sweep the leg

I find it disingenuous for guys who made a good living fighting to complain about it now. If you didn't want to fight, quit. Do something else for a living that is less dangerous. None of them were owed a career in hockey, especially when most of the guys complaining weren't good enough to play if they didn't fight.

Other than possibly his immediate family, there's no bigger fan of Stu than this guy. I just think he's better suited to controlling the game from the blueline.

You don't think Lapo is all that adaptable, so your solution is to make him adapt to players he didn't choose for his offense?

That's crazy to think a coach would want a say in the players he's going to coach.

The NMC is with the franchise, not the city.

This will never be a thing. It's much more likely that either teams are forced to protect guys with NMCs, or they'll rule it doesn't apply to expansion drafts. IMO there's a 0% chance these guys will just be exempted from the draft.

Why would an expansion team move Stuart to forward? Based on our roster now, if we could only protect 3 dmen we'd probably lose Enstrom. That's a pretty solid player for them.

3 of 4 spots on the DL look pretty solid to me.

I agree with all of this. There are two things about Enstrom that stick out like a sore thumb; he makes a lot of money and he doesn't shoot enough. Those are two major issues for a casual hockey fan. He's certainly not a perfect player, but he does a lot of the little things well. I will fully admit though that he drives me crazy when he passes on good shot opportunities.

I don't know about everything, but I think our team looks pretty good personnel-wise right now.

Can the expansion team take players who aren't in the NHL? I find it hard to believe the other GMs would allow prospects to be up for grabs. Also, what happens to guys with no movement clauses? Is their team forced to protect them?

Another episode of "last word" with TUP.

Melchiori's game was fine, with that one exception. I think his ceiling is a solid AHLer with brief stints in the NHL.

The guy who runs that twitter account is a Riders fan and a regular on their fan site. His seat is near the front on the Chris Jones bandwagon.

He's got 61 points in 34 games.

We will. We have.

Maata's contract hurt Trouba contract demands. Tough for them to appear reasonable when a pretty comparable player in the same situation signed for just North of $4.

Forgetting what he saw and just wandering off is a real concern for a man his age.

That's quite a lineup...

Interesting rumour has GSP coming back to fight Nate Diaz. Unless GSP comes back out of shape, or gets caught in a choke while ground and pounding him, I can't see him losing this fight. He dominated Nick, and he's a better fighter than Nate is. I really think his plan was to fight McGregor, but his loss ruined that idea.

100% sarcasm

Similar to how Ehlers was only racking up points in Junior b/c he was playing with Drouin.

Reinhart is still young, but his career seems to be going in the wrong direction. If the Oilers end up with Matthews in the draft, I don't think there's any question RNH would be traded. It would be McDavid, Matthews, Draisaitl up the middle for the Oilers.

Ovie pretty clearly let up on the hit. Reaves drove the guys head into the glass. Imo there's a big difference between the two plays.

No thank you to $600. Watching on tv will be good enough for nostalgia purposes.