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I’m fully in the camp of offer sheets never happening, but Carolina is practically begging for it at this point. It’s the perfect storm of stupid cheapness.

Just eat an almond. Close enough

So we still use Tim Connolly as the default avatar here? This draft pick game makes me want to reset mine.

That thing is going to fall apart so fast. It’s going to be today’s version of the video scouting days here, he’s not just hoarding sugar packets, he’s dumping the entire contents of the salt and pepper shakers into ziplock bags.

I’d imagine that there aren’t too many players there that are older than them.

Since we moved here, I’ve heard comments about Wake county reaching their 1 millionth resident. And that doesn’t count large areas like Chapel Hill and Durham.

Jerry York? So they’re acknowledging the NCAA now. That should open the flood gates. I’m kind of surprised that they went with a still active coach as opposed to the retired ones. You’ll probably get Mason, Parker, and Berenson rapid fire over the next three years.

I wonder if you’ll see the other two go that route. Martin is clearly gone since he couldn’t even play in Cincinnati last year.

I hope not for the shoulders. I’d rather they keep what they already had for each of the jerseys. Just a personal preference on that one.

What’s weird about it? The colors do need to match for a patch. I could see the logo maybe seeming a bit off. They could potentially remove that on a patch and push the 1970 together. Maybe someone with better eyes than me can say otherwise, but I believe that would make the last two identical.

Seems like we are looking at chest patches for each Jersey.

I’ll accept the high numbers when it’s a year of birth, but that odometer has officially rolled over to zero.

Haven’t they traditionally only brought guys to this camp up until they finished their ELC? That approach would explain Smith.

Yeah, I guess so. And you better believe they wouldn’t pass on the opportunity to sell a few tickets for those.

The talk about when he’ll be ready? I feel like the pretty typical model at this point for guys taken around that spot in the draft is one year in junior/college and then making the jump. I’m guessing we’ll see the same here.

I’m willing to bet that when they signed Mittelstadt, they made he guarantee that he wouldn’t be sent to the AHL. It can’t be put on paper, but it’s a gentleman’s agreement they want to honor.

I can’t count the number of Jamaicans I’ve run into in the Yukon.

And they’re from different countries.

But what if the 80s oilers are coached by Ditka?

I wonder if Justin Williams walks now that Carolina had added a different old guy leader.

Did I hear Minnesota as the school he’s heading to?

My nephew wore a bow tie to his brother’s first communion this spring. He looked just like Pee Wee Herman. His dad wasn’t very happy when I suggested it as a Halloween costume.

Listening to some local radio earlier this week, it did sound like they were going to have some trouble with Aho. They didn’t get into specifics, but basically it sounded like it could be a long drawn out process, lots of distance between both sides. That seems fairly common at the start of a negotiation, but it’s worth watching. The owner is notoriously cheap, so it could get interesting. The show I was listening to has been very high on the ball washing scale since he bought the team. So this segment really stuck out to me because it was the first time they were a bit skeptical of him. They’re starting to see the light.

I can’t wait until this one gets cleaned up. This board goes to **** when the topic becomes the poster instead of the game. Meanwhile the Sabres drafted some guy by the name of Ryan Johnson.

There was what, one deal the whole night? It kind of makes you wonder how much if any interest there was league-wide to move around.