buddha

according to them, pittsburgh is a top contender this year...

asp tearing up the swedish league and danileson doing well after the trade to portland should help too.

my teenage years coming back to me now.

you're really going to have to convince me that monty williams isnt actively trying to get fired.

is muscala hurt?

happy for jrm. i thought he was pretty good last year as a linebacker.

here's the athletic write up on him:

i've seen both. either way its not a match for the wings. and i dont think they need another defense only forward unless they think they can unlock some offense there.

the news on kaako is at LEAST a number one pick plus. so no thanks. broberg is a reclamation project, so maybe over the summer. brogberg is the type of guy i would have wanted as a throw in to a cap space deal for edmonton. kenny gets rid of him and we take on a bigger salary to free them up to make a cup winning trade. something we could have done last year but probably not now consodering the big contracts were about to throw to seider and raymond.

i wouldnt give up a 2nd and a prospect for tanev and that's what i think it will cost to get him.

that's my point on lyon, he's done this before. otoh, didnt he turn into a pumpkin in the playoffs and have to be bailed out by bobrovsky? or was he injured?

the reverance with which the media has always treated the knicks always bugs me. the knicks have never won shiite other than a small run in the early 70s that the knick fans WONT STOP TALKING ABOUT like that was the greatest team since sliced bread. that said, i did roor for them once upon a time when they were battling jordan. but that's it. although i will take them over the nets.

getting patrick kane for nothing has to be one of the transactions of the year. he's a point per game player.

wet blanket is your middle name. but to your point, it has been good goaltending to help them. and? do other good teams not get good goaltending? is it because its alex lyon? he was really good for florida for a stretch last year and got them to the playoffs. maybe alex lyon is actually good? that said, i'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop with this team. seems to me like theyre getting outshot a lot but still winning. and the more talented teams are having their way with them when it comes to the run of play. but theyre winning that's what really matters right now. i think yzerman is smart enough not to trade for a guy to supposedly "put them over the top." he'll continue to build through the draft and make more smart "jake walman" type trades.

kane was probably a little more pumped up than usual (duh) because of the return AND the bedard thing. not only has bedard become the new hot thing in chicago (taking kane's place), but bedard also went at kane a few times. checked him against the boards earlier, and right before that scoring play in ot, bedard was on the boards muscling kane for the puck and winning the battle. kane might just have had a little more oomph in that celebration to tell the young fella that the old guy aint dead yet...

lions got screwed under the old salary structure. that said, mayhew still effed it up.

if we draft another french player del will have an aneurysm.

st louis is an outlier. and detroit doesnt play that physical game like st louis did. vegas has more top end talent than detroit. kane gives the wings that special player you need in the playoffs, but i'm leery that other teams will physically manhandle him in the playoffs and single him out in ways they dont in the regular season. when they physically target any of detroit's defensemen other than seider, the wings have a lot of trouble getting out of their own zone. think of ottawa last year. you'll see that more in the playoffs if they make it. with that said, they've built a really competitive team the only way they could without lottery luck: solid drafting and solid depth. they have -in theory- a lot of defensemen coming through to replace this old set they have now. if they get to the playoffs they'll need Lyon to continue to play very well. i can see them winning a couple games in round one but would be really surprised to see them take a 7 game series against any of the big teams in the east. they probably match up best against florida or carolina. i'd hate to see them get waxed by the leafs.

i'm more worried about the leafs getting the #1 seed and taking on the wings in round one than i am in the wings catching the leafs. the wings are not catching the leafs.

if cossa turns into even an average nhl goalie that trade will be a win.

patience is good. its been 4 years for the 2019 class. tuomisto is in grand rapids. mastrosimone is out of the organization. johannson is on his second stint in the grand rapids, but got some buzz last year and is still getting it this year. albin grewe is in sweden and i think he's out of the org. ethan phillips is still in college. cooper moore is in college. elmer is in grand rapids. tyutayev is back in russia. **** out of that list we have one star/superstar in seider. tuomisto still has a shot, but its an outside shot at being a depth defenseman. johannson has enough buzz that i think he still has a shot to be a solid nhl player or trade bait like sebrango was. elmer still has to grow into his body and improve his skating. he could be rasmussen with better hands. the rest arent going to be anything. like you said, still too early to tell but its getting to put-up-or-shut-up time for the class.

i still have hope for johannson and wallinder. hanas maybe as a 4th line guy. in other news, wheeler's prospect ranking countdown is on and he's up to #7 (blackhawks, even w/o bedard and korchinski). so the wings will be top 6 again.

i know they want to get perron going, but at this point he shouldnt be out there on the power play.

how good has patrick kane been for this team?

its still too early to tell and there is positive news on mazur, wallinder, johannson, augustine, and even gibson. next year will be a good chance to see if dylan james, or buchelnikov, or lombardi continue to grow.