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Can someone really get stuck with bad salaries when he's the one handing out those salaries? There are plenty of reasons to think Boston booted this, but that's not one.

Thanks, there is now pepsi all over my monitor. :D

Just what we need, an added layer of confusion when people type TM.

He's horrified to be called a Sabre fan? Here's news for you, you're not. People who bounce around from sport to sport, team to team, flocking towards whatever catches their eye are not fans. They're whores.

So my niece is free now. They're holding out on saying the name yet, but I'm holding on to my 20% shot at Connie McShrader.

Someone at work just used the phrase "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater" in an email. I had to really fight the urge to respond with "show me the baby".

That's what she said?

Has the iPad always done that? My wife just started complaining this week that her iPad is constantly asking her to log into iCloud, pretty much any time she clicks on anything.

So the team immediately adding a new scoring leader would make people unhappy? I can't imagine any sane person expecting these kids to step in and immediately be a superstar. Crosby topped the 100 point mark as a rookie, but that was in a year where they actually enforced their new rules and the leading scorer (Thornton) put up 125 points. McEichel is entering a very different league where 90 points would get you the Art Ross.

Only if he prematurely trades away his incredible return from that Kessel trade.

I don't like thinking of any of these as a single year tank. The whole thing should be viewed as a whole.This whole thing has netted us McEichel, Reinhart, Kane, and I'll also include Ristolainen/Zadorov too. This thing has been in motion for a few years now, so there are more names you can add to that list as well, between the 2012 draft and any other prospects added/drafted after we started selling off assets. No one knows if it will work out, but there sure as hell is a lot more excitement around here than we've had in a long time.

It doesn't need to be one or the other either. I can't imagine there is anything from stopping him from having a policy through BU AND one of his own. It's all kind of pointless though, because as you suggest, he's leaving.

So he has to end up in Toronto, right?

I miss the pominstein filter. We need a modern version of that.

So that's why my neck/shoulder has been bugging me lately? Good to know.

Why would LaFontaine need to win favor with Sabre fans? That would be like Andre Reed needing to win over Bills fans (ok, I'll admit, I couldn't find a good Bills analogue for LaFontaine).

That was BuffalOhio. My hatred of the stripes was well documented around here years ago.

Which begs the question that if you have such opposing view, why did you hire that guy in the first place? Every defense I've ever heard for LaFontaine leaving implies that he was a buffoon.

You're allowed to tell them to go have another donut, but that's it.

I'll take it one step further. Seriously, who drops their gloves at any level of beer league hockey? It takes a special breed of moron for that. Clearly this guy has some Boston in his blood.

If anything, those comments related to LaFontaine make Pat look incompetent. To hire a guy and then run away a few months later, you really have to wonder what is going on in his head. Like Nolan, LaFontaine now has a documented history of not being able to work well with others. Maybe both situations really did suck and he is completely innocent with each, but there has to be a cloud of uncertainty hovering over him as well. I loved LaFontaine as a player and as an ambassador to this community, but I sure as hell don't want him running my organization at this point.

I just remember seeing some ugly jerseys displayed at some point.

He needs to watch far more than his hand. That's not the heimlich maneuver he's giving there.

It was definitely a product of their era. Those Kariya numbers are just flat out absurd. They still can be a bit liberal in handing out secondary assists today, but there was a lot more of it back then. There's also a strange bit of record keeping for that season where they included stats from exhibition games in his season total (a pair of double digit wins). Eichel would have had 8 more points this year if exhibitions counted for him. And actually, speaking of exhibitions, I completely missed it earlier this year, but Eichel actually played in one this year against BU. They scrimmaged the world junior team right before that tournament.

Is it possible for me to take votes away from the Quincy Youth Arena? I always hated that one.