Mr.TaterSalad

I've always said it, Donald Trump is the Matt Millen of Presidents.

Like Iowa Senator Joni Earnst said: "We're all gonna die anyways, ****-a-bitch!"

Normally, people are swayed with a big bribe or getting something significant in the form of an appropriation for their Congressional District. A couple of fake watches and a signed hat apparently got them on board. This is hysterical.

The guy is a clod and has no clue about anything. He doesn't even know what is in his own bill that he's been hawking for the past month. ****ing dunce!

Compher, Gustafsson, Holl, Husso, Petry, Reimer, and Tarasenko performed to reasonable expectations? I'd argue that they vastly underperformed and some of them barely even belong on an NHL roster. I'm amazed that the defending Stanley Cup Champs would even want Petry on their roster at this point in his career, but apparently they do.

I spent years criticizing Kenny for making bad, desperation, panic moves in the offseason. Signing guys just to continue a playoff streak, refusing to infuse the roster with younger talent, and refusing to rebuild. Holland wanted to stay relevant for the sake of staying relevant it felt like. Thus, he created a team with no clear plan for the future and a roster incapable of actually winning a Stanley Cup. So if Yzerman doesn't go out this season and make any ridiculous moves out of panic or desperation, I cannot rightly criticize him in that regard. I can't criticize him if he doesn't actually sign guys to bad, cap crippling contracts just to try and make the playoffs next year. If he is going to infuse this roster with younger talent and give young guys like ASP, Cossa, Danielson, Mazur a shot on the main roster, I'm happy with that. So props to Yzerman for not going out and blowing the bank and ruining our cap flexibility by massively overpaying for average to above average players as Holland would do just to attempt to stay relevant. Where I can continue to criticize Yzerman though is the poor pro-side scouting and personnel moves he has made over the years and the contracts he's now having to try and unload. People will be rightly happy if he buys out Holl, in addition to having shipped off Tarasenko. Those moves are nice and all, but wouldn't have had to been made if he didn't bring the guys in to the Wings in the first place. There are also all the other poor, pro-side transactions that he has made that haven't worked out or have underwhelmed at best. Chiarot, Compher, Copp, Gustafsson, Husso, Petry, Reimer. He's also been on the friends and family plan when it comes to who he has employed in his player personnel department in the front office. In particular, when it comes to pro-side scouting with guys like Draper, Horcroff, and others. He hasn't been willing to admit mistakes there are reorganize his front office much from a pro scouting perspective it doesn't seem like. There is criticism to be had there too. But all and all, while I feel disappointed we haven't yet landed a big fish and someone who can be a top contributor to elevate this roster, I can't be mad at what's been done so far. I am hoping there is another piece to the puzzle coming here from Yzerman in getting a solid, NHL-ready talent.

I love how she glosses over the jobs numbers and tries to move onto talking about something else. The economic wunderkind strikes again.

We all have bad sports opinions and takes over the years. I've had many of them. But Kenny continues to vindicate me and a lot of fans who recognized what a fraud and a bad GM this guy is. I know we won the Cup in 2008 and made another one in 2009 that we should have won. I know we had the playoff streak and all that. But in the post-cap NHL, and certainly when tasked with a rebuild, Kenny has proven he isn't up to getting the job done. He just loves signing old, washed, veterans for some reason and does little to make his core roster younger, faster, tougher, and better overall. He then gets married to these guys he signs and offers them too long a term or resigns them long after others would have let them walk. He only had the success he did in Edmonton because he inherited 2 of the top 5 players in the league. Without McDavid and Draisaitl being there from the start, Kenny would have never sniffed the playoffs in Edmonton. Much less had a Stanley Cup Final apperance.

Yean, it really costs us nothing in the end given the term and length of the contract. JVR was surprisingly more productive than I thought he'd be when I looked up his stats just now. 16 goals and 36 points for a 35 year old player last season. Not bad and if he were to give us similar numbers on the 3rd line, I guess I wouldn't complain.

I posted the JVR comments in the wrong thread. Another 35+ year old winger to add to the collection.

Wrong thread.

We signed James Van Reimsdyk?

