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nhlnumbers has Buffalo at 26, behind them are Columbus, Toronto, Vancouver, and somebody else... Arizona. I agree with liger in thinking Detroit will collapse this year. I also think Ottawa will collapse, making my bottom 5 Vancouver, Detroit, Ottawa... oh, let's have some fun, Winnipeg, and Carolina.

Blake Wheeler is 36

Kyle Turris signed November 22nd, 2011

My memory is that O'Reilly stayed in Europe, and kept playing for the team he played for during the lockout. Since he played in Europe during NHL season, he was under a new class in the CBA. Calgary (I think) gave him an offer sheet, but since O'Reilly had played in Europe, he had to pass through waivers first, thus Colorado could have kept the draft picks Calgary was offering, O'Reilly would have gone into waivers, and the worst team that wanted his contract could pick him up without paying the draft picks. I'm sure it has happened often before. I would be surprised if everyone gets signed this week.

Ryan O'Reilly with Colorado after the lockout ended, no?

avatar: I saw the future coming, and save Tim to my hard drive, so it was easy. 2.25: This is why I don't think Anaheim is very interested in Marcus Foligno, but I might be wrong on that one. Grant/Fasching: As K-9 says, got to believe they're playing their best 23, and both Grant and Fasching are in their top 23

My theory on the Hall-Larsson trade is that it was not about forward-defenseman valuation, but about Hall had to go. I think the locker room wasn't big enough for Hall and McDavid, and the Oil chose McDavid. Everyone in hockey knew Hall had to be traded, so they offered pennies on the dollar. Edmonton took Larsson, because he's better than the 29 other offers, not because his value is close to Hall's value. Evidence? you ask. The Oil played very poorly when McDavid played last season. My inkling is that Hall didn't score when McDavid played, but I haven't sat down to run the numbers. So in the end, it's just a theory.

What I like in music is what Marc Maron calls the 'Pow moment', when it seems the music explodes in my head. My simplest example is the bridge in Linus and Lucy. If you're ever at a wedding, and the band plays Linus and Lucy, the dance floor will jump up and down when they get to the bridge. Zepplin creates the pow a lot, Achilles Last Stand is tremendous. When Page plays a riff (I forget which riff) in 'This Might Get Loud,' you just see The Edge just light up. It's a great moment on film. One of things that creates the pow is proficiency of musicianship, by many great musicians don't do it for me. Floyd has lot of pow moments for me, the end of Sheep and Echoes are just killer. Stones? The opening to Give me Shelter is one of the two greatest moments in rock history for me. I think it has to do with Keith syncopating the beat just slightly. The other greatest moment in rock history? The end of Abbey Road, they give Ringo 8 bars or so, Ringo just totally rocks. The live Beatles music is just electric, and a lot of that I think is because of Ringo. The only other pow moment created by a drummer for me is Moon on Baba O'Reilly, which ends with Daltry's scream. So to the quote above, Ringo>Bonham, not even close

interesting thought

eliteprospects has weber in st. louis

This is the funniest shtick on this site, bravo.

If you google 'cody hodgson vancouver canucks back' you get http://bleacherreport.com/articles/456093-cody-hodgson-mystery-back-injury-definitively-diagnosed

If I was a Jets fan, I wouldn't be saying Fitz is great, I don't care that they're 1-3, that Fitz has thrown 10 ints, the important stat is he throws 30% over the middle. Flacco's quarterback ranking is bad, Manning is OK, and surprisingly, the fill-in quarterback for NE is really good.

Does this mean anything?

You might be right, but he played 34 in the AHL, is playing in the AHL 'On the roster?'

My guess is 4 Ristolainen will have 7 Accrued Seasons before his hits 27, so we don't have to worry about his birthday. You get Accrued Seasons by being on the regular season roster for 40 games (Don't be confused by the 10 game threshold, that's something else). Ristolainen played 34 NHL games in 13/14, I'm rather confident that the Sabres didn't bring him up a week too early to burn his first Accrued Season. So at this time, he has 2 Accrued Seasons, leaving him with 5 remaining before UFA, minus 1 as the last year before UFA, gives you 4.

Exactly how I look at it

You're probably right, what I'm trying to say is that they're going to get off the 6 year term and go to a 2 year term, rather than to hold out into the season

I expect Risto to sign for 2 years, 3.5 per, and they will revisit this question in 2 years.

It was talked about yesterday, they have Mac Bennett, Montreal draft pick from 2009, 3rd round

Look forward to it

As to the Nylander question, my charts say they are exactly alike Oh, and Wild and Woody, if you're drivin, there's beer waiting for you in the middle of Virginia

yes, the valuation tends to be too high for someone who no longer belongs in that league, so, for instance Pulkinen had an extremely high AHL number his last year there. He also may be broken, like TJ Brennen who has great AHL numbers, this was the question that I asked in June Posted 13 June 2016 - 09:22 AM Anybody have an opinion on Derek Grant? I'm guessing he can't skate fast enough Edited by rakish, 13 June 2016 - 09:23 AM. So I don't expect Grant to score like Eichel will, but he did have a really good year in the AHL last year

This is what my model comes up with for 2015. It's really made for valuing 17 year olds, but I think it does an OK job comparing AHL players to NHL players. Granted, previously to being sent to the AHL last season, Grant scored in the 400's and 500's, so his partial season last year may be an outlier, but last season, Grant was really good. I don't have all the Sabres, since I never went back as far as Giota or Moulson. How to read this. Ryan O'Reilly was 2nd best forward in his draft class, with a 2704 raw score. 2 RYAN O'REILLY NHL 2704 KYLE OKPOSO NHL 2101 3 DEREK GRANT AHL 1755 2 JACK EICHEL NHL 1440 6 SAM REINHART NHL 1227 16 EVANDER KANE NHL 1086 13 TYLER ENNIS NHL 1071 33 HUDSON FASCHING NCAA 770 38 VICTOR OLOFSSON SHL 710 40 GUSTAV POSSLER SHL 692 37 MARCUS FOLIGNO NHL 687 45 JUSTIN BAILEY AHL 645 10 ALEXANDER NYLANDER OHL 611 33 GIORGIO ESTEPHAN WHL 579 44 ZEMGUS GIRGENSONS NHL 568 58 SEAN MALONE NCAA 528 67 JOHAN LARSSON NHL 489 61 ERIC CORNEL OHL 453 65 NICHOLAS BAPTISTE AHL 450 32 RASMUS ASPLUND SHL 387 73 CONNOR HURLEY NCAA 375 111 VACLAV KARABACEK QMJHL 226 114 CHRISTOPHER BROWN NCAA 201

The Toronto Maple Leafs sucked last year. The Toronto Marlies were very good.