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I made fun of Norlinder last year for insisting on an AHL career instead of going back to Sweden and making more money at home, in a league more suited for his talents. Kapanen, on the other hand, ain't making $900k in Sweden. I don't know many people who are voluntarily giving up a $900k...

No, because Kamala was a terrible candidate. If Kamala was a Obama-esque candidate, I'd think there could be some validity. But the reality is, she's quite possibly the single worst candidate I've ever seen for a major political position.

Yeah, who would have thought that hiring someone with no coaching experience except (quite literally) for coaching children and an assistant on the PP for half a year in the NHL might not work out. https://www.forumice.com/threads/looking-like-marty-st-louis-will-be-the-guy.67496/

My personal favorite video of this election cycle: https://x.com/TheProjectUnity/status/1821712862273814789

Not just that. She looks particularly weak for skipping the show when someone like John Fetterman was able to do the show. I don't think her team allowed her to go on JRE on purpose. Kamala, for all intents and purpose, is one of the worst political candidates for a major election in my...

The amount of people who are legitimately surprised (looking at you, Leafsboard) that Trump won is baffling, like Kamala Harris isn't the single worst candidate in my lifetime and that she wasn't wildly unpopular before they pushed Biden out. Welp, let's see how this goes.

https://x.com/ShabbosK/status/1853998547110150604

Dreger had a hit on TSN's web page and mentioned that the CHL - NCAA change is going to pass, with some details to be ironed out. What seems to be certain is that players who have gone the CHL route and then played U Sports (Ie, Canadian University) will have limited NCAA eligibility. Every...

Cool. Six of one, half a dozen of the other. Watching the internet meltdown tonight if The Trumpster wins will be mightily entertaining.

So, who's winning?

Why would either side want a four year deal? If Newhook is good, he's going to point directly to Jean-Gabriel Pageau as a comparable and ask for 6 years @ $5M+. If Newhook played 82 games last year, he was on pace for a better year than any single year in Pageau's career. And if Newhook's...

Yes. Just one year makes a ton of difference, also because the outlook for the two is different: Dach's seen as a top-6 forward, Newhook a top-9. I don't, on principle, ever think term for a depth forward that is a good idea. Let's say Dach explodes between now and the end of his contract. I...

Asset management and contract management is primordial to building a contending team, much moreso than the players themselves. Dach's situation is completely different from Newhook's situation for one simple reason: Their ages and the year they can become UFAs.

I would entirely be in favor of reducing the amount of rounds in every draft. Change it from 7 to 3 or 4, then the remaining players can become UFAs and/or camp invites.

One of the reasons I've become more and more anti-draft and more free market is that when someone gets hired, they always say "we're going build through the draft" when it's bullshit. Building through the draft, beyond the lottery picks, is an unsustainable model that nobody in the history of...

In 2020, the NHL had a golden opportunity to push the draft eligibility year from 18 years old to 19 years old with a perfect excuse: The world shut down, COVID happened and plenty of players didn't have an opportunity to play. But since this is the NHL we're dealing with... I don't agree that...

This is why discussing contracts with you is impossible. You have such a poor understanding of contracts and what they mean. There's no such thing as a crippling contract on a bottom feeding team. What is the "crippling" contract preventing those bad teams from doing? Crippling implies that it...

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5880148/2024/11/04/nhl-draft-2025-prospects-ranking-november/

Read further into my point. The player himself is not the problem.

No, they shouldn't have traded Eichel. They should have let him get the surgery he wanted, he would have been happy, and the Sabres would be in a much better position now. Eichel only wanted out because they wouldn't allow him to get the specific type of surgery they wanted because it went...