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If it's the one I'm thinking it was, I'd say yeah, it's probably better to link to something that is incredibly long. If nothing else, it saves us from that inevitable moment where multiple people quote the whole thing.

Don't worry. They'll report a different front runner on Tuesday, then they'll have another new one on Wednesday.

A relative maybe. There isn't a spec of blue anywhere on these birds and google is telling me that female blue jays are still blue. Mine are gray/black and white. I see them sitting on my gutters a lot, so I'll try to take a picture sometime to help me figure this out.

Microwave? Blasphemy. Everyone knows it's a tailgate charcoal grill or nothing.

How far is Princeton from that area?

Why would it even be a concern? Even if he was, it's not like there's another goalie in the organization they would have any interest in protecting.

Bowness and Martin? That's the first 12 years of their head coaching history.

I wish they were as easy to identify as the million cardinals I always see flying around. My mother-in-law tells my wife that if you see a cardinal, it's a dead family member visiting you. Clearly she's never spent much time down here. We'd officially count as haunted if that idea was true. My personal favorite bird moment down here was a few years ago during election season. This house by the exit to our neighborhood had a yard sign for a random local race. One day, a giant hawk was perched on top of that sign. I took a picture and wanted to dig up the candidate's info and send it to him/her. You could not make a better election time "America" image than that.

I don't know what kind of birds we have around our house*, but they take a very similar approach. They buzz me every time I park and get out of my car. There will be a group of them circling and one dives down about a foot above my head. They've even attacked my neighbor's dog. They don't seem to have as much blood lust this year so far, but instead they're crap machines. I'd much rather deal with the blood lust. *Seriously, even googling "birds of NC" or "birds of wake county" hasn't helped one bit. Google has helped me to rule out the grackle though, so at least it still has some use.

This whole process is great. The only thing I've learned is that the Sabres run a very tight ship and absolutely nothing leaks out. The media reports can be summarized as "everyone's a candidate".

An interim coach to start the season? If I'm a free agent and I see that, I'm immediately crossing that team off the list. It screams "team with no direction". Now, the team might not make it so obvious by actually using that title, but I'd imagine that it would be very obvious if they were taking that approach.

There's a DOB that really sticks out

And the funny thing is, if ultimately they tab Keefe, all the whining would be for nothing. They can't do anything right now if he is their guy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Tilson_Trophy He's the 3rd dating back to the 50s. It's not all that impressive of a list. Oddly, the last goalie winner was Houser, who was with Rochester/Cincy this year. The other, Raycroft, did win the Calder, but that career never amounted to much of anything. It doesn't look like you can put too much stock into any of that. It's too few goalies spread over too much time. The award as a whole though, that's a rather impressive list of winners in recent years.

It's something that is far too often lost in so many discussions around here. We should have signed this guy. We should have traded for this guy. Both sides have to agree for either of those scenarios to play out. That said, the option was available to these players and it sounds like that is pretty much what they were originally playing under. They now want more and good luck to them on that. I hope they have realistic goals from all of this.

I'm pretty sure you realize what I was asking. I don't remember seeing anything that suggested any NHL team was looking at him. Then again, I haven't exactly been looking for these stories.

Mutual

And on that note, did Gronborg interview anywhere else?

Wings, beef on weck, and probably some canadian beer. Way to honor the true spirit of a mexican holiday.

I'm amazed they even got one year out of a scenario where one team had PSE ownership/operation while the rest were run by the league. I'm not sure what the correct label would be, but that seems like one hell of a conflict of interest. Maybe it works in the short term as a building block experiment, but that was never going to be sustainable. Have you seen the tv deal the XFL just signed? That's pretty much what they have, not getting paid by the networks. I'd imagine these type of things happen all the time.

I was just responding to the thread you started. This above is the read I got from that initial tweet, that they were handing the team back to the league. But anyway, I'm sure the NHL played a big role in this one.

I'm amazed at how many people can actually name the arenas given how often those names change. My guess is that over half of the still open pro stadiums/arenas I listed have been renamed since I was there. Bonus points to the person who can list all of the names used while they were in attendance. I'm sure many can say that they went to a game in the MMA, HSBC, FNC, and KBC.

I'm late to this party. But anyway, this is a misleading number. The Devils play in an arena with a smaller capacity. If they had filled it to 100% capacity each game, they would have moved up one single spot in those rankings. The team the would have jumped? Winnipeg. 7th lowest in the league, but no one will ever say they have an attendance issue right now. In terms of capacity, Jersey looks to be right above the mark where numbers fall off the cliff if you. Those 5 teams with the least total number of fans have some ugly numbers if you 're looking at the percentage of capacity. If we're talking about tv ratings for a team like that, I wonder what the impact is of MSG holding the broadcast rights for about 85 different NHL teams. It has to cause some headaches over in that area.

And he inherited a team with 4 hall of famers. That certainly makes the job easier. I don't want to downplay the success while he was there, but it's much easier to build a house if you're handed a hammer and a saw compared to only being handed a rock.

You had to disguise her? I must have missed a story at some point.