Drunkard

I guess Rex wasn't kidding about building a bully.

He's clearly pulling a Hodgson. Murray pulled him aside and told him and only him to tank on purpose for Auston Matthews so he can get that sweet buy out of 1/3 of his ELC then sign a 1 year prove it contract with some other team.

The cost of college is getting out of control but there are easy ways to make it cheaper. I was fortunate enough that my parents agreed to pay for my undergrad but it came with certain strings attached. The first one was starting with Community College. They are dirt cheap compared to 4 year schools (I got my Associates from a community college and spent more money on books each semester than tuition plus I was able to sell most of them back for half price after the semester was over). Also, they cap your tuition after a certain number of credit hours (I think around 18) so if you take an overloaded schedule of say 23 credit hours in a semester you don't pay any more than you pay for 18 hours. Get your 2 year degree figure out your major so you aren't wastig credits that won't count if you change your mind and transfer to your 4 year university as a junior and your tuition and loans will be substantially less. Plus you don't have to take English 101 in a class with 300 other students where the professor doesn't even know your name. Finish your degree and your diploma will look the same as everyone else's who overpaid for the first two years. Plus with community college they offer so many classes that it's easy to schedule your classes around working a part time job which was another stipulation I had for my folks to pay form my undergrad. I also used what few scholarships I received to cut down on the money they had to pay.

Kane O'Reilly Reinhart Girgensons Eichel Ennis Moulson Larsson Gionta McGinn Foligno Deslauriers Gorges Ristolainen McCabe Bogosian Weber Psysk Lehner Puts our best 6 forwards in the top 6 while matching up R/L handedness as much as possible and gives our 3rd line the ability to put up some points. Foligno isn't a natural center but he's played the position some and shoud be able to handle centering the 4th line. Not crazy about the defense but it puts leftys on the left and righties on the right with young guys and veterans paired together. It could work, but we'll have to wait and see what Blysma does.

No way they play 2 rookies on a line together. Either Reinhart or Eichel will be on O'Reilly's wing to start the season I would assume.

It's happening! Behold it in all its starchy glory! Eat your heart out Eichel!

I think my time on the boards runs pretty consistent during various times of the year but that's because I do the majority of my reading/posting at work.

If McCormick is able to play I'd much rather see him on the 4th line than Legwand. Deslauriers McCormick Kaleta makes a great 4th line in my book. I'd like to see them roll with it if possible.

Netflix has the technology because I was able to stream the episode of Trailer Park Boys where Julian was making potato vodka in jail up in Canada. If Netflix and Canadian jails have the technology then why can't the Sabres do it? It's got to be Battista's fault or that meddling Pegula up to his old tricks again. This is a travesty of epic proportions. We want our livestream of the scrimmage, , and of that awesome potato!

Never mind watching Eichel (after all, he's just a curly headed anyway), I want to hear more about this potato sitting on the table. Will it be a Russett? Yukon Gold? Red/new? Will it just sit there or will it chopped it up into French fries? If so, what kind of fries? Shoestring, crinkle, potato wedges, curly or waffle? etc. Maybe they just mash it up and make potato vodka out of it. I've got to know and please tell me they'll be streaming it. Real fans, even ones thousands of miles away would take time off from work (or quit if the boss turns them down) buy a plane ticket and show up in person. Anyone else just doesn't count because they aren't real fans, with the exception of those of us who will be watching the potato sitting on the table that pi2000 brought up.

I read the article and saw what his aid claimed he meant when he clarified it but ole Jeb is still completely out of touch. Does he think those workers are purposely working part time to make less and not qualify for benefits? Do you think there's any chance whatsoever that he'd go to bat for those workers rather than bend over backwards for the businesses and executives who put those types of practices in place? I don't see it happening. He'll give some lip service to it on the campaign trail at most and probably just blame Obama for it happening.

Yep. Not to mention if you have to part time workers getting 20-25 hours per week instead of one full time employee getting 40-50 hours a week you don't have to pay overtime, insurance benefits, or anything like that. Do you think it's possible that ole Jeb would actually do anything to be tough on businesses who use these practices though? I highly doubt it because the ones making decisions like that are his base.

From my understanding it's not exactly a crap shoot but lots of factors are in play and many are out of your control. You may join thinking you'll be a pilot or work with fiberoptics and either not qualify based on test scores or there may simply be too many qualified people going for those jobs and you get stuck as a cook or out in infantry or artillery or something. You may get promised that you'll stay on the east coast and be sent out west or overseas after basic training. You could get told you'll be in a non deployable unit then get moved to unit that gets deployed. You could sign a 4 year contract and get extended without it being your choice (backdoor drafting). You could get told you're going on an 8 month deployment that turns onto an 18 month deployment. Once you sign you become property of Uncle Sam and there's not a lot of recourse outside of refusing to comply and getting Administratively Separated if you're lucky or criminally charged by the Department of Justice or possibly thrown in the brig (military prison) if they feel like it or want to make an example out of it. The Marine Corps used to say "We don't promise you a rose garden" but some of the recruiters stretch the truth, exaggerate the odds, and some flat out lie about all kinds of things.

You don't know if they deceived you or lied because you couldn't truly know unless you signed up, unless the recruiter flat out didn't make you any promises. Some guys flat out lie and make promises they can't keep like where you'll be stationed, what your MOS (Military Occupational Specialty, basic what job you'll have) will be, whether or not you'll be deployed and where you'll be deployed to, and things like that. Lying is common place but like most things a more skeptical person is less likely to get taken advantage of.

