buddha

this will act as a de facto salary cap and now all the boosters will spend their time circumventing that cap just like they used to spend their time paying guys who couldnt get paid.

signing gustafsson and tarasenko last year to replace perron and ghost is a failure. there is no two ways about it. you would have been better off signing no one or simply re-signing the guys you let go. trading walman was a failure. there was no "reluctance to spend money." they spent the same amount or more on guys who were bad to replace guys who were useful. i'm also in the "part of free agency is you have to overpay to get guys here and not everyone wants to come to detroit" camp. i underatand its hard. but they chose to sign those guys (and trade walman WITH A PICK) last year. they are accountable for those bad decisions.

kenny once said rebuilds take 10 years. well, the rebuild started in 2019.

no way i take on that deal. derrick white? yes. holiday? no way.

part of signing patrick kane is that he was willing to sign here. most of the guys who people throw around on here arent willing to come. heck, the guys we got to come here we had to overpay. again, up until this offseason, the yzerplan was working fine. they got better every year. this was the "gap" year that would be a step back for me. ive always thought that. HOWEVAH, this offseason was so dreadful that it really made me question the team's direction for the first time. i thought this offseason was the one where they go get a star player or trade for one, and maybe they still will, but now EVERYONE has cap space and other teams have a ton more because they dont have copp/compher/chairot contracts weighing them down. this is make or break offseason for me. another year of mediocre mush and i'm going to be wondering what the end game is. if they cant improve then i think that will prove that yzerman's plan - combined with dreadful lottery luck - didnt work. the idea of a limited teardown and not a full scale demolition (which would have meant trading larkin and not signing compher/chairot/copp to overproced deals to add stability) failed. but the rational side of me still thinks its just a bit early to go that far.

i dont see why anyone wants rasmussen around. he's been awful since he got hurt. he's the definition of a passenger on almost every night. he should be a big, physical player forechecking the mess out of everyone and he just skatea around doing very little most of the time. i'd be fine replacing him with mazur if that kid could ever stay healthy. find someone to bet on rasmussen's size somewhere else.

bennett will get more than that on the open market. unless he takes a discount to stay with florida.

oh, and when kenny bottomed out he drafted filip zadina, joe veleno, denis cholowski, and michael rasmussen. lets not forget that.

mrazek at the deadline was a hedge on cossa next year. and really, its an acknowledgment that cossa isnt ready and the goalie free agent market was terrible. smith was a 4th line player who is active. unlike almost every other 4th line player the wings have. and many of their 3rd line players. what did you want them to do at the deadline? trade a first round pick for a 3rd pair defenseman? or a rental like marchand? where we probably agree, the real criticism is that they signed the players you mentioned with the idea of forming a base to "not be terrible." they did that. HOWEVAH, the flip side of that was they didnt bottom out long enough to accumulate enough assets to build a bigger base, and they failed to draft/sign elite players. no lottery luck? sure. that hurt them. but spending on copp and compher and chairot elevated them from bottom 3 to bottom 10 while never getting them to top 10 and now it prohibits them from going balls to the walls to sign marner. and we are here in the mushy middle. forever to remain.

i doubt marchand would be interested in detroit unless they gave him 4 years.

its almost ALL that its two small market teams. the finals always take too long and are too far removed from the regular season. it hasnt affected ratings like this before. combine that with the fact that they have no league stars. i know sga just won mvp, but most people dont know who he is.

what a choke job by sga and okc.

beat the ****ing white sox for god's sake.

so reinsdorf will have to sell the team in 2034? he'll be 97 years old. this agreement is getting sox fans excited but all it really means is that jerry is controlling the team until he dies.

it doesnt really make a ton of sense. and now necas wants out? i'd rather have rantanan at 12 than necas and nelson at 7.5 plus whatever extension necas is going to get. its possible they painted themselves into a corner with how cheap makar's contract is and have said were not going over $9 with anyone. stupid if thats the case.

if the wings were lucky enough to win a bidding war for jason robertson, his cost is likely to be 8×$12

colorado just paid brock nelson $7.5m a year to be their 2C

brock nelson signs in colorado. if any of you were thinking about him as a potential solution.

danielson and a first would be the likely floor. "find a way to get out from under one of our bad defensive contracts". how? we gave up a second to get rid of an actual good player (walman), what will we have to give up to get rid of holl? chairot isnt going anywhere, he's a useful player if a bit overpaid. youre better off just ltir'ing holl.

bennett the wings have enough soft players. they need more rats.

getting worked by rick carlisle wasnt a great look. the knicks owe him $30m. i think he'll be ok.

the bulls are satisfied making the play in and not paying any tax. donovan has no worries about ever losing his gig. just shut up and take it, unlike thibs who got into a pissing match with paxson when he was the gm.

he wasnt DEI enough for michigan but was too DEI for florida. hilarious.

berggren is a ufa. andrew copp is not getting you a first round pick in the offseason. maybe at the deadline if you squint really hard. besides, they like copp and he's your C2. when they were rolling last year it was when copp was playing C with debrincat and kane and kasper was on line one winning corner battles for raymond and larkin. when copp went down, kasper had to move off line one and that's when the larkin line nosedived. lack of depth killed them. you could potentially get a 4th or 5th for ras just because someone might take a gamble on his size. better off keeping him and seeing if him and elmer can cause damage on a 4th line with compher. they have the prospects to deal if they want to deal. but it will be danielson or asp who will have to be moved to bring back anything with realtime value. like a peterka or a byram. danielson and a 2nd (or even a first) might get that done, but then you have to commit to $7-$8m. since they refuse to do offer sheets - and honestly, that's probably wise in the age of salary cap increases because you'd have to massively overpay and give up multiple 1s to get guys - they will likely need to trade to get decent players. almost everyone has oodles of cap space. if you want to give $8+ to gavrikov you might be able to pry him away IF the kings truly are in for marner. but if not, there's no way gavrikov is leaving. ekblad? do you want to take a chance on him? sam bennett at $10m?