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Brother matchups would actually be a fun one. There are so many options there. You now have me wondering if Marty Biron ever got a chance to play against his little brother (the little brother who was like 5 inches taller and 50 pounds heavier).

So mid-upper body

I can't wait until Pegula gets blamed for the merge.

It's even better when they back into the slanted parking spots. The angles involved in doing that, it's a complete s-show. And a follow-up on my traffic complaint. Yesterday on the way home, a car in the left lane decided to quickly come to a full stop because they missed their exit. A full stop in the left lane of a road with a 75 MPH speed limit. I'd label that one as suicide if it had gone bad.

Are you intentionally spamming us with 85 different threads all about the same exact thing?

@Taro T maybe crap shoot wasn't the right word, but teams have very different expectations in mind when taking a goalie in the 1st round vs. in the 6th. I'd have to imagine they're expecting an NHL guy (either starter or backup) out of that first round guy. It's only a hope for a guy like Ullmark or that 5th rounder in Miller, but I doubt you'll ever hear any GM say they expect that guy to make it. But regardless, it really doesn't mean all that much for the comparison being made, I'm mostly just thinking out loud on this one. I can live with it, although it's a bit more positive on Ullmark than I'd be.

Or when they replay a stunt from a different game and try to pass it off as live.

And that president is the one who hires the GM. It's lame that teams have to stage things like this.

Boston just turned into an interesting team to watch at the deadline. Backes cleared waivers and has refused to report to the AHL. So that should open the door for them to suspend him if they want, freeing up around $5 million worth of cap space. That doesn't mean they will go that route, but they'll have the option.

Marty replaced a legend. Ullmark replaced... Hutton. Marty was drafted to be a starter, taken mid-first round. I don't remember the timeline exactly, but they either had no idea what Hasek was yet or they didn't know if he'd stick around. Ullmark was a crap shoot draft pick.

Traffic has been ridiculous pretty much every day so far this year. I don't know if people have just turned all out idiot, but there's a bad accident at least 3 out of the 5 work days each week. This morning my ride to work took an hour longer than normal.

We're also talking about something that happened 25 years ago (my god, has it been that long?). The development path of every single position across the board has changed so much in that time. I haven't dug into it too much lately, but I'd imagine this idea that goalies are late bloomers has evolved since then. And as you said, Hasek was a complete aberration, a freak of nature. I know the suggestion was not that any of these guys could still be the next Dom, but some names just exist on a different plane and are best left out of anything that could be even remotely perceived as a comparison.

On it's own it's a good thing. The problem is that so few others on the team are doing the same. Even at his best, Girgensons should probably be topping out at around 8th on the team in goals, not 5th.

With just the slightest spark, he can boost that pace significantly. I don't think that's all that unrealistic. Whatever happens, I think we've seen his ceiling and his floor in consecutive season. Whether it's being on Eichel's wing or just finding more appropriate scoring line talent that gets him closer to that ceiling, they absolutely need to address it. The latter is a no brainer no matter which line he skates on.

Yeah, those are the drafts that would be impacting today's team. But now you're crossing over into two drafts worth of Murray territory.

Yesterday at my gym, some kid was moonwalking around the track. No, he wasn't just walking backwards, he was definitely attempting to moonwalk.

Drafting more forwards mean they have more forwards within their system. Truly an earth shattering statement. But does having these one or two extra forwards change a thing for this franchise today? Certainly not. Does it change anything next season? Probably not either. So in regards to your initial question, the purpose of this thread, it means absolutely nothing. You want more forward depth, fine. But that's not going to suddenly fix this franchise. What matters is where they go moving forward. Some of these prospects will stick with the team, others can/will be traded, and others will never amount to anything. I want to see what Botterill or the next GM does with this glut of D prospects. Guys are going to be moved. You may not like certain defensemen, but there's going to be multiple teams out there that do. They'll be able to find that guy who does. The return for Nylander is a nice reminder to me of just how differently each team values the same player.

So he's saying that he really has to pee?

Given who that 1st overall is, your post translates to "they should have taken 2+ forwards with these 3 picks". Is that really making or breaking the organizational forward depth?

Was Luukkonen ever returned to Cincy? Either way, it looks like he gets a little more time in the AHL.

I understand your complaints, but I don't think this one belongs in there. In this day and age, that's just as valid of a talent source for prospects as any other. Any team that is able to identify better players from that source is going to have a leg up on the competition. The odds say he won't work out, but I want them to continue to mine that option. And on a site note, he's in Finland, isn't he?

He forgot to offer the cops a billion dollars this time.

It's a reverse-Murray, who shopped on the floor, picking up all of the defensemen who had fallen out of the bargain bin. Now personally, I would mark rather start at the blue line and move forward, but you do have to work on both at the same time, even if it is at an 80/20 split.

Why did he write the "P" last? If he can actually write entire sentences starting with the last letter first, all while making the letters backwards so that we can read them... he has even more talent than any of us realized.

The same salary cap that both teams have to deal with. So whoever gets Point at $9 million winds up with cap issues of their own, maybe not immediately, but soon. But that's really the point, the type of deal it's going to take to make a team pass on matching is extremely high and will mess with the cap figures of any team. When you start to significantly overpay people, it snowballs from there. And Tampa has that tax advantage that's really hard to quantify. If this is ever going to start happening, it won't be a Tampa player that starts it.