buddha

they need size and most of the high skill guys left are small. but i agree with you they need skill. and size. and talent in general.

taking a north american guy over a swedish guy who is the same player but swedish is....interesting.

we havent hit on a north american guy in round one in a while.

danielson. not sure how i feel about that. in steve we trust.

moore or dvorsky

plenty of good choices available. (dont count out a defenseman...)

dammit.

im fine with benson too. but leonard is big and they need size.

leonard or daborsky.... or wilander.

god dammit.

watch michkov be there at 9 and detroit takes wilander....

atizona! no!!!! i mean yes! YES! YES!

is carey price drunk?

michkov is falling! get on it stevie!

skipping the beginning so i dont have to watch the nhl gift a generational player to the rapehawks.

that's the last time i confide in aubrey.

seeing guys like durzi and colton go for next to nothing makes you wonder if the wings have something cooking with those second rounders or if they plan on stocking up on prospects?

dude, you know the next time some 22 year old second baseman is hitting .350 in high A ball you'll be the first one on here saying he's the next Lou Whitaker. you cant help it! 😉

i probably wore the wrong shade.

rodney magruder is going straight into weaver's front office. i doubt they get rid of him.

wings open in jersey. oct 12. their schedule release was very cute.

jeiii was talking about barnes on $25m per year for two years with a third year partially guaranteed deal. similar. then you can deal barnes and bagley with picks to get close to a max guy in 2 years. i like both those moves. let's get more shooting please.

that will really help amen develop...

i'm not sure you can say today's minors arent better because we haven't seen them fully develop yet. 🙂 but i do remember the wings having a "highly ranked" farm system at least coming into the mid 2010s. then the bottom fell out with some surprising draft decisions (ras, cholowski over chychrun, svechnikov) that seemed to make draft analysts pause. if you take an honest look at last year, they werent a good team and chairot really hurt them by making seider worse. that said, if they have bertuzzi for the whole season and if vrana wasnt kicked off the team, they are likely fighting florida for the 8th spot down to the wire. but that's the ceiling. trading both of them (and hronek) was an admission by yzerman that it wasnt good enough and that its time to rebuild around seider/raymond with larkin as the long term captain/vet to hold it together. coming up with enough depth to "roll four lines" like seattle or carolina is a good goal, but even seattle (beniers) and carolina (the good svechnikov) had high lottery picks we havent had. these two first rounders are key. they HAVE to hit. and getting something out of the three second rounders needs to happen too. but im a sucker, i still think mazur is brayden point 2.0. 🙂

your top two picks this year should be a bedrock, hopefully. from my uneducated eye, i am excited about wallinder, lombardi, and mazur. lombardi is on a path to be a real steal, imo. cossa is concerning because he's a goalie and goalie's are weird. i wouldnt be stunned if they take one in round 2 if they keep all 3 picks. buchelnikov is an unknown. veleno is just a 4th line utility guy. zadina is trade bait (hopefully) based on his draft position. buium seems to have stalled. i also like sebrango as an ollie maata type player.