Sorry for the late post, totally forgot. Cutoff 7pm.

Toronto @ Montreal
Pittsburgh @ Philadelphia
Boston @ Detroit
Tampa @ New Jersey
Dallas @ Minnesota
Nashville @ San Jose

Ovechkin, Malkin and Kuznetsov play it up for the kids...

So, opening the thread I'm throwing out a salvo of whatever for next offseason. ( sure, ahat ) Big questions on D and I threw in Iginla for a larf. Guessing on Brown, Hyman, Zaitsev and Enroth contracts and a 2 mil increase in the cap.

FORWARDS

J. Van Riemsdyk ($ 4,250,000) --- A. Matthews ($ 925,000) --- M. Marner ($ 894,166)
N. Soshnikov ($ 736,666) --- W. Nylander ($ 894,166) --- J. Iginla ($ 3,000,000)
L. Komarov ($ 2,950,000) --- N. Kadri ($ 4,500,000) --- C. Brown ($ 1,200,000)
M. Martin ($ 2,500,000) --- F. Gauthier ($ 863,333) --- Z. Hyman ($ 900,000)

DEFENCE

M. Rielly ($ 5,000,000) --- ?. d ($ 0)
J. Gardiner ($ 4,050,000) --- N. Zaitsev ($ 3,000,000)
M. Marincin ($ 1,250,000) --- C. Carrick ($ 750,000)

GOAL

F. Andersen ($ 5,000,000) --- J. Enroth ($ 1,100,000)

Extras

K. Kapanen ($ 863,333) --- T. Dermott ($ 894,166) --- R. Valiev ($ 778,333)

---------------------------------------------------

2017 NHL Cap Limit: $ 75,000,000
23 Player Roster Cap Used: $ 51,599,163
Cap Hit from Buyout(s): + $ 1,333,333
2015 Bonus Overages: + $ 0 ( potential 3.7 )
Cap Retained in Trades : + $ 1,200,000
Long Term Injury Reserve: - $ 0
Cap Space Available : $ 20,867,504

TWD, holy.

7pm cutoff...

Toronto @ Vancouver
Nashville @ Florida
Washington @ Dallas
Anaheim @ Chicago
Winnipeg @ Edmonton
Arizona @ SanJose

Deep in the heart of the season, here we go, cutoff at 7pm.

Montreal @ Toronto
Tampa @ Florida
New Jersey @ Winnipeg
Philadelphia @ NY Islanders
Colorado @ Dallas
Los Angeles @ Arizona

7pm cutoff, it is known.

NYI @ Ottawa
Nashville @ Detroit
Toronto @ St. Louis 
Columbus @ Philadelphia
Boston @ Vancouver
Tampa @ San Jose

[12:30pm]

Nota bene...

First game is at 12:30, next game is at 3. For all the marbles, have at it.

Ottawa @ Philadelphia 12:30pm
Calgary @ Winnipeg          3pm
Montreal @ Toronto           7pm
Pittsburgh @ Buffalo          7pm
Detroit @ Carolina             7pm
Boston @ Tampa Bay         7pm

Late to the party, note there were only 5 games to choose from 7 pm on, Arizona @ Boston start is 5:30 pm

Arizona @ Boston
Toronto @ Montreal
NY Rangers @ Philadelphia
Minnesota @ Colorado
St Louis @ Edmonton
Ottawa @ San Jose

Winnipeg @ Toronto
Florida @ Ottawa
Carolina @ New Jersey
Pittsburgh @ St. Louis
Detroit @ Dallas
Tampa @ Arizona

As much as I'm down with the tank, and this is a tank central pick'em, I hope the American Boys show up at the Bell Centre...

Toronto @ Montreal
New Jersey @ Nashville
Edmonton @ Ottawa
Columbus @ NYI
Carolina @ Minnesota
NYR @ Arizona

Nashville @ Minnesota
Dallas @ Colorado
Pittsburgh @ Montreal
Detroit @ Washington
Calgary @ Vancouver
Winnipeg @ Los Angeles

This is great...

[4pm]

Saturday November 15, round 7 shenanigans...

