MattPie

Now I get it: Chicago to Nashville is 470-ish miles, or 7'15" by car. For comparison, Buffalo to Raleigh is 600+ miles and 10 hours.

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So for the flip side, are you assuming that we have Eichel? While that price doesn't seem like enough, O'Reilly only has one year left on his contract so maybe that's about right. I'm not sure it's "legal" to have an agreement with a player/agent ahead of time (although I'm sure it happens). The problem I worry about is, based on past history, ROR is going to want some exorbitant amount of money to re-sign, I'd guess $8M. he's good, but is he *that* good?

I think it could: making the playoffs every 2-3 years and getting bounced in the first round, and just missing the playoffs the other years.

I was going to look it up and post that. Damn, that LGR beats us to the punch again. The Sabres have a lot of LW (and centers that would gravitate to LW if moved over). I'm not saying the Lucic wouldn't beat out several of them, but it may be more important to shore up RW if we're giving up assets.

Come on, really?

Da, he not as nice.

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That thread was my inspiration, my muse, my raison d'etre

This is ridiculous. We grazorista are a highly integrated hive mind that only parrot what the shadowy leaders tell us. To think that we individually came to similar conclusions based on evidence is willfully ignorant of reality. EDIT: Notice: we're on to you, or so Benevolent Shadowy Leader (BSL) tells us. Watch your back.

North Buffalo's seething hate for TM.

Sad thing is I hate that song, it's too depressing.

Do they open it up eventually? Carolina did the same thing in 2006, but after a few days I could buy tickets (for something like $75 each for "oranges" on the blue line) even with my PA address.

What about his edges?

Any variation of "What would it take to trade into/out of pick #1/#2".

Unless I read the ratings numbers wrong: What's bigger: 1.17% of the 1.1M (maybe 2 if you include Rochester) people the Buffalo market, or 1.00% of the 4.5M people in Boston Metro (and that doesn't include the rest of the people in New England). It's great that Buffalo loves hockey, but the NHL is interested in eyeballs, not market share. If you believe the conspiracy nonsense in the first place.

It is an interesting question. Do you have a rather talented Centre on the 4th line, or do you trade that player for something else you need and continue with a McCormick-compatible player in that slot. The best reason for keeping a talent on the 4th line is depth to move up when the injuries happen.

I'll just leave this here in case you missed it.

How come you didn't list McCormick?

I read somewhere that some/many GTs have pre-emptive surgery on their hips, could this be that (or "they're starting to bother me so might as well get it over with"). This is from 2011 and only mentions the surgery in passing towards the end: http://ingoalmag.com/news/butterfly-and-hip-injuries-backstrom-back-to-surgeon/

What's your reason for thinking this? It doesn't seem like anyone has said this. There's a whole host of reasons you fire a coach (dejennerett provided a very nice post), only one of which is "the team finished 30th".

Man, this seems hard, especially without a cheat sheet for who shoots which way.

I-talics: I think that's a stretch. The last guys in the first are 40% to play 200 games. The first guy in the third is around 17%. That's a significant difference. But you're right that the general public seems to have an inflated idea of picks. It bears saying the prospects playing in the AHL odds are aren't going to make it. So when people say, "Oh, we have Compher, Bailey, Grigorenko, McCabe, etc." that odds are half of those guys aren't going to cut it in the NHL. By the numbers, it looks like you're doing OK if your first round pick plays (anywhere on the roster) and you get 1-2 players each year out of all the other rounds.

If that's bling, Jason Pominville is Mr. T. On second thought, I can't find a picture, but I remember Pommers having a chain on a lot. Am I wrong?