buddha

tomorrow against boston feels like a schedule loss. day after sergei's retirement and back to back big games against carolina and montreal.

wow. what a horrible missed call! guess what carolina? makes up for that bull**** call on raymond earlier!

and they win it! this team loves overtime.

btw, before we trade a piece of the future for a rental or mild upgrade, remember this third period. this team cant compete with the real contenders when they turn it up.

detroit's on the pp but carolina looks more likely to score. i'm just hopong they can get a loser point.

come on larkin. another turnover at the blueline leads to a carolina break.

and now a 5-3...

bad pinch by simon leads to a 2 on 1 and then a complete **** call on raymond. horrible call. but carolina goes to the pp. even though its seemed like they were on a pp for most of the 3rd period.

gibson is the only reason this game isnt 5-3.

sheesh. carolina is embarassing them right now.

carolina turns it on and the wings cant keep up. 3-2 now. should be even more but gibson has been really good.

gibson continues to play well. carolina has gotten unlucky on offense, however, goalie is their achilles heel and it shows tonight again.

joke.

imagine what the dudes from the 70s think....back when games were on tape delay.

but i am happy he is getting his number retired and i will probably tear up a little watching all those old highlights. the red wings getting the russians together and taking players out of the eastern bloc has been told a number of times now, but its still an amazing story how they did it, and it set the franchise up for a 25 year run that has never been duplicated in the modern post original six era. unlike the penguins or blackhawks or any other team that has won multiple cups, the wings won with different teams and werent gifted generational players thanks to the lottery gods. they did it through scouting and development. as a wings fan, that's a source of pride. and sergei was a big part of that.

Sergei might have been the most talented red wing ever. but also the most frustrating. he was so good that you always expected even more, and some nights it was clear he just wasnt into it. he was always my second favorite red wing after yzerman just cause he was so good, but he'd never replace yzerman. two stories indicate why. the first is the story of how fedorov got a knock in a game and left. it took konstantinov or fetisov going into the medical room and basically calling him out as a pansy ass and to get his behind back on the ice for sergei to go back out and play. meanwhile yzerman finished his career playing with zero cartilage in his knee, with constant pain, and was still out there every night playing defense and blocking shots. it took scotty bowman to make yzerman from a fancy offensive stats player to one of the best two way centers in hockey. sergei was born as one of the best two way centers in hockey, but not even scotty bowman or slava fetisov could get him to do it consistently.

you've always struck me as more danton than robespierre. actually, youre more of a desmoulins, idealistic and young!

Did Marcus Freeman use a weapon when he assaulted that guy? lol.

secondary is losing a lot of guys too. some of those losses may not be a bad thing...

i dont know if 94 gets you in this year.

seems like there have been a lot more ties and loser points. so teams are "losing" but still getting a point.

from max: "he’s picked it up even further. After a 27-save shutout in Montreal, Gibson has stopped 111 out of 117 shots in January — a .949 save percentage through his first four starts this month." the atlantic division is crazy right now. two losses in a row for detroit would likely out them out of the pkayoffs. two wins and they'd be the #1 seed. nobody is losing. not even **** teams like the leafs.

at this point, does ivey even play in the playoffs?

i suspect that they look at pitching in a tinstaapp sort of way. drafting pitchers is very risky due to injury. youre more likely to find a pitching prospect "in the rough" (like say...tarik skubal) than you are to get one at the top of the draft who avoids injury (like say...casey mize or jackson jobe). so dont spend draft capital on pitchers and instead find pitchers via free agency/minor league free agents/scrap heap guys who you can rehabilitate (cobb, morton, paddack, maeda, flaherty). pitchers are too risky an asset. hitters are much easier to quantify. just a theory.

illinois doesnt have a tax on services. after pritzker is re-elected governor next year, i suspect they will change the law and implement a services tax. that will bring in a considerable amount of revenue. now, the smart thing to do would be to cut other taxes, but they wont. instead - this being illinois - they will hire more union jobs, pay for construction projects that dont need to happen, pay for more teachers aides and more cops, and increase the pension debt even more with sweeteners and other goodies. just like they did with covid money. instead of using it for capital improvements, or for paying off debt, they used it to create more jobs. more jobs that now require pensions and other continually incurring labor payments that they cannot afford now that the covid money has run out. we are a city run by corruption, unions, and idiots. we get what we deserve.