Jason_R

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6537280/2025/08/11/red-wings-prospects-nhl-danielson-cossa/ New from Bultman. Projects Danielson to be a mid-season call up and to stick. He also has a more favorable view on Wallinder than I recall seeing.

I knew Seider was playing a lot of hard minutes. Didn’t realize Larkin and Raymond were so far up there too. Really says a lot about Raymond’s growth as a player.

Awosika at the bottom. Not a terrible surprise based on last season. Manu was fourth from bottom. 😬

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By 26-27 they will probably be in the top five. And they probably won’t have to overpay to attract average talent.

Poor kid.

The story at least cites an unnamed NHL executive, and I don't doubt that Yzerman has inquired. That's his job to gauge the market. But I can't imagine anything happens unless McTavish forces his way out, and even if that happens I can't imagine Yzerman giving up ASP. With the Wings, there is no magic bullet. We just have to hope for the kids to progress quickly and for the team to improve from within.

Just heard on SiriusXM NFL radio that Teddy Bridgewater told his high school team he is leaving to go back to the NFL.

Yes, I think the whole narrative that Yzerman has failed at pro scouting and that he has thrown out a bunch of bad free-agent contracts is way over blown. He paid people what he needed to pay them to fill out a roster that did not have league average talent. He signed them for terms that would fill up roster spots until his draft talent was ready. And he has his three key franchise pieces locked up to long-term deals that are now a bargain. He should be able to go into the next two off-seasons in a good position to sign one or two key free agents to supplement a competitive roster.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6518426/2025/07/31/nhl-worst-contracts-2025-jonathan-huberdeau-ivan-provorov/ For what it’s worth, Dom L. doesn’t have any Red Wings contract in his list of 15 worst contracts.

Of course I'm being facetious here... KC and Philly always seem to end up with players nobody thought they'd get. I think it's probably 50/50 now between Dallas and the field. "My trade request was submitted to Stephen Jones personally." Parsons leaves a bit of room here for Jerry to swoop in and get something done.

If I say there is a zero percent chance of this happening, watch it happen and make me look like a fool, but there is a zero percent chance of this happening. He'll end up with the Eagles or the Chiefs.

What I would be interested in, and maybe what one of the enterprising reporters who lurk here might look into, is whether there were any obvious changes to offensive or defensive schemes or formations as compared to last year. The key issue this season is not the roster, at least not beyond player health, it is the changes in coordinator. I am not smart or attentive enough to know whether there were any obvious differences on display last night.

I don't know why I assumed Hooker would get the start last night, but I was disappointed that the guy they drafted and have been working with for three years got clean-up duty after a guy they just signed. I guess if you get Gibbs, Campbell, Laporta, and Branch in one draft, you can't complain too much about your Hendon Hookers, Brodric Martins, and Colby Sorsdals, but boy that third round is looking 🤮.

"Some of them are going to get here this year."

This is what Hutch reminds me of when he is in his eye black.

Mahogany played very well in his limited action last year. I am not worried about him. And I think he and Ratledge are both the kind of dirtbags you want playing guard. They may both play ten years. But it will take a month or so for the IOL to gel.

This is honestly a plausible expectation. Had Hutch stayed healthy he might have broken the single-season sack record. He might do it this year. By the time of the Bills game last year, Ben Niemann had the second-most snaps at LB with 63% of defensive snaps. David Long and Zeke Turner had 41% and 40% of defensive snaps for the LB position, and Kwon Alexander with 12%. The CB position was as bad, other than Terrion Arnold. It's very disappointing for those guys (not to mention us fans) for a 15-2 season to end that way. I listened to the whole Sirius XM training camp show in Detroit. Everyone they talked to is so dialed in. I think the press is sleeping on them, with Philly and Washington getting a lot of press. But I think the defense will be in the top ten and the offense will still put up a lot of points.

I saw a tweet that Campbell had singled him out for praise after practice yesterday.

Brad and Aidan are gung ho about Marcus Davenport, but let’s get Judon here too.

PUP, nobody knows when he can play. https://www.tristatehomepage.com/sports/ap-pete-carroll-says-raiders-didnt-rush-into-decision-to-release-christian-wilkins/

The story I read on NFL.com was unclear but it seems like the team wanted him to have a second surgery after his first surgery didn't fix things, and he has been seeking other opinions. I wonder if they think his foot is shot and are using "failure to rehab" as a pretext to claw back some guaranteed money.

I just heard that Vegas has the Lions at number five for Super Bowl odds and Hutch at number one for DPOY odds. If you ask me, if Hutch has a season like he started to have last season, that is a DPOY season and this is a Super Bowl team.