YanksHater213

Garden had a decent amount of people in it last night. Thomas gave up a few softies, but Peverley winging Bergy and Marchand looked like as good of a fit to replace Rex as we all hoped it would. I don't take much from these preseason games, especially since the Islanders played about one lines worth of players that will be on their regular season team (Bailey, Comeau, Parenteau), but that's how good they looked together. I don't like seeing Spooner, Knight, Hamilton, and Khoklachev sent back this early. Even though they wouldn't have made the team anyways, would have liked to see them get a little bit more burn playing in preseason NHL games as opposed to major junior games.

wolfpack

Canucks are most definitely more skilled than the Bruins are, but the Bruins are a matchup nightmare for them. If we can take one in Vancouver, the series should be in our grasp because this will come down to line matchups. If we can keep Chara/Seidenberg on the Sedin losers, with the Bergeron line, we should be able to keep them in check, and with the home team having last change, matching lines will be more important than ever. If Malhotra plays, the Bruins are literally f***ed. Going to need an otherworldly series out of the Krejci, Lucic, Horton line, as well as Kelly, Ryder, Peverley, and Seguin. If our toughness game can outmatch their finesse game, then I think the Bruins can win, but that's a stretch. We've risen up all year against the odds, so you never know. As a Bruins fan, I like us in 7, but as a hockey fan I think the Canucks take this.

More west, up by the Lowell/Andover area. Perfect shot straight down 93. http://i55.tinypic.com/1gk70h.jpg http://i53.tinypic.com/2a813ky.jpg Brilliantly awesome game. The job isn't done yet, though.

Live about 20 minutes north, leaving around 6.

I'm going. Hopefully not driving off the 93 north onramp after the game.

I just saw four more at a Mobil station off of 495 in Lowell. Crazy that they've gotta stay this far away. Chicago must have all our hotels booked.

We sat way back below the scoreboard in sec 38 and we had Cubs fans behind us, in front of us, and next to us. Unfortunately for them I was extremely obnoxious last night. It was loud as hell in the bleachers during the top of the first when they got back to back hits with two outs. I figured a lot of people would make the trip out, but not this many. I'd say the bleachers were 60/40 with sox vs. cubs fans.

Anyone else at the game tonight? There were a shockingly large amount of Cubs fans.

It's whatever. I thought I was still in it. I checked around noon today and only a few picks were up, I didn't really think I was gonna be up today. I'm on vacation with my family and I got on for a few seconds and by the time I got the PMs later on I was "kicked out". It's cool though, I'll live.

What happened to my s***?

I'm not sure if I wanna be in to be honest.

My main point was you can say things like include intangibles or whatever as much as you want, but I refuse to believe it'll happen until I see it happen. Some of the better "teams" in both of the two previous redrafts were either poorly ranked or didn't get as far as they should have because people didn't take into account anything other than names.

You can say it as much as you want, but people won't vote based on "things such as defense, injuries, lockerroom presence, and intangibles". I think we saw that it didn't work in the two previous redrafts. Hopefully it does in this one.

Yes. I don't care that I won or lost - I believe the winner (you) was one of the 3 best teams, and one of 3 teams that I felt had a shot at winning this. The reason I built a team was so I could go up against the next best team and try to figure out a way to expose their weaknesses. Not to get to the finals and have someone say ok just pick who you think is better, it doesn't matter why.

Smack in the face to anyone who tried to put together the best team, IMO.

Too bad for Royals fans. He was the one guy they could look forward to seeing.

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I actually would like it better if the salary cap is lower, around the average teams salaries. It'd make it much more difficult and make it much easier to distinguish the good teams from the bad. Also using this way it'll be much easier to see who actually builds a better team as opposed to who selects the best players the best. Say we have 15 teams, and use the average MLB payroll number as a cap, that'll mean some of the guys who are highly paid won't get picked, and some guys who may have a high number who may be pretty talented won't get picked. I strongly feel using this way will make this redraft much more worthwhile than just being the same as every other one. This will mean that some talented guys who have ridiculous contracts (Vernon Wells for instance) might not get picked because even though he's talented, he's got a big contract that you're better off splitting between 2-3 guys instead of just picking Wells. Also I suggest we use the AAV of contracts instead of their number for next year if we're planning this to be something that we look at the teams 3-5 years down the road. IE: If you pick Crawford his salaries look like this 11:$14M, 12:$19.5M, 13:$20M, 14:$20.25M, 15:$20.5M, 16:$20.75M, 17:$21M So instead of his cap number for the draft being 14 mil, it'd be the avg of all 7 years, 19.4 million. This makes the cap hits that we would have to take on much more realistic and prevents people from skirting the rules by picking someone whose contract doesn't bump up in money for a year or two. That is unless we plan on doing this for next season only.

I can see his beef though, it's because of the way people vote. This is a team building exercise, not a pick the more talented team exercise.

And it's funny when someone said "I don't know how to build a 3-4 defense" when I clearly built the best one in the league. The Pats have been playing one forever, and I don't remember the last time I missed a game. So I'd like to think I'm just as qualified, if not more qualified on that type of defense.

Ok, this is stupid.

I think Wake would be good in a 3-4 D because of his pass rushing abilities. I don't think Kilo is planning on using him as a run stopper, so realistically if all he's doing is rushing the passer he'll be able to create some serious mismatches, especially with the blitzing linebackers. Jason Taylor in his prime was around 250-270 and one of the best pass rushers in the league. I don't see this as being an issue for Wake.

Just curious...who do you guys see as playing out of position aside from Long?