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If a team was going that route, you'd have to imagine that it was a part of the negotiation process.

Is that even possible with Pekar? I'm never quite sure how that CHL transfer rule works with guys who were drafted out of the USHL but then switched over to a major junior team.

Sometimes a playoff series calls for a scoreboard collapse.

The Thor stuff was horrible. He was broken and he absolutely should have been, but they went way too far in how he got there. The last two movies had him well on his way to replacing his father, but now he winds up being a rebel with no purpose tagging along with the guardians. It was a complete waste. They pretty much nailed the endings for Cap and Stark, but they completely booted Thor's. All of the time travel stuff was a major league head scratcher. They tried to establish that you can't go back and change history, but that was contradicted so many times. If it can't be changed, why is it so vital to then return the stones back to where they came from? Also, Thanos changed history in the last movie by erasing Vision's first death, and Strange did the same by getting killed about a million times by Dormamu. I guess it's the time stone itself that allows for that, ok, but guess what they had in their possession once they retrieved all the stones... the time stone! And then there's Nebula killing the past version of herself. How does that one work? And Cap going back and living a full life with Peggy and showing up as an old man still within their timeline. It's all major league confusion that makes my head hurt. But with that said, I did enjoy the movie even with these two main complaints. I can get past all of that, because as a whole, they were able to close out the whole giant story. It was a bit slow getting to the battle, but man was that fun to watch. And no matter how much the time travels makes my head hurt, allowing for Cap to have that happy ending was huge. I'm definitely a bit surprised that there were only two deaths, but man that first one was not a prediction I would have made.

@New Scotland (NS), I was going to give your post a beer too, but I'm guessing that's probably frowned upon given the event.

Boston is going to win both the Cup and the bouncyball championship, aren't they? The sports gods have their giant middle finger to all of humanity armed and ready.

It's not awesome, but I'll post it here as a follow-up to the Jamaica stuff. I grabbed a thing of yogurt at their breakfast buffet... Upstate Farms. How in the hell did they get a piece of the breakfast action at a Jamaican resort?

Just like the bass ackward results in the NHL so far.

Which one is Han Solo?

I saw it yesterday. It took a bit too long to get to the good parts, but it was fine. I agree with GoPre earlier that it was next to impossible to follow up Infinity War. Their main plan really doesn't make all that much sense given what happened in previous movies, but I'm willing to look past that and accept that it was necessary for the movie. So as a whole, it wasn't a great movie, but they did a good job of closing this huge ongoing story arc.

2nd round do over!

We’re doing the sandals resort at Ocho Rios. I think you just described my plan word for word.

It’ll be radio silence from me. I’m cutting myself off from the phone as much as humanly possible. It will be nothing more than a high priced alarm clock and camera.

Off to Jamaica in the morning. This is my first ever trip out of the country (America Jr. doesn't count).

I call BS. He was only 9 years old during that summer.

Probably just because they're hockey players. I feel like what they have listed is typically how these things are described, spice up the wording to make it sound better. They're clearly focusing on the off-ice portion here. It's like "above and beyond". Do we really need both words? I was going to say maybe we'll be able to test this one someday, but that day is already here. Tom Wilson is nominated too. You can't paint a picture any more clear that they're not focusing on the ice.

This was the same story.

So basically you're suggesting that no one on the entire team is any good to the community whatsoever. They're all a bunch of self-centered a-holes who don't give a thing back. As I said earlier, go take a look at the description of the award. It's a humanitarian award, not a "captain material" award.

Wait, what else exploded?

Wasn't that something that was mentioned a few times too by Moulson back when Eichel lived with him/his family?

It's a shame they couldn't throw one more BC goalie in and had to settle for one from NU instead.

You kids with your loud music, and your Dan Fogelberg. Your zima, hula hoops, and Pac-Man video games. No one is ever safe from southie. Your IQ will take a 20 point hit just from being within 20 feet of them. You'll walk in a doctor and walk out a vegetable.

Perhaps we should focus on the full description of the award as opposed to just 1/3 of it.

My office is on the 4th floor. Right now there's a grasshopper on the window (no ledges or anything, just a flat wall of glass). I know it's nothing crazy, but I'm probably going to spend the whole day waiting to see where it goes next. My money's on a bird swooping in.

Is he a guy who makes a lot of contact during his at bats?