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Because before Darcy could say, "we're good keeping him up for the 5 games tryout, since Ville and Cody will be out that long." Now, Darcy has to think about the rest of the season, if they keep him up (I know, technically, they could still send him down later, but that wouldn't be the plan right now.) Should they keep Grigs up and bodies start coming back, Darcy would really be trading from a position of desperation.

I suspect that if he remains up, but sits for the Leafs' game, then we will see a trade this week. Keeping him in the pressbox gives Darcy time to work something out, so that he is not trading from a position of desperation (which we know that he hates.)

Watchmen

Not sure if this is mentioned in the game thread, but with around two minutes left, down by a goal, they showed Lindy tap Grigs and say something to him. Shortly thereafter, Vanek takes a stupid penalty putting them down a man for the rest of the game. In one of his interviews, Lindy said that he tapped Grigs once in the third and then changed his mind (he sort of trailed off but this seemed to be what he was saying.) Given the time and situation, my guess would be that he told Grigs that he would be the extra skater once Miller was pulled. However, after Vanek negated the possibility of six skaters, he changed his mind. If true, it looks like he was going to give Grigs a chance to make a difference in a critical situation. Too bad it never actually happened.

http://youtu.be/tPJkEHDG9EA Must be a Russian thing.

Bravo!

I don't think that you are disagreeing with Ink. Pretty sure he was implying that if they send Grigs down, then they are screwed if Ennis or Hodgson goes down (i.e., he's a better choice.)

He has had some moments in the first two games, but not enough to justify a spot yet. However, he likely has three more games to show something more.

Well, Scott certainly didn't look miserable; he was laughing. Whether it was the body shot or he just lost his balance, he obviously knew why he went down and found it funny. I agree that it wasn't an impressive first fight by Scott as a Sabre, but that's because he usually wins by a wide margin. I'd give Orr a slight edge because he was the underdog and held his own, which would also partially explain his excitement (being the home opener could also have something to do with it.)

Thanks for the bump. You and MattPie (below) have the answers. Keep the same playoff pace (points/game), but start all teams at 0 through 34 games.

Moot point. Unless someone actually wants to trade for him, the Sabres will get to see him for 48 additional games. You can believe whatever you want, but the buyout isn't an option until the summer.

Well, that was fun (saw game on TW.) Down 2 in regulation; tied it to get to OT. Down 2 in the SO (with 2 shooters left); tied it up to get to extra skaters. Hodgson with the winner. Oh, and Brennan is pretty sick.

Well, the end of the Jets' season was fun to watch.

Anton Volchenkov broke his leg in the KHL.

They commented on this during the game. Something about wishing that Erik Christensen (I think it was) would score, so that they would know how to pronounce his name. Funny side note: one team had two players on the ice at the same time with the same exact name. If you didn't know any better, you'd think that one players was everywhere on the ice.

Blue shirts are a totally different story than blue suits. I have numerous blue shirts in various shades. As for the Jos A Bank sale, the buy 1 get 2 sale works out pretty well. However, it should be noted that it's buy one at the list price and get two free. Many times, that one suit regularly sells there for around 50-60% of the list price. I was looking at one suit that I really liked, but didn't really need, which was priced at $495 for a long time. I received an email about a buy 1 get 1 suit sale, so I immediately went to their website to look at that suit in two different colors. Turns out that the suit listed for $900, so even under the sale, it would have been $450 per suit. Had it been buy 1 get 2, that still would only have made them $300 a piece. Have to watch those games.

Well, there are always exceptions. :thumbsup: My striped pajamas look good, too, when ... er ... properly accessorized. ;)

Don't get me wrong, I'm talking a good dark navy. Most other blue suits don't do it for me, either.

It may just be me, but I remember a time when navy blue (with or without pinstripes) was the high-end (power) color suit, but now it is very difficult to find anything but a blazer in navy. So much black and gray these days. Navy blue with cordovan leathers (shoes, belt, wallet, possibly watch band) was particularly sharp. Edit: of course, that could have been the same time that braces (suspenders) and shirts (blue, etc.) with contrasting white french-cuffs and collars were big, too.

Hall will join Nugent-Hopkins and Eberle in the AHL (Oklahoma City.) Yikes. Good for OKC fans, though.

Wouldn't that make him the "creamy center" or, perhaps, "double stuff".

They were saying something about that the other day on WGR. I believe they said that the NHL and CHL agreed to let players have that tryout up to a certain date.

Time = leverage. They could have negotiated all summer, but if one side feels that waiting gives them an advantage, then it won't matter (assume the other side doesn't cave in.)

Yeah, I heard on WGR yesterday that there was a pre-season game originally scheduled this week (don't remember when exactly), so they should be deep in to player/team discussion at this point. I was surprised that they started it so early in the off-season, but they had Steve Ott on right after the trade and the prospects during the camp, so there was stuff to cover. It's just too bad that everything died as soon as it became clear that they weren't getting the new CBA done in time.

Well, that Seattle-GB game should pretty do it for the replacement refs. GB got screwed three or four times at the end.