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Maybe he figured that Ennis would last longer that way. ;)

Fear was the secret ingredient. ;) Mmmm ... cheeseburger plate, double home fries - well, no onions, lots of hot sauce ... load it with ketchup and dig in!

I just spent 10 minutes trying to figure out why Galchenyuk wasn't centering Yakipov's line. Age? No. Health? No. Oh yeah, he's American! :doh:

Technically, they do make the best and only garbage plates. It's trademarked. Others do make very good plates of similar composition, though. Some are arguably better than the original. Hard for me to say since most of my experience with the original came in the 1990's before Nick died.

Exactly my thought. Here's a short list per 1 billion vehicle-km: United Kingdom: 5.7 Australia: 5.8 Germany: 7.2 Canada: 8.2 Denmark: 8.2 United States: 8.2 Spain: 11.7

As for the Sabres not being able to get to Lucic, the three closest players to him (not including Miller) were all Sabres, and 4 out of the 5 closest were. See:

Too be fair, it could just be an overreaction to the Sabres putting too little emphasis on that side for too long.

Yeah, me too.

Yeah, Darcy said on WGR that he talked to Joe about the injury prior to the trade.

No, you don't. You have your guess based on your guess at the reason for his decline and your assumptions about his ability to adapt. Others have their guesses based on their guesses and assumptions. We'll see how it goes this coming season. You may be right or you may not be.

I wish I could remember exactly, but it was on one of the WGR morning shows while I was working on my house for a week. I believe that it was on the Hockey Hotline, but it may have been Paul Hamilton doing the talking. There's a small chance that it was actually Darcy. Either way, it wasn't someone speculating or guessing, but someone who actually had talked with Leino about it. Sorry that I don't have a more precise source.

Leino centered the third line (between Gerbe and Kaleta) for a while after they traded away Goose. He actually performed quite well there, apparently being more comfortable with the defensive aspect of a center under Ruff. Eventually, though, Hodgson got used to the team and moved from the wing over to center Vanek's line, which moved Leino to a line with Pommer and Roy. At that point, there really wasn't a true third (checking) line.

And Leino played center in Finland ... ... well, until his last/best season.

Galchenyuk would have rated above 30 based on his 2010-11 numbers, so it's pretty safe to bet that he would also have rated above 30 had he not missed basically the whole 2011-12 season due to injury. He is listed as an N/A in the chart. Filip Forsberg is also an N/A, which I believe is due to not having a number established for his league.

=22

Just Croby-lite.

nhlnumbers.com jumping the gun a little by listing Nash on the Rangers already. As Bob McKenzie noted, the deal is not official yet since the trade call has not been made. Assuming it does go through, Columbus got robbed.

Sounds like an Arby's deal ... mmmmm, Arby's.

I'd go with: Tarnasky-McCormick-Ott Scott-Finley Miller Side note: we could go with Tarnasky-McCormick-Scott, McNabb-Myers and Lieuwen for the tallest starting lineup in the league.

I had an interesting idea the other day: what if contracts were written as a % of league cap, instead of in actual dollars. The cap itself, in $'s, would move with well established rules about % of revenue, but a given player would be a fixed %. The maximum would be, say, 15% for a single player, while the minimum might be 1%. Cap floor would be around 75-80% and the ceiling would, of course, be 100%. Signing bonuses would be interesting. For example, if the current cap were $72M and a player were given a 5 year contract with a 10% basic cap hit and a $7.2M signing bonus in the first year, then the actual cap hit could be figured as 10% + ((7.2M/72M)/5)*100% = 12%. The team would have to pay an upfront amount, but it might actually be less than a 12% base cap hit contract with no bonus if the cap goes up. The idea of "guaranteed money", other than these bonuses, would be a little looser, so the rules governing the rise/fall of the actual cap would have to be very well defined.

You front load it like 12, 12, 4, 2, then you can always trade him to a team aiming for the floor in the last year or two. Of course, that assumes that there isn't a NTC beyond year 2.

Cam Janssen in a bit of hot water for a recent interview (can be found here.*) It's a loose, web-based show, so the language is pretty rough (f-bombs galore) and the metaphors/similes are off color. Most of it is funny, but some (e.g., fat chick and gay jokes) definitely crossed the line. * In case it's not clear, don't play this at work or with kiddies around.

Wojtek Wolski to Capitals for 1 yr, $600k.

I hope that they are able to properly capture the look of a young Gene Hackman ... and don't forget that hat.