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In a vacuum absolutely. Please sweet baby Jeebus let there be a deal though.

Not for those of us looking to lose somebody owed a lot of money it's not...

Absent a side deal he has to be the first guy picked.

Thanks, Taro. The reason it ended up in the awesome thread, and the thing that I realized extremely recently is that it's not as troubling now as it was yesterday, and things are going to be ok.

But that's 419 games played, which is slightly more than five seasons. So if he can stay heal... oh. Never mind.

I took my wedding ring off this evening. I won't be putting it back on. This is not awesome. What is awesome: the realization that things are going to be ok. My wife will, in 18 months or so, no longer legally be my wife. We're going to act as if it's the case sooner than that. We'll always be partners though, in terms of the continued raising of our child. Both of us grew up with divorced parents who gave us shining examples of how not to do things. Lessons learned, we move on. Sooner than later we'll have to sit our daughter down and explain to her what's happening. ripping her world in half doesn't seem like a good idea, but keeping things as they are is probably worse. Kids aren't stupid and she's no exception. She already gets most of it. It'll be fine. We redefine our family and move on. So much the better. Sorry to lay this on Sabrespace, but I have no place else at this exact moment...

If actually betting the odds would be so slanted towards the under that I'd have to toss a few bucks on the over just in case. Which is what they want me to do, but I digress. Under.

Per Dreger Snow's coughing up a first to keep Vegas off certain forwards. Garth gonna Garth.

NHL just tweeted they're not out until 10:30. Bastards.

Arizona's gonna have to load up on a few more retired but not technically retired players to hit the cap floor again this year. But hey, the NHL is committed to making it work in the desert. Even if the team itself doesn't seem to be.

I mean, they have to be talking about exactly what draft pick it's going to take for Vegas to agree to bring in Matty Mo...

They could build something interesting relatively quickly, heck, the Sabres have a shot of making the playoffs five years after, well, we all remember. I have read otherwise sane (I assume) people suggesting there's a possibility they'll be anything other than hot garbage this coming season though. Even George McPhee giggles at that.

Plus which, he'd be gone and the Sabres would not have to deal with him or his feelings going forward in any event. Matty Mo's still cashing the same check either way.

I love this love, if only because now we get 75 more games in which Rob Ray has to attempt to pronounce "Beaulieu". Editing my accidental Van Morrison: move, I love the move.

They're doing what they've been doing for several years now, and what the Sabres did between 98-02. Tossing an average at best team in front of an all-world goalie and hoping for the best. We all saw what happened when Price went down the season before last. It's what they are and have been (and likely will be until Price declines or moves somehow).

Except Tampa didn't get Galchenyuck...

Actual, and good, news re: KO. Expected to be ready for camp. https://www.nhl.com/news/sabres-okposo-expected-to-be-ready-for-training-camp/c-289955088

I could have sworn the rumor was Galcenyuk going the other way earlier this morning. Odd. MTL wins this one.

MODO, I love you as much as one straight dude can love another (I assume) straight dude he's never met.

Really?

American handegg team from the general Boston Area.

In all honesty, 60% of the Patriots are about all you'll get for sports teams at the White House from now to some unknowable point in the future.

Seeing Jacques Martin on the honest to god list of front runners for the HC position gives me the willies. I will start liking basketball in the (mercifully unlikely) event that happens.

Welp. Death just popped up in my living room and is for some reason laughing at me...

What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Hockey and Baseball especially are not REVENUE SPORTS but the kids are taken advantage of as if they are nonetheless. If you're good enough you're good enough. I'd also argue that the NBA and NFL restrictions on draft age and the subsequent benefits to NCAA programs are illegal restrictions on trade and as such pure antitrust violations. If I dealt in that area of law, of course...