MattPie

Well, this year 3rd round picks bought the rentals of Martin Gelinas, Justin Schultz, Mike, Weber, and Teddy Purcell. A couple other trades were a 2nd and a 4th, maybe those trades swing the Sabres way if they're in on it and offer a 3rd to beat out someone else's 4th.

Me neither, but I'm sure the NHL system is equally opaque for someone who doesn't spend too much time here too.

I went and looked, and Buffalo didn't have a 1st in that draft I'm sure it was a Darcy special, trade us your expiring power forward for a 1st, no reasonable offer refused! Buffalo slotted at 28th, with which the Sharks took Nick Petrecki, who looks to be out of playing hockey, and possibly in jail from a bar fight. One NHL game to his credit, no points, no PIM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Petrecki I looked at that draft, and the #8 pick by Boston, Zack Hamill played 20 NHL games and is in Europe now. Coture, McDonough, and Shattenkrik were picked shortly after Hamill. BUFFALO: Darcy Special indeed, the first went to Washington who then traded it to SJ: February 27, 2007 that sent Dainius Zubrus and Timo Helbling to Buffalo in exchange for Jiri Novotny and this pick.

Scanning through the trades, it seems like a bunch of Edmonton D shipped out and some picks and a few forwards came back including our old friend Zack Concept of Kassian. They swapped out a G too, but I think those are backups. I don't recognize most of the names, which speaks largely to my ignorance of the NHL in general but it's possible several of those players were AHL-level. I'm not sure what EDM is up to, since it seems like they need D (at least most years). Maybe they decided the D they had weren't going to cut it so they fire-saled everything and they'll move some big forward pieces for D after the season.

At best, if you were already working a hockey trade you might be able to turn an early 2nd into a late first to balance out value. Something like, Ennis and my (early) 2nd for Drew Miller and your (late) 1st. (I'm guessing Ennis has more value than Drew Miller, but whatever)

Not on it's own, like "I'll trade you two thirds for your second", but more like "I'll trade you Malkin for Pysyk and your second." "How about Pysyk and my third?" "No. Pysyk and two thirds?" "Deal." You could argue that 2 3rd == 1 2nd in that scenario, but it's not that easy. (Shout out to wookie for the trade inspiration! :))

Agreed, for this team actual salary doesn't mean much, only cap hit. They could pay Risto $48M in the first year and $13k for the remaining 7 years and I could care less. The only number we need to worry about is the $7M year cap hit.

Seems we've been talking about Armia for the last 14 years, it's odd to hear him referred to as a rookie even if the description fits.

Someone mentioned that on WGR too. The idea is all but the top-10 teams in the league are gun-shy about trading a first in case they miss the playoffs and win the lotto. It makes sense; you can say there weren't players with first-round value available but if GMs start calling up with 1st round picks to sell guys suddenly become available.

Customer support numbers? That's what Google is for. :)

My sister is in town, so MrsPie and I went to Victory after RosePie went to sleep. Ranch R to start, Dirt Wolf second. Two 8+% beers is all I'm good for these days, but I'm sipping on some Bulleit Rye while watching the game.

You might check meetup too. There are a few weekly pick-up meetups in this area and if you're OK and social I'm sure you could parlay that into finding a spot on someone's team that needs a body.

If I wanted to watch Jonas Enroth highlights, I'd have just gone to NHL.com. :) I'd note though that the goalie in the video seems to have far slimmer pads than NHL-average, but it's tough to tell with all the scale issues going on there. FWIW, I look at it this way: we're the hockey %1 of fans, and we're here debating whether more goals would be good or bad at the cost of goaltenders; and it seems like the "more goals" crowd is ahead but that may be my confirmation bias. I can tell you what the other 99% of hockey fans probably aren't saying: man, I love these low scoring games, where guys skate up and down the ice shooting pucks into crowds in hopes that a couple go in". Personally, I liked the hockey of 2005-06 a lot better than the hockey of 2015-16.

I'm not going to disagree with either, but I'm also not going to complain about it.

I feel you, I'm only doing one vball night per week right now, I'd like to do two but I'm too out of shape for that. My feet and knees hated me the last few years.

I have a tough time doing enough physical labor to make that work. That being said, I was starting to put on some muscle over the summer when I planted at least 20 shrubs and whatnot (in the crazy rocky soil in my yard), de-thatched the lawn by hand, and then wrestled the gas lawn aerator. Only down side is I was eating a ton too.

If it didn't matter to the goal, he should have stayed on-side. I think the challenge being called by the coach is BS, but I'm not sure I care if the Toronto room made it part of it's standard review process.

The team turned over almost 50% this year alone, never mind the fire sales of the years before that.

Maybe at the Bundy ranch/compound.

That's what the Sabres are doing with ROR. :) I'm a good ten years older than you it was the same stuff. To be honest, I remember the radio in the 90s being far more liberal than the 80s. Video games have been the boogey-man since then too, as were movies, music, and everything else you're talking about. I think I even remember being upset about it 10 years ago too. It might be a bit worse than it was, but that could also just be my perspective since it's different than what I grew up with. RosePIe has a pretty bump and abrasion on her head and face right now. She was sitting in the rocking chair and bonked her face when twisting to side down to the floor. Whoops, but it's not like it's the first time.

I will probably watch it (as much as I watch any games these days). I'll either take care of some mindless work stuff or chores while it's on. I've been up until 12-1 AM all this week anyway.

I hadn't had a chance to look at the matchups or lineups,, but I was thinking Weber would make a ton of sense for a team that's worried about toughness in the play-offs.

I think you'll find 49.18 states the no two clones can be on the ice at the same time, other than during a line change at the linesman's discretion. However, there is the Sedin rule, where natural clones are exempted from this rule.

Now that Mike Weber has been traded, I expect the dominos will start falling pretty quickly. :)

I think the question is, why isn't this the policy for all non-violent criminals?