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Ten Points: This draft and the last draft
Jonathan Willis
May 16 2013 09:36AM
Last year, the question was whether the Oilers would choose the best available talent or draft for need (Ryan Murray). It's early, but I thought they made the right decision at the time and I've seen nothing to sway that belief. What will they do this year, and what about some of the other players they picked in 2012? That and more after the jump.
1. I expect we'll see the Oilers draft a goaltender early. Edmonton always seems to like having a 'goalie of the future' type in the pipeline, and while MacTavish may decide that isn't so important the team doesn't have a guy in that mold currently. Olivier Roy had an unimpressive AHL debut this year and Tyler Bunz's professional debut was a couple of notches below "unimpressive" so it's a clear organizational need. That, plus Bob Stauffer keeps asking high-ranking people in the organization about using a second round pick on a goalie; I'd guess that's where the pick they got for Andrew Cogliano is going to be spent.
2. I also expect we'll see the Oilers move down. Craig MacTavish made it pretty obvious the Oilers were looking at this in his year-end press conference:
I think that's something we're definitely going to look at, is doing something with that pick at seven. Whether we take seven or not will depend on what the market is out there, but we'd be I think at this point very receptive to moving back and picking up another pick potentially. It's a very deep draft in my mind; I've only been involved in this one but there are tons of players out there that excite me, or possibly pick up somebody that can help us immediately and another pick.
The Oilers have two second-round draft picks but no selections in the third or fourth round (those picks were sent away for Mark Fistric and Jerred Smithson, respectively), so adding another early pick in what is expected to be a deep draft will doubtless appeal (particularly if they're going to spendo ne of their relatively early picks on a goalie).
3. Draft for need or best player available? There is a vocal contingent of fans that would like to see the Oilers address need at the draft – "need" generally seen as skilled size up the middle and on defence. The argument for is that the Oilers have had difficulty acquiring those players and might need to get them through the draft; the argument against is that if the 6'2" centreman the team drafts is Marc Pouliot and the 5'11" winger the team passes on is Zach Parise, you look extremely stupid a few years down the road. My view: the team must draft the best player, and then if team need dictates they need to have the courage to trade him down the road. Maximize assets at the draft, cold-bloodedly make the best decisions for the team after – even if the best decision involves sending out a fan favourite.
4. 2012 picks: Mitch Moroz. Mitch Moroz did not have the offensive season that was expected of a player drafted where he was, but the organization says he's fine. Here's what Stu MacGregor had to say about Moroz on Oilers Now earlier this month:
I think Mitch Moroz is trending fine, there's probably some people from time to time that worry about some things about Mitch but I don't, he's one of the toughest guys in the Western Hockey League. Teams in the NHL are still interested in getting his rights, have interest in him because of his physicality and strength; at this current time it's always hard for a guy like that to figure out that fine line of when to be the tough guy and when to back off and he's still trying to figure it out. Mitch has got to step up, he's only 18, he has got another year of junior, he should have a great year next year with more of a role on that team.
It has been suggested to me that that Oil Kings head coach Derek Laxdal isn't winning fans within the Oilers' organization with his usage of Moroz, and while that may be a fair point but even so this was a terrible offensive year for the player. He had 13 goals and 34 points after managing 16 goals and 25 points a year ago; he had two goals and seven points in 22 playoff games after scoring four and eight in 20 last spring. Even MacGregor's comments centre on the player's strengths as a physical presence, rather than his abilities as a hockey player. Based on junior performance, Moroz looks a lot like an energy line player, and if that's how things turn out it's a very good bet the Oilers left talent on the board in 2012.
5. 2012 picks: Jujhar Khaira. The second big player the Oilers took a little earlier than consensus rankings would indicate was BCHL product Jujhar Khaira. So far, that pick looks inspired. Khaira had a strong season at Michigan Tech (37GP – 6G – 19A – 25PTS) and one of the best things about him is his age – he has an August 13 birthday, meaning that he's almost a full year younger than a guy like Nail Yakupov drafted in the same class. Lowetide had him fourth in his most recent top-20 list, and I tend to agree that he's the best forward prospect in the system.
6. 2012 picks: Daniil Zharkov. One of the lines in the sand I use for junior prospects is the point-per-game mark. Ideally, a drafted prospect who is going to make it as a scorer should be over the point-per-game mark in his draft year; there are exceptions but most who turn into NHL scorers seem to be at least at that level. There should also be significant year-over-year improvement going into the next season. Zharkov had 36 points in 50 games in his draft year, and improved to 43 points in 59 games this season. He is a goal-scorer (23 and 25 in those two years, respectively) and he does have size on his side, but this is a guy whose NHL potential is predicated on him being a scoring threat. If he can't score at a well-above average clip in junior, how will he manage it as a professional? As Lowetide points out in the link above, he had a big second half; now he needs a big full season.
7. A [limited] opportunity in net. Right now, the Oilers' minor-league goaltending prospects are kind of a mess. Olivier Roy was unimpressive in the AHL, Tyler Bunz was bad in the ECHL, and while the Oilers have now signed Frans Tuohimaa his performance in Europe was hardly dominant. The good news for all three is that at this represents an opportunity: if one of these guys can start next season well, he could get clear of the other two in a hurry and maybe play his way into the team's NHL plans. If I had to pick the guy with the best shot I'd probably choose Tuohimaa, but based on careers there's no clear gap here. All three are in significant danger of not getting another NHL deal once their entry-level contracts expire; if they can't prove they're worth keeping an eye on this season they may not get another chance.
