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So, if they managed to offer sheet Mitts for low $6 million range, they would have effectively traded a 1st and a 3rd for Byram.

Me too. The goal meme writes itself. WOW BLUEGER!

Yeah, I read that Boston may want to move Ullmark after basically ignoring him in the playoffs. If Swayman is #1, cash out the #1B and go with a #2 goalie I guess.

I love the internal inconsistency in your post: "Thompson needs to go to wing" but "Mitts trade is one of the few no doubt great moves", like trading a center and moving another center to wing is going to improve anything. You're funny. Or trolling. Probably trolling.

Especially with Reinhart, I don't think it was Covid. I think Kevyn had already decided to move on from Eichel and saw Reinhart as part of that core he wanted to move on from. In fact, looking back, I think the one year deal he signed Reino to was the first concrete indication that Adams was going to shake up the roster. I look back now at XGMTM and JBot and I really regret that they just couldn't build a cohesive roster with a decent culture. Instead they brought in a bunch of misfits (as in pieces that didn't fit together) and leaned too heavily on Eichel to save the franchise. What an epic failure that turned out to be.

I saw them here in Ft Worth a couple years ago. Solid is a good description.

It's called intensity.

Reino with the OT winner in FLA

My point was the Mitts trade was dumb. We really didn't need another high-talent, pretty-boy Dman (regardless of handedness) at the expense of a solid 2/3 C. But Adams decided to invest in Tage and Cozens and walk away from Mitts. I don't understand that. I just don't. The gap created by trading Casey away is greater than any contribution Byram will make, imo.

No, no, no... just ask Kevyn: You can never have too many LHD!

Zach Benson - Yanni Gourde - Brandon Tanev Jordan Greenway - Peyton Krebs - Tanner Jeannot I like the looks of that.

I think this is a good assessment of the situation. Offer him 1.3 to 1.5M and see how it goes. He's a solid depth defenseman and I think he probably could squeak into the top 6 on some teams but I'm not sure those teams would want to pay him $1.9M either.

They definitely found their game in the second period.

Or what about the time I met Brett Hull at DFW Airport? You wanna here that one again? 😛

And boy what a greasy goal it turned out to be.

I gotta believe Lindy will have a feel for the guys before preseason starts. This whole "wait until" stuff has to be over now if the Sabres are going anywhere this coming season.

Definition of a cold front: Over the last 3 miles of my commute, the temperature dropped from 81 to 64. It's raining pretty good but I got into the office before the downpour.

Because you draw conclusions from things no one else draws. Maybe you're just more clever than the rest of us. I don't know.

No, not really. If you take just Collin County, the county where Plano is (which does not include Dallas) there is a population of 1.159 million. In the Buffalo Metropolitan Area, which includes Erie and Niagara Counties, the population is only 1.137 million. It's hard to understand what a population juggernaut the Dallas-Fort Worth region is. It has suburbs that are bigger than "big cities".

Nothing. To PA, life is a series of running gags that only he understands.

Barry Manilow wants it back.

The wind is really blowing so I pulled up the weather map. There's a tornado about 20 miles north of my son's place. That's far enough away that I'm not too worried, but man people just south of the Red River are having a bad time tonight. I'm at the blue dot, my son lives in Plano. Interesting that McKinney is in a bigger font than Plano since Plano has almost 3x the population. (Plano, TX, has more people than Buffalo, NY.)

It seemed to me that Dallas was playing a tight defense and was also dangerous on the counterstrike. Edmonton was desperate in their defense of those counterstrikes. I dunno, in baseball some people like homerun derbies and some like pitchers' duels. Different strokes.

Very intense though. You don't see two opposing players pass each other without contact.

I rather enjoyed the game. Both teams are playing excellent hockey.