MattPie

Let's try to keep them out of the realm of fantasy, There's no way Cy Hgsn is on the ice in the 3rd; he gets his 7 minutes in the first two periods.

They try to drop, but then always land on their feet.

Besides the NHL isn't "sending" anyone anywhere, Pittsburgh was in pretty dire straights before Crosby showed up. I think they were the perennial "where are they going to move?" candidates.

I assume they're going to tie a lion in there with the black-gold color scheme. Those are scratches.

Ah, that makes way more sense.

I was thinking there'd have to be contracts and whatnot signed pre-draft, but man would it suck to give up a great job for nothing because you had to go play. As a side note there, I wonder how they'll deal with walk-ons. As a player, I might not declare for the draft, finish up college, and then try to walk-on to a team based on where I have a job or even plan it out that way (I want to play in Buffalo, so I'll walk-on when I get a job there). Actually, why doesn't that work for the CHL/NHL? Is declaring yourself eligible for the NHL draft part of the CHL contract for players?

The one thing I wonder about is the draft of Juniors. It works in the CHL/NHL since there's enough money to make it worthwhile for the players, but I'd be hard-pressed to move to another city for what (in their own words) is a part-time job. What if you have a job offer in Boston for your field but Buffalo drafts you? Does the team get compensated somehow if you won't play?

Witnesses report Boyton said, "Ah-yoooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuu [chomp] yip yip yip."

So what you're saying is you wish the media would not be a negative towards white males? That sounds like you're hankering for some Political Correctness. :) Complaint: "We're moving your VMs to a new internal cloud and shutting down our cloud; you won't see any difference other than the web interface to manage VMs" has been misinterpreted as "we're shutting down [my team] entirely and your servers are going to disappear" and customers are out buying hardware because they think we're leaving them high and dry.

I think you're overstating things, but I generally agree. It'll put the Sabres into contender but the Pitts show that they might only get one cup. :)

I never thought he'd make it this long, so I have the uber-clip: (@1:36 if the time skip doesn't work)

You're on fire today!

iflscience is reading an article about the Sabre-tooth Buffalo that roamed the plains 30,000 years ago.

At best you could say he was looking for the rebound figuring one of his three team mates was going to take the man. Yeesh.

Nice, LOL.

Literally: :lol:

It'll be interesting to see AZ and TO battle it out. Buffalo will hopefully be smugly looking on from 24th place. :) EDIT: and, it'll be interested to see all the enraged TO writers complaining about the tank. Yeah right.

14 balls? really? that's a really odd number.

We have been executing our game-plan well.

I was going to say maybe it's just an artifact of the rounding process, but it's also possible that they looked at the numbers and decided that the team in 10th is normally only a handful of points out of a play-off spot and at that point those teams have a chance but it should be really small.

Every player will have their own conscious or unconscious calculation of those factors, so you can't really group "players" together. Josh Gorges didn't want to play in Toronto because he didn't like the team, I can't see Kaleta playing for Chicago if there's a reasonable offer from Buffalo, etc. I'm sure many players pick whomever pays the most.

Yeah, it's strange. But I'm guessing they too a smooth curve and then rounded things to 0.5% increments to keep the numbers easier. With 0.5% increments you could have 200 balls in the hopper. If you did 0.1% increments, you'd need 1000.

With the exception of Miller, the others went from semi-starters to backups or vice versa. Apparently it's a lot easier for a goalie to get into a rhythm with regular work, plus, each knows that at least for now, playing well will get you more starts.

#20: 20. He [bowness] had success in Boston, survived expansion chaos in Ottawa and had small opportunities with the Islanders and Coyotes. “Experience develops confidence,” Bowness said. “You have to be honest with yourself.” Would he go back and change anything? “A lot,” he replied with a laugh, declining specifics. He paused when asked how coaching is different now. “That’s not a simple answer. Every generation changes. There’s a lot more individual attention. How you push. Learning who can handle certain instruction and who can’t. Players want to know how you are going to grow them on and off the ice. There’s a lot more teaching. Coaches used to say, ‘Work harder!’ Now, when a player hears that, they say, ‘Give me something! I want to know how you can make me better.’” :unsure:

I thought he was more of a pocket passer. ;)