Eleven

Now?

Can they trade the pick now?

Pat Verbeek has a future career as a prison warden in Maine if this GM thing doesn't work.

That is criminal.

Did I really just see an entire team of execs wearing grape-colored suits?

Because they're trying to annoy us.

This is where I miss Tim Murray. No speeches.

It is. They're honoring him with a really long, thin coffin or something.

Who is the man next to Bettman and is he ok?

It is pick 13...

Dahlin is THE leader, I don't care who is wearing the C.

Ha. The supply is fairly deep. There are defensemen and goalies to be had in trade before approximately 930-10pm today, and there even are a couple of defensemen that will be available on Saturday.

The last few years have done wonders for my deportment.

Well, there's more than one way to skin a cat, right, but Vegas certainly has shown that one way is ruthlessly managing assets without regard for loyalty.

I don't even think it's that bold. It's *right there* and all Adams has to do is stick his hand out and grab it.

I was just listening to pre-draft coverage on WGR, and whoever it was who was talking (didn't get his name in my 15 minutes in the car) thinks that Adams sees 13OA, even by itself, as too heavy a price for Hellebyuck. I think that's crazy.

I just don't see that such a mandate existed. And certainly not on the outgoing trade.

I suspect that there's a lot of room between this and the truth. You don't have to respond; I won't see it.

Mark this down for the trade deadline.

The real difference is NJ got it right the first time and the Sabres didn't. So it's a second rebuild here, really.

I listened to the appearance on the radio. You're right, it's mostly GM talk.

As always? Are you here often? Often enough that you think I mistake the NHL for the NFL? Or are you here 30 times in the last 15 years as the stats indicate? If you don't want to be treated like a jerk, don't come at me like one.

What you're saying is that it ultimately was Adams who *decided* to back up Kruger in this manner.

Who signed him with that NTC? Himself? Krueger?

I had no idea--I really thought it was the NFL. Huh. That's all the attention I'll give to a comment like this.