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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.

It's not really that outlandish of a statement. Even recent late round hail mary draft picks like Brady Austin manage to get 5 NHL games on their resume.

It's to save money. Much of the league reduced to the absolute minimum allowed roster size during the break. They all save some money and some of these guys get a little extra playing time.

Without digging too deeply into it, I'd imagine that you might have something like 5 top teams, 5 bottom teams, and then a giant muddled mess in the middle. Good luck to someone who seriously tries to rank all of that.

I hadn't really thought about it until just now. The fire power in this division is incredible. I'm not sure any other division comes even close. 5 out of the 8 teams are represented in the top 15 scorers list, 7 players total.

That and Hank has pretty much the greatest name of all time. And what's this El Camino launch you mentioned? Did they do something more with it other than the netflix release maybe 6 or so months ago?

See, there's the problem. They will now be tracking any fan who is lucky enough to get a game puck. Once they take it home, that chip will interact with their cell phones, their smart tvs, and their amazon alexas. Soon enough, the NHL will have all of their bank accounts and will turn their lights on and off all day while the people are off at work. Seriously though, I wonder how the home viewers would have the option of what they do and don't see during the broadcast. That sounds like something that would work only with an NHL-designed streaming service. Surely I wouldn't have any of those options watching the random NBCSN broadcast. The quote did mention "primary screen", so I'm not sure how all of that could apply to a "one size fits all" product like that.

Sorry, I meant the Dave "story" and I went back and edited my post. But on that note, I bet most never even saw it. Hell, we're talking about a league where a good number of players have just accepted incorrect pronunciations of their names for years. I don't think a nameplate error is going to send up any red flags.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwj826ak_qPnAhWAlnIEHZplBE8QjRx6BAgBEAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gettyimages.in%2Fdetail%2Fnews-photo%2Fwayne-gretzky-wearing-a-jersey-with-the-wrong-spelling-of-news-photo%2F53125145&psig=AOvVaw37-1R9fcKwRrFeWBTXKWSx&ust=1580221585774835 No one ever signed with the Rangers ever again. My guess is that 50% of pending free agents probably asked "who" when hearing about this story (the Sabre story, if they heard at all). The other 50% said "I would have spelled it that way too".

Or one event can be completely unrelated to the others. But somehow we choose to lump in a jersey typo along with on ice problems because they're completely the same thing. Basically, people who want to bitch will bitch.

That shoulder injury for Thompson really sucks. They shifted him onto what should have been a better development path, only for it to be quickly derailed the second he earned a brief look back in the NHL.

Do you hear colors?

Scoring ten doesn’t stop the road team from getting 11.?

Mancari never had that moment at the NHL level. From your list, he's the one guy who turned into a very good career AHLer who did get a few chances here or there in the NHL. So I'll give him that much, he at least established a level for himself and maintained it throughout his career. The rest had their flash and then quickly fell off. I don't know if some guys just quit once they realize they won't make the big time, but I appreciate a guy like Mancari who still thrives at the AHL level after realizing that the dream is probably dead.

I always think of him as a pre-lockout player. But anyway, looking back on his stats, it's amazing how quickly he fell off after a fantastic first season. I want to call it Gragnani disease, but that one was just a playoff series.

It looks like there was a big spike in his power numbers once he got to Colorado. That just happens to be right around the same time that two who should not be named had a home run race that no one likes to talk to. I'm not interested in casting any doubt on Walker because like I said earlier, as far as I'm concerned, every single player was juicing... even the scrawniest dude out there. Actually, I suspect that guy the most.

I think the same thing each time I see his name. I feel like he was on the team while I was in college, but as it turns out, he's younger than me. He was on that Presidents' Trophy team, but I have absolutely no memory of that.

And let’s face it, some quick googling and you will find an endless list of misspelled name plates across all sports. Does that make each of those teams Horrible and incompetent too? There are plenty of things to point the finger at with this organization. This one is way down the list.

They took both Singletary and Knox in the 3rd round last year and I have a hart time believing either was intended to be an immediate starter. If they believe the best guy available when they walk up to the podium (do they do that in the 3rd round?), then so be it. They've earned that level of trust at this point. Me personally, I think how they decide to spend their large amount of cap space this offseason will have a bigger impact on the upcoming season than what they do in the draft.

I looked back to game photos from 70s night. The "Download the ap" ad is still to the goalie's left. I haven't seen anything from the so called reporters other than the earlier Vogl tweet. That one didn't use the "Robitalle" picture. So unless someone else is using it, we can't throw this one one the reporters. That picture is only used in this thread. I believe I've also seen it in a reddit post made by the same poster.

But that doesn't mean that they can't do both.

Roby is sitting on the Sabre bench looking down towards the other team's net. If you watch the reverse angle replay of Jack's goal from the last home game, you can see that same corner of the rink. To the left of both nets, there is an NHL ad that reads "Download the ap". Robi's is just an "NHL.com" ad. So yeah, unless they are routinely changing that ad, you are right. The picture is not from this year. https://www.nhl.com/video/eichel-nets-beauty-on-rush/t-312066212/c-5102200

That's the fun part about all of this need-based draft analysis at this time of the year. Free agency happens first, so that need list will be completely different by the time draft day rolls around. And with all the money they have available this year, that list is going to look completely different by April. This one is going to be interesting.

Yeah, I have no idea how that tweet/sub-tweet crap works. I feel dirty even talking about it. And ahhh, I didn't look at playoff numbers. So add 3 more games to Myre's Sabre career.

Do those aisles still exist? They were a wonderland as a kid. A sea of giant barrels filled with candy? No kid could resist.