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Thought Milano got locked up last year. Poyer is likely a given & if he doesn't start finding ways to fill the proper hole rather than run into a DL you're probably onto something with Edmunds.

His comparables (not necessarily skills wise, but more overall talent level) are the Ruhwedels of the league. He's a 7/8 and if we're lucky a 6 because injuries will get him into ~20 games.

Guess he knew something was in the works back in December when he bought a new house.

Wonder what Poyer thinks of that. Am glad Knox will be here LT. Just wondering who they'll have to start losing next year when all these deals start kicking in.

Done. You pick every game each week straight up. You have IIRC until 5 minutes prior to game time to make a pick. (So, if you forget about the Thursday game, as if, you still can pick the rest of the scheduled games until 12:55 eastern on Sunday & the late games until ~3:55 or 4:10 on Sunday depending upon who has the doubleheader.) Your worst week gets dropped. Pretty sure you can't pick the following week until all of that week's games are done. (Selection grid didn't open until Tuesday this week. Expect that'll be the case all season, but not positive.) Good luck.

No, he can't. His current contract is valid for TWO years, not 1. He needs to wait 2 years to go arbitration. You honestly believe he can't get a deal worked out this next off-season?

The damage is done. Have to try to look at the remaining bright sides of this course. And it isn't Reinhart all over again unless the Pegulas are fearing being extremely cash poor. Expect both Reinhart & Ullmark would've been offered LT deals in '20 except for the fact that nobody had any idea if there would be any hockey nor what the world would look like in a few months. This ONLY begins to be a Sammy redux if they don't negotiate in good faith this coming summer. Can't see any realistic possibility of that happening.

Bump. The Pick 'Em league is now allowing picks for week 1. Survivor also open. Lots of space left in both leagues. Mods, any chance this can be pinned until sometime on Sunday?

Would actually be surprised if sending him down ISN'T a tough decision.

And Cozens gets talked about at W too. The team might have 9 legit C's 3 years from now or 2. The people that hate this deal are really looking at it from an '22-'23 perspective rather than when the deal will be in place and aren't merely expecting him to drop to typical 2C #'s (which is possible, though IMHO would be a bit of a surprise) but rather back to 3rd liner results. Which would be a surprise should he stay at C. It's a 2C deal and might be setting the F contract level/value until the cap begins to skyrocket in 2-3 years. Waiting a 1/2 year or a full one was the greater risk IMHO.

Which is why it was silly for a handful around here to be worrying about Ra-cha-cha's ability to dress 20 players every night back when the off-season began. The Amerks were ALWAYS going to be able to ice a full team by the time mid-October rolls around. And likely one that is both competitive & developing the youngsters.

Remember that they also have another team's worth of salary cutting into the players' share. Yes, there is more HRR, but the denominator for calculating the cap went from 31 to 32. It's also very likely that the players haven't finished paying the owners back for the excess share of revenues they got during the lockdown era. Until that money is fully paid back, the cap will remain relatively static. After the owners have been fully repaid there will almost definitely be a large bump to the cap.

Second likely plus, though definitely not a given, is that Dahlin will likely still be a good player on the contract after this next one. (He fits the type to have a better chance than most to play into his late 30's or even 40's.) That age 31 contract will likely be bad but not horribly so and at 38 the AAV will be down from an age 36 contract. That age 36 one would likely be a killer. Looking at the SERIOUS long game. 😉

Still say they keep 8.

No fears. 20-0 baby. They got their loss out of the way last week. 😉

Yep. He'll be good-ish if he only plays 20 or so games. If he's expected to play much more than that, he'll wear down. Expect he'll be ~0.905 S% if he plays 20 or less. ~0.895 if he plays significantly more than that. Will be surprised if he doesn't spend at least a couple of weeks on IR.

Had picked him to get 60 points earlier this summer, so will stick with that. Not sure if he's C or W this year, but expect him on the 2nd line & 1st PP.

There is IMHO a lot of this in that stat. The majority of the players get put on their "strong side" in youth hockey & never really get as much opportunity on their other side and end up more comfortable there. My teams tended to have at least 1 kid playing on their off-hand as we usually only had enough kids for 5 D rather than 3 pairs. But even then, most of them were on their strong side. And the primary reason was typically for being able to keep the puck in the zone. Way easier for a kid to hold the puck in at the boards on his forehand.

Can we chose from all 3? Expect he'll be top 9 at the beginning, get hurt fairly early and by the time he comes back the kids will have earned his ice time & he'll become the 13th when all are healthy. (As if that would ever happen after the 2nd week of the year.) He is what he is & if he can get bumped in actuality to 13 rather than just on paper/theoretically then this could be a good season if Comrie pans out.

Good thing they had your e-mail. Could see where that could be a fun show.

After the 12-6 drubbing of the Ruskies, the Sabres were VERY popular in Scandanavia at least though the '80's because many there hated the Russians. Though that was before Z's time, could easily see his dad instilling a fandom of the Sabres in young Zemgus as can readily see a hockey fan from the occupied Baltics not having any love for the Russians either.

More often than not, it was bad decisions in that 17 year stretch. Could've listed waaaay more bad picks than just the 2 that were highlighted as you well know.

It's trade offs. Everybody pushing the lefties play LD rightness play RD always hype that keeping the puck in at the BL puts the D- man on his backhand. True, but he also has better shooting & passing lanes from there which is why D almost always play off-hand on the PP (in the traditional 3F, 2D formation; obviously not in 4-1). In zone, yes, the clear along the boards is on the backhand as @French Collection points out. But, for battles in front of the net, the D's stick is towards the center of the ice rather than the boards and he can defend more of "the house." In the neutral zone a D either needs to open up to make the cross ice pass which telegraphs it a bit or backhand it, of course a bounce pass off the boards to the winger breaking that way opens the ice up more. The D-man is longer when Mohawking to forwards skating as the attacking F comes in close when playing their strong side, but he can throw a cleaner hip check if he closes the gap quicker & doesn't need to transition to forwards skating on his weak side. @SwampD has this one. It's tradition which leads to that distinction, as there are pros and cons at both ends & in between.

Interesting question. Which brings up another one. If the team's personnel department is coming up with data & metrics which cause them to make worse decisions than those that don't have that info and would cause others that previously didn't have that data to make decisions just as poorly; wtf are they chasing that data in the 1st place? The idea is to attenuate to useful data, not lose it in the chafe. If your scenario is/was in fact the case, whomever chose the metrics to track should've found himself a resident in that Native American cemetery next to the stadium at worst or on the 1st bus to Jacksonville or Detroit or Flushing or wherever the NFL likes to reward its incompetents at a minimum. But suspecting that there is no amount of info in the universe to make John McCargo nor Aaron Maybin a good selection. 😉

Vaguely recall having seen that when somebody pointed it out but not seeing it now. But am noticing a little song bird shouting out around the eye when that logo is inverted. Could make a great party game or maybe a psychoanalyst's wet dream , rather than staring at clouds or ink blots & looking for shapes, turn the goathead around and find everything that's hidden there. (Really scary thought, that seems like something @PASabreFan would come up with. Must need a vacation. Long durn month it's been.)