shrader

What kind of offer would it take for a significant RFA to not be matched by his own team. There really aren't too many crazy things you can throw into a deal to mess with another team. Ultimately, the things that are going to limit that team are probably going to limit your team as well.

Jack

Jack is a nickname.

I'm simply explaining how he was on the list. Your personal rankings have no bearing on that.

I know teams will trade random draft picks 3 or 4 years in advance, but 2109? Now that's a rebuild.

Is the bolded part your words or his? That AHL contract part isn't specifically mentioned in the 3 criteria. Murray would qualify by #3. He doesn't have an NHL contract, but he was drafted and those rights have not yet expired. This is a bit of a rare case, so it's possible he didn't think to address it when spelling out those criteria.

I have no idea what his criteria are. For Murray, they should still hold his draft rights until this summer. So that would count him as an unsigned pick the same exact way it would with someone like Johnson.

I'm interested in digging up more info on this Pending Hire character.

It's no coincidence that each show you named aired on the same network.

Thank god you put your pants back on before taking the picture.

Well that's good seeing as how in order to know that, you'd have to be dead. People seem to like you around here, so I don't think anyone's hoping for that.

But the fighting robots after each goal? Now those were awesome. That was the only thing that made it worthwhile to watch an all star game. Even with that, there's always going to be some level of gray area when it comes to using this stuff for location. Depending on where the chip is, a puck that enters the net flat vs. one on edge, they have to reach a different point to guarantee the whole puck is over the line. Then there's the pesky little issue of determining when the whistle blows or was intended to be blown. That and if they ever did come up with any system that could do this stuff, I wouldn't trust the new england's of the world where it mysteriously doesn't work correctly at a key moment. I'm fine with keeping the human element for these things.

Well that and his name is Chad.

Those were my thoughts exactly when I read 11's description. I have a hard time picturing the league operating like it did back in those days. I think it was @millbank who told me some interesting stuff about that system at one point, something along the lines of even the most marginal of talent knowing exactly which NHL team would have them.

It's not really that outlandish of a statement. Even recent late round hail mary draft picks like Brady Austin manage to get 5 NHL games on their resume.

It's to save money. Much of the league reduced to the absolute minimum allowed roster size during the break. They all save some money and some of these guys get a little extra playing time.

Without digging too deeply into it, I'd imagine that you might have something like 5 top teams, 5 bottom teams, and then a giant muddled mess in the middle. Good luck to someone who seriously tries to rank all of that.

I hadn't really thought about it until just now. The fire power in this division is incredible. I'm not sure any other division comes even close. 5 out of the 8 teams are represented in the top 15 scorers list, 7 players total.

That and Hank has pretty much the greatest name of all time. And what's this El Camino launch you mentioned? Did they do something more with it other than the netflix release maybe 6 or so months ago?

See, there's the problem. They will now be tracking any fan who is lucky enough to get a game puck. Once they take it home, that chip will interact with their cell phones, their smart tvs, and their amazon alexas. Soon enough, the NHL will have all of their bank accounts and will turn their lights on and off all day while the people are off at work. Seriously though, I wonder how the home viewers would have the option of what they do and don't see during the broadcast. That sounds like something that would work only with an NHL-designed streaming service. Surely I wouldn't have any of those options watching the random NBCSN broadcast. The quote did mention "primary screen", so I'm not sure how all of that could apply to a "one size fits all" product like that.

Sorry, I meant the Dave "story" and I went back and edited my post. But on that note, I bet most never even saw it. Hell, we're talking about a league where a good number of players have just accepted incorrect pronunciations of their names for years. I don't think a nameplate error is going to send up any red flags.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwj826ak_qPnAhWAlnIEHZplBE8QjRx6BAgBEAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gettyimages.in%2Fdetail%2Fnews-photo%2Fwayne-gretzky-wearing-a-jersey-with-the-wrong-spelling-of-news-photo%2F53125145&psig=AOvVaw37-1R9fcKwRrFeWBTXKWSx&ust=1580221585774835 No one ever signed with the Rangers ever again. My guess is that 50% of pending free agents probably asked "who" when hearing about this story (the Sabre story, if they heard at all). The other 50% said "I would have spelled it that way too".

Or one event can be completely unrelated to the others. But somehow we choose to lump in a jersey typo along with on ice problems because they're completely the same thing. Basically, people who want to bitch will bitch.

That shoulder injury for Thompson really sucks. They shifted him onto what should have been a better development path, only for it to be quickly derailed the second he earned a brief look back in the NHL.