shrader

Are you my brother? Pretty much everything you say matches up with him perfectly. He never brought a tin foil Stanley Cup to any playoff games though, so I'm guessing you're not.

I don't mean to pick on you, but this line is a perfect example of how things go off the rails around here. You're saying Thompson is either a hall of famer or a bust. We overvalue just about everything, which ultimately leads to disappointment.

Not only is it not asterisked out in anyway, but they also include much more of the quote than you typically get to see. I wish we'd see that more in these reports. There's still plenty of context lost in the whole thing, but it feels like Torts words aren't getting the total hatchet job that you usually see in online reporting.

A friend from college recently had his first baby. I was looking through amazon for a gift yesterday and the first thing that popped up was a BU football onsie. They shut that program down in 1997. I really want to buy that one though. My friend would laugh his ass off. The mother wouldn't get it though, which completely kills the gift.

Just start calling it bounceyball. That usually gets them worked up.

No it’s not the offer sheet alone, it’s also the timing. He stuck around in Russia while the rest of the league returned from the lockout. The whole thing was odd. On a side note, I really wish that Colorado hadn’t matched it and then Calgary would have lost him anyway to waivers.

Not to many in the NHL take it to the point of a hold out though. I can understand why someone might have some red flags for him. Hold out may not be the proper term for that whole fiasco coming out of the lockout, but it was definitely unique.

They need to write a book on all of that. There’s so much incompetence to go around. I’d love to read the chapter titled LaFontaine”.

So little of what you’re describing is Botterill though. He’s been on the job one year now. Are you counting anything beyond Kane-O’Reilly to that bad asset management? Yeah, I realize those are two big fish right there if you are in fact right, but I’m trying to get a feel for anything else you might be talking about. What’s becoming very obvious is that this team is coming dangerously close to bills territory where the actions of each GM can easily wind up being lumped together into one giant ball of crap... the new guy automatically gets lumped in with his predecessors

Based off of their recent track record, I wouldn’t be surprised to see them fall off the cliff again. That team has been a crazy roller coaster ride, never doing what they’re expected to.

I’d love to know exactly how this whole thing played out. For a few days now we’ve all known that O’Reilly was headed to St Louis. I can’t think of too many cases like that. How exactly does all of this leak out and how does the package morph from what it was on Friday? Just once I’d love to know who is actually leaking this stuff out.

Picture learning this news a few hours after it happened. There’s a whole lot of crap to wade through when you’re in catch up mode. It quickly outweighs the well reasoned stuff. Some people just want to bitch and that becomes obvious fast. But anyway, I’m curious to see where they go from here. We have a ton of new bodies all of a sudden and I can’t help but think there’s more to come via trade. I’m definitely curious to see how the use of this glut of draft picks will compare to Murray’s approach.

All I know is that if Hickey keeps his sweet porn stache, all will be right in the world. Or did it just look like a stache through that visor cage? Now I don’t know what to believe.

Yeah, you don’t like me, I get it. But anyway, I come here to read about this trade and instead I get the same three or four posters rapid fire bitching. This place used to be be a great source of information no but unfortunately it has become a steaming pile. Be proud.

You know how they say a room full of women will eventually have their cycles sync up? I imagine that’s a lot like this board tonight.

Can you cancel your account here while you’re at it? You’re not happy, we get it.

Is he the one who was going to sign in Dallas a few years ago but then stabbed them in the back last second?

You’d have to imagine that they had a conversation or two prior to making the trade.

If the players already have a contract in place with the CHL team, that is the reason why an agreement even exists between the two leagues. It’s the same reason there are transfer agreements with the European leagues. There needs to be some set standard on how they are able to essentially break the already existing deal that the player has.

There’s no room for him at this point. He’s not going to sign anywhere just to be thrown in the ECHL. At this stage, Rochester needs someone with more experience.

They’re not rumors if you just throw the names out there yourself

Vaseline? That guy needs to be paired up with Pekar

You speak out often about the mega threads. Politics is a pretty broad label. That’s a lot of topics to be confined to a single thread. I’d lean more towards a sub forum if possible, that way you can have multiple threads, but those who want to avoid it don’t have to see every single one of them on the front page. Maybe the software doesn’t allow for that, but it’s the way I would do it if I would stupidly put in charge.

I’m pretty sure his new contract is an AHL only deal.

He can’t be very good though if he can only go for about 30 seconds each time.