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I could swear I saw some dripping from his nose.

I think the D is in good shape. To state the obvious, they just need scoring. Next season Reinhart and Kane will be there, probably McEichel. You have to figure they're going to add another forward somehow between now and September. So, one D man slot and four forwards. It could be good.

Oops!

Neuvirth's Quantum Glove forces a non goal to be considered a no goal.

Yay Nikita. Bogosian is the first glimmer of hope. The second is Gionta who apparently doubled down on his Geritol. They have to keep losing, but I'm seeing stuff in this game that has h-o-p-e written on it.

I hope Weber and Stewart survive the trade deadline.

Bernier wasn't a #3 pick.. I don't think.

Saying he's like a Jason Pominville with 1/3rd the offense output is kind of offensive. Pominville, for how soft he was perceived here, was the epitome of a hard-working player who overcame whatever lack of skill he had through...hard work. Anyone who thinks this is what Hodgson is like is not paying attention in my opinion. Oh, and I don't want any player on this team who thinks it's okay for them to swing a stick lumberjack-style at any other player's legs and feet. Just say no to that. I also don't want a player here who seems to believe they're above meeting the physical requirements the rest of the team has to adhere to. Whatever, a team is a team.

They need to do it to coincide with the end of the rebuild. I think it could easily be accomplished if they set their collective minds to it. Ted, we know you stalk the forums, give this some serious though, okay?

Thank you. I much prefer this type of explanation rather than "virtually no chance" despite the obviousness of the reply.

RIP Monty, I liked you and your Kermit the Frog voice. Way too young.

Seconded, to the very last Orc.

It's straight from the horse's mouth, the same kind of crap we're dealing with here. They spent more time on Hodgson's issues than any other player. Then, when they decided to dump him, THEY PADDED HIS STATS by giving him easy starts - how else do you "(build) him into something (they) could move"? A spade is a spade; a Hodgson is a Hodgson.

Something like that... Ex-Canuck Cody Hodgson a complainer, ‘didn’t want to be here,’ says GM Mike Gillis

Agreed. I'm not anywhere near the level of obsessive-compulsive lots of folks are here, but it's been clear that McDavid is the 1 and Eichel is the two. The only real debate is how far apart they actually are.

Uhhmmmm...he was on Vancouver with a far better talent base? And, to the point that they had too many centers: that's true to an extent. If he was worth keeping what with his production, they would have kept him. He's a passenger who feeds off the talent around him. Without someone clearing a path for him he's nothing.

...or whomever is in second. And for every CHL loss, that number goes down by two, meaning the RPTC goes down by two. Adding the one to the second place team's MPP ensures the clinch. This makes total sense. That post before you answered mine made all of it clear.

Is 124 an arbitrary number? Do I have to re-read several pages of this thread to find out?

Vancouver traded Hodgson because he was a slacker. I don't understand why this reflects on Nolan and why it's worth more than a line in an interwebz post.

You're just doing them on your own. :bag:

This is ridiculous. With all due respect. If they were "in lock step" then they would absolutely make it appear like the tank is intentional and there would be no plausible deniability. There is no way, right now, Nolan and Murray can be seen as "being on the same page". It has to look like an internal cluster-f*#k for this to work.

Dude. Duuuuude. If you're the marrying type, this becomes important...