Rich

My guess is the Jets didn't want to give him a big bump in salary and so the short term contract. Also, the 1 year deal means when this contract is up, he has arbitration rights. Dano's camp isn't going to sign long term at that price, so the compromise I think is on the term. If they don't think what is being offered is fair next year, they can go to arbitration. They didn't have much leverage at all on this contract. I don't think this affects expansion draft at all. He is still an RFA at the end of this deal, I don't think the possibility of arbitration would "scare" Vegas from picking him if they were interested.

This is a bit of a long read, but an interesting article on how the most successful / powerful artificial intelligence programs out there are self taught and due to the vast amounts of data that they compile and consume to come to their conclusions, no one really understands how they make the decisions they do. Yet they are very accurate. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/604087/the-dark-secret-at-the-heart-of-ai/

Submission at 10 AM and announcement at 8 PM. Wonder how many leaks there will be before the official announcement.

I love how Bettman has embraced the role and the booing. That smile of his and little shrug of the shoulders after the boos is priceless. He would make a great heel manager in wrestling.

You are making a few leaps here. Walters never said what they disagree about, unless you have some other source, everything you have here is conjecture on what MOS is thinking and what they debate. He never said it "takes stuff to repair" either. What I heard is ... they have their discussion / disagreement, a decision is made, and once done, they move on. Seems more like healthy debate to me.

The morning show guys were discussing how they should have given it to both Murray and Fleury, but apparently the NHL said that you can give it to two people (co winners), but not if they play the same position. Seems like a weird arbitrary rule.

Just turned on TSN. Looks like they are going to play a round table discussion during half time of the Cgy / Edm game with Kyle Walters, Chris Jones, and Marcel Desjardins.

It is working for me.

Trump offers to testify under oath that Comey is lying. https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/06/09/trump-accuses-comey-of-perjury-says-hes-100-willing-to-testify-under-oath.html

A little news on our old buddy Evander... http://www.tsn.ca/kane-smith-join-tsn-hockey-s-trade-bait-board-1.774908 Is Kane even tradable at this point? What kind of return is he worth? I guess he did put up 28 goals last season, so someone will take a gamble on him for that. But it sounds like Buffalo is ready to move on.

Would be a mistake if this is what they did. TV PBP doesn't always translate well to radio, and losing the "home team" flare to the broadcast would turn listeners off, not even factoring in games that Rod Black calls.

Have to give 1290 credit for the new weekly Bauming show they added. I'd have no problems with the radio rights moving to 1290. Would imagine the morning and afternoon shows would both get regular spots with whoever the new PBP guy is.

If you check out the extremes of both parties on Twitter, it is amazing how both sides can watch the same hearings and both draw polar opposite conclusions of what happened, and who is vindicated.

Not just an NHL problem, look at all those sports, most are trending older. It is a generational problem. TV in general is in trouble. Most young people don't watch TV anymore. It is youtube, Snapchat, and whatever other social site of the day.

http://www.tsn.ca/mcphee-vegas-open-to-big-contracts-1.770322

Looks like there are at least 7 people in. I've setup a league. https://fantasy-api.cfl.ca/en/league_invitation?league_id=339&code=6483bdb1-2a7c-48a4-bd85-bc2049bad1e0

And misses a week of training camp....

Added a poll to this thread. I'm sure there will be a group of people who do the Fantaseh pool, but that is limited in number of entrants. So thought I'd check how much interest there is in the TSN pool. One of my issues with the TSN pool as I understand it, is it is a salary / cap based pool, but they allow you to increase your cap for the number of people you refer into it. That just seems dumb to me. I don't want to have to hustle to find people to sign up or make a bunch of fake email accounts to be on a level playing field. If I have this wrong or you know of other options, let me know.

http://edmontonjournal.com/sports/football/cfl/edmonton-eskimos/terry-jones-edmonton-to-host-2018-grey-cup Surprised this didn't go to Hamilton.

Sure it is possible but why would they assume there is one in a mock draft?

It looks like the simulator has us protecting the extra defenseman, so Perreault is available as well. Interesting that both Button and Seravelli passed on Perreault.