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That sounds awfully confident in light of how ineffective he was for pretty much the entire season. Still, I appreciate the team support.

I agree that the superdelegate mass defection is not going to happen. However, the fact that the superdelegates are needed to close it out for her makes the griping about party elders determining the outcome understandable IMHO. EDIT: the fact that superdelegates are needed to close it out for her, AND that a highly disproportionate share of the superdelegates are supporting her, makes it understandable IMHO.

But isn't it true that if all of Clinton's superdelegates switched to Bernie, Bernie would have more delegates?

I just think 2 Canadian sports radio yobs speculating about PK being traded is not credible. More directly: there is NFW the Habs are trading PK. But if they were, and if the Sabres ended up with #3 overall, I would trade that pick for PK in a heartbeat, and there aren't many assets that the Sabres have that I would refuse to include as sweeteners.

The 2nd trade is pretty interesting, but the first is at least as...optimistic as my proposal for Lindholm was.

No question that injury risk is a real concern. I'd like to see another season of him starting to evaluate whether he's a guy who can't stay healthy. But I saw him throw quite a few great passes last year, and when he scrambled, I saw things I haven't seen from anyone since pre-incarceration Michael Vick. I'm not throwing that away in favor of another rookie or journeyman until there's another season of data to evaluate.

Great stuff, WC. These GDTs are another reason the future looks bright. And 19-13-7 in their last 39 games means that if they win out, they will finish the 2nd half of the season above DeLuca .500. Yes please.

I like TT and think he has a ton of potential.

I found out earlier this week that a good friend from high school, with whom I'd lost touch many years ago, died suddenly of a heart attack last week. Taken at age 48, leaving his wife and 3 kids. I haven't seen or spoken with him in 20+ years, but I still feel a sense of loss.

Burning a year of his ELC seems highly ill-considered.

Got any fancystats to support this? If so, other GMs may have the same opinion you have.

You are quite likely right, and I certainly wouldn't be surprised. I kinda think though that they won't deal Fowler, as he is locked up for 2 more years at a very reasonable $4MM per year. If that's correct, then it comes down to trading Vatanen or Lindholm. Their production is pretty similar, but I think they'd likely get more for Lindholm. You could be right, but he plays a GMTM kinda game. He's also young with pretty good upside on both ends. I don't think they'll trade him unless, as I said above, it's part of a package for a really high-end player coming back.

I know. I felt dirty posting it. (I originally had Foligno instead of Zemgus and then I upgraded to Zemgus -- but it's still too skinny.) I couldn't figure out what else to include. The most obvious pieces are this year's #1 and McCabe, but I don't think GMTM would trade either of those for anything less than a no-BS established star. Lindholm is good but he's not yet at that level. Maybe their #1 in 2017 -- but that isn't that appealing to Anaheim. As for the comparison with the ROR trade -- I think Zemgus and Pysyk is a better package than Griggy and Zadorov.

First, thanks to TW for another awesome contest. These are perennially great threads. This year's winner: - Sabres do not move up in the lottery and end up drafting 10th. They take a defenseman. - Matt Moulson is not traded due to utter lack of demand, nor is he bought out due to cap repercussions. However, the Sabres put him on waivers, which he clears, and send him down to Rochester. - Sabres trade Zemgus, Pysyk and a #2 pick for Hampus Lindholm and give Lindholm the fat contract that Anaheim was unwilling to give him. - Sabres re-sign Risto to a 3-year extension (which ends with him still being an RFA). - Sabres re-sign Ocho to a 2-year extension. - None of Legwand, Coliaicovo, or Ruhwedel is re-signed. Sabres speak with McGinn but don't get him as someone else overpays for him. - Sabres do not make offers to any other team's RFAs. - And the big one: Sabres sign Stamkos to a 7-year, $77MM contract. Game on!

I don't think Chuck trying to keep the client can be characterized as screwing Jimmy. Any business would do the same in that situation. I agree that the document caper will inevitably blow up and create issues with Kim. Separately, I'm going to predict that Mike's plan puts Tuco's uncle in the wheelchair that we saw him in in BB.

This is hard to say definitively though IMHO. We sure didn't see much effect from Gionta last year.

DeLuca .500 is where wins = losses + OTL + SOL.

Awesome.

NHL .500 or DeLuca .500? Only the latter is interesting. Very nice. There has been quite a bit to enjoy. Aside from the obvious names, IMHO the McCabe-Bogo pair hasn't gotten much attention but has been very solid lately.

Do you not think they are corrupt?

IMHO there's a bit too much defending of Jimmy and criticism of Chuck in here. Jimmy is charming and not a mean-spirited person, but he's also dishonest and perfectly happy to take risks with other people's assets -- and he usually leaves a major swath of destruction in his wake. Separately: I was away on vacation and just watched the last 2 episodes (not including tonight's, which I haven't yet seen). I liked the one from 2 weeks ago, in which Mike has the showdown with Tuco's uncle, but not so much the most recent one with Jimmy scheming his way out of the law firm and trying to convince Kim to join him. I don't think Mike's daughter-in-law is playing him. I'd like to see more Mike, Nacho and Tuco's uncle, and less Jimmy/Kim psychodrama.

Kinda depends on your view of tanking, innit? If you don't want teams to race to the bottom in pursuit of #1 overall, then the NHL did the right thing by only giving the DFL team a 20% chance of taking home McDavid.

Good stuff. Thanks. I found it kinda interesting that their odds of moving up from #7 into the top 3 are better than their odds were last year of "keeping" #1 overall despite finishing DFL.

I totally missed this, then went back and checked the thread in which the meltdown occurred. It didn't seem like much.

I agree on Legwand. As for the 3rd line, I too would like to see Foligno-Larsson-Gionta in that slot again, but I kinda think the Sabres are going to trade 1 or 2 of their RFA forwards: Foligno Larsson Zemgus Deslauriers I think the Sabres like all of them, but I can see a couple of them wanting too much cash and GMTM getting annoyed and sending him/them off.