shrader

I always used to joke during the peak of the boy band and MTV era that I'd have a band named Man Band.

I'm with you. His big sin there was taking his eye off the play. He turned his back and played the sound of the puck hitting the wrong stick. This business of suspending players based off of the resulting injury is a majorly flawed approach. Risto's hit is a perfect example. Yes it was interference, but the only intent was to separate the player from the puck. Suspensions should be based more off of sending the message that certain types of play need to be eliminated. I know I've seen a long list of plays that didn't result in injury but were far more egregious, but didn't lead to a suspension since no one was hurt. I wish I could think up some recent examples but I'm coming up blank. Stick swinging incidents, cheap shot punches, most Marchand actions... The recipients wind up being fortunate they're not hurt, thus no suspension is issued and the player gets the message that they can keep on doing what they're doing. I know the league has put a huge focus on targeted head shots and I agree with it. I don't see any justification for calling Risto's a target head shot.

Rodrigues was a solid player, but nothing special at BU until Eichel showed up. I really didn't expect much out of him. It's good to see him being a productive player now even though he's not out there with Eichel. It's really tough to see the development of a guy at the NCAA level when you're switched over onto a line with an all world talent, but kudos to this scouting department for being able to see it. Edit: And I forgot to mention that the explosion in Rodrigues' game once he was paired with Eichel is the exact thing I hope that Jack can also bring to the NHL level. Whether it's Nylander or one of the other young guys, I want Jack to be able to bring out the best in whoever his linemate winds up being.

Does any playoff team wind up with a more favorable path than the Rangers? They're going to face the Habs, who they may very well wind up ahead of in terms of points on the season. They get placed into the fairly weak Atlantic division while the top three teams in the entire NHL point-wise (or 3 of the top 4) have to fight through each other. I'd say Washington gets a little break when they get Ottawa/Boston/Toronto, but they're still the Craps and probably will find a way to screw up. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to see the Rags in the Finals simply because they avoided some wear and tear. I'll be curious to see if Columbus might be able to make some waves now that Letang is done. Their first round opponent just got a bit weaker. Are they still throwing stiffs like Ruhwedel back there on a nightly basis?

I just want to know who this person is that DVRs an LPGA tournament and watches it hours later.

I don't see where that helps the team though, at least as of today. Those guys wouldn't be here yet and it still does not address the black hole of depth on the blue line. I don't know if it's Fowler specifically, but if they really had to trade that pick it would have been better to spend in on a defenseman. Hindsight is 20/20, I know.

I'll readily admit my bias here, but I'd be curious about rolling the dice on a guy like Oettinger in the 2nd round. The kid is already a very successful workhorse goalie as a freshman. We haven't had that level of a goalie prospect in the system in ages. And this is completely independent of any other moves in net (signing Cal Peterson). He'll still be a year or two away from leaving BU and you make room for higher tier prospects in net if you have to.

I hate the lazy "what if" game that people always play. That's the exact thing that winds up derailing just about every single conversation. I've got absolutely nothing to say on top of what's already said, so why don't I just create a fake scenario to judge instead so that I can look smart and pretend I'm adding something. Now that I've got that mini-rant out of the way, to me, there's no question that she deserved a penalty. I haven't actually bothered to watch any video of this, but I trust that if they said it, it happened. The part that bothers me is the sort of double jeopardy feel for adding on the score card penalty as well (thank god it wasn't an automatic DQ). She can't possibly sign a correct score card if they assess a penalty one day later. The whole procedure of needing signed cards is so archaic given how much influence TV has.

Jack Bauer was biting out people's throats way before Rick Grimes. Shiva would be incredibly stealthy too, right? I'm not much of a cat guy, but I assume that to be the case.

Kane had a ton of trade value with Winnipeg. He was pretty much the hottest commodity on the trade market at that point. That whole trade still feels like an incomplete to me from the Winnipeg point of view. Stafford was a throw-away and Armia is nothing more than a depth guy. Until we see what Roslovic and Lemieux turn into, there's really nothing to write home about if you're Winnipeg. So as of today, it reduced down to Kane-Bogosian vs. Myers. I'd have to give the edge to Buffalo, but Roslovic looks to be off to a decent start as a pro and could shift the scales.

