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You have to start wondering if the Amerks slide is related to Mitts in the lineup.

Only if the pain gives you pleasure.

Few undersized players excel outside of top 6 roles.

I think if he doesn’t develop into a top 6 forward his likelihood of being an NHL player is low.

Accident in that they targeted the wrong plane, so truth but not whole truth. IMO of course. It's an interesting shot across the bow. We won't engage you conventionally, but attack us again and your friends will feel it.

Sounds like the 4th line the actual team has right now.

Seems early in the year for tornadoes, no?

Another childhood hero gone....

And this is 100% correct. Tanking is equivalent to a GMTM draft. High ceiling, low floor. You’ve got just as much chance to end up with Cornel as you do Olofsson. Not tanking raises the floor in all likelihood but doesn’t lower the ceiling. It may lower the odds of reaching the ceiling, but that is more a function of GM than anything. Tanking is so drastic in nature that it increases the likelihood of the floor result. Your GM has to be damned near perfect.

This is wrong from the first sentence. Neither of these tanked.

The gutting was due to the decision to tank. It was a pre-Murray decision.

Seattle Steelhead. Same idea, better sounding fish.

3 pages and its nearly puck drop. The team used to generate interest......

All kinds of real complaints in here. Mine doesn't pass muster anymore. Sorry to hear of the hardships, guys.

Complaint thread?

Evidence of imminence? What evidence? Pretty damning comments from two Republican senators. https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/08/politics/iran-briefing-senators/index.html

You seem to be taking that not as it's intended. Noone was claiming that you must be racist to support a racist. They are suggesting that you are willing to accept racism in order to get other things (which, if memory serves you conceded to), AND accepting racism to get other things results in support of that racism. So, by supporting Trump you end up supporting racism whether it is your intent or not.

I doubt the Sabres played a role in this. CHL teams are run like NHL franchises. Teams going for it load up and teams that don't have a prayer collect picks so they can load up in 2-3 years. This is typical.

Sudbury loading up.....

#Firstworldteamproblems

I'd like to see what other teams do, but my gut tells me 2 players every draft isn't even reasonable anymore.

Given that it was pre-emptive and against someone who we are not actively at war with, I'd still label it an act of war. Rank isn't important in the distinction to me regarding act of war. It could have been a car full of soldiers and I would label it that way. Rank changes my thoughts regarding assassination.

Success required an unreasonable hit rate if that is the case. No team can consistently hit on 3 players in drafts, long term or short term. Your standard for success is not reasonable.

With what? We had nothing left.

I’m going to quote Rand Paul again (barf). You’d have to be brain dead to think that this event wouldn’t result in escalation. In other words, regardless of Trumps intentions, he had to expect some level of escalation. Which means it was done with an expectation that active fighting is possible. IOW, an act of war.