LastPommerFan

AHL = NHL as far as player Contracts are concerned. Same agreement between team and player covers both leagues.

Zemgus.

This sounds awful.

That was my initial reaction. But as you can imagine, I am experiencing a large amount of social pressure to change my view. Best overall football game I've watched in years.

I still can't believe he was never convicted in the murder of Danny's parents outside that theater. (picturing a Cave under the HSBC Arena, Rip as the butler, Danny, in his red and black Goat-Man getup)

Tim Murray as the Borg Queen. Love it.

It's definitely a silly talking point. Democrats are massively overplaying it. The political hay for the left is that the country wants the government to have this capacity. The utter failure of the Dallas health officials, the CDC swooping in to take patients 2 and 3, the zero transmission rate at the CDC centers. Those should be the talking points.

I forfeited the season when my #1 overall pick beat his sons genitals with a stick. It was the right thing to do.

I'm going to stop searching now. The power just flickered in my house, and there is a strange van parked across the street.

The company owned by the President of SKA St. Petersburgh also owns Hartwell Arena in Helsinki and a 50% stake in the Jokerit (side note: you know a league is awesome when one guy is allowed to own stakes multiple teams) whom probably sat with the Pegulas during our game there in 2011. http://en.wikipedia....nnady_Timchenko This is getting deep.

:D

Boom: http://news.investors.com/business/100314-720228-royal-dutch-shell-plugs-oil-activity-gazprom.htm Terry's old east resources makes up the majority of RDS's shale gas activities in North America. There's the connection.

To paraphrase TPegs, "There is no Cap on paying off the Russian Mafia" What if Murray is encouraging (via some oil and gas investment (CEO of KHL is also Chairman of the Board of Gazprom)) the Russians to hold on to Zads' rights, with the idea of forcing an exemption from the CHL deal.

In the AHL he would stay on the same contract that he is on in the NHL. The problem with Juniors is that he is no longer playing on the NHL deal, so the KHL transfer agreement no longer holds. But he can't go to the AHL because of the CHL agreement. Seems like it would be in the best interests of the NHL (keeping talent local) and the CHL (not scaring away foreign players afraid of ending up in the same predicament) to make some sort of exception. All deals are negotiable.

Interesting that you bring up the Flyers, since we handed them a key cog in their return to playoff greatness. for free. But in general, these teams were recent playoff winners, not 7 years removed from a playoff series victory. And neither let key pieces walk for nothing. They had the assets to make a quick rebuild.

I think public funding on non-market initiated science is a great thing. I think this is a perfect example of that. This is a low market value vaccine. The market is always the best option, in this case, it failed, and that is where public funding of basic science is a really good thing. Especially things that will generally enhance the governments ability to carry out it's primary function: protecting the citizens from foreign threats.

This would be for the best, though, right? For the sabres? Or is ownership pressure an important part of the trigger to go from build to win?

Could this result in the NHL and CHL coming to an agreement allowing him to remain on his NHL contract and play in Rochester? Please someone say yes...

Hooray for US Federal Government Spending!!! (it's a politics thread afterall :) )

What is the downside to the teams future of tanking again this year? (full marks for the comment on darcy and trading Pommer and Vanek, although, I'm not sure you could get a better return for Vanek than Moulson, a first, and a second. That was somehow both a hockey trade and a futures trade.)

I'm completely biased (and a sportsmotional wreck after the last week of sports) but was that the right call last night, or did Notre Dame get screwed?

Ghost, what are your thoughts on TM? is he strong enough to overcome the culture, or is he in over his head?

One point game. :)

Yes, Zagrapan-Persson was a pretty miserable streak. But additionally, we didn't draft in the first round in 2007, and didn't pick in the second round in 2009, 2010, nor 2011. Both hurt the old talent balance sheet for certain. At the end of the day, we didn't have enough resources to make the quick rebuild after probably the summer of 2008, but certainly after the summer of 2010.

Columbus was able to trade for Carter because they had Voracek (7th overall) and the 8th overall pick in 2011. They were able to make that trade because they were worse than us. Adding Richards and Schenn to the list dosn't work because it was a center for center trade, and as has already been established, we didn't have any centers.