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always amazes me how RW players drop back off their man into the 'box' as though they were short handed when they are 5 on 5 in their own zone. Now that is the kind of thing that maybe is coming from Blashill.

Veleno passes out of an open net opportunity....

wings get the lead back on a shot in traffic off a face off.

there was another report that some troops had actually gone onto the plant grounds, which are certainly still too hot to wander around without proper PPE.

so what is 'development'. At one extreme you have what the Tigers used to do, which was draft guys, let them play games in the minors and see if anyone rose to the top. IOW, passive. What they are moving to now is maximal interventionist - teaching the mechanics of pitching grips, measuring everything they can about a hitters kinesiology with an aim toward fixing mechanical weakness, etc., etc. We know the 1st approach didn't work, the $64 dollar question is whether the second approach will actually make any difference or if the key remains 95% in the initial scouting and picking. If the latter is true is the system isn't going to matter, it's all in the personnel and you can only hope you find, pay and keep the best scouts. Or probably some mix.

he's skates well enough to forecheck a little, which is more than most of them do.

gonna be tough for Greene to do that from Toledo.

the best answer would be: "It doesn't matter what I think the answer is because all are equal before the law" , which in essence is pretty close to what she did say.

Oddly enough though, for me it's a source of hope for the RWs. That Ken Holland got another GM gig in the NHL after what he did to the Wings is proof that the old boy network is still so much more operative in the NHL than judgment on competence, that it makes it that much easier for a guy like Yzerman to move his org past half the teams in the NHL before he even has to try too hard.

HaHA - Of course for many of them it means they shouldn't be racist, and sure, that's a problem!

LOL - Maybe she should have said: "Chromosomes are genetics, gender is a social construct."

and if that drone was armed, those young men have some Ukrainian operator's sympathy to thank that they are still alive.

We have to put the Kool-Aid away. Watch Veleno, Rasmussen, Zadina, with any kind of objective view and it's pretty clear - they are not very good. Skating, passing, possession skills all lacking in all three. The rest of the line-up are end of the liners like Staal, or other team's discards. Blash may be a good or bad coach, but he isn't the reason these guys can't beat anyone to a puck or make an accurate pass or play through a check or shoot the puck effectively. To be charitable they have so far built 1/4 of an NHL roster. A couple of years ago I thought the Red Wings would be the 1st team to turn around, but I don't think that anymore even with a GM as talented at Yzerman. Which is too bad because they are wasting time for Larks and Seider esp., who deserve better mates.

Apparently Forbes was out with numbers about team economics. Somebody quoted them saying the Tigers made a "record" 30 million profit. If that is true, then we all need to beg the Ilitch's pardon for all the things we have said about them because that would be a stupid small ROI on an operation the size of an MLB team. It just shows that too many people don't know enough about what they are talking about.

glad to have been catcher for your morning warm up - now go get 'em!

I don't know how much is Blashill and how much is a team that is just out of gas and out of hope of beating the teams they are playing that are just better than they are. You can chase people around the ice that are faster and stronger than you are only so much of a season before the talent difference wears a team out mentally and physically. The problem now for Blashill is that even if it's not 'him' in any objective way, his coaching credibility has been eroded away by so many losing seasons that it may not be possible for him to turn it around with the Wings anymore even if he is a good coach in the abstract, and who knows if that's true at this point? But this roster is still going to be too weak to win next year and maybe even another, so that probably means the next round will be another another young 'disposable' coach as placeholder.

dept of baseball salary weirdness: just noticed this on JD Martinez's BR page: for the Tigers: 4 yrs, 13.52 WAR, $9,750,000 for the Sox 4 yrs, 12.5 WAR, $90,600,000

Oh! Wait! I know! I know!...It'll come to me in second!....

Jax could only take Walker 1 after the Lions trade their pick....

what war (me) are you talking about, what's (ME) really important(ME!), here is (ME ME ME!) is that we keep (ME ME ME!) the dems in check (ME!)

Hmm, 'some of".."? I guess if that's Seider and Raymond I care, if it's any of the rest of the under performing crew (Zadina, Veleno, Rasmussen etc), not so much. I suppose if anything it's surprising there there hasn't been more dissention on a team that's losing this much. If they've tuned Blashill out there isn't much you can do but dump him. Like they say, you can't get rid of the whole team.....well, wait - you actually could get rid of pretty much this whole team less 5 guys and be no worse off. Stiil, it seems unlikely (to me) Yzerman would do anything until the end of the season.

Lynn apparently decided his hit rate was falling off too precipitously. Classic click-bait if there ever was. There is less than nothing of substance here. And FYI Lynn, what counts against big-league pitching is...RESULTS.

IIRC, Lanier was pretty strong against Kareem. I always wonder what Big Bob could have accomplished on a good team.

so far in ST Greene (450) and Torkelson(375) are #1 & #2 in OBP on the team. I suppose they could both crash and burn in the next week, but seems unlikely.

well, war is hell. We have journals that my dad wrote in WWII in the pacific that he didn't send because of the censors that shed a little light on why there weren't some Japanese POWs taken in that war.....