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Yesterday at my gym, some kid was moonwalking around the track. No, he wasn't just walking backwards, he was definitely attempting to moonwalk.

Drafting more forwards mean they have more forwards within their system. Truly an earth shattering statement. But does having these one or two extra forwards change a thing for this franchise today? Certainly not. Does it change anything next season? Probably not either. So in regards to your initial question, the purpose of this thread, it means absolutely nothing. You want more forward depth, fine. But that's not going to suddenly fix this franchise. What matters is where they go moving forward. Some of these prospects will stick with the team, others can/will be traded, and others will never amount to anything. I want to see what Botterill or the next GM does with this glut of D prospects. Guys are going to be moved. You may not like certain defensemen, but there's going to be multiple teams out there that do. They'll be able to find that guy who does. The return for Nylander is a nice reminder to me of just how differently each team values the same player.

So he's saying that he really has to pee?

Given who that 1st overall is, your post translates to "they should have taken 2+ forwards with these 3 picks". Is that really making or breaking the organizational forward depth?

Was Luukkonen ever returned to Cincy? Either way, it looks like he gets a little more time in the AHL.

I understand your complaints, but I don't think this one belongs in there. In this day and age, that's just as valid of a talent source for prospects as any other. Any team that is able to identify better players from that source is going to have a leg up on the competition. The odds say he won't work out, but I want them to continue to mine that option. And on a site note, he's in Finland, isn't he?

He forgot to offer the cops a billion dollars this time.

It's a reverse-Murray, who shopped on the floor, picking up all of the defensemen who had fallen out of the bargain bin. Now personally, I would mark rather start at the blue line and move forward, but you do have to work on both at the same time, even if it is at an 80/20 split.

Why did he write the "P" last? If he can actually write entire sentences starting with the last letter first, all while making the letters backwards so that we can read them... he has even more talent than any of us realized.

The same salary cap that both teams have to deal with. So whoever gets Point at $9 million winds up with cap issues of their own, maybe not immediately, but soon. But that's really the point, the type of deal it's going to take to make a team pass on matching is extremely high and will mess with the cap figures of any team. When you start to significantly overpay people, it snowballs from there. And Tampa has that tax advantage that's really hard to quantify. If this is ever going to start happening, it won't be a Tampa player that starts it.

What kind of offer would it take for a significant RFA to not be matched by his own team. There really aren't too many crazy things you can throw into a deal to mess with another team. Ultimately, the things that are going to limit that team are probably going to limit your team as well.

Jack

Jack is a nickname.

I'm simply explaining how he was on the list. Your personal rankings have no bearing on that.

I know teams will trade random draft picks 3 or 4 years in advance, but 2109? Now that's a rebuild.

Is the bolded part your words or his? That AHL contract part isn't specifically mentioned in the 3 criteria. Murray would qualify by #3. He doesn't have an NHL contract, but he was drafted and those rights have not yet expired. This is a bit of a rare case, so it's possible he didn't think to address it when spelling out those criteria.

I have no idea what his criteria are. For Murray, they should still hold his draft rights until this summer. So that would count him as an unsigned pick the same exact way it would with someone like Johnson.

I'm interested in digging up more info on this Pending Hire character.

It's no coincidence that each show you named aired on the same network.

Thank god you put your pants back on before taking the picture.

Well that's good seeing as how in order to know that, you'd have to be dead. People seem to like you around here, so I don't think anyone's hoping for that.

But the fighting robots after each goal? Now those were awesome. That was the only thing that made it worthwhile to watch an all star game. Even with that, there's always going to be some level of gray area when it comes to using this stuff for location. Depending on where the chip is, a puck that enters the net flat vs. one on edge, they have to reach a different point to guarantee the whole puck is over the line. Then there's the pesky little issue of determining when the whistle blows or was intended to be blown. That and if they ever did come up with any system that could do this stuff, I wouldn't trust the new england's of the world where it mysteriously doesn't work correctly at a key moment. I'm fine with keeping the human element for these things.

Well that and his name is Chad.

Those were my thoughts exactly when I read 11's description. I have a hard time picturing the league operating like it did back in those days. I think it was @millbank who told me some interesting stuff about that system at one point, something along the lines of even the most marginal of talent knowing exactly which NHL team would have them.