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He should have plenty in the tank, then.

Anyone wanna hazard a guess as to what the AAV might be for Neal? Maroon? I can't believe an overall #1 is washed out at 24 (yakupov).

Right? What would it take? I know it's possibly been discussed, but I don't remember the names, and their new sitchee-ay-shun might improve the return, eh?

Scott Laughlin on Sirius saying Isles NEED to get ROR, and get him TODAY.

"Bumped" from GM to special advisor by azzhat shanahan, then hired away by the isles.

Weird. Lou leaves a team he helped build to keep a guy like JT on the new team, only to lose said franchise center to the team he just left.

Back on! Thanks. Ooo, 30 more minutes.

Just lost power with extra time starting. Eff me.

Harrington was on the SiriusXM NHL channel a couple hours ago this morning, and his 15min contribution boiled down to "c'mon, we all know this is what's going on, even though I have zero facts." you could hear the deep sighs from the co-host after every blurb followed by a valiant attempt to keep some sense of integrity instilled in the conversation, but it was embarassing at best...to hear a journalist literally making stuff up on the fly. Eff Harrington.

kings are in cap-hell, now and the foreseeable future. kinda why they ditched the GM. gonna leave big names unprotected and none of them are going to get picked up by vegas, that's how bad their contracts are.

I can't help but giggle about that painting of game 1000, a game he's on home ice for, yet wearing road white sweater in the picture. Very well thought out. Hell, why not pay the artist to have two ready to go? Like Terry can't afford that? Edit: re-sign one year deals for the duration of his effectiveness.

same here. it's confusing.

well, jon's always wondered who his mom was. he's always believed ned to be his pa, which we now know to not be the case. also, based on the lead-up story of ned's sister being "kidnapped" by a targaryan, we can confirm jon is a product of stark and targaryan blood (as well as dany's nephew). i think the drama the writers were trying to drum up was finally revealing jon's parents (and the "shock" of ned not being his actual father). this was all theorized well over a year ago, so that might be why the scene rang a bit hollow.

like. any idea what timeframe we can expect for this guy making it to regular playing time? i can't imagine he steps right in a la eichel.

TSN has Bartkowski to Van for 1 year deal, Boston loses another piece.

Arizona/Lindback, 1 year, $875k per TSN

I catch work comp claimaints who are faking. Trained to fly helicopters, but missed my window of employability. Now it's just a 'spensive hobby. Desperately want to do anything related to my bioengineering background that allows me to get the #### out of jersey, ASAP.

was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

In honor of what will most likely be a first round selection by buffalo of jack eichel at this year's draft, at brunch this morning I ordered the jumping jack omelette (mariner's cove, brielle, nj). It was awesome.

I haven't read a single post in this thread, but as I calm down from that 15sec isles OT win, and watch the pro in Chicago sing the anthem, I'm reminded that this is the first season in a long time that I haven't had to see that ding-a-ling in boston (rene something) ham it up with his best ethel mirman impression and fist-pumps (how many THIS time?!) even once.

Eichel and Reinhart. Reinhart and Eichel. Reminds me of the Ace Ventura revelation. "Finkle is Einhorn, Einhorn is Finkle?" I'm happy with Jack, sad for Connor, and ecstatic for next season.

Wouldn't it be weird if connor just thought, "I love it here in erie, I think I'll withdraw my name from this year's draft." I have NO idea if that's even possible, but it sure would be absolutely wild. Even better if it happened after the lottery.

I can't be the only person who thinks the logic of moving towards more lottery picks is achieving the opposite of the NHL's desired effect (Which is to prevent tanks). If anything, you get what we have currently, which is several teams out-sucking each other (eewww) for a guarantee of the #2 pick. Making the top 3 picks a toss-up boarders on insanity, with the CHL's annual winner possibly never having a legit chance to dig out of the gutter year after year, especially if that franchise is saddled with a garbage front office. As a conspiracy theorist when it comes to pro sports, Bettman could be sending top picks where he feels they're the best fit (I'm KIDDING*). As someone mentioned previously, the NFL has had no issues with tanking and giving 1st picks to the worst teams. I wouldn't say that if the NHL did this you would have a perfect system (see this year's sabres of the season-long suckage, or the pre-sid penguins), but at least the crappiest of crap teams would be allowed to restock. Teams don't end up at the bottom, pissing off fans, for kicks...they are legitimately flawed. Solution? I don't have one. And it wouldn't matter if I did, I'm not an NHL official. But if the league is going to make the top 3 picks a toss-up, they should at least limit the eligible teams to the 3 bottom feeders. If Boston were to miss the playoffs on the last day of the season this year and land the #1 pick (which is an actual thing that could happen), I'm pretty sure I'd walk away from caring about pro sports**. *not really **not really

never quite latched onto the comedy here, since a strike is only bad in baseball for 50% of the players involved, while the rest probably appreciate it. or did they mean a work stoppage?

Well, the name of the city is actually taken from an algonquian word "shikaakwa." That being of native american origin, it's not entirely crazy that they use the blackhawk name and the head of a NA for their logo.