Deadline 4pm

Toronto        @ Buffalo         7pm
Ottawa         @ Calgary       10pm
NY Islanders @ Tampa Bay    7pm
Winnipeg      @ Nashville       7pm
Philadelphia  @ Montreal        7pm
Anaheim      @ Los Angeles    4pm

Good hunting!

Can you smell what Laraque is cooking?

Junior hockey players have secretly formed an association that has threatened to sue their leagues if they don't get minimum wage and benefits, QMI Agency has learned.

The Canadian Hockey League Players' Association, led by former NHL enforcer Georges Laraque, served legal notices to owners and general managers of every team in the OHL, WHL and QMJHL.

Hockey Canada president Bob Nicholson and Canadian Hockey League commissioner David Branch received identical legal letters.

Laraque says the fact that the federal government considers junior hockey players to be employees means they're entitled to salaries and things like vacation pay.

Brett MacLean of the Phoenix Coyotes suffered a cardiac arrest...

Brett MacLean of the Phoenix Coyotes has been admitted to hospital after suffering a cardiac emergency.

The team issued a statement on Tuesday saying the 23-year-old winger has been admitted to hospital in London, Ont., after suffering a medical emergency while playing hockey Monday night in Owen Sound, Ont.

The Coyotes said MacLean received CPR on site before being taken by ambulance to hospital in Owen Sound. He was then taken by air ambulance to London, where he was admitted to the cardiac intensive care unit.

Word on the street is that bystanders are being given partial credit for quick thinking using the onsite AED.

Didn't see anything on the boards... fittingly Ray passed away during the transit of Venus, what a great mind.

Decided to resurrect an old thread idea.

Anyone heard of Gobekli Tepe? Fascinating archaeological find in Turkey (1995) that is turning heads. Carbon dated to around 10,000 bce, the semi unearthed megalithic structures suggest a whole different perspective of what our ancestors were and what they were doing.

The site was intentionally buried around 8,000 bce, no one is sure why.

The structures are circles, Stonehenge-esque, made of sharp edged 10-15 ton monoliths, with bas-relief carvings ( images below ).

The really interesting part to me is that this kind of organized building indicates more than a 'hunter gatherer' society well before most 'established' or 'accepted' time lines.







To Schmidt and others, these new findings suggest a novel theory of civilization. Scholars have long believed that only after people learned to farm and live in settled communities did they have the time, organization and resources to construct temples and support complicated social structures. But Schmidt argues it was the other way around: the extensive, coordinated effort to build the monoliths literally laid the groundwork for the development of complex societies.

Next up: Derinkuyu Underground City

His memory had dimmed, and glaucoma had robbed him of sight. At 92, Herb Carnegie was living in an assisted-care home in northern Toronto.

But Carnegie, who many say should have been the Jackie Robinson of the NHL, laughed with delight when he reminisced about his youthful hockey experiences.

"We learned to skate on the frozen ponds right outside the front door," he said. "When I was 7, my sister Bernice said, 'Hey, Herb, you can play!' Getting a compliment like that, at that age? Boy, you got your wings."

Carnegie died Friday in a Toronto hospital, his daughter Bernice Carnegie said.

This really belongs in the re-signings thread and I didn't see it posted anywhere here so...

James Neal re-signed to a 6 year deal with a hit of 5 per against the cap, from what I can tell anyways.

So, I bit the bullet today, applied to the RPN course at a couple different colleges. Kind of scary for a reformed grunt and artistic wannabe ( well, there's not a lot of money in music these days... ) but also very, very exciting.

Thanks to a couple of posters here for some sound advice, greatly appreciated!

Guess I'll finally have to give up the dream of playing for the Leafs...  :-X

Didn't see a thread about him but thought his performance this year so far at least deserved a note.

Third in toi/g with the Wings, 21gp 4g 7a 11p +13

...leading the Wings in plus minus...

That's some pretty good price performance, his hit is under 3.

If I hadn't watched this I wouldn't have believed it, Mosca's shot with his cane took off Kapp's glasses... they still hate each other.

Didn't see a thread about him, sorry if I missed it.

A while back I mentioned Bozie's numbers compared to last year in another thread, he's obviously had a good few games but right now he's on pace for 21g 36a 57p +10

Open Mindedness