The people with those stickers are usually either family members of soldiers or chicken hawk war monger types expressing their 1st amendment rights in a somewhat token gesture. It shouldn't make you feel any social pressure in any way. Applauding for a soldier who has been singled out is the same token gesture as the National Anthem. You can choose to participate or not. I've never seen anyone throw out of any venue for not standing or not applauding. If you don't want to participate you have the right to abstain. Some people will think you're a bad person because of it, but that's their right to think what they want as well. In the end, it doesn't matter because that's what freedom of expression is all about.

That's fine. I don't think anybody is requiring you to make a big deal out of it. Did somebody put a gun to your head and require you to give a soldier a standing ovation or buy him a beer at the local pub or something? I don't see any of that in any place where I've lived and there are soldiers everywhere around these parts. For the most part they are no different than anyone else and none of them expect preferential treatment. The only place they seem to get treated better is they get preference at the Employment Security Commission when looking for a job. I definitely wouldn't begrudge them that.

I definitely see your point and somewhat agree but I'd put it on the individual being honored. If some soldier wants to attend a concert or a baseball game and not make a spectacle that is completely his/her right and the vast majority who attend public events do go unnoticed. On the other hand if the team/band/venue want to offer him/her upgraded tickets, backstage passes, or whatever in exchange for being able to do a little grandstanding and exploit his/her service for PR that's on each soldier and whether they want the added headache/attention in exchange for the freebees. I would never begrudge them that recognition and would never want to someone else grandstanding on their service without the permission of the soldier(s).

The military is way more than a job with predictable hazards. For one, you can't just decide to quit if you're unhappy like you can with other jobs. It's not signing up for paintball on the weekends and you can't just decide you don't want to get shipped halfway across the world after you've signed up. You do what you're told or you face the consequences which could potentially be much worse than just getting "fired" like a traditional job/career. As for where it ranks, I guess that's up to each individual to decide. I'd argue that's it up there at/near the top, but not everyone would agree.

I'd say being in the military is the definition of serving our country, but then again I'm probably biased due to my Dad's military background with the USMC. I don't know what other occupations have that same moniker although I would argue that firefighters, EMT's, trauma surgeons and trauma nurses, and public school teachers are serving our country by providing an almost altruistic type of service to the public even though they are getting paid (by varying degrees).

I have no idea about the percentages but there are a multitude of reasons people sign up. Some do it for the paycheck, some do it to have a career/stability instead of just a job, some do it for family tradition (because their Dad, Brother, Grandfather, etc. joined), some do it to serve their country, and some do it for a combination of the previous reasons or other ones. I'm sure some do it to kill people or because they saw Platoon or Full Metal Jacket or Apocalypse Now or whatever. The reasons are as varied as why people join any profession. Hell, back in the day judges used to give some people a choice of jail time or going off to boot camp. My Dad joined because he was married with a kid (my older brother) and he was going nowhere financially or career wise working 3 part time jobs in Podunk upstate New York after dropping out of college because he drank more than he attended class. He didn't want to join at first but got pushed into it by his wife and mother in law (my Mom and Grandma). He joined for 4 years and kept extending and moving up the ranks and made a career out of it and grew to like it, even though there were always parts that he hated. Regardless of why they joined though they are still serving our country though, even if you disagree with them. Ultimately they are serving the country and following the orders of the Commander in Chief, although it just starts up top and there are plenty of people within each chain of command making decisions and giving orders. I'd probably posit that many of the people who signed up have no true idea what was/is truly in store for them but I'd argue tenfold that it's a greater public service than any politician or most civilian government workers (including myself) who are considered to be civil servants or public servants or whatever they want to call it.

You should be happy that so many people volunteer to serve in the military. If they didn't there would likely be a draft every time some Haliburton crony like Dick Cheney decided to start a war to boost the profit of private companies. I'm certainly glad I didn't have to serve. My Dad did and he told me "forget joining the military, go to college". Coeds and keggers just seemed more fun than mortars, land mines, and getting shot at. I'm glad I had the choice.

That guy needs a few Republican Jesus stickers on his car as well, or he's just a beatnik pinko commie in my eyes. Another military brat. My Dad was in the Marine Corps for 26 years and change and he joined a year or two before I was born so we did the same thing. The only time I went to actual base (DoD) schools was when we lived overseas. Whenever we lived stateside I always attended public school. I hated moving all the time growing up, but looking back now I'm happy for the experience. Cheers.

I've gone to public schools in New York, North Carolina, California, and Okinawa, Japan (DoD school on base) and I don't remember them being specifically geared towards the state I was living in. At most maybe the History book might have given a slightly bigger chapter to the particular state and I graduated from high school in 1999.

Jack Eichel and Tim Murray disagree. They ooze hard work and proudly drink yellow cornwater and everyone here is ready to make them dual Popes with Mr. O'Reilly waiting in the wings for backup Pope. Hodgson is much more likely to be the microbrew type. I hear Gary Roberts brings it in by the truckful.

Maybe he's just too blue collar (in the mold of Eichel and Murray) to drink all that fancy pretentious stuff. Some of us commoners don't have a sophisticated enough palate to spend money on the fancy stuff.