shrader

It’s been 7 for me. The rinks are too scattered around here to make it worthwhile. They’re building one in my town though. I’m hoping that will be my gateway back in.

That quote in your post, I never said that.

Even with our crappy goalie situation, if a mediocre goalie gave me that almost-ultimatum, I’d pull the offer and let him walk.

Ummm, that one doesn't end so well for Billy Batts. I suppose it doesn't end all that well for Tommy in the longterm either.

No matter what Ottawa is doing here, I can’t see these 8 year deals becoming the standard for all but a very few of the guys exiting their ELCs.

My son has an incredible game face but *****, the picture is too large to post.

Are they giving pretty much everyone 8 year deals?

Damn, I've been gone for a while. That looks completely unrecognizable and I used to work right across the street.

I found some in the back seat of my car today. Was that you?

They’re not even showing the jersey until November (or it “accidentally” leaks).

Do they have any captains yet or is that an end of camp thing?

Duke has so many people who roll out their oxygen tanks to the bus stop for a cigarette. I'm glad I'm nowhere near that place anymore.

How many hospitals even have windows that you can open? Russia must have put them in for this very reason.

Completely ignore the white space to the left, I couldn't cut that out. Horns above the eye, nose directly below. Diagonal down and to the left is the smiling mouth.

Ha, up until just now I've always read his name as Polpatov.

I just looked at the updated version of the logo and the devil was lessened by the tweaks. Forgive my horrible skills at modifying an image, but I attached an image of what I always saw. The newer logo has smoothed out some of those lines and the nose isn't very defined anymore.

I see your buffalo head now. That's pretty cool. I'd say I'll never see it the same way again, but how often will I actually see the jersey in that specific pose? The other thing I always did see was a little cartoon devil inside the logo if you turned it upside down. That may have been influence by the name Satan on the back of my jersey.

I always saw that diagonal piping as the crossing swords.

Nitpick alert: He wasn’t under contract, it’s not an extension.

I wonder if it "accidentally" leaks out early. Waiting until November to even show the jersey seems incredibly late. Other than angling for big time Christmas sales, I can't think of any other reason to wait so long.

How about the flux capacitors?

I was doing a screening recently for a new life insurance policy. I’m the middle of a long series of heath questions, they asked me if I was training to be a pilot. I just hope they don’t find out about my side gig in the coal mine juggling dynamite.

And married couples or other serious relationships. Only the virgins and the non-drinkers would be safe from this one.

Similar to that “hey you’re 21 right” that bars and convenience stores have perfected over the years.

I don’t mean it to be anecdotal. The point is that even if she did identify herself as a high school student, that doesn’t give an age. So unless she’s walking around saying “hello Mr Araiza, my name is Jane and I’m 17” and handing out her ID, he’s not going to know whether or not she’s legal. This whole assumption of age thing, it seems very hard to prove in either direction.