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At least they've got skill. That move has to be the equivalent of the Karate Kid fly with chop sticks.

He's snorting it, isn't he?

I'm not sure what a question about driving with an open container has to do with race.

The initial report in here said he had an open beer between his legs. Has the story changed since then? If that report is accurate, wouldn't that be more than enough reason for any search?

I wonder if this is even legit. Any story out there links back to this Swedish paper. The whole thing seems a bit off to me. If anything, he might be a guy who would be getting an AHL contract.

And it was probably tucked away somewhere in the car. No less illegal, but I doubt he's drinking with that thing in a holster or tucked into his waste band. I'd imagine that these are the types of things that get plead down instead of it turning into a Plaxico Burress situation.

The fanbase? He insulted an entire nation.

Can we put Rob Ray and a fresh out of Russia draft pick on an island and see who learns how to speak English first?

I haven’t been up that way since 2013, but I’m crashing that party

Brand new fridge in my garage that is already filled with beer? Glorious

That's the only way it can happen today now that there are so many teams. It's funny, I'm actually more curious right now about some of the older ones. As you can imagine, Edmonton had quite a run, 5 all stars drafted between 1979 and 1980, 4 of them hall of famers. Those were their first two drafts, so talk about hitting the ground running. Then they added another all star/hall of famer the following year

Three future all stars seems like an odd designation. With those rosters turning over constantly each season, only three teams pulling that off seems incredibly low. Now if it was supposed to be hall of famers, now that seems like it could be doable. Buffalo almost hit that one with the Housley draft. Could the real question be about the first and second team all star awards instead of the actual all star game itself? As for the all star version, did each of these three play in one of those games? It's tough to tell especially in more recent years as less guys can get in from one team.

I've been in NC for 6 years now and I haven't actually tried it. I think the sweet tea scared me off from the favored local drinks.

Yeah, me too.

I haven't seen it in a while, but I feel like he showed a soft side when it came to his Korean girlfriend.

I randomly turned that on last night during the Hogan match. My wife was laughing at me the whole time but I don't care. Real American still gives me chills. Some kids were watching porn through the scrambled PPV channels, I was watching WWF PPVs and every single one ended with that theme song.

She ended her sentence with a preposition.

I don't get the first one. As a comparison, let's offer something completely different. It would be one thing if Dak's number was better than Josh's, but all I see is a lower percentage from one guy in the more difficult throwing scenarios, exactly what you'd expect. I'm sure that the difference between the numbers should be much larger, but you don't get any true feeling for the numbers with just those two data points.

Yeah, I know. But anyway, sure, they're all first round examples, but if the difference can be seen that early, it can very easily snowball from there. I really like the Eichel/Reinhart example though because we're not just looking at that one in hindsight. Everyone knew years in advance how much stronger that draft was. Some years it may just be a first round thing. Other years, the top end may be softer but then there's a lot more of the middle tier talent. The morale of the story is that each draft is a very different animal.

Didn't we used to have a thread for repetitive redundancies?

Sure, if you continue to stick to the false assumption that draft pick #x has completely identical value each year. One doesn't exactly have to jump through hoops to show that isn't the case. If only we had players two players on this team who were drafted in consecutive years using the same pick. Oh well, we'll never know for sure...

Right, this one is bad because it was made by Jason Botterill. The Montreal ones are probably bad because they were made my Marc Bergevin. The Nashville one? Who cares how early it is, David Poille made the deal so it must be ok. How can anyone argue with this logic?

It's fine that you don't give him the benefit of the doubt, but you need to at least apply that in reasonable scenarios. You might want to judge him because he didn't put milk on his cheerios this morning. Meanwhile, I'll judge that because I don't like cereal. But at the end of that day, it's a matter that means absolutely nothing.

And since we're arguing over day 2 draft picks, we're just now reaching the point where the first wave of those guys are signing their first contract.

Not if Tondas is claiming ownership of the thread.