MattPie

Vesey's last season in NCAA was at like 25 years old, I think that's the point. If you compare them by age, Mittelstadt is ahead. I'm sure why the need to get all snarky. ;)

Here you go. :)

I enjoy thinking about ROR - MIttelstadt - Reinhart and Rando - Eichel - Okposo as two lines.

I thought we covered this already somewhere.

Now I get it. You're under the impression the AHL 1> cares about people's development and 2> makes sense. :)

In the general sense, the AHL doesn't want NHL teams to send their "good" players down as ringers. In this case, I think the rule is something like: if a player has played an NHL game this season, they are ineligible for the AHL playoffs unless there were on the AHL team at some date (it was a few weeks ago).

You have to think the first offer from JBOT was Amerks for the playoffs and then Buffalo camp, right?

Nicely done. What's his TRpm?

Interesting perspective thanks! Bolded: I'd be wary of comparing stats from players 35 years apart, games change. If there are a bunch of successful NFL QBs drafted in the past 10 years that also have <60% completion rates, I'm listening.

MUST ARD.

I work something like 9:30-10 to 6 (and then a couple hours at home 9-11PM). I'm not sure if that's better or worse.

That sounds terrifying! :)

Come on, Ink., Shrodinger's Kane was simultaneously a tremendous asset to any team that was worth multiple first rounds picks and also a locker room cancer that never saw an open linemate that he instead opted to ignore and shoot on near the net.

We are Borgen, resistance is futile.

I, for one, welcome our new Teenage Overlords. Unfortunately, I'll be lined up against a wall for not using a GIF to say that.

Well you see, Lanny...

Looked at the score, still turned the game on. What's wrong with me?

Well, the other teams' goal against the Sabres count...

While possible, very few players hold out on their drafting teams. It's not productive for the player to be seen as a malcontent. While we're figuring out who, let's talk about the holding accountable. How are we going to do that? And it's not just the rich, I'm perfectly capable of buying a car or a house and making some really bad choices with them.

That's good point. At the same time, it's not unlike if the goalie has the puck in his glove and then puts it into the net. Maybe the lesson is, if you don't know where the puck is, don't put anything into the net just in case.

Eichel's 2-way game is worlds better than it was when he was a rookie, all while maintaining his scoring pace, which is near the top of the NHL, per-game. I wasn't old enough to watch Perreault with a critical eye, but was he some sort of 2-way demon on the ice, or a guy that could skate through the entire team and score on a guy with the equivalent of a couple phone books on his legs? Leadership: Wasn't one of Perreault's knocks that he wasn't a leader? He was the Captain from 1981-1986 after being the league for 11 years before that. I'm not bagging on Gil, but I think people are looking back wearing a pretty serious 1970s-style pair of rose-colored glasses here. It must be nice to have more relentlessly-negative voices around here. :)

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I had to go look since I haven't skied there in 25 years, and yeah, Dream would be a great trail for it. We used to spend a ton of time on that trail goofing off since it was such an easy run.

Telling your kid that we can't sled any more and it's time to go in when all you want to do is sled some more (with or without her; I love sledding).

Got around 8-10" of snow/slush here. So far the win and power outages that were predicted haven't happened though.