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The NHL is one month deep and the takes are already at a rolling boil. ESPN's Greg Wyshynski is out sorting the overreactions from the reality, and the questions are legitimate — is Connor McDavid actually on pace to crack two hundred points, and have the New Jersey Devils quietly built a Stanley Cup contender? The early numbers say don't sleep on either.
Meanwhile the NFL's Week eight running back rankings are reshuffling again, because they always do. Yahoo Sports has the top fifteen out and the theme remains the same — more questions than answers, more movement than anyone predicted. The Detroit Lions are also drawing trade deadline attention, connected to four potential targets including a pair of veteran corners as the November tenth deadline closes in fast.
And in the NBA, the Los Angeles Clippers are in early trouble. Darius Garland and company fell to one and three after dropping a Wednesday night game to the Lakers, and the turnover problem isn't occasional — it's systemic. One win in four games is not the start anyone in Inglewood had penciled in.
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