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I missed my chance and should have said "no one would care if his last name was Girgensons".

There's no better way to start off your first ever job in an industry by intentionally doing it poorly. If he actually did that, he's right where he belongs now, no longer working in that industry. Now some might respond and say he has a job with the NHL, but that's not the team management industry he had tried to get into.

The Foligno inclusion is pretty funny here given that we're talking about a so called Sabre-identity. He's given that Sabre-identity even though it's one generation removed. No one would have cared one bit about him if his last name was Jones.

No, you looked at that from the wrong angle. They're going to sign these CHL guys as early as possible regardless of the rule just as they do now. I'm talking about the ones who they (the NHL team) actually consider placing in the AHL over the CHL. So we're talking specifically about the 19 year olds if they are able to agree on these changes. Do you keep that kid in the CHL the extra year or do you throw him in the AHL and flirt with the potential of burning off one year towards free agency? It only becomes an issue several years down the road, but it's worth keeping in mind. The player will sure as hell want to shorten that timeframe.

Given Hutton's play this year, that one day with Hammond as the backup may very well have been an upgrade to the position. So if anything, it was a Polish tank (I'm Polish, I can say it).

It does count, but they're allowed to go over the cap by the amount of money that is on LTIR. You don't get to bank any of that overage though, so it's a "use it or lose it" type scenario. They'd have to drop their payroll all the way below the original cap if they wanted to bank any cap space. Sending Pilut down to Rochester would not accomplish that. I hope that's clear. I suck at explaining this stuff.

Do you know where that 12.7% went? Is it a spike in americans, in europeans, or does it look to be fairly distributed among the other sources of draftees? Would they have the choice of returning them though? Obviously it depends on how the rule is written, but if the player has the contract and refuses to return to the CHL, that could cause some issues. I'm sure they take care of this in the language of the agreement, but it's one possibility out there. Also, from the team perspective, having a player turn pro one year earlier than normal also starts their free agency clock ticking earlier. Comparing that to one extra year of free development, it's something worthwhile to keep in mind. Let a guy play and contribute at a high level in juniors or have him play in the AHL at a level where he more than likely won't have a major impact on the team.

As a total outsider on all things Amerk, I kind of miss those days. It was a very entertaining read. Now I just wish I could remember the username in question.

They have so much money on LTIR right now that it's next to impossible for them to be saving any cap dollars with moves like this. I wouldn't be surprised if they need to play some of these games to keep the team under the roster limit on certain days. They've have a lot of bodies when you add in the 3 guys on IR. Or it could be something so simple as wanting him to play against the Marlies.

This whole conversation reminds me of the South Park episode where they need to elect either a giant douche or a turd sandwich.

Of course there are multiple cuts. Could you imagine the filming process if they had to do it all at once? 90 minutes in and the guy boots a line, oh well, have to start the whole thing over. I do want to watch that again just to find the cuts. Some are kind of obvious, like a shot of the sky or when the camera pans past an obstruction. But whatever, the whole thing was pretty impressive. I’m sure it’s a lot easier to do now than it was 50 or so years ago.

Waivers is probably a poor choice of words. It’s not the ones that people will think when seeing that word

Does a generic version of the tide pod count? edit: Oh crap, you're going to take that one literally too.

Can you at least leave the 'c' off of that one?

Oh come on, let's not take it 100% literally. Obviously I'm exaggerating a bit for the sake of making a point.

And that's exactly what the internet is.

Now that I've moved beyond the fanatics I'm enjoying it again. I mean, the show as a whole was fine when that storyline was going on, but I found myself tuning out any time their scenes were on the screen.

Based on that mask, I'm a little worried that he can't actually identify the color that his teammates are wearing. Maybe the settings on my tv are way off, but I can't picture that thing meshing too well with red white and blue.

Who?

Regardless of what his intentions were, you don't think that there are plenty of people sitting at home, seeing these reactions, and trying to plan one of their own? In a day and age where people post videos of them eating tide pods, a fake radio rant would be so much easier.

A far more appropriate Phil Hartman character:

@LGR4GM, with all the frozen references you've made on here, I really hope you have some younger siblings or something.

Yeah, just what we need: more people making whiny rants on sports radio so they can get their 15 minutes of fame. A true hero.

What the media is reporting ultimately doesn't mean all that much. The CDC and WHO are going to have a much better sense and those are the types of organizations people should be paying attention to. If you want the numbers and details, go straight to them. Whether it's due to ignorance or an agenda, using the media or politicians as a middle man for this information has a good chance of clouding the details.