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Jets get Joe Morrow for a 4th

Seems like a high price for Tatar.

TB is going to be tough to beat

Enstrom injured in practice

3/4 of the way through the season.... if the playoffs were to start today, these would be the matchups

missed this one. but I heard it's going to be brock vs roman at WM34, as was foretold by prophecy

I honestly don't think that's such a great return. They are without a doubt a worse team now and aside from the late first rounder and a decent prospect in Gustavsson they haven't done too much for their future. Gaborik with 3 more years on a 4M+ contract isn't a great asset either.

Sure with the benefit of hindsight it looks really bad but let's not pretend anybody saw William Karlsson breaking out like this. He was a fourth line player last year.

Frankly its the offseason and as long as Muamba is here for day 1 of training camp I don't care how long he takes to sign.

In space, all warriors are cold warriors

The song is called St Louis Blues and so is the team

I'd go right back to Helle!

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I feel like he never really wanted to leave but working with Austin was unbearable.

Corps

I think it will change. Not today and maybe not in Trump's presidency.... but I think it's coming.

It's a lot easier to be a pessimist because 8 out 9 teams don't win the Grey Cup so you've got an 8/9 chance that the "sky is falling" mentality will turn out correct and you get to pat yourself on the back for that sweet, sweet dopamine hit.

Alzner was the undisputed #1 defenceman on the market.

That's a really good point actually. He got the same deal from the Jets after two dreadful, injury-plagued seasons that he got from the Panthers when he was still a young, promising top-15 pick RFA. Let's not re-write history here.... there were huge doubts about Kulikov going into the free agency period. He was not close to being the number one defenceman on the market. He was a reclamation project in every sense of the term.

Wtf eh? Politicians are the worst people on the planet.

That was Jan 10. In the preceding 43 games, he had 16 goals and 19 assists for 35 points. In the next 17 games he has had 3 goals and 1 assist (that's 4 points for all you math whizzes out there).

Even that seems unlikely considering both Bernie and Hillary are pro-NRA. Maybe next election would be different.

The butthurt brigade all wiping their tears together!

Realistically the Canadian women were almost guaranteed to receive gold or silver, so silver can only be a huge disappointment.