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1 hour ago, buddha said:

it could just be bad luck and not because yzerman doesnt know what he's doing.

50 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

Does anyone here who tracks these things know whether Larkin, Raymond, DeBrincat and Seider were given an inordinate amount of ice time the first 2/3 of the season to compensate for lack of depth?

He plays Sieder a lot, but not really more than other #1 Dmen. But just my observation is that when Seider's ice time starts climbing, he does change his game to conserve energy to compensate (which is why I don't like ever seeing them do it).

With Larking and Raymond, I don't think the team overdrives them. Their ice time does not look out of proportion for a #1 line.  Certainly nothing like Brian Murray used to do overplaying his best players. But as players you have to be aware of when you are overdriving yourself when you are on the ice. A guy like Larkin has  to understand that he has to walk a line between how hard he plays and keeping himself available. I do wonder if Larkin is a little too emotional (trying too hard) a player for his own good.

3 minutes ago, buddha said:

them being injured makes more sense.  but then that is a problem because its two years in a row they've both been hurt at the end of the year.  bad luck?  or too small?

and/or driving themselves too hard because there is no other help?

Hockey is a game that can be played at an unsustainable level but only for so long. That true of both teams and individuals.

46 minutes ago, buddha said:

bringing in chairot was to get that type of player.  edvinsson and seider are huge and both are physical.  faulk is huge.

he has been trying to accumulate big physical players

Size is important, in Dmen who have to physically clear the crease and control the corners, but size is only important in a forward if the player knows how to use it to take and protect possession. To a large extent speed, especially quickness, and good stick can get you there too, which is why DeBrincat is a way more useful player than Rasmussen even at the aspects you'd expect size to help with.

4 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Kia Center - Orlando, FL

 

Tobias is in my 2nd row.

10 minutes ago, Cruzer1 said:

He has the speed to turn some grounders into singles.

True. While he's young and fast he can live with a somewhat higher GB rate - but as hard as he hits the ball, there will be a lot of  benefit from getting the ball into the air more because at the EV's he gets,  HR's will follow.

Brooks with a relatively long open pocket glove, Aurelio with a shorter solid pocket.

2 hours ago, ewsieg said:

I used to argue with folks that you had to work to maintain it, don't just let the algorithm dictate who you follow, follow specific folks you trust, block crackpots, etc.  It's a flood of crackpots now though spewing clickbait.  It's all consuming.

I had some folks I followed, but it seemed like the episodes where I would have to take the time to block a hundred trash feeds that got dumped on me got to where the site was a waste of time. The only thing I ever do on it now is read a link from here.

On 4/4/2026 at 11:09 AM, monkeytargets39 said:

He looks fine for his age.  He’s almost 50.  Plus you know his body took a beating with his playstyle

I liked Inge - the team moved him around a lot and he sucked it up and did his best. He was a dumb hitter though. Not that's it's easy, but he was just a continual sucker for breaking balls out of the zone at 0-1. If someone had just nailed his bat to his shoulder on every 0-1 he'd have been a better hitter. 

59 minutes ago, Jason_R said:

But they have plenty of guys who are big enough to finish checks and just don't. 

I guess the very fact that Ras is still on the team is a reason I despair about their concept of what a team should look like. And I don't even care that much about 'finishing checks'. The game is almost too fast to spend too much effort on that. There's a place for it but too much time spent trying to line guys up for the big finish can just get you left behind trying to make a big hit when the play has already crossed the line away from you. What I do want to see is way more aggression pursuing the puck. Just to go back to Rasmussen and Solderblom  - guys skate past Ras unaccosted up the side boards constantly, it's like he's not even there when a guy rushes past him. Soderblom was miles better at least at that skill, guys could seldom just blow by him. So when I say there are skillsets they just don't seem to look for (care about?), it's that kind of thing.

2 hours ago, DTroppens said:

Dan D is a very comfortable listen. Out of anyone we have doing radio or TV for the Tigers, I'd consider him the most solid and consistent. And he doesn't dominate the airways. He lets whoever is in the booth with. Bobby Scales doesn't do anything for me. For a bit, I thought it was Bobby Higginson. I think their voices are reasonably similar if I remember correctly.

I noticed the other day that Bobby tends to spend a fair amount of time echoing Dan a lot. Don't need that. If you have something to add, add it, otherwise calm and quiet is OK during a baseball radio cast.

On 4/5/2026 at 10:00 AM, chasfh said:

I don’t think we need to litigate this in a court of law or anything. Based on my own experience in similar contexts, I’m willing to accept that the brain can effectively map out the difference. YMMV.

I think it would have to be related to the strength of cues that differentiate one situation from another. Take IF and OF. All the visual and spatial cues are different and the gloves are a lot different, so it's easy to keep two memory maps isolated. The nearer the conditions converge, the easier it will be for the brain to lose discrimination. So if I were going to follow my own theory, I'd want my 3b glove to feel a lot different than my SS glove even if the physical difference was modest just so my brain never lost the context. And like anything else, the ability of different individuals to keep subtle context has to vary, which may be part of the reason (far beyond just gloves) why some guys can move around position to position with so much less difficulty than others. 