8. Re-signing Mark Fistric. This is old news now, but a couple of weeks back Jim Matheson reported that the Oilers were interested in re-signing Mark Fistric at something close to his current rate (around $1.5 million per season) but that he wanted $2 million per year. He very well might get it, given the premium placed on size/physical game these days, but I'm not convinced the Oilers can afford that if he's in the six/seven slot on their depth chart. It's a good bet Fistric isn't cracking the top-four, and if the Oilers are as bullish on improving their blue line/prospect Oscar Klefbom as they sound Fistric might even start in the seven slot if re-signed. If they're going to re-sign him, they need to make room on the third pairing for him.
9. Should the Oilers look at Mikhail Grabovski? There has been some talk of the Maple Leafs centre as a buyout candidate after a miserable year, but I tend to agree with Lyle Richardson that it's more likely Toronto will try to trade him while retaining a portion of his salary. Despite the poor season (Randy Carlyle didn't help – Grabovski faced brutal opposition and started in his own end a ridiculous amount of the time) I see Grabovski as a very useful player with two problems. The first is that he's small (5'11", 183 pounds) and the second is that contract ($5.5 million cap hit for five years). But if Toronto's willing to hang on to some money, he would be a fine replacement for Shawn Horcoff as a tough minutes centre. I don't see him coming to Edmonton, but I do think some NHL team might get themselves a very good player at a reduced rate.
10. Do players without Cup rings belong in the Hockey Hall of Fame? My answer to that question is Ray Bourque. He was one of the game's most dominant defencemen for two decades in Boston, winning not only the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year but also five times being named the NHL's best defenceman. He won the Stanley Cup in Colorado in the final season of his career, but was that really the difference between being in or being out of the Hall of Fame? I can't see it. If anything, the HHOF places too great an emphasis on Cup wins – depth players that happened to play for a dynasty are in the HHOF now, and because they were never close to being elite talents they really don't belong there.
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glad you're doing the 10 points again!
May 16 2013, 09:46AM
1) I hope not 2) I hope not 3) Yes 4) Boo 5) Meh 6) Meh 7) Good to know 8) 1.5M tops 9) NO FRICKIN' WAY 10) You betcha
May 16 2013, 09:50AM
I've been reading this blog since it's enception. And one thing that sticks out in my mind is the articles on draft round versus becoming an actual NHL player. First round blows away the competition in these articles. Especially top 10 players. So I think MacT will do the team a disservice if he does trade down or out of the first round. To me, the only way you trade out of 7 is if you get a roster player in return. Doubtful you'd get a first line playher at that pick but to pick up a big bodied 3rd or 4th line role player, something this team desperatly needs, then light is definitely green.
Suppose Oilers do trade down with their 7th pick. Is this done at the draft because Oilers want to see who is there or can they do it before hand?
I would think they would do it at the draft , I'm sure they have a couple of players they would want at the 7th spot.
If they trade down I predict it will be along the same lines of Pouliot move.
A second rounder for moving three spots.
This will probably turn out just as bad if they do this move to take Lazar rather than Horvat or Domi.
They won't do it for third or fourth rounder because as Stu the not magnificent said in oil change when advising Tambo on trade "third or fourth doesn't matter"
Pretty much shows how flippantly they value those picks
Very nice read this morning. Statistically high drafted defencemen do not seem to be the dominate NHL superstars they are billed to be. Which is another reason I'm glad we took Nail. Everything about that kid is just great for the team.
Also, I'm not sure who wrote it but someone put up a great article about how often deals involve trading down work out for the team trading down. If the Oilers are going to trade down, I hope they do it for more than just a third round pick, and are able to get an actual player sent back our way to help with size in the top six, or on defence.
Too bad to hear Fistric might be pricing himself out of town as I thin most fans enjoy having a stay at home defender type who can lay some devastating hits without getting too far out of position. I miss Sutton.
May 16 2013, 10:10AM
As unfortunate as it may be, this is probably very close to what our losing cultured Oilers will do. Trade down, only to secure an even higher risk product. Grab another goaltender because Roy, Perhonen and Bunz etc etc aren't enough.
Right from the getgo, this plan/lack of action plan has loser written all over it. Lets not move up and possibly get someone who'll push out some deadwood and help right away, no, lets let all these existing contracts expire, or the players perish first.
Lets all just hunker down in da corner here, and see what comes our way now. Lets not get off our duffs and actually make our own luck. Ready yourselves for more Lipstick on a pig, coming to an arena near you for the 2013-2014 season.
May 16 2013, 10:25AM
That Bourque reference is solid.
Another might be Hawerchuk. He doesn't have the final season ring (lost to Det. in 4) so it maybe makes the decision more stark. But you'd be hard pressed to make a case that he doesn't belong because he lacks a ring.
I remember a co-worker years ago tried to tell me that Griffey Jr. wasn't a truly "great" player because he'd never won the World Series.
I labored for a while trying to explain the problems associated with "individual merit" in a "team sport"... and finally gave up with a sarcastic, "yeah, you're right, he's terrible"
so it goes.
May 16 2013, 10:29AM
From Bob Freemans view, this is what he can see the Oilers doing at the entry draft.
1st pick- a pretty darn good Fireman
2nd pick- Future City Police officer
3rd Pick- Sports Lawyer
4th pick- Future Dominos pizza franchise owner
5th pick- Paramedic
6th selection No fixed address available.
...what a comedy!
Trading down is an option if the Oilers don't get what I think they should be targeting, one of those 3 nice two-way centres projected to go between 4-7. If they go runner, runner, runner, the Oil will miss out on them at 7. Then you look at possibly making a deal for that pick.
