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jokic, doncic, and wembanyama. are the three best players in the league europeans?

We were there in January for a tour. its a very pretty campus. We didnt do the dorm tour because we were on our way to Kentucky, so report back on that. 😉

it will be at least 7-2 against trump's EO. the odds are better that its 9-0 than the order is upheld.

who is larkin going to blame this year?

stuff coming out now is just weird. the bulls were likely to make him a QO before this. so he cost himself at least $10m.

if cossa works out, the trade is a plus.

its because monty williams was on that sours team... 🙂

mantha trade will depend on cossa, i think. early returns on the trade are negative.

i think sidney crosby and evgeni malkin make a lot of players better. including mantha and chinakov. larkin made kasper a lot better last year. then they decided kasper had to be a center and he went right back to underperformance (given his draft position). in the brief times he has returned to line one this season, the production has not followed. the grand rapids success has been built off veteran AAAA players, not prospect success. all the things the "prospect gurus" said about danielson and kasper (good, solid players who are more likely to end up as low second, high third line players) appears to be true. asp is too small. lombardi is too small. mazur is too small. mbn is too slow. tuomisto cant skate. wallinder doesnt play with size. the wings "have a type." hard working, responsible players. no more mantha's and athanasiou's for detroit. well....they have worked their way to being in the bottom of the middle of the league. theyre in the worst possible position: not good enough to make the playoffs and not bad enough to get a star. they may be in the worst position in the entire league. i think jason is right that detroit was in a bad spot when yzerman got here. i think yzerman is on the seider/raymond timeline, not the larkin timeline. but its been 7 years now and you STILL cant find a defense prospect to replace ben chairot? how many drafts do you need? if johansson v.2 hits, genborg hits, lombardi grows, mazur gets a better doctor, danielson find some magic beans that make him aggressive, asp starts lifting weights, and mbn learns to finish, maybe they have something? but right now kasper and danielson look more like andrew copp than dylan larkin. asp's ceiling is gotishbere and not karlsson. mbn looks like a plugger. that equals borderline playoff team forever. is that what we want?

yes. but the current management team hasnt done enough to keep their jobs, imo. theyve been passed by multiple other organizations, some of whom have no business passing them (boston, pittsburgh, and possibly philly). im yzerman's biggest fan. in fact, he can stay. but there needs to be some serious changes to the front office if he does. otoh, if they wanted to overhaul to entire front office, get rid of the reliance on former red wing players, and start with a fresh new approach, that would be fine too. probably even preferable.

such a depressing thread.

you need a management change.

i want to buy a ticket for their next home game just to boo them. pathetic.

yzerman has to take the blame for this. its his team now. yet another year, yet another collapse. enough is enough. pathetic.

i imagine ivey's views on pride are the majority in most nba locker rooms.