about monty not finding decent ways to use ausar, but i think the bigger point is that weaver has put him in an untenable position with his terrible roster construction. but im not as high on ausar as everyone else here seems to be. i am skeptical he will ever be able to shoot at an acceptable nba level. i think his most likely career outcome is matthias thybulle or tony allen rather than draymond greene or dennis rodman.

84 has a very long history of overrating every prospect his favorite teams have (see tigers, detroit). drafting any nhl player is a crap shoot. drafting goalies in round one has been less successful than drafting any other position. that is all.

1) i do not "know" that yzerman isnt trading cossa. in fact, i would not be surprised if he was traded if the wings start playing better and get back into contention. if they don't get closer to the wc by the deadline, then i do not think any prospects will be traded this year. seeing cossa traded in the offseason wouldnt surprise me in the slightest. 2) i dont know who is available. but their goaltending has been awful and is costing them a playoff spot this year, imo.

come on, man. you listen to too much valenti. calling out an old boys network and telling jerry jones to **** himself is one thing, hiring a private investogator and calling the integrity if the league - and your multi-billion dollar product - into question is beyond stupid and will never ever ****ing happen. i expect this from mcs when he's high, but you? come on.

several teams have gotten boned. how often does the nfl release a video explaining that the official was actually right? (while in reality the video actually shows the official was wrong, and the league STILL wont just admit it and move on?) whatever the lions are or arent doing behind the scenes is having no discernible effect on how the league treats them publicly. perhaps a different approach is warranted?

semantics. lets both hope he plays really well, regardless of position.

https://dobberprospects.com/2020/05/24/nhl-draft-pick-probabilities-by-position/?ref=pensionplanpuppets.com take your goalies in the top 5 or the second/third round.

i am rooting for tampa and new orleans!

iffy grades out at pff with a sterling 80+ grade this year. his first two years he grades in the low 50s and low 60s, which is bad. just to support my earlier point. again, he was a rookie and injured, as mb points out. but he wasnt very good at corner. he's been much better at safety and i hope they keep him there. play 3 safeties.

i saw him play, he wasnt very good. hopefully because he was injured.

be careful what you wish for. either the rams or the packers will be hard for the lions because of their offenses. i think the lions can handle the packers' defense. if the lions were going to lose, i'd rather NOT lose to the packers. and i'd feel a bit better about losing to stafford if we had to lose.

melifonwu was a disaster at corner in the past. he didnt have the speed to keep up. maybe he's gotten better?

cossa, berggren and a second/third round pick could net you a decent defenseman, imo. especially if its someone with salary who the wings can afford (right now, before they extend seider and raymond). speaking of which, i saw max's piece today saying he sees raymond getting 7 years at 7m aav and seider in the 8 years 8.7m range. that cap space is going to go pretty quickly.

the hit rate on goalies is much much smaller than on any other position, that's why i wouldnt draft one in the first round. cossa is a project with a capital P. he's a big, athletic giraffe, flailing about at the net. its a high risk, high reward risky pick. i wouldnt have made it. i think augustine is a better prospect right now than cossa, he's had more international experience at a younger age than cossa and performed better while doing it. cossa may have a higher ceiling simply because of his size, but i dont think you have to be 6'6 to be a good goalie. being a good goalie is more about positioning and quickeness. augustine seems to have that in spades. and a mid 2nd round pick is a better place to find your goalie, leave the first round for the skaters.

i didnt say you did. i asked why would you. do you put any stock in it?