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okay, yeah, I'm pretty much in agreement here, previous hyperbole notwithstanding (though, in my defense, it hadn't occurred to me that the Ducks would give him away or that he'd play for league minimum. Or that he or Torts wouldn't kill the other in the attempt to make him an actual hockey player).

I don't want him at league minimum and wouldn't trade Laughton for him to do it. He's the last player the Flyers need or want. Derek needs to stop with the rah rah highlight couple of goals and actually watch him play. I swear these people's hockey knowledge is limited to the 90 seconds ESPN SportsCenter covers highlights. no thank you. This would be a Chuck Fletcher move.

I'm actually stunned he's not a Flyer right now. Someone was actually dumber than Chuckles

Yeah. You're not wrong here. It makes me sad, but you're not wrong. If we get a 3rd or 4th for Atkinson, I'm thrilled. I've been a fan of his long before he was a Flyer, but i do that without blinking.

Let's call them "Putting on the Royal."

Agree with all of that. I share your sentiment around Konecny, too. I don't know about Konecny. He just seems like the guy you keep and build around. Well, not "around" but a key piece. I think with Atkinson off the books the same summer Konecny can be an FA, I try to extend Konecny. By then he's 28, so I'm more concerned with term than dollars. $8M/6 yrs? I wait until the end of next year, though. If he takes that or less, great. If at the deadline you feel you can't extend him, he's a pretty damn good rental for someone. Or if by then you realize you still don't have your goalie and your stud pick is going to be stuck in Russia.... The hell of a rental thing again. If someone backs up a truck at this deadline, I have to seriously consider it. It so far seems like a seller's market this year, so maybe.

If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas

Where does Monahan slot in?

You know the number of people left who would get this is probably less than 10. (And we're one of them)

I never heard of any other Superfan All 88 of them.

Well, i mean, yeah. If you liberally prorate.

This. 1000x this. Completely, absolutely this.

Journalism has come a long way from our college journalism classes. And not in a good direction. Now, everything is backloaded so you have to go through 17 ads--remember when you were supposed to frontload in the first two paragraphs? Remember when it was edited for punctuation, grammar, and spelling? My wife teaches freshman level English Comp at a college. When we went to school, if you failed to cite properly you were guilty of plaguarism and faced expulsion. Failing the class was the least that could happen. Now, she can't even fail them for the paper. There are no standards anymore. Journalism, sadly, isn't alone in this.

My girls are 28 and 24. Same. My oldest went through something pretty horrific at 18. Someone on here (no longer here) actually helped tremendously. I don't have a lot of patience around being lectured about 8%.

This whole thing simply sucks

But one has only 8% brain capacity. Reportedly.

Given the context, maybe rephrase?

I've always asked that very question myself. Apparently, Jeffrey Epstein kept detailed records.

Well, 8% of what you said hinted otherwise, so... of course, that was roughly 2.5% of everything you thought but didn't say. On average, 463,000 sexual assaults are reported annually (victims 12 and older). Only 31% of sexual results are reported. a long time ago, 8% of sexual assaults are uncomfirmable. The math is that only 2.5% of sexual assuaults are officially unconfirmable by investigators. Therefore, it's clear that nearly all are unconfirmable and must, therefore, be ignored and we must be a pompous ### to those who default to the 97.5%

I can't find it at the moment, but according to research done by unemployed flower children in 1962, 8 percent of all goalies who are present during a sexual assault go on to have perfectly normal professional lives. So, we can stop worrying about it because clearly this means he's guaranteed to play again. Because as we all learned in stats, 8% is always a sure thing.

Then we should 86 the stats and the statistician they rode in on.

You're not paying attention. It said EIGHT PERCENT! Argle bargle. If you prorate it and then account for American-Canadian conversion rate it's almost 9 out of 100. Or something.

I'm guessing hmc stands for home made crap.