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2015

I think we'll find out this season where he'll fit in long term. I keep wishing he's like M. Jordan, with a clinically crazy drive to win (and train) which like a force of nature makes him top notch while initially considered high end in the middle of the pack. The more realistic view is what kliq writes and what I agree with so far, most likely a 2c. Good, but not a star. Hope I am wrong.

I agree to a certain extent. I think Holland is sometimes loyal to a fault, especially when it comes to mediocre bottom six forwards / bottom four defensemen. And he certainly looks after the Michigan boys. I like Abby, but there's no way he should have gotten the contract he did. Slightly overpaid in salary, and massively overpaid in term. Glendening is probably the worst contract on the team. Massively overpaid in both salary and term. DeKeyser is a solid middle six defenseman, but again, probably a little overpaid. I get that you sometimes have overpay to keep players, but these were three players that played their entire careers in Michigan, from college to Grand Rapids to Detroit, and likely would have taken a bit of a discount to continue playing in their home state. But moreso than the loyalty, my frustration with the organization is their desire for every single player to be a defensive stalwart, and value hard work over high skill. They want to turn every pure goal scorer into a defensive specialist, because defense wins championships... just ask Pittsburgh. Sure, we need players to be defensively responsible, but not every player needs to be a Selke candidate. I'd rather have a 30+ goal, 60+ point producer that is decent defensively, than a 15 goal, 30 point producer that is an ace defensively. Management seems to prefer the latter though, and have the former improve his defense at the expense of his offense...

captain cut and paste turns into captain link to an actual journalist. but like I said, nothing I've read has suggested he'll be on LTIR this year, unless you believe that last year will 100% mean he can't play this year. Sheahan is as soft as a new born bunny player who has always had limited offensive upside. AA is a dynamic player who should be able to score 25-30 goals given the right usage. On most teams, the guy who can score gets paid and the defensive player gets what's left. In Detroit it's the opposite. Gotta respeck da process.

Though it's not a very good group, it should be slightly better than last year. Compared to the beginning of last year, we have Jensen instead of Marchenko and added Daley. And maybe Ericsson's wrist surgery gets him back to playing a bit better. he was cleary bother by some issue this past year. As for lineups with Sproul - I've seen in recent articles on our cap situation that he's questionable to be ready for the beginning of the year

Exactly what I do like to see as well.

Bikes are haram. You must travel to Detroitistan to hear the good word of the prophet Justin Abdul-Kadir.

Currently deciding between that or buying a bike.

Anyone making a pilgrimage this year?

Since reality is setting in that the Joe is not long for this Earth, I had to fly my drone to 3d map the building so it will live on. 996 photos (around 5GB) make up this 12.02 gigapixel model. It took about 30 minutes total to capture over the course of 3 batteries. Probably somewhere around 5 miles total of flying zig zag back and forth across it to capture all angles. https://www.altizure.com/s/Sy4qAzMDZ