shrader
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Best of luck to you kev. It's never easy. I take another message from your story on top of what you said. Stories like this as well as things I've dealt with in recent years with my father and father-in-law have helped me to realize that life is too short. You never know what it's going to be taken away from you. Get out there and enjoy life as much as you can while you can.
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In that case, he sounds like a guy who very well could benefit from starting out in the ECHL. We've seen a decent number of good goalies now who started out there.
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Dan Bylsma new Sabres head coach (now official!)
shrader replied to spndnchz's topic in The Aud Club
It depends on the situation obviously. Remember the near universal praise we heard around here for Scott Arniel? I think it was before your time here, but people sure did love his work with the powerplay. -
But if we're going to play the game you started earlier asking if other team wish they had taken Tarasenko back in 2010, don't you think Nashville now would have rather taken a player like Travis Zajac at 15 instead of Radulov? Which is why I used the wording earlier where I said that their nationality is one of multiple risk factors for the draft. Years from now you evaluate a pick based on results. Never developing as a player, injury, leaving the league... there are several things that impact that evalutaion.
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Is there significance to what I bolded above? Is Ullmark still not coming over to the US or am I just misreading that?
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Welcome to the same exact story that is told about countless drafted players over the years. There are also just as many where teams are glad they passed over certain players. I know Winnipeg's thrilled that they took Burmistrov that year. The book's also not completed. The risk doesn't suddenly go away the second they're here. What if these guys pull a Radulov or a Kovalchuk after a few years? If nothing else, that negotation ploy is always going to be out there each time these guy's contracts are up. It's one extra issue that teams need to factor into their decisions when looking at these guys. I could definitely see the Sabres rolling the dice because by all accounts, they should already have a home run selection made in this draft.
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Best of luck to you bio. Hopefully you kick 2015's ass the rest of the year. Around 4 years ago I had surgery on my left knee. Earlier this week I was pivoting to sit in a chair and felt a huge pop. It's probably nothing and was just a fluke, but it's been stiff each day since. I miss my youth where this stuff healed in 30 seconds.
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Dan Bylsma new Sabres head coach (now official!)
shrader replied to spndnchz's topic in The Aud Club
And at least it's someone incredibly qualified as opposed to hiring Steve-o Murray, his alcoholic 19 year old nephew. -
Dan Bylsma new Sabres head coach (now official!)
shrader replied to spndnchz's topic in The Aud Club
It does feel a bit odd to me, but I'd take this situation over the one from a few years back where people always wanted to add Mike Foligno. Having a father-son coach-player situation is one that would definitely look odd to me. -
There's a couple factors there. With the ones actually taken in the first round, the teams typically have a good feeling that they'll come over/stay in the States. What we're missing are the ones who fall into later rounds because there is little hope of them coming over. Then there were all the years where there hasn't been a transfer agreement. If they're not already here, there's one hell of a risk of using a pick on them. These guys fall for good reason. Sure, they're good players, but unfortunately their nationality is as much a risk factor as height or weight or injury history. I'm not going to fault a team for passing on them. But then again, certain teams that have a handful of early round picks do have the luxury of being able to take that risk.
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You used an awfully convenient cutoff point in that analysis. What if you spread that range out to, say, 12th overall?
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I thought Hoss had the position locked up. He's been a bit testy lately though, so maybe he'll be fired.
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Paging Physics, please report to the video games thread immediately...
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I'm not the board police, but I have to say it. Please don't quote an entire long post just to give a one sentence reply.
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The next step will be renaming our capital to Martha Washington DC.
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Make it a lifetime achievement award and give it to Jagr. A quick question though: do people really pay attention to who is on the cover of these games? I couldn't tell you who has been on the cover any of the years I bought the game and I certainly wouldn't be persuaded one way or the other based on the cover. edit: Wait, new suggestion. Put the Eichel unicorn on the cover.
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I enjoyed it. There are a bunch of bugs in it, but otherwise is is very much like the others.
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Give the woman a different bill and put Aaron Burr on the ten with Hamilton.
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Ha, I always considered Boston to be the belly of the beast.
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Michael Scott taught me all i need to know about HR.
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And if we're lucky, neither leaves. Sorry bio, but I think you can sacrifice employment if it means the world has two less HR reps. The needs of the many...
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Physics, I've seen far too many of the "I'm 55 years old and weight 350 pounds, this is the year I get drafted" type of guys. I'm not sure where they fall in the types of leagues you outlined. That's really the only way to describe many of the people I played against in Boston. They seem to actually think they still have a shot. I know Boston has their reputation for scumbaggery, but I have a hard time believing it's just them.
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It's pretty easy to track when half are Dallas. We haven't had any meaningful run ins with them in a while now, so I had forgotten why I used to hate their teams so much.
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Steel cage death match between the two employers, it's the only reasonable solution
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Are there refs for these games? It sounds like they really blew it for a couple of reasons: 1. It almost sounds like the type of game they should have stopped 2. There definitely shouldn't be a handshake line if it was as ugly the picture you painted (insert comment here about you never painting ugly pictures) And I hear you about this type of game driving you away. We had back to back games 4 years ago where opponents taking things far too seriously led to a pair of knee surgeries, one of which was me. I came back after that, but I had very little desire and walked away after one more season. Those completely ruin things.