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Watching the playoffs and how those games are played reminds me, again, of how much we need guys like Kane when we finally reach the promised land of the playoffs again. It's such an intense and physical version of NHL hockey, without guys who play as fast and hard and Kane, there is no chance. They don't grow on trees. So although I am in tune with the "sell high" argument and support it, my support is conditional on getting a haul in return that contributes to the team's chances to be a playoff contender in the near term; i.e. I think it has to be a solid puck moving defenseman in return (like Vatanan), which is what we need. Hopefully, if this happens then guys like Bailey, Carrier, Fasching, and/or Baptiste can step up and in some way partially fill the scoring/checking forward slot Kane occupies (not 1 for 1, but at least in part). Agree with the "Okposo deal" post above in terms of trying to keep him.

I hope the colonoscopy is not based on suspected problems and just proactive. I need to go get another one soon as I have a family history of colon cancer. Sorry to hear about everyone's pet and health trials. Thanks for sharing. Helped me keep perspective this morning on my daily trials and tribulations at work and home. My daughter is a senior in HS. She's a great kid. Puts way too much stress on herself, in addition to the real stress kids face these days. And of course school is winding down now as she's completed all her final exams. Anyway, she drove to my house from her Mother's house and was having a rough morning and running late. I live next to the HS so she just walks over from there. I printed out and signed a note for her explaining that she had car issues (which is sort of true...the car was late) that made her 10 minutes late. She texted me an hour later that the note wasn't accepted as car trouble is not a valid excuse, even if explained by a parent. My school tax dollars at work! So...I wrote her another note saying I required her to help me out with something so she was unable to be there on time (which is a 'legal' excuse I believe, and not in conflict with the first note). I also left her 4 more notes to choose from when she comes home for lunch, all printed out and waiting for her on the kitchen table. They involve various scenarios which made her late including driving a dying child to the hospital for emergency treatment, being pinned down by ISIS artillery fire whilst defending a Syrian village, alien abduction, and needing a few extra minutes to recover from Ebola. I'm hoping she enjoys them.

Good eye! My iPhone 6S couldn't pick it up that well, it was more visible live.

Catchy. Also, weirdly, sounds like the band The Outfield from the 80's. (A guilty pleasure of mine)

Yeah, but when is he going to generate some art to share with the world? Guy's a chronic underperformer even among the underperformers.

I like this comment...just focusing on the performance on the ice. Leino was clearly drifting, not working hard to get out of this slump. Contrast that with say, Matt Moulson. Now, MattyMo didn't entirely forget how to score but it got pretty bad. I think he doubled down on training and effort and at least made the most of what he's got left. He's still not great by any means, but he saved himself from being binned with the likes of Leino the Lame.

Here you go...girls 12U softball practice

Good call on "Kind of Blue". I considered it too, as well as "Take Five" as an option for those days on the desert island requiring jazz...

It's bad enough in the regular season...playoffs just get worse. Third period gets even worse. I hate it. Would love to see more skating and scoring and fewer injuries that would result from a long term policy of calling it tighter. I like the legal hitting and scrums for the puck or position, it's just the slashing, spearing, interference, hooking, and holding that brings nothing to the game whatsoever.

We get 10? 6) Johnny Cash - Live at San Quentin 7) Led Zep - Physical Graffiti 8) ELP - Trilogy 9) Beatles - The White Album 10) Lowest of the Low - Shakespeare My Butt

My desert island picks: 1) The Who - Who's Next 2) Waylon Jennings - Honky Tonk Heroes 3) Boston - Boston (first album) 4) Allman Brothers - Live at Fillmore East 5) George Harrison - All Things Must Pass

Agree. There is a dearth of discussion about Zydeco music in this thread.

I love Duane Allman...have to say though Derek Trucks has sort of surpassed him in terms of breadth and depth...Duane just didn't live long enough to fulfill that destiny. Granted, Derek tread on the path Duane paved, so there is that. He's just gone down new paths as well. No one has mentioned Derek Trucks yet (I think) so I'll throw it out there; is there a better blues/rock guitarist touring today? I don't know all the guitarists on Earth so maybe there is, I just haven't seen it yet. Check out at the 3:20 mark...gets a nice compliment later from a pretty good player, BB King. John Mayer watches on in amazement.

And the Moody Blues are not!

Thanks for sharing that! If I could buy stock in The Regrettes, I would do so. Love the name too. But they need a chick drummer too. Just to complete the overall effect.

I don't know what JBOT is going to do but I thought Ex-GMTM's strategy might have been to make Falk expansion draft eligible so he could protect him, and thereby leave Bogosian unprotected, and make a deal with McPhee to either draft or take in a trade Bogosian and his 3 years of no-hockey-sense-over-paid-contract off Buffalo's hands. There are probably holes with that theory... Anyway, Falk is a nice affordable 6/7 sort of guy, superior to Josh Gorges in every way.

Michael Lewis wrote the book. Beane agreed to give access. The thing about the competitive advantages the A's were exploiting at the time was they were largely all open to the public to see. The type of players they signed, the way they ran the team, etc. Those competitive advantages were going away regardless and new market inefficiencies would need to be identified and exploited. Anyway, it's not clear to me if Beane made money off the book or the movie Moneyball (I really have no idea, but it seems unlikely) but he actually did turn down a massive pay increase to go to Boston as GM, so it wouldn't appear as if money was his primary driver.

http://buffalonews.com/2017/05/12/sabres-increase-season-ticket-prices/

The NHL's Fred Flintstone is already on TV: https://twitter.com/fakejonesy

Four women who can really sing. I don't always appreciate the song choices (esp. Reba) but with the right songs, good lord they are good. I'll throw Martina McBride in there too.

Buck Owens was a serious talent. One of his musical off-spring, Dwight Yoakam, is a direct reflection of that. Very little 'modern' country music works for me due to the intentional dumbing down and red-necking of it (aside from lack of talent). There are some gems out there but at this point they may fit more in the 'roots' music category than country, I think. Agree on the point about talent within the mainstream. It's possible, just unlikely. For example the uber popular mainstream pop singer Adele, does in fact sing like a goddess/genius. In my car and on my iPhone these days I am pretty much cycling endlessly through Howlin' Wolf. Sort of came to Chicago Blues in a big way only recently so I'm working through major artists, depending who catches my attention. The raw intensity of emotion and musical craftsmanship of those Howlin' Wolf records is stunning. Hubert Sumlin has to be one of the most underrated guitar players of the last century. Interesting tidbit: http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/464802/rolling-stones-jagger-richards-pay-for-hubert-sumlins-funeral

Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings are among my favorite music performers of any genre. Classic.

Then I read Scott Cullen who tags Ullmark as the guy! http://www.tsn.ca/off-season-game-plan-vegas-golden-knights-1.749346

Love Duane Allman. In the historical context of his greatness we can only wonder where he would have gone had he lived longer. It's possible drugs would have gotten him sooner rather than later but I still think he had some development as an artist coming. He was only 24 when he died. Asia! Saw the original line-up in Buffalo in 1984, then again in Tokyo in 2013. Just enough of the Howe & Palmer musicianship, great John Wetton (RIP) singing, and catchy song writing.

I see what you did there.