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I just want more challenges that could result in death. That's probably the easiest way to start thinning the herd a bit.

It's a brain fart for sure, but how many goals has Hutton given up this year as a direct result of that stick swipe move? That thing is so high risk/low reward. It's another item on the long list of Carter Hutton moves where his momentum takes him out of position. There has to be a book on him, to take your wrap around attempts wide, leaving the opposite site of the net wide open. I don't see any what that he's not on this roster next year, but I hope that Bales can coach that out of him. But whatever, it's just one loss. If people think they needed to go 15-5 for any shot at the playoffs, that run would include some losses. And at the same time, Toronto's not going to go 0-20. There's going to be a Buffalo loss here and also some Toronto/Florida wins. Now they just need to bounce back, something they've been horrible at doing. They did look like a different team last night, so hopefully that different team continues to show up. More games like that, along with some puck luck to the Eichel line and they're going to wind up in the win column more often than not.

I take it that you never saw Bob Mogilny play.

Ahhh ok. I haven't watched Breaking Bad in a while now. I know everyone jumped on the Nacho line once he was introduced in Better Call Saul, but I don't remember as much of a reaction when Lalo was introduced. Of course, it could just be the 10 year break between seasons that makes me completely lose track of these things.

Saul mentioned Nacho to Walt and Jessie.

I'm typically on planes with two seats on each side, so a bigger plane may complicate things. I could see people willing to pay rather than get stuck in the middle seat.

I watched it last night. They were building some random processing building for the chicken farm, but it was just a front to throw off Lalo.

Actually, if the plane is half full, they're going to assign you a normal seat at the gate. When it's full, the only seats that haven't been assigned are the extra leg ones because no one wants to pay for them. It's either those or the seats they have for their loyalty program, whatever they call it.

I also wonder if Mike Sullivan may have followed Rodrigues closely since he's a BU guy too.

I figured it was obvious. The kid from Life Goes On?

Buffalo was also coming off a back to back. So if one team thrived under that circumstance and the other faltered, what exactly does it mean?

They must be at a comfortable number because they don't take on even half of Simmonds contract if there was too much of a concern in that department.

Given the second trade, I know look at the Simmonds deal as the team giving him a low price tryout to see if he has anything left for the future.

I don't know a thing about Kahun, but the numbers look intriguing. On top of that, they took two players they didn't want anymore and turned it into a guy who they have control of for a couple years. I'm happy with that much.

Yes. Haula's only in there to provide some level of balance in terms of cap dollars. Carolina's pushing the cap with their moves, so they need to send some money out.

Making up a hypothetical trade offer does not mean that 1) Florida would be interested, or 2) the Sabres weren't talking to them. That trade suggests to me that Florida wanted a more immediate return, guys who were close to ready. They weren't going to want an expiring Larry or Gus. Haula's only in there as a money dump for Carolina. I also don't think Buffalo would be interested in moving a first for Trocheck, protection or not. That deal essentially is summed up as two prospects and a bottom pair d-man for Trocheck. I really don't know what our equivalent would be. I think you can give up on that one. I'd say that Kreuger has made it very clear that he won't be putting Skinner on Eichel's line.

He's a free agent at the end of the year. The Devils are retaining 50% of the salary and we gave up next to nothing, a 2021 pick. I chalk this one up to "why not".

No matter how badly that contract has worked out for us, it was nice to see Okposo have a moment yesterday. You can see the talent in him, but his body gave out on him so early. The other thing I really enjoyed from yesterday's game was Eichel's reaction at the buzzer. The guy is fired up, there's no denying it. I thought he was going to rip Johansson's head off with that hug. Okposo had a very animated interaction with him two. Those are two guys where I won't question their heart.

I didn't watch last night's episode yet, but it's the meth lab under the laundromat, isn't it? If they moved on to something completely different last night, ignore this comment.

The girl from American Pie aged about 40 years.

At this point, the frustration shouldn’t be about any individual game no matter how bad certain ones were. For me, it’s about how they came out of the all star break. With the way Toronto is sinking, that stretch may very well have cost this team the playoffs. Still, at this point I want to see a strong push to the playoffs. It will wind up falling short, but this season needs to end on a positive note. We haven’t seen one of those in a long time. And they can definitely do that while still dumping a few of the expiring contracts at the deadline.

Yeah, it’s definitely more of a recent thing, maybe in the last 2-3 years. It’s only been a delta thing though. I book the best price I can find so I’m bouncing around from airline to airline.

Backes has one year left on his contract. Okposo has 3. Buffalo probably would have had to add two first round picks to this deal. No one's taking Kyle's contract.

I don't feel like there are enough available options to warrant the fees. The extra leg room seats are the biggest scam of all. Once no one pays for them, and it seems like they never do, they just give those things away to those without an assigned seat. That's my scam anytime I'm on delta now. Don't check into the flight ahead of time, get a boarding pass that says "seat assigned at gate", then enjoy the extra leg room without paying for it. That has worked for me every single time.

Some of the isolated audio of Roth is amazingly hilarious. That alone makes him the pick. I know what random music I'm listening to for the second half of my work day.