But if one of them are still available at 7, you must take him. This past year exposed the lack of quality and depth at the centre position. Addressing those holes start at the draft and hopefully they find somebody during free agency.
I believe we are now onto phase two of the rebuild . Surrounding the immense youth we already have with a new core of veterans . Use nbr.7 to procure a veteran or two , or one veteran with additional draft picks of quality .
I don't have any statistics in front of me, but I'm pretty sure goalies take a long time to develop. Some that go high in the draft and do well early often don't turn out, and some that get drafted late or not at all eventually turn out to be real good. To me, drafting a goalie early in the draft would be a mistake. Late second round would not be too disappointing, however.
The Oilers need help on the roster right now. They are not picking 1st overall this year. All of these draft picks should be held out for a few years. Either trade the pick for a current legitimate centerman, heavy skilled winger, top 2 defenceman, or keep the pick and take the best player available.
As I'm sure most know, Corey Pronman, from Hockey Prospectus, is of the opinion that there is a significant drop off in talent from the top 6 players in the draft. Obviously the top three, and then Nichushkin, Barkov, and Lindholm. If the Oilers do not move draft position and everyone takes the best available players, according to Pronman, than the Oilers will get their guy in Monahan. The general consensus is that Nichushkin slides and Monahan gets picked up prior to the Oilers getting to select.
I do not see any issue at all taking Nichushkin. Yes, he is a Russian with a KHL contract, and yes he is a winger. However, Nichushkin is a very large skilled player. One that would fit directly onto the Oilers top two lines. Let him play in the KHL next year, see how he progresses, and bring him over if he is ready or let him stay for the final year if he is not. There is a lot of talk about the cap situation the Oilers are approaching and the possible need to move one of the young guys out. A trade could then be made for help elsewhere in the lineup for extremely significant compensation when Nichushkin is ready to step in on his entry level deal.
Rick Nashkov, anyone?
May 16 2013, 11:01AM
The Pouliot selection is a terrible example of trading down!
The Oilers didn't just miss out on Parise in 2003, they missed out on Kesler, Richards, Perry, Bergeron, Weber, Backes, and more. The difference is all those guys, except Parise, were available after the Pouliot selection. You can blame Oilers abysmal scouting for that, not the decision to trade down.
There's nothing wrong with trading down in the first round in a deep draft, especially if the talent really drops off at 7, as in this year's case.
Doubtful you'll get an impact roster player in return, but a second round selection may pay dividends in a deep draft. It all depends on the scouting.
Have a look for yourselves:
2003 draft
2008 draft
I think they would trade up if there is a player they really want after the first 2 or 3 picks
I think if Lindholm or Nichushkin are available at # 7 Oilers use their pick.
If they are gone they may trade down. They probably take Horvat or Lazar.
I'm not opposed to dropping a few spots in the draft (one or more times) but only if they can replace their first rounder with another first round pick while adding either a high to mid second round pick or an actual NHL roster player.
With no third or fourth round picks, Tambellini really hollowed out our draft strategy and I'm sure MacT will face some pressure to land some picks in those rounds via trade. Heck, we might even see Omark's rights finally move for a mid round pick if there's a player on the board that the Oil likes.
I'm guessing that our focus this year will be on forwards with size, at least one defenceman with puck moving potential, and at least one goalie with some potential.
Also, I'm hoping MacT takes a page out of Philly's playbook and trades for the rights for some pending UFA's at the draft and see if he can get them under contract. Likewise, if MacT can move some of our pending UFA's (like Jones, Whitney or Fistric) for picks or other team's UFA rights, I say do it. Fistric for $2M per season is an overpay for a 6/7 blueliner.
If they do not sign Fistric who replaces him? There is a glaring need for increased physicality on the back end with Fistric in the lineup. The team is instantly easier to play against without him, sign him at $1.75M for 2 years. Send Potter packing immediately.
#7- Lindholm or Nichushkin if they are gone they trade down for
Trade down - Horvat, Lazar, Nurse and Zadorov
Though funny, that graphic comment is too one-dimensional (yeah, I know it's a 2D chart). Face-off artists, rookies, veterans, guys with bad reputations, certain whiners... referees base too many split-second decisions on things not written in the rule book, regardless their level of ineptitude.
May 16 2013, 11:23AM
JW: I don't suppose you thinking of Clark Gillies when you talked about depth players in the HHOF? 'Cause that's the name that instantly popped in my head. Sure, he was really tough and could pocket a few goals, but that could be said about John Ferguson Jr, Rick Tocchet, Mike Grier, Wendel Clark, and Al Secord. That name more than any other turned it to the Hall of Pretty Good.
May 16 2013, 11:32AM
If they trade down I predict it will be along the same lines of Pouliot move.
A second rounder for moving three spots.
This will probably turn out just as bad if they do this move to take Lazar rather than Horvat or Domi.
They won't do it for third or fourth rounder because as Stu the not magnificent said in oil change when advising Tambo on trade "third or fourth doesn't matter"
Pretty much shows how flippantly they value those picks
I dunno.
Trading down to acquire a roster player who will have impact during the upcoming season seems to make sense - like if we flipped picks with Buffalo and got an established Dman as part of the package ...
But if the compensation for trading down is mid-draft picks, then walking away from quality just to obtain quantity is a poor strategy.
Look at CLB - they were rumored to have been offered the Islanders' entire draft (4th, 34th, 64th, etc) in exchange for the 2nd pick. Having lots of draft picks are nice, but not if it costs you a franchise player in return.