Typically they'd put together a group of guys a few months in advance and they'd pull from the best available non-NHL options. I'd imagine it was very similar to today's process for picking the world junior rosters, except there's a wider talent pool with the age restriction removed. So that winds up being major junior, NCAA, and any of the guys playing in european leagues. Maybe some of those leagues can be convinced to shut down for a couple weeks during the process, but not the NCAA. If those guys go, they're missing a significant portion of their season. Was his suggestion that this deal would be made in place of the Kulikov one or alongside it?

They didn't execute that scene very well. I had to rewind it a couple times to see that someone actually fell. It came across to me as just a distant scream.

Close. They're automatically given the third best chance of winning lottery. So they can draft anywhere from 1st to 6th, depending on how the lottery plays out. Then they get the 3rd pick in every other round.

He doesn't want to just kill people. He needs these other communities to produce for him. He wants to show the people of Alexandria that both Eugene and Sasha are working with him and they can have that same chance. Get on board and things will get better.

I haven't watched in years. I think I pretty much stopped when Angle left. I was a huge fan. But now that I hear he's back (is he playing his old comedy role too?), I may have to check that out a couple times.

I'm good with it too. I just don't see the league gaining enough from the Olympics to shut things down for a couple weeks. It was big when it was in places like Salt Lake City and Vancouver, but once these things go overseas, we're left with crazy viewing hours that do very little for the average hockey fan in North America. I know they want to expand their brand as far as possible, but I've always felt that these games in Russia or South Korea only hurt the NHL's base. And that doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of the injury issues you mentioned. I am very curious to see where the US and Canada draw their rosters from now. Are the NCAA teams going to lose players for a full season like they did in the old days? I started college right after the NHL jumped in on the Olympics, so I just missed out on seeing the impact of that system on a big time hockey school like BU. Things have changed a lot since then, with far more players having the incentive to leave earlier. Having that additional flight risk could really hurt those programs, granted that it is just a once every four years thing (IF the NHL doesn't come back).

I'd put Jessica Jones right up there with Daredevil. Both of those shows really brought their A game with the main villains. Cage definitely lacked there and I'm starting to get the impression that Iron Fist is similar. I haven't started it yet though.

The tiger shots were short and sweet. They didn't focus on it long enough to get too distracted by tv budget effects. Yeah, I liked Richard too. The kingdom as a hole has worked really well. Casting and story, it actually makes sense. Their quirks are so much more explainable than the junk yard people.

Exactly. He was completely on board with Negan up until the uprising. But since he's stuck with them now, he has to play it very smart, pretty much the only thing he is capable of doing. He'll be very careful moving forward thanks to what he saw with the doctor. No matter how useful he is, Negan will not hesitate to eliminate him if he even suspects anything.

They came around pretty quickly on Dwight's intentions, so if they can trust him, they can definitely trust Eugene again after he sabotages something.

Let's not pretend that Toronto's approach was a one year plan. They've been in rebuild practically since the 2006 lockout. This will be only the second time they've made the playoffs during that time. There's been a couple different resets during that time, but they've definitely been acquiring this current group of players for several years now. The main difference between their tank and Buffalo's is that it came at the end of their retooling. Ours was the start.

Given his interaction with Negan at the end, I completely expect him to team up with Dwight to take down the Sanctuary from the inside. After what he saw with the doctor and now that interaction, Eugene has to know what he's dealing with. That and he absolutely has to team up with Dwight given that they've been intimate.

Well at least the kingdomers are easy to pick out of a crowd. If anything, I'd imagine it's the Saviors in the middle with the three groups converging around them. The dumpster people screw with that one though, since they were scattered around Alexandria.

Why did urinary tract infection get a team in the AHL?

I can understand the initial penalty, but the scorecard thing is completely ridiculous (apparently that's not an automatic DQ anymore, luckily). If you assess a penalty AFTER the card has been signed, the card was not wrong. Absolute worst case, she should have only been penalized two strokes. I have a new neighbor who plays on the european tour and I really need to seek out his opinion on this one.