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And that's exactly what we should be focusing on. Question the plan itself, not the subsequent moves made under that plan. It reminds me of this conversation I have with the wife on nearly a daily basis: Her: Did you call your mom? Me: No. Her: What did she say? She's asking the wrong question.

Yeah, I don't mean to suggest it's the key thing, but it all adds together. It's so early right now, but I can't remember the last time we had a young guy start off immediately at the top of the AHL. Hopefully he can sustain this beyond just one week because it's one hell of a luxury to have a legit professional project waiting in the wings. That's the kind of thing that moves a team out of the dregs of the NHL.

Has McCarron made any comments on this since he was moved? I don't want to ignore the possibility that he didn't want to be here once he lost out on the job. Either way, it's not like they moved out the second coming of Frank Reich when they made that deal. Like you said, they cleared out some more money. They had to spend some money to make any of those improvements. As SDS suggested, setting themselves up with the most assets and cap space beyond this year has been their main objective this entire time. They could strengthen the depth of the offense, but it comes at the cost of that build up of assets. It's completely reasonable to disagree with that approach, but it's clearly what they're doing here. It's not fun to watch, but this approach can't be given a final judgement until we see what they do with those assets.

I feel like Montreal always starts out well. Then Carey Price gets hurt and the train goes off the tracks. Wash, rinse, and repeat.

That's not exactly a predictor of NHL success. The success over there means absolutely nothing if you can't build him up properly over here. He wouldn't be the first or last guy to be confident overseas but then never have it transition to North America. If he can find that extended period of success over here at the AHL level, then the kid knows that his game can carry over. So yeah, it's not about how confident he might be now, it's about building on that and making him something greater.

Let him thrive for a while. You can build up a confidence machine if he can continue on this path.

They must think that keeping Peterman around is good for any other QB's self-esteem in a "hey, I'm better than that guy" kind of way. It's the same reason we let Charlie post so much.

And without getting into what draws the most attention for Kaepernick, I'd have to imagine that cuban-americans are probably still not all that crazy about him.

Please tell me they won with their non-Kenyan ringers.

Once Skinner gets one, he'll be up to 6 a week later. I feel like we've seen it a million times, the snakebit goal scorer explodes once he gets a goal. I think it was two years ago where Kane started horribly and then still wound up close to 30.

This has to be the strangest tangent I've ever seen in a thread on this board.

Yeah, I never would have found it either. I'm twitter illiterate.

If we have a Wilbur profile, we can definitely have a dedicated gif explainer profile.

It depends on the definition of best that you’re going for, whether it’s the best at a single moment or the best over a longer period of time. I’ll throw Kyle Williams and Fred Jackson into the discussion for what they brought to the team for a very significant amount of time.

Why would anyone do that willingly? I can find some acid for you to pour into your eyes while you're at it.

They place a real live bat inside your toilet? Seems risky.

Well there's your explanation for the empty seats... bounceyball

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This post is absolutely worthless without being able to see the destruction that is hinted at. It's like a cliffhanger ending to a tv show that gets canceled before you ever get to see the resolution. We just took over in the summer, so I'm looking forward to when those letters start to go out. From yesterday's meeting, I can already tell that they're going to go after the people who leave their garbage bins out front. It's going to be fun.

They're still going to be fairly well protected from the 3 directions you don't see on screen, particularly behind the camera. The lawyers would be all over them if they put these reporters and camera people in a legitimately risky location.

Especially since these the shelter these reporters have is hidden off camera. They're at very little risk, but play it up very differently.

As has been pointed out earlier in the thread, it's not just the OP's comment. This has been stated over and over for a few years now, going back to at least Eichel. There's a line and, at least to me, it has been crossed. The sausage stuff did as well. I'm not usually going to be one to point this stuff out, but since it already came up here, I will say that I agree.

What exactly does any of it add to the experience of watching hockey?

Our topic that comes up every single time is fences. Yesterday this guy who admitted that he has no interest in ever putting up a fence kept throwing out the craziest hypothetical situations to test the limits of the current list of approved fence types. That didn't mesh well with angry arrogant old guy, which I really thought was going to start the brawl. I could see that happening somewhere down the line and I really hope I'm there to watch.

I find it oddly entertaining, but that's not going to last. We haven't had many meetings yet since it's new construction and there was no board up until 2 months ago, but the same exact conversation has been had at each one. That's going to get old very fast. I had to leave the neighborhood's facebook page for that exact reason, people whining about the same exact thing on a daily basis.