If Yakupov was being drafted in 2013 instead of 2012, do you think he'd be #1 overall, or would he slide behind Jones? MacKinnon? Drouin? etc....
May 16 2013, 11:34AM
I didn't use the Pouliot selection as an example of trading down, I used it as an example of selecting need (big centreman) over best player available (small, scoring winger).
I (now) know you didn't! It's not your fault I read at a grade two level!
JW: I don't suppose you thinking of Clark Gillies when you talked about depth players in the HHOF? 'Cause that's the name that instantly popped in my head. Sure, he was really tough and could pocket a few goals, but that could be said about John Ferguson Jr, Rick Tocchet, Mike Grier, Wendel Clark, and Al Secord. That name more than any other turned it to the Hall of Pretty Good.
With HHOF selections, I always thought that there should be one "Player's Choice" selection made by the retired NHLPA members to recognize someone who is retired and may otherwise go unnoticed by the selection committee-- it could be a "tough as nails" player or a fantastic leader or someone who never won a Cup but was an inspiration to his teammates or represented his organization/community "above and beyond" during his career.
If Yakupov was being drafted in 2013 instead of 2012, do you think he'd be #1 overall, or would he slide behind Jones? MacKinnon? Drouin? etc....
Good question. If I remember correctly last year it was said that if MacKinnon could be drafted he would have went before Yak. I don't know the answer to that question, but it's funny how things change. The same is being said about McDavid right now, and he's two years away. I guess the tale of a big bird in the bush is better than a bird on the edge of it.
Good question. If I remember correctly last year it was said that if MacKinnon could be drafted he would have went before Yak. I don't know the answer to that question, but it's funny how things change. The same is being said about McDavid right now, and he's two years away. I guess the tale of a big bird in the bush is better than a bird on the edge of it.
I like that saying, especially now that we know what we have with Yakupov: an edgy, speedy sniper. Drouin is probably the best comparable in this draft given similar numbers and the fact he's a winger...
Good question. If I remember correctly last year it was said that if MacKinnon could be drafted he would have went before Yak. I don't know the answer to that question, but it's funny how things change. The same is being said about McDavid right now, and he's two years away. I guess the tale of a big bird in the bush is better than a bird on the edge of it.
A big bird in whose bush? On the edge of the bush? You lost me.
Well as the saying goes, a bird in the hand is better than two birds in the bush. I guess how it would relate here is that even with the supposedly known current draft eligible players it is not certain how they turn out. Players a year or two away are even less certain.
That might not make sense, but to me it does. Ha.
If Yakupov was being drafted in 2013 instead of 2012, do you think he'd be #1 overall, or would he slide behind Jones? MacKinnon? Drouin? etc....
Jones seems like a much stronger prospect then Murray. Since the Oilers needed and wanted to draft a defenceman 1st overall last year, but couldn't leave Yakupov on the board, if we were drafting first this year and Yak was in this draft, I don't think it would be as much of a reach to take Jones, as it was to have taken Murray. Knowing what we know about Yak now, I'd say he looks better than Mckinnon, and would compete for first overall against Druoin and Jones, depending on which team stepped to the podium first.
I'd like to echo that any down trading has to be for an established player and not just mid round picks.
I don't think Lindholm is what the Oilers need. He's basically another Lander. If Monahan is there, get him, if not then trade down and grab Gautier.
I would also be okay with Nichushkin as a number seven pick likely won't be stepping in to help the team next year, but this kid could step in just at the right time as the Oilers are making a push for cup contention. He could be our Taresenko just as our young D prospects are solid enough to take up top line duty, and maybe we have some solid veterans in by then, maybe a free agent or two. It could be magic. Like a wonderful time bomb about to explode all over the score sheet.
May 16 2013, 12:40PM
I just read your analysis of the Oilers salary cap situation at Cult of Hockey. Regarding RNH, JSchultz, and Yakupov (and Klefbom) you are not accounting for their ELC's. The total cap hit for bonus-eligible players equals a base salary of 900K plus 50% of bonus money. RNH, JSchultz, and Yak all get 2.85M in bonus money so the cap hit on that is 1.425M. The total cap hit for Yak, JSchultz, and RNH is 2.325M each for next season. There is a small cap hit savings for Klefbom, too.
The Oilers will have approximately 4.5M more to spend than your article suggests.
May 16 2013, 01:53PM
Pssst, hey buddy, wanna trade that pocket worn 100 dollar bill, for these 3 brand new 20's?
The Oilers have proven they aren't smart enough to be trading down, this has been a constant for over 20 yrs now. Lowe should be making every effort to move up, not down. Oilers can't afford to let these bozos in charge select another Troy Hesketh type, which is what they do when their homework isn't already done for them.
Jon has written about this I am sure at some point. If they trade down it shows they do not understand the value of players or what the value of the draft is.
Every player drafted should be with the hope that they become a top half of the roster player, the later the round, the longer the shot. Bottom end players that can't score points are too easy to get to draft them, it wastes a pick.
I also feel drafting a player that the org doesn't really value and won't give a chance to wastes a pick, unless they are cashed in for something, which they should do with Rajala while he's hot. I like him but they don't want another small forward, so trade him and Arcobello for Petrangelo asap~.
This year the talent drop off is after the Oiler pick it seems. 2 later first round picks is not the same as the 7th OV this year. One great player is better than two average players. It makes no sense to move down, especially when the draft finally has multiple quality centres with decent size at the top of the order.
It would only make sense to move it for a younger high end NHL player. The cap issues are the wild card this summer.
