lordstanley

A vocal Catholic QB wins the natty for a school from Indiana and it’s not Notre Dame.

All Indiana had to do on 2nd and 1 was not fumble or take an illegal procedure penalty and the title was in their grasp. Still a game.

I sure hope this didn’t come down to money. After Morton, I didn’t want a reach that may turn out well, I wanted a relatively safe choice. This is risky.

EP has negative value at $11.5mm. If he was a free agent, how much would you be willing to sign him for? I'd say $8mm-9mm. So the Canucks would need to retain enough to get down to that level, then just take a couple of things in return, not a haul. I would have made the Kiefer Sherwood trade in a heartbeat even knowing I'm unlikely to want to pay him this summer. Two seconds and a journeyman is fine for a rental who could help solidify a playoff spot and contribute towards possibly winning a round this season, both of which should be seen as attainable goals for the Wings. The Canucks may value the Sharks' seconds more than the Wings' seconds, so would have gone a bit better than Cole Clayton which isn't hard to do.

Ottawa goaltending has been hilariously, historically bad this season.

McVay is totally wired in the post-game. I don’t think I’ve heard a coach talks so fast.

Down goes Ben. Down goes De’Andre. Down goes CJ.

INT. Now go win it Stafford. Kill off these termites.

Ridiculous. Caleb Williams runs 25 yards back from the line of scrimmage, throws one up, open receiver catches the TD.

A novel approach, hard to argue with their results.

Cat wins it in OT!

The 3-2 goal was pretty by JVR. Copying Stutzle from last night?

Last night Montreal was down 2 with 5 minutes to go and beat Ottawa, the Leafs were down 2 in the 3rd and beat Winnipeg, and the Bruins were down 2 going into the 2nd period and beat Chicago.

I’ve seen Payton’s full comments. It was on the Nix run that went for a small loss prior to the long pass that interference was called on

So on the long completion or on the kneeldown? The last play was the field goal.

2 INTs and 3 lost Fumbles. Hard to complain about the refs after that. The Bills didn’t lose to Lamar or Mahomes or Burrows, they lost to Bo Nix.

Overtime

Josh Allen has to do it again. Down 3, getting the ball with 55 seconds to go.

While I don't think that, at an individual level, the Wings are playing above their heads with the possible exception of Gibson the past 6 weeks, what they have benefitted from this season is avoidance of injuries. Of 49 games played, all of Raymond, DeBrincat, Larkin, Copp, Compher, Seider, ASP, Chiarot and Edvinsson have played over 45 games. While the Wings have had more players contribute than past years, I still get the feeling they're more vulnerable than some other teams if they were to lose one or two key players.