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Trading those first round picks is a bit tricky. The San Jose and St. Louis ones are still tied up in conditions right now. The Sharks can keep their pick this year if they miss the playoffs. It's not likely that they miss, but it is still possible. The Blues can keep their pick this year if it is top 10. Right now, that is looking like a very strong possibility. The Sabres' first round pick could be the only one that is in play. Teams aren't going to be too crazy about picks where they don't even know which year they will be from... and that is before Buffalo probably tries to throw conditions of their own onto the deal. Well either way, at least we can both agree on the need for help at the center position. Tage really is the best hope for secondary scoring this year at this point.

This team will go nowhere as long as essentially all production comes from one line. If Reinhart/Skinner are able to generate steady offense in Jack’s absence (a huge if), there is absolutely zero harm in throwing him on a new line when he gets back. It’s not like it would be permanent. You see if he can spark a second line and if not, you move him back. He won’t auddenly lose his chemistry with those two if he’s away from them for a couple games. Then there’s the Pittsburgh model of throwing the big guns together during a game when a goal is badly needed. There’s absolutely nothing to lose in the big picture by testing this out. Again, it’s all one huge if. And quite frankly, I don’t see them producing consistently while he’s out.

If those two are able to score a bit more without Jack, it’s pretty much a given that they should experiment and see if Eichel can kickstart Thompson/Sheary.

Only in today’s NHL does a player have to defend himself for having his shot deflected up into an opponents visor.

Well there's your problem right there. You think they actually accept dollars at MeadWay.

It'll be funny thinking about people wasting their time with those votes, thinking they can actually stop the Toronto machine.

I used to think that drinking and driving referred to any liquid whatsoever when you were behind the wheel.

I'll probably see Aquaman this weekend. The previous post is the first comments I've actually seen for that movie. It'll be nice to go into one completely blind for once, having no clue what any reviewer said.

I went to the first one and that pretty much took care of it for me. I have no real desire to go to another one. I actually wound up selling off the tickets I had to a BU-BC game at Fenway a few years later. Maybe it's different in the baseball stadiums, but the football ones are just too big for hockey.

I guess "The Dragon and Tennile" doesn't really have a good ring to it, but if that was my last name, *****, I'm using it.

This reminds me of a good one from Thanksgiving this year. My aunt asked me if they have Starbucks in Florida.

So you've been handed an easy out for these sales and you don't take it?

I'll load up my pockets with pennies and use all of them at the self cashout machines at any store. I'm pretty sure that I'm the reason why the machine we have in our office self-serve snack/drink kiosk no longer accepts change.

I never carry much more than $20 on me. When I'm close to running out, I head to the ATM and get another $20. The wife is the same exact way. We actually had a really nice streak going last year where we never went to an ATM for about 6 months. She's a teacher and they tutor some a couple kids after school for cash. We set that cash aside in the house (no, not in the mattress) and took a $20 when we needed it. The whole thing was perfect and I hate that the streak died. This year we've had the exact opposite from that tutoring gig. The parent's always pay her with a check so instead of avoiding the ATM all together, we wind up heading to it far more frequently. I know there are other check cashing options available now, but I'm not on board with those yet.

Finally something useful in this thread. I never followed closely enough to break down or rank Queen songs, but I have to throw one out there. That scene in Shaun of the dead where they fight off all the zombies to "Don't stop me now" is so ingrained in my head. If that one's implanted too just like apparently everything else, well then I don't want any part of any of this anymore.

I love the idea that Dundon wanted big change but then they made internal hires at both GM and coach. That’s some huge culture change right there. And last week there was a comment from Dundon that they want scoring and will never draft a defenseman in the first round as long as he owns the team. I better get to as many games as I can because they won’t be here much longer if his cluelessness remains in control. Fortunately Buffalo is in town twice this year.

He doesn't appear to be injured at all in either the video or the news follow-up story. But what if he was paralyzed? What if he died? What if he was my son? Some day we'll stop judging some fake scenario and instead deal with what actually did happen.

And the part where you suggest that no resistance shown during 4 seconds of video means the kid did not resist? Might as well take that to the next logical step.

The video also doesn't show the kid stealing anything. Even more proof that the kid is completely innocent.

This whole thing reminds me of some of the parents my wife runs into as a teacher. No matter how many mistakes the kid makes, the parents will always deny it and argue that the kid was right. Their little angel can never be wrong. It's not possible. They can ignore reality all they want, that's fine. But it will never change the fact that their kid is an f'n moron.

Hell, you don't even see the kid hit the ground. But yes, let's completely condemn the entire police force across this country based on 3 seconds of limited video.

I don't think it's very likely that there is something that reflects poorly upon the team, but I'm not going to ignore the possibility. I really hate throwing out hypotheticals, but basically the situation that would reflect poorly is the whole mentality of "they'd terminate a guy with <insert issue here>? why would I want to sign there when they don't take care of their own?".

He would have become a prime buyout candidate as they got closer to to the end of that 3-4 year window. What has happened today is far from ideal, but it's definitely shaping up to be a blessing in disguise. It will depend on what the story is when it eventually comes out, whether or not it reflects poorly on the team, but right now, it's found money.

I'm too lazy to do the math, but yeah, the prorated portion of however long he was with the team this year counts towards the cap.

Is that razor wire on the side of the boat where they attempted to board?