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gehringer_2

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  1. sure - a good way to obscure your real direction is to move in all directions.
  2. the NHL is a different situation. The Wings have spent to the cap - if anything the Wings have hampered themselves at points by not leaving themselves cap space to pick up better players that become available because they spent it on poor players.
  3. /..met with stoney silence../
  4. Healthy Bernard-Docker is a plus over Hamonic. But good goal tending makes all the difference. Wings are still making their share of mistakes but they aren't all turning into goals against.
  5. yeah - I'll admit it, I was afraid Cade was going to end up a 'tweener' not big enough for a power game, not fast enough to be a great slasher, and a mediocre shooter. Instead he's turned out to be just about at the sweet-spot; and the shooting - good enough at clutch time if not always so much early in games. Mobley's about what he was supposed to be, if he could stay on the court
  6. even if you sign him, it's two steps forward one step back. They can't back-fill well enough for Edvinsson to make Hughes enough of an add.
  7. Yeah - I thought that was lazy management.
  8. Melton should be better than Anderson but we'll see.
  9. I saw Janen look bad a couple of times last season - hope that isn't the trend.
  10. actually when I was a student (this was the original BJ management) they had a 'secret' menu. There were some things the regulars could ask for that were never put on the menu at all. Tribal knowledge at it's best.
  11. has he talked about playing with his brother? Everyone assumes it's a big deal but is it fact or just assumption?
  12. yeah - we see him step back and think about taking a jumper all the time, but he always changes his mind. Probably working on it in practice but no game confidence. It seems like the super high energy guys often have more trouble getting to that instant of calm needed to get off an accurate shot when they're at full tilt in a game.
  13. Grasso with a statement "We're disappointed.. We're committed" etc. Pointedly no mention of Warde.
  14. The schedule and opposition injuries have been very kind to them (and OKC!) but the improvement in Cade's, Duren's and Thompson's play are real and Robinson hasn't been the step back people were afraid he would be so while I don't see them wining 80% the rest of the way it's looking like a fun season. And you have another potential shooter percolating in Ivey. If he can solidify a shooting contribution they'll get even a bit better.
  15. I think it may be more likely that McGonigle will end up playing SS for some period than that we want him playing SS over that period. How many wins will that cost? None if you couldn't get anyone else! But it may not help their chance of winning a WS either.
  16. they'd only be giving zero WAR, on average anyway....😉
  17. Still bummed. Hughes seemed like the guy that might have move Yzerman take his shot. Now we are left knowing that even as good a fit as there is out there either a)isn't going to temp Yzerman to make a bold move or b) is going to cost so much he shouldn't make a bold move. Meanwhile the Wings go back to creeping toward respectability.
  18. I'd guess it didn't happen because it came down to a session between two ex-Olinemen and in that ethos, no-one else is invited.
  19. That's still a season a half away. They're just going to need to find ways to get better in that time without Hughes being part of it.
  20. there is a bit of Monday morning QB'ing going on. Having staff in the room wasn't going to be make a difference to what happened that night and Moore probably had privacy rights in that discussion with Manuel that he'd have had to be asked to waive. To have made a difference you would have needed someone tethered to him for 24 hrs when he left the site and you can't do that without consent either.
  21. yeah - I get the company line, but OTOH, but he's the quantitative guy and by the numbers his team in 500 without Skubal in sub 500 without Skubal and Mize, He can dance past it in an interview like you might expect him too but it doesn't change it. If Skubal is walking at the end of '26 they are going to need a lot more than Reese Olson to remain competitive in the div.
  22. 11 of 12 Fed Rev Presidents reappointed. Powell might be on his way out but it's business as usual for the system.
  23. Pistons score 142- nobody scores even 20, 8 guys in double figures, 35 assists.
  24. The crazy part is how he went off the deep end. If he goes home and locks himself in the bathroom for 24hrs he's still probably got a bright career in front of him. As someone (maybe you?) noted upstream, the guy is 40 yrs old but he reacted like a teenager. People are strange.
  25. nah - Simon and Danielson together would have been too much. But Yzerman still needs to do something about the his third D pairing even if it's not a home run like Hughes.
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