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JJ, a friend is originally from that part of the state. He works in fertilizer sales and can identify just about everything even when I give the crappiest descriptions possible. If you're ever trying to figure out what something is, feel free to shoot me a private message here and I can pass it along.

I would have guessed a bit older. I was surprised when I saw 35. It feels like his career was ages ago. It goes with being a Sabre fan I guess, everything feels like it was about twice as long ago as it really was.

"I think"

Is it really a walk back? The comments pointing the finger at McCoy were from the cousin and friend, weren't they? There's some suggestion from the original lawyer statement and this most recent comment is pretty much right in line with that, suggesting it was him but not being able to outright say it.

I just got an email from the Hurricanes telling me that if I buy group tickets like I have in the past, they will let us wait in the walkway and high five the Carolina players as the enter the ice at some point. How awesome would that be, to be right up there front and center on the jumbotron, wearing my Sabres jersey and completely ignoring each of their players (except Stempniak, I can't do that)?

So how are those new politics clubs working out so far...

I challenge you to find even one incorrect thing that Zetterland has ever said. Watch, with my luck, it'll turn out that he has the world's dumbest twitter account.

Devils

I need to know who is evaluating the prospects. It's amazing to see how certain people will universally overvalue pretty much every single prospect. At best, I'd need to compare that source's number of so called worthy prospects to the number on other teams. I know the number thrown out here was a generalization, but the point still stands, the number by itself means very little.

It's tough to gauge exactly what the difference would be given that it's 5 years down the road, but how much extra would he really stand to add on for those 3-4 years, $3 million or so? Risking $30-$40 million for the chance of adding on an additional $9-$12 million, so maybe an additional 30%, I'm not so sure it's worth it. But then again, we're talking about numbers that have a few extra zeros compared to what I'm used to, so it's very tough to relate. Up to this point, can we name any top level players who have opted for the bridge contract when facing this situation? We can point to plenty who played out the one year gamble, but not many multi-year gambles come to mind. As for the markets, remember, we're talking about hockey in Toronto vs. playing for the red-headed stepchild team for the red-headed stepchild sport* in the red-headed stepchild portion of the New York market. I don't think it's crazy to suggest that Toronto would have far more money options available it this specific moment. *Are they even the second biggest hockey draw for that market?

But Matthews still has very little reason to sign that deal. Passing on 3-4 years of guaranteed money is a huge gamble. On top of that, he has a whole other world of potential money to be made in Toronto compared to what would be available on Long Island. This is one huge part of offer sheets that it feels like people tend to overlook each year, the player has to actually agree to it as well.

It actually looks like Carlton is reading the post. That's amazing.

And how much of that do they give away if they're actually able to land Karlsson?

I know that feeling. I'm starting a 10 day vacation next wednesday and I'm as close to coasting mode right now as is humanly possible. As for complaints, that 10 day vacation will be entirely spent staying in one house with the wife's entire family (5 other adults and 4 kids all under 7). I'm still not sure why I label it as a vacation. And also, I've been stuck in what seems like a permanent waiting mode on some other things. There's light at the end of the tunnel, but it never seems to actually get any closer.

All this talk based off of one picture is pretty funny. The real strength of hockey players is below that table anyway (quiet, inkman).

Now just imagine a scenario where the best workers in the company all get together and work a couple extra days without getting paid for it. At the same time, all the crappy workers get to sit at home, already having pocketed their pay.

They’re already going to unload the brinks truck in Matthews’ front yard. It’s a waste of time both for the player and for any team to even bother with negotiations. You’re not going to land him and you’re not going to alter the cap hit in any realistic way.

Hello good citizen, my name is Batman.

Or Lou has caught a case of Islanderitis. Who knows what you can catch from sitting in Garth Snow's chair. You have to clean the hell out of that office before you take it over.

Is the thread going to turn into a snickers commercial now?

By "her follow up" do you mean the lawyer? Anyway, if you are going to throw a laundry list of accusations like that out at someone, every single one better be completely air tight or else you introduce doubt into the equation.

Probably a big part of why the lawyer told the woman to remove the post.

I just want them to constantly play a clip from Spaceballs on the jumbotron but alter the words to "keep firing, Ahos".

Apparently he retired in 97, then coached for a year with Calgary, before coming back out of retirement to play 3 more years.

And as a result, it's natural to think that she might be facing an uphill battle with that legal representation. But anyway, you know things are incredibly messed up already when the victim is quickly getting statements out there through a lawyer. I'm not sure which came out first since I'm seeing them at pretty much the same time, the police statement or the lawyer's statement. These women probably hurt their case right off the bat by throwing the accusations at McCoy online immediately.