DarthEbriate

We will learn patience.

Had a beer. Got some more beer. Let's go! That said --- is tonight the night we reset the franchise? I still think we move Eichel tonight and then move Reino in-season as a "play well, drive up your value and we'll send you where we can that is good for you". But... are we ready for it?

Why did they take the clumsy, unintelligible amphibian into the desert?

Just tell them you electrocuted yourself and got thrown down a shaft by your apprentice. Then, go [monitor all the hockeys] and watch the draft. Show back up on Monday and say, "Somehow, WildCard returned." and don't explain it any further.

Wait... wait... (Biggs' final words) Arizona is doing a ROR^2 deal?

Well.... Thanks for your time, Rasmus the Elder! It's a shame the franchise elected to tank around him (and Zadorov) -- thereby forcing him into an NHL job before he'd honed his games, and then switched his coach every other year. I don't think he was ever going to meet his true potential once all that was in place. I'll miss the tenacity and willingness to throw hits with Ovechkin, the fact that he looks like Ivan Drago (or... I guess... Dolph), and that our likelihood of scoring a Rastrick is going to be much more difficult in the future.

Communications disruption... delay... "Execute Order Forty-Two."

[The Sabres] will make point-five past light speed. They may not look like much, but they've got it where it counts. It's draft day... it's the time of dreaming big and not worrying too much about living in Tatooine a championship desert. Someday we'll get off of this rock.

But who are all the 14th overalls? Because that's the important thing. 🍺😇

I don't like Hagg's game all that much. I know Philly fans were completely underwhelmed by him. (Reading the thread, it appears his analytics match that.) But a change of scenery and playing 3rd pairing minutes for the start of this season seems fine for the short-term. I do like that Ristolainen netted a 1st, which he wasn't fetching as a rental at the trade deadline. On the Philly side -- this is a good move for them. They just got Ryan Ellis as a RHD. Ristolainen is not better than Ellis in any capacity except hits. So he fits nicely as a 2nd-pair guy for them with either Provorov or Sanheim. Good deal on their part.

Wallstedt won't make it to 13th (14th) I don't believe. Cossa... will make a fine addition to my collection.

1. Eklund; 2. Beniers; 3. Power; 4. Hughes; 5. McTavish; 6. Wallstedt; 7. Johnson; 8. Edvinsson; 9. Guenther; 10. Clarke

Go strap yourselves in. I'm going to make the jump to draft day.

November 4th, eh? That's it. The Sabres are there. Set your course for the Hoth Pledge system.

Exactly. The NHLPA would not allow it. unless... Part of the payment to do so would be to pay out all remaining contracts in full. Basically, the owner can't escape for having a reset button like a video game. The fellow owners would need to hold each other accountable. A large re-buy-in (expansion) fee... $250M or thereabouts paid out to the other owners. Then, the guaranteed payout of all remaining salaries so you can't just escape your poor judgment on contracts that got you into the current situation. It needs to be a sufficient deterrent that teams don't churn. Once every 8 years, sure. Every offseason? It'd be painful. There's enough turnover as there is.

This just means that Boston is all-in on Wright and Bedard in the next two years.

^ I'm very curious what Carolina gave up to not pick Bean.

Splitting Charlotte with the Panthers this season, then Palm Springs full roster next season and likely an ECHL affiliation as well. IT's all good. We can sign Dalton Smith to an NHL contract again. 🍺

Holistically, yes. But I was speaking specifically from Buffalo's available list. Miller, he's peaked and his pricetag isn't great for being a #7. Girgs was hurt and is JAG, plus overpaid. Okposo would be a good choice, but the injuries, no way. Skinner: ha! Give me the upside. The total sleeper would have been Ogelvie, because Seattle also needs to fill out half an AHL roster this season, but he also cannot seem to stay healthy.

For me, I'd have had Miller + our MTL 5th (we don't own ours, so it's late 5th round) on the table instead of Borgen, and I could have caved for the 4th. We've got 10 picks in this year's draft. It costs more to replace him in UFA than if we'd have spent a mid-round pick, especially if it's a JAG that we overvalue (Matt Irwin, for example), or worse, a multi-year deal on an overpay for someone who is fine, but whom Borgen quickly outgrows.

It's the best choice from a Seattle perspective.

To be fair, it's just a couple hosts and their producer talking at the moment. I know one of the daytime hosts is really into hockey and does the T-Bird play-by-play/coverage so he'll know it. But at the moment, as an example, they read off as one of the names dropped McDermid from the Kings... who's just a guy. If they take any calls, the sports fans will know more.

Listening to Seattle sports radio... which I don't normally do, is fun today. They're trying. But they're not hockey people and even though they've had a couple years to get ready. But they don't know any names, they don't know any pronunciations, etc. It's a bit silly. But they seem genuinely excited.

They do want high-character guys. And Okposo is one of the top guys available for that. (And he'd get them to the minimum pick floor.) But I doubt Buffalo would give them any sweeteners to take him; his cap hit is no longer all that constricting. We're more fun this way.

I'll bite... We sent the 1st overall pick to protect Miller!!!!!! What?