buddha

Finally, a quick note on everyone’s most-talked about rookie, Bronny James. The son of LeBron James was not considered for these rankings given that he currently does not seem to be all that effective even as a G League player, having scored six points in 31 minutes while shooting 2 of 9 from the field in his South Bay Lakers opener. He’s scored just four total points in very limited action with the NBA club. I wouldn’t expect that he lands on these rankings at any point this season.

that's insane.

thank you simon!

SHOOT THE PUCK AT THE NET! STOP MISSING THE DAMN NET!

seider should be embarassed by that goal he gave up.

boom.

we cant do anything that those damn FOREIGNERS do! "make the nba great again".

these were some of the best, highest scoring games last season. hopefully that continues this year.

still too early.

where does datsyuk rank on the all time wings list? howe, lidstrom, yzerman, lindsay... is he above delvechio or federov?

great player

you could have had coby white for a song two years ago but we decided to use our cap space on the corpse of joe harris.

what a team.

they seem to play better without duren. good to see cade outplay greene. harris still sucks.

we'll see.

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they havent hit - or havent given a chance - to anyone outside round one. mazur, hanas, lombardi, buium... they dont bring anyone up until they have to (berggren, johannson, kasper) and once they get here, theyre not that bad! not world beaters, but theyre young with room to grow. instead we have to sit through compher and copp and fischer and motte and veleno middling along doing nothing badly but nothing well. that's why i think the plan was always muddle through until next season. this season was always going to be a transition year. but to stanley's point, they havent gotten any impact, star players out of any of the drafts so far. and the two real "finds" in the trade market (walman and vrana) had to be traded away with assets. i give yzerman a little more slack than stanley, but he's got a definite point. they suck this year and its looking increasingly likely they dont have any stars to bail them out (although i have high hopes for asp, danielson, and mbn...probably too high). theyre old, capped out this year, and bad. how much longer do you go with a gm whose strategy has brought you to the mushy middle? i dont think yzerman will leave until he wants to leave, but his vision is definitely in question now.

indiana is not that good. they almost lost to michigan.

you all keep telling me how great lucas raymond is playing, but he has to be THE GUY if they are going to move into a top tier team. not a set up guy. not a guy who is playing better on the boards. not a guy who is keeping possession. he has to be THE GUY who is scoring goals every night. and he's not. he sort of embodies this team: good players, working hard, doing things well, but not good enough. raymond has to be panarin. has to be zibanajed. has to be marchand. and he's not. he just good, not great. he's not a problem. he's a good player and a building block, but he's not a star. and he has to be a star if the wings are going to take the next step. the more i watch them, the more i think they have to go all in on a marner type, or kiprizov if he gets to free agency. they dont have a star and arent likely to get one if they dont shell out in free agency.

they have to be one of the most boring teams in the league.

zion hurt? no way! that guy is in such good shape!

also, they dont have great offensive finishers.

they've played well for a majority of this game. they outplayed and outshot the rangers for most of it. bad puck luck tonight. that said, they probably had positive puck luck ALL of last year and for many of their games so far this year.