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But be sure to yell shoot when Dahlin is holding the puck behind his own net, waiting for the breakout to develop.

But so many more people are watching the bouncyball playoffs so it has to be better.

You want some real fun? Imagine the Sabres lose Johnson (31st pick in 2019) and then the 31st pick of 2021 is a major junior player and also decided not to sign. I’d assume the older pick (2019) would get the pick first and 2021 would get the following pick, but I don’t remember if they actually spell that one out.

I was just assuming it was some state run media, a league trying to influence it.

I’ll ignore the ranch part for now because I have zero interest in dipping a wing. But anyway, would you be fine if they just called them fingers or tenders? With those labels, it’s a meal that has a very important position in the world.

I do like the free for all option. My car is super old so I could risk it.

You and three other cars all reach a 4 way stop sign at the same exact time. What do you do? Me, I wait for someone to make the first move and then go from there.

Do you get this upset if someone gives you a thumbs up with no comment?

And apparently he's accelerating so he can go to BU next season. That's going to be one incredibly young freshman.

Every so often there's a movie you want to see, but not until it hits free tv. That's how I feel about this one. It looks very interesting/entertaining, but I'm going to save the $$$ this time around.

I watched it on Amazon the other day. That's the only way I'm going to watch anything with him, when it is "free". Yeah, I pay for prime, but you know what I mean. By the way, that was pretty good. I'm not really sure why they needed to shoe horn Jennifer Connolly into the story though.

You talked about the broadcast partners trying to get into the ownership game and you offered up as examples Comcast/NBC, Rogers... and NESN. Quite honestly, there is absolutely no connection between the three. Rogers did get into the ownership game and further their media empire after that. The Sniders have had the Flyers since day 1 and then later built the comcast empire (empire is putting it mildly). Hell, they're not even a broadcast partner of the league anymore. Only their regional networks have games. And then there's the Fenway group and NESN. Other than Rogers, these aren't broadcasters owning teams. These are owners getting into broadcasting. That's a tale as old as time. The idea of putting a team somewhere because a lead broadcaster is already there, I'm sure it's happened, but I doubt it's all that common. Hell, this very league actually let the Whalers move away while ESPN was one of their main broadcasters.

Are you not familiar with the meaning of the phrase bread winner?

Why do you include Fenway there? Do they own something other than a regional sports network (NESN)? I'd imagine there are a few other ownerships out there like that and a regional sports network is clearly not the bread winner. One of these things is not like the other.

If they have to do it, give them the Coyotes. The big problem with expansion is that it wouldn't just be 2 teams, it would eventually be 4. 36 is way too many teams, but they need that balance across the 4 divisions. MONEY GRAB

Doesn't this just mean they're the best at not being caught?

I'd have gone with "enjoy game 7".

I don't pay much attention to Chicago. How much gas does Toews have left in the tank for that veteran leader role he's going to play next year? Here, somewhere else, I'm curious to see how that works out for him.

Ahh crap, I hate when I’m not able to watch.

Two days of either food poisoning or a stomach bug followed up by 6 hours of delay at the airport with the 15 month old. And then on top of all of that, in-laws. Great Easter.

I don’t care if they have to score 15, they need to get Thompson the hat trick in the last game. You better believe that they’ll be trying.

And since you can see right through the bag, you know right away that you didn't pick up the wrong order.

How does that stuff grow? Bermuda sends these runners horizontally. It will grow across a sidewalk if you let it. Thanks to those stupid things, it's a constant battle to keep it out of flower beds in the summer. It will still get through the edging I'm putting in, but it should at least be a bit more under control.

I've never put much weight into the need for motivation or bulletin board material, but it is the team that "didn't want him" and traded him away.

We all knew it was going to be a rough go when you started this thread, the first ever off topic thread this board has ever seen. As for my projects, it rains every damn weekend so I can’t finish the edging in putting in around a flower bed. We have bermuda grass here and that stuff is so invasive. I need to finish that edging before it starts growing (any second now) and invades that bed. Oh wait, this project is in NC and not Buffalo, so I’m not allowed to post about it.