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Another fun fact...I was at the filming of The Natural as an 9 year old kid along with my mother and aunt. Way up in the upper deck. Never made it in the movie...it was the end of October on a freezing cold night with gusty winds and they kept yelling to take your coats off for the scenes because we had to pretend it was summer...needless to say my Mom and Aunt didn't play along for very long and as such I think that precluded them from even considering me, who followed directions 😂 Movies definitely are not as fluid as they appear...endless retakes of the same scene until they got it just right and then long waits to set up the next scene. I can see why people on movie sets get close...they have tons of time to stand around and socialize with other people.

He didn't even coach a game?? "How the hell did you get fired on your day off Craig?"

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So is it the $10 or $10.5 8 year extension? How bout split the difference and make it $10.25 per?

Ugh...I guess retirement didn't suit him well...Godspeed...one of the best to ever do it. And unfortunately he died on my Mom's birthday 😐

Dahlin is going to put those numbers up and is also excellent defensively now as well.

Huh? He shouldn't even be in the convo.

Everyone who hasn't had their head buried in the sand or simply refused to believe no matter what evidence they were shown already knew that. I'm shocked the government is finally coming clean for the most part but that likely means it's because there is an agenda over the next decade or two to start revealing more and more things to us but in small measured doses so as not to freak the population out.

No, it's 7 years...that was not a good team. Making the playoffs in a year where virtually every team made the playoffs isn't a valid measuring stick.

I'm partial to the Finger Lakes wine trail that runs between Geneva and Watkins-Glen. Super cool area with Corning only about 45 mins away from Watkins-Glen.

That was the COVID year. Almost everyone made the playoffs. WE missed out on the playoffs by a point.

Blackhawks are going on 7 years and are nowhere right now. They have Bedard but there is no guarantee he pulls them out of that...McDavid didn't help much with the Oilers for a few years.

No reason to prolong the rebuild either when you aren't winning sh!t

If they wanted to go it for the best they could they would be getting younger prospects at some point not doubling down on aging vets. Karlsson has a great season again last year but it was his first great season in a while and at his age it's more likely that was a one off than something you can expect again.

They are very unlikely to win a cup at this point with their aging roster.

It isn't short term, but it is long term. They are simply in denial at this point. It happens to a lot of teams with aging vets that have had a lot of success...trying to hold on for too long...look at what the Blackhawks have been going thru. They should have learned from their mistakes not make the same ones

So a guy that is good enough to start 78 games as a 2nd pair Dman on the best regular season team of all time isn't good enough for us? Now I've heard it all.

Pittsburgh desperately needs to rebuild but they keep acquiring aging players instead. Short term sure he will help. But how much? Probably not as much as they think. Hope they enjoy still struggling to make the playoffs next year before the bottom drops out. https://www.pensburgh.com/platform/amp/2023/8/6/23821953/penguins-breaking-news-trade-erik-karlsson-sharks-canadiens

Driving to Mammoth Caves in KY from Louisville this morning and it's raining pretty good...trucks 3 wide are basically blocking all the lanes and going 10 mph under the speed limit. And to boot Mammoth Caves in the Central Time Zone so we are going to have an hour to spare

Ducks agree to terms with Troy Terry on a Tage special...7x7

We need to see them right next to each other to be able to compare

JJ Peterka - "I Don't Speak French - Adieu!"

Any dude who played 78 games on the best regular season team in NHL history is a major upgrade for the Sabres D corp.

Levi should take care of that, IMHO. He was already a far better option than anything we had before him. Sabres would have made the playoffs by at least 10 points last year if he was our full time goalie from the start of the season.

With so many young players the majority of the improvement should be expected to come from them gaining experience and improving...sort of like what happened with Tage and Cozens and Dahlin...can expect that next season with Power and Peterka and I would have said Quinn but unsure how the injury will impact him this year...Peterka was named the best forward at the World's this year..that is no small feat. Filling in around them is what he should be doing not looking to bring big ticket players in unless there is a major need that he doesn't have covered