Eleven

It borders on the Adriatic. Its land is mostly mountainous, and its chief export is chrome.

Hol' up: There's a guy named not only Brad, but also Lambert, and he's Finnish?

I have no way of watching the Amerks and so no way of watching Quinn last year. I don’t have expectations but am eager to see what he does.

Exactly. The Sabres are in a perfect position to buy a draft pick.

You're not supposed to take the plasma *orally*, Carey...

I love Buffalo, but come on. Montreal for a 27 year old hockey player?! On his last year?

Monahan saying no is a different issue though. He better have.

A center making $6.5M with one year remaining, and a first-round pick, for what appears to be future considerations? I'm rather upset that the Sabres were not in on that deal.

I'd say he was top ten. Was. But that's only the 70th percentile. He's paid like he's one of the best ever. Who knows what he'll be with the Browns in 2023? I don't think he'll be top ten. I just spent my first WGR-free summer since about forever ago and kind of enjoyed listening to audio books in the car instead of sports talk. This will revert back to WGR in about two weeks, though.

Am I the only one who thinks that DeShaun Watson just isn't *that* good to begin with?

They've moved captains at the deadline before. It won't matter.

Not sure if this is @ me, but I did watch the first season. Great atmosphere and great cast, but it moved too slowly for me. Lots of streaming services' "signature series" are doing that lately, too (but I think BCS was AMC or something).

He's winding up to punch a Dolphin in the faaaaaaace

It is going to be fun to watch the kids come together (or not) this year. Comrie is a good-faith attempt at fixing the situation in net, at least, and Lyu -- I just can't -- is a nice little addition. I can't argue with the method of this rebuild. Maybe things don't work out, guys get hurt or don't jell or don't develop or whatever, but I'm ok with the method.

Jochen Hecht with leadership skills. He'll wear the C for the year. (Lest anyone think I'm damning Okposo with this: I liked Hecht and thought he was an important, but overpaid, part of the teams he was in.)

Same. I'm in this solely to root for the US.

The Czechs scare me.

This is what I remember (from a civilian perspective), too.

I have this weak feeling in my stomach that US/CAN are going to continue to dominate group play, and then the Nordics are going to turn it up a notch, as they almost always do. This tournament will be won by some country with a flag that involves a cross and the color blue.

NHLN is the worst. Also, I feel bad for Austria, although they did give us the Habsburgs and Hitler. NM, I take it back; I don't feel sorry at all.

So I just ran into the family of Indy 6th round rookie DT Curtis Brooks. Really nice people! Since Allen isn’t playing, I’m gonna root for the kid to get a bunch of sacks and make the team.

Hey @bob_sauve28 that was a perfect title change, thanks!

The crowd who is into this stuff was empowered/emboldened recently. Anyway, not sure this counts as the Amerks themselves *having* a racist incident, more like *responding to* one. Glad they did.

Hey @dudacekwhat happened to these threads?