MattPie

Wrong Comrade, Comrade!

Hey, with the current EPA it probably is. Bring back leaded gas while we're at it!

I think the tune will be different in a few years when the Mexico City Matadores de Hielo are coming into the league and our protection list starts with Eichel, ROR, Reinhart, Nylander, Okposo, Kane, some FNG, Risto, McCabe, D FNG, etc. and we're looking at losing real players. Buffalo lucked out that we had a bunch of bad contracts and players that aren't eligible to draft this time.

Bravo to the shop owner here: http://www.wtsp.com/life/auto-shop-removes-racist-graffiti-for-free/450509770 Insert some not-so-awesome comment on how racism is a thing of the past.

Interesting discussion on Ad space. I can't wait for the Veins Veins Veins editions to be available to buy with my Sabrebucks.

I don't think that precludes ROR from taking face-offs. They just want Jack at center for the rest of the shift.

Best fairly traditional: 3 weeks in Thailand / Cambodia. Just an awesome country with awesome food and views. Best solo vacation: did 7 or so days solo on the motorcycle. No plan other then "Southeast NC, I think". Just stayed or camped wherever I got tired for the end of the day; the middle part I stayed in downtown Asheville and had great food and beer every night and rode awesome roads all day.

FWIW, up until a few days before he was signed he had some other stuff going on.

If I were LV, depending on how the drafts and trades go I'd consider it on a one or maybe two year deal to teach the kids.

I think I'm out too, but I still have its lat/lon as a favorite place in my GPS.

He'll catch on with Toronto, I bet.

Wow, that Ruutu-Housely goal at 1:10 in the video. Holy cow. HCWH (head coach wowie housely), of course.

You're probably right, if I didn't have my daughter jumping on me at 8am (which I didn't really mind, RosePie is adorbs) and in the office at 10AM. I'm too old for this stuff.

Red: I have absolutely no memory of Housley on that team; that's the one that beat the Sabres in the semi-finals, right? The Kerry Fraiser - Hasek stuff?

Up until 4AM patching systems last night. Something has to change, that's far too long.

I stopped after one or two days. I just could not listen to 90 minutes of those chuckleheads.

Since we're in this wookie-like trade zone: would you rather Samson + #8 for Kane or Ovechkin? Go!

LV could flip him, I suppose, but you make a good point.

I don't, but he hasn't shown a worry of spending money in the past. Firing GMTM is actually a prime example, he's now paying two NHL GM salaries where he could have just told GMTM: this is your budget, exceed it at your own peril. $1.3M is the difference between signing Matt Ellis and Marcus Foligno to be your fourth liner. Which would you prefer?

Pegula has shown little evidence of that. Maybe someday he'll tighten the purse strings, but so far he hasn't. And, signing vets in 2018 and 2019 will be a little harder with 1.3M in dead space.

I concurr. In a couple years, that 1.3M dead cap space is the difference between paying a UFA league minimum vs. $2M+. Looking at the UFA list, $2M buys you a player I've actually heard of (or Brian Elliot/Chad Johnson level backup GT), where the league minimum guys are nobodies.

I think everyone is arguing about the bolded part, really. Finding physical, 20+ goal forwards in FA is almost as hard as (I might say harder than) finding good FA defensemen, and when you do you're going to pay for it. If he's not going to sign, so be it, but you better work with him to get a contract signed if you can first.

Agreed. Put him in the AHL, trade with 50% retained, whatever, just don't want to see cap hit after this season.