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He still made the move. That was your initial response to my point. To give him credit for choosing Eichel when he was the consensus choice just makes no sense to me. I give him way more credit for trading for an injured Kane to help ensure we finished last and very little for the actual selection is my point. Any GM in his position would have pixked Eichel and any GM that didn't probably would've been fired on the spot.

So does the GM for Edmonton get credit for McDavid? He made the selection. The fact that they've been in a 10 year long playoff drought and they completely lucked out with the lottery doesn't dsicount it? To me it does. I give Murray credit for O'Reilly, Kane, Bogosian, Lehner, Gionta, and Gorges, plus the blame for Moulson new current contract, but I give him substantially less credit for Eichel and Reinhart. Eichel was the obvious choice, but he does get some credit for retaining Nolan and setting up the roster to finish last. I give him more credit for picking Reinhart over Bennett or somebody else but it's discounted by the fact that Darcy had already set that team up to finish last and he just allowed them to coast to the finish line.

I like Murray and think he's doing a good job but I wouldn't exactly give him credit for the production of Eichel and Reinhart. Picking 2nd in the draft you are all but guaranteed to get a stud player, not to mention when he took over the team was already in the midst of the tire fire and tank and looking at finishing last the year we drafted Reinhart.

No chance it doesn't exist. They'll keep tweaking the rules until they come close to eliminating all contact before that and it will slowly lose popularity until it's more in line with the other major sports. As the NFL phases out hitting so will the NCAA and high schools and participation rates will go back up.

So we trade Gorges for a draft pick that may never make the team and we upgrade him at what cost? Are we trading more valuable assets for a guy who's under contract or are we overpaying for a guy in free agency that will likely have a bigger contract for longer term than Gorges? Again, the abstract solutions always seem great but when you really analyze them it's not as easy as it seems. It will be difficult enough to try to obtain a top pair LHD this offseason. To try to then also find another LHD for the second pair is going to be even more difficult. That's why I would try to find one to pair with Ristolainen and then let McCabe and Gorges duke it out to see who plays second pair and who plays third pairing.

So which guys are you jettisoning off the team? Ristolainen and McCabe are definitely being retained and Bogosian, Gorges, Psysk, and Franson are all under contract next season at a minimum. If you bring in 2 LHD's is Gorges or McCabe going to be on the 3rd pair? Then you have the loser of that competition fighting it out with Franson for 7th dman. Do you send somebody down to the minors and risk a team stealing a guy like McCabe? It's one thing to say in the abstract that we need to LHD but when you really look at it you risking spending assets or big money to get upgrades in then you're selling off loose parts for scrap.

This. If Malkin were traded he could be the top center for about half the teams in the league if not more. In no way would moving him be considered a cap dump.

Our defense really isn't bad, we just have a few guys playing above where they should be. I only see the need for one LHD next season, as long as that guy is capable of playing opposite Ristolainen on the top pairing. Gorges and McCabe are more than capable of solid play, they just don't belong on the top pairing. The right side is fine with Ristolainen, Bogosian, and Psysk. Plus we'd still have Franson to sub in when there's an injury (looking at you cokey McCokehead Bogosian) or if someone is struggling and needs to ride the bench for a game or two.

How do you figure that? Where I live judges rotate around through multiple counties, splitting up the docket in 2 or 3 week increments. It's not like Mayberry with a single judge who hears all the cases in the little town, gets his hair cut at the only barbershop, fishes every Saturday from the same stream and takes his family to the same diner after going to the same church as everyone else in the town.

You're half right. Cruz is way worse then Trump because he actually believes the nonsense he spews.

Exactly. I hate that there's no political distinction between R's and D's when it comes to the election of judges, DA's, and most of the judicial and county commissioner type appointments in my district/state. Even back in my days of voting Republican I favored a liberal judicial system. Luckily there's usually someone at my voting place who hands out flyers promoting the conservative legal folks and I always grab one so I know who not to vote for. Given my district's conservative demographic though I've noticed the Conservatives usually have the top slot in the options though so I've learned to pretty much vote for the candidates listed at the bottom of each selection even when I don't have the cheat sheet.

Not a fan of ads on jerseys or helmets but I reserve the right to change my mind if Massengil becomes the sponsor for all things Boston.

Do you use your own tears for lube? If so, I applaud your efficiency.

Oh I'm gonna bring it, sir. Then I want you to wash it, fold it, and bring it back to me, ha ha! I'm good, man. No desire to tango with a fellow Sabres fan. I'll save my anger and agression for the enemy, which is fans of every other team. The wording just gave me pause then I started thinking of that 30 for 30 about the Bills losing 4 straight super bowls (which I didn't watch) and it seemed like a similar venture. I lived through my share of sports heartbreaks, no desire to relive them after already knoeing the unfortunate outcomes. Different strokes for different folks. Cheers.

