shrader

Am I seeing this right, the bridge crosses over 6 lanes of traffic plus a median, but has no middle support and no suspension? I have absolutely zero engineering knowledge, but that doesn't sound like the best of plans to me (yeah, hindsight, I know).

Yes. Right now it's a 2nd round pick in 2019. If they re-sign him, it becomes a 1st round instead.

I decided to randomly look up Kane's numbers in San Jose so far. He's got 1-5-6 in 7 games out there. Hopefully he can keep that going and they decide to keep him around. Put up numbers like that in the playoffs and I bet he sticks.

That's the first thing that came to mind as I read the thread. I had no idea that channel changed names, but I haven't watched something on it in a while.

That thread was one hell of a ride. We're not going to get that this time though. There's too much going on, so the craziness is going to be divided up between 3 or 4 threads this time around.

I'm not so sure you can rely on playing time. He'll be able to find that somewhere else if he wants. What it would come down to is familiarity with the organization/system and being happy with that. Familiarity with the system is going to be in question, obviously.

It also wouldn't hurt if they figured out a way to rig the lottery machine. You'd have a real nice core of young d-men after that. I do wonder about Nelson though. He can walk after the season very easily. It's tough to build up that depth if those depth guys decide to leave to free agency.

I'm in a hospital so it never closes either. I'm in research though and can work from home when I need to. The weather here is never really all that bad, but I'll gladly use it as an excuse during the 2-3 snow storms a year so I can get that extra hour of sleep.

They absolutely need plenty of changes. These stretches are where you figure out which pieces might actually be worth keeping around.

They're on an 11-10-2 stretch over the last couple months. It's baby steps, but it's growth. There's no intention to tank here.

That whole group was a waste of time. I do wonder if they'll resurface in some form down the road. Simon asked them about the helipad and solar panels and there is that chopper that Rick saw a while back. They have to follow up on that at some point or else the writing really is shot. Then again, it probably already is because after all of this time, each of these groups should be well aware of a chopper flying near them.

They all had guns until the Saviors took them. You must have blacked out during the entire discussion about that.

Looking at the three movies you picked for the thread title, it looks like there's an obvious theme for this month. I'll be sitting out this one, since there's nothing of any interest to me this month. Next month's thread suddenly got a lot more interesting though, didn't it?

I'm at the point where I kind of wish they'd throw a curveball at everyone and have Negan win. He felt like the so called good guy after that episode last night. Hand the show off to him and completely free it from the comics.

Now that it's been a year, can we finally stop hearing about that other failed message board?

It was her birthday after all. I feel like you pretty much have to fall on that sword in hopes that she'll fall on your sword.

They need to keep this run going through the rest of the season. It would be a major sign of growth. They've got a long road ahead of them, but any sign of growth is going to a go a long way towards changing this from a 5 year project into a 3 year one. Filter out some of the crap and replace it with better pieces and you can speed this thing up. It's no easy task, but you've got to take any positive sign you can find. Personally, I just want to get back to a point where I can watch these games again. At this point, I know I'm not spending the money on center ice next year unless something miraculous happens.

If the kid wants to sit out 3 years so that he can become a free agent, good luck to him. That's a ton of money to walk away from. Do yourself a favor to calm that irrational fear: look up how many teams over the salary cap years have been awarded a compensatory pick for losing a first round pick. It's an incredibly short list, especially when you look at picks from the first half of the draft. I won't pretend that I know the prospects well. I'm too far removed from paying attention to that stuff. But anyway, technically they can't guarantee him a spot, at least not in writing. What usually winds up happening is that they sign agree to burn off the first year of the entry level contract so that he can get to a bigger money deal quicker. It seems like that is what winds up happening with these guys most of the time, so that's what they'd do here too. And the 9 game rule is strictly for guys under 20 years old. Borgen has aged out of that already. I'd imagine that they sign him once St. Cloud's season is done. They're #1 in the country though, so if they make the Frozen Four, it really doesn't leave any time for him to get into a Sabres game this year. There is time for the Amerks though.

That's completely different than penciling him into the starting lineup next year. I have absolutely zero issue with allowing certain prospects like him to get their feet wet like this at the end of a season. The full training camp at the start of the season is the real proving ground for whether not not they are ready for more serious time. I wish they had taken this same approach with Nylander and even someone like Girgensons and Ristolainen. I'm not really sure where I stand on throwing those guys into the AHL right away vs. keeping them in their junior or european league. There's going to be merits to both and they're different for each player.

Only if the turtle shell is flat.

It drives me mad when I see anyone slotting guys like Mittelstadt and next year's yet unknown draft pick into the roster immediately. Have we not learned a thing from how poorly this approach has worked out so far? The player who can step in from day one and make an immediate impact is so incredibly rare, yet we continue to think that every single guy this team drafts is that guy. I know no one wants to hear it, but we're going to need to sit back and wait through what is going to be a long ride. Tim Murray reset the clock, so we're pretty much at day 1 of that road now. You want something to really scare our fans? Compare the reactions to Mittelstadt today to those of Nylander in the first year after he was drafted. It may as well be a cut and paste. We do the same damn thing every single year. Even if by some chance, they're actually right about this guy, they need to start landing 2 or 3 more players who wind up contributing at the pro level in any given year before they're going to be able to establish some depth. They'll never be anything until they can roll out legitimate NHL talent on every line.

Its too early for that no matter how lost he may look right now. He’s just about to hit the age where most of these kids would just be starting their first pro contract. Add to that the fact that he missed so much time from camp into the season due to injury, he’s missed out on significant developmental time. They’ve got plenty of time to still make this one work. He’s going to wind up being he first guinea pig of the new focus on player development.

Ignoring the lottery for second, I fully expect this team to jump Ottawa in the standings. I think their dysfunction may take things to a whole new level soon enough.

But circular logic is completely acceptable. Claiming that all pictures are fake and then requesting people post pictures? I have no idea what the next possible step in that could be.

That’s he beautiful thing about living in a world where you believe that everything is faked, absolutely nothing can be proved