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Smith's smile is a little nerdy but still more authentic than anything DeSantis could ever hope to muster. 🙃

Another thing with Lyon is that he does not clear the puck to the other team a lot. All goalies do it some, but Husso seems especially terrible at giving the puck back when he does a clear around from behind the net. It's not a big thing in a goalie's game compared to save % but when a team has as much trouble regaining possession as the Wings often do, having a goalie that isn't constantly clearing the puck right to the other teams is just another small plus.

They can move the game closer to rugby tackling rules, but not without making major changes to slow down offenses otherwise you'd never see another punt, and neither the league or the fans would be happy with that. Every rule you add to restrict tackling means more guys that won't get tackled. So that's the conundrum.

This team is beginning to show how good Yzerman is. Almost every night we go against teams where the best player on the Ice is on the other side, but Yzerman is starting to build enough depth of secondary talent that they are succeeding anyway. Yzerman has often talked about the fact they you can't really control getting generational players, so he's doing all the things he can control better than the other guys. I don't know if he can get them to being a great team without finding more stars, but they're at least getting to be a good team again. The question is are they good enough yet to keep Yzerman from deciding to pull the plug and sell assets for future picks one more time.

The Cap'n does it. Wing ahead of the Leafs. definitely sweet.

One point banked. 90 seconds of 4 on 3 to get the 2nd

Good game from Maata, not so much from Chariot.

seen a lot worse than that not called for embellishment - but we'll take it.

two posts for the Wings. Panthers getting some luck now. Tying goal has energized the Wings - do they have enough in the tank to hang on?

and there it is! And not really luck but some good work by Ras

yeah - doesn't look like they aren't winning this one without a little puck luck.

During the stretch at the end of '22 playing with Larkin I though he was an effective fore-checker - maybe their best, but not so much in his own end and not so much of anything really after that stretch.

IDK - I don't think you should underestimate how much big institutions hate being played -- even when it's by the goose that laid the golden egg. You see orgs dump successful people all the time even at the cost of shooting themselves in the foot because of the 'no-one is bigger than the org' imperative (which ironically is football mantra...). I don't claim any knowledge of where on the spectrum JH and the 'U' are those scales, I'm just saying I would not be surprised by either an extension announcement or a 'see ya later' kiss off. That kind of organizational dynamic is just unpredictable. There is always someone further up the food chain that can force the org to take the hit if they get sufficiently ticked off.

there is no parallel though - Harbaugh has taken an NFL team to a superbowl.

It's also not like he didn't already have a contract that he is only half way through.... Situations are fluid. if M had lost to PSU and OSU there would be no offer on the table at all.

I don't know the details on how they get around whatever constitutes admissions 'standards', and these kids would be transfers anyway. What I think does matter is that regardless of how they came to college, most B1G teams do want kids who will put in the work to try to graduate because programs do get pressure and bad press when graduation rates go down.

This doesn't really parse. If Warde thought Harbaugh was so much a loose cannon threatening the long term health of the program that he was willing to deliberately rat him out because the Admin was intent on keeping him over Warde's objections, then I can't see Warde not walking when the admin decided to make the extension offer to Harbaugh. Warde doesn't need Michigan any more than Harbaugh does - it wouldn't take him more than 10 minutes to get another AD offer.

Yeah - this is where he's just being greedy. He's wants the U to leave his offer on the table so he can wait out the NFL decision process, that's a bad deal for the U if he walks anyway and Moore (or whoever) is left with no time to put next year's team together. If Buddha is right and his mind is made up to go the U at least gets their $1.5M back if they stand pat without sweetening the current offer.

If this works out I might be able to dump directTV...Yay!

Congrats! (I think....)

Maybe - or he just wants the best deal he can get in either place. I think he wants a lot of things - not all of which he can have at the same time. If there is one thing we ought to know about Harbaugh by now it's that that 'single minded laser focus' talk is his own self deflection for the fact that his mind is never quite clear about what he wants.

Today it was Atlanta. At least Harbaughs camp isn't trying to keep it a secret this time around. All the charades with Minnesota last time was pretty ridiculous. So the A2news reports that what Harbaugh wants from UM is a guarantee they won't fire him no matter how the NCAA hammers him and that whatever decision is made can't be Manuel's. I can see the top admin taking the coach's side versus the AD & NCAA easily enough, what's a little trickier is that something like half the regents are lawyers - trial/liability lawyers even. Even if they want Harbaugh for every other (as in $$$$) reason, I could see them having more bias than some other board might against writing anyone a blank check against unknown future liability. Seems like an unlawyerly kind of thing to do......🤷‍♂️

I think the two failures that led to the accidents were quite different from an engineering perspective though. The thermal tiles were a bleeding edge technology and the risks they carried were the 'normal' kind of 'we're doing something way out at the edge that we know is dangerous and this is the best thing we can come up with to even make it possible. OTOH, launching when it was cold enough that the o-rings were going to be stiff enough to leak was bad safety culture creating a risk where none needed to be. The tech and it's safety parameters were well known and easily understood. There was no 'accepted developmental risk' associated with Challenger. That was a man made disaster.

right. Matt is not so dumb as to say anything about his old fans that his new fans will then be on his case for, which would have been just about anything remotely positive. "Happy for the Players" who are his ex-mates is the answer that cannot be criticized by anyone. If you are dealing with a media person whose primary interest is to create controversy, you have to play defense the best you can. What you might actually be interested in communicating to any serious listener has to take second place to that new imperative.

I don't think the goal tending can hold at this level, but maybe Yzerman comes up with another Dman to lower the pressure a little.