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I didn't not know if I've ever seen a better opportunity to switch goalies than after the tied goal. I probably would have done it after the second.

How much did she pay to publish one that long?

I'm available.

Thank god for the replay from the trailing angle. The live feed did not do justice to just how wide open that net was. I would have thought that only early season Evander Kane could have missed that net.

Last week I picked up a group of 18 tickets for this friday's game in Carolina. I need to do this more often. Discounted tickets and only a single $10 fee for the entire thing? Sign me up. I'll be the only Sabre fan in the group, but it should be a good time. The others aren't Carolina fans though, so I'm sure I can use Eichel to win them over, especially the kids.

Thanks to Sam Reinhart

It's a shame they laid that egg against Boston. They'd be on a nice little run without that.

I wish this team could score at even strength half as well as they do on the power play

It nailed my age the first time.

Goaltending is not a problem with this team. They have no reason to add anyone right now.

I finally got to this movie yesterday. Maybe it's comes down to the amount of time on screen, but I thought it was funny that the Tarkin CGI felt so awkward to me yet Leia was fine. Vader's scene was fun, but I didn't get my wish of him showing up and quickly offing the jedi wannabe. As a whole, I enjoyed the movie. I thought it started a bit slowly, but once it got going it was good. It was refreshing to see a one-off movie with zero chance of a sequel, at least for the central people in this single story. I know it's kind of strange to say that when talking about the 8th movie in a franchise, but I couldn't help but think it. Throughout the whole movie, I kept asking myself "isn't that Krennic guy one of the guys that Vader force chokes to death in one of the original movies?". It was driving me crazy at the end as to why I kept thinking that. Then I realized he gets choked out (or a broken neck) by Bane in Dark Knight Rises.

Yes I'd still hate it. Laine did that to himself. Some players are far more aware in that spot than others. So they can jump people for that all they want, I just wish the league would follow up with more than a two minute minor.

I'm just seeing this for the first time. It looked like Laine was knocked out at the moment of contact. Kind of odd. Still, it's a perfect example of something that drives me mad in today's NHL. You throw a perfect clean hit and you have to be immediately jumped by the entire other team. I'm not really sure how that's only a roughing minor there.

I'd say I'm kicking myself for throwing that one out there right before the game, but it has been a constant with Nilsson all year. Still, when it comes to these goalies, I think the broadcast nailed it last night when they said that goalies have not been the problem with this team. Both of these goalies would look a hell of a lot better with a real team in front of them.

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The thing that scares the crap out of me each time Nilsson starts is his rebound control. If he got a heavier work load, I could see that becoming an issue very quickly.

I'm pretty strict about separating work and my home life. Forget about emails, once my work day is done, I don't even want to talk about the place. I have never connected a work email to the email app in my phone. That way I can't be distracted by it. If I want to read a work email on my phone, I have to login through the website. When the workload gets a bit more demanding, I may stay a little longer each day, but I will not take that home with me. I say I never take it home with me, but I do on occasion work from home so I can avoid the long drive, get a little extra sleep, or if someone is coming with a delivery or working on the house. Anything between 8-5 is work time in my mind, so that much I can do from home, especially when no one else is there. edit: Strangely enough, my boss just approached me and asked if I'd be willing to share a desk with someone and work from home 50% of the time. Apparently they're running out of space here.

That was an incredibly odd episode last night.

I wish I had access to junior games because I'd love to see how he looks out there. He was solid here, but I feel like you see that so many times with young guys getting their initial callup. Once they spend more time, many tend to fall off. I know things have changed a bit in the NHL, but I'd like to see more of these mid-level prospects going back to the days of a more gradual development process, especially a defenseman. I don't think he's going to make or break this team next year, so I'd much rather seem him get some serious development time. Even if he's that 7th guy who winds up frequently riding the shuttle between Buffalo and Rochester, I think it'll be much better for him long term. As for the comparison to Nylander, it actually sounds like they would be on similar schedules. Guhle is a year older, so he should be a bit further advanced at this point. On another note, has anyone been watching the World Juniors at all? I haven't had the chance but it's nice to see USA BU back in the finals after a few years off. The very heavy BU representation in the final does make me miss those season tickets I had for years. They've got 6 guys going for the US and 1 for Canada, the most ever from one college. Strangely enough, the actual BU team also has a game tonight and can dress only 17 skaters since so many are gone. They also had to add a new goalie to the team just so they could have a backup tonight.

I think I'd take it a step further and say that I'd like to see him spend most of next year in Rochester.

How do they go about adding more talent around him? At this point, they're one skater away from a legit top 6. They can't sit back and hope that Nylander winds up being that guy. He's too far away. They're at a point where they probably need to be adding blue liners instead of forwards in the offseason. But at the same time, there's no one in the organization at this moment who is ready to be that guy. Short of a sudden emergence of a guy like Bailey or Baptiste, I have no idea where forward #6 is going to come from.

You pretty much hit on what I was thinking about as I made my post and that is which center would fit best with them (Kane/Bailey). Right now it's that high quality passer in Reinhart. I'm really not sure who I'd like to see there, possibly O'Reilly when he is back. Whoever it is, Larsson has opened up a slot for Bailey to stick around long term. I hope he makes the best of it.

I wish a few more celebrities would handle it that way. That's hilarious in a "dumbass" sort of way.

I'd like to see a little bit more of him paired up with Bailey. There's some real energy in that combination.

Home and home series are supposed to be on back to back days. I hate that they've changed that