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Mickey and Minnie Mouse were getting a divorce. The judge asked Mickey, "Do I understand you correctly? You're divorcing Minnie because she's insane?" Mickey replied, "No, Your Honour, I said I'm divorcing her because she's f*cking Goofy."

Maybe they could give the job to Cleary... Kills two birds with one stone. He'd be a good scout and it's one less forward we have to worry about. <wishful dreaming>

I'm done raging. I'm now sitting in a corner in the fetal position and rocking back and forth murmuring, "Damien, please." This gets complicated since I'm doing the same thing about keeping Tootoo.

We don't need another voth player. Plus Ling Enizgh is on LITR and can't be traded.

Throw in a time machine, and I'll be willing to even let go of Tootoo for that. Please Minnesota. Please. It would offset having Cooke on the team.

Really, Pat. That's horrible. There are fish in that river. Think of the fish.

I'm gonna puke. Minni is my 2nd team. We lost Cullen today, which sucks because he's from my metro area and very well-liked here. Now we sign this guy. Today has not been my favourite day.

I'm going to bed now and getting up in 5.5 hours. When I get up, I want this thread to be locked and replaced with a pinned topic entitled "Brunner re-signs with Detroit". Heck, they could say "Brunner resigns with Detroit" and as long as it was a misspelling, I'd be willing to overlook it just this once out of pure joy.

I hope he's happy there and that he does well and avoids injuries. If any Tampa girls are interested, I have 64 pics in my Flip folder I'd be willing to share. I'll miss him, but 5/5 was way too much.

I'm not much of a team-up kind of person, but sometimes I have to, at least during the week. The weekend is another story. I'm blissfully alone. Get everything done quickly and have time to relax at the end or pace yourself and take breaks?

NOOOO! Cullen to the Preds. I thought he had another year with the Wild. I loved rooting for our local boy with our local team (as much as anything is "local" in ND). Just when the Wild were getting good, too.

I have a small apartment-size dishwasher. Perfect for one person, but not big enough for large pans. Oh, well. I do have a double sink. The person below me is afraid that they will lose someone they love from the Wings in the next few days (if they haven't already).

Flash him your ****. Be sure to put the Winged Wheel on each of them first. I'll even chip in for one boob's worth of tattoo if he re-signs because of you. (To prove that it was because of you, he must specifically mention the tats.) Oh. Sorry. Didn't realize we can't say ****. Ok. Flash him your ta-tas.

So if he leaves the team he was on for years and years and years to come here and he wins a cup with us, do we have to retire his number, or is that just done by teams that are desperate to have something hanging from the rafters?

You know, I sometimes think I'm the only person on the planet who doesn't like hardwood floors. At least in this generation. Past generations had them and then covered them with carpet. Now people are shocked to find "beautiful hardwood floors!" under the carpet when they renovate. If you were naming a child: Traditional common name, unusual but not un-heard-of name, or totally unique name?

No, but my mom and sister are meeting me for lunch to celebrate my birthday, which is weird because it's not my birthday, it's my other sister's birthday, but she won't be there. The person below me has a summer birthday.

End of the World- Skeeter Davis

Give him 2.5. He's worth the risk. Put your names on your respective dotted lines. What's the worst thing that can happen if he doesn't work out? We trade him to a team that needs to reach the floor for a 7th round conditional pick and everyone has kittens about how Kenny overpays, which they're going to do no matter what.

Whoa. Back up the truck here, folks. Stoll has a history of concussions. It's one seizure. We don't know yet if any of his concussions caused it or if he will have more. It could be a one-off thing. More than half of people who have a seizure don't have another one. If it is recurring, there are medications that can control seizures. Seizures can be caused by dehydration or lack of sleep. It could be medication (I had seizures in high school due to a side effect of a med). Certain drugs can lower people's seizure threshold. Certainly head injury can do it, but it's not the only thing. Yes, it is a concern. I've had them and I've been a home manager of a group home for people with developmental disabilities, many of whom had seizures. I realize that if you've never witnessed one before, it can be freaky. They certainly can be serious, and some people have ones that resist treatment, but let's not put the cart before the horse here. Give the doctors time to examine him and run tests before we jump to conclusions. Hopefully all goes well and this was an anomaly.

Bingo. "Testing the market" is possibly the worst way to find out a player's value, unless they agree to not consider the off-the-wall offers, but that's what "market value" is- the max a guy can make on the market.

NOOOOOOOOOOOO DAMIEN! Don't go! Please don't leave me! Ok, now that I got that out of my system.... I'm usually one for hanging on to the old guys, but in this case, this kid won me over from the get-go. He is my top priority for re-signing. (NOT RESIGNING!) I'm sure Miller probably breathed a sigh of relief when he re-signed this summer. Someone is going to have to leave us, and there are only a few that I won't mind saying good-bye to. Damien is not one of them. I really hope they're just testing to see what other teams would pay him so they can get a fix on what he's worth. I also hope that they take into account that other GM's are trying to reach a floor, and that some GM's have squirrels in their curls when handing out contracts. Even if it's a bit higher than Kenny would normally pay for an untested player, I think Damien is worth the risk.

Here's my take on things. Sammy and Tootoo need to stay. Why? Glad you asked. If you know me, you know that I loves me some Sammy and Tootoo, but I'm not taking my personal feelings into account. Here's my reasoning on Sammy. He will not be "better" until after the amnesty buyout window closes. Therefore there are three options. 1) Trade. No good there. Who'd take him? 2) Regular buyout. Better, but he'd count against the cap. 3) LTIR. He wouldn't be taking up a roster space. We could exceed the cap by the amount of his contract for the purposes of replacing him (which is as close as we can come to having him not count against the cap considering that the GR guys are making less).<--- unless the new CBA states differently. Here's why we need Tootoo. 1) We need someone to punch Sammy in the chest daily to make darn sure that he stays on LTIR so Tatar can stay up with the big boys where he belongs.

Send him to Chicago. He and Kane can commute together.

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