11 minutes ago, lordstanley said:

In 10G starting March 1st, Larkin has one 5 on 5 point, an assist yesterday. Since January 1, in 29 GP, he has 3G 7A at 5 on 5. 

I will predict that the day after the season sends the story will come out about a sports hernia suffered at the olympics.....

49 minutes ago, Jason_R said:

There is too much of a culture of not making mistakes and not enough of a culture of playing with 100% effort on every shift.

I can see that having been the case if Yzerman pushed that view with inexperienced head coaches like Blashill and LaLonde but I have a hard time believing a coach with McLellan's experience is taking his coaching cues from a GM whose never coached, or that Yzerman would even be dumb enough try and tell McLellan how to coach. But something sure is wrong,

I come back the idea that it's just the way the FO has been constructing the team. We've said it before but there is too much preference for a type of forward who needs support from bigger stronger guys to flourish, or at least guys who are better at forechecking and chasing down pucks (like Glendenning, Bertuzzi - OK I'll forgive moving Bertuzzi, he was a head case, but they didn't replace what he was providing), but they never get those guys, or have let them go, or don't like them when they do get them (Soderblom?).  It's seem impossible to be true but I have to question whether SY actually has a concept of how to put different kinds of players together to get synergy or if he's just too stuck on chasing best available talent even when it results in a team that has glaring imbalance.

curious day. Since Iran started,  S&P and oil have been pretty locked on inverse moves, but not today, S&P Is up but oil is also up. Not sure what that means investors are thinking.

1 hour ago, DTroppens said:

 but what keeps me from doing it is the Pistons actually. Even when the Pistons are crap, I still really enjoy watching their games over the winter. And now that they are good, well, that's even better. 
 

Fanduel will be officially dead as soon as this basketball and hockey season conclude, so you'll have a clean slate finding where they will be next season.

would have been nice to have Keith taking that AB.

6 hours ago, chasfh said:

I don’t disagree on principle, but rule 5.06(b)(3)(C) is pretty clear that when a fielder tumbles into the stands after a catch, the batter is out, the ball is dead, and all runners advance one base, and the rule does not draw a distinction between fair and foul.

He just can't have a foot down in the stands before the catch - correct?

1 hour ago, buddha said:

way too many executives leave yzerman and do well.  verbeek.  brisebois.  yzerman returns to detroit and is now working only with former red wings he played with and the results are not so good.

This is becoming all too obvious isn't it? Is Ilitch paying attention?

6 hours ago, chasfh said:

I will say this about the Benetti hire: I think he has done as much as anyone to rekindle interest in the Tigers among the non-diehard part of the fan base. Most people regard it as a pleasure to tune him in, and I can’t help but conclude that he is a key reason the Tigers more than doubled their TV ratings in 2025 over 2024, as more causal Tiger fans discovered him. From that standpoint, it was a genius hire to bring him on.  

6 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

He was a good hire, but their ratings are up because they are winning.  Fans will tune in to see a winning team regardless of the announcer.  A good broadcaster can improve ratings a bit, but I don't believe that Benetti doubled the ratings.  

Don't forget the converse. The broadcast with Shep was getting so bad you were going to lose fans even if the team was winning.

FanDuel appears to be officially dead

https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/48388773/nba-nhl-teams-told-main-street-sports-network-end-operations

38 minutes ago, buddha said:

i dont know, but soderblom didnt do jack here and now that he's in pittsburgh he's playing physical and scoring.  sooooo....

IDK, I always thought he at least made the other team aware he was on the ice, which is more than most RW forwards achieve. I would have liked to have seen them given him more run.

41 minutes ago, buddha said:

i dont know, but soderblom didnt do jack here and now that he's in pittsburgh he's playing physical and scoring.  sooooo....

I've often had the feeling in recent years that the Wings are a team where players come to get worse. So do they have really poor coaching and development people? I don't think TM is a bad NHL coach, but guys are not exactly blossoming under his coaching when they come up here either. Does Yzerman have a toxic philosophy about how to manage young players that has been enforced by him only hiring coaches that share the view and they are all just wrong?

An org that can't progress has to make changes if that is going to change. I get that there are a lot of reasons CI is going to be slow to fire SY, but I can at still hope Ilitch would at least tell Yzerman that it's time to turn over his staff if he wants to remain the guy in charge. They just are not accomplishing anything more than 'about average' and you can't get better with that FO performance level.

1 hour ago, casimir said:

"All your ovoids are belong to us"

walker looks like he has it all the way - until his arm hits the wall and gets deflected just enough to make it a miss.

1 minute ago, Sports_Freak said:

Terrible outing by Jack. Hinch should have an extremely short leash on him.

They love that he's a high K guy, but if he's going to give it right back up in walks and HBP the WHIP ends up so-so and the results likewise.