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Trade him.

If Girgensons is re-signed, I expect the real Lindy Ruff to be held captive in the arena's basement while the Lindy Ruff clone makes Z the second line center.

It's pretty simple: while watching a game, a player on the enemy team impresses you to the point of asking yourself "what would it take to get a guy like that?" And *poof* the answer to that question is yours during the next commercial break. Team and league engagement rises by several quality points + satisfaction in easily finding the answer + time = NHL fan more committed to the NHL universe and more likely to spend money on said universe.

Is that like saying people who don't appreciate fancy stats and team contract data are like tottering elderly people who don't understand why people can't drive a stick, manage a stringy comb-over with Brylcreem, and don't realize they should probably be grooming their frightfully bushy eyebrows?

You know what will happen if Girgensons is allowed to leave? He'll go on to be a Stanley Cup Final hero just like Erod. And then the usual suspects will spend the following season and half complaining that "we don't keep talent", "we're the development squad for the NHL", and "we're doomed to never win a Cup."

That's not at all what I meant. They were a mess on the bench: the Panthers are in their heads along with the pressure of the situation, they were all going mental at the end of the game.

The Oilers are a mess.

Owned.

Channeling my inner @nfreeman, that's obnoxious and totally unnecessary.

Montour: "Remember you owe me money from that night on Chippewa, you bum!" Kane: "I owe you jack squat punk!"

Evan Rodriguez - playoff hero. Who here can pull up a post of theirs from back in the day predicting that?

The Panthers were just screwed on that call. Elbow to head, both feet off the ice. That's a pro-McJesus call.

No one on this board has likely experienced the sustained high level of adrenaline these guys are experiencing right now.

Erod should stop trying to pass the puck all of time and just shoot on net.

Typical second game first period for Florida. I didn't realize how goon-ish Edmonton was.

Did he say game misconduct?

The tag line would be changed from "sharpen your point" to "end hate, choose love" and then all of us with over 1000 posts would be banned for life.

It's a small, small network they utilize, apparently. From their About Us page. Sources PuckPedia licenses data from the following partners: www.RotoWire.com www.eliteprospects.com www.puckiq.com I guess if can license data, you have all of the info you need to create a site like that. As the web creator you come up with the tools to process the data.

This is all so ridiculous. The recent trend of needing to know every single detail about everything we interface with is long overdue. Combined with instant mass communication, the groups that are obsessed with details, no matter what the topic is, unearth details about that topic and broadcast them to the rest of society. We then learn, are better informed, and thus make better decisions as a society. It flies in the face of the antiquated view that mommy and daddy government, that Bob and Jane commercial food preparers, and that Edna and Josef banker would always make sound, reasonable decisions that benefit all strata of society. This latter way of looking at the world has been proven to all but the most blind that it is naive, lazy, and ultimately critically dangerous. What do you think put the world in the position it's in now? Believing what you're told, caving into the pressure to accept the narrative, and lacking the insight and courage to ask questions. Sure, it's only a hockey DB website on the surface, but what it really indicates is what I just said: a segmented, yet collective shattering of indifference or wilful ignorance to detail. Of course, we're not "there" yet. Many people are content to only be bothered within the narrow range of things that interest them. If only we could somehow accept the expansion of this activity throughout all areas of society. A boy can dream, I suppose. So, its purchase and planned closure by the Commie Capitals is not only a huge slap in the face to NHL fans, but it is emphasizing the stark contrast between what it means to be informed, have access to data, and freely ponder the narratives presented to you and what it means to have information censored or completely removed and be left in the dark about reality. Dang it, had something else to add, seeing as I took to the podium anyway. Something about bringing the proper, unmolested receipts to go along with the detail.

I can tell you don't know this audience all too well.

If you enjoy Pringles and choose to consume them, then you certainly should want to know as much about them as possible, especially their ingredients, nutritional value (or lack thereof) and the effects consuming Pringles has on your health. If, for example, Pringles sold in the USA are made from a different menu of ingredients and have a different nutritional value (or lack thereof) then of those sold in Europe, then one might want to know why, especially if the European ingredient list can be deciphered without the use of a dictionary and Wikipedia. Upon an examination of the ingredients of the USA Pringles one discovers ingredients that have negative health consequences, one might want to discover why Pringles would do such a thing. One obvious place to look is at the leadership of Pringles to determine their motivations. As we know, compensation and lordships (ie. having a fiefdom and yielding power within it) are great motivators for the un-conscientious.

Abso-f$%*ing-lutely. In 2000, Shea's was nearly dead after being run into the ground by political patronage appointee Patrick Fagan. Fagan had no business mind, overspent and put Shea's into serious debt. Shea's was literally less than a year away from closing its doors when they dumped Fagan and put a real, no-nonsense business person in the President's seat. It'll be interesting to see what happens now as it seems history is repeating itself. Shea's building itself is owned by the city. Shea's relies on donations. Shea's also relies on volunteers to run the shows and do restoration. As a so-called cultural institution funded, in part, from government grants and protected, in part, by federal, state, and local law (ie. National Historic Site designations, etc.), we the people not only pay for much of what goes on there, but are also affected by the "culture" promoted by it. It is therefore in the public's interest to be advised of the details of the leadership, since much of what Shea's does is as a publicly funded and protected entity.