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shrader

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  1. Wait, what else exploded?
  2. Wasn't that something that was mentioned a few times too by Moulson back when Eichel lived with him/his family?
  3. It's a shame they couldn't throw one more BC goalie in and had to settle for one from NU instead.
  4. 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.
  5. Perhaps we should focus on the full description of the award as opposed to just 1/3 of it.
  6. 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.
  7. Is he a guy who makes a lot of contact during his at bats?
  8. I just bumped into this story on TSN. Yesterday, in his 6,827th plate appearance over 13 years, Joey Votto popped out to first for first time ever. I have no idea how they are even aware of a stat like that, but that's kind of crazy. That long of a career, and up until yesterday, he was tied with me. Amazing.
  9. Be prepared to be surrounded by a bunch of southie up there. If they don't beat your head in already, you'll want to do it yourself after listening to them talk for about ten minutes.
  10. You're confusing us enough as is, but then at the end you bring the Czechs into the equation as well?
  11. We've checked the obvious Ristolainen jokes off the list. Now who follows up with the obvious Star Wars jokes?
  12. Scanning through those picks, I get the feeling that none of you will have picked the winner. That would be an interesting result.
  13. Has anyone actually seen Nylander recently with both of his legs?
  14. Well LA already nailed their first overall pick last year (20th overall), so we'll know fast.?
  15. And if either of them goes out and gets hit by a bus tomorrow? Crude, I know, but there's just way too much that can happen in the upcoming years before we can say anything.
  16. St. Louis is kind of a funny one. They've kind of operated mostly in obscurity over the years. I had to look up their recent history to see where they've been finishing. It's probably just a western conference thing. I'm paying less attention and you tend to miss the middle of the pack teams. But anyway, the NHL really is a breath of fresh air compared to certain other leagues. In the 13 years post-lockout, we've had 18 different teams in the finals and 8 different winners. The NFL is surprisingly close to those numbers over the same timeframe actually (more winners, less teams), once you're able to look past new england being in 4 of the last 5. If nothing else, the NHL has always felt like more teams have a shot.
  17. I kind of went off on a tangent there. When you're trying to see who wound up with the final 4 picks in previous drafts, you want to just look at those draft results. But since at least one of those picks usually winds up being dealt, it ruins that simple plan. 3 of them were traded last year, which adds to the fun if you don't go to the right place to track the draft history.
  18. I guess it depends on your definition of a "prolonged period of time". Including Toronto definitely means you're using a very loose definition. It's what, 3 years for them now? But anyway, there's a lot of turnover in the NHL as a whole, but that's the nature of the beast when you are comparing a 16 team 7 game series playoff field to a 12 team single elimination field. As for Vegas and the branding and the selling of gear, I'm not so sure that's really a unique situation. A team wins, they see a massive spike in sales. It will drop off once they do. They're not the first team to see that and they won't be the last. Hell, wasn't the slug one of, if not the highest selling jerseys in the NHL for a period of time? If that's not proof of concept, I don't know what is. After all of this though, it'll be interesting to see how things go for Seattle. The bar has been set impossibly high. And they won't have that unique market benefit either. I hope they don't wind up with an Ottawa-like entrance, but I feel like the pendulum may very well wind up swinging back in that direction.
  19. Can you pull some strings and make this a fact in the NFL as well?
  20. It has nothing to do with the trades, just like how Colorado had the highest draft lottery odds, the pick is based solely on the original holder. Looking at the standings, Toronto was above St. Louis and Columbus was below.
  21. Yes. Well, there's a pretty good shot that at least one of those 4 picks has already been traded away. If Toronto moves on to face Columbus, that would guarantee it, as both teams have traded their pick.
  22. I'd say they're a unique situation where financial stability and on ice stability are almost completely independent. Both the team and the league would love for them to have a fanbase, but it's really just an added bonus.
  23. Two years does not make a franchise. Fans responding to a winner is nothing new. The true test is when they struggle, and they will. Personally, I think that market will do well attendance-wise no matter what the sport. They'll give away tickets just like they do with everything else out there if they have to. Whether or not a fanbase develops seems moot to me. They'll thrive with or without, just like the Raiders will.
  24. It's funny how things that once looked absurd suddenly seem far more realistic. A week ago I would have stopped reading after the 4th word. Ultimately there may not wind up being a difference between those two picks, but it would still be nice to have more of a choice in who you take. Conference finals, the last 4
  25. I hate that these two are counted together. I'm not going to bother looking up how many fake shoot out wins Tampa had, but those aren't the same as Detroit's 62. Asterisk!* *Just like our 10 game streak to start the 06-07 season.
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