buddha

well, gr lost 4-0 last night so it wasnt a great debut.

I was on a train in denver probably 7 or 8 years ago and went off on my lawyer for 20 minutes about how much i hate the colorado avalanche. i will never not hate them. "do you know who the colorado rockies were? have you ever heard of don cherry? no? then stfu youre not a hockey fan, youre a bandwagon bitch like everyone else in this town that STOLE its franchise from the poor people of quebec. you all disgust me." got a few looks.

Chychrun gets 8 years at $9m aav. so take that pipedream off your free agent dreams. i wonder how much cholowski is getting paid? i saw him last night plugging away for the devils.

giddey and white have both been on fire.

we cant even tank right! the flyers went into chicago last night and gave up 7! they were down by 3 goals after 2! to the hawks! now that's a team that knows when its beaten.

5 shots on goal after two periods. is lalonde back?

welp. should help the tank.

i wish no ill on anthony davis, but him getting hurt tonight would be HILARIOUS.

that almost looks like a pager on his chest...

sparty makes 4. oregon will be a struggle.

you asked if he brought people, he brought verbeek. i dont know enough about hockey - or the wings' front office structure - to know who is responsible for what, but whomever has been responsible for last summer made some.bad choices. and can we talk about goalies? i know goalies are fickle and up and down. lyon looked like a world beater for half a season a year ago. ned and husso each has half a good season under their belt in detroit. but gosh darnit have we had an especially bad run of goalie decisions lately. waiting for cossa/augustine is one thing, but their poor netminders have been just as responsible for this mess as anyone. well, anyone except gustafsson and tarasenko. those two have their own place in red wings hell forever. right next to weiss.

i feel like this is a relatively new phenomenon, like in the last 20 years. back when players played every game i dont think tanking or sitting people at the end of the year was ever an issue. but im old and could be misremembering the 80s, etc.

brisebois took the #1 job when yzerman left. verbeek came with him and then took the head job in anaheim. remember when avila lost all his top guys to other teams because he was so successful at his last gig? you dont? huh. 😉 you can continue to strain that analogy all you want because of one bad free agent signing period but it wont make it more accurate.

agreed but in a way...so what? if they were in a position to make a cup run then maybe. honestly, did you want them to pay first round picks for depth defensemen this year? i didnt. it was wise not to. the real question is why they are still not in the position to do that, and as you point out, the blame for that lies with yzerman's regime. here's a question about yzerman: he brought in brisebois and verbeek to tampa and helped build a juggernaut. both those guys - especially brisebois, but verbeek has been off to a solid start in anaheim - have been successful elsewhere. perhaps yzerman made the wrong hires in detroit simply to placate the red wings "alumni" club? draper, kronwall, lidstrom, cleary, fischer....perhaps these guys arent good enough? whomever brought you this offseason should be sacked for sure.

time to start the tank watch! when you promote watson and lagesson late in the year, that was kind of acknowledging youre not going anywhere this time around. again.

theyre both out.

bucks, pacers, and knicks all really want to finish 3rd and get detroit in round one.

can we ltir gustafsson next year? put him on the jeff petry plan?

that's "throwing in the towel" on the season.

i think duren's defense and ausar's shooting will be exploited in the playoffs. heavy doses of doubles for cade. lots of instances where duren gets sucked outside on d and has to move his feet. lots of rotations that leave ausar open to shoot. the playoffs are when coaches really matter. we'll see if JB can step up. the "rah rah" detroit v everybody stuff works in the grind, but not when the other team is actively trying to beat you every night. i think that's when they'll really miss ivey. somebody else who can get his own shot.

i dont disagree with you, although i think he's been better than "fine" in drafting. but the results on the ice are the results on the ice. not good enough.

if the pistons played the knicks in the playoffs and beat them, cade would get a lot of attention really quick.

so espn was waaaay low on seider, waaaaay high on zadina, and kasper is nowhere to be seen? perhaps the problem is with espn?

the knicks just got blown out by charlotte.

that's exactly how they looked all season long. sloppy and pulling out last minute wins. no true point guard.