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Oops, knew it looked wrong.

Even if by some chance the miracle happens and they finish 2nd last, they still wind up with a 33% chance at McEichel. So to say that the whole thing is for not is a bit of an overstatement. And regardless of how things are going today, this is the worst team in the NHL. No little rut for Arizona changes that. They've taken 10 points in all of 2015 so far. One stretch of 5 games doesn't erase that prolonged period of suck.

They're giving up on average 38.5 shots per game since the trade and the number has trended upward the entire stretch. Forget about energy level, picking up points is not sustainable under that kind of barrage. And now add in the injuries on the blue line and Zemgus/Ennis and there's even worse hockey to be played.

Keep in mind that we're talking about a stretch where they are not winning games in regulation at all. The performance is still not there and this is going to catch up to them very quickly.

They are 3-5-2 in their last 10. What exactly is going wrong here from the tank point of view? Arizona is the only team in the entire league who has put up less points in that same stretch. They are still comfortably in last.

This thread reminded me how I have absolutely no memory of where the show was when it left off. I had completely forgotten about Doug until it was mentioned here. That's the one big issue with the Netflix setup, having to wait a year to get more episodes. It's great for binge watching an entire series, but it sucks here. I think I need to start ignoring their shows until they are completely done.

You might want to take this to PM so the rest of us can avoid the spoilers.

I was in DC for the Frozen Four in 2009. I went to my hotel's bar one night to grab some drinks. Rizzo, Craig, O'Callahan, and Dave Silk were all sitting together at the end of the bar. That was a cool moment. It didn't last too long though because as more people showed up, they started to get recognized.

And then there was the flare zombie!

Reboot probably isn't the right word. It'll probably just be a new actor taking over the role but it's the same continuity. It should be like Harrison Ford taking over in the Jack Ryan movies, just picking up where they left off. They can just take any random timeframe because Indy would have had countless adventures.

There are no restrictions for owning teams in the same city.

Is this a serious question?

I probably screwed myself over trying to go with the football analogy. Luck-McDavid actually seems like a pretty good one to me, but I'm not really sure on a good fit for Reinhart. Anyway, the main point is that no matter how good of a player he projects to be, Reinhart does not belong in the same sentence at this point as McDavid and Eichel. They are mega-prospects the likes of which we haven't seen in a very long time. I don't like using Gretzky and Mario as the ceiling examples though. Those days are gone, that was a brand of hockey we will never see again. I know people don't like him all that much, but Crosby is the standard at this point and McDavid has been compared to him for many years already.

I know where Union is. What I can't find is a player on that gold medal team who played there.

What?

If the Sabres somehow go .500 the rest of the season, Arizona going just 8-16 the rest of the way would still finish ahead of Buffalo. That record is well below their pace for the season. The Coyotes are not going to fall below Buffalo.

Here's what I hope for it to be. Pittsburgh taking Malkin at #2 in 2004 and Crosby #1 in 2005. Reinhart isn't a Malkin-type of player, but in terms of a team solidifying itself at center in back-to-back drafts, that is the gold standard. We've had so little talent up the middle of the ice for years now and all of a sudden the rest of the league is going to be very envious, even if we wind up picking second this year.

He could have been up this year but they returned him to juniors. But to answer what I think you're really wondering here, last year's draft was much weaker than this year. Think about it this way. This year's draft is Andrew luck going first overall. Last year's was like EJ being the top available QB. That example is a bit extreme, but Reinhart is nowhere near the level of prospect as McEichel or McDavid.

The American sensation sentence is just plain odd, it makes very little sense. Most Sabre fans are hoping for an immediate impact in year one from whoever they draft. The only thing to fear is having to wait one extra year for it. That's not happening though. I can assure you that there is not a single person in that BU athletic department or any of their season ticket holders who believe for even one second that Eichel will be there next year.

What is there to clear up? Rizo, an employee of the BU hockey program makes a quick comment which heavily implies that he knows Eichel is gone, and that is all that people focus on in the entire write up? Sure, Bucky is fear mongering, but really, is Rizo going to say anything other than what he did? He serves the interests of the BU athletic department. He knows Eichel is gone, but can't actually say it.

He's a BU employee, so of course he wants Eichel to stay.

Rick's beard is pretty damn incredible at this point

The post-storm walkers was a pretty cool visual

So it's official that he is Selmon Smith, right?

Do they provide that housing to you or do you have to pay for it in some form, like a deduction from your paycheck? You may want to see if they have any restrictions on bringing the girlfriend, like if they're going to make you pay a little extra to have the second person there.