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I'm not watching but a glance at the box tells me we're out playing them? Is that accurate?

Rodrigues might actually be good.

Ray has been pretty great this year with his condescension. You can tell he legitimately doesn't like some of the players and the team sucking really annoys him.

I wonder if Kane's departure might set off a lightbulb for Alex. Hey, there's a spot to be had up in Buffalo if you want it...

What a concept :lol:

What's your point?

Sounds about right. Wawrow never has any scoops though. He has to be on the straight and narrow so if you're a "source" why would you even talk to him? He won't report it until after it's already happened.

I'm convinced, now more than ever, that the blogger actually did have a scoop and Lehner did ask for a trade.

Riverworks does have things like Pinball and bubble hockey.

Right. I really need more context.

Is it possible there is more to that quote? Or that it's just O'Reilly being a sad-sack?

You've probably got that Slavic blood like me. I do the same thing.

The kid would definitely be Canadian. I think if it were me making the move I would probably have no trouble adjusting to calling myself Canadian either. Growing up here on the border already makes me feel like I can claim dual-citizenship.

My last name would indicated that I'm English, but my ancestry is mostly Polish and German, and at one point in the early 20th century my familial last name was extremely Polish. But I also suspect that my Polish heritage is more Russian than Polish, so who the hell knows. I'm a white guy.

Absolutely.

It's like the new guy on a team has never had an amazing first game before ever. I hope San Jose is a good fit for him. They're a better team overall and maybe he even has some natural chemistry. But let's see what things look like in 10 games or so.

This is false, as has been shown by Flagg's analysis of the lack of depth scoring from this current roster to that of Bylsma's rosters. Despite my not caring for them much, Foligno, Ennis and Gionta were important to Bylsma's "success". Housley hasn't had even those mediocre depth players at his disposal.

I knew I could count on you to get what I was going for.

Thank you. This is what I'm seeing too. I never believed there were many viable trade partners for how I was valuing Kane, with San Jose being the logical buyer because of their need for scoring of any kind. But no other team needed Kane enough to outbid San Jose. They've got their depth scoring. San Jose was the only contending team in the West really lacking in that department. I don't see any buyers that stick out as "definitely wanted Kane but passed because the price was too high." Because clearly the price was quite low. I suspect it always was. Maybe it wouldn't kill some people to consider that option.

I would watch Kane's debut with the Shorks but that is just waaayyy too late at night for me.

Okay, but who actually bought yesterday that could reasonably be believed to have been interested in Kane enough to make an offer better than what Botterill got for him?

"the other people found different partners" Do expand.

Limited imagination? Why not just accept the simplest, most likely, answer? Why does this need to be an exercise in crafting the most outrageous scenario possible?

Best of luck to Kyle and his new child, Koko Okposo.