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Yes, and that previous comparison of him to Ellis actually sound pretty accurate based on his college days. He was very productive and entertaining at that level, but he was a little older than the most of the rest of his class, so his ceiling wasn't as high. I think that's a big part of why I'm always skeptical about some of the unsigned college seniors who get a lot of hype (Yip was drafted though). The ceiling tends to be very low with those guys (ie. Matt Gilroy). And the other part of my bias is that he once hit on a friend of mine in very hilarious fashion.

I bet he scores multiple hat tricks this year too. This can then be followed up from the mind-blowing stat from someone on here that "In games where Drew Stafford does not score a goal, he has a total of 0 goals". I miss that attack of him that was actually thrown out there a few years ago.

Will we get a KR sighting in this thread too? I've been wondering what you guys have been up to.

If you're not careful, you might make an enemy with a certain BU alum around here. :death: ;)

I'm completely biased but I'd enjoy it.

Was this really worthy of a new thread? ;) Is that how he usually phrases it? I forget.

Just wait until they sign him up for a player-coach role with the next contract. Edit: And 26, I feel like I'm ruining the joke, but an extension doesn't hit the cap until NEXT YEAR when the new contract starts up.

It's fine until a thread starts to resemble a transaction listing because there is nothing but tweet after tweet. I also don't think we need people posting the same information over and over from three different sources.

Exactly, the list provided winds up having three guys competing for time in Rochester this year. On top of that, Neuvirth seems to have a fairly extensive injury history (or maybe my perception is off), so that is going to open up the playing time for each of these guys.

I'm late to this party but I want to throw one comment out there when it comes to threads going off on crazy tangents. The easiest way to avoid that is the PM. I don't know how often people use them, but if you've got a comment for someone that is completely unrelated to the thread topic, just send them a PM. It drives me crazy anytime I see something like "Hey, you went to high school X, so did I. When did you graduate?" Then it is followed up with 5 or so more posts. Just do it over PM and you can get into far more detail privately in case it turns out that you do in fact know the poster (ie. less Hank stalking old man PA style posts). On that note, I just read Swamp's most recent post. Yes, the tangents can be entertaining from time to time. There is a right time and place for those though. The awesome thread or the complaint thursday thread have become really good places for stuff like that. The best of all is the thread with a completely ridiculous premise. I hope we never move away from the way we quickly derail those ones. And I'm completely with chz on the twitter thing. The place has felt very robotic to me for a while now with the constant cut and pasting of tweets. There's so little thinking going on most of the time, or at least it feels that way to me. Maybe that's why I'm flocking towards the random conversation threads lately. You really can't cut and paste a random story from your day.

There is a lot of filming of movies and tv shows in the Vancouver area, isn't there? That's a place I hear mentioned all the time. It may actually be a very good fit for his wife if she still thinks she has a shot in that world.

You can count on some of the kids (Reinhart, Ristolainen, and Zadorov) being on the NHL roster so that their bonuses count towards the cap.

I saw the following name on the wall at a doctors office today: Sary Ouch RN

I couldn't help but think of Adam Oates getting snubbed for a few years when I read that last sentence. He didn't have the europe or the citizenship thing, but I wouldn't be surprised if his undrafted college free agent pedigree may have hurt him for a while.

Drouin Galchenyuk Huberdeau Gudbranson Duchene Bogosian Turris Toews Jack Johnson So yeah, post-lockout that's a pretty good list. They're not all franchise-type guys, but they sure as hell are top 6/4 kind of guys (and we'll have to wait and see on Drouin).

The Pittsburgh job comes with the pressure of winning immediately or else you're fired. That won't happen in Vancouver. I can't imagine many first time nhl coaches wanted to step into that pressure cooker.

Thank god he's got all those PIMs. A name like that can never be wasted on a finesse guy.

And all GMs say a lot of things at this time of the year. I don't know if they go quite to the NFL level of pre-draft tire pumping, but it's definitely up there.

He should and will be given every opportunity to come back from his injury. It's really tough to come back from something like that, especially from someone who fills a completely physical role in this league.

She's relentless, but in a toddkaz trade rumor sort of way. She pounds her with reasons why she shouldn't go, but none of them make any sense and are completely selfish. Long story short, she still thinks she has complete control and say over the lives of all of her children even though the youngest is now 30 years old and they all live in a different state than her. The spouses of the other two are pushovers, but now she's finally run into a strong willed person in me who won't put up with her crap. We're 4 days into to this now she has yet to say a single supportive word yet. What she doesn't realize is that in these actions, she's driving her daughter away. And I don't mean driving her away to NC, but something far more serious than that.

I like using the fake label of step-mother-in-law in order to save people from the extra mental anguish. And now that I think about it, my brother actually did have two as well, until one unfortunately passed away.

Mothers-in-law I know what I just typed is plural, but thank god you only get one.

If you ever live long enough to make it to PAs age, you can do whatever you want. Until then, get the hell off his lawn.

Ehrhoff's rights, the Vanek deal, and now this. Garth has gotten really good at trading for something and then having to turn around nearly immediately and trade that for less. That's how to build a winner.

Put on a little too much peanut butter, eh?