I’m not saying Havlat would have provided the same production for all 3 Cup runs to date. He would have provided similar production for a year or two (which he managed to do despite being in Minnesota) before being jettisoned in favor of a different splashy acquisition or cap space to retain guys like Buff, Ladd, or…

If Hossa stays in Pittsburgh, he never signs with Chicago, who keeps Marty Havlat for shorter money, which gives them more flexibility to retain pieces after the 2010 Cup run.

Seriously, what does the last decade of the NHL look like if the Penguins had found a way to keep him?

That’s because Brad Marchand would have been actually targeting the knees.

If the person is reasonably qualified, no court of law would ever determine any duties have been violated. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t there just because the family owns a controlling interest.  

If even one non-family member owns shares, though, all the fiduciary duties are still in play.

Well, the union drive worked out so well for Gawker.

This isn’t even the first time Dmitry Orlov has lit up an oppose forward for daring to wear his number

I would go so far as to say it looks quite bad.

It’s been awhile since I’ve studied antitrust law, but as memory serves, an arrangement need not be a perfect means of achieving its legitimate purpose to survive scrutiny. Setting aside the natural human limitations in system design, there are also often competing goals in economic arrangements that mean no single…

This is faaar from my area of expertise, but the short answer would appear to be “no.” The Supreme Court has explicitly carved out an antitrust exemption for collectively bargained arrangements between employers and unions under certain circumstances, and extended the application of this exception to professional…

No they won’t. They nuked the filibuster for non-SCOTUS appointments already; they’ll just do it for SCOTUS if that’s necessary.

Those would seem to be the obvious choices, I guess.

The amateur drafts are agreed to by the unions under each League’s Collective Bargaining Agreement, subject to federal labor law. Antitrust law is (generally) displaced is such a situation.

Amateur players both inside and outside the U.S. are not part of the players’ union, and so the union has no compelling reason to consider their wants and needs while negotiating with the league. Players’ unions across professional sports, meanwhile, have never hesitated to stick a shiv in amateur players in order to…

There is nothing unfair about interpreting his words to mean what they say. 

But I think the rest of us are entitled to take his words at face value.

I dunno, I was figuring I might just use my common sense to assign the obvious intent of his words as their meaning, but I guess I forgot to turn off my critical thinking module since this is a Republican we’re discussing.

This is like an episode of the Twilight Zone. The import of McCain’s words are obvious

If we want to be literal, as you seem to, it’s actually you and Scocca who are ignoring his words—“would” is a conditional verb that means that he actually is discussing the real world consequences of a Clinton Presidency, rather than hypotheticals—but that’s neither here nor there, since words usually aren’t literal.…