shrader

My company had a work outing at a AAA baseball game here in Durham today. I showed up a little late, during the 3rd inning. I was walking across a walkway beyond the left field wall right as a home run just happened to be coming my way. This was my first time at this stadium and I currently have my first ever home run ball sitting in my car.

Remember within the past year when people around here were worried about an expansion team poaching our shot at McEichel? That's pretty funny right around now when you see this timeframe.

They went out of their way to set up more time zone-friendly divisions. I'd imagine that they'd like to keep as close to that as possible.

I just can't picture the smaller contract being one that would bother a team much. If you're going to have to force someone's hand with a $3.6 million offer to a mid-tier player, I can't imagine that the player is going to be someone worth that money.

And more talk about slight division/conference re-allignment. That's always fun.

Why would someone be embarrassed if what was written earlier was true? Imagine yourself as an owner looking for a team owner. You're about to hire a president or other big time hockey ops role. You are deciding between two hall of famers with very similar qualifications. For the sake of this example, I'll go with LaFontaine and Brendan Shanahan. Say their backgrounds look identical, but one guy has these stories of head issues and the other doesn't. Who are you going to hire?

If you're suggesting making these offers at the same exact time, there can't be any overlap between the compensations for each player.

I will have HBO as of later today so I may check it out. I got a good laugh out of the bolded line though. With as big as he is, what else can the Rock be doing? He'll never be the nerdy guy in a romantic comedy.

I'm with you on this one. This is the kind of thing you would expect the team to have some sort of idea about ahead of time. As always, LaFontaine will have his version of the story as well and the truth will lie somewhere in between.

Can you meet someone who is lurking in the shadows?

I take this back. Two days of moving in temperatures right around 100 did me in. I couldn't drink enough water to keep up with it.

And that's exactly what Arkham Origins was. Re-playing that recently, they still never bothered to fix some of them.

This team is at the point where I don't want to reset the clock on a prospect. We are going to need guys who will be here in the very near future. Reinhart is closer than anyone we would take at #3, especially if it would be Hanifin.

I've never liked thinking of this so called loser point as the bonus point that is handed out. These games are tied at the end of regulation and that is the actual result and like the old days, each team gets a point. The real bonus point is the one handed to whoever "wins" in overtime/shoot out. 2 points are up for grabs during the portion of the game played under normal rules. I'll throw this suggestion out there that has come to mind recently. If they really think that the fans need to see a conclusion, then by all means keep going with the overtime and shootout. The change here though is to only count them as a tie in the standings. Use the shootout (or maybe any overtime result) only as a tie breaker in the standings. They kind of do this already with the regulation wins column that is the first step to break ties. I say they make that regulation wins column be the one they actually use to calculate your points total.

Closing costs coming in $4k less than they originally told us is awesome

Why are we telling SDS how to run his board?

Zadorov didn't have a contract over there as far as I know (I assume it wasn't possible to have one). So the whole thing always felt strange to me, how a team that didn't actually have him under contract could control where he wound up.

Does he also sound like Sylvester?

That whole thing still bothers me and I've never gotten an explanation I was happy with. I realize it's a big if, but what if Zadorov did not want to play in Russia and instead would have rather been in London? Did he have no say in the matter?

The Russians are making up the rules as they go, which adds an extra layer of complication to this whole thing.

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.

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.

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.

Is there significance to what I bolded above? Is Ullmark still not coming over to the US or am I just misreading that?