Jimmybigrigs69

Stoked for the draft tomorrow! Brad Holmes is one of the biggest draft day wheeler dealers, so I'm expecting action. Thinking he may try to move up in the 1st to snag the edge rusher he wants. But if that guy isnt in range I could see us taking an interior O linemen as well. One of the interesting storylines is NFL insider Breer reported Monday morning that the Lions are open to trading WR2 Jameson Williams at the draft. Breer is a bit untrustworthy... so i didnt put much stock into that. Losing your already primo WR2, whose probably going to get even better, doesnt make much sense when your in the superbowl hunt....right? But then later that day Williams started posting a buncha angry cryptic messages on his instagram about "loyalty" and "suckas" and "choosing sides". And I was like fuqqqqq maybe the Lions already informed him to prepare for a trade. But then Lions social media posted a pic of Williams this afternoon saying "were all good here!" So maybe the insta crap was an unrelated coincidence??? Either way, were not going to be able to afford keeping all our young stars, and as long as we have StBrown, Williams is expendable. Couple that with his off field antics, and rookie contract ending after this season, I see a case for moving on him from now... i just dont know how you replace his talent b4 the season starts... Also, Kerby Joseph extended today. Now the highest paid safety in NFL history. Lez fuqqin gooooo

And then say fuq it and trade for Rempe too. This team needs a radical new identity. Larkin leaving is the perfect time to flip that on its head. NYR cant re-sign all their boys and may very well be losing Rempe anyway. To NYR: Berggren + Rasmussen + the extra 1st acquired from CBJ To DET: RW Rempe + LHD K'Andre Miller Johnny Bergers and Ras are too soft and gray for our teams new in your face mentality. Go do your perimeter scoring in the big apple. Miller has been on the block with NYR bc they likely cant afford his extension. But we can. Big 6'5" scary black man who can score. Welcome to the D big pimpin. Dcat - Kasper - Raymond Soderblom - Sillinger - JTC Tarasenko - Copp - Olivier Mazur - Danielson - Rempe Edvinsson - Seider Miller - Chiarot Ajo - Gustafsson Is this lineup going to win you the cup? No. Will it get pushed around while Kasper, Danielson, Soderblom, Sillinger, Mazur, Edvinsson, and Ajo develop? FUQ NO! That lineup would be littered with highmotor young guns in big roles, with nasty shopwreckers to back them up. Its okay to lose - but push the other teams s*** in every night and make them pay for it.

I doubt they wanna move Fantilli or Johnson. Theyre basically younger versions of Larkin so thats be a lateral move at best. BJs do make a lot of sense though. Theyd be adding a vet leader their young group needs after losing Gaudreau, and uniting butt buddies Dylan and Zach. They also have an extra 1st this year, so sending one to us is something they can easily afford. To CBJ: Larkin To DET: C Cole Sillinger + RW Mathieu Olivier + 1st Sillinger is the young replacement center we can develop. We drafted his dad Mike way back when, and he narrowly missed winning a cup with us in the 90s. Mike would be familiar with our entire nepotistic front office, and has done scouting work in the past, so might as well give him a job too. Olivier is probably the best pound for pound fighter in the league, outside maybe Rempe or Reaves. Except Olivier can also put up 30+ pts a season unlike those two goons. We could nab him now b4 his NTC kicks in. Dcat - Kasper - Raymond Soderblom - Sillinger - JTC Mazur - Copp - Olivier Berggren - Ras - Tarasenko

Details emerging about the CHL rape case thats gone to trial... I'll preface this by saying the allegations are horrifying and i do not condone them. But I found one of the allegations somewhat interesting. Victim alledges that Cal Foote "stripped naked and did the splits over her, rubbing his genitals on her face" DISGUSTING AND NO ONE HERE IS LOLING CAL

If our whiny baby captain who dissapears every March actually wants out... IMO this is who's next in line for the C. I've said it before, but he has NHL coach written all over him. Articulate, insightful, honest... and yet measured. He's a true student of the game, and is superb with the media. He came here and was asked to basically sacrafice all his personal stats to be THE shutdown center. Has he ever complained once about that? No. What happened when he went down for the season this year? Team totally collapsed. This is a hometown kid, good soldier, and leader in the lockerroom. My favorite interview of his will always be between periods after he scored his 100th goal. Q: Andrew, what does it mean to you to have 100 goals? A: It doesn't mean s***. Hopefully the next 100 come faster. Copp is a fuqqin G

Speaking of Larkin's EOY presser... Where is Yzerman's??? Never taken him this long to do it in the past... fuqqing coward.

Yeah - there just isnt much out there to grab in that dept

I whole heartdly agree. Austin Watson was a VERY welcome addition late in the seasin. There seems to a lot of debate out there about adding Sam Bennett this offseason. Not a tradional tough powerforward or grinding enforcer like Shanny or DMac... but the guy is VERY physical despite not being big, and will put up 40+ pts. My issue is he will likely just be another Copp/JTC here. And this team needs to aim MUCH higher at this point. I'm not sure I can stomach spending the cap space on a player like this at this crossroad... Rags want Kreider off the roster (2 more seasons at $6.5) and have to re-sign RFA Rempe this summer. I would be exploring a trade that brings us both players and picks for taking on Kreider. Send them Ras or Berggren or something, or make it a bigger blockbuster if Mr Larkin truely wants gone...

