lordstanley

9 games left. 3 at home, 6 on the road. All 9 are against teams currently in playoff position. Given that, I figured at the beginning of March the Wings would need to build a 4-5 pt cushion to be safe for a playoff spot. Obviously that didn't happen with a brutal 4W 10L March. The Wings are in a 5-team mix for the final spot. 3 points behind both Montreal and the NYR (game in hand on the Rangers), a point behind Columbus (played one more game than Columbus), tied with NYI (Wings have one more win). I'd put the Wings' playoff chances at well under 10%. On the flip side, looking at the draft, Wings have the 11th worst record in the NHL. Could easily get into the bottom 10 by getting passed by NYI. Possibly by Anaheim. Hard to go beyond that. So likely finish in the #9-#12 range.

The White Sox have already scored 9 runs in one game and 8 runs in another. Cubs have scored 16 tonight, but in Sacramento so don't know if the park has something to do with it.

So the Tigers might be ok as long as they’re not playing the ‘27 Yankees or the ‘25 Dodgers.

A lot of equally mediocre/bad teams, but maybe the Wings would be the team happiest to just be there. Playoff appearances since 2016: Montreal - 3, including 3 series wins NYR - 4, including 5 series wins NYI - 5, including 5 series wins Columbus - 4, including 1 series win Detroit - 0, and 0

Caps don't want to play the Rangers.

Genius move, actually.

Remember this former Red Wings trainer?

Not a pet peeve, but related to this current page of this thread. So I’m one paper away from completing my Master’s degree in Theology and, believe it or not, the topic of my 50-pager is basically AI ethics through the lens of Catholic Social Teaching. A dive into the Vatican’s recent document Antiqua et Nova. Plus case studies of responsible AI - or not - in the financial sector (M&A advisor is my day job) https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20250128_antiqua-et-nova_en.html Research papers don’t usually have cover photos but if they did, this one would be the most obvious one other.

What a save!! Ken Kal’s call of it. Talbot Save vs Bruins.m4a

Wings are 1:41 away from pulling to within 1 pt of 8th place. Update: 1:16 Update: 1:05

Protecting a 2-1 lead, the Wings have brought it down to 8:22 to go in the game without allowing Boston a shot in the 3rd period so far.

Wings lead 2-1 after 2. NYI and Columbus have already lost today. Playoff “race”;:

Wings hosting Boston in the last game of their horribilis mensis. 3W 10L in March so far.

Yes, Wendy James.

This video screams 1989. If you showed this to anyone even if they haven’t heard the song before and asked them one what year the video is from, I can’t imagine anyone being off by more than a year or two.

Home run, gave over. Beau Brieske blew it.

Tie game, bummer.

1 down, runner held at 2nd.

Darn, tying run at 2nd.

5-3 going to the bottom of the 10th after Dingler’s unreviewable triple.

Extra innings. Tork coming to bat.

Crap call!

Beauty leap by Margot!

RISP hit!