He wants to be a Putin/Orban/Netanyahu type leader for sure. He wants to have iron clad control over the country so he can grift, make money, and stay out of jail for any of the crimes he has committed or will commit in the future.

If you like the real country music or alt-country, with poetic storytelling and incredible songwriting, you'll love Drayton Farley's American Dream. Love this guy and really love the working class thematics here in the song.

So I have two Mt. Rushmore's. One is of my favorite moments in sports and one is the all the bad moments, blunders, stupidity, and SOL. Favorite Mt. Rushmore . . . 1. Michigan wins the National Championship in 1997 and the iconic picture of Charles Woodson with the rose in his mouth. I was a kid then and my dad and I were fist bumping and high fiving when Michigan won the Rose Bowl. 2. Red Wings win the Cup in 2008. Went to Joe Vision for Game 6 when we beat Pittsburgh that year and what a time we had. I had just turned 21 that year too. 3. Magglio's walkoff home run during the 2006 ALCS. The call on this one from Thom Brennaman is great too. 4. Lions beating the Rams for their first playoff win in 32 years. I had never witnessed a playoff win as I was like 4 years old the last time they won a playoff game. I still have beer stains on the siding on the porch awning from us spraying beer all over each other.

If we did trade for one of K'Andre Miller or Rasmus Andersson, what type of deal do you think we'd resign them too? Yzerman hasn't killed giving out long terms to players that he draft. I would imagine both would want a longer term, unless they are out to test the free agent market in a few years after the cap goes up. At which point, are they worth trading for if they'd only sign a 2-3 year deal.

For your offseason reading pleasure here is the blogs recap on K'Andre Miller, who has also been linked to us. https://blueseatblogs.com/2024/08/26/2024-kandre-miller-report-card/

No thanks on Lindgren because I feel like he'll be overpaid by a couple mil a season giveth his age. There is no production there from an offensive standpoint and he's not some amazing defensive defenseman. It sounds like the PK was one of his strengths but he took a step back last season. I read reading this hockey analytics blog on Lindgren and here are some stats that stood out "According to PuckIQ, Lindgren was a +22, 48.5% for Corsi F% (shot attempts), 45.4% HDCF% (slot chances). Last season, he had 129 shifts in the defensive zone, was a +29, 54% for CF%, and 54.3% for HDCF%. Lindgren’s other contribution historically has been the penalty kill. This season he logged 200+ mins. However, the Rangers were better at limiting chances on the penalty kill when he was on the bench."

Wait, isn't Marchand like 37? Is he really going to play until he's 43? Crazy to think he signed a 6 year deal though. I guess he wants to be the new Jarmir Jagr.

As much as I crapped on Kenny over the years, that was not his fault in any way. Had Suter and Parise not been from Minnesota and Wisconsin respectively, and also very good friends with one another, chances are we could have gotten one or both of them. Suter went and wanted to play with his buddy Zach Parise if my memory serves me correctly.

I'm glad this trade was made and Tarasenko is not on the roster any longer. I'm glad that we didn't have to retain any salary to move him. I'm hopeful there wasn't a high round pick included in moving him out, add there was with Wallman. I'm glad Yzerman essentially admitted this signing was a failure and traded him out of here. But, it's still on Yzerman that he signed him in the first place.

When they said he put on weight did they specify whether it was muscle or fat. I'd hate for him to show up to camp all blown up, looking like mid-2010s Dustin Byfuglien.

Screw writing a book and making money off of it. If she wants to do the right thing she can start caucusing with and running as a Democrat. At a time like this, with Democrats down in the Senate, if she believes Trump is this big of a threat, she can choose to abandon Republicans and become a Democrat.

Kid looks like he has a lot of energy in his game and seems to have some playmaking ability. It's a 4th round pick, so I will neither celebrate nor complain because I know nothing about this kid or any of the 4th round picks that came after him.

Yzerman hasn't had that much success drafting in the 2nd round and most teams don't anyways, so I'm OK with this trade. Trading for Linus Ullmark when he was available from Buffalo could have helped, but you can't win em all or be in on every big trade.