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Knapp is currently playing for the Alaska Aces. Hell of a plane ride back to Rochester. I think Ullmark's team lost in the Swedish playoffs, I wonder if they could bring him over. Sabres should just sign Biron as emergency backup for rest of season.

I assumed it was during the Sabres games, that's when I nod off.

Of course they were named during less PC times when Custer was thought of as a hero, and kids were wearing coonskin hats. I think the Browns are worse, named after Paul Brown. Bills is better than the Buffalo Ralphs.

The Crunch name is partially due to the fact that Nestles had a big plant in Fulton, north of Syracuse at the time, and they were a big sponser. It was the winning name of 5 offered in a fan contest.

Shanahan will give Ted Nolan a 5 game suspension for Intimidation of a Player causing early retirement. The downside is he was expected to boost the Amerks D for their playoff run.

Here's a more comprehensive look http://www.sportsnet...brendon-dillon/ Looking from the angle that Kassien had, I don't think he expected Dillon to bend down just as he hit him, so he wasn't looking to intentionally wipe him out. And I think he threw his helmet because he was upset with himself because he knew it was going to cost him. But he's still guilty of not being in control.

Since two players are injured, they'll all play and they just need to sit Scott who played forward yesterday, and Kenopka already was a scratch. Although if it was me I'd sit Leino.

Sign Mark Messier to a one-year $10 million contract and make him the captain. He wouldn't even have to suit up for games, he could just do practices and be in the locker room.

The fact that he's not Darcy was a good start. He didn't overvalue his players like Darcy did, which prevented him from making these type of deals in previous years which could have started this rebuild sooner. So now we'll see what he does with the draft picks in the next 2 years.

Yes, and we want them to be bad next year also to get a top 3 pick, if not Connor McDavid. That's how Pittsburgh did it.

For David Leggio

The rights to Pat LaFontaine traded to NHL for a Get out of Jail card from Brendan Shanahan.

Vanek to Montreal?

So if no one offered a 1st, you would rather keep Moulson and get nothing?

Gaborik was traded for a 2nd and conditional 3rd. The market isn't there this year to give up a 1st for a UFA.

Yeah, but how will he deal with all the illegal aliens?

This waiting feels like when you bid on EBay and are just waiting to see if someone tops your bid.

Don't worry, the Sabres will send down John Scott to play D in his place.

Now the Isles should offer Vanek for Callahan. Can you imagine the Ranger fans if Callahan showed up in an Isles uniform.

They provide Europe with about 40% of their gas. So if Europe stopped buying, they'd have to get it somewhere else, which would significantly raise world energy prices. Europe also provides many of the consumer products to Russia, so again if that was cut off there would be a significant loss of manufacturing jobs in Europe. While Putin can tell his people "too bad, deal with it", the European democracies would be in turmoil. That's why Europe may not want to be as tough on Russia as the U.S. would like. And then there's the hundreds of billions in trade that China does with Russia. Money talks.

So they give Ellis a one year deal for $6 million to reach the cap floor for next season.

Anaheim could be making cap space to pick up Moulson and Halak as a package.

My guess is it was a modern Camelot situation: PLF (Lancelot) charms Kim Pegula so he has the ear of the queen. Terry (Arthur) finds out, and banishes PLF in a fit of jealousy. Meanwhile, what do the simple folk do?

But he made that great trade for Alexei Yashin and then signed him to a 10 year $90 million contract. All he had to give up was some underachiever (Zdeno Chara) and a 1st round pick (Jason Spezza).

And today was the day the franchise tag had to be used in the NFL, which is a big issue regarding Byrd.