Zaddy Daddy. I’m sure he would love that.

Andrew Heydt was responsible for contract negotiations prior to his departure in the middle of last season. The Trenin and Middleton contracts are the only NHL contracts signed since then. Personally I don’t have issues with either one.

What do you think Andrew Heydt did before he left last season? The Trenin and Middleton contracts are the only two NHL contracts that have been signed since he left and weren’t directly negotiated by him.

People losing their minds over signing a strong role player throughout his prime years without even seeing him play a game for us. He was a target by the same scouts that everyone has been praising lately, why does an 18 year old get the benefit of the doubt but the 27 year old that’s an NHL regular doesn’t? Colorado traded for him just a few months ago to help with their playoff efforts, he clearly has value around the league.

Kaprizov spent half the season as a stationary turret recovering from his leg injury, if Bedard had played with him to start the season they would have gotten taken to the woodshed in their own end. Bedard would have been battling with Rossi for 2nd line ice time all season behind JEE, and likely wouldn’t have even been PP1 unless you move Boldy to PP2.

90 points is not close to a reasonable projection if he were on the Wild IMO. It’s likely he would have had less than he did on Chicago, but he also wouldn’t have been as negative too.

I am aware that Hall was out all year, the point being that so was Spurgeon, who you called out by name as support for Brock while claiming to be a Wild fan.

If you think Bedard deserved it and Wild fans are biased for thinking otherwise, then make a coherent argument about his individual proficiency compared to Faber. Team situation is the smallest piece of the puzzle when the award is specifically about individual proficiency. I could easily argue that Bedard would have spent a lot more time on the bench on a more competitive team, like we saw at the WCs.

To take nothing away from Bedard and his extremely bright future, I personally think that Faber was a much more effective player in the NHL this season and had a greater positive impact on his team.

If you remove the horrendous PK numbers, he was right in line with Barkov for metrics, 10th is a disservice frankly when a guy like Matthews didn’t even see the ice on the PK. JEE was a warrior this season, another year like that with a bit more team success and he will be in the running IMO.

Grant is an awesome guy, good for him! I worked a summer hockey camp in MN and he would come out on his own time and work with the kids during the summers, super engaged and brought out tons of smiles and laughs while making all the kids feel comfortable away from home. He was a great college player, no shame that he didn’t succeed in the NHL with how ultra competitive it is.

Buddy you say Bedard had no one to play with and then used a guy who missed the entire season and a guy who missed a quarter of the season and wasn’t his main partner to say he had a good D corps around him. If you are counting those two then why didn’t Bedard score more since he had Hall?

Wish him luck on his next team, but frankly I am pretty happy to see him gone. He just didn’t seem to fit in with anyone in our lineup and he struggled to make the correct reads for a vast majority of the season. Puck skills are solid, skating is fine, but the mental aspect is not where it needs to be for a depth player, he was far too erratic in his role when stability was all that was needed.

Some of the picks will almost assuredly be packaged, the point is that we have future draft capital that would give us the flexibility to make that play better than most other teams. We would have both the cap space and the picks to justify a big money offer sheet if we really wanted to do it.

Far more likely they would do an offer sheet next off season seeing as a Guerin has already gathered a whole bunch of 2026 picks to replace the ones we would be sending out. Still unlikely in any event.

Have that removed Corporal. - Stripes

My experience was at Best Buy.

Tried buying a TV in person there last year. Spent an hour in the store, knowing which one we wanted, talked to 3 different employees that said they would send someone over to help until I finally waited in line at checkout to be told that you have to order them online and then do pickup. I plan on never returning.

This album holds a very special place in my own heart, it came out while I was living away from home and going through bouts of homesickness and loss of my first love. So many listens as he wailed out the emotions inside of myself, it was very cathartic. There was a lot of excellent music that came out that year, but this album was my number 1 as well. Lump Sum is just a masterpiece IMO, but the whole album deserves to be played in order.

Agree with this, Lapanta and Walz together really feed into each other and get into long, very homerish rants. Carter seems to do a much better job of moderating Lapanta and staying in the land of reason.

I appreciate Walz for his contributions to hockey in this state, but I really cannot stand listening to him speak and think he is a poor representative for our state and team in the broadcast booth.

That private management and insurance practice has a cost to the employer that is directly passed on to the pensioner. Compared to the management rates for a market index fund that are often sub .1%, you are getting very significantly less in return via the pension.

Think about what you just typed lol. Is it more likely that your single employer fails or the entire economy? Your employer is directly apart of that market and even if you retired in the middle of the Great Depression it still has the stock market coming out on top.

10% match is incredibly good, only tech and finance employers hit that amount, when considering your own contributions that alone equates to a 20% savings rate. You could save $0 other dollars and retire within 37 years maintaining your current lifestyle and never need to touch social security.

Pensions are awful and I do not understand why this sub would think they are a good thing. They require you staying at a company for long term, the closer you get to pension eligibility, the less likely you are to leave and your employer is directly aware of this.

When you retire, you are then also entirely at the whim of the company’s future success or failures, and you would no longer have any influence at all over the company’s direction. A pension is in no way guaranteed or backed by anything other than your employer and their ability to manage a fund.

That tournament is a continuation of the same issues that he has shown in the NHL. You can only funnel a guy the puck for so long before you realize that he is a large contributor to the team being at the bottom of the standings. He needs to get faster, both in the skating department but also in his decision making.

Watching the 3rd liners on team Latvia pick him apart this summer was certainly something, when you are too slow and predictable to even complete a pass against that talent level, it doesn’t bode well. I would be selling too if I were the Ducks.

In terms of both hilarity and overpoweredness, the KS-23 in Escape From Tarkov at original release was a truly great time. Star rounds would fully flash opponents for 30 seconds, you could chain this indefinitely if you really wanted to. But then you also had the Shrap rounds to follow it up that were a one shot to any unarmored body part, with no leg armor available in game, that means you got to shoot kneecaps and watch even the most geared out players have zero counter play while they are running into walls blinded. With teammates able to be flashed, the trolling potential was extremely high too.

Not interested in him in the slightest and I can’t imagine Guerin picking him.

His actual stats are 7 games played, 6 goals, 8 assists.

I’ve watched every minute of US play this tourney, Boldy has been extremely good, so efficient with the puck on his stick and playing with great confidence, really fun to watch.

Very interesting, excited to explore this model a bit more when I have PC access. Outside of a few minor philosophical differences and a couple minor typos, I found the write up very thorough and easy to follow.

In regards to angle changes, have you considered adjusting for passes that cross the mid point of the ice rather than just overall angle? I would postulate that you would see more statistical relevance for that aspect when the goalie has to change sides of the net completely.

You deserve major applause for this no matter what, and it deserves more eyes.