I guess that will lessen the blow if/when you eventually get knocked out of contention. But you hit it on the nail, keep pretending.

it was actually 94 in buffalo today with 72% humidity

im sorry remedy, i can never tell the difference between you and ricky, thats not a bad thing at all

All this talk of sleeper teams and favorites is ridiculous. There is no favorite and there are no sleepers, about 6 teams this season have an equal chance of winning IM. It all depends on what the map is and how the team is playing that night. Most of these matches are going to be decided on what players are on, and what players are not playing as good as they should be. This is a great season because of the parity in the league. Also, I can't fathom how sal's canal can be a sleeper team when they are top 5 in the division, a sleeper team would be story time with marxist or Rent a homies, two bubble teams that could upset a top5 team on any given night.

Edit: For the MOTW, 6 cuties is going to crush jav. Sakura has notoriously good comms on viaduct. I would also mention that they have one of the strongest scout combos in the league, but jav and nja are right up there too. I would tend to say that nja has the best dm out of the four, but sakura's comms give snailboat and bronze a distinct advantage over jav and nja. Only way I can see this being close is if tone and nja go huge, which is in the realm of possibility, and jav stops playing that shithole game league and starts to play like a real scout. Roamers are a wash, both ricky and othersakura will play well, demos will influence the game a bit, but for the most part this is gonna be a scout battle.

yeah, the col/cal player swap was a pretty even deal, pretty sure that all four players are bad... only reason they did it i think is because roy or sakic played with tanguay. Colorado is going to suck, once again, but jeez.. mackinnon/duchene/ror as their 1-2-3 in years to come.. that is great

I really think you guys are underestimating the value of a 9th overall in this deep draft... but you are right schneider is worth more than a 9. Not a lot more.

ROFL, im fucking awesome... who called that shit.

#Isles have acquired Cal Clutterbuck from the Wild for Nino Niederreiter.

not you lol, just in general, the toronto fanbase is so large that it has it's fair share of idiots. Every market has idiots, but toronto is so large that it has a TON of mindless homers. But yeah, I live in buffalo, my team plays in the NE, im not really fond of any NE team, soon I will come to hate florida and tampa as well...

Oh and for fans in the NE, Drouin and Stamkos on the same line, can't wait to enjoy that.

As much as I hate to say it, adding bernier was an amazing move for the laughs. I enjoy reading and listening to all of the idiotic tdot fans whine about losing frattin so reimer can have some competition. Bernier is going to be a stud. Nonnis is going to feed off of burkes good team management. JVR for schenn. Lupul for scraps... they fired the wrong person.

All that being said... fuck the leafs.

Honestly, i know how much nucks fans are going to hate to admit it.. but it is way more likely that schneider is moved before luongo.

Lets get this shit going.. who's pumped for tomorrow. My mock.
Colorado - Mackinnon
Florida - Barkov
Tampa - Jones
Nashville - Drouin
Carolina - Lindholm
Calgary - Nichushkin
Edmonton - Nurse
Buffalo - Monahan
Jersey - Wennberg
Dallas - Shinkaruk
Phili - Zadorov
Pheonix - Domi
Winnipeg - Horvat
Columbus - Lazar
Isles - Ristolainen
Buffalo - Erne

I'm not going more than 16, because I know there will be a ton of movement in the late first.

If holmgren takes luu's contract after just buying out byrz's i would literally shit my pants. Luongo is obviously better, but the age of high paid goalies is DYING. 9 years at 5.5 with the new CBA cap is team suicide. Not to mention he is going to be well into his 40s when the contract expires.

ryan miller gone, thomas vanek gone, both over the summer if not, by the deadline next season.

in terms of summer moves, I don't think mike smith will resign in yoteland
yandle will get packaged since oel is turning into a stud

dallas will get some defensive minded vets to cater to lindy ruff's style

the canucks will try to unload luongo, but no gm in their right mind will pay anything of value for that horrible 9 year contract.

Phili will make some moves, they just bought out HUMENGUS BEEG and briere will be b/o freeing up a ton of room, DONT BE SUPRISED TO SEE COUTUIER dealt for a good young dman (yandle is a good example)

ryan is always on the block, let the rumors continue, he wont be traded.

the oilers will try to pick up a top 4, but they will fail because they have a love affair with their kids.

I keep hearing a lot of speculation that neon dion is on the block, but nobody is going to pay nonnis's price for that washed up flat face. burke4ever

bob got offered 10m a year by SKA in the khl, if he is smart he takes that and runs, the poor jackets are getting dicked over once again.

a match made in heaven. sal and ss that is.