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He did trade them, but none were rentals. Each deal was for someone with term remaining on their contracts. So from that perspective, it's no different than the current comment about Botterill and rentals.

Look at all of the cases where there are two teams in one city. Outside of LA, they're all a product of league mergers. Both of the LA scenarios are very unique cases. Putting a new team in an already established market is just not something they do. They want to create new markets and revenue streams.

It's like that in every single walk of life. Doctors will tell someone that they are at a high risk of developing diabetes. They wo't know how to change that number itself, but they can focus on the individual components like dieting or exercise.

I'm wondering if it might be possible to structure a contract that is more difficult to void than others. This might be something I'll have to dig around for when I have a little free time.

We moved into a new office building yesterday and today, someone has hung a 2014 Michelle Obama calendar in her cube. Yeah, I’m very confused by this one.

Do you know what rules exist for the termination of the existing AHL contract? That has to happen in some form in order to jump to the NHL but I can’t quickly find any explanation of the process. I don’t know if any AHL CBA outlines specifics for that process.

I can't call that one a hip check. It was the ever so rare butt check. I can't even remember seeing a scenario where that kind of hit was possible, let alone one where the hit actually happened.

It would take a hell of a lot of creativity to make a salary like Kane's work with this team longterm. That's not the kind of guy they'll be looking at. But that's not to say you don't move a prospect or pick here or there to add a piece. Let's not forget that this team moved out a marginal prospect (Pu) and 3 picks (2nd, 3rd, 6th round) for Skinner. That's the kind of deal they're going to make if/when they do something. It won't be someone of the level of Skinner in return, but those are the kind of pieces you'll see in play from the Sabre end. If they do trade a first, it's going to have to be for someone with term remaining on their contract. It's hardly sacrificing the future.

That's exactly what it is. They've already got Dahlin and Pilut out there. They don't want to throw out a lineup where 50% of the defensemen are rookies. And even though Dahlin is the budding superstar, there's the lack of experience.

124 = 31*4. So that was the total number of lines across the league.

I'm pretty sure they just talked about the embarrassing elf costumes they'll force the rookies to wear at the Christmas party.

The legal disclaimer at the end? That was actually just Marty talking at his normal pace.

The fancy version with the nice cars or just plain old uber?

If you want to go with a baseball analogy, wouldn't it have to be something more like Pirates fans taking shots at Reds fans, two teams so far off of any radar?

They'd have to up the draft pick I mentioned earlier to a 3rd rounder if they want Moulson.

I just watched it for the first time on Sunday. Unfortunately, I then followed it up with the sequel.

They gave us a new coffee mug during the move. It seems like the perfect option, just enough weight to both travel distance and do damage.

Low cubicle walls means that I can throw something at them with deadly accuracy.

We have to at least get a 5th round pick in addition to Kane in that one.?

Wearing it at the office is a completely different story. I feel like inky is talking about the people you still occasionally see wearing them out in public. I saw one of those guys the other day walking into Walmart. I feel like it's usually older people doing that, not senior citizen old but maybe somewhere in their 50s, maybe slightly south of that. They would be the people who tend to hold onto slightly older technology (I'm not judging, I'm probably one of them). But yeah, some form of it is an absolute must in the office setting, especially the open floor concept that places are tending towards lately. Strangely enough, we just moved into one of those today. I'm not looking forward to the first person who goes speaker phone, but you know someone will.

It can't be easy never having a tv at any point during your life.

I'd still rather see them instead of the person holding their iphone about a foot in front of their face while it's set to speakerphone.

I've never understood why that one is so loved. It's passable, but that's it. If I happen to bump into it on tv at this time of the year, I keep looking for something else. Christmas Vacation is the one movie I will throw on even if there's only 5 minutes left. My big two are always Die Hard and Gremlins. I'm not going to get into the whole Christmas movie or not thing, but these are two movies I always watch at this time of the year.

You keep digging yourself into a deeper and deeper whole. You really need to put the shovel down.

They’d have to give him at least two trophies for that.