I think that trading down is not a good idea. I understand there is a minor drop in talent from 4-6 position in the draft. But there are still really good players in the 6-10 spot. Oilers can get their power forward, Big 6"5'dman, or solid 2 way Center. Plz MacT just sit and take the best player!
May 16 2013, 02:57PM
Out of curiosity (and basically because I always think wasting a high pick on a goalie is not worth it) I compiled a list of the top 20 goalies in terms of WINS in the last 20 years and put the round they were chosen and overall pick that they were chosen at:
Brodeur (1,20) Osgood (3,54) Belfour Undrafted Joseph Undrafted Hasek (10,207) Luongo (1,4) Nabokov (9,219) Khabibulin (9,204) Roy (3,51) Kiprusoff (5,116) Kolzig (1,19) Vokoun (9,226) Theodore (2,44) Lundqvist (7,205) Turco (5,124) Miller (5,138) Giguere (1,13) Fleury (1,1) Burke (2,24) Potvin (2,31)
8 out of 20 were taken in first 2 rounds, the other 12 range from 3rd round to undrafted.
Food for thought...
Package the pick with a prospect or player to Phoenix for Yandle.
May 16 2013, 03:17PM
Jake Trouba - if the Oilers had to pick 1st again, would they have taken this guy?
The Galchenyuk / Yakupov debate would've been a lot more interesting as well.
Yandle is a second pairing D man. He does not play against the best lines.
OEL is a first pairing.
May 16 2013, 03:31PM
Good question. If I remember correctly last year it was said that if MacKinnon could be drafted he would have went before Yak. I don't know the answer to that question, but it's funny how things change. The same is being said about McDavid right now, and he's two years away. I guess the tale of a big bird in the bush is better than a bird on the edge of it.
I remember when the Oilers drafted RNH, some fans were saying "Missed it by a year. This Yakupov kid is going to be the best player of all".
Once we had Yak, some wee saying "Ohhh MacKinnon.... missed it by a year."
The grass is always greener.
May 16 2013, 03:41PM
Jake Trouba - if the Oilers had to pick 1st again, would they have taken this guy?
The Galchenyuk / Yakupov debate would've been a lot more interesting as well.
He'd oust the Reinhart pick if anything. but probably the D would all be moving around a lot... they way they usually do... drafting D is voodoo.
The Yak/Gal will probably be a long one. I expect they both have exceptional careers, barring injury or freakish loss of skill. may be 10 years before we know.
Jake Trouba - if the Oilers had to pick 1st again, would they have taken this guy?
The Galchenyuk / Yakupov debate would've been a lot more interesting as well.
I see i'm not the only Trouba fan . Winnipeg got a good one there . No knock on Yakupov by the way .
Pssst, hey buddy, wanna trade that pocket worn 100 dollar bill, for these 3 brand new 20's?
The Oilers have proven they aren't smart enough to be trading down, this has been a constant for over 20 yrs now. Lowe should be making every effort to move up, not down. Oilers can't afford to let these bozos in charge select another Troy Hesketh type, which is what they do when their homework isn't already done for them.
You should apply to be the oilers GM or at least a scout. You have all the answers, you would never make a mistake drafting 18 year olds, and you seem to a lot of time on your hands since you grace Oilersnation with your supreme knowledge and witty comments several times each article/day. Plus I'm sure you would trade for Weber on your first day on the job.
OILER HISTORY AND EXPECTATIONS-PENNED BY WILLIS ON COPPER AND BLUE - April 2009(Adam Proteau blog) . Oiler template going forward ? After mass exodus following 2006-07 season : 19 of 29 players Oilers had , with 10 games or more , were gone in two short years ! That's two out of every 3 players . The only hangovers still here are Smyth (a second time) ,Horcoff ,Hemsky and a very young Smid .
Can we expect that sort of fast rebuild again as we keep the youth and redo the core ?
May 16 2013, 05:35PM
Does Matheson have good sources inside the Oilers? Or is he just opinion? Cause he's said in multiple recent articles that the Oilers would take Zadorov if he's availiable at 7 and Monahan's not.
May 16 2013, 05:42PM
I think the player I want the most from this draft is Ryan Pulock. And we could trade down to 12-14 to get him probably. Wouldn't be surprised at all if two years from now he looks like the best or second best Defensemen from the draft. Could get an extra piece in the trade. Also huge Lazar fan.
Player we should definately target in the second round is Justin Bailey.
Should Smid be new captain ?
Zadarov is the most physical d man in the first round. He's a great skater and can add offense from time to time. I'd love to get that guy
May 16 2013, 06:15PM
Zadarov is the most physical d man in the first round. He's a great skater and can add offense from time to time. I'd love to get that guy
I would be happy with that selection as well.
Fistric must be sniffing glue. He is a #7 D-man on a terrible team. If anything he should be taking a paycut.
1.4 million is too much for a 6-7 D man. Unbelievable that he is asking for a big raise. ----------------------------
Stu Macgregor's comments on Moroz are very disturbing. I hope he doesn't really think that way.
I completely agree with JW RE: Zharkov. Trade his rights for whatever you can get.
The Hall of Fame is a total joke to me now.
The only reason the Oilers are thinking of trading down is because, they have their mind set on Curtis Lazar.........who is projected to go around 20 to 25.
This scares the hell out of me! Not sure who they could trade with to get a swap plus a player, prospect, or additional pick. One thing I would be doing is following Detroit around and grabbing intel on who they plan on drafting. They seem to find the gems and we seem to draft guys like Puliot.
