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I saw Delvecchio but not in his prime. I remember him mostly between Howe and Norm Ullman, which was still a very good line. But the game is so different today a comparison to that era seem almost meaningless. Federov is a more conceivable comparison. I think Pavel was more artful, more extraordinary coordination leading to more impossible plays, but to me Federov was the better player just because of his much greater physical capacity. Pavel's impacts were episodic in a game and he could be muscled. Federov was more the end to end force all the time time he was on the ice -OK we are talking 'good' Sergie here, not one we sometimes got in later years. But bottom line I absolutely would have traded a 23 yr old Datsuk for a 23 yr old Federov without a second thought.

To me there are two reasons to fire the coach: One, you think you are close or maybe there talent wise and a new voice will be able to get the team into a little overdrive that will end up in a big season, which to me is your spark idea. Wings don't seem to be close enough for that to be a workable strategy. But the second reason is just that you decide your guy isn't good enough at what he need to be achieving, and I could see Lalonde getting the boot over that because we just aren't seeing much growth/improvement in any of the players on this team under his watch or much improvement in their style or precision of play over that last couple years either. OK, they are marginally better at keeping the other team wide when in their own zone, but it's come at the same time that every bit of offensive flair seems to have drained away. The team has to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time.

This kind of thing has to drive the serious project 2025 people crazy because if you put someone in charge who is a total rank amateur, it doesn't matter what the policies are or try to be, they don't have the first idea where the buttons and knobs are to actually to do anything, they have no idea how to 'operate' the job, who to call, etc. It's like dropping a airline travel writer behind the stick of a 787 and saying "there ya go! Run it like you think it should be run." Trump apparently learned less in this first time around the bend than I thought he might of, making the same mistakes over again.

understood, but I was just spinning on the very very unlikely possibility it could have worked out for Tigers because our org was so special it would turn a guy into a model citizen - IOW a little Lion pixie dust overshoots Ford field and hist Comerica....

Yzerman won't blow it up, he's just going to keep sticking with it and working incrementally. That's his MO. It would take a move by ownership to dump SY before a teardown happens, and that doesn't seem likely either. We fan's can only hope that in the next couple of seasons Mazur, Danielson and Cossa all hit. If not it will be getting to be a long drought. Three players are enough to lift a hockey team if they are all upgrades. Those three would make 8 home grown decent or better players plus DeBrincat.

earch.org/short-reads/2024/04/24/most-americans-think-us-k-12-stem-education-isnt-above-average-but-test-results-paint-a-mixed-picture/#:~:text=By Brian Kennedy,pupils in these other countries. I have a theory about why the US lags in math. I think it's because elementary school teachers in general tend to be people who do not have strong math skills - if they did the general employment and economic realities push them into other fields. But all those wonderful liberal arts teachers then subliminally inculcate that lack of confidence in the ability of any ordinary person to understand mathematics into their students. kidding - well maybe half kidding.....

I know it's hard to score good players after the 1st round in the NHL draft, but how much worse? Is Yzerman's staff achieving at least better than average results? If not it's time to face some changes there. You must have an above average draft operation to get better in a cap league. I don't know how many seasons it would take before I could watch the Wings if they traded Larkin - he's been about the only reason to watch this team play for last 4 yrs. But it may be the only way for them to get unstuck. But I can guarantee you that playing for these bad teams and coaches has discounted his value to where we won't get equal value back for him. OTOH, he could have a great finish to his career somewhere else, which he deserves.

You never know what a mentor/mentee protegor/protege relationship might produce in terms of cleaning up a guy's life. People can always make a difference. People have to taught/motivated what not to do and it's mostly other people that do that work. But granted Wander was probably too far down the road.

I have no philosophical problem with the money following the kids, I just want schools (and Hospitals for that matter, where the problem is just as bad....) that get any public money to be required to be non-profit. No socialization of cost, privatization of revenue. It should become today's mantra like "No taxation without representation" once was.

