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Pretty sure the term originated with the NFL in the 70's when 3 multiteam scouting entities merged together to have one huge combined multiday scouting event. Presumably it's called a "combine" because the teams are combining their efforts and everybody has access to the same physical data testing results. When the NHL started their version of a scouting combine in the '90's, they went with the same name.

Did the editor &/or typesetter have a liquid lunch that day? Buffalo Braves, Stanely Cup, a few other suspected ones too.

Depends on whether UPL regresses any or not. If he regresses, then Levi darn well better be ready to be the starter at least 45% of the time and likely more. IF the goaltending regresses, they might need all that you've been mentioning JUST to get back to barely missing the playoffs with a record that should be 7 or 8 points out if not for a woeful Eastern Conference. If UPL stays at the level he was in January - March and Levi plays like he did January on then they might not need any more than that to get in. REALLY hoping Adams doesn't roll the die on the goaltending again but fulling expecting him to do so. (And would be fine with that dice roll one season from now as we'll have another full season of seeing how those 2 are maturing. (Presuming UPL &/or Levi doesn't deficate himself this year. Should that not be the case, well ...)

Nitpicking, but they are currently in the 3rd rebuild. (Rebuild 1: centered on Eichel, O'Reilly, Kane, & Lehner. Rebuild 2: centered on Eichel & Dahlin. Rebuild 3: ongoing. Rebuild 4: ???? (Hopefully not necessary.))

(Pretty sure you're agreeing, but had already written the reply before twigging onto that; so will post it anyhow.) That's kind of the point. The Gulf Stream keeps London from becoming a winter wonderland starting in early October.

Spaceballs was way better. (Mel Brooks is a true national treasure that would not be allowed to make at least 1/2 of his movies today.) But still; blowing off all 9 movies is waaaaaay harder than just blowing off ET or the Goonies. (Didn't watch Raiders until about 10 years after it came out either; but did eventually watch it, and it was pretty decent.)

He's a "hockey God?"

Which points out just how important bodies of water and currents are to climate. NYC and Rome are essentially at the same latitude. London and mid-Labrador are at the same latitiudes. By rights, it should be even colder in the British Isles than it is; especially in the winter.

Calling BS, oh coiffe god.

Like Okposo, don't mind the Swamp Cats, and know Swamp Cat STHers. But somehow the idea of 3 Sabres captains in a row winning the ST within a year and a half of escaping this team is just too friggin' depressing for words. Dislike to varying degrees the other 3 teams remaining, so SHOULD want Fla to win it all, but can't get onboard the 3rd time being the charm.

You make a strong case for that deal. Only 2 issues with that deal as proposed. The really big one being, it's doubtful that Vancouver, after winning their division, is going to be anxious to get rid of those 3 players to do a mini-retool. And the other being, though Adams has said he'd trade some of the future pieces if moving them makes sense, can he get over the treshold to actually make that sort of a trade. If he's going to be successful, he needs to get over that threshold; and he claims he's willing to do so, but until he's done so, he hasn't done so. And, until a move that reduces what 2-3 years out might be to improve today happens, it hasn't. Every move that's been made to date APPEARS to have '27 as the focus. Don't expect, nor even want, Adams to do anything to scuttle that; and don't believe losing Krebs and 11 for likely rentals does that (and personally would be in favor of that deal at the end of the day); but not convinced that Adams would make that sort of a move that does "sacrifice" future for rentals. Expect there's a much better chance that Adams would go for a move costing assets that would bring in a Cirelli than one that would bring in rentals. My 2 cents. YMMV.

Maybe it's the farthest. Per random searches (say random because it wasn't always the same website providing the answers; so take this for whatever it's worth). Ottawa Anaheim 2,448 Lauderdale Edmonton 2,550 Boston Vancouver 2,531 Montreal LA 2,474 NYC LA 2,445 So, it appears it would be 19 miles further apart than the B's victory over Van City. Of course, Sunrise is about 15 or so miles west of Lauderdale. No idea where the rinks are in relation to the airports for the other cities and no idea if those distances are all calculated via the same method. Some might be via flight path, which may not be completely direct, and some might be direct but from city edge to city edge rather than from airport to airport.

Realize it's now Saturday, but solved the problem on Friday, so ... Had power to one room go out last week. Didn't trip a breaker and power still got to the rest of that circuit. After a few days of tracing the circuit in the attic, could not find a bad outlet; or more accurately THE bad outlet. Got a circuit tracer and found there was an outlet in that room that we did not remember being there. (Was behind some furniture.) Swapped that out, and that room is now back in the 20th century and electrified. Yea!!

