Jerry the great
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that's probably why Armstrong sweetened the offer this morning with an extra 3rd and Paul Fischer.
2x 3rd round + Paul Fischer for Holloway is fair IMO
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2x 3rd round + Paul Fischer for Holloway is fair IMO
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The Edmonton Oilers were already the oldest team in the NHL by average age before having Broberg and Holloway poached. Per Elite Prospects, they sit at 30.27, the only team with an average age above 30. They are the definition of all-in at this point.
The Edmonton Oilers were already the oldest team in the NHL by average age before having Broberg and Holloway poached. Per Elite Prospects, they sit at 30.27, the only team with an average age above 30. They are the definition of all-in at this point.
Ha, I have a very generic first name that I’m quite happy with.
My surname has a more common alternate spelling so I have to spell it out literally every time I have a phone call about anything. My parents also gave me 2 middle names which is a huge pain in the ass when filling out any document. So yeah, I was aware of not doing anything weird when naming our kids.
We have a few friends who went deep into bizarro land when naming kids and I really feel for those kids.
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it's a bid misleading though as the only "old" core piece is Ekholm. Henrique, Perry and Ryan skew the average age results.
If they're "all in" it's more contract related than anything IMO.
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They have 975Kish in cap now, with 13 forwards and 7 defense. Kane could be put on LTIR for more if needed, just makes it super tricky to get under if he comes back in-season.
Defensively:
Ekholm-Bouchard
Nurse-Emberson
Kulak-Brown/Stetcher
With names, there are some that sound old, while others sound like a kid. Cody/Cory for boys sounds young, not sure that ages well for a 30 year old. Same with Tiffany/Brittany for girls. And older sounding names like Walter/Esther might not sound as good for someone younger.
I hope those parents at least gave the kid a decent middle name that they could then go by later in life. If you are going to do something interesting, maybe keep that as a middle name and is used between you and the kid.
Nope, I’m about the whitest white guy that ever white guyed.
I had two great-grandfathers in their 90s still alive when I was born, one on either side of the family. I was an only child and my parents apparently couldn’t decide so went with both. I like the sentiment in theory but it’s annoying as hell when a form gives one box for ‘middle initial’ and then doesn’t match my ID.
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Yeah they've lost a lot of speed up front with both Holloway and McLeod gone. Probably won't affect them too much given that everything runs through McDrai.
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i am sad that st louis sweetened here. i would have absolutely called their bluff. as soon as the oilers showed any wilingness to deal them to me it signals they had moved on from those players. a team that wants those players is not picking up the phone.
for me broberg is going to be a disaster at that cap and holloway a steal. not sure if they will offset.
also, in the end, moving ceci was unnecessary unless it was just to be in a position to bluff for the extra 3rd rounder.
so i wonder if bowman took the opportunity to move ceci because he wanted to do that anyway. it is hard to make changes in a game 7 scf lineup.
or did they change their mind on broberg halfway through the week? if so, who changed their mind and why? did mcdavid decide he didn't want those guys back in the room? did bowman identify a plan b?
on the plan b note, i wonder if giardano gets signed shortly.
for me broberg is going to be a disaster at that cap and holloway a steal. not sure if they will offset.
also, in the end, moving ceci was unnecessary unless it was just to be in a position to bluff for the extra 3rd rounder.
so i wonder if bowman took the opportunity to move ceci because he wanted to do that anyway. it is hard to make changes in a game 7 scf lineup.
or did they change their mind on broberg halfway through the week? if so, who changed their mind and why? did mcdavid decide he didn't want those guys back in the room? did bowman identify a plan b?
on the plan b note, i wonder if giardano gets signed shortly.
In China we don't bother with middle names. We do however place a lot of emphases and thoughts into actual names though, as the Chinese language can condense so much into so few characters, many names have the parents' hopes and aspiration hidden in them (no, not something like McDoctor Wang). And of course when you get less common last names with TWO characters instead of one, such as Zhuge, Sima, Yuwen, Shangguan...etc, that opens possibilities for some truly magnificent names. By magnificent, I don't mean dumb shit names that will cause your kids to get hazed to death before grade 3, I mean actually culturally significant names with deep historical meaning.
My wife wanted to have Japanese names for the kids middle names but also wanted to carry my family tradition of using the grandparents first name as a middle name. So both my kids have two middle names in two different languages.
Had the same discussion about names with a friend over the weekend about how another mutual friend named their kid Alaska...
Maybe saying he got hurt doing something he wasn’t supposed to be doing?
Who knows. But, the onus is going to be on the Flyers to show cause for the termination. See how this ends up. Puck drop is 2 months away for the Flyers to set their roster. See if this gets resolved by then or not.
He got married this weekend and there was some speculation on twitter that an instagram video or something may have revealed something that the Flyers could act on
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Oilers played this well considering the situation they put themselves in. I don’t think Pod was the right target though but maybe he’ll prove me wrong. Emberson is interesting. Don’t think Holloway moves the needle and Broberg cap hit sucked, got off Ceci cap hit too.
They have set themselves up to be players at the TDL.
They have set themselves up to be players at the TDL.
The one really annoying part of this is that they managed to turn Ceci into Emberson which is a huge win when you consider ages/cap hits.
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How the Oilers didn't expect this is straight baffling to me. Did they seriously think the kid was just going to accept a dirt cheap offer to help them when they've been touting his future potential for a while now?
I wager somewhere in the 2M gets this done but 1.1M is just laughable for the talent Broberg has.
Some GMs like to grind rfas with no arb rights. Especially the ones who haven’t shown a lot on their elc. Given their tight cap not too surprised they opted to not move much off their number.
That’s why the blues made the OS. Spoke with the agent and learned of the oilers number. Saw their cap situation and no buyouts available to them and made the OS. Knew the kid would sign it and put Edm in a tough spot.
Win for Stl will be whether or not the 2 kids are going to be worth their QO in 2 years. If so, big win for the blues. If not, they have to walk away and took a swing with a second, 2 thirds and a former 5th plus whatever they gave up to get their pick back from Pitt.
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