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A question for the masses: who in this draft (and currently in our system) plays that game?

But he’s 19, so clearly he’s never had a beer. Oh wait, we already established that miller lite is not a beer.

They called up a guy to sit in the press box. How dare they.

And that’s how it has to be. They can’t just call up players at will. They only get 4 non-emergency call ups the rest of the way, if they haven’t used some already. That’s also a part of why they can’t just shut down UPL and move Levi back and forth a few times.

And he’s still a teenager…

This just popped up during a random google search. We might be in trouble.

Ha, I love reading this well after the fact. It makes it look like they’re scoring at a rapid fire pace. They probably could right now.

Dudacek understood it. I read that as consensus among the talking heads, not the team. I’m pretty sure you’d agree that among the talking heads that really doesn’t exist at even 15 or 20, let alone 41. Dudacek understood it. I read that as consensus among the talking heads, not the team. I’m pretty sure you’d agree that among the talking heads that really doesn’t exist at even 15 or 20, let alone 41.

No offense, but “consensus choice at 41” has to be one of the most obscure and pointless factoids I’ve ever heard. I’m not so sure such a thing even exists. I can’t even think of a funny analogy for this one. Maybe something like @DarthEbriate already used up all the well know characters for his latest Star Wars reference, so he had to go with whatever background character Cliff Claven played in Empire.

I’m not sure what reaches the point of a “shake up”, but that image had every single forward slot staying internally. There’s absolutely zero chance that happens. I have can’t imagine that this has ever happened the the post-expansion era of hockey.

Football is so different though. You’re not calling up your prospect QB from the minors when Trent Edwards checks down yet another pass.

This morning on XM they were questioning why a team would play Reimer 3 straight games because it doesn’t help anyone’s development. I get that angle, but don’t you still need to send the message to all these young players that good play will be rewarded? Yeah, you’re not developing the 37 year old goalie, but he’s earned these games.

I had to go back and look at how far you can actually move up, thinking there’s a scenario where Buffalo wins the first draw and only goes to second. That’s 10 spots though, so not possible. I always forget all the minor tweaks they keep making to this system.

And it means a hell of a lot more when it’s the new guy saying you need that culture change. I know it’s a bit crazy to call Ruff the new guy, but in this scenario, he is.

I was just looking at that earlier today. It’s crazy that the line in the east is 10 points behind the west. Part of that is due to the west teams having played a few more games, but it’s still a huge gap.

Gilbert really doesn’t matter much. He’s the JAG throw in. He has played one game so far. He’s a break glass in case of emergency guy, someone who is only going to play if Jay McKee forgets to wash his shin pads again. The deal was essentially cozens and the 2nd for Norris and Bernard-Docker.

Or they could win that second lottery and get who you really want.😉

I think that post-trade adrenaline rush is still in place for most players at this point, but it's even more present with Bernard-Docker since he just started playing. With a guy like him, we're not really going to get a better idea on what he brings, if he can sustain this, until next year.

I was not talking about Buffalo at any point. It’s simply about how two different markets completely changed Yzerman’s results. Sure, there’s more to it than just tax and market desirability, but it definitely has played a role in his lack of results.

I guess I wouldn’t call that approaching, but that’s not really all that important. NHL players get a very sweet deal given the money differences between the two leagues. Guaranteed contracts, higher salaries due to smaller rosters, guaranteed a larger portion of the revenue pie than the NFL… They’ve done very well for themselves.

He’s in college, so of course he’s not under contract yet.

They certainly don’t help. But for whatever reason we somehow want to live in a world where there is only one singular reason for everything.

I give you apples vs apples and you show me apples vs oranges. That’s completely different people running things, and in the case of. Buffalo, multiple different people. Yzerman in Florida vs in Michigan: good without taxes, horrible with.

And to think that some people say the different tax rates don’t matter.

From what I can see, the highest NFL salary is ~$60 million for Dak Prescott. No one is approaching the NHL salary cap of $88 million. NHL players actually have a higher average salary than the NFL. But that’s what happens when one roster is less than half the size of the other.