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There was Twitter in 2009, dude.

The source is ESPN SoCal, so this isn't just some schmuck with a microphone. Apparently the Kroenke family wants to bring hockey to San Diego.

Atlanta's making the case. Anson Carter leading the charge for them.

That's a good observation. Parayko is huge by hockey player standards and if he's slowing up and paying mind, you're doing something right.

I'm gonna say 3. Because it's the Rangers, and we'll scream about it and keep it in the media cycle longer.

Fucks sake, this. Rempe can just laugh in his face and say "You're only here because they're scared of ME."

Hand me that belt.

Rempe just blocking Cockonen like a full solar eclipse

Nobody pays to see Jack Hughes PK

Oof, that looked like it might have hurt a mere mortal. But not Ryan Lindgren

Trouba needs to come back to pair with Gus. Schneider and Miller both look infinitely better these last two games.

Do a free trial of Sling. It's got NHLN.

Trivia is.....Leetch, Messier, Gilbert?

Has Sam noted whether or not Kakhonen and Kakko are related in spite of having different names?

Nah dude, they had BOTH on the menu. Not one or the other.

My dude, what they do to bagels, and what they do to SELL bagels is hilarious. Place about a mile from when I lived in North Florida was like "oh, we have a machine that makes NYC water so when we boil them, it's the same", and then they had pork roll and taylor ham on the menu which was sketch AF. Another one is like. importing water from Brooklyn.

I'm not saying Roslovic is or isn't the answer. I'm saying that this UFA market is rather unique because of the cap considerations many players made last year, so if you're going to plunk $5m on a guy, you have options. Lots of them. And if you're in the $5m range, you're in range for a lot of different options of varying timelines and skills. And that may crunch further as the 2024-25 cap picture becomes clear. For me, the question is more along the lines of "If I decide I have $5m to spend, is the best answer right in front of us, and is it Jack Roslovic?" Or is it Mantha? Or is it Arvidsson? Or is the market crunch just enough to make Toffoli or Tarasenko options? Do we want someone a bit more multifaceted and think about Sean Monahan or Matt Duchene or Joe Pavelski? Maybe we go a smidge downmarket and grab Debrusk. Or maybe we can use Kakko and the 1st rounder to pull a solid RW out from a team on the precipice of a rebuild that makes around the $5m mark?

Your point stands that we shouldn't let Kakko keep standing in the way of fixing 1RW. He either needs to shit or get off the pot there. Still, this is a market that has some room for $5m to perhaps go "further" than Jack Roslovic, so I wouldn't make the choice of looking at this as an either-or. I'd rather look at it asking what $5m gets us in a flooded UFA market.

Cuylle moving over to let a rookie have a more natural transition is also an option. For a Berard or an Othmann, that might be the best decision we can make. Though, your point about a logjam is well taken. We're deeper at LW than...I'd guess most any system in the league.

Usually, yeah, but the cap increase opens the door some. There is at least some reason to think that a middle-of-the-lineup addition who excels on the team might be brought back for a year or two at a reasonable cost, given market dynamics. Of course, since most teams have already spent that cap overage on RFAs, the Wennbergs and the Roslovics of the world will get the squeeze.

Hey, only one team can hoist the chalice. Invariably, window years get wasted all the time. What shuts your window faster - constantly firing out 4th round picks to fill holes, or signing one of those guys to a bigger contract based on what they did in 20 games? Over the past few years, that's been a clear answer - the contract. However, that's also circumstantial in that the cap has been pretty flat for 5 years now and that will not be the case moving forward. So, especially in the case of a guy like Vatrano or Roslovic where you just see him eat a chunk of your annual cap rise once and call it a day - that answer might shift.

No. I'm outside of NYC. The bagels here leave something to be desired.

If it can be fixed for a mid-late round pick at the deadline, it's not a mistake to let the player walk. It's a mistake to pay the player too much for that short sample.

The problem, so to speak, is that if it works, Roslovic stands to make a good deal more than the 2m we're paying right now. If it really works and there's a ring on his finger at the end of it all, even more so. The piece of it that has me curious is that both Wennberg and Roslovic were overpaid for what they contributed to their last teams, and they're precisely the kind of middle-of-the-lineup players that get squeezed by the cap. I wouldn't be shocked if there was a bit of a "go see if you can get paid, but don't take an offer over X without coming back to me" situation in play if this works well enough.

They're just so wonderful. Perfectly crafted dough circles, flecked with salt and onion and poppy seeds, or delicately adorned with raisins, topped with glorious gobs of cream cheese and delicious lox. Or, lovingly kissed with heat for that perfect combination of crunch and chew, with a perfectly fried omelet, gooey cheese, delicious bacon, salt, pepper, ketchup, maybe a dash of hot sauce. Truly, a gift from the heavens. Bagels. I love them so.