X. Benedict

Charge more and they will come.

Just to be clear, as a consumer I'm fine with low prices. I'm just speculating on the motivations for the hike.

Barkov-Armia - bring in the Finns. We could call it the Jesus line: "It is Finnish"

This is why I think it is crazy for Vanek to sign an extension: Vanek can go into 2014-15 as the most highly coveted UFA. He'll make bank.

X Benenomics 101. If tickets are subsidized by one guy (Pegula) and being sold at less than market value, it will skew the producer surplus numbers and keep the quantity of tickets demanded artificially high. If a new owner were to return the prices to market value, it is an open question where the equilibrium price for tickets would be. (remembering half of any ticket increase money has to be shared with the players, so that stream for the new owner is only half his.). (Aside) What I'm sure they are seeing, but don't want to say, is that they want to close the gap between the equilibrium price for tickets on the secondary resale market and their regular ticket outlets (the boxoffice window and STH sales) and return that revenue to the normal bottom line for revenue sharing.

Funny I asked a kid recently if she knew the Beatles names: "John, Paul, Matthew and Mark," she said.

“It’s not about the playoffs. It’s about the Stanley Cup,” said Regier at his postseason press conference on Monday. The premise of Darcy's words is that the restructure/rebuild/reformation of the roster is one that might not compete for a playoff spot in the short run, but is retooling to win Stanley Cups in the long run. In other words, short term losing = Suffering, and losing players we might like, to reform a roster that is better prepared for deep runs toward a Stanley Cup. So the question is: Do you believe the premise? Do you think that short term suffering might be in the long term interest of the club? This isn't necessarily a question about Regier's competency, it is a question of whether or not you think what he is saying is true. Regardless of the GM. Are you prepared for short-term suffering (a losing season? two losing seasons?) for a Stanley Cup? Do you accept Darcy's premise? Are you ready to accept it? Is the fan base? (this isn't about Darcy per se....we've seen plenty of that, it is about whether what he is saying is true.)

I'll give you the last point. Ted is none of those other things. It was icky. I watched the whole thing. It was needlessly debasing in a format designed to learn the least and clumsily adversarial. Somehow the whole thing was mutually impoverishing.

But they missed the playoffs with accountability in the locker-room. :D

4%?....that'll turn into at least a 15% increase on Leaf fans after the resale market.

I think there were a few years Marcel Dionne and Charlie Simmer each had 50 goals and over 100 points a piece and missed the playoffs in LA, in the Pre-Gretzky days.

this is so gloriously bad it is comical......I think it only works in a Russian accent. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ChmN4rJFg_s#! "you never look yourself in the mirror, nya, what hab you done"

Not too hard. Get outshot on a nightly basis, and have a weak defense with spotty goaltending, and you too can be in the NHL lottery.

Edmonton will win. They are proven lottery winners and they've been here before.

That's nearly a 2 in fifty shot!! 1st - 25.0% - Florida Panthers 2nd - 18.8% - Colorado Avalanche 3rd - 14.2% - Tampa Bay Lightning 4th - 10.7% - Nashville Predators 5th - 8.1% - Carolina Hurricanes 6th - 6.2% - Calgary Flames 7th - 4.7% - Edmonton Oilers 8th - 3.6% - Buffalo Sabres 9th - 2.7% - New Jersey Devils 10th - 2.1% - Dallas Stars 11th - 1.5% - Philadelphia Flyers 12th - 1.1% - Phoenix Coyotes 13th - 0.8% - Winnipeg Jets 14th - 0.5% - Columbus Blue Jackets An 87.7% chance of staying in the same spot A 3.6 % chance of picking first An 8.7 % chance of picking 9th.

Last time I had Taco Bell - trapped in Detroit Airport for 13 hours in 1997 due to snowstorm and Northwest gave me a $5 food voucher. I don't know what was worse, the Taco Bell - or the idea that you can actually buy food in an airport for $5.

(1) Chicago v. Minnesota (8) Chicago in 6 (2) Anaheim v. Detroit (7) Anaheim in 6 (3) Vancouver v. San Jose (6) San Jose in 7 (4) St. Louis v. Los Angeles (5) St. Louis in 7 Eastern Conference match-ups- (1) Pittsburgh v. Islanders (8) Pitt in 6 (2) Montreal v. Ottawa (7) Montreal in 7 (3) Washington v. Rangers (6) Rangers in 7 (4) Boston v. Toronto (5) Boston in 7

Good read, but it is not special honor. The Post and Larry Brooks slime everybody. They are equal opportunity slimers.

138 goals.....all but 8 were from crazy angles. Smart player. Nice career, Yo-yo. Good luck in Germany.

I'm going to recuse myself, but may file an amicus curiea brief in comic sans at a later time.

Tendies aren't necessarily psychopaths, more of an alien race. Think of a benign lovechild between Spock and Alf.

are you really interested in my point of view? It is a hard ecosystem in the NHL. I probably believe it is much harder than you. Enroth has put up some good numbers recently, but this is a short season with very little practice time. Those numbers mean very little in predicting the future. Should Enroth be #1. Teams will quickly realize that Enroth is not a very good puck handler. They will track every tendency and limitation he has. They will game-plan for him. Something that I'm sure was not done very thoroughly in a lockout, shortened, and condensed season. History would be against him successfully adjusting once the league knows his game. The goalies that start 50 games year after year are a remarkable bunch of athletes and few.

Lindy gets too much credit. Lindy only re-ruined him.

<looks at the man's chest like Leslie Neilson> Not yet. But with years of inactivity and drinking cheap beer, it may become one.

In a sense, yes. History is against Enroth or most goalies. But History is against Hackett, Leggio, MacIntyre, and Scrivens in Toronto. Ty Conklin comes to mind. Look at Ty Conklin's second year........ http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/players/2742/career;_ylt=AnnCmrkHA.nxyG0XBl54RAZivLYF He's etched out a pretty good career.....and some short stints of exceptional play. 17 shutouts! but anybody gambling Ty Conklin is their #1 is a nut. What makes you think Enroth is better than a Ty Conklin in 2003? I'm not being cheeky, that's just how I look at goalies.