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I am a fan of this as well but I think the Columbus/Philly proposal is a little more realistic.

Now watch Jack pull a Jimmy Chitwood and stay here.

Go for it...

Plus we can nickname him "The Merkin" and that will be fun for everybody.

That's the best proposal I've seen in a while.

It goes all the way up to the President! /homer

Dude. The players told some higher-up, and that higher-up failed to take action. Again, this was about a decade ago. That's why it is a story.

We're not the defendant and a lawsuit isn't a criminal case. Again, it appears from the article that the player informed the team *at the time*.

According to the story @LGR4GM linked, at least one of the players reported it.

We've seen it in the NBA. It is very strange indeed; normally the victims are on the other side of the power imbalance.

I see these every year for every sport and I have to think that they are photoshopped.

There may or may not be, as acknowledged by your first word above.

@BrawndoSeeing as the Sens/Capuano news is now staler than Jennifer Lopez's career, can we get that out of the title?

There MAY be. Possibly not. Definitely so.

Not sure where to put this, and sure that it doesn't merit its own thread, so here:

I loved the "Vegas in 3" memes on reddit about two weeks ago. The final is going to be one heck of a series. We kind of need this right now; it's been a rough year-plus.

The things you propose are not sports, Darth. I don't know much about the Star Wars universe, but I commend, and/or condemn, you back to it. Chewbacca will help me if necessary.

A GM who bases decisions on the fanbase is a bad GM anyway. (I think that's where you were going with this.)

Thousands of people watch chess and poker. Not sports.

Right now, hundreds of thousands of sports fans are tuning in to the annual Jim Rome Smackoff. It is a competition and the results are not predetermined. It is not a sport.

The spelling bee is not a sporting event.

1. I really didn't know that! Thanks. 2. You're probably right. There also were multiple articles, essays, and probably books about how no international series would be played in Canada this year, too, but that ended as soon as it was clear that Montreal was in the semis. (It would have been the same for Toronto, also, but not for the Prairie teams. Not enough votes in Manitoba or Alberta.)

I can't hate Montreal. Even though they've been in our division for every year except this one. (The only one left is Boston.) I just can't. They are classic, they aren't dirty, there's nothing there to hate. I'm happy that they're in instead of "we bought a team" Vegas. You're not a young man, and yet you forget 1980.

This is how it's going down: SABRES TRADE EICHEL IN NHL-RECORD 5 TEAM DEAL By John Wowraw, Associated Press TORONTO, June 25, 2021 In a flurry of trades, the Buffalo Sabres traded superstar center Jack Eichel, the second-overall pick in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft, in a blockbuster deal on Thursday night that involved five teams. According to league sources, the Sabres were unable to find satisfactory compensation from just one team and needed to engineer a multi-team deal. In the deal, the Sabres traded Eichel, 24, to the Anaheim Ducks for Trevor Zegras, but the Sabres needed more from the deal than just Zegras. Anaheim then traded Eichel and a first-round pick and goaltender John Gibson to the Chicago Blackhawks for centers Alex DeBrincat and Kirby Dach, swapping their third-overall 2021 draft pick with Chicago’s 11th-overall pick, and sent Zegras, Debrincat, Dach, and the 11th pick to Buffalo. As a return for the extra pick, Buffalo sent defenseman Rasmus Dahlin to Anaheim. Anaheim then sent Dahlin to the Toronto Maple Leafs for playoff disappointment forward Mitch Marner and goaltender Jack Campbell, formerly of the USA World Junior Championship team. Anaheim traded Campbell and forward Richard Rakell to Winnipeg for goaltender Connor Hellebuyck, and sent Hellebuyck to Buffalo for goaltending prospect Ukka-Pekka Lukkonen and German prospect John-Jacob Peterka. Buffalo then traded Hellebuyck, Zegras, Debrincat, Dach, the first-overall pick in 2021, and forward Samson Reinhart to Chicago for Eichel.

So do I.