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@dudacek, did you actually do most of that on your own? I can't even imagine the work that would go into the change in roofline.

You know what's even worse? When you're in a gym lobby or the locker room and some kid is dribbling a basketball in there. The way it echoes through an enclosed area like that? That sound drives me mad.

That's a fun little story if you dig in a little deeper, classic he said she said. The best part is that ultimately, no one really cares.

Can you meet someone if they don’t say a word?

So make our boy Louie their GM?

When you still have to jump pretty much the entire league, I'm not so worried about potentially helping out a team that's 20 or so slots ahead of you. If it makes you better, do it.

That one is a panel with three different switches. So could it just be one of the three that fails? The others are definitely still working.

So a guy from New Mexico State blew up in that game last night? My brother went there 20-some years ago and I've never heard the school get any press whatsoever.

Just in case you're not joking with this comment, I'll answer. They're both on light switches so we never actually use the chains. This one's got wiring issue written all over it... or four bulbs simultaneously blew out. Hey, it could happen.

This should be a fun one to figure out later today. The ceiling fan in my bedroom has 4 of those candle light bulbs on it. All 4 went out this morning. The fan still works though. I hope it's something simple and I don't have to go too crazy messing with wires.

Deuce is a pretty good word to use when talking about Jack Edwards.

We're the exact opposite right now. I think it was March where it rained pretty much every single day in the month. We've pretty much had nothing since.

Nashville?

Yeah, it's pretty clear that he's saying Toronto gets a 7th round pick if he signs.

I would hope people read the actual piece instead of the Boston-based puff piece. A great service to the board would be replacing the link in the original post so that no one accidentally winds up on the Boston page.

And let's not forget how negative pretty much any evaluation of EJ Manuel was throughout the offseason and preseason. If nothing else, it's nice to see a change from that. Those two were very similar when it comes to their biggest knock being accuracy issues.

Independents as in not playing in any conference? You can bump that up to 60 teams then thanks to Arizona State. They're an interesting case too as this discussion goes towards the cost of starting a team. Their travel budget has to be absurd since there is no other team anywhere near them (a trip to Colorado at a minimum). But anyway, looking back at the actual article where the rankings are done, it actually states "best places for hockey enthusiast", so it's not a ranking of hockey markets. That terminology was added in by NBC Sports' Boston-based page. There's a group that will want to frame the discussion in a much different way for their audience. If you're going to talk about the so called enthusiast, bringing that mix of factors that LGR questioned starts to make a little more sense. It still misses out on things like the access to the junior hockey market that is limited mainly to the border towns, but you can start to see some reason to it.

The mistake is anyone expecting journalism out of an internet ranking of hockey markets, or any other ranking. Those are probably the same people who fall for the bleacher report slideshow format over and over. These things are filler, nothing more.

It's even better when they use permanent markers. It was fun watching a couple games at Northeastern one year with the same play drawn up on the corner glass for a good portion of the season.

That one is at least perfectly reasonable to include in their scoring. More teams = more opportunities to watch. A lot of the rest of their list seems to be thrown in there at random. Much of it relies heavily on population alone, so the list isn't much of a surprise. Let's face it, the whole thing is nothing more than click bait.

What's Derek Roy up to? Maybe we can sign him and then immediately trade him to Pittsburgh for Malkin. All these years later, it needs to happen!

Well if there absolutely has to be a nickname, this is hockey we're talking about. It has to be Kroogsie.

Or you could go completely off the script and call him Krueger. Crazy, I know.

But has that history of swedes now transferred over to Edmonton?

Never heard of it