Oh I have been ejected. A good half dozen times or so. I'm still dishing it out more than I'm taking it though. I enjoy the spectacle. Kind of like being a heel in the old style WWF. Still completely different than PA's suggestion of celebrating our cusps, near misses, and the history of heartbreak. That concept or pity party or whatever you'd want to call it is the idea that I'd question finding enjoyment in. Seems kind of sadomasochist to me. Everyone has their thing though. I'll try not to rain on his parade anymore, even though it seems like he's into that based on this thread. Tell you what PA, I'll chip in and buy you a gimp mask to wear while watching the finished product. You'll have to find your own midget to discipline you as you watch though.

That's completely apples and oranges though, sir. In those scenarios I'm the loud, drunk, and annoying person making the Canes fans suffer. I'm not subjecting myself to emotional pain, I'm inflicting it on others. But they deserve it for being a bunch of inbred sister fisters (I mean that in a good Christian way too of course).

As you were, sir. Just please stop using sandpaper while you do it. Your screams are keeping me up at night.

Man you guys seems like gluttons for punishment. A history of sports heartbreak in Buffalo? Do you people whack off to a gif of wide right? Why would you want to go out of your way to relive memories of failure? I get rooting for the underdog and that's part of what made me a Buffalo fan but to wear the piled up losses as some sort of badge of honor seems to be like asking for a kick me sign on your back.

Total number of accounts doesn't have a big impact either way though. My credit score is rated as excellent (801 on Transunion and 790 on Equifax) according to Credit Karma and I only have 7 accounts on transunion and 6 on equifax after some old paid off student loans eventually fell of my report. Both are considered poor but my scores are still excellent. Credit card utilization, payment history, and derogatory accounts are the most important factors by far and number of accounts is the least important. Inquiries and average age of your open accounts are the other factors that are more important than total accounts but less important than the other 3 factors. If you focus on the other factors the number of accounts won't matter.

It's really a matter of speed vs size. Solid state drives are faster but you are spending $50 more for a hard drive that's 1/4 the size. If you value speed over storage space it's worth it and if you value storage space or the extra cash it isn't.

Ted Cruz comes across with a very Ted Haggard type vibe and no offense to the Christians on this board but it seems like the ones who try to pimp their faith the most are usually the ones with the biggest skeletons in their closets. Or maybe I'm just hoping that Ted Cruz gets caught in some kind of glory hole scandal at a truck stop while campaigning. The sad thing is it probably wouldn't even stop him. He'd end up going on a sabbatical to some Jesus camp where they pray the gay away and return to the political fold with first hand knowledge that homosexual is a choice and everyone who chooses to be gay are just rebelling against God or some other nonsense so it's completely ok to discriminate against them. Why can't religious people just be content with thinking that those of us who don't adhere to their rules are just going to rot in hell? Instead they want to legislate their version of morality on the masses and try to force us to act the way they believe God wants us to. Whatever happened to free will?

I use one of those Brita water pitchers with the replaceable filters and I fill up the same 20 ounce bottles of Aquafina with it and take it to work or leave it in my car. I don't do the reusable bag thing for shopping but I do save the plastic bags I get from shopping by stuffing them into an empty 12 pack of soda and I use them again for various things like picking up dog when I take the dog for a walk or for cleaning out my car or putting them into the little trash cans we have in the bathroom. I've also got solar panels on my roof that save me about 1/3 of my old heating bill. I do basic recycling (cardboard, aluminum cans, and the previously mentions plastic bags). I think the best thing I did for the environment is never sneaking one past the goalie and adding to the overpopulation of the planet though.

I'd take his whole contract for their best LHD prospect although I'm not familiar with their farm system.

Dunkin Donuts by far even if they originated in the land of massholes. The tipping point comes from the fact that Tim Hortons doesn't serve their breakfast sandwiches all day and if you order after breakfast time you have to settle for some run of the mill hoagie with deli meat you could buy from oscar meyer. At DD you can get a real breakfast sandwich on a croissant, biscuit, bagel, english muffin, texas toast, or even on a donut at any time they are open and build it however you want (bacon, egg, cheese, sausage patties, smoked sausage, various cheese options, etc). Plus they have awesome hash browns and they'll make'em extra crispy if you request it. Better coffee too, although they bake their doughnuts instead of frying them which loses them points (never had a Tim Hortons donut so i don't know if they bake or fry them so even that could be a push).

Simple schadenfreud (sp?), sir. We don't actually gain anything but sometimes it's fun to envision the misfortune of others. If Tom Brady and Bill Belichick were to be stricten with ass cancer or AIDS from a contaminated blood transfusion I can't honestly say that I wouldn't get any enjoyment out of it.