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Which subsequently allowed Vegas to hold everyone else to ransom in making deals leading up to the draft. Compare the first season roster for Columbus: https://www.hockey-reference.com/teams/CBJ/2001.html to Vegas: https://www.hockey-reference.com/teams/VEG/2018.html

Imagine being given the golden ticket Vegas got...

Come July 1st we have 25 open contract slots. I'm most interested in what happens then. The rest of this season.. meh.

You’re assuming there was ever an actual better offer. That can not be assumed, knowing what we do now. I could be wrong, but I doubt it. JBOTs put the I want a first, roster player and prospect out there, but the market was never going to give him that. I have to believe he was hoping there would be a bidding war pushing the price up, but his own statement SJ was the only serious bidder puts paid to that idea.

While I completely understand the line of thought behind this, in the specific instance of Evander Kane, I fail to see how it can be argued that the something (actual value of that something yet to be determined) gotten in return for the player, if indeed it is the case that there was no way he was coming back, is somehow not the best move right now. The slightly better than zero percent chance that anything coming back turns into something useful surely beats out the nothing gained when he walks. We can, of course, discuss the circumstances bringing us to this point, but JBOTs really isn’t to blame for that, by a long shot. He got what he could.

Nashville over Tampa.

It was always coming.

Even given that, his treatment in the hockey media is a bit seedy. I mean, I can think of another guy named Kane who had a bit of controversy surrounding him and still gets himself used in NHL advertising and doesn't seem to have the same scrutiny applied to him, for some reason...

How much of it ever leaves the football program bough? In what way does any of this benefit the actual schools?

We’re gonna have to manage somehow...

All sorts of guys on waivers today. Notably Chris Stewart and Johnny Oduya. I’d temper any expectations of Gorges brining anything back...

That’s entirely the point. I can tell you some stories from my time at Bonaventure, and that was a few years before they got busted. I’m sure it just gets exponentially worse going up the ladder. It needs to stop. It’s no longer even tangentially related to the purpose of the schools hosting the parasites that athletic departments in general have become. Shut it all down. I do, of course, realize this’ll never happen...

Shhhhhhhh.... we don’t talk about fight club.

Shut it down. Prosecute everyone involved.

I can categorically state that one wasn’t Lehner’s fault.

Jinx.

Ovechkin is good at hockey.

Absolutely no one is saying or has said this.

Both of those things can be and are true.

This team...

Holy , Lehner just played the puck to a Sabre...

Instill love the way Josefsson skates. Wouldn’t mind keeping him for what he makes now. *I still. Stoopid phone.

Pomminstein should not be playing defenseman. Great start, boys.

The salary cap also probably factors in. Teams (those in a position to do so) can't spend their way out of a lack of young talent / poor drafting. Makes high end prospects worth that much more.

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