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What was your previous screen name?

So, you don’t see a package that could be made from the roster that went to the finals last year and is a presumptive favorite again this year? A proven high level playoff performing roster just doesn’t have the pieces to be a value for Jack Eichel. I think its more likely that Vegas wouldn’t want to screw up a team full of playoff gamers to get a flashy guy that hasn’t shown himself to be a gamer yet. Lets see what Seattle ends up with before saying there is nothing there.

If only...

I stand firm in my observation. AKA you’re doing it again!

I need to see a hockey trade here, not a picks and prospects trade. This team will be getting much too young.

It’s weird how you have unbridled optimism for kids who have done nothing yet and unbridled pessimism for a management team who have done nothing yet.

What assets did Vegas have after their draft?

Would change the timetable of a trade to after the expansion draft.

Consensus!

Now you're just trolling. 🤪

Yeah, it worked alright.

Especially when you misspell it too.

Not entirely accurate. Back when Buffalo was relevant the league didn’t allow Buffalo to do what Tampa did this season. Under the same rules. The league deemed it skirting the salary cap then. It hasn’t changed today. What’s changed is TB is obviously an MFT right now.

The seasons we chose to lose on purpose are my all time lows. It's still unconscionable to me that we lost on purpose.

Tkachuk and Cozens would be a hard line to play against.

I reordered the sentences so it made more sense. Doesn't change your response any.

Tkachuk makes me giddy and AND want to reflex away at the same time. He's got game that this team has never had, but he's got red flags too. It would be a high risk, high reward type deal. I suppose you can say that about Jack as well at this point. I wonder how risk adverse KA is? We know JBott was risk adverse.

Futures dominated trades would be redoing the mistakes we made to start this damned disaster.

The reason they don’t want you targeting bass right now is they are on their spawning beds and gobies rob the nests of eggs and fry when you pull a bass off its nest. There is some amazing youtube footage out there of bass getting removed from a nest and gobies swarming in immediately to feed on the eggs and spawn. Fortunately the walleye fishing in that area is pretty good right now.

Brador. Now there is a name I hadn’t heard in a very long time.

I think if I took a photo of my liquor cabinet you might weep.

Yeah, I was trying to be polite about it. It's not good stuff. If you enjoyed Angel's Envy there is a whole world out there of wine, port, and cognac finished bourbons for you to try. I've got bottles of Belle Mead Cognac, Mediera, and sherry fished bourbons and they are all delicious. Issac Bowman has a pretty solid port finished bourbon. Legent is a pretty good one too. Not a classic bourbon in profile, but a good pour. I've really gotten into wine/port/sherry finished bourbons lately. The interesting thing is, most of them are MGP sourced bourbons, but they all have fairly unique flavor profiles.

Proper is tough stuff. Not a fan at all.

Spent the morning on the water. Peaceful, barely a breeze, only a handful of boats, loons calling to each other across the lake. Gorgeous. Caught a few fish for dinner tomorrow. Bonus. This is what keeps me sane. If heaven isn’t exactly like that I’d rather stay here.

I feel so old. My favorites are gone. For me, a favorite restaurant is more about the context of the visit than it is about the food. Our anniversary dinner place used to be Lord Chumley’s downtown. I don’t know that Janice Ocum ever raved about the place, but it was a special event place for us and we sure raved about it. Our Friday nights when we were dating often included Brennans Bowery Bar. You couldn’t have convinced us back then there were better wings anywhere. There was a place in Batavia called Chardonnay’s that we discovered when we were first looking to move out of Erie Co. What a fantastic twist on Italian-French fusion. Didn’t make it. There was a place on Maple and Sweethome that had great Italian food and an awesome cigar bar. Lots of date nights there when our son was small. Regular enough that we could afford it, fancy enough that we felt like we were splurging. Love the places we call regular now but I miss the context of those old haunts.