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the thing that I've always wondered about in that episode is how much he was actually trying to take it on himself - as Captain and all that - was he trying to speak to management for a sentiment that was percolating up from the team? That makes a big difference in how you might interpret that episode, and whether as 'Captain' Yzerman wants Larkin to be the company man in the clubhouse and maybe Larkin thought it was his job to represent for the players to management and management didn't like it. As you say, we don't know, but the 'obvious' explanations for things involving people and personalities are often not the right ones.

the question is whether any of the money Mills says she needed and didn't have starts coming her way.

I can't imagine driving South thru Chicago to go to a sporting event - that would be worse than going from Ann Arbor to the Palace (which I avoided ever doing!). Of course an NFL team can fill a stadium in the Gobi desert, but it will be a different audience than the one that went to Solder.

you wonder what they expected. in the end he’s just a player. a guy doesn’t turn into combination of Winston Churchill and Clark Kent just because they put a C. on his jersey. he sure can’t do anything about the talent. EDIT:to continue the thought - I wonder if Stevie remembers that when he was the captain of a winning team his coach was Scotty Frickin' Bowman, he had Shanahan ( a future league official and GM), Fetisov, a future league and political figure, Larianov, a future coach, and Linstrom. It wasn't like his teams needed him to be driving them solo over any finish lines. Those teams had leadership bursting at the seams.

it wouldn’t be hard to figure Mac was POd after he went to the olympics and then ended up hurt again, even if happened after he got back. the team knew he would go if given a spot but that doesn’t mean a coach trying to make the playoffs who thus doesn’t care a whit about the playoffs still isn’t frosted over it

Yeah - let's see if Mize can get through more than 3 start in a row.

that's the good news, the bad news is that paychecks are being outpaced by inflation.

everything with Trump is zero sum. His toddler brain can't compute that you can do something for someone else where the benefit eventually redounds to you.

S&P says it will not let the AI IPOs into the 500 index early. https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/p-not-change-rules-allow-230217103.html

yeah - at 10 yrs in he is a declining asset - after all the injuries he isn't player he was no matter what you thought that was.

Elon especially - has been the most long term successful purveyor of the 'greater fool' theory in my investment lifetime. His cult of followers will buy no matter what the fundamentals and no matter how outlandish the promise (nobody is going to Mars any time remotely soon - at least if getting back is to be included). And as long as they buy it all stays afloat. Like they say about shorts - the Market can stay irrational a lot longer than an individual investor can stay solvent.

because people with 2K in their accounts don't read Morningstar? Just a guess there....

How can you watch the Wings play and think Larkin is their problem being 'soft' he is more willing to mix it up, defend his mates and take on hard contact than any other forward other than maybe Cat. How many times did we hear Mac say there has to be more leadership in the room than just Larkin? He's been an example to his team, they don't pick up on it, let him get beat to a pulp and skate back to the bench. That's not on Dylan, that's a bunch of lower character guys than he is, and he's not the one that put them on the team. His critics are right about one thing though, he should have told them to take the C back after the deadline argument last season. Let Mac find someone else to be the team's patsy.

meh - athletes don't 'owe' us anything. Don't forget, the implicit bargain when he signed long term was they would put a team that could win a cup on the ice -- they haven't come close and it's for a lot more reason than anything to do with Larkin. He doesn't owe them or us anything at this point. If he feels he has leverage to force a trade, I can't criticize that, even if I don't like it. and "soft" my ass. After 10 years of being head hunted on a team that's never done **** to defend him? GIve me a break.If I were Dylan that would be reason enough to want out.

I guess we don't know how Yzerman will react, but you'd think the rational thing to do would be pull the plug and move all the vets you can get anything for, and 'Cat would pretty much lead that list after Larkin. Or Yzerman could get his back up and decide "I can dump Larkin and I'm going to otherwise carry on as planned" and we'll be a bad team for 10 years more. If you're in management in US pro sports today, you just have to just admit the athletes (esp vets) are the ones in control - no sense getting stupid over it.

so did anyone watch this game via DirectTV?. I got home in about the 5th inning and my channel guide didn't show this game, and it wasn't 'recording' anything even though it's supposed to 'record' the Tigers. So the guide had the game listed at 7! So sure enough, later last night I check and there was the full recording in my 'library' where I was able to watch it. Somehow they had the game but weren't sending it out live. Totally weird. (I put 'record' in quotes because of course the cloud DVR doesn't record anything, it just gives you token into the carrier's library for that item.)

could be, Yzerman might want to play hard guy, but OTOH, I don't think Ilitch would be happy to see those kind of dramatics.

fair enough. I can't say that version with the stubby bones rings any bells, but don't follow neo-nazis either! Actually later in life, (and at a point somewhat estranged from my SO) my FIL had collected a fair amount of Nazi memorabilia along with more general WWII stuff, which was weird on a couple of counts because he was actually Korean generation, not WWII. He had moved out of state before his passing and when we went down after his death to help the estate agent with the house, the collection in the den was not exactly to my taste.. As far as we ever knew he was never any kind of radical, but he was still fascinated by the WWII stuff in a way I wouldn't call healthy. We told the agent to just deep 6 it all.

exactly. maybe a prospect but nobody very close to the NHL.Why do you want Larking if you have very good young center unless he's still at least a year or more away? This may be the break with the current stalled plan the Wings need, but that doesn't mean the new plan is going to be very pretty for a while..

we can bad mouth him all we want as rejected lovers do, but over his career he's proven he can elevate good players he's paired with and other GMs are going to see his performance at the Worlds with other good players in a brighter light than a season with one of the most overall offensively challenged line-ups in the league.

the pirate 'Jolly Roger' which is a skull with either crossed swords or crossed bones, has a lot longer history than Nazi Germany, and the skull and crossbones is the standard Hazmat poison symbol and has been used used to denote toxins since the 19th century. I'm not defending Platner at all, but I'm honestly curious because coming from the chemical industry when I see skull and crossbones, I always think 'poison' not Nazi, so I was curious as to what aspect of some particular S&C design should signify 'Nazi' to me. Bikers since the 70's have also used variations, including the "Outlaws" groups that sometime used the skull over crossed pistons with connecting rods (sort of clever).

maybe the joke here is instead of Larkin talking Hughes into wanting to come to Detroit, Hughes talked him in joining him Yzerman's plan on arrival was to have built a team to challenge for a cup while Larkin was still in his prime. Larkin will be 30 next season, so that plan is looking impossible to achieve - at minimum they are still a couple of years away. It's easy enough to say 'start over' but there won't be much joy at LCA if they now miss the playoffs a couple more times.

Lets assume this is true. If so not surprising. Seems to be enough mutual unhappiness with each other on the part of both parties so probably in both sides' interests at this point. I'm sure he'll do well wherever his lands - if he can still stay healthy anymore. I imagine Chris Ilitch will be less than thrilled hearing a player wants off one of his teams. He like to think he runs a player friendly operation. the other question is whether Yzerman can swing a productive trade.

Serious question (well to the degree any question about tattoos can be serious): What in particular denotes a Nazi derived skull and crossbones from any generic pirate/poison skull and crossbones?

I loved the non-reaction of the ground attendant. A quarter millions pounds of airplane tries to squash him, but he's cool.