Not only pad her resume, but make her a house hold name. Instead she was about the most invisible VP since Dan Quayle I guess everybody has their own weirdness. Biden certainly seemed totally enthused about her in the end, it was no Ike/Nixon kind of show. So then way did he didn't he see he was torpedoing for VP ship for 3 years? Was he afraid if he made her look good that would have increase pressure on him not to run? I'd have to guess that was it, and if so it turned out to be a pretty terrible miscalculation.

Time to come up with a handle I guess.....

You don't think A.J. Please-Don't-Bang-Those-Can-Lids-OK-Nevermind Hinch would have whipped that young man's rear into line and saved his career? Just kidding. Don't know much about Kevin Cash but I wonder if it could have made a difference if he had come up playing for an old mad dog like Jim Leyland. But Wander have have already been a golden child too long before he ever got to the majors.

Has good power, can get round on velo, and has a good low O-Zone swing rate (not fooled too much). His problem is getting his inZoneContact rate up.

You mean those guys I ducked weren't from the forum? I must really be in trouble.......

I have to admit I am very jaded when it comes to Musk at a technical level. SpaceX flies well but I saw what he was trying to do with hyperloop and that was one of the more hair-brained things I'd ever seen. Some of his people are obviously top notch, but anything that gets close to being a personal pet project of his and I can't help be more more skeptical.

Maybe - but you know as well as I do that it can be a long way from 'not difficult' to 'done right'!

Goodness you're touchy. Do you own one? I never said anything about proving anything, just pointing out places where execution matters more than average. If you recall when Ford started adding Al body panels to the F150 there was were questions raised about whether they had adequately designed to protect against interaction between the steel undercarriage and the body. They seemed to have done well with it, but it was not a foregone conclusion and it takes work to get it right. Grade wise you can pick any grade of SS you like and they are all still much less active on a galvanic series then any kind of sheet carbon steel.

here's the material guide of a body blowup. Looks like giant set of galvanic corrosion opportunities! Well maybe they insulate the living daylights out of all the joints or put anodes/galvanizing on the mild steel areas. https://service.tesla.com/docs/Cybertruck/BodyRepair/BodyRepairProcedures/en-us/GUID-B4A61C9E-4CE2-4D9A-B9B3-B6D74EEFE038.html I liked this one also: How hot can a body panel get in the desert sun of a warming planet?

Yeah - I was thinking along the same line, at least Rubio is not illiterate.

HA! the truck thing certainly benefits by not having to do any forming of the stainless. I wonder if they stress relieve the welds though - or will they all end up with stress corrosion cracking from road and sea salt?

I have a cousin on the faculty at Western Mich. She loves her field but the teaching drives her insane. She's not really allowed to demand anything from the little princes and princesses without getting blow back all the way from the admin and of course they have no idea how unprepared they are because no-one is allowed to make them face reality- it would make them uncomfortable...... Now I saw tons of brilliant,motivated kids at UM and it's easy to get lulled into a false sense of security about the national future until you realize what a small bit of the total cohort you're seeing. They're not the real world, or at least not very much of it.

Thinking about the PO - it would be interesting to get someone (probably not Musk!) who could think outside the box of paper a little. What if the PO set up a gov ISP that would allow you to go to the PO (or use a verified account from home) and sign a document and then have that reproduced and verified at the other end electronically by a secure government chain of transmission? There are a private services that do that now but it's kind of mess of various nethods and operators and you never really know if you can trust any of them with your info or $$.

I didn't think they'd even make it through to the end of the campaign before there were fireworks. I guess while it's rare, there have been some people that been able to stay close to Trump over long periods - Roger Stone comes to mind.

I hate the very idea of loans for education. A society that doesn't have the brains to pay to educate its own citizens or at least make it affordable without incurring debt is well on it's way down the tubes already, and of course the biggest unintended consequence of the increase in available loan money has been a reduction in the pressure for cost control at colleges. The former absolutely has driven the latter.

If he turns the nation's MAGA global warming deniers into green car drivers I'll live with it! but just as possible his involvement in government will end up ticking off even more potential buyers of all stripes than his political activism already has, and if Tesla's sale don't pick up accordingly the share prices can go down as easily as it went up. A possible winner for Musk would be a postal service contract for EVs.