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theyre still such an unathletic team. ivey and duren and....diallo?

fesity game tonight.

the leafs have $4 in salary cap space.

he'll claim ptsd like they all do now.

i get it, i just think he would be better if he was a bit more critical and not just excusing everything or not speaking about it. but i understand why he does it.

i still feel that every prospect acquired by avila is suspect.

do people like jeiii? i like him, but sometimes i think he's very buddy buddy with weaver and/or casey. very protective of this management team.

not sure. i wouldnt foresee buchelnikov in north america for at least another year. maybe two. hopefully things have quieted down before then.

there are going to be so many teams tanking HARD this year. the end of the season will be such a joke.

look, all this means is we win the lottery and get wambanyama.

if you translate buchelnikov into english it means "datsyuk."

mayfield has been injured a lot. murray is small but built like a tank. he has had a few injuries, but nothing more than normal for an nfl qb.

it would help if they can have someone other than [squints] killian hayes make some shots.

watching andre play for the bulls. he looks even more out of shape than usual.

another way to build a winner is to find late round picks who turn out to be quality players and occasionally stars. elmer may be on that track.

the nfl is weird. one day youre the best offense in football and the next day someone figures you out and youre back to the drawing board. the lions got figured out by the pats. they are also missing their best playmaker in the backfield and two of their best receivers. injuries play a role, especially with a rebuilding team like detroit. let's see how they adjust after the bye. i'm not optimistic, but they finished strong last year. i think they need to do so again or else you might start to lose the locker room.

theo fleury? give me a break. yzerman had 5 straight years scoring over 100 points and five seasons of more than 50 goals, and two of those were over 60 goals. fleury never scored 50 and had 2 100 point seasons in his career. federov was more talented than yzerman, but i'll take yzerman over sergei just for the "want to". yzerman had a much betger career than forsberg, equal to sakic, and different than messier. i think youre really underrating yzerman. youre right, i put in generational when i was talking about a superstar. consider your nit picked.

schwartz went from 2-14 to 6-10 to 10-6. i think campbell will be afforded similar leeway if he gets to 5 or 6 wins this year. if theyre 3-14 he will definitely be on the hot seat going into year 3. who knows with a new owner? sheila made the initial mistake of keeping patricia and quinn instead of immediately cleaning house, so i would imagine she'll have patience with campbell/holmes.

g2 misconstrues what i say and then argues about it so he can continue to make the same point over and over. news at 11. again, the original argument was how to get a superstar center. i guess i have a broader definition of superstar than you do if you dont consider steve yzerman to have been a superstar. if yzerman isnt a superstar, who is?

yzerman, federov, datsyuk and lidstrom were all generational talents, imo. yzerman was past his prime by the time they won the cup, but by then he had turned himself into one of the best two way centers in the game. the original question was how does a team get a superstar center. those wings teams had yzerman and federov, both of whom would meet that criteria in my book. so would zetterburg.

i would argue that yzerman, federov, zetterburg and datsyuk were all some of the best players in the game at the time the wings won cups with them. not connor mcdavid, but still exceptionally good hockey players.

its too early to say anything about hutch other than to say he hasnt been producing much lately. as i said before, jj watt didnt do much in the beginning of his first year either.

where do you get a superstar center? you draft one at the top of the draft. or, if youre the red wings of old, you find them stashed away in russia or sweden when no one else was looking. you have to get lucky and have a top pick when there is a generational center at the top of the draft (like this year with bedard who is undoubtedly ticketed for chicago). we havent had that kind of luck in a while and now everyone is looking in europe as much as us so we cant use that market advantage anymore. or you could be toronto and have tavares fall into your laps cause he's a leafs fan. any idea if mcdavid was a big russian five guy? as sloth pointed out before, kasper looks like a potential zetterburg or larkin. a top guy if he turns out to be zetterburg 2.0. does larkin look better with better wingers? of course. every player looks better surrounded by better players, imo. health has also been an issue for larkin.

i think elmer is slow for the nhl, ras too. but he does have amazing reach.

it looks to me like veleno was playing much better in preseason. he looked faster. elmer was playing with ras and sunkvist today. is that the biggest line in hockey? and the slowest? zadina and veleno were "floaters" today moving between lines. at this point id honestly rather see veleno center a 4th line than suter. the wings now appear to have quality forward depth. the defense will likely still need work. that said, at the end of the day, they need raymond to keep developing into a true top of the league sniper. their top line is just middle of the pack (or a bit below) right now and they need it to be better to compete with other top teams. in truth, larkin is probably a second line center on a true cup contender.