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That's on Housley. He gives him too much ice time. I didn't see the game but he seems to average about 58 minutes of ice time per start. Maybe shorter shifts would improve his game? It always feels like he never leaves the defensive zone until late in the game when we're down. SAD!

This game will be on regular tv for me since I live in the Canes market, but I still may skip it. 25th worst team in the league against the 30th worst? I guess it will depend on how much crap I have on my dvr that I'd rather watch.

Fair enough. You can always take a white t-shirt and write "ugly xmas sweater" on it with black sharpie and demand your half day off. Then ask to talk to either HR or the union rep if they tell you no.

Next year just make one. Take an old beat up sweater and smear it with an xmas bukkake of holiday cheer. Tinsel, glitter, felt, silver and gold foil, or whatever art supplies Josie has laying around that she doesn't need. Won't cost much as it should be ugly enough to win the contest (if there is a contest element to it), unless Josie has somehow transferred artistic talent to you by osmosis or something.

We do secret santa and the bosses participate but there's a $20 spending limit, so I don't mind. Otherwise I'd cling to my born again Pagan heritage and tell them I refuse to participate until they bring in a festivus pole and we can start the airing of grievances.

I think Lehner is good and I think he's good enough for a playoff team assuming the rest of the roster improves around him to be playoff caliber (one day it'll happen). That being said, I don't think good enough is worth a long term contract for big money, so if they'd rather trade him so they could use that cap space elsewhere, I'm ok with it. In a hypothetical choice between trading him for a 2nd round pick at the deadline or signing him to a 5 year $25 million contract I would trade him for a second round pick, bring up Ullmark, and re-sign Johnson or some similar veteran for backup money ($2-3 million for 1 or 2 years) to back him up. If he isn't traded though, I'd re-sign Lehner to a short one or two year deal, let Johnson walk, and let him battle it out with Ullmark to see who starts next season.

He'd be 29 by the time the contract actually kicks in though.

Lord Mittelstadt will cause an earthquake and the continental plates will shift causing the earth to rise below his feet and his chin to raise above the bar. Unfortunately that only results in one pull up. Fortunately for him though, it will still be one more than Bennett.

Give this man a fist full of silver dollars! Did you end up signing back up for Netflix to watch the show yet?

Here here. Delusional psychosis for everyone. Dilly Dilly!

I agree, it was just in a wink wink the rules type of way because he and his agent technically weren't even allowed to negotiate an extension yet.

And that's what you'd pretty much have to do if you trade for him any earlier. While an extension can't technically be signed before July 1st, I'm sure they'd be working out the parameters well before hand. I'm sure it happens all the time. How many times have we seen deals announced on free agent contracts being signed within an hour of free agency starting? These contracts are huge legal documents. There's no way they get read entirely (let alone written) that quickly. I'd have to assume the league knows and doesn't care, as long as it doesn't leak before hand.

We traded for O'Reilly on June 26, 2015. He was extended on July 3, 2015. It was a risky move because he could have refused to extend with us but they gave him a truck load of money. Enough that he celebrated by driving his truck into a building. I imagine they at least discussed the parameters of a new deal with his agent before making the trade though. The fact that he signed an extension 2 days after he was allowed to by the rules of the CBA bears this out I would think.

The problem is Karlsson can't sign an extension until July 1, 2018 at the earliest. The trade would need to happen after that.

Finally get to see Reinhart with Kane. I predict that line scores 2 goals (if they keep them together for most of the game). Probably Kane with 1 and Rodriguez with the other while Reinhart either gets assists on both or at least deserves them for screening the goalie.

3rd overall pick means we won a lottery spot and I just don't see that happening. In that scenario, I'm hesitant to make the trade which probably means it's a fair deal. I'd still rather keep Ristolainen, Reinhart (who will be cheap), and have either Boqvist, Svechnikov, Tkachuk, or your man Zadina. The other way is pinning all of our hopes to Eichel and Karlsson. If either of those guys go down for significant time, the season is toast. I'd rather have quality depth.

I think I may be a disciple of your church without even knowing it. Well put.

We don't need to be on his list of 10 no's for trading for him to be stupid. He only has 1 year left on his deal. Just because he doesn't block a hypothetical trade to us doesn't mean he'd be willing to sign a 7 or 8 year deal with Buffalo. Any trade for Karlsson needs to be after July 1st and only be completed with an agreement to sign an extension already in place.

I still find it bewildering that most of the biggest religious nuts have hard-ons for both guns and the military.

They sell them at military surplus stores and online. I had an old camouflage Marine Corps poncho liner that I used in the summers when I was a kid because it was cooler than a comforter. Plus you could use it to double as a tent because of the built in strings. Miami in the fall? It really is like war I tell you! These guys are heros!

If I had a dollar for every time I've heard that I probably could have bought the Bills. I'll believe it when I see it. He's not done (unfortunately). You'll see this when he throws 5 TD's in the first half against us in a couple weeks, while McDumbass sits in the corner sucking his thumb and quoting himself Bible scriptures while wrapped in an Army blanket he got from a real soldier that he uses for PR purposes.

I'm glad he got bit. I've been bored with his character for several seasons. It'll never happen, but I'd love for them to turn him into a zombie pet like the fat friend in Shaun of the Dead. I don't think they'll kill Negan though. At least they better not. He's the only funny character left in the show after they killed off Merle and Abraham. Killing Negan would probably sink their ratings even lower.

I'm pretty sure he's dead. Not sure who the GM is now.

Variables that McDumbass was considering: 1. WWJD 2. Did the punter say his prayers 3. Does Indy have enough sinners in their organization that God is willing to punish them and give us the game What he should have been thinking about 1. Winning the damn game 2. Time left on the clock 2. Number of timeouts remaining I'm against a retractable roof dome precisely because they would leave it closed for games like yesterday.

The salary cap has nothing to do with profitability though. Players get 50% of revenues (or at least the ones that get included in revenue sharing).