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Aside from Edvinsson, Tuomisto is 6'5". Wallinder is 6'4". Both have been playing, at least in GR, defensively responsible.

Lyon lays flat down on his back on a loose puck, stopping play. Still 0-0. If this game isn't "the season"... it's damn close to it.

Ditto.

If we fall too far out of playoff range he can play 5-ish or so games this year. IMO.

Just like Faedo.

They bought that land fair and square?

I'm buying puts on "DJT" as well... As many as I can...

BINGO!!! Excellent post. And history lesson for those not in the know...

Like in Afghanistan and Iraq? When we hunted Bin Laden and Saddam until we got them? It's the same thing... right?

Trade Husso. In the offseason. I'm not really sure I care what the return is. Although if viewed as a salary dump (basically it would be) then it might actually cost us a draft pick, or at least a trade down/swap of a pick (like the Cholowski over Chychrun pick swap fiasco...).

I sincerely hope not. Not to be rude (to the Wings & Stevie) but... "Out with the Old, IN with the New"... IMO.

If there is a demand... Supply will find a way. You just noted that above as well. (I get the point about shifting the supply closer to home and it's easier to target... but I don't think stopping cartels will stop China's flow of Fentanyl into America, at all. They'll find another way.) Eliminate or sharply reduce the demand and... The supply will automatically follow suit and fall. It's called "supply and demand", which I am sure you know...

What a ****ing deuchebag. Who gives themselves BS "awards" in order to inflate themselves? Oh, Donald "MF'ing Deuchebag" Trump, that's who.

Yes, I know all this. That's why I said if he's trying to build the team from a less-than-zero standpoint... then he's not able to do this. As you've mentioned, he's had to go out and sign a boatload of FA's just to fill holes. And why I also said: "But now that the team is built up pretty nicely..." I'm hoping he doesn't have to annually sign a crapload of players to fill holes. I guess what that means, ultimately for the team, is that Holmes is successful in drafting, and DC & his coaches "coaching up", enough depth on this team to where Holmes can let 3-5 FA's walk and only have to go out into the market to sign 1 or 2... Meeting your (the NFL's) formula to obtain additional comp picks... Further allowing Holmes & DC to draft and develop depth, future later round starters that require a lot of coaching up, etc... with those extra picks. I don't think we are saying, or want from the Lions, anything different from each other.

A low-A reliever with high spin rates would be the return for Wentz... would be my guess.

Snell signed for 2 years $62 mill. **** no! No thank you very much. Chapman signed for 3 years $54 mill. Nope! No thank you very much. Cody Bellinger signed for 3 years $80 mill. **** no! No thank you very much. Montgomery wants 7 years $172 mill. **** no! No thank you very much.

Right. OLIGARCHY RULES!!! GIMME KLEPTOCRACY OVER DEMOCRACY ANY DAY!!! (Says Putin, Trump, and now Elon Musk...)

The insults against Democracy and the Constitution of the United States never cease with TFG. And in this instance, Speaker Johnson is an ENABLER.

Workman looks like the next Kreidler... And Santana is a baby, not a bust. Which doesn't change the rest of your narrative... We've got nothing in the system high enough/ close enough/ or performing well enough to indicate we have another option aside from Javy Baez. At least in the near term...

I would like the Lions to be in the business of letting aging FA's walk and gaining extra draft picks on an annual basis. Too hard to do when we were at ground less-than-zero... But now that the team is built up pretty nicely... all Holmes has to do is make the annual shelf life/ value/ cost assessment decisions... He did that with CJGJ and Jonah, in particular, this year (Tracy Walker too but he hasn't signed with anyone yet...).

Or at least a better value at an appropriate cost...

At 36, age has definitely caught up with him. I get Yzerman's desire to add enough experience to help lead this team into the playoffs... But for this team to grow, we need some kids to start taking over. And on the right-side... that's Tuomisto. I don't know where he is in NHL-readiness... But it looks like the is being defensively responsible in GR (28 points in 76 GR games, +14...), is a big 6'5" defensive dude... At the very least... I'm hoping he can take a spot away from Petry and/or Holl in the 2024-25 season. The sooner the better...

Oh crap! You already beat me to the same thing! (Sorry... just catching up with everything so...)

See above post...

Chas is being pure disingenuous. Pure hypocrisy since he's lashing out at all of us "history revisionists..." Here is he ranking of every Org for the past 10 years, by Baseball America: https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/mlb-farm-system-rankings-for-every-team-in-the-21st-century/ To whit: Detroit 2015: 30th Detroit 2016: 26th Detroit 2017: 25th Detroit 2018: 21st Detroit 2019: 14th Detroit 2020: 11th Detroit 2021: 3rd (Greene & Torkelson) Detroit 2022: 6th (Greene & Torkelson start to graduate) Detroit 2023: 27th (no more Greene & Torkelson as prospects; Jobe & Keith haven't broken out yet; Clark not yet drafted) Detroit 2024: 5th