Jason_R

Last year’s team was relying on big numbers from Vrana and Bertuzzi if they were going to compete. They got something like 40 games between the two of them. Rasmussen got hurt, and they ended up playing a lot of mediocre hockey players. At the end of the year they just fell apart. Now they are solid up and down the roster, and there are kids with high ceilings who may fight their way into the lineup, or get called up if injuries become an issue. Their record may not be much better next year but they won’t have nights where they give up eight goals.

SY didn’t bargain against himself with Ottawa and he didn’t bargain against himself with ADB. He got deals done with both on his terms and on his timeline. What a masterful job.

Stevie Y putting on a GM clinic. Amazing.

If Stevie Y can pull off this trade and keep the extension to five years, that would be quite a feat.

I was thinking the same thing. If he really requests to get out of a $4 million contract there is almost no imaginable scenario in which he makes it up.

Another guy who far overestimated his value. It will be a long time before he makes up that $4 million.

The longer it drags out, it seems, the better it is for Detroit. ADB wants to be in Detroit. Stevie Y doesn’t want to overpay in assets, in AAV, or in term. A week ago there were like six teams in the running. Now there are two, with reports that the player has been told he far overvalued himself.

Yeah, it’s not a big deal either way. But I think he’ll have to pass through waivers again before going to GR. And I think Steve was candid in his comments about Zadina. He’s got some skills, he’s been hindered by injury, but he has an overinflated sense of his market value.

I'm not an expert on NHL contracts but I'm pretty sure they have to pay him if they cut him, unless they buy him out. But why buy him out at this point? Just send him to GR. If he figures something out, which is not totally out of the question, call him back up. If not, maybe you move him later or just let him play out his contract. Pure speculation, but you can imagine a guy like him having an over-inflated sense of his value and not being very coachable.

Or Yzerman has been hearing Zadina and his agent chirping that he needs more ice time and if they aren’t going to play him, trade him. And Yzerman hung him out there and nobody wanted him. So if he ever wants to play in this league he should go to GR and do what the coaches tell him.

This has been my issue all along. Unless there are massive checks in place, someone is using this info to play (or change) the odds.

How does the NFL discover the identity of the players who made bets? Does the NFL supply private identifying information about all NFL players to the sports books and require monthly reports on betting activity as a condition of partnerships with the NFL? Are the players reported by earnest whistleblowers at the sports books who are concerned about the integrity of the NFL?

https://www.nhl.com/flames/news/2023-nhl-draft-class---nate-danielson/c-344639570 That’s the message of this article.

The real question is how it came to light that these particular players broke the rules. Does the NFL get live, real-time updates of every NFL player who makes a bet, and have a well-developed process for validating that these bets were really placed by NFL players and that they really broke NFL rules? Or did they just happen to find out that some Detroit Lions players made some bets then did some digging and found out these bets broke NFL rules? Probably this latter case, but if so, who told the NFL that Lions players were betting? Not that I'm cynical about the purity of intentions of people who work in sports gambling, but a lot of money was going on the Lions to win the NFC North, the NFC, and even the Super Bowl. Undoubtedly the odds changed as a result. Could I imagine someone at a sports book making wagers on inside information about something like this, betting the other side of it, then leaking the inside information? Yes, I could imagine it.

I wonder if the NFLPA can file a grievance on behalf of the players... who didn't bet on their own sport or team. PS: I've heard chatter that Jaymo placed bets at a hotel while with the team but I don't know if this is confirmed or accurate.

https://whoradio.iheart.com/content/2023-06-05-nfl-investigating-player-for-pervasive-gambling-bets-on-own-team/?Sc=editorial&Keyid=socialflow&Pname=local_social Colts player. Allegedly bet on his own team.

Yes, every team says they got the players they wanted, but not every war room erupts in unison like they have in the Brad Holmes era. Of course we won’t be able to rate this draft for a while. The draft value folks may turn out to be right. Or it may turn out that “their guys” became “their guys” based on group think. But I haven’t seen any evidence that the staff is anything but elated with the players they got.

Lions say they got four of the 14 players they had rated as first round talents. https://www.si.com/nfl/2023/05/15/2023-nfl-schedule-release-cowboys-chiefs-jets-foster-moreau

I agree the NCAA is going to look the other way as long as it can. But Kirby Smart does not have control of his program. Maybe when one of his kids kills a pedestrian in a UGA vehicle someone will do something.

Oh come on. It was apparently well known to the cops that UGA players and staff were regularly racing. Now we find out that a 24-year old staffer has access, well after the hours when any legitimate business could be conducted, to a car leased by the football program. Might as well give a pyromaniac matches and gasoline.

It's already looking worse. "The car [driven by LeCroy] had been leased by the athletic department." Lack of institutional control? "Sarchione Auto Group, which signed Carter to an NIL deal and provided him with a 2021 Jeep Cherokee Trackhawk, was also named in the complaint." What could go wrong with NIL?

Hey, I'm already panicking about Gibbs's ankle.

At this point, is it a disappointment if the Lions don’t tie their 12-win season in 1991?

Looks like four in prime time not including thanksgiving and a couple that could be flexed. The NFL is all in on Dan Campbell.