That’s a misconduct now I think. 

1. It’s required of most players in the league now, and 2. Gudbranson may not be the player people envisioned on draft night but he is not primarily an enforcer. 

Yes, nice pugilism. Good punches. Still it feels totally hollow within the larger context that is supposed to give it any meaning.

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Yeah but I don’t know if that qualifies to be related to something referred to as Enes Kanter “coverage”

For sure. Filatov was another huge missed opportunity, although the bigtime players they missed weren’t taken for another ten(-ish) spots anyways.

Yeah I don’t think we’re far apart at all, I was just bristling at “all time” I guess. Iginla is a perfect comparable in showing what Nash wasn’t. Nevertheless Nash comfortably a top drawer NHLer at his peak and a top line player for easily a decade. His career achievements (even acknowledging he probably didn’t…

I think you’re overrating Rick Nash a bit, I think “all time great” numbers from him probably would have required playing with a center of similar calibre.. which because Nash was a very, very, very good player is not something most NHLers can reasonably expect.

Neither of them come close to my favourite Cricket magazine:

I mean, the fact that waffles are best consumed with more is a point against preparing them, not a point against them.

You’d better be consuming your maple syrup quota, or they’re going to come for your passport!

Fuggin IOC narcs blocking embedded video.. 

Oh Lauren. The Canucks don’t get top end free agents, or if they do it’s a Monkey’s Paw-type situation (Mark Messier). The biggest name we’ve signed in the cap era was Mats Sundin for half a season, which was nice but not direction-altering in the way that getting an impact player in his 20s is.

We’re going to be doing this for a while.

Yeah that is a huge part of it. The US market presents huge potential for European clubs (and leagues.. look at La Liga trying to get games played here, NBC Sports deal to broadcast PL games here) and Chelsea just snapped up a sure thing in terms of US fan interest. 

In fairness Barry you haven’t included his full job title, Mayock will be the General Manager of the Rubber Stamp and Vice President of Inkpads

Top marks for the handle/avatar combo, you malnourished pimp, with your World War I facial hair in your sister’s clothes.

It’ll be interesting to see whether the club makes a major addition to the back line, and to speculate about whether they’d have done the same for Mou if (for whatever insane reason) he’d still been around. 

Well if he gets traded to New York his shooting form will fit in with the ‘Icks

I kind of like it better than “Wizards”