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Yea, but I don't really think that the move is made for being drafted into the pros, you do that for a better shot at an athletic scholarship to college. Using lacrosse as an example, just because I'm more familiar with it...the greatest reward you can get from playing lacrosse is a college scholarship to a top school (Duke, Hopkins, UVA, etc.). Getting drafted into the pro leagues is nice, but that's really not going to give you any advantage in life, most of those guys hold full time jobs outside of the game. But when you get selected for travel teams that are organized by class (which I think is what needs to change), then you could be noticed by recruiters as a 16 year old playing against 14 year olds, potentially. That is a huge advantage when it comes to getting college scholarships, and the ramifications - really throughout the rest of your life - are tremendous. A 50k/year scholarship to Princeton is great...the job that Princeton will get you is even better. That's why kids are held back early, not to get drafted. That's probably a lot different than hockey, at least in some respects, but I'd imagine that, primarily, that's the focus, rather than getting to the NHL.

Right. I'm not saying that there aren't legitimate reasons for holding a kid back, or that holding a kid back means anything long-term. I think the issue is that parents are doing it for the athletic reasons, even, if they don't know if their kid is going to be a great athlete. The thought process is that, while they might only be an average athlete amongst kids their grade, given an extra year of growth, they could be.

Idk how much it happens in hockey, but in lacrosse - as outlined in the article - they're talking about holding back kids in like 1st grade, then they could end up doing a year of prep school. We're talking about 21 year old freshmen in that case. I'd argue that it is cheating. But, to be honest, I can't blame some parents for doing it. If it gets kids a scholarship to a private school and then, eventually, college, it's really hard to argue with.

I'm sure there are lots of kids who are "redshirted" by being held back a year. It happens alllll the time in lacrosse. Pretty good breakdown here: http://deadspin.com/why-rich-lacrosse-parents-are-making-their-kids-repeat-1570381983

I thought End of Heartache and As Daylight Dies were easily their best albums lol

I guess we're the exact opposite. I used to listen to KSE all the time - though I think Howard Jones was a much better vocalist than the new one. But I tried so hard to like Dillinger, but I just could not, for the life of me, get into them. That's not really a surprise, considering I'm more of the blend of metal and pop elements & melodies, but I just find bands like Dillinger to be so disorganized that it's hard to follow along, and it kind of just becomes noise.

Bit of a throwback, but on my second listen of Kezia today.

New Amazon show based on the novel by Phillip Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was the premise for Blade Runner. Really interesting, plowed through the whole thing in about 5 days. The setting - the U.S. if we lost WWII - is absolutely killer. Anybody else watched it?

Call me old fashioned, but that would annoy me. I still listen to CDs almost exclusively in the car.

Actually, as much as I like them, I don't think I ever have either.

Metalcore 4 lyfe

He's basically Jon Snow lol

I think the best prequel they could do is a limited series showing the beginnings of SAMCRO with Teller as the lead. Anything else would just be another repeat of the Shield and SOA.

Yea. I think that's just a consequence of having so much ground to cover this season. They really had to do it that way.

There was bound to be an episode or two like this this season. They're in a tough spot where they have to cover 2 books that don't really go anywhere. The episode felt rushed but I think it just kinda had to be that way.

This. They really don't have much of a choice and I think they've done about as well as you could considering the amount of catching up that has to be done. Other shows - namely Walking Dead and SOA - got extremely slow and repetitive b/c they wrote in too many storylines and spent way too much time setting up action. In this case, the episodes that are used to set up others still move forward enough that they don't drag down the whole series.

All 3 episodes have been setting things up for the rest of the series I think. Considering how last night's episode ended, I assume that there will be a lot more action the rest of the way.

I wonder if pegging him as a 4th liner is a bit...shortsighted? His ceiling is much higher than that I think.

I stopped watching about midway through the prison storyline as I thought the show got pretty boring....think its possible to just pick up at season 5 and know what's going on?

+1 million for Mastodon... No love for Protest the Hero?

Are eligibility rules different there? How did he play for 5 seasons?

lol, fine http://cdn.meme.am/images/300x/1831601.jpg

Oliwa wasn't...Fata and Popovic didn't have pics so I missed them. Maybe I should have qualified Sandy McCarthy harder...but I know he didn't count technically. You're like the fun police

People probably remember him, but I just want to post this pic... Sandy McCarthy http://i.a.cnn.net/si/images/hockey/nhl/players/550.jpg Rico Fata - the Puerto Rican Carl Hagelin http://cache2.asset-cache.net/gc/52395443-season-player-rico-fata-of-the-new-york-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=OCUJ5gVf7YdJQI2Xhkc2QC3KUHvmZSL%2FJNcQOLm%2F8p0hIyVMq5SA4hb2081dnC5fN8sLwcFE31mjub3ilr%2FiUg%3D%3D Kristof Oliwa http://rangers.nhl.com/v2/photos/AllTimeRoster/headshots/8459486.jpg Peter Popovic http://cache3.asset-cache.net/gc/372237-feb-1999-peter-popovic-of-the-new-york-rangers-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=89VKe0vpPcL%2BfGC105LO%2FSk9GFVwTDPyowVsF%2F3Bc9UZZtuPqJoOcvO2oYGhxBsbVFsD%2BlS5fGrKLLtuP%2FSqmw%3D%3D