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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.

it's about paywalls isn't it? Cody is behind one. A link to a pay-walled site is just gonna be a dead end for most readers.

the Tigers following the path of the Orioles quickly back into obscurity was always a possibility, but more based on them just having not built as strong or sustainable an org as they thought they had.

Trump is like when there is a comic you absolutely don't think is funny at all is selling out shows and is everywhere in media. Reinforces your innate sense that every one else in this world is crazy.

For me, A ball would be too much uncertainty for the headline return on Skubal. I'm sure the Dodgers would want to start there though!

its a complex topic. You can be a tough negotiator but if you are creative, can find ways for both sides to get what they want - like structuring muli-team deals etc, you might be high on other GMs' lists to deal with even if they never expect to get something for nothing from you. I can imagine Dombroski was of that type. If a guy picks up the phone and just says no (even if you expected he might) but isn't interested in getting a process going I'd imagine he's not going to be a guy that gets called again. You often hear stories about trades that end up miles from the players that were the original targets because a conversation got started.

DePaula plus a lottery ticket to for a couple of months of Skubal would be a fair return - if I'm the Dodgers I don't think I would, so if they will that's good for the Tigers..

they are not a good defensive team - but Parker only played a third of April (and they lost several of those games he played anyway), so they weren't good in CF for most of the month they managed to win some gamesl. I believe all the bouncing around of defenders that aren't all that good anyway certainly made it worse in May, and the numbers are there in terms of increased runs allowed, but all that said, the run production fall off in in May was just terrible.

BR says he attempted 2 his rookie year, 4 the next, didn't hit any and hasn't tried since

these crazy slumps are a weird thing though - three times in three yrs? there has to be some aspect of something they are doing/not doing that's different from what other orgs do because when the Tigers drop into a funk, they stay there way too long.

Right. Between last year and this year he got better at things he was already doing, improving from here is a tougher lift. And FTM, the same is true for Ausar.

just be careful you don't tick off of these guys' mom.

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