shrader

What on earth is going on in here?

Master of the obvious

The guy made you go to Detroit. You should hate him for that.

Not necessarily. It is dependent on the previous salary. The second bullet point here spells it out.

I was trying to figure out what the deal with his t-shirt in inky's post was. So now it's half figured out. I still don't have a clue what the Ric Flair reference is.

Each time I see his name I still do a double take. I keep thinking of their first round pick from ten years ago. It's not quite Ullmark/Omark, but it'll do.

Are you guys stealing directly from the twitter comments now?

What do you mean by "the Amerks couldn't afford on their own"? It's the same ownership. Sorry if I'm missing something here.

Given that one of very few requirements for the position is age, that whole "debate" seems pretty pointless, doesn't it??

There's nothing like taking national pride from watching a bunch of american guys win a game. It reminds me of the classic moment of bruins fans chanting USA at the habs in the playoffs even though the only americans on the ice were wearing the blue, white, red (nice coincidence on the color scheme).

Just when you canadians have a chance to prove you're better than us, you go and worship bouncyball too. You blew your shot, canada.

My wife is pretty good at keeping the mileage down on her car, maybe 10k a year. But yours puts her to shame.

If anything, these two trades have gone a long way towards completely confusing us on what the actual trade value of a defenseman is.

Wait, they put carpet on top of carpet? With the top layer being shag, I picture you sinking right into that floor. Did you happen to find any small animals or maybe even small children when you removed it?

Does that translate well to tv though? All I can picture is that day where the news anchor screws up and wears a green shirt.

I've always liked the split squad format, at least at the very start of preseason. While you have everyone in camp, get in two games either back to back or even in different locations to get everyone some action. And from the finance side, you can sell a few extra tickets. That window of availability closes quickly though, once you send guys back to juniors or when AHL camps start.

They could also do something incredibly crazy and actually bring on a new defenseman or two in any trade they make.

I think a few would welcome that style of hockey.

Based on the fact that dudacek's recap of the GR interview didn't mention Zegras at all, it makes me think that they do in fact pick him. Smokescreens are fun.

Ottawa gets a cap hit from that buyout too. Looking back, I'm a little surprised that Toronto was able to get away with not taking back some of his salary when he was traded there. Otherwise, they'd be on the hook for cap hit as well.

Why was I thinking that we had Tony Granato in as an assistant for a year or two post-Lindy? Is there some other player from that era we brought in an assistant at some point? And yes, I realize the current hire is not Tony.

Is there anyone else who has even close to that much money invested into their top 3 D? Most of the high end guys that are popping into my head look to be on discounted deals.

Wasn't the hype off the charts for him when they picked him, at least relative to a later 1st round guy?

I had the Lebetard show on in the background on friday and Amin Elhassan said that Toronto is going to become a basketball town because all of the hockey followers there are 50+ years old. I just about fell out of my chair. I know that sports radio tends towards utter cluelessness, but that one may have taken it to a whole new level.

We may need a better shorthand version of his name than lax or laaxy. The jokes already write themselves. But anyway, they're going to need a few more Porters on this team. With the posts already talking about this young guy and that young guy about to join the team, these AHL squads never go anywhere without those vets. I realize the kids are the ones who most of us care about, but for the sake of the ogres and the inkys of the world who would like to actually see the team win, I hope we get a few more of these signings over the next month or so.