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Strikingly similar players: Near-contemporary forwards that were drafted in the first round then lit it up at North Dakota. Same weight, except Oshie's listed 3" shorter. Both are demonstrated 50 point guys. Stafford is $4.000M through '14-'15, Oshie is $4.175M through '16-'17. Stafford's a RW, Oshie's listed as a Center, but plays RW. The main difference is that Oshie's on pace for a career 58 points this season and probably has a little more upside, and Stafford's on pace for nearly a career low in points (32).

Take the wins, especially against teams other teams aren't beating, especially when you're trying to gain in the standings. Also, if you put Enroth in against NJ, that gives Miller four full days of rest before Philly on Sunday. Carolina's third in east, on a 3 game winning streak, 7th in the east in goals for. New Jersey's 7th in the east, one game losing streak, and is 13th in the east in goals for. Note that according to their preview for tonight, "The Devils have been outscored, 18-9, in the past five setbacks, all without the services of injured goalie Martin Brodeur." Give Enroth the better chance to win in NJ. Pound these clowns.

If Miller plays tonight, I'll call the game for us right now.

That and, according to Bob McKenzie, having to answer the Shanaphone carries a maximum of 5 games. If it was going to be more, then Kaleta would've had to visit Shanaland.

Kaleta Makes Generous Charitable Donation to Players' Emergency Assistance Fund Donation is Largest Since Ryan Clowe Over a Week Ago

B's on his shoulders.

Not true, if you're counting penalty minutes. He nets an average of 2.4 minutes of drawn penalty time per game after you subtract the penalties he takes. Also: GERBE!

The wikihelps a lot here. There are now three distinct situations where waivers arise: minor league assignment, unconditional waivers, and return waivers. Re-entry waivers were eliminated in this CBA. Minor league assignment waivers apply when a team sends down a player that has played at least x many games or y many seasons. Unconditional waivers apply when a team is going to buy the player out. Return waivers apply to players that played outside of North America and whose rights are not owned by an NHL team. So if Calgary offer sheets and the Avs don't match, it's as if he was signed by Calgary from the KHL directly, necessitating return waivers. CBA 13.21(f) then applies: Then CBA 13.17 rule for waivers apply: There's no rule (that I've found, and I looked hard) that says the waiving team can't claim the player off of waivers, but there's no reason why any club would do that (unless they changed their minds in less than 24 hours), because the player would be exposed to whomever's below them in the standings and the claiming team has to pay a waiver price (which varies from $3k to $98k per player). That means that any team can make a claim, and this would would be the case for a return waiver. Also (not really) interesting, is that the waiver order for a player waived before November 1st is set by the preceding seasons's final regular season standings. If the NHL made an adjustment for this season, that would've changed the order, giving Calgary a much worse chance of landing O'Reilly and Montreal a much better chance. But they didn't.

Financially, yes. Their annual cap space is only $4.6M, but their AAV (the annualized salary they can add for the remaining fraction of the year) is $8.3M. They'd just have to adjust next season. Procedurally, probably not. I can't imagine why any team below them in today's league standings wouldn't take O'Reilly off of waivers. Columbus, Florida, Washington, and NYI could all benefit, so I'd bet at least one of them would grab him before Calgary got the chance. At this point, O'Reilly's a former first round pick and a demonstrated, but unproven, sixty point two-way center whose only tangible cost is a medium amount of salary overpayment- he wouldn't cost players or picks. Not many teams should pass that up, especially those that have redonkulous cap space.

This is what we're doing now? Ennis is third on the team in assists with nine. Five of those are on the PP, when he's not playing with his linemates. Stafford and Foligno have combined for two goals. So you tell me- is Ennis not passing or is he playing with guys that don't finish?

Shootout percentages for Buffalo: Pominville 3/3, 100% Vanek 2/2, 100% Ennis 1/2, 50% Miller 1/5, 0.800

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PETA's press release: http://www.peta.org/...--Fur-Coat.aspx I think the fur coat should now be accompanied by a faux ###### skin hat and a pair of faux rabbit gloves. Either that or every "coat of the game" is a new coat and is then donated to a reasonable local charity or shelter.

Nice work, kid. I was really able to take advantage of a lot of opportunities at UB and it launched me into great things.

nsfw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHTEImx8BLs

This is just an attempt by the status quo to distract us from the team's performance blargh blargh blargh narrative blargh blargh.

PETA was tackled on an old episode of Penn & Teller's Bull$hit. One of the surprising things I learned is that they have a donation check box on many, many local, state, and federal tax forms, which, by design, is extremely successful at bringing in donations from pet owners and people who like animals, but people don't realize that the organization is fundamentally opposed to people keeping animals as pets (even dogs, cats, and fish).

Perfection. Sacco: This is not about keeping your promise and it's not about following your heart. It's about security! O'Reilly: What is that supposed to mean? Sacco: MONEY! He's got a lot of MONEY! O'Reilly: I hate you for saying that, you smug bastard! Sacco: If you leave here, I hate you!

Fools. Likin' Ott.

###### themselves over because they didn't get a rule clarification from the league before doing something highly risky. So it turns out not only is Feaster retarded, he's arrogant.

So Nabokov says to the goal judge, "you don't have to turn on the red light."

TSN picked up the story and is now reporting this as fact. Sounds like we'll never know, but a slightly similar circumstance led to Evgeni Nabokov ending up on the island, and the NHL didn't step in on that trainwreck.

Because O'Reilly's an RFA, if the Avs signed him or traded him, he wouldn't have to clear waivers. But there's no clarification for offer sheeting. My guess is that an adaptation/interpretation of the rule would be expanded to include offer sheeting (which is effectively a similar transaction to a trade acted upon an RFA), because they offered a relaxed interpretation about Nashville/Radulov, but that's one hell of a risk by Feaster- unless he had inside written information that guaranteed that interpretation.

Incredible.