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The stranger!

AHL-only contract.

And yet their season is a mirror image of ours. I really don't see some huge gap between the two organizations. Last season is still the aberration to me. Explosion/long period of suck/explosion/... is the pattern from that team.

It depends on the role they want filled with the callup. They're only going to go with Thompson if they want someone in a top 6 slot.

That's right, the cold air came from the south. Makes perfect sense.?

I got that one too. I was going to suggest that I go Kucherov on one of them. It's funny. I get those kind of emails from 5 or 6 different teams but none of them are the Sabres. Somehow I've never bought tickets from them online.

Is there any news on this? With my luck, I'll click back on the main board and see a thread about it, but I haven't seen any stories yet.

They're pretty much a cap floor team but with deep pockets if they move the Kovalchuk deal. I have no idea why they'd give away a single asset to get rid of him. If you want him out of your locker room, you can do that without a trade. They can't be all that difficult to make. Uncomfortable, yes, but not difficult.

I can't picture that working with anyone but the cap floor teams. It's the old "take on dead money" approach that the Coyotes have done since the dawn of man. $6.25 million of guaranteed cap hit is way too much to take on for most. Ironically enough, the Kings are one of those teams right now. I can't imagine they're a team that's strapped for cash, so I think they're just stuck with this one. I don't know why they'd bother to hand away assets in order to free up cap when they already have plenty of freed up cap.

But that's the part I don't agree with. He's not getting claimed. And even if he does, it's not a major loss.

Something has to give though. There are too many bodies at this point and you can't just assume injuries will take care of that. I'm not really sure why people are so adamant about the team not wanting to waive Gilmour. He is by far the most obvious of choices should they reach the point of too many "healthy" players. The kid has played 3 games. That's not the guy that cripples the team in the rare case that he's actually claimed. If you're forced with the option of either forcing a trade or waiving Gilmour, I'd say the decision is pretty obvious.

And they're 1-4-1 since he got hurt, and that doesn't include the time he missed in the ugly loss to the Rags. Coincidence? Probably, but I can't help but notice how quickly things have gone south without him.

You'd have to imagine Bogosian eventually gets a rehab stint. Short of a trade, Gilmour's a virtual guarantee to be waived shortly. It doesn't sound like Johansson is an IR situation, so they don't have any roster spots for all of these bodies. If Scandella is in fact active, they're maxed out with the 2 spare D and Johansson up front. They needs as much time as they can from Bogosian to sort this out.

I think we had one at some point. But anyway, no story is more thrilling than mine.

Liar. No one likes doohickie.?

I hope they take the opportunity to make the real versions of the first 3 movies available. I'm not one of those "Han shot first" nerds (it was a stupid change though), but the CGI of the added scenes does not mix in well and the music change at the end of Jedi is criminal. I'll be waiting on Disney plus until a few more episodes of certain shows are available. I'm not crazy about the weekly releasing.

And the best part with Kovalchuk? They're stuck with his cap hit no matter what... next year too. No one will be taking him off their hands, especially if this is a big issue.

And it's not like Kucherov has a very recent history of suspension for cheap hits... oh wait.

They're not rumors if you make them up.

I believe WildCard already answered your question. Or did Kramer answer it? I forget.

Not possible. It's either the one with a different hair color or the one with a different height. There's no other possibility.

Is it the blonde one or the short one?

Why is there no good "one of these things is not like the other" GIF?

Playing Risk on the subway again?

He was one of the most iconic faces in Canada for so many years. It doesn't matter what the NHL might admit, he was essentially the face of hockey for an entire country. Maybe there's a bit of hyperbole in that statement, but I'm comfortable making it. Why all of a sudden is his editorializing worthy of all of this? That's the world we live in today.