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Montreal is in a spot where they don't need a coach to put them over the top. They're already overachieving, in my opinion. Unless they get some significant help up front, they're at their ceiling already. So that all falls on the GM, not the coach.

Was Goodell already in place for that one or was it still Tagliabue?

I had heard only the last post yesterday. Now it makes much more sense as to why Discovery would take that jab. I'd assume their twitter guy is in NYC.

There's a reason it is called revenue sharing and not profit sharing. The rest of the owners will have no issue whatsoever with the Sabres paying Babcock.

I know. But no matter what the outcome of the tournament is, no one in North America will care.

Damn, they're losing their entire front office up there.

The stuff I mentioned existed up until they instituted the NHL draft (1963). That changed everything.

Are they trying to get banned from the league? That one excerpt makes it look that way. I'll have to read that full thing later to get a better feel for it.

Originally, each team sponsored a long list of junior teams. If you played on one of those junior teams, essentially your rights automatically belonged to that NHL team. They might sponsor a random team out in western Canada where there wasn't an NHL team, but pretty much all of the local area teams would wind up sponsored by the NHL team in that area. So Montreal winds up with all the french canadians. I'm not entirely sure how the American teams were able to bite into the canadian market, especially the non-border towns (ie. everyone but Detroit). I had a great exchange over PM with millibank years ago where he explained the whole thing to me. He even mentioned how he had some paperwork from when he was a kid that assigned his rights to a specific team. Maybe he'll read this post and share his information.

A year or so ago, the wife and I got roped into watching the kids while her sister held a shower for her best friend. Somehow that babysitting duty turned into full participation in the shower for both of us. I had never met the woman once in my life. It was beyond awkward.

All but two came at a time when the league had less than 20 teams. Essentially their whole history is based off of a time where the game was entirely territorial. I run into this problem with most sports when they start to spout off the teams that have won more championships than anyone else.

You can sing children's songs to help make the shower more entertaining. I suggest "the wheels on your house go 'round and 'round"

I just hope these European nations don't put too much stock into victories in this tournament given that they can add players to their roster for the semi-finals.

JD's is on 55 across from the plaza with Harris Teeter, right? If that's the one I'm thinking of we had the strangest experience ever there. We walked in a couple days before Halloween and it was packed with kids having a costume contest. I never would have expected that as it was a bar, a thursday night, and the Panthers were also playing. I really don't remember the food because we both tried to eat as quickly as possible because we were the only people in the place who didn't have kids with them. I haven't come across Draftline yet, but I'll keep an eye out for that. The next one on my list was going to be CBC, but I just haven't found the time yet.

You got it. I'm happy with them so far. I could see is going there more often once our house is up.

What he said.

Uh oh, LGR has competition.

I had some of those smoked wings that I mentioned earlier on monday. It's a brewery so they have some random sauces related to the beers they make. I wound up going with one that was a mix that included both habanero and jalapeno. It had some good kick to it. I don't know what they did, but usually a hotter sauce like that will linger for a while, but for whatever reason, this one didn't. I usually like having that flavor linger for a while on my lips, but this was a pleasant surprise. I think I've found my place for an occasional visit for wings.

I feel like including Kane in the offseason acquisition list too. Things could get very entertaining very fast with a few more moves.

At this point, if I even bother to look back on history, I go back to the 2005 lockout. But only championship tally that matters to me gets reset each October. What have you done for me lately?

History is however based on a long period of time where there were 6 teams or less in the league. Those numbers mean so little to me.

He's going to Bobby Valentine it and come out wearing a fake mustache, right?

I just looked up the stats and you nailed it. He just squeaked by with the last one, with 19 goals in Buffalo and then 1 after being traded to the Islanders. It is kind of funny though to see the guy with the best OHL playoff stat line of all time wind up getting traded for Paul Kruse.

You won't be the only one to be confused by that. Given that it's a hockey league it might have been a smart move to go with a different name. That is going to throw off so many people.

I never thought I'd see the day where seeing Jason Dawe play at the Aud would be the line for being old.