buddha

i certainly dont feel he's some evil genius like you do, that he's holding back detroit sports teams by pinching pennies. this tigers' summer sort of undercut your thesis on that one. i think he's a nepo baby who hasnt done the work like his dad did. i'm not sure why you think otherwise.

you "think its pretty certain" based on what? again, you put stock in illitch having a plan other than yzerman falling into his lap and him saying "ok." i think its more likely yzerman said "i'll take the job, but the farm system is **** and it will take ten years to rebuild and i want him, him, him, and him to come to my staff and a budget for whatever i want." yzerman had all the leverage and illitch has no history of knowing anything about hockey or any connections in the league to make a judgment on who to hire.

i dont think illitch had anything to do with it. i think it was all yzerman. i doubt illitch is that involved in the day to day.

jason previously stated that players want to play with dylan larkin. i'm asking who.

****ing idiot is more like it.

derrick queen has fallen off rhe map a little bit too. you know, the reason why they gave up an unprotected first round pick in a loaded draft?

what free agents have signed here to play with dylan larkin?

there were folks on this site clamoring to trade up to draft shane wright...

the idea that everyone loves dylan larkin and wants to play with him is a myth. didnt we go through this at the trade deadline when players were using their nmc to NOT come to detroit?

and yet still has PE buy ad space on the floor.

with the rise of the salary cap, there arent nearly as many free agents to sign because most teams have more than enough room to sign them. maybe that changes in the near future, but our hopes for all these teams to be dropping their best players like flies who will find their way to detroit because we have cap space is not happening. i've been as patient as the next guy, and the wings have had nothing but bad luck when it comes to injuries and lotteries, but he is the one responsible for the results on the ice, and those results havent been good enough.

every town has a writer like that. it used to be drew sharpe forever. then rahb pawker. now monarrez.

we dont have a first round pick next year anymore. that would likely end any pipedream of getting matthews. even if the leafs would trade him to us.

The great josh giddey missed another triple double by 1 rebound last night as the bulls put up 137 on the sixers. and lost by 20. the bulls gave up 157 points in a game. no one should take any of these great looking numbers by mediocre players seriously. neither team tried. it was the equivalent of an all star game, without any all stars.

twolves are currently 4.5 games ahead of toronto for the 19th spot in the draft, so it looks like the pistons will get their swap to move up 5 or 6 picks in the draft.