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Straight on the grill works too, BTW. Actually, you can buy the local crappy pizza here, doctor it up a bit, put it on the grill for a bit, and then eat.

That would be fun, a long as Kane can be convinced to pass to Reinhart. It seems like he's finally learning to use teammates at times.

So, Sabres lost, Vancouver Lost, Edmonton won their trade. I'm not sure where else he played (Mtl?). That's assuming he continues being effective, of course.

Is it just Gallant and Hitch that are off the market right now compared to last week? I'm not sure there's a huge loss there. The Sabres may have their eye on a playoff team Assistant or other coach that's not available right now, but I wouldn't be the Housley on that.

If I'm Antipin, I have to seriously consider going somewhere that's going to make me look the best for the second contract. If he comes here and struggles with the long pass for a year or two, it could cost him meeeeeellions.

Buffalo is either going to have to offer a lot more money, or have some sort of promise about the system in place to get Antipin here. If this guy is as good as people are talking about, he'll have offers from teams that suit is style better.

Seems to be working for Toronto! :devil:

I think I have a little equity in my house, and I better call that guy in San Diego that keeps trying to recruit me!

I'm not sure that follows. Taking one conference, let's see one division is complete terrible, the other is good. The top 5 teams in the good division (GD) are in the playoffs taking both WC slots; let's say every team of those 5 are better than every one of the 3 in the bad division (BD), but those 3 are better than the remaining 3 in the good division (the must have lost a lot to the 5 juggernauts). So the conference standings are 1-5 GD, 6-8 BD by points. in this case, the "old" seeding would be (only two divisions instead of three): 1-8, 6-7, 2-5 , 3-4. The new seeding is 1-5, 6-4, 2-3, 7-8. I'm not seeing a huge difference there. Each has one series of 5-8 teams and one series of 1-4 teams.

That might be just the way he talks, too. I commonly say things like, "hey, my key worked this morning, I must still have a job" and "I hope I can get this task done before they fire me".

My system goes to 11

That's what I would say. I think that's what Babcock is doing; play the "right" way even if the D is tire fire and we'll see where the chips fall.

I posted this awhile back but it boils down to a few things: - Byslma has changed things that in his mind make it different, but to the observer they look the same. - He wanted to change things, but when met with adversity, he went to his happy place. - He doesn't feel like the team is good enough to play the new system, so he's relying on the old until roster changes happen and he can unleash the Byslmatic 2.0 on unsuspecting NHL clubs. My argument for the third bullet is that's playing scared. Maybe in a playoff series you do that to tailor it to a particular teams' strengths and weaknesses, but you should be playing the ideal system in the regular season to get the players on the right page.

I could see Sam around 20 goals, 45 assists in the right situation. That's nothing to scoff at. He's getting there in year 2 with 17 and 30 this year in what people are calling "bad". He's #116 of 888 in points this season for skaters, #50 in centers. , around guys named Vanek, Pominville, Silvrferburg, Hossa, and Jagr. He's not going to be Jack Flash, but to dismiss him now is silly. I keep Sam, get him to center, and trade the high pick if it comes for a slightly lower or D prospect. I'm not rolling the dice that The next pick will match that.

I don't disagree, but it's not like there aren't UFA goalies milling around in the parking lot of NHL headquarters that LV can sign on July 1st to fill out the last spot or two. I think they have to pick three, I'd be surprised if they pick more unless there are a pile of sure NHL-ready prospects exposed (Ullmark may well be one of those). Like you say, they're going to need NHL skaters before they worry about AHL backup GT.

I assumed it was tail-number which would mean one plane, but it's a shared thing. Other people use it.

If that were the case, they wouldn't divide east and west, just 1-16. The playoff system is strange this year in the East because the divisions are so unbalanced. I'm not sure that's normally the case.

Did I see something the Fleury has to be protected, so Murray in Pitt will be exposed?

Seat belts started showing up on some of our buses in the early 90s, but no one ever wore them.

Memorizing Pi? You can have my digits (as we used to say).

Now you're really talking some Boomer Blasphemy!

No, but it's not a badidea. It reminds me a little of what 3words' solution to global location: https://what3words.com/

You might want to revisit the path Ryan O'Reilly took to get to the Sabres. http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/ryan-o-reilly-signs-offer-sheet-flames-mercifully-230122860--nhl.html http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/sabres-gm-defends-ryan-o-reilly-reputation--will-make-him-highest-paid-040149854.html

I'll expand on the seeding (as I understand it): - Top division winner in points gets Wildcard 2 (fewer points) - Other division winner in points get Wildcard 1 (more points) - remaining 4 teams play their division opponent (Atlantic vs Altlantic, Metro vs. Metro)

Kane in Toronto, or was there a more recent one?