Thanks for bringing it up. I've been meaning to rant about it! If anyone hasnt seen it, Larkin seems to be a bit disillusioned with the yzer"plan" as well: >When asked about what he thinks about the young guns being added and coming up: "I'm not going to play with some of these draft picks. Like guys drafted in the 4th round this year, by the time they develop... theyre going to be good players and its good what we got, but yeah..." I'm not going to play with some of these draft picks is a BOLD statement to say the least. Larkin is about to turn 29 this summer and has 3 seasons remaining on his contract. He references the late picks from this draft, which take 5+ years to develop. He's not going to be here at 33? 34? 35? Does he not plan on re-signing? The obvious reading between the lines here is that he is no longer interested in this teams future building. He has 3 years left on his contract. Get something thats going to impact in those 3 years, because after those 3 are gone, well, who knows... >When asked how its been missing the playoffs again 9 years in now "Its been difficult. Yeah it's probably... *very long pause*... something I think about everyday. For a long time during days. It's something I go back and forth in my head about... but that doesnt do you any good, you just gotta go out there and play and win, and we came up about 5 or 6 wins short this year" *record scratch* going back n forth in his head about what??? Whether or not he wants to make the playoffs? That doesnt make much sense. Of course he wants to make them. So what is he mulling over in his mind so much about when he thinks about this team missing the playoffs again...? >When asked about the teams struggles in March "It was hard. We didn't do anything. And then I felt the group, we didn't gain any momentum from the trade deadline, and guys were kinda down about it. It'd be nice to add something. To bring a little spark onto the ice, and maybe a morale boost as well." In polite hockey interview language this is akin to a straight up call out of his GM. He didn't like Yzerman's inaction at the TDL very much... The combination of these three answers is pretty damning. He' making it clear he doesnt like the direction SY is taking the current group, and if the plan is still that we are years away, then he's not going to be around for that. I have been a Larkin "hater" for much of my time on this board. I don't hate him, but I've always questioned his 1C status, leadership, and his defensive acumen. However I gained a ton of respect for him as a leader, and as a person/athlete after this interview. I have a helluva ton of respect for a guy who stands up for his career and commitment to a team, and for the group he is leading, and says enough is enough. Management needs to get their s*** together and give us what we need otherwise.... well, the threat is implied. Lastly, I posted this in another thread, but there is a semi credible rumor out there that Larkin threatened this team with a trade demand after enjoying 4nations and being angered by the TDL. This interview is making that rumor seem much more believable. And when he says he's "going back n forth in his head a lot" about something in reference to missing the playoffs, it very much suggests to me that that something is whether or not he wants off this team... GET YOUR FUQQING MIND RIGHT YZERMAN

Last year was a trainwreck of an offseason. And I was happy about it at the time! Gus was sold to us a Ghost replacement, with a tad less offense but more defense (what we wanted), plus he had experience running a PP with Dcat and Kane in Chicago. GUSTAFSSON IS SO FUQQING USELESS ITS WILD. Meanwhile Ghost looks like a PP machine competeing for a cup right now... Tarasenko same thing. Former top sniper. Coming off a cup win. The leadership we need. JUST BAD. Meanwhile Perron is also competing for a cup right now. BUT! These are the types of mistakes I can live with... mistakes where I can see what the vision was... but they just didnt work out. These TDLs I cannot see the vision, and therefore I do not forgive the mistake. And TDLs have a very direct impact on our offseason. Trading Ghost Walman Fabbri Perron away at the TDL wouldve gained us futures and saved us the crap panic trades. Orrrrrr acquiring a Gus or Tarasenko at the TDL wouldve given us the morale and personel boost we needed for a playoff run WITHOUT a multi year contract for crap players. Ill stop ranting now.

