Drunkard

Definitely the Derek Roy Slug Jersey, as long as he makes sure to tuck it into his pants and he makes sure he lifts his arms constantly to show off the gray armpits.

We just need to give Stafford and Leino big raises.

I can't believe you left off Dave Attell. He's a top 6 guy for sure.

I'd be more than ok with a deal similar to that but not with Ehrhoff. For one, he's own only reliable veteran defenseman and two, I want no part of trading him and risking the salary cap recapture penalty if we trade him and he retires once the he starts earning crappy money in actual dollars.

The Buffalo has legs and isn't yellow either. What a disgrace.

I'd give it a shot. We're the worst team in the league, so it's not like we're gonna fall out of last place. He's an offensive dman already so why not give him a chance to focus more on offense with the added benefit that he would probably end up being our most defensively responsible forward. Ordinarily I wouldn't fathom it but at this point why not roll the dice? if it ends up being a disaster we move him back.

I heard the Canadian team got sick drinking bagged milk. US takes this game 5-1 and Miller gets put in for mop up duty in the 3rd period.

I'm guessing it's so the US wins but Quick looks bad and Miller gets a chance to start.

My phone stays on vibrate 90% of the time or more because I always keep it in my pocket even if I'm bumming around in pajama pants at the house. My ringtone is Slayer's Raining Blood though, no matter who calls. I don't have separate ring tones for different people. It also rings for my secondary alarm clock.

We have no right wingers under contract long term at this point and none in the pipeline other than Armia. Right now we have at RW we have: 1. Stafford - will likely be dumped at next year's deadline 2. Armia - good prospect but right now he's not even excelling in the AHL so I don't we can count on him to log top 6 minutes at RW in the NHL next season 3. Matt D'Agostini - may not even be in the NHL if we hadn't picked him off waivers Unless we plan on keeping Girgensons at RW and putting Reinhart there we absolutely need to do something at RW. If we don't go after Callahan we need to go after someone. Hopefully Murray will get a RW or two in the deals he makes when he unload's Miller, Ott, and Moulson but at this point it's pretty slim pickings.

Some of the dinosaurs even have saddles on them. I saw a clip of that museum on Bill Maher's Religulous documentary.

I agree. You always over pay in free agency. We have such a small number of players committed to long term contracts (Ehrhoff, Myers, and Hodgson) and only one decent pending RFA in Ennis that should be expecting a raise. Everyone else is either young and locked in for peanuts for the foreseeable future or doesn't have enough talent to command a noteworthy contract. Then of course they have to hope Leino is healthy so they can buy him out.

O'Reilly's cap hit is 5 million but Calgary structured the deal so that he'd have to be tendered at $6.5 million since that's what he made this year. They f'd Colorado good on it in hopes that they wouldn't match so now their only option is to sign him long term or deal him.

I know he's a center, but most teams break in new centers at winger because the defensive responsibilities are lessened. And I'm sure everyone would rather have Callahan on a 2 for 14 contract than a 7 for 49 (personally I'd prefer a 4 or 5 year deal) but he's not going to sign with us or anybody for just a 2 year term.

Contracts go up over time. Some of those guys making that money would be getting raises if they happended to be pending UFA's now. Plus who else are we going to spend it on after Miller, Ott, and Moulson get traded away? Maybe there's a chance we can bring back Ott or Moulson, but without overpaying a guy like Callahan the roster is going to be twice as pathetic as it is now. If we go into next season trying to field a lineup that looks something like: Adam Hodgson Reinhart Omark Ennis Girgensons Foligno Flynn Stafford Scott McCormick Kaleta x Konopka/D'Agostini Ehrhoff Pysyk Tallinder Myers Weber Ruhwedel x McBain Enroth Hackett The league will probably make us forfeit our lottery pick. Signing Callahan shows we're at least trying and without Miller the tank would still be on next season. Hell, short of renting out and re-signing Ott, Moulson, and Miller then signing Callahan and adding Reinhart, I don't really see any way other we'll be a competitive team next season.

You're probably doing it wrong. You should be drunk first before you go.

I'm with you. I'd rather have one overpaid "star" then 2 or 3 overpaid nobodies like Leino taking up the same cap space. With all of our youth in the pipeline and top picks to come, cap space shouldn't be an issue on this team for at least 5-7 more seasons.

This doesn't make any sense to me. First, I can't think of any of our players who will be commanding big raises in the next few years, unless you think Murray is going to give Ennis a Hodgson type deal and even if that was the case we'd still have plenty of room to fit Callahan and an overpaid Ennis. Secondly, if you don't want Callahan next year, why would you want him in 3 years when he'd be 3 years older, still commanding a high cap hit, and we're 3 years closer to some of our better prospects like Girgensons, Zadarov, Ristoleinen, and our next 2 1st round tank picks heading towards bigger contracts? Even if we paid Callahan $8 million (which I hope we don't) that's still half a million less than the cap hits of Stafford and Leino combined.

That was a close call with Girgenson's skate on that hit. Too bad it didn't happen against Marchand. Old dick nose would've had a circumcison. Then Girgensons could've billed him for a rhinoplasty.

Finishing dead last next year guarantees us with McDavid or Eichel who is also rated extremely high.

Ok, but how is he on the bottom half of his team if his offensive zone starts are above 50% even slightly? The majority of Carolina's forwards can't be starting in the offensive zone more than half the time, can they? Unless Carolina is some Detroit-esque possession type team where the majority of their starts happen to be in the offensive zone. Maybe I'm just getting it confused or maybe I'm missing something like counting neutral zone starts as offensive zone starts or something like that. I'm no statistician but my educational background is in finance and economics so I've done my share of stats work and number crunching but I guess I'm just missing it. Thinking about it more I guess it's possible but that means Carolina as a team must take more faceoffs in the offensive end than the defensive end. Sorry to harp on this with all the questions it just seemed a little counter-intuitive.

I never posted on any of their boards but I remember you posting a link to one where they were whining about me and my antics. The legends of Sabres fan baby eating, mugging old ladies, etc. are still going strong in Canesland. I remember one time I missed a game in Raleigh because something came up so I wasn't even in the area and apparently I was still spotted out in the parking lots causing problems and instigating fights. Apparently the Ghost of Drunkard did my bidding and went out there to wreak havoc. Good times.

I'm definitely not one to rag on advanced stats but how can he be in the bottom half of the league with respect to other forwards if his ozone starts are over 50%? How can the majority of them (Carolina forwards or NHL forwards in general) get more than 50% of their zone starts in the offensive zone?

I doubt we land McDavid either, but it's definitely possible, especially if we move Miller or stupidly allow him to walk in July for nothing.

I don't trade Enroth unless Miller signs an extension first. If he does, I'd make the deal though.