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It's something that is far too often lost in so many discussions around here. We should have signed this guy. We should have traded for this guy. Both sides have to agree for either of those scenarios to play out. That said, the option was available to these players and it sounds like that is pretty much what they were originally playing under. They now want more and good luck to them on that. I hope they have realistic goals from all of this.

I'm pretty sure you realize what I was asking. I don't remember seeing anything that suggested any NHL team was looking at him. Then again, I haven't exactly been looking for these stories.

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And on that note, did Gronborg interview anywhere else?

Wings, beef on weck, and probably some canadian beer. Way to honor the true spirit of a mexican holiday.

I'm amazed they even got one year out of a scenario where one team had PSE ownership/operation while the rest were run by the league. I'm not sure what the correct label would be, but that seems like one hell of a conflict of interest. Maybe it works in the short term as a building block experiment, but that was never going to be sustainable. Have you seen the tv deal the XFL just signed? That's pretty much what they have, not getting paid by the networks. I'd imagine these type of things happen all the time.

I was just responding to the thread you started. This above is the read I got from that initial tweet, that they were handing the team back to the league. But anyway, I'm sure the NHL played a big role in this one.

I'm amazed at how many people can actually name the arenas given how often those names change. My guess is that over half of the still open pro stadiums/arenas I listed have been renamed since I was there. Bonus points to the person who can list all of the names used while they were in attendance. I'm sure many can say that they went to a game in the MMA, HSBC, FNC, and KBC.

I'm late to this party. But anyway, this is a misleading number. The Devils play in an arena with a smaller capacity. If they had filled it to 100% capacity each game, they would have moved up one single spot in those rankings. The team the would have jumped? Winnipeg. 7th lowest in the league, but no one will ever say they have an attendance issue right now. In terms of capacity, Jersey looks to be right above the mark where numbers fall off the cliff if you. Those 5 teams with the least total number of fans have some ugly numbers if you 're looking at the percentage of capacity. If we're talking about tv ratings for a team like that, I wonder what the impact is of MSG holding the broadcast rights for about 85 different NHL teams. It has to cause some headaches over in that area.

And he inherited a team with 4 hall of famers. That certainly makes the job easier. I don't want to downplay the success while he was there, but it's much easier to build a house if you're handed a hammer and a saw compared to only being handed a rock.

You had to disguise her? I must have missed a story at some point.

Thanks for the heads up. I was talking to a friend on saturday who told me they were holding off on a 2nd trailer due to spoiler reasons. Time to check that out. edit: @..., I meant to say that your line earlier got a bigger reaction from me than it should have.

Does a head coach wind up looking over his shoulder when there is that much experience on the bench?

I don't know why, but the bolded line got a big laugh from me. As for the rest and reading up on phase 4. Good luck with that. They have not announced a thing yet about any films that will follow Spiderman. I wonder if some interesting storyline driving moment may happen there and they want to keep it completely off the radar until the movie is released.

Or none of it happens at all.

There's also potentially the translation issue, which the author acknowledged.

It's funny, I didn't even notice the scene we're talking about right now. But anyway... They certainly seem to be building her up quite a bit. She kicked the crap out of Thanos. I wonder if they ever do try to work in the X-Men if she would wind up being the vehicle for that.

Brawndo left out the second part of the NHLPA's statement: "Good luck, but we're not touching that one with a 20 foot pole."

@..., you started out by saying that Loki is back. But then later you say that all of the changes create their own universe. I’m on board with that, which means Loki isn’t actually back. He exists in his own parallel timeline now thanks to this movie. That same thing happens with Cap too. He lived a full life with Peggy Carter in another separate time line. He can’t live that full life with her without completely changing everything, particularly anything hydra related. “Honey, you know that shield group you formed? Yeah, most of them are actually hydra.” so he’s in that parallel universe and must have used pym particles to get back there at the end. What i I really want to know is what was the wrong choice that the Ancient One made previously. I’d like for it to be something more than just not handing the stone to Banner in a previous time loop.

I suppose that the earlier stuff about how the Pegula-run team (ie. the one with NHL ties) is the model organization would play into that. Still, I don't really see why the NHL itself would have much interest in starting one of their own. You're taking a very niche market within and already niche sport. That's an incredibly tough starting point.

It's amazing how a simple little thing like watching a national championship win there can give one a much more pleasant view of an arena. The only thing I can even think of when that arena comes to mind is a slow motion shot of this goal floating over the goalie's shoulder. I doubt I'll ever go back and I can live with that.

I still don't know what we can really take away from that, whether we're talking about the juniors or the world championships. Either way, it's an all star team that isn't going to be built in the same way that an NHL would. I won't go as far as to say it's just like saying Marv Levy could coach hockey since he's proven to be a good coach, but we are definitely dealing with a very different game in your comparison. With the very limited information we have on these guys, I would put Gronborg as the #3 option. It just seems like the most uphill of the 3 battles. But I'll willingly admit that this opinion is about as informed as 5 year old at a quantum physics conference.

That is the message at the beginning and ending of their full statement. But when the biggest portion of that same statement focuses on the money, I think it becomes pretty obvious what they're really getting at.

I was going to say that it's impossible that he surpassed Bartolo Colon on that scale (pun intended?), but I never realized how much taller CC is.

I'd love to do a tour like that someday. It won't be easy though. For all the love Fenway gets, those newer stadiums really floored me. I was in both St. Louis and Detroit shortly after they opened and I'll take a game in those places any day over Fenway. Seats that actually face the game? What a scientific breakthrough! Those Fenway seats pointed directly out to CF did pay off for me once. Their concert setup has the stage in CF, so last September for Pearl Jam worked out well.