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The prof was inkman, wasn't it? I'm onto the game he's paying here.

No, I have to go with Norm Milley. That guy had such a great name, normally

So you're suggesting that if I need to find birthday ideas for my wife, I need to grab her phone and look at her pinterest ap? That's not happening.

Are we baiting him with all these movie references in the last couple days?

Some liger cut me off on my way to work yesterday, causing me to hit three consecutive lights right as they turned red.

toddkaz?

Actually, it's a little known fact that Mittelstatdt couldn't even read until the age of 12. He had never even tried to read anything until he randomly grabbed a copy of War and Peace.

I miss screamin weasel and his fighting robot graphics.

Mittelstadt is so good that they have to create a brand new mathematical operator in order to define him. The top 10 mathematicians in the world have been teamed up to work on this. You can expect the results in 15 years.

They never played together here, but I'm willing to bet that they had some interaction when McCabe was around for prospect camps. Like I said earlier, if McCabe wants this, then that's the end of the story.

Are you suggesting that Leon is getting larger?

Do we know what the count is at currently? They have to be signed to an NHL contract. We'll have guys at those level who only have an AHL or ECHL contract. Those do not count. It also does not count someone who is signed but is playing in juniors.

Why is this stupid? If that's what the players want to do, then so be it. This is totally up to them.

Remember the last time we gave a guy all the credit for all of his team's moves even though he wasn't the guy in charge? It's funny how these things have a way of repeating themselves.

He's not going to find that immediate playing time anywhere. It's a very curious statement for anyone to through into their story.

You're aiming pretty low on that pope count.

Which would explain why he's wearing shorts. But the place I was thinking of is a three rink complex. Actually, it's more of a 2.5 or 2.25 rink complex. It has full size sheets on each side and then there's a tiny rink in between. That's what it looked like to me, that tiny rink. I've bumped into summer leagues at that place years ago where the rosters were full of local NHL and NCAA guys, so it's definitely a place I could see him getting in some work.

That's the whole analysis right there. Whether the review is optimistic or pessimistic, it still comes right back to this single sentence.

I'm pretty sure I recognize the rink from that shooting video posted earlier. I wish I could verify that to prove that I'm not crazy and imagining things.

Yeah, I realize it's different at that age. I'd still like to see it at the pro level, which is why I mentioned the rest of that. I know Hockey East tested it out a few years back. I have no idea what conclusions they came to from it.

Don't we have that already though?

It's kind of interesting how every single guy you've just listed was draft eligible before Murray was the GM. So you're assessing guys who are older than anyone Murray drafted while here. It's tough to use that as an indictment against his non-1st round draft picks.

I'm willing to bet that they already have something worked out. They'll sit on it and wait to announce it until the right time where it generates the right amount of buzz. I'm not sure what the best time would be, maybe right as camp is about to start, but they've got it picked out already. They'll also be ready to push it up if some negative Bills story happens. I'd do it the same exact way if I was in control.

I love that they're testing that one out. If hockey really wants to boost scoring, that would be a huge change. That paired with the no change after an icing rule would be brutal for the PK. The big concern though will be if it slows things down too much. Teams will still ice the puck since it beats the alternative, so that's more stoppages of play. That or they'll try to put the puck into the benches, which may bring on a safety issue.

Every so often I see a truck driving around from a garbage disposal company. Their name is "Junk Doctors". What in the hell were they thinking?