shrader

A quick note to the very pushy door-to-door solicitor who got damn near stalkerish with my wife: You probably shouldn't leave your unregistered car parked in front of my house while walking around the rest of the neighborhood soliciting illegally.

I thought you put his hand in warm water while he’s sleeping and then pee on him.

Didn't they hire another executive in the last year or two from Minnesota... or somewhere else in the NBA?

Francis was the GM for Carolina’s long drought. Who’d have thought that hiring him wasn’t going to work. They can always bring in Adams in a few years.

So what you’re saying is that it will never happen since Adams is on an Xbox?

I’ve mentioned Peca a few times and it has nothing to do with whether or not he’s a good addition. To me, it just feels like a vey sabre thing to do.

Mike Milbury liked to make moves too. There’s so much more to the job than whether or not you trade.

Expiring contract and there’s no need to fire him?

They pretty much can’t even suggest offseason workouts.

I said it months ago and I still expect to see Peca on this coaching staff next season. The rags have to clean house at this point, right?

Giving up just now? That reminds me of the impact of Craig Anderson retiring two years ago. He was the last NHL player older than me, officially killing my dream to play pro hockey.

But it’s good for San Jose? The timing of that trade never really made much sense to me from either side.

How many owners do? I have to say, I don’t really keep up on the actions of owners around sports.

They didn’t pass on them. They made the trade a day in advance, not knowing how the board would shake out.

It's a blast when your toddler enters the biting stage. The only good thing is that her brother has definitely been a lot nicer to her since that initial bite.

"Ever" and "recently" are two very different questions. The first thing that comes to mind is the Sedins. But it definitely hasn't happened recently. So when you say draft day, do you specifically mean the deal happens that same day? Deals for those early picks, even if made that very day, have been cooking for weeks and maybe event months. So I wouldn't really differentiate between any trade that happens after the lottery results have been announced.

We all get it. You just assume Northern Ireland is a land lost in time. I hear they just connected to the internet for the first time last week. They ran a cable from the local phone booth.

You might need to check your math. He won the US Open in 2011.

I don't care one way or the other, but I hope Columbus sneaks in after everything they've had to deal with this year.

Oh great, time to prepare for all the complaints. Short of a resignation, there is nothing of value that can be said during one of these things, especially after 14 years.

I used to work at indoor track meets in an old armory at my college. The maintenance guys had so many horror stories about the rats in that place. They had to stand behind the baited traps with a baseball bat waiting for them. The rats would run off with the trap if they didn’t.

Make the Sabres a full time outdoor team and play them in the new football stadium. Nothing could possibly go wrong.

They held him out for three years just for this very day. Those evils bastards!

I can’t picture them ever moving him after they shipped Askarov out.

Yeah, I remember being confused as to why either team would do it at that point, not having any clue how the board would shake out.