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Ivey missed 3 of his 4 FTs? And they lost by 2...../ sigh /

as close as you can get.

I wonder if maybe with Avila there was some 'familiarity breeds contempt" going on? It used to be his bailiwick so no-one could tell him anything about doing it better.

Carmelo will be lucky if anyone in Denver remembers him at all by the time Jokic hangs them up.

Other than the 1 for 7 they have stayed on a pace to make it, but can they avoid another one of those? I suppose if Lyon can keep standing on his head for every 4 out of 5 games they have a shot, even with that Yzerman has to do something to address the D; unless he is planning on pulling the plug for a deadline fire sale one more time.

This. We have no reason to know that the numbers that each side took to arbitration were the same as the last numbers on the table in the negotiation - in fact likely not. The proof one way or the other is whether they go to arb in the end or not.

MI theater is a small non-profit org. They don't have the resources to get into a pissing match with the NFL even if they knew they were right. A one time event isn't a big enough motivation to argue.

All I can say is that if Edvinsson isn't good enough break into this defense group, he must be pretty much a bust.

I think Walman made a bad decision to stay home in front instead of trying to get that loose puck off to his right. Could have given the Wings possession in the series just before the goal.

I know Ras is playing center but I'd like to see him, Larkin and Raymond play together.

Wings dodge a bullet.

Seider knocks down McDavid, not for the 1st time tonight, goes over to tell him ...what? "Come back I'll do it again?"? Kid is totally fearless.

LOL. Walman goes back out after shaking off the hurt - Wings score. Appropriate!

Wings have also spent the game trying to be too perfect - have passed on too many shots looking for the perfect pass.

Now Walman goes off. Wings have no chance against the McDavid line without Seider and Walman and the goal follows almost immediately. Wings aren't going anywhere with only 2 decent defensemen.

Are we getting anything out of Perron lately?

bad stick luck for the Wings. Seider has been on McDavid all game but had to go off to get a stick and it left McDavid unshadowed for just long enough. Petry can't handle him.

Wings need to file the posts down a bit.

wow. Wing goal comes after 3 min of solid Oiler pressure.

This would make sense - the depth of a draft pretty much has to match the size of rosters+minor league assignments. You can go more rounds if teams begin to have numbers of contracted players in the G league.

yeah - this whole exercise has been strange because as you note, Engoron has already decided guilt - this whole show is about the penalty.

Seider also playing huge. He and Walman both. They need to upgrade at least one more of the defense in the worst way.

Once they jumped to the lead I think it was a conscious decision to keep it as close to the vest as they could for as long as they could. Once it started looking like the likelihood of UW tying it up was growing, they opened it up just enough with JJ. He may not have been 100% but he was moving well and throwing the ball fine so I don't buy that they needed to have gone quite so turtle. Maybe they were worried he would be mistake prone because of whatever, but in the end you have to let you best players play and let the chips fall where they will because you sure won't win without them.

I think it's just as much poor reaction time.

after Cade, Duren and Ivey have some talent, but.... Duren should be playing on a team where there are always 4 shooters out there with him - Pistons can't provide that. Ivey has some offensive talent, but he is just a phenomenally bad defender - every one just blows by him off the dribble. What do you do with that? If you took Hayes and Ivey and combined their best attributes in one player you'd almost have an NBA starting guard.