shrader

2nd round do over!

We’re doing the sandals resort at Ocho Rios. I think you just described my plan word for word.

It’ll be radio silence from me. I’m cutting myself off from the phone as much as humanly possible. It will be nothing more than a high priced alarm clock and camera.

Off to Jamaica in the morning. This is my first ever trip out of the country (America Jr. doesn't count).

I call BS. He was only 9 years old during that summer.

Probably just because they're hockey players. I feel like what they have listed is typically how these things are described, spice up the wording to make it sound better. They're clearly focusing on the off-ice portion here. It's like "above and beyond". Do we really need both words? I was going to say maybe we'll be able to test this one someday, but that day is already here. Tom Wilson is nominated too. You can't paint a picture any more clear that they're not focusing on the ice.

This was the same story.

So basically you're suggesting that no one on the entire team is any good to the community whatsoever. They're all a bunch of self-centered a-holes who don't give a thing back. As I said earlier, go take a look at the description of the award. It's a humanitarian award, not a "captain material" award.

Wait, what else exploded?

Wasn't that something that was mentioned a few times too by Moulson back when Eichel lived with him/his family?

It's a shame they couldn't throw one more BC goalie in and had to settle for one from NU instead.

You kids with your loud music, and your Dan Fogelberg. Your zima, hula hoops, and Pac-Man video games. No one is ever safe from southie. Your IQ will take a 20 point hit just from being within 20 feet of them. You'll walk in a doctor and walk out a vegetable.

Perhaps we should focus on the full description of the award as opposed to just 1/3 of it.

My office is on the 4th floor. Right now there's a grasshopper on the window (no ledges or anything, just a flat wall of glass). I know it's nothing crazy, but I'm probably going to spend the whole day waiting to see where it goes next. My money's on a bird swooping in.

Is he a guy who makes a lot of contact during his at bats?

I just bumped into this story on TSN. Yesterday, in his 6,827th plate appearance over 13 years, Joey Votto popped out to first for first time ever. I have no idea how they are even aware of a stat like that, but that's kind of crazy. That long of a career, and up until yesterday, he was tied with me. Amazing.

Be prepared to be surrounded by a bunch of southie up there. If they don't beat your head in already, you'll want to do it yourself after listening to them talk for about ten minutes.

You're confusing us enough as is, but then at the end you bring the Czechs into the equation as well?

We've checked the obvious Ristolainen jokes off the list. Now who follows up with the obvious Star Wars jokes?

Scanning through those picks, I get the feeling that none of you will have picked the winner. That would be an interesting result.

Has anyone actually seen Nylander recently with both of his legs?

Well LA already nailed their first overall pick last year (20th overall), so we'll know fast.?

And if either of them goes out and gets hit by a bus tomorrow? Crude, I know, but there's just way too much that can happen in the upcoming years before we can say anything.

St. Louis is kind of a funny one. They've kind of operated mostly in obscurity over the years. I had to look up their recent history to see where they've been finishing. It's probably just a western conference thing. I'm paying less attention and you tend to miss the middle of the pack teams. But anyway, the NHL really is a breath of fresh air compared to certain other leagues. In the 13 years post-lockout, we've had 18 different teams in the finals and 8 different winners. The NFL is surprisingly close to those numbers over the same timeframe actually (more winners, less teams), once you're able to look past new england being in 4 of the last 5. If nothing else, the NHL has always felt like more teams have a shot.

I kind of went off on a tangent there. When you're trying to see who wound up with the final 4 picks in previous drafts, you want to just look at those draft results. But since at least one of those picks usually winds up being dealt, it ruins that simple plan. 3 of them were traded last year, which adds to the fun if you don't go to the right place to track the draft history.