If the plan is "tinker around the mushy middle" then I agree there is a plan. Otherwise I dont. For two seasons in a row now we have rolled into the TDL on our last legs, and in both instances the decision from SY has seemingly been "im praying too hard for playoffs too sell, but i also need my futures/prospects to build" so nothing. "The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake" - some semi intelligent german Ahole >buying (even minimal purchases) = morale boost for the lockerroom = morale boost for the consumer (at least you tried) >selling = pressure off the lockerroom (no longer expected to win and therefore no longer your troops fault) = consumer at ease (looks to the future) >doing nothing = lockerroom in shambles (you believe in them... but not really) = consumer confused by lack of direction and doubt about org competance begins creeping in I know Ive been raging about this in in every thread. But its sooo fuqqing incompetant... im almost hoping someone will posit an argument that makes me see the silver lining. But to date ive found none. Unless there are some clownishly good moves up SYs sleeves this summer, this roster will be much the same next year, with much the same result. I could even see wheels falling off in Fall again, and we fire McClellan mid season. That reality is on the table right now. I wish Scott would come back already because his takes are always bizarrely ahead of everything - like the Alex Jones of LGW. >HES PULLING AN YZERSCAM, DONT BELIEVE HIS LIES. HES KEEPING PLAYERS ON THE ROSTER TO TURN THE TEAM GRAY. >we laugh >1 year later... wait... there is no plan and our team is gray...??? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Hope you had a nice Easter Left. Well done on the rundown, I agree with about 99% of it. Caveat, I'd make... Since rejoining Detroit SY has dominated the trades in which he appears to have been able to sit back and work the tradeblock. Not so much when he's NEEDED to get something done and forced it. To use Fabbri as an example... I highly doubt SY originally coveted Fabbri or had his eye on him. But when he found out the underutilized player could be had cheap, he took a swing. However, when all of the sudden he felt he needed to move on from Fabbri ASAP, suddenly he's tripping over his own shoes. Staying with Fabbri, besides the reactive trade for him being good, and the proactive trading him away being bad, the timeline of events surrounding the former trade alludes to the lack of a grandiose plan. Surely SY would have known that guys he wanted to make plays for, like Stamkos, would have more than likely been available in the offseason, and that he needed to clear space to make a bid for them. If he didn't, that would show a level of incompetence, and would prove their isnt a grand stradegy at play... So if we give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he indeed had the foresight to see that coming, his decision ultimately was to not clear that space at the oppurtune time to do so (The TDL) and instead reluctantly give Fabbri away for nothing a few months later... only to lose out on the asset (Stamkos) he made that move to acquire. Sure... he wanted to make the playoffs... but if he wanted to make it that badly, he shouldve added to his roster at the TDL instead of doing nothing. And I'll support that by saying...look at what Kane and Larkin just said in this years exit interviews. The team was stumbling, getting hurt, but still fighting, and then the shot-in-the-arm/support at the TDL didnt come... and it continued to falter from there. Said in not so many words by our own leaders. Back to Fabbri, one could argue he didnt know he'd have to sell so insanely low on him in the summer, or that maybe there was no market for Fabs at the TDL. But there was a market for plenty of players like him, and its beyond obvious to everyone that there isnt the same market for players in summer as there is at TDLs. To add insult to injury, its rumored he could not get the stamkos deal done bc he did not get prior approval from Illitch. Indicating more lack of planning. And in the case of Walman, he did not even attempt to waive him - and Grier and other GMs indicated that they wouldve claimed him if done so - indicating another rash unplanned decision. And as a sidenote you had the agents in the agent pole this year literally stating there is no "plan" in Detroit. MY POINT IS THIS There is no plan. There is no grand stratedgy to what he's building. Yzerman is any fan with an Xbox playing GM mode. He's reacting often in the moment without much thought to whats to come. Is this terrible horrible bad news? No. But we do need to put the "yzerplan" narrative to rest. He's been exceptional at trades when he can sit back, take his time, and evaluate the block/market. He's been bad when he buys into his own teams hype, sits back and does nothing, and then feels forced to make panic trades later because of his own inaction. Not giving him a pass. I would like to see more and better planning, and a clearer direction. Its precisely his LACK of trades as of late that have been our downfall, not his wins and loses.

Interesting tidbit from Freidman... Apparently the ask from the Sabres for Dylan Cozens was Marco Kasper, which SY routinely rejected. Sabres ended up shipping Cozens to Ottawa for Josh Norris. Reading mixed reactions from Sabres fans on this, but those who seem to be in the camp of Kasper wouldve been a better grab, are even saying they wouldve given up more than Cozens to snag Kasper. Though a homer, I tend to agree. Norris is a goal scoring nightmare, but he's older and has had significant injury issues. Kasper hasn't yet reached his peak and already plays a better 3 zone game. Big motor. Chippy. Can slot in anywhere in the lineup. Glad Stephen held back on that one.

This team is VERY setup to sign a Marner this summer. To the point where, if we do, pundits will literally go "this was always a goal of the yzerplan" and "the true goal of the yzerplan is revealed" i dont wanna get ppls hopes up. But this play seems very much on the table to me. Detroit is in Marners backyard, can pay him, and he'd be joining a roster loaded with young talent just about ready to push for glory... theres a lot to like about this landing spot for him.

How have we not develoved a new Holmstrom in the last 15 years???? Are all our draft picks really this soft? Why is manlet Debrincat the only one brave enough to flirt with the front of the net? I fuqqing hate what this franchise has become. Holmstrom wasnt even big. 6ft. Yet he stood where he was supposed to, didnt complain, and took the cross checks and the punishment like a man... for 15 FUQQING YEARS. Ras is 6'500" and he cant be bothered to setup a decent screen for even 1 shift. Fuq you. Get traded. Get off this team. Im so tired of poosy bs hockey.