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  1. That Aud Smell
    From a guy named Greg Brady: That’s that for Tavares w/ the Isles. Have heard from far too many connected people that the only way JT was staying was a reaffirmed commitment to Weight as head coach. Isles will attempt to trade his rights before July 1. Hmmm.
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    to include, maybe, the nature of Lou's departure from Toronto? I am a little curious: If you were the Leafs, could you not figure out a way to pay Lou not to work for the next 2 months, so that he's not with another franchise maybe making use of intell that your franchise developed regarding the draft?
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    appears so
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    Holy sh1tballs.
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    You may have seen me post to the effect that we spent an overnight -- a game night, as it turned out -- in Las Vegas in early April in connection with travels elsewhere. We stayed in the hotel that's basically connected to the arena. We were totally wow'd and charmed by the vibe, energy, and spirit surrounding the arena, the game, and so on.
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    It'd be ... it'd be funking stooopid if he legit chose to leave strictly because the Bills chose Allen and he'd said he'd quit if that came to pass with Mayfield or Rosen still on the board. There's gotta be more at play. The most likely factor being that he was strongly considering a move anyway, for whatever reason(s).
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    i'm usually one who's apt to get exercised about bad hits -- but that one didn't seem awful. a penalty, for sure. maybe it was the angle?
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    Skinner as a major piece in a deal for ROR? Blechk. Was Hanifin drafted in Eichel's year? He should, in time, become a good top-4 d-man.
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    ^ @BradleyGelber May 2 Replying to @HarrisonBacon 11+6=17. 17 year playoff drought ended. During the '17 season. Josh Allen selected (rd) 1 (#) 7. Will wear number 17. ++ And that is to say nothing of the significance of the #11 for Buffalo sports -- the Perreault lottery and number, Norwood's number.
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    ^ Read something else and saw that Fleury hasn't been bad, per se, but the Capitals are getting really, really high percentage chances. But, whatever. Fleury and the Knights were riding his ridiculous SV% during the playoffs. There was a good chance it would regress. And it has.
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    Did not watch the game, but saw the SV%. Fleury's been ... not good during the SCF.
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    Preach.
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    It's a fun story, on several levels. And then it gets even more fun and weird when you hear that the error got permanently fixed at one point (removed his name entirely), only to have the league be like, "nah, man -- put that old codger's name BACK on that band of silver and X THAT SH1T OUT ALL OVER AGAIN."
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    My favourite Cup snafu is how Basil Pocklington's name is X'd out (on the original - not the replica). There's a story about how the band of silver that had the elder Pocklington's name on it had to be re-made at one point, but it was re-made omitting his name entirely. The league (or the Cup's owners?) insisted that it be re-made *again* so that Pocklington's name was there and X'd out yet again.
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    Amazing.
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    Also: Buffet didn’t get rich by squandering assets.
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    You keep referencing him. The people who run TBN report to Buffet. They want good numbers and good news (ha) to report to him. Those are the folks I have on mind.
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    The principal observation is that TBN has, of late, become weirdly solicitous of local business interests (including the biggest “business interest,” the Empire State Development Corp. (Cuomo)). The principal theory, that I floated, is that TBN’s solicitousness of business interests extends to PSE. The further flung theory is that TBN may even be trying to stay cool with PSE so as to ensure a role or voice in downtown stadium development. I’m no tinfoil hat jabroni. I think that last piece is plausible.
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    Smart move by JBOT. (Am I doing this right?)
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    No idea. I'll admit that it's a little out there, as theories go, but it's far from wackadoo, imo. I've been saying it for a while (and I'm hardly alone): There's something genuinely weird going on at TBN.
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    Or, as was just floated by someone on the Twitter, maybe TBN wants to be well positioned to sell their land when PSE comes looking for a downtown stadium site.
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    Holy Christmas - is that ever weird. And, yeah - most definitely not an incident on public transportation. You have to think that the AGM was impaired in some way. Flynn's tack is sort of funny: Not the crime of the century, but I gotta call a press conference about it. In this particular instance, though, I sort of love that my elected DA is maybe going out of his way to take a shot at a divisional rival for "uncool" behaviour. Also, having dealt with Flynn quite a bit back in the day, I had more recently observed to myself that Flynn's public appearances were more ... polished than I recalled him being (those appearances that were in his capacity as a candidate for DA and then as the elected DA). This presser featured more of Flynn's trademark style of speech. I always enjoyed it.
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    I wonder if it's a nod to Canada, though. (HNIC.) I clicked because I thought I'd read some wacky story about a fist fight on the metro rail. Turns out, it was an incident on a hotel shuttle bus.
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    Well, there's no automated way of tracking that sort of readership, innit? I'd venture to say that TBN could rely on a large share of print readership to look for Sullivan's and Gleason's columns. I'd also surmise that TBN is not terribly concerned with retaining print readership. There's certainly no growing it.
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    My point would be: If the clicks were there, TBN would not have moved to take away their columns.
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