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Well. once they trade away Miller and Moulson, that will be a solution without a problem.

Anyone else catch the discussion this morning about what could happen if the NHL does expand into Seattle for the 2015-16 season, as recent articles have suggested could happen? An expansion team usually gets either the 1st overall pick or a decided advantage in the lottery. That could mean that Seattle may have the best chance at McDavid.

- Former 30 goal scorer - 6'2", 214lbs - 6G, 3A, 9P in his last 7GP Not a tough sell ... on paper, anyway.

True free-market capitalism is a seldom (if ever) achieved ideal (not in the sense of what any of us might want, but rather what definition capitalism would suggest) form of capitalism. Several, less-pure (i.e., including degrees of state regulation and market control) versions are still recognized as being capitalist without being free market.

Couldn't the same thing (perhaps, even more strongly) have been said in the late 1800's/early 1900's?

Empirical analysis helps you figure out how things are (or often were) being done; game theory and, more generally, modeling help you figure out how things should be done. Empirics gives values for the parameters of a model. You need both to make decisions. Anyone who favors one and diminishes the other has missed the point.

I don't believe that is a sustainable solution. The rules didn't change after 2006-07. Instead, little-by-little, the old-school refs let players get away with stuff that they called consistently right out of the lockout. Any solution has to be more conspicuously out of the refs' hands.

Some might say that the shooting percentage is the only thing that they haven't "put together", and they've got too many talented scorers for that to continue. I could see this being a 6-5 game.

Sounds like the premise for a series of porno movies.

Less probable, perhaps, but without the nationalistic impact. Last I checked, there isn't a war (cold or otherwise) between Latvia and Canada.

Anyone else read that in Viper's (Tom Skeritt's) voice?

Untouchable* * I use this word like I use "prove" when talking about statistics. It's not 100% certain, but it would take something really unusual (unlikely) to make it not true.

I seem to remember something like "Hey Grosek, you Smehlik like Zhitnik!" Actually, I don't remember "Grosek" being the name there, but I can't remember who it was. Edit: google shows "Hasek" or (even better) "Peca-head" as player it is directed towards.

http://www.youtube.c...bed/7iVoYUVL3L4

You don't score, until you score.

According to their respective league's pages: Dal Colle - 6'2", 171 lbs Reinhart - 6'1", 183 lbs McDavid - 6'0", 185 lbs Now, Ritchie, on the other hand: Ritchie - 6'3", 229 lbs is a big boy.

In which case, we wouldn't touch him with a ten-foot pole, since the compensation would include our "McDavid" lottery pick.

Updated for the Olympic break. Tank Nation chart certainly looks better than it did at the start of the week. Also, after flat-lining for a bit, they've started going down again. I had to move my lower limit down again.

The way that he's playing right now, I would think that ... and probably be right. However, I wouldn't want to bet on in carrying over to next season. So, sell, sell, sell!!!

Agreed. Sell high!

I'll give it to you, even though it's really just a lightly armored/armed tracked reconnaissance vehicle. Actually, the more I think about it, "lightly armed/armored" might be the perfect kind of "tank" for this team.

I had a good one, but ... I forgot to take a picture before I flushed it.

Tank Nation chart added. Interesting to note that we were actually ahead of the Oilers 21 games into the season. Looking at the seasons since the '04-'05 lockout, 29th and 30th have looked like: 2011-12: 74, 65 2010-11: 68, 62 2009-10: 74, 62 2008-09: 66, 61 2007-08: 71, 71 2006-07: 67, 56 2005-06: 58, 57 Only once (2007-08) has the 30th team finished above 65 points and only once (2005-06) has the 29th team finished below 66. So, it seemed like 65 points would be a natural line to track against. Only the Sabres and Oilers are below it, and the Oilers are getting close to it.

:D (Glad somebody else heard that.)

Somewhere Paul Hamilton is chuckling.