Doohickie

I heard that about you.

If I was hanging out I would want to know.

I don't think it's that strange. The league is a relatively small enterprise. If you go back 15-20 years, the amount of time you might expect a player just passing his prime (i.e., seasoned vet) to progress through the ranks, you could probably draw a similar relationship between most groups of 4 former players/current GMs, especially considering that most players play for multiple teams. It's also tilted in favor of the players who played on the better teams I think. So you take about 1/2 to 1/4 of the teams, look at the players that became GMs, and it's probably pretty easy to find these kinds of relationships. It's probably similar (in a statistical sense) to the Birthday Paradox: Wherever you are, if there are 23 people in the room with you, there is a 50/50 chance that two people have the same birthday.

I guess so, yes.

...and I think last year Kevyn said that is his intention.

My knee-jerk reaction is the same. But then I look at what people thought of our GM when he came on board. I'm trying not to judge what I don't know. This kind of cynicism shows how emotionally wounded all of us on Sabrespace are.

Yes, what you said.

Let's see how this works for them.

Damn, Nurse is a savage!

I think I would too, but I don't think the feeling is mutual.

He throws 'em dodn't he?

I happened to trip across this nugget from four years ago:

Same.

We went with cast iron, white, drop in. It practically cleans itself. If you see anything on the bowl, just rub it a little with your finger or a sponge and BAM perfectly white again. When I realized how much cast iron weighed I talked to my wife about stainless steel steel and she nixed that right off. I'm glad she did.

They even have panthers on the police badges.

Different trade. But just you wait until Stiven Sardarian hits.

I don't believe so. Not any more than Pilut will find his way to our blue line as anything more than (deep) depth defense.

Go Nads!

As an aside, there is a bar that is vaguely Buffalo-themed here (as it looks like an "old men's tavern from Buffalo") called Nickel City. In speaking to people drinking there, most have never heard Buffalo called "Nickel City."

It's a long story*, but it's kind of like Nickel City is to Buffalo, a nickname the city picked up along the way. *A quick summary is that a 19th century Dallas lawyer said (tongue-in-cheek) that Fort Worth was such a sleepy little city that a panther came up from the Trinity River and fell asleep on a downtown street. Fort Worth ran with it and started calling themselves Panther City. You can find all the details here.

I have to admit that I've lost momentum. I need to get the urgency back.

Our local Fort Worth team, the Panther City Lacrosse Club, made the playoffs for the first time in their second year. The only thing they got out of round one is experience, losing to Calgary 12-9.

Yes. I didn't know that. Now I do. Anyway, let's get Grzelcyk because I want to here Rayzor try to pronounce that.