shrader

Devils

I need to know who is evaluating the prospects. It's amazing to see how certain people will universally overvalue pretty much every single prospect. At best, I'd need to compare that source's number of so called worthy prospects to the number on other teams. I know the number thrown out here was a generalization, but the point still stands, the number by itself means very little.

It's tough to gauge exactly what the difference would be given that it's 5 years down the road, but how much extra would he really stand to add on for those 3-4 years, $3 million or so? Risking $30-$40 million for the chance of adding on an additional $9-$12 million, so maybe an additional 30%, I'm not so sure it's worth it. But then again, we're talking about numbers that have a few extra zeros compared to what I'm used to, so it's very tough to relate. Up to this point, can we name any top level players who have opted for the bridge contract when facing this situation? We can point to plenty who played out the one year gamble, but not many multi-year gambles come to mind. As for the markets, remember, we're talking about hockey in Toronto vs. playing for the red-headed stepchild team for the red-headed stepchild sport* in the red-headed stepchild portion of the New York market. I don't think it's crazy to suggest that Toronto would have far more money options available it this specific moment. *Are they even the second biggest hockey draw for that market?

But Matthews still has very little reason to sign that deal. Passing on 3-4 years of guaranteed money is a huge gamble. On top of that, he has a whole other world of potential money to be made in Toronto compared to what would be available on Long Island. This is one huge part of offer sheets that it feels like people tend to overlook each year, the player has to actually agree to it as well.

It actually looks like Carlton is reading the post. That's amazing.

And how much of that do they give away if they're actually able to land Karlsson?

I know that feeling. I'm starting a 10 day vacation next wednesday and I'm as close to coasting mode right now as is humanly possible. As for complaints, that 10 day vacation will be entirely spent staying in one house with the wife's entire family (5 other adults and 4 kids all under 7). I'm still not sure why I label it as a vacation. And also, I've been stuck in what seems like a permanent waiting mode on some other things. There's light at the end of the tunnel, but it never seems to actually get any closer.

All this talk based off of one picture is pretty funny. The real strength of hockey players is below that table anyway (quiet, inkman).

Now just imagine a scenario where the best workers in the company all get together and work a couple extra days without getting paid for it. At the same time, all the crappy workers get to sit at home, already having pocketed their pay.

They’re already going to unload the brinks truck in Matthews’ front yard. It’s a waste of time both for the player and for any team to even bother with negotiations. You’re not going to land him and you’re not going to alter the cap hit in any realistic way.

Hello good citizen, my name is Batman.

Or Lou has caught a case of Islanderitis. Who knows what you can catch from sitting in Garth Snow's chair. You have to clean the hell out of that office before you take it over.

Is the thread going to turn into a snickers commercial now?

By "her follow up" do you mean the lawyer? Anyway, if you are going to throw a laundry list of accusations like that out at someone, every single one better be completely air tight or else you introduce doubt into the equation.

Probably a big part of why the lawyer told the woman to remove the post.

I just want them to constantly play a clip from Spaceballs on the jumbotron but alter the words to "keep firing, Ahos".

Apparently he retired in 97, then coached for a year with Calgary, before coming back out of retirement to play 3 more years.

And as a result, it's natural to think that she might be facing an uphill battle with that legal representation. But anyway, you know things are incredibly messed up already when the victim is quickly getting statements out there through a lawyer. I'm not sure which came out first since I'm seeing them at pretty much the same time, the police statement or the lawyer's statement. These women probably hurt their case right off the bat by throwing the accusations at McCoy online immediately.

Is this the same Steve Smith, defenseman from the Gretzky era Oilers?

It seems like the kind of thing a lawyer should know better than to do, especially with something that you're releasing to the public. Years ago back in the middle of when the firm had their brief name change, I stopped at a bar on my way home after after a Sabres-Bruins game, fairly far away from their arena. A random girl starts asking me about my Sabres jersey. Long story short, she tells me she's the daughter of one of the two, I forget which one. Anyway, I wonder if that's the same daughter.

For the second time in less than a year, a house in my neighborhood was struck by lightning this past weekend. Fortunately I wasn't around this time when it happened. The two are so close together too. It's not too often that you can seek out someone with first hand advice on this whole process by just walking across the street. That other family just moved back in about a month ago. And I hope I'm not blaming the victim here, but the two houses are the same exact model.

Is that an attempt to dance around the possible defamation that runs pretty thick in that statement? Sometimes I wish people didn't have to hide behind all the lawyer speak and would just come right out and say it. The lawyer of the woman from the original post was definitely worried about defamation issues.

I can also see a scenario where a buddy decides to go there on his own and then things get out of hand quickly. So that's a case where neither McCoy or the ex-girlfriend did something stupid.

Why would they though? It's already out there and screen grabbed a million times. You can't close that door. I'd imagine that countless more people have heard of it from a source other than instagram at this point.

So if you're going to go the tennis route, you would instead have to call him ball. Sadly, that nickname is already claimed by Phil Kessel.