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Or he could have kept the draft picks and used them on the wrong guys and they'd be even worse off than they are now. Nothing about Murray's draft record screams to me that he would have gotten it done with anything beyond the very early pick. Being generous, outside of his early picks, he landed about 3 cases of uncertainty. He could have taken this guy, he could have taken that guy. Sure, but he also could have taken any number of the questionable guys within that range as well. But apus pretty much nailed it. The problem wasn't trying to accelerate the process, it was blindly overpaying for everything. I will never understand how with the goalie market was that season, how Murray wound up paying more than anyone else for probably one of the more questionable players available. But hey, we also got David Legwand. That was his other issue, he was too easily convinced to add on a couple extra JAGs to every trade.

Inkman would have gone in a completely different direction with that joke.

I've gone out of my way to watch that show a couple times in the last few weeks. It truly is a national treasure that I overlook far too often. 55 years worth of shows and they've only had two hosts. Amazing. I hope they end it when Trebek has to step down. And F that disease, particularly the pancreatic variety.

Halifax player name in all caps with exclamation points!

Just to confuse me more, they apparently both played for Cleveland last year.

I get my Bills CBs named Gaines mixed up. EJ was the good one, right?

Apparently a new Bill and Ted movie is official now. I wonder what they'll use to travel through time in this one.

He looks like he'll be comfortable in Sabre colors. Clean off all the ads and he's good to go.

I'm a fan of giving guys like him that first full year in the AHL, and then being the guy who rides the shuttle back and forth when needed due to injury the following year. So yeah, he sees the majority of his time in the AHL, but gets spot duty from time to time.

How old is your son? It seems like only yesterday you were telling us your adventures with the Chinese exchange student.

I hadn’t heard about that. Time for some googling. But I won’t sign up for that one unless William Shatner gets to point out something on the wing.

That’s why I want to know if his film making would translate to a comedy movie. I’m shoehorning him into the only role I know for him. I’d love to see more of it, but I get the feeling from his recent success that we may not see that for a long time.

I hope that talent someday translates to a comedy. He's getting so much positive press lately, but horror is a genre I just can never get into. So as good as he appears to be, I'm not going to be seeing either of these movies.

Yeah, there's no doubt about that one. And I'd imagine that dirty laundry would cover things completely unrelated to the collusion claim. Still, the numbers being thrown around over the last two days don't really scream "make this go away at any cost" to me. I guess that bar is just a bit lower than I'd expect it to be.

<32. But anyway, I’d love to know what else is in this deal beyond a payout. Also, what makes the two of them walk away with what seems like a small payout (granted I don’t know off hand what they asked for originally).

Id love to head out to any of these European league sites, but for one of their own games. I’d be curious to see their atmosphere in its full form, rooting for their hometown team. I might have to make that a bucket list item.

ESPN has a report up saying that the Kaepernick grievance is paying out under $10 million to the players. It doesn't say whether each player gets that amount or if it is split between the two. That doesn't seem like the huge loss for the league that some might have expected when the deal was reached. It's a shame that we'll never get the full details on that one.

Well, he kind of was...

That's the damn Lucic year, the start of the playoff drought, isn't it? I met the wife that year and I still blame her for all of this. ? edit: The actual end result is actually kind of funny. He lit up the score sheet in that game in Germany. And guess where he plays now? Germany. He's hockey's David Hasselhoff.

Isn't Luke Adam our overseas scoring champion? Maybe he can dust off his Ruff-induced dented helmet and lace up the skates one last time.

The bar people constantly set for Dahlin is Bobby F'N Orr. Let that settle in for a second. That may as well be an impossible standard. And this isn't a limbo bar like most of our other players regularly clear with ease. We're talking about the pole vault. If he can even come close to grazing that bar, we are in for one hell of a ride.

I'd trade out Ottawa for Montreal on my list. The Ottawa thing was a bit more short term, so they're probably 4th place for me. What was it, about 13 straight years where we were bounced in the first round by pretty much either Boston or Montreal?

Hmmmm, I can't quite figure out why they chose these two teams...

I'm a little surprised that people think the pricing falls squarely on the Pegulas. We've all met the NCAA, right? But on another note, they did put in the bid for this event, so they should have known what they were getting into.

Does that $120 cover both games on day 1? I've been to frozen fours both ways, where it was one ticket for day one and also where they emptied out the arena and started the second game much later. That price is still too high, but it's slightly more understandable when you're getting 2 games in 1. There's going to be some variability from city to city, but the prices are mostly controlled by the NCAA. It's been a while since I went regularly, but from year to year, the prices were essentially the same. I never once paid their price though. It's a bit of a roll of the dice depending on which team makes it, but most years the scalpers out front were practically handing them away, which will be the case here too. Every now and then the scalpers clean up when youhave Minnesota playing in Minnesota, or Wisconsin playing in Milwaukee, but it wasn't too frequent. For every one of those, there were 5 in places like Columbus, Buffalo, or Tampa Bay.