Shinzaki

Be pretty amazing if the two 1/1's we wrote off last year as washouts lead us to the playoffs

Coming into the season...I thought they could regress a bit this year after losing Perron and Ghost..esp on the pp. Ironically...the PP has been better this year, even though Gustafson and Tarasenko were not suitable replacements for Ghost and Perron. Ras, Compher and while he was here, Veleno all backslide a bit. Those issues have lead to a crippling lack of 5 on 5 scoring. Couple that with the inexplicably horrible PK and lack of consistent goaltending and you get a team that will miss the playoffs. On the bright side...Edvinsson has been decent and shows a lot of potential...Kasper has shown more offense than his detractors thought he would and Johansson has shown he's a viable 2nd or 3rd pairing dman. Not gonna be much better next year unless we find a legit wing to roll on the top line with Larkin and Raymond to provide more scoring. I hope they can bring Kane back..or they'll need another wing for the second line. They also need a better LHD for the top pairing. You would hope guys like Danielson,Cosa, Wallinder et al...would get a shot. Would like to Watson up here as well...I think he bring an edge that this team really lacks. .

Is NIL money playing a part in his decision? If he's getting paid already, he might view another year at MSU as being preferable to shuttling between Toledo and Grand Rapids on an entry level deal.

Two round mock on ESPN today has Detroit taking DT Harmon in rd 1 and OG Tate Ratledge in rd 2. I would prefer Zabel in rd 1 and DT Darius Alexander in rd 2...but Zabel is off the board in their mock...as is Alexander in rd 2

Ok Boomer...

I still think it's gonna be Grey Zabel unless he's gone...fits too many slots to pass up and gives us an heir apparent to Ragnow.

Lotto luck smile upon us so we can draft Michael Misa...he is EXACTLY what we need. Heck..even Caleb Desnoyers would work. Grab Finnie's Kamloops running mate Behm in the 2nd rd...or maybe spend some draft capital to move back into the 1st round to grad LD KaShawn Aitcheson..a Dman with some skill and a physical edge

Philly just fired Torts...

Moniak is a former 1/1....Like Tork...someone saw something sometime

Prior to moving to Denver...The Colorado Rockies were the Kansas City Scouts. Stealing hockey teams is what that ****hole city does

the next Chet/Wemby?

5 to 1..1 in 5....no one here gets out alive

8 years?

I heard Benetti on 97.1 one morning raving about working with Gibby..so who knows

In my 20s I had a lot of people tell me I looked like Gibby. It's tough to see him struggling because he was my doppelganger of sorts. In my late 30's people started telling me I looked like David Wells. That was wake up call to drop a few...dozen..pounds