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And again, you can't come to any other conclusion that with Ras down and once they decided Vrana wasn't going to work for them, Stevie pulled the plug about as dramatically as a GM could have.

I think this make sense. It's like in baseball, just because a guy can feast on MiLB fastballs in the minors doesn't mean he can develop the skill to hit an MLB breaking ball. These guys had good skill at that level but the people that *projected* their skill would rise to NHL level missed. I think Hockey is like baseball in that regard - you have to draft for the highest potential ceilings. Players that are strong outliers for some property that they can leverage against top competiton - speed, size, strength, skating - that will allow them to have an edge at the next level - not just overal good in game performance at the lower level. I don't think that's enough. And you see SY doing this wrt his attraction to guys with a lot of size.

I not sure I would draw that conclusion. This shows almost everybody was was off my an order of magnitude on the question, the difference only being degree. That would indicate that almost no-one on either side had particularly well informed themselves with much accuracy.

being able to bury your shots is great, but the Wings aren't good enough to be able to afford to carry pure snipers. Even if Zadina had a better scoring percentage on his shots I don't see him being able to contribute much wrt the Wing's inability to control play. He doesn't generate assists either.

sure - props to Holmes to have gotten to this position.

To play forward in the NHL you either have be very strong on your skates, or if not, a very high level skater. If you don't have either, all you do is get knocked off the puck or erased at the boards all the time. Zadina and Veleno are exactly that kind of 'tweener.' Neither big enough nor quick enough.

of course when you are playing so many guys with little or no track record or who are still moving targets on their development curves, the predictive strength of whatever passes as past performance suffers. A young team like the Tigers will usually be bad, but does have more 'surprise' potential than team full of veterans.

Football today is as much about attrition as top line talent and linemen do get hurt a lot. Successful seasons usually end up as much about quality depth as September starter talent level. It's just a matter of degree and $$ deciding how much to backstop each position. Tactically OLine is a terrible place to run out of depth because if any one position can't hold its ground virtually every offensive play is at risk. In contrast, if you have to put in a poor backup receiver, the other team still has to spend a body to cover him. Have to play a bad OT/OG he can get blown up on *every* play. If a team is going to splurge on depth, OLine and CB are the places for me.

assuming Vatai can stay on the field also.

That's why he keeps collecting 1st and 2nd round picks. Nobody's going to give him a star in trade at favorable terms so all he can do is try to maximize the number of lottery tickets he has.

Didn't it also sound like they wanted to make a little money by having some spectator space, of which there is pretty much none at the current site?

ah - right! For as long as he is there! (hope. hope)

Not so much really. At any point this season any one of them might be pitching for Toledo.

Who's a pure OF in Toledo now after him and Baddoo?

OK to the airport, but Ann Arbor to Northern burbs sucks as a commute for players and has every prospect of continuing to get worse.

I guess I could see them taking him at 6 just because the confidence in Decker staying on the field can never be too high. If Decker is healthy *and* Skoronski grades out at tackle then you have a trade piece, or Decker isn't healthy you are covered, or if Skoronski is just a good guard at least you have a somewhat guaranteed floor on the use of the pick. Not the worst way to cover your options if you have a FO that values the O-Line above most other areas of the field. But if I had confidence in Decker - and maybe they do- I'd probably take the corner.

figure you need to average at least 2 or three guys each year on average, esp when you are rebuilding. If Soderblom sticks eventually that's two for 2019, Same for Wallinder making it two for 2020. Three sure things each would have been nicer for sure....

I wonder what the interchage ends up looking like after the 375 removal? That space could gain or lose area, or no change at all.

he may or may not be in a selling mode after he sees how sales at Book Tower go...🤔 https://booktowerdetroit.com/

I guess it depends on where the line is drawn. I don't have a big problem with the public picking things like sewer and road modification costs, those are at least 'public goods'. The devil is always in the details.

IDK, do you think SY has done better as a trader or as a drafter?

No kidding. Look at the result in MI after non-partisan redistricting - both houses of the legislature flipped.

If they were interested in DT, other than the Woodward corridor, there is a lot of near vacant land South of 94 everywhere between Michigan and Gratiot -- but I'd guess the players would rather Oakland county as I'd guess more of them are staying there during the season.

2021 Hutch vs NW had 3 tackles and 1/2 a sack and recoverd a fumble, but of course the box doesn't say who was lined up where.

Social media self-victim. I can almost see that you could write out a complete essay trying to work out a philosophical point about moral courage to violate the law that most people might well disagree with but that would not be inflammatory or inciteful but when you mash it into short form, the disclaimer about not advocating violating the law just doesn't suffice for the unconditionality of the next line.