Will Burchfield

Once upon a time, there were eight outdoor hockey rinks in Detroit. Now there's only one, and it's in the middle of Mexicantown. I played in its annual tournament (scoring zero goals in four games, sheesh) and found the people preserving a lost era. 971theticket.radio.com/articles/young…

Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman on not making any major FA moves: "We were certainly open to it. The guys that we were hoping to talk to all signed before free agency with their club or got traded. We didn’t even get a chance to talk to these guys. Not much you can do about that."

When Tommy Kahnle sprints out of the bullpen, he's like "a WWE wrestler coming into the ring, diving through the ropes and then wiping somebody out." A "12-year-old at heart," he's been a star and a hit with the Tigers. "I'm really drawn to this place." audacy.com/971theticket/s…

Alex Anzalone on being underpaid: "Obvious, I think. Production, play, the market." He's surprised and disappointed in lack of a new deal. "I feel like I’ve (put the team first) a lot through my four years here ... and you want to be rewarded for that." audacy.com/971theticket/s…

Lions LB Derrick Barnes is all of us on the ⛳️⛳️ It upsets me, I love it, I'm trash, I'll figure it out. Also, my wife needs to let me play more.

WATCH - If you missed our @Lions Training Camp Special, check it out right here. @DanMillerFox2 along with @bobwojnowski & @burchie_kid talking football with Dan Campbell, @JaredGoff16 & @aidanhutch97. Plus, a report from @HammerFox2 as well. fox2detroit.com/video/1678068

Jared Goff on John Morton: "Some of the ideas that he’s brought to us in the passing game is stuff I’ve never done before, but I’ve seen around the league." Using Gibbs and Montgomery in tandem is one way to pose "a lot of problems" for the defense: audacy.com/971theticket/s…

Off the field, Aidan Hutchinson sees DE's cashing in: "It's a beautiful thing, isn't it? ... I feel very blessed that I’m in such a position of high value." On the field, "I’m coming for it all." From Training Camp Special tonight at 6:30 on @FOX2News audacy.com/971theticket/s…

Always a big day for us because it means football is back. Our @Lions Training Camp Special airs tonight at 6:30. Dan Campbell, @JaredGoff16 @aidanhutch97 will all join us. That’s tonight on your Home for @Lions Football #Fox2

D-Mo: "We're tired of just being close. It’s cool to be close at first, but you don’t want to be comfortable with being close all the time. That’s not what you want to be known for. So this is the year for us, the Year of the Reckoning, the year that we choose we need to finish."

Kalif Raymond isn't worried about Lions' schedule, because "I have no idea what the schedule is. I have no idea who we play." "You get distracted. I don’t look at the schedule. I don’t look at the Insta-ma-grams or the Tika-ma-toks. I’m good on all that stuff." CC: @Belichick_B

Idk @DanMillerFox2 guy might have a future

Over this three-game slide, the Tigers have allowed 34 runs. And over the past month, their pitching staff now ranks last in the AL in ERA (4.81). July 31 looms. Moves to be made.

Casey Mize told A.J. Hinch he was headed home to Florida for the All-Star break. To which Hinch said, "Direct flight or one-stop to Atlanta? And I asked him if he wanted to pitch for the American League on Tuesday." "Pretty validating," said Mize: audacy.com/971theticket/s…

Kerry Carpenter, June 8, after Riley Greene snapped out of a funk: "I kept telling him, he’s one at-bat away from the best stretch of his career. I think today may have started it." Greene: "I hope so!" Greene since June 8th: AL-best 1.212 OPS. MLB-best 27 RBI. Two HR today.

It’s 10-0 Tigers in DC where Riley Greene is mashing three-run bombs to … Malcolm Rodriguez?

‘Battle-scarred and getting long in the tooth/Desperate and hungry and got nothing to lose.’ And one thing left to win. And at 35, “You can make him extremely happy by getting him a box of $50 cards from Wal-Mart and him opening them up. He enjoys the game like a little kid.”

Skubal: "If you look at the pitch, it’s a pretty well-executed backdoor slider. That’s all I wanted to do with that pitch and he put a good swing on it and I’m like, 'Bro, you’re supposed to take those! You’re supposed to let me get ahead 0-1 and *then* see if you can hit it.'"

“I don’t think I had these same expectations 2-3 years ago; you could probably say our team didn’t either. I want the fans to expect the best out of me because that’s what I expect out of myself. We’re trying to do the same thing here. They want to win, I want to win just as bad”

Tarik Skubal on #Tigers having three or four All-Stars: "Should have more. I remember the Royals had seven that one year they were good. We have the best team in baseball. I don’t see why we don’t have five or six guys that go and represent us -- maybe seven, I don’t care."

Suns star Devin Booker outside the doors of the Tigers clubhouse getting every player to sign his glove. Dietrich Enns and Chase Lee included.