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@inkmanand I talk offseason hockey. It's short, about 20 minutes. I edited out the first minute as I hit record too soon, and you know what the first minute of a zoom call looks like. https://youtu.be/KGORFRNi80w

Thank God...about time

Jonas Johansson was sent to Germany to play in DEL.

As I understand it, the buyout window now opens for some length of time, yes? I was looking at someone's calculation of Okposo's buyout numbers. They gotta be thinking about it.

@chloewoj notes on twitter that Reinhart is listed as a ... (checks new replies), got @Brawndo 'd again

The analytics tell you that adding ex-Sabres leads to winning the cup. They added 3, it's almost a lock.

While I prefer Rossi to Quinn, the 67 watchers on HFB are often in the Quinn camp

I think he means the movie version is very different from the literary version

I'll put out my draft board soon, me and @LGR4GM have been talking about podcasting our thoughts on the rest of the draft, but he seems to be too busy. My model does OK, but with pick224.com, it helps having better data (like EV scoring), but I can't really jam the info in pick224 into my model. So I'm in a transition year. Pick 8 I covered north of here, or north on So 8, I forget. I have Rossi at 5th for the decade, Byfield 7th, Jarvis 11th, Stutzle 18(but in a league no one comes out of, so what do I know?), Perfetti 21, Lafreniere 23, Holtz 30, so the top of my board obviously looks like Rossi, Jarvis, Perfetti In between I toss in a few guys I like who shouldn't be there at 38, but why not. Grans, Reichel, Greig. I'll probably add a couple more. Pick 38 more comes from pick224. What I'm looking for is someone who is used in a very poor way, and those two are Colangelo and Finley. Neither got PP time, probably because they look like big dorky guys, which is of course a feature, not a bug. After those 2 I have Jarvartie, who also didn't get much powerplay time, but it's hard to value Mestis players. I don't think the Sabres have a 3rd, maybe someone elses? I don't remember. But after 38 I'm looking for players that are normally undervalued. I talk about this in the sleepers post over in HFB https://hfboards.mandatory.com/threads/2020-sleepers.2764405/ I think there are 3 different posts of mine in that thread. So if you read through that, I like overage defensemen, Cotten (who I have at 30th for the decade among 18 year old defensemen), Uens (49). For 19 year olds, I like Wilsby (49th for decade among 19 year olds.) Then a tiny guy who is hopefully there round 4 or 5, this year it's Florian Elias. After that it's just filling in a few guys that are a little less than these guys.

I think this is why scouts do a poor job of drafting. Lundell is like Lazar, but he's also like Anze Kopitar. What matters is does Lundell score like Lazar, or does he score like Kopitar? I have Lundell at 68 for the decade, which is terrific for this type of player. I have Kopitar at 144th (if he was within the decade) and Lazar at 294 for the decade. Zacha is at 353. In the end, I think he's going to be a great 2nd line player, but he's about 7th or 8th on my board only because I expect Rossi, Jarvis, and Perfetti to score a lot more.

My relationship with the Sabres used to be good, we had a lot of fun. Now? Let's just say I'm here for the kids.

Liger posted 11-31, this is 1-10

My understanding it that it needs to be your 3rd round pick. The Rangers have it.

Budik had a good year in Czech

regarding Connor, his 1.87 pts per game is fairly close to Eichel's 1.78, though Eichel was a full year younger. Connor, even more than Eichel, was playing with a handful of future NHL players. If you don't all delete this thread before Liger shows up, that's on you.

Yeah, you only do that once, well, actually twice in my case

Most of those I do, it's funny, I've been putting done pizzas (I know there's a real word, pizzi?) in the oven rack only because I let the fruit flies get out of hand. I had hoped I could live without a peel, I couldn't. The other great thing about the traditional backyard pizza oven is that it's so pretty. Mine has no aesthetics going for it.

Mine's not a traditional design because I want to be able to move it. One of my family members made the traditional pizza oven, it takes him a long time to get hot enough, and he has to burn a fire to get the crust to brown. That said, he really likes his oven. I don't have a thermometer, but it still takes a bit too long to cook the pizza, so I'm not up to a good temperature yet. Still working on it.

Forgot what I was going to ask. Anyone know how you get pepperoni to curl like it does in Buffalo?

In my dream of spending my end years touring with Dark Star Orchestra making pizza in the parking lot, I've taken the task of creating a woodburning pizza oven that I can drag around behind a truck. So this is what I came up with. It's the 4 inch fan that gets the fire hot enough to make pizza.

Dude, don't ruin the narrative with facts

The Kuhun trade only makes sense if you think about the Sheary trade being a loan to create cap space to optimize for this season's playoffs. Botterill ended up bending them over on the cost of this cap space loan. My theory anyway

Father Jeff played with the Ranger and Blues early 2000's

From eliteprospects.com: Ranked #53 by ELITEPROSPECTS.COM Ranked #34 by FUTURE CONSIDERATIONS Ranked #55 by TSN/CRAIG BUTTON Ranked #41 by MCKEEN'S HOCKEY Ranked #12 by NHL CENTRAL SCOUTING (EU Skaters) Ranked #35 by TSN/McKenzie 50/50 he's there at 38?

I'm going to argue the other side on this. The reason the player loses his NTC is contract law. If you waive a clause in your contract, you don't get to reclaim that power. In this case, the clause was never waived, it hadn't come into existence yet, so he won't lose it when he moves to a different team. I might be wrong.