tom webster

We now have 3 - paid 3 - pending 1 - myself 1 - available

Just bumping this up. So far 1 ticket for myself 1 ticket paid 5 tickets with payment promised 1 ticket remains

Happy Birthday

I’ll pm you

So assuming nothing changes, I am down to one ticket. As others have said, anyone is welcome to join us for our pre and post game get together. Details to follow.

I will put you down for two. Do you still have my Venmo information?

I put him on the list. Three tickets left.

I’ll add you to the preliminary list. Thanks.

I know it’s antiquated but you can mail a check, meet up or use Venmo, PayPal or Zelle. I will hold tickets for ten days for anyone that needs alternative methods to pay. As of now, the eight tickets are allotted as such Myself Taro Bob Sauve Derrico

The cap will be $113.5M in two years and probably continue to skyrocket. $9M is the equivalent to $6.7M under last years cap. The contract will be fine when you calculate % of cap.

I could meet you if you want. Just PM me and we can try and get together.

I would prefer Venmo. If you PM me I’ll give you address. Thanks. I’ll just go with first pay, first serve.

So we are in the middle of our ticket draft and I have acquired all 8 tickets for Carolina game on Sunday, November 23rd.

That’s about how I remember it.

I know he played a couple in November of his rookie year. I think I remember they sent Andreychuk back to juniors and Housley moved up front. I think maybe a couple more times his rookie year and then maybe once more later in his career.

I’m pretty sure you understand that your opinions aren’t universally accepted.

Maybe he doesn’t agree with you.

He was strictly a defenseman in high school and was drafted as such. He played forward maybe twice with Buffalo his rookie year and I’m not sure he played it after that. But technically you are right, he wore 6 as a forward.

The veteran players on this team are actually optimistic for the future. Maybe they are naive, maybe buying into the internal talk but it’s palpable when you talk to them. The results and missteps have rendered a large portion of the fan base solidly pessimistic but athletes are by nature optimistic and it would be wrong to assume that they view their circumstances in the same way as the disenchanted fan base. There is also the fact that even if Tuch signs a team friendly, market rate contract he will still make millions more then if he signs a max contract under the new CBA.

Housley did not “come in” as a center. They eventually tried him at center but originally he was strictly a defenseman.

These are the first three games Taro and I are considering. Nov 23 - Carolina 1pm Nov 28 - New Jersey 4pm Dec 20 - Islanders 5pm Thoughts?

It’s been a bit but Taro mentioned to me that a meetup might be in order. I thought I’d guage interest. I can get up to eight tickets but I’d need to know which game by next Saturday. Cost would be $120 per ticket if we used my tickets. We usually meet up got dinner before the game. Let me know if you are interested.

Again, I’m not disputing any of this. My only contention is that whatever trends are happening in the draft process, it not yet impacted the league’s mean height and weight for skaters. Maybe that changes in the coming years.

That’s a while different argument. And Willis points out that the numbers are actually inflated by lesser used players so EROD only balances it out. Florida only proves that it’s not all about size. Like LGRM says, teams are drafting bigger defenseman but it still hasn’t manifested itself with the leagues elite.

Like I have said previously, I don’t post other people’s work but if you look up an article by Jonathan Willis, the numbers don’t back up your assertions, especially amongst playoff teams. The median height has remained constant and the mean weight has gone down. Florida was the third lightest team in the playoffs last year, ahead of only Tampa and Colorado.