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Strangely enough, I just started it recently too. I started season three yesterday. It’s not what I expected but I can’t turn it off.

You had me going right up until the last one.

As long as the salary is below $1.075 million, it has no cap hit if sent to the AHL... and that's only on a one-way deal. Two-way deals automatically do not hit the cap if sent down.

An unfavorable outcome for a guy with a career line of 7-15-22 over 106 games played? What would that have been $800k? Whatever it was, it wasn't going to impact the cap at all if/when he's in Rochester.

I'd be curious though as to why he'd avoid arbitration in order to sign a one year, one-way deal for the league minimum. He must be getting a better number on the AHL end than he would have otherwise.

This is one case where it's a shame that they don't have the baseball system of one offer or the other. He's worth a lot closer to the team figure than he is to his figure.

That number was a great fit there. I can’t think of any other player who was able to have his height on the back of his jersey.

A guy named Miller wearing a goalie number. It threw me off for a second.

I’d gladly take a tire fire in the playoffs at this point.

Is it just me or does that look like chocolate?

I was hoping you were going to say you’re so old that your social is negative.

Why would any info on a pending trade came out of Ristolainen’s camp? If they’re making noise, I’d think it’s more likely to be an attempt to influence the situation.

It’s not as much money as you might think it is. Unfortunately I can’t find anything more recent than 2016, but his deal is below that year’s median salary of $2.25 million. So it seems like it should be right in line with what you might be expecting For a third line guy. And I said it earlier in the thread, it’s the big money deals that cause cap troubles, not the $2 million guy.

They bought out Kennedy. That's the only option here if they wanted out. So basically, they can get out, but there is a cap penalty for doing so. For those higher contracts that can be walked away from, there is no cap hit there.

What, you couldn't get yourself a place one storey lower?

You can bury PART of the contract in the AHL. I forget the specific number, but let's just pretend it's the NHL minimum. That is the amount that can be buried. Any amount over that figure still counts against the cap. So if a guy makes $2 million and the cutoff line is $600k, that player would still count as $1.4 million against the cap. This only counts for one-way contracts though. A two-way deal does not count against the cap if they're sent down.

There should be a few dates where the best player born that day was a goalie. Let the fun begin.

Do you see that word right before 50 in my post??

What would be your career stat line? The first 3 digits of your social security number are the games played, then next 3 are your goals, and the last 3 are your assists.

Have you seen his trade proposals?

As Curt just suggested, every single thing the NHL does is a money grab. That's their sole purpose for existence. This one really isn't a case of introducing new stuff and then immediately replacing it though. They're more than likely going to wear everything over the course of the year. I'm not really sure what the need is for this specific jersey, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it stick around as a 3rd if/when they go back to royal blue the following season.

Linked up with the previous one? Most definitely.

Come on @New Scotland (NS). You aren’t aware of a certain underground lair complete with ill tempered sea bass?

A show that ended almost 50 years ago? Yeah, younger than that. Now if you had gone with Virtucon or SPECTRE, I'd have placed those.

Or even worse, December of 2020.