He was. And yet, ... What might've been.

And yet Drury was the guy that missed the open net (from a tough angle) shortly before Commode Door gave the Canes the 1st period lead.

Tallinder in the 2nd half of '05-'06 was the best D-man the Sabres had seen in a good decade and during that '06 playoff run was a beast. He never was the same after breaking his arm. Really expect he'd've rivaled Schoeny and Ramsey for best Sabres D-man ever had he not broken the arm. That's why he got the final nod on this kid's roster over Hajt. Gave SERIOUS consideration to putting Connolly onto the list too for HIS '06 playoffs. But he'd been a Sabre for a long time before that and was never anything to write home about until he cut his hair and he was never even close to the same after the Schaefer incident. His time at his peak was way too fleeting. But, though Tallinder was never the same, he still was their best D-man for several years to follow and he was a big part of why Myers was as good as he was as a rookie.

Knew there was somebody being forgotten. Turned out it was him. D'oh! He'd get in over one of Drury or Gilmour.

Andreychuk - LaFontaine - Mogilny Martin - Perreault - Drury Hawerchuk - O'Reilly - Gilmour Ramsay - Peca - Gare Zhitnik - Dahlin Scheoenfeld - Ramsey Tallinder - McKee Hasek Miller Not entirely set on Mogilny (if it's the 76 goal version, he's a no brainer; if he's his usual self, would likely go a different route). Same with Tallinder - the Tallinder that played in the '06 playoffs was an absolute stud. Gilmour was getting long in tooth by the time he was a Sabre, but would absolutely love to watch him work with O'Reilly and Ducks. If we can get guys in their prime vs what they were in Buffalo would make a few other substitutions as well. In no particular order also considered Vaive, Vanek, Briere, Luce, Robert, McNab, Lorentz, Eichel, Reinhart, Connolly, Spencer, Gillies, Simpson, Grier, Dumont, and Dudley at F. Also considered Hajt, Guevremont, Montour, Campbell, Ledyard, Power, Huddy, Horton, Myers, and Robitaille at D. Goalies getting consideration included Crozier; Edwards; Fuhr; Biron; and Levi. 😉 Suppose Turgeon and Sheppard deserve consideration too. But neither will make it.

Question: do you get the Sabres version of a player, say Crozier or Vaive; or do you get them at their peak (Crozier winning Conn Smythe; Vaive 50+)?

It would seem there are more hidden as only 2 names show up in each bracket, yet the Sabres are listed as having 3 core F's and 4 impact F's. (Whatever tf he's considering core and impact.)

And that's the thing about Byram. Very often, when a D joins a new team there is a serious breaking in period where he's learning how to play the new system and also learning what his partner's tendencies are. He didn't just have being young working against him looking to be all that as Dahlin's new partner in perpetuity; he had learning Granato's system and how Dahlin (or whomever he was paired with that particular game) rolled to learn as well. He very well could look a lot better than he did after that immediate "new team trade deadline move adrenalin rush" wore off. Hoping so. If he can get back to what he was in Colorado, Cozens can regain form from a year ago, and Quinn can stay healthy all year and pick back up where he should be, AND UPL can be close to what he was last year and even without the moves Adams says he's looking to make and this team is improved from last year and likely even 2 years ago. (Though even that improvement quite likely wouldn't be enough to get back into the playoffs without a corresponding move or 4.)

FTFY. 😉

At ABSOLUTE most it would be 31 GMs that would pick Byram over Mittelstadt. 😉

Not sure which would be worse, flailing on a 4th rounder so badly that you won't even give him an ELC 2 years later; or misreading his development and not giving a contract to a guy that should've been a keeper 2 years later. Almost certainly the latter especially when figuring in that was the season that things were finally starting to get back to normal.

The pipeline seems to be in good shape. But it'll be interesting to see how the perception of it changes if there's a lot of turnover in Ra-cha-cha. Nearly 3/4ths of that team will be UFAs this off-season. Nearly none of those guys that are turning UFA are prospects, but if Ra-cha-cha falls back some as the support for guys like Kulich, Rosen, and Johnson changes and the prospects that are there move up mid-year as injury callups and at least 2 of them don't come back to the Amerks, will that change the perception of the pipeline? It shouldn't; but perception isn't necessarily reflective of reality. Or if the Amerks are really good again because they bring the band back together and add guys like Savoie, will the perception be skewed too far the other way as only 5 or 6 of the true prospects will be starting the year across the street and across the river from the Dinosaur? And at least 1 of those 3 you mentioned, and possibly all 3 will be NHL C's at some point.