Atomic

She is beautiful!

Gal Gadot lusts for Chris Pine then remembers she's married:

So if we protect Little, Wheeler, Scheifele, Armia, Perreault, Lowry, and Copp, there would have only been one forward available to Vegas who fulfills the minimum requirements (Matthias). Signing Dano gives us 2.

Unsigned RFA's can be selected but they don't fulfill the minimum requirements for forwards and defencemen. Teams must expose 2 forwards and one defenceman who are under contract for next year. Position # Criteria Forwards 2 under contract in 2017-18, AND played in 40 or more NHL games last season, OR played in 70 or more NHL games in the last two seasons Defense 1 under contract in 2017-18, AND played in 40 or more NHL games last season, OR played in 70 or more NHL games in the last two seasons Goalies 1 under contract in 2017-18, OR who’s contract is expiring & is an RFA in 2017-18

Chris Greenwood actually arrived last year and spent most of the year on the practice roster. He has some NFL experience (2012 5th round pick). Good size, 6'1" 200 lbs.

The thing about Elliott was that he had a gunslinger mentality with no arm strength or mobility. Not a great combo.

That was Brandon Alexander

You can put me in the "not sold" on Nichols boat. I like him. I thought he was pretty great last year. But his body of work is still so small and pre-2016 he was average at best. I'm eager to see what he does this year and I'm hoping for the best. But I've seen an awful lot of Bomber QBs who looked good one year and then like garbage the next.

Here ya go bud:

@Goalie is having a bad day.

Brings in average linebackers, average defensive linemen, average runningbacks... but hey they can scout the hell out of defensive backs. Better than nothing I suppose.

Won't be protected, won't be selected. Hope he comes to camp healthy next season.

It was very unusual. I can't recall ever seeing a #4 QB going in second in a pre-season game.

Franklin looked damn good running their offence against Calgary. I thought EDM might have some trouble in their receiving corps this season but it looks like they have a couple studs in Zylstra and D'haquille Williams. This will be a good test for our secondary. Kinda surprised that Reilly won't be playing, though. I still have my doubts about Edmonton. I'm not sold on their OL, running game, or secondary.

You can't possibly know whether they enjoy it or not.

I don't really care either but I'd prefer we scout good players rather than bad ones. I guess I'm just crazy that way.

Makes me question why we brought in such an inexperienced prospect if we weren't willing to put in some measure of time to allow him to improve. What were we expecting? That he would actually be quick with his decision-making after throwing the ball 10 times per game in college? I don't know. I've been really underwhelmed with our QB scouting since Walters took over. I don't see the point in bringing in long-shot oddball QBs like Robert Marve and Apodaca. And clearly we haven't been getting results out of it because none of them have stuck and all our current QBs have come from other teams.

It doesn't help when you have supposedly charitable Muslim groups like IRFAN-Canada operating with links to known terrorist groups.

The player/agent makes the call. They can say "We will not waive the NMC if the acquiring team does not honour it after they have acquired the player." Or they can waive it altogether. If it was fully in the acquiring team's control, they would never honour it.

I've seen the movie "Her" and I don't like where this is going!

Not necessarily. http://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/nhl-expansion-draft/2017/6/12/15781154/2017-nhl-expansion-draft-waive-nmc-no-movement-clause-marc-andre-fleury-dion-phaneuf-rules

Exactly why white people in general shouldn't be expected to "own" white supremacy any more than Muslims should be expected to "own" Islamic terrorism.

I understand why you would want to expose Enstrom. What I don't understand is why you would go through the trouble of getting him to waive his NMC then making a deal with Vegas not to select him. Why wouldn't you just skip the Enstrom NMC business, protect 7-3-1 and make a deal with Vegas not to select Myers?

Some do, some don't. Some white people speak out against white supremacy, some don't. I don't expect either group to do so because it's ridiculous to suggest that someone has responsibility to act for or against a cause specifically based on their race, religion, or anything else.