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If you go through the process of doing a mock expansion draft, it's interesting to see that there will likely be a surplus of defencemen to choose from... good forwards will be much harder to come by. Vegas will have their pick of some good D, but their top six forwards will be a nightmare (although free agency may offer them some good choices).

4 free wins, what's wrong with that?

Ride your bike to the game

My main gripe is that there is very little time for practice and evaluation between the two games.

He's scheduled back in 6-8 weeks. Career-threatening is "Not sure your brain can survive another hit, not sure you'll ever skate again, etc."

They have a really hard time putting together a pre-season schedule that makes any sense. Our games are 5 days apart. EDM plays 4 days apart. Pointless. 3 Thursday night home games in a row in summer. Count on sub-25000 crowds for those. Lame. 3 Friday night home games which is nice. Week 13 bye is okay. Not a huge fan of week 1 bye... in the 3 seasons since OTT joined, we've now had to deal with the week 20 bye and the week 1 bye. 9 teams and we get the bullshit all the time. I hope the CFL realizes we're keeping track. SSK - CGY - TOR - BC - MTL to start the season. That's not so bad.

It only applies to "career threatening" injuries, which this never was... so really it never applied here.

It's not a joke Sweep this is serious shit Ah ha, yes then I was correct

Is Helle playing?

Pretty clear from this thread that the only people who really don't like the OT rules are the same ones who don't actually watch NFL. Probably would also argue that CFL players are just as good as NFL players... the game's just "different". Here you go MO... everyone wins:

I love Saturday afternoon games! Hoping for no Thursday nighters.

Unfortunately I agree... but money talks, and we got the money!

When people argue "But the other team didn't get a chance!!!!!!!!", all I read is "I got too many participation ribbons growing up!"

One of the most ridiculous articles I've ever read. Who is this guy? He clearly has NO CLUE what's going on. I think he needs to get out of the house more often.

I like Cato. If we could get him at a nice low price I'd love to see him here. Let him compete. If he sucks or causes trouble in the room then let him go. Otherwise we've got an experienced arm on the bench. Even if he's #3... that way you still get to see what Davis has after 2 years holding a clipboard, and you have some measure of insurance in Cato. He's also 3 years younger than Davis. Bring him in! Although I do find it funny that @TBURGESS was tripping over himself to call Stafford and Carter idiots, but somehow Cato is excused....

LOL at the Virgil comment. I have first-hand experience with that one. And I couldn't agree more. If these guys want to get out of wrestling there are plenty of jobs in car sales or whatever else that don't require any education and pay just fine. I don't imagine anyone is forced to be a wrestler if they don't want to.

Jets should bring him in ASAP!!!!!!

60? I want to see the shirtless photo of him today!

The answer to what? Nobody here or elsewhere wants him on the Jets long term. Whether it's him or Hellebuyck here for the rest of this season is kind of irrelevant... the Jets aren't making the playoffs. They weren't good enough when Hellebuyck was starting and they aren't any better now. This season is over.

No one is arguing that starting with the ball is not an advantage. The argument is that the advantage is not as huge as people are trying to make it out to be ("a coin flip determined the winner"). And the numbers support that argument. It's about the same advantage as having home field, in terms of wins and losses.

No it was NOT. This is WRONG and people need to stop saying it. Since the NFL instituted modified overtime rules, there have been 73 overtime games, including postseason and Monday Night Football. Three have been ties. In the other 70, the team that receives the ball first has won 38 of those, or 54.2 percent. (stats accurate as of Dec 29, 2015) Only in NARNIA is a 54.2 percent chance an automatic win. So you need to go back to NARNIA with all the other dreamers who do not understand PROBABILITY!! THREAD OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!

Whether the money comes from the government or through rate increases it's coming out of our pockets one way or another.

He was pretty good! But as a coach you want a guy who is good every night, not great one night and trash the next. If you score 4 goals, it doesn't really matter if the goalie got a shut out. This is part of the timely saves argument. Goalie A gives up 2 goals 2 nights in a row. The team wins both, 3-2 and 4-2. Goalie B gives up 0 goals one night and 4 the next. The team goes 1-1, winning 4-0 and losing 4-3. Same GAA, same SV%, better record because one guy is more consistent. Now, I'm not saying Pav is the goalie letting in 2 every night... we know he's not. But that's the general rationale.

OK go on? Was there supposed to be more to this post?

It usually plays a part but in this case, that is misguided. If it were true then we'd see the same thing in all major sports but MLB, NHL, and NBA can all go on into eternity during the playoffs so there's no reason why the NFL couldn't be the same. Football is not like other sports, that's why they can only play once a week.