Hallelujah! Luke Schenn Signs

Singular. 1 UFA year, not years. I would rather it have been 3 years and been able to have an RFA contract again. But thats just me.

It’s not as low as we would have hoped but it does buy a year of his UFA status and hopefully he grows into it.

Solid deal.

Sadly most of the fetuses will have punched their way out of the womb long before the pregnancy test can be administered, meaning those unlucky ladies will be out the $10.

dollarama now sells $1 preg tests for this very reason

Relieved?

Sad – I wanted him to get traded to the Sabres for peanuts.

Am I a bad person?

In 1969 disco was up 600%. If this trend continues…eeehhhhh!

It was a different website, and yes Chris was hurling insults that have no place among friends, nevertheless strangers

There are some things that have been so hashed out to death around here, like say how worthless plus/minus is, that when someone new comes in and talks it up the regulars just react dismissively by instinct. It’s nothing personal. Unless it is. You can never tell with these people

On the topic of Chemmy post yesterday, comparing Schenn to other "like" defensemen, a poster "Chris" was disagreeing.

It’s not new and it’s not unique to this site. Generally when someone comes in and is more interested in being an asshole than raising a differing opinion then they are met with the exact same kind of response. Then, rather than defend his original arguments that were picked apart he started calling people “shit-flinging monkeys” (the moderated comments).

An asshole like that does nothing but lower the tenor of discussion. While we don’t always do a perfect job of moderating every comment on the site when someone’s already being a pain it’s easier to deal with it by banning them. They are always free to discuss it with us but of the dozens of people we’ve had to ban only one has ever made a case to show that it was legitimately a case of misunderstanding rather than them actually being an asshole.

You run the danger here of becoming a Stalin or Adolf of hockey blogging.

Excellent way of making an argument.

it seems more and more that if anyone disagrees with the popular opinion of the blog, they are chastized, ridiculed, and then banned.

You can definitely disagree with popular opinion. It’s all about if you’re an asshole about it or not. Think you’re right? Prove it, back it up, use evidence, logic, some semblence of rational thought and don’t just attack people like a troll.

I might have been one of the very few who was hoping we’d go all out to sign Brad Richards as a UFA July 1, despite knowing the downsides of age, cap hit, etc.

While I might have been chirped, I was hardly chastized, ridiculed, then banned.

Depends how you value the UFA year. If you peg it at $5 million (probably about what a top shut-down defender will make in a few years) then the RFA years are valued at $3.25 million, significantly below Staal’s salary.

We’re just smarter than stats.

I’m not dancing around my living room, but I’m still pleased. Plus getting rid of a UFA year is great. I’m satisfied and happy that we won’t have to think about it anymore.

Now we just worry about PLAYOFFS!!!1