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TheLionKing wrote:Had to chuckle at TSN (Toronto Sports Network) raving at the prospect of Matthews playing in Toronto. Wouldn't it be really funny if Matthews pulls a Eric Lindros ?

TheLionKing wrote:Subsequent trade with Philadelphia laid the foundation for the Colorado Avalanche winning the Stanley Cup. The Flyers paid a very steep price for acquiring Lindros: Kerry Huffman, Mike Ricci, Chris Simon, Steve Duchesne, Peter Forsberg and Ron Hextall.

Sir Purrcival wrote:Somewhere deep down, I had this faint hope that the Canucks might actually get a first overall draft pick but it figures that not only do they not get this pick, they actually drop two spaces. I'm so tired of this league and it's BS lottery system. How is this better than the old practice of teams tanking at the end of the year? You end up with teams like the Oilers getting a bevy of 1st overalls over the proceeding few years and the Canucks who even when they suck end up drafting 5th. I think this team dwells under some dark cloud. They never seem to catch a break.

Let’s say you had two expansion teams and you needed a quick way to figure out which one should get the first overall pick. What would you do?
If you said “flip a coin,” you fail, because this was the ’70s and that would have made way too much sense. No, when it came time for the NHL to sort out the first overall pick between the expansion Canucks and Sabres at the 1970 draft, they went for The Wheel.
That would be a giant roulette-style wheel, which commissioner Clarence Campbell would spin to decide the pick. To make matters even more complicated, the league used a wheel with 13 numbers, apparently unaware it would need an even number of spots to make things fair. It divided the numbers up. It spun the wheel. Then it misread the result and gave the pick to the wrong team.
I feel like I need to stop here and assure you that I am not making any of this up. Campbell spun the wheel and announced that it had landed on no. 1, resulting in Vancouver winning the top pick. While the Canucks celebrated, Campbell looked again and realized that the wheel had actually stopped on no. 11, meaning the Sabres had won.
They used the first overall pick on a kid named Gilbert Perreault, who’d go on to play his 17 seasons in Buffalo and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1990. That same year, he became the first Sabre to have his number retired, as the team honored famous no. 1. Wait, no, make that eleven. It’s easy to get those confused.

Robbie wrote:Pittsburgh Penguins have a 3-1 commanding lead in the series heading back to Pittsburgh. Who thinks the San Jose Sharks can come back and win?