Rich

You can't compare the output of two players to one. They take two roster spots. Gretzky takes one. What about the "other" player the Kings got to ice because they had Gretzky?

Just shows you how stacked Edmonton was back then. You really think the primary focus of this deal wasn't $15M in cash?

I'm glad the site is back up but it was a maddening couple of days. Checking constantly to see if the site was up and (the useless) updates from the hosting company. Frustrating when there is nothing to do but wait. I now have a plan on where I will be moving to. It probably won't happen for a few months as we are current prepaid until May.

A new franchise would have to start playing next year for Pav to be expansion bait.

So if we take the Jets 1.0 history, what happens to the Thrashers history? Do the current Jets lose their franchise stats from Atlanta?

Trade Pav and retain $1M this year $2M next year of his salary. He becomes an attractive backup at $2M cap hit. Just need a playoff team to get an injury to a starting goalie in about a months time.

As I understand it, Tampa Bay retained $1.6M of his $4.8M salary when he was traded to Arizona (and then Arizona flipped him to Philly), so his cap hit is around $3.2M. This is the last year of his deal. 2 goals 3 assists in 18 games this year. 15 goals 26 assists in 81 games last year.

Good to know we can at least make the mortgage payment in a Grey Cup year.

It had looked like Evander was trying to turn over a new leaf in Buffalo. http://www.diebytheblade.com/2015/12/19/10625918/evander-kane-continues-to-do-good-in-buffalo-charity

Yeah, I started posting updates to it yesterday. Mike is usually the one who runs the Twitter account and it honestly never even occurred to me until yesterday to use it to send out updates.

http://morningbigblue.com/community/topic/9375-site-back-up/

I apologize for the extended outage. It seems the company that provides the hosting for the website had some major problems over the last few days. A 5 day outage is really not acceptable and I will probably be looking to move the site to a new hosting company in the new year.

He is listed under the staff of the Winnipeg Jets True North Foundation here: http://jets.nhl.com/club/page.htm?id=75794

He has grossed a total of around $1.5M over the last 4 years (less taxes, agent fees, etc). It depends if he wants to keep playing football for $100k - $200k Canadian ($70k - $150k American and dropping) or is ready to move on to the next chapter of his life, whatever that may be.

Account settings have now been fixed.

Twitter sign on has been reconfigured. I've disabled Facebook for now. It seems neither of the Twitter or Facebook authentications recognized the website after the upgrade so I had to re-register the website through their developer portals. Facebook has changed drastically to the point where I would apparently now need to create step by step instructions and screenshots for their staff on how Facebook would be used through the website. (and maybe so they can test it?) . Twitter was relatively easy with a few configurations back and forth ... not sure when I'm going to get to Facebook unless there is a large demand for it.

I've logged a support ticket with the company that made the theme. Will update when I get a fix for it.

We do have $30M in cap space next year but that is with Ladd, Scheifele, Armia, Halischuk, Buff, Trouba, Pardy, and Hutch off the books. Have to remember if we sign Ladd to $6M per season, that is only an extra $1.5M cap hit because he already eats up $4.5M, not like you have to add the whole 6 in. For arguments sake, lets say we sign all those guys (pure guesses on Schefele and Trouba - their contract really depends on length) .... so Ladd $6M, Scheifele $4M, Armia $1.5M, Halischuk $1M, Buff $8M, Trouba $3.5M, Pardy $1M, Hutch $2M would be $27M and put us pretty close to the cap.

This is a weird one. Click on your name in the top right, then Account Settings. Now there is something really goofy going on with the formatting here where most of the options are white text on a white background. If you click <CTRL>-A to select all text on screen (or select everything on the screen with your mouse), you will see a number of things you can edit that are currently "invisible". One of those is Signature. Once you see the text highlighted, you can click it to edit it. Other things you can edit here (that are "invisible" as well) are your email address, password, display name, as well as Facebook and Twitter. Have to use this work around until I figure out why the formatting is setting the text to white.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/star-wars-writers-explain-everything-kylo-ren-turn-150202788.html A few interesting quotes in this article on the evolution of Kylo Ren and killing Han.

Overall I was a big fan of the movie as well. I did have a Spaceballs moment when Kylo took the mask off and we found out he didn't have to wear it, but I totally flashed to Rick Moranis taking off his helmet and saying he can't breathe in that thing.

Still learning new features of the site. Here is a tip if you don't use the activity feeds to find new content. Clicking on the blue circle to the left of threads with unread content will take you right to your first unread post.

Hasn't been happening for me either. What browser are you using?

That one is a head scratcher. Signatures are enabled but the edit doesn't show up for me either. Will have to look further into it. On the plus side, Twitter is now up.

So now that we've upgraded, thought I could give an update on this.... As far as I can tell there is no longer a setting on the maximum number of quotes, it will just take the last post and not bring over the quoted part. (It is possible the setting is there buried some place and I just haven't been able to find it yet). However, if just quoting the last post won't make sense or loses a lot of context, you can highlight whatever portion of a post you want, including quoted parts, than click "Quote this" on the pop-up and it will bring over quotes from a post as well into your new post.