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I'm calling the shot. He's a bust. His game doesn't translate with a wall on one side.

Squandering assets. Am i doing this correctly?

Perfetti is such a lousy hockey name. He won't amount to much with a name like that. Quinn? Quinn is a hockey name. This kid's future is so bright we'll be wearing shades.

LOL we didn't do what the Botteril team would have done and we're burning the place down.

Magic 8 ball says no.

This should be entertaining.

Freeman, to use your words, that was extremely obnoxious.

Loved the concept of Simmonds. Was hoping we could squeeze some spark out of him. Good luck, Simmer.

Sucks. Losing more and more performers that were influential to me. And more quickly too. Getting old too fast. VH sent me down the path as a fan of rock/metal. First band I really went nuts over.

Amen. Fill a roster first, then collect ELC talent. Is #8 the pick to move to fill the roster? Show me the player first, then I'll decide. But not trading it to keep a pipeline filled when the roster isn't filled is bass ackwards. You like tension.

Is Olympics even likely at this point?

The problem with opening things up to more resilient members of society is, and always was, they will be interacting with those who are not so resilient. Students will be in enclosed spaces with teachers of varying age and health, coming home to parents with varying degrees of health (who then go to work with people of varying degrees of health) and be coached by people of various ages and degrees of health. We will come in contact with first responders with health issues, doctors with health issues, retail store workers and customers with health issues. Opening society fully for some will put substantial risk on many others who still need to work and be in society and interact with the people who would now be doing things normally. And don’t think for a minute that people will be OK with not visiting elderly parents to make life more normal for younger people. The answer to me seems to be to do what we are doing until we can identify who are the superspreaders.

In a heart beat.

I don't think about nuthin but the monkey man.

It was a reply to GA, who explicitly stated he wanted more ***** draft picks. Ok, the ***** part is my editorial.

It's not the same name, but this is what I see when I read his name.

Ah yes. The Pareto theory. What every manager learns. It seems to make sense on the surface anyway.

Moving 2-4 spots? Hell no. Take the player you want at the spot you're in. Trading down gains you a low % draft pick for the privilege of picking from whats left over afer the teams above you pick. The greatest advantage to picking 8 is you have more to choose from than the teams picking after you. A 2nd, or 3rd round pick with a 25% or less chance of ever making an impact is not good compensation for taking away the number of choices you have at 8 to get a player that makes an impact.

If Trump had shown any sign at all that he had empathy I'd say that the news he has contracted COVID would be good news. His decisions to date have universally lacked empathy, and a brush with the disease that he has very publicly marginalized might give him more empathy in his decision making about the disease from here on out. Not unlike Reagan's change of heart on gun control after the assassination attempt on him. But I honestly do not think a development of empathy is in his personality. No, this isn't an "I'm glad he got the disease" post. It's an "I wish there were a bright side to him getting the disease" post. I'm sure the level of medical care he is receiving is well above that available to any of us. I have no doubt he recovers quickly, risk factors aside.

No. You don't trade down in the NHL draft. The odds of a lower pick making it are so much worse in the NHL draft. Trading down gets you a lower odds unknown commodity. Select the best on your draft board or trade it for a player. Period.

Right. Lesser of two evils. Mine and Duda’s point exactly. It’s not a Stirling example of a guy coming in with enthusiasm and and emotional commitment to the situation. It could go either way depending on the way training camp goes and start the team has. My personal situation is a great example. My employer shut our doors and gave me an offer to relocate. I have virtually no interest in relocating. An alternative offer came with a company in very long commuting distance. It’s a role I wasn’t terribly excited to get back into, in an industry that I never really had an interest in getting involved with. As you can imagine, my enthusiasm and emotional commitment to the new role wasn’t high. It was going to take early signs of the right team and an expectation of success with the new team to build any kind of emotional commitment. Could go either way. I could get the sense that this team isn’t built to succeed, and I don’t ever develop the excitement for the situation, or there are signs of the right team in the right situation and I develop an emotional commitment to the new role. Staal is in a similar situation. It could go either way.

You’re stretching.