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Each conference champion makes it to the semi-finals and each year there is a host team who automatically earns a berth... oh wait, wrong league.

$653 to see a bunch of guys not try. What a deal!

I think they'd much rather have Florida move to QC and instead add Vegas and Seattle as expansion teams. That completely dances around the problem of shipping one team out west. Looking at it that way, it now seems awfully convenient that the Florida teams wound up in our division.

Why do they list out the conference from 1-8 when that isn't how the playoffs are determined?

Does this shop have a good supply? The wife is out of town for a week now, so I may need to find some good drinks to make my days go by faster.

So we've officially hit the point where we are using the eyeball test to analyze statistics? It has now come full circle.

Well, it was fun while it lasted ;)

A paycut actually. His qualifying offer should probably have been for more money... but a two-way offer I'm sure.

Can I take a different stance and say that no one will surprise and make the team out of camp? The kids are going to be given ample time to develop in Rochester and the bubble spots on the roster are going to wind up going to the journeymen like Carlo (yeah, I'm not trying to spell that).

I don't know. If the numbers really pop off the jersey like that on the right one, that would be great. They'd have to create a new penalty kind of like elbowing if you lead with your number.

I think there was definitely a bit of a "hey, he just spurned Toronto and chose us instead" attitude which inflated his status here. You don't see that too often.

My new job has us participating in a lot of group interviews lately. All the company hands to us is the person's resume and I wish we had a cover letter too. It's pretty much kids straight out of college so the resumes all look the same. At least we could get an idea of their character/personality with a letter and know a few things to ask before walking into that room mostly blind.

It may have been the area of least concern here, but that really was a tallest midget situation (so what's the new PC friendly version of that saying?). That team had absolutely nothing and depending on what they can do in the trade market, this blue line still looks very thin. I'm sure most expect it to be and Islanders-style Boychuk/Leddy fix once camp rolls around.

Nobody's better than him.

So how long until those shows reach Omicron Persei 8?

It's also going to miss the occasions where a cop looks the other way because it's a football player. Still, the idea that things are far worse in the NFL is not holding water at this point.

I was hoping for Battista.

Three years does sound just about right for a guy his age (and I hate that I'm now saying that about guys younger than me).

I've never viewed hockey as the industry, but professional sports as a whole. So the NHL does not have a monopoly and their main competitor is bounceyball. Obviously I'm no lawyer though. I'm assuming that's not how it works in the eyes of the law. edit: and from that point of view, skittles competitor is not a knock off, but instead starburst or M&Ms.

We can many other events that are far more recent to support this as well. Go look through some of the stuff talked about in the politics thread and see how stories evolved after the initial witch hunt from the media. We're in such a ratings driven rush nowadays that we just immediately report these stories without actually digging up any info on them. You'd think that people would learn from this stuff and actually let a story play out a bit before casting judgement. I know that I want to hear more of this story before casting him aside or keeping him with the team, but unfortunately that's a rare opinion today.

The police report says that he threatened to "kill his family", not his parents. So let's not leap to judgement based solely off of a misreading of that report.

I always wondered how the complaint even stood a chance in court. How can we require a business to sell a specific product. If you really like yellow skittles but none of the other ones, should they be forced to sell you only the 7 or 8 that are in a bag for a lower price? I see that they settled and it didn't actually come down to being forced to sell a specific product, but the whole thing seemed a bit strange to me.

That's got wedding written all over it.

That's too bad. I would have loved to be a fly on the wall during that arbitration hearing. Varone: I want a one way deal because I've played 34 games in the NHL and have put up 7 points Sabres: You've played 34 games in the NHL and put up 7 points

Aren't they public documents?