lordstanley

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.

It is competitive, but we're finally starting to see some separation. Teams 11-16 in the conference are now between 11-16 pts behind the Wings. A few of them have three games in hand - Philly, Florida, Ottawa - but with the possible exception of Florida I don't expect any of those six teams to play better than the Wings in the final 35 or so games the rest of the way, let alone make up a double digit deficit. The Wings are in a playoff spot by 8 points over Toronto and Washington. Even if Toronto and Washington surge and overtake the Wings, the Wings should be able to beat out two of Montreal, NYI, Buffalo, Boston or Pittsburgh. The Wings aren't a great team, but at this point I'd say they have as good of a chance to finish 2nd in the Atlantic than they do of missing the playoffs. Send Gibson to a Caribbean island during the Olympics break and tell him to rest up.

Tampa's 11-game winning streak is snapped. They do pick up a point in a shootout loss to St. Louis. Tampa, Carolina and Detroit are tied in points atop the Eastern Conference (tied for 3rd in the NHL right behind Dallas' 63 pts 48gp) with 62 - the Wings have played 49 games, Carolina 48, Tampa 46.

Hope so. Then we can call him Kasper The Former Ghost instead of Kasper The Failing Ghost.