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That's about where I was too. It's hard for me to see Mitchell drawing that much attention, but that's probably because of the tank. Plus guys like Goose and McCormick got moved at the deadline. Although, I feel like the broadcast last night was pumping the tires on Mess pretty hard. They built him up, but I only saw the usual shitfest back there. I don't think he's one of those two mystery men either.

It would be as if Rob Ford adopted the love child of Evander Kane and Phil Kessel.

GMTM this morning on the top five (20:48):

Let's pour some fuel on this tire fire. Tim Murray (on GR this morning: 17:02-18:38 ) said "I suspect that I'll get a call from six teams on a certain player and then another three or four teams on another player. I believe that's going to happen, but I don't know that for sure." Who's getting attention and from whom?

You should adopt the Nikita. You know, so he becomes the perfect human being.

For the record, he expressed remorse and apologized to the team.

Neat. We haven't yet had a compilation of where each team sits.

Well, there's been the trend of releasing limited information (upper body/lower body injuries) over the past few years. I think that initially got started with teams wanting to ###### with competitors about game night lineups and matchup scenarios, especially during playoffs, but now it seems like that language has been become standardized. Why you would use the language with an injury that's been declared season-ending? Cue the theories. Tanks' first theory is probably right: GMTM may be letting guys he doesn't plan on trading get repaired so that they're definitely healthy for next season. Bonus for helping the tank in the short term. Double bonus for not making players play injured.

And as UFA's, they cost us no assets but cap hit, and then even only for a year. Bonus: if they attracted attention, they could be flipped at the deadline for MOAR PICKS.

But then an internet forum full of neckbeards and neckbeardesses also gets to troll you as being a lazy, enigmatic Russian with discipline issues while simultaneously deriding your boss for ###### up your professional development. Re-read this thread as if you're the subject. It's ###### up for only showing up to work late. Then again, you get paid the big bucks and the media and fan scrutiny comes with the job.

Great article on analytics on NHL.com today. Maybe the the best summation of the utility and intentions of the emergent field that I've seen. It doesn't go into any math, but rather a solid explanation of why hockey has headed this way. http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=754099&navid=nhl:topheads It's worth the full read, but here are selected quotes for the lazy.

I still can't fathom why Washington pissed him away.

There is. Slash or high stick?

And we pay Craig Patrick's salary, so +1 juju to us.

I'm looking forward to McCabe. He hasn't been up with us since his seven game introduction more than 10 months ago. He's leading defensemen in points in Rachacha. McCabe had opened some eyes when he was named to the All-B1G team as a junior and then captained the 2013 Team USA WJC team to gold with six points in seven games. He projects as a potential #2-3 defenseman. From HF:

I believe we're currently 3rd only because we're currently last and I refuse to entertain any other reasons.

That was Kate Upton.

That's a bit overpayment, IMO, especially with O'Reilly only having one year left on his contract and being on pace for 43 points this year (Ennis is on pace for 46). Ennis and Pysyk/1st or Pysyk plus picks is more up my alley. And I'm not even that hot on moving Ennis to begin with, but since we're blowin' it all up anyways, it's fine.

I'm ok with that. Obviously depending on other pieces. I think if we wait until off season, we'll have fewer expendable pieces to move out, but not necessarily a shortage of them. Although, more teams may want in, raising the price.

That kid is batting way above his average.

You mean in hand? durrr

I live out here. Not sure I'd want to cross the line. Longshoremen and their union are, generally, nothing to with.

So from that, there's a 1 in 10000 chance that we go 25-0? Even that assumes a 69.8% chance of winning each game. If you use our win percentage (44.4%), we have a 1.53E-9 chance of winning 25 in a row. That's 1.5 in one billion. Let's go cup crazy two tousand... sickteen.

October 2014.

Good. More stuff to dick around with, especially if it's updated nightly like the other stats. I'm waiting for them publicly rank GVS.