Unless the Oilers are guaranteed to land two good players ( and we know how this movie ends) by moving down we should keep the draft and draft based on best player available........based on a combination of skill, toughness, motivation, and attitude.
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Skip to comments.No evidence of trade in Albanian organs
Posted on 03/09/2009 12:06:46 PM PDT by nameless-fool
SKOPJE -- Skopje has no official information on the claims that there was trafficking of Albanians' organs through Macedonia during the Kosovo conflict.
Albanian language media in Kosovo recently picked up articles in Macedonian papers in Albanian that the organs of Kosovo Albanians listed missing were "harvested and sold to Russians by Serbs".
The Macedonian Interior Ministry (MUP) told the Beta news agency that this is the first time they have heard these allegations, and that there have been no demands for investigations.
A similar statement was given by the Macedonian Foreign Ministry as well.
The Albanian language daily Lajm, printed in Skopje, stated that there are suspicions that the bodies of 20 Kosovo Albanians are buried in a Skopje cemetery, which the administration of the Butel cemetery is denying, telling Beta that every funeral is registered in its book-keeping.
Serbian War Crimes Prosecution Spokesperson Bruno Vekarić said that the story is a political reaction to an investigation into KLA crimes against Kosovo's Serbs, adding that the prosecution is prepared to investigate that case as well if it is true.
We do not deal with politics, we keep to the process matters. If all this is true, we are ready to investigate it to the end, Vekarić said, adding that the Serbian prosecution expects the same stance from the Albanian prosecution when it comes to the Serb victims.
Serbia has opened a probe into the case of missing Kosovo Serbs after former Hague Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte wrote in her book that there were investigations of suspected organ harvesting operations in North Albania.
The case of the kidnapped Serbs who are believed to have been killed in northern Albania in 1999, after their vital organs were harvested, is also investigated by Council of Europe rapporteur Dick Marty, who is due in Belgrade at the end of the month.
Albanian Organs?................
I'm not sure but is Hammond still making them in Indiana?
The dark side of socialized medicine.
More Albanian (muslim) victimhood. Like the non existant mass graves, and the little Albanian (muzzie) boy who was drowned in the river by Serb thug-boys, which sparked a gang of will armed Armainian "victims" to march over and shoot at unarmed old Serb Baba's and burn down their churches.
As we've all seen, the story is that KLA thugs were harvesting the organs of captured Serbs for export.
Of course there's no evidence of the opposite of reality occurring!
What are you talking about? Please elaborate. What constitutes a "mass grave" to you?
Who has seen it? There have been accusations and and a ICTY investigation that yielded no results, just claims hoping to sell a book. Now it's time to investigate these claims as well, they are 2000 Albanians still missing.
So the fool is back...let me help you.
The Skopje govt propaganda machine in bed with the KLA is making a statement about organs - And Kim Il Sung proclaims that all children are well fed and healthy in North Korea.
That clears everything up /SARC/
do Skopians (?) beat their wives as well, unlike the Serbs?
For the record, FYROM-ans are Orthodox Christians as well. Do they count? I know the Georgians are bad because they are sucking up to the mortal enemy—the East.
Talking about lies and denial:
"I asked him why he had had the famous Sarajevo National Library burned down. Given that he himself wanted to be known as a psychiatrist and a poet, was he afraid of books and their human and humanist truth?
Red-faced with anger, pounding the table, he claimed it was the Muslims themselves who had burned down the building from the inside.
I objected. I had seen the library in ruins: the damaged walls, the artillery scars. The building had been attacked from the outside.
No point in arguing - the pigheaded Karadzic denied it all."
That's Elie Wiesel recounting his meeting with Karadzic.
More nonsense for the newbie, thanks for the laugh.
You are a fool.
Like a open mouthed fish swimming through murky waters you swallow the liberal press lies that are fed to you like so many pellets.
Mr Wiesel is probably a decent man but like so many other decent and smart people he was swindled by Bernie Madoff as well as by the anti Semite Tudjman and the Muslims.
He says that he cannot forgive Madoff over the loss of all his funds - he trusted him you see - but a person like him of a higher sense of justice should be willing to accept the responsibility of being deceived by his Muslim and fascist friends.
Does anyone have details on this "Kosovo re-Christianization" plan I've been hearing about? I don't have much in the way of details, but an old Serb-Canadian friend of mine, said that a large group among the millions in the Serb Diaspora— Serb-Canadians, Serb-Americans, Serbs in Britain, Serb-Australians— is organizing an effort to bring Christians from the Serb Diaspora back into Kosovo, to build churches there (throughout Kosovo) both in areas where churches were razed and otherwise.
It's a peaceful effort, though obviously with armed guards in the more tense areas, but since the Serb diaspora in these countries still have citizenship rights in Kosovo (which is still within Serbia under international law), they have the right to build churches within Kosovo. So that's what they're doing. And since arrogant Britain (one of the anti-Christian leaders of the hate-Serb group in the West, right behind Bill Clinton himself), Canada and Australia (one of the early recognizers of Kosovo) are all Dhimmified already, I have no qualms about Serb Diaspora leaving them to help bring Christianity back to Kosovo. The Muslim Kosovars would be welcome in Dhimmified Britain, Canada and Australia anyway.
Also, word is it that this is one of the first examples of Serb-Croatian cooperation, since this organization (whatever its name) was founded in part by a Croat expat, who sees the threat of Muslim Dhimmitude within Kosovo— with participation also by Macedonians, Montenegrins and Bosnians.
Anyway, sounds like a great idea to me, but I haven't been able to get further details on it. Anyone here know more about this effort?
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Yeah, just as more information comes out that Organ Snatching DID occur, you find some BS article like that one!:
More than one organ snatching location?
2 March 2009
In Albania, in addition to the yellow house, there could be at least three more similar locations.
They are suspected to be sites where vital organs were taken from kidnapped Kosovo Serbs and other non-Albanians.
A B92 TV investigative team traveled to Albania on the basis of new evidence and information revealing that in, in addition to the yellow house described in former Hague Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Pontes book, there were at least three similar locations.
Hundreds of Kosovo's Serbs went missing during and after the 1999 war in the province. The Serbian War Crimes Prosecution is investigating claims that Kosovo Albanian KLA had taken them to northern Albania in order to remove their vital organs, later sold in the black market.
A broadcast based on the teams investigation airs tonight, containing exclusive footage taken in Albania and interviews with doctors from the transplant division at Mother Theresa University Hospital in Tirana, where 75 patients were transferred in 1999 due to failed kidneys.
Looking at Del Pontes claims, the investigative team attempted to verify information from the War Crimes Prosecution that just as NATO was attacking Serbia several kidney transplants were conducted for Kosovo patients, with organs taken out of the kidnapped Serbs.
The team spoke with doctors from the Skopje University Hospital in Macedonia, where 70 patients were transferred from Kosovo during the same period.
Officials in Skopje say transplants did not take place at that time.
Nevertheless, in contrast to his Albanian colleagues, a Skopje nephrologists who spoke with the team said he believes Del Pontes claims.
The Serbian prosecution is also investigating whether the Hague Tribunal had destroyed material evidence found in the Albanian town of Burrel during a probe conducted in 2004.
In an exclusive interview, one of UNMIKs investigators in Burrel said he was "taken aback" by such information.
The investigator will discuss the importance of this evidence, found in 2004 in the yellow house.
In addition to exclusive interviews and footage from Albania, the show contains information about 11 people suspected of having been murdered in the vicinity of the yellow house in central Albania after being kidnapped.
Evidence? Where is it? The slav doctor in FYROM believing the allegations? I thought the organs were sold, now we are supposed to believe that as 700,000 people were thrown out, with many beaten wounded and raped, Albania's third world doctors found the time to perform organ transplants with 'stolen' Serbian organs on 70 Kosovo patients?
Since Serbia is asking for an investigation, Albanians should ask for one too. At least with Serbia there is a starting point to look at: are the Albanian victims buried in mass graves missing any organs?
So the Albanians are now just trying to muddy the waters with these new allegations. It's BS!
Organ trading, like the one that goes on in virtually every country in the world? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=5go&q=illegal+organ+trading&btnG=Search
There is no need to muddy the waters for the serbs and Russians, it's dark enough already. Are the Serbs, after being found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity trying to smear others? Claiming victimhood is a Serbian trademark http://www.google.com/search?q=serbian+victimhood&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Serbs even claimed that genocide was committed against them in Kosovo.
No, it goes on in "hubs" and Albania is one of them, which is why the Council of Europe singled it out. And unlike Albania, nmost don't involve ripping the organs out of living children. If you'd do that to your own kids, you'd do it to anyone!
Claiming victimhood is a Serbian trademark And "blaming the victim" is a "Muslim trademark". Gee, did that PR agency you & the Bosnian Muslims & Croats hired years ago, decide to recycle that for use on the Christian Serbs?
An article published in Wednesdays New York Sun under the title Advisor to Annan Triggers Concern now reveals that David Finn, the chairman of Ruder Finn, has served as a pro bono advisor to Kofi Annan since he became UN Secretary General in 1997. Furthermore, the article reveals that Kofi Annans nephew Kobina was employed as a paid intern at Ruder Finn Kofi Annan asked David Finn if he would give some guidance to his nephew, Kobina Annan, a Ruder Finn spokesperson is quoted as saying and that Ruder Finn's publishing arm is selling Mr. Annan's 2001 Nobel Peace Prize lecture as a hardcover book. At the same time that Ruder Finn employed Mr. Annan's nephew, the article notes,
two senior Ruder Finn officials, Anne Glauber and Dena Merriam, who is Mr. Finn's daughter, were hired as outside contractors by the U.N. Development Program to revamp its communications office. They were paid $30,000 for two months' work, according to a UNDP spokesman, William Orme.
I do not want here to discuss James Harffs assessment of the relative responsibility of the warring parties for the ravages of the Bosnian Civil War. But I will recall that it was in Bosnia that the UN essentially lost its innocence and, for better or for worse, abandoned the impartiality among warring parties that had hitherto been the sine qua non for UN peace-keeping operations. The most spectacular event in this process of transformation was the 1995 bombing of Bosnian Serb positions by NATO forces in connection with though in fact not quite under a UN mandate. The go ahead for the operation on the part of the UN bureaucracy which was supposed to hold one of the two keys that had to be turned to initiate NATO air strikes in Bosnia was given by none other than Kofi Annan in his capacity as then Under-Secretary General. Richard Holbrooke, in his notably self-aggrandizing account of the Bosnian conflict To End A War (New York: Random House, 1998), goes so far as to claim that it was thanks to this act of indulgence toward NATO that Annan would later become Secretary General: in a sense Annan won the job on that day (p. 103).
In his book Dubious Mandate: A Memoir of the UN in Bosnia, Summer 1995 (Durham and London: Duke, 1999), Phillip Corwin has written on the developments in question as follows:
If NATO wanted to declare war against one of the parties to the conflict in Bosnia, then it should have done so under a NATO flag, not under a UN flag. It was disingenuous to enter a country as a peacekeeping force and then to wage war against one of the parties.
Corwin was the UNs chief political officer in Bosnia. In his book, he also recounts, incidentally, how a Bosnian government official threatened his life when he proposed to visit Srebrenica following its fall to Serb forces in July 1995. Shortly after the meeting in question, Corwin would be the target of sniper fire that, he claims, came from Bosnian government positions.
At least have the decency not to hide behind your supposed Christianity, radical Muslims are having a field day with that. 150 Roman Catholic churches were destroyed in Croatia and Bosnia. Care to guess who destroyed them?
The first known lists of al Qaeda financiers track back to Bosnia circa 1988, years before the Bosnian war ever began.
And don't lecture me on what "a Christian" does or doesn't do to defend their homes and their families. You'd be surprised.
You make me laugh because in attempting to slime Serbs to defend Albanians, you always dig up Bosnia and Croatia and can't stick to the subject of Albanians. What are you, embarrassed at being able to defend Albanians?
Albanians and terrorists go hand in hand and have for many years. The Christian community of the Balkans have resisted their putrid evil for hundreds of years. They will continue to do so no matter what the NWO/OPEC demands.
At their worst when working for the Nazis and their beloved Hitler - now albanians are blessed by the parastate fascist govt of turkey— another genocidal state.
Why is the barbed wire on the wrong side of that post, fool?
Because the photographer stepped inside the fenced area to take a picture of the people OUTSIDE!
LOL! Yes fool, that photo has been discredited years ago.
All I know is that someone was bankrupted by a court for saying that.
"ITN and two of its reporters have won £375,000 in High Court libel damages from a Marxist magazine which claimed they had faked pictures of Bosnian Serb war crimes. Reporters Penny Marshall and Ian Williams were each awarded £150,000 over the Living Marxism story which called into question ITN's coverage of the Bosnian war.
The left-wing magazine was also ordered to pay £75,000 to ITN for libelling them in a February 1997 article.
ITN said it would pay its damages to the International Committee of the Red Cross to continue its humanitarian work with the victims of conflict on all sides... The article, written by German freelance Thomas Deichmann, asserted there was no barbed wire around the camp, which he said was a collection centre for refugees and not a prison.
He said the wire was actually around the news team, who were filming from a small enclosure next to the camp.P "
Who's the fool now? Why don't you pay their lawyers to keep the case going if you are so sure?
So why is the barbed wire on the wrong side of that post, Bonly-fool?
Go ahead, sue the newspaper if you are so sure. I can't convince you otherwise, so sue them for defamation of Serbs. Running concentration camps is a very serious charge.
Gee, imagine my surprise in your inability to answer the question, Bonly-boy.
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Leicester moved temporarily top of the Aviva Premiership standings after two penalty tries helped them beat Worcester 19-14 on Friday.
Leicester moved temporarily top of the Aviva Premiership table after two penalty tries helped them overcome Worcester 19-14 at Sixways on Friday.
The Warriors stormed into an 11-0 lead thanks to two Andy Goode penalties and David Lemi finishing a well-worked try after Matt Kvesic and Jon Clarke combined to create the necessary space for the Samoan winger to score in the corner.
The Tigers evening got worse when Italian prop Martin Castrogiovanni was yellow-carded for a high-tackle on Semisi Taulava and Goode's subsequent successful penalty extended the home side's lead.
The Warriors stoic defence thwarted Leicester's attacking advancements as the counter attacking ability of Josh Drauninu and individual brilliance of England hopeful Kvesic were proving prominent for the home side.
Leicester struck back when swift handling by the Tigers back division allowed winger Scott Hamilton to score the visitors opening try and in the process Goode was sin-binned for foul play. Incumbent England fly-half Toby Flood failed to add the extras as Worcester went into half-time 14-5 in front.
The Warriors had a couple of opportunities to extend their lead but Chris Pennell, taking over the kicking duties in Goode's absence, missed two penalties in quick succession.
The introduction of replacements Dan Cole and Marcos Ayerza gave the Tigers fresh impetus and resulted in referee JP Doyle awarding a penalty try for a Warriors scrum infringement. Flood's conversion left the scores finely posed at 14-12.
As the Tigers looked to claw their way back into the game, Flood's fourth penalty miss looked like it was not going to be their night.
However, with just a minute remaining the Tigers piled the pressure on the Warriors line resulting in Doyle awarding the second penalty try of the game for a scrum infringement. Flood's conversion sealed an epic comeback for the Tigers whilst the distraught Warriors outfit where left scratching their heads in bewilderment.
The scorers:
For Worcester:
Try: Lemi
Pen: Goode 3
For Leicester:
Tries: Hamilton, Penalty 2
Con: Flood 2
Worcester: 15 Chris Pennell, 14 Josh Drauniniu, 13 Alex Grove, 12 Jon Clarke, 11 David Lemi, 10 Andy Goode, 9 Jonny Arr, 8 Semisi Taulava, 7 Matt Kvesic, 6 Sam Betty, 5 Dean Schofield, 4 James Percival (c), 3 Euan Murray, 2 Aleki Lutui, 1 Ceri Jones.
Replacements: 16 Ed Shervington, 17 Matt Mullan, 18 John Andress, 19 Chris Jones, 20 Neil Best, 21 Ollie Frost, 22 Danny Gray, 23 Josh Matavesi.
Leicester: 15 Mathew Tait, 14 Scott Hamilