buddha

malkin almost decapitates dahlin.  such a dirty player.

they gave up nothing for him so its a not a big deal.

1 minute ago, Shinzaki said:

Perron...hopefully we get more than that

 

 

lol.  getting the band back together?

what does perron do?  who does he replace?  ras?  

ummm...cade?  4-12?

very quietly, amadeus lombardi is having a point per game season in the AHL.

4 hours ago, 1984Echoes said:

I'd rather go after a cheaper Center like Cade Mays... 3 years $18-21 mill?

He can play Guard or Center which makes him perfectly flexible according to how the Lions IOL shakes out...

IMO.

Plus that's a whole heckuva lot cheaper than Linderbaum.

And I believe Holmes' and Campbell's focus is STILL on draft and development and they do NOT want to spend that much money in free agency on one guy.

At least I believe that that is still true...

 

 

then they need to draft some guys worth developing.

32 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

Parayko knows that Yzerman is building such a juggernaut that the East will be unwinnable for years to come for Buffalo or anyone not named Detroit Red Wings.

good point.

Parayko only wants to go out west.  forum posters protest that yzerman hasnt done enough to move detroit west of the mississippi.

Mark Stone's annual trip to IR just before the trade deadline.

2 hours ago, Deleterious said:

Win more games.

I solved their problem and didn't even hold a single meeting.

 

MSU did the same thing.

11 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

I saw Ras make exactly one useful play in his ice time tonight. I also saw guys repeatedly skating around him as he waved at them going by on rushes.

I'd love to hear McLellan or Yzerman tell us what it is he's doing that we apparently aren't seeing that forms the reason he's getting regular ice time. He has maybe one game every two weeks where he actually looks like an NHL player.

mbn is tearing up the ahl and rasmussen is still playing.  or SHINE is here.  what did he do yesterday other than look menacing?

ras should be in the skybox every night.  mbn should be here in his place.

did compher play yesterday?  i dont remember seeing him once.

and if this team is going to win, seider has to be better than that.  edvinsson too.  they have to play like the best pair in the league they were two months ago.  seider gave up the gane tying goal all by himself (even is ras put him in a ****ty position).

1 hour ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Why did they call up Cossa? 

 

gibson is hurt.

21 minutes ago, Deleterious said:

 

hang it in the louvre.

better yet, hang it in trajan's and JB's offices.

penalty to simon and they lose it.  blowing a 2 goal 3rd period lead to a tired team isnt great.

loser point better than zero point.

bad turnover from seider and its 3-3.

seider hasnt played well since coming back from the olympics.  small sample size, but still...

RIP Bill Frieder

On 1/22/2026 at 8:44 PM, gehringer_2 said:

I saw 'Tim McCormick' and did a double-take. 

he was one of the first michigan basketball players i remember.

eric turner, tim mcormick, richard relford, butch wade.

meh, i'd still put detroit ahead of the knicks.  cade > brunson.

51 minutes ago, Betrayer said:

Except if they followed what ALL OF US on here said, we wouldn't have signed anybody. Not Beasley or Tobias last year, who were pretty critical to the turnaround. Not Robinson or Lavert this year. Not Green, who's been a great find. Probably wouldn't have picked Ausar either (my bad on that one).

The Front Office isn't going to bat 1000, but it sure would be nice if the coach could figure out how to adjust to the situation at hand.

sure, we would have signed other players.  like naw.

this year's deadline felt like a wasted opportunity.  they needed shooting.  they got a shooter (in theory) who they dont play.  

theyre going to ride or die with what they have and i dont think its enough.  i think this was a great opportunity to go for it and become the beast of the east, before tatum is back 100%, before giannis goes to the knicks or heat, while cleveland was still relying on mitchell (before they got harden).

as of now, if tatum can come back, i'd say the pistons are the 3rd or 4th favorite in the east in a playoff series.  behind boston (with tatum), cleveland, and MAYBE the knicks.  the reason i say maybe on the knicks is that they might have the one coach in the league worse than JB at making in game decisions.

11 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

Never liked Lou Holtz.  Not even one bit.  

me neither.  

1 hour ago, MichiganCardinal said:

I'd be very surprised by this. I think all signs point to OL being priority #1 this offseason. I don't think it's guaranteed that either of Mahagony or Frazier start in week one, let alone both. At minimum, if a free agent starter isn't brought in I expect a high draft pick would be, to compete and perhaps displace one of them.

For instance, if Mauigoa slips, or Lomu is the pick, I expect they could start either of them at guard in 2026 and move them to tackle after Decker retires (maybe flipping Sewell to LT as well). I'm not convinced moving Ratledge to center and starting a 5th round sophomore is that much better than what they did last year. On paper it might even be worse.

if that's their offensive line next year, the lions are in a world of hurt.  

due to injury (branch/kirby/laporta), age decline (decker/glasgow), off field issues (arnold), and poor draft decisions (rakestraw/manu/vaki), the lions are a bit behind the 8 ball.  they are now an expensive team (due to all the great drafting holmes did in his first two years) and need cheap talent to fill in the holes.

injuries and arnold's uncertainty are killing them by turning what was a strength (secondary) into an immediate need.  the oline aging everyone saw coming.  manu was supposed to help with that but he's been a miss so far.  he has this season to figure it out.  if they take a swing tackle early, he's a cut candidate.

1 hour ago, Betrayer said:

Rough game. Cavs are great at using their (moving) screens to isolate and attack mismatches (Robinson), or get the ball into the paint to force rotation, and then finding the open shooter. Piston defense was constantly having to rotate and switch and we didn't recover fast enough. Guys were caught out of position all night leading to wide open threes that the Cavs knocked down.

On the other side of the ball it took 7 quarters of basketball against the Cavs before we realized that we can do the same thing to Schroeder they do to Robinson. He's too small to guard and yet we didn't create and attack the mismatch until the 3rd quarter when Tobias went on a tear.

JD was feeling his Player of the Week title a little too much in the first half. Pressing hard to score against multiple defenders rather than make the easy pass to an open teammate. It turned into a lot wasted possessions.

Cade had a rough night on both ends. Tyson really bothers him defensively and the Cavs were doubling and swarming him a bunch. A lot of assists but still you need more scoring, or at least more efficiency, from Cade. He was also really bad on defense, missing rotations that led to open threes.

JB continues to bow to whatever blackmail LaVert has on him. He was actively hurting the team again with turnovers, dumb fouls, and terrible shots. Just cut him at this point so JB can't play him. Any other player on the bench would be better in those minutes or just give more minutes to Ausar/Ron/Green.

Speaking of, Ausar was awesome on both ends, especially his defense in the 4th. He changed the game and gave us a chance, but most of the others fumbled it.

Cavs are a real problem for this team. They're ability to shut down the paint kills our primary offense and they have multiple ballhandlers that can break you down for easy shots on the other end. Ausar can only guard so many people, and JB feels the need to keep Robinson on the court even when he's getting targeted on every play, rather than going defense heavy with Ausar + Holland/Green.

 

or better yet, dont sign lavert in the first place.  like ALL OF US said at the time.

5x5.75 for sherwood.  a third line plugger getting that kind of money is crazy.  who would offer that kind of cash to a purely role player?  who, i ask you, who?

(spies jt compher in the corner...)

going to be a tight finish.

10 minutes ago, slothfacekilla said:

 

Not shocking with his ntc, family concerns and being from Texas

bonghit will come on and blame yzerman for not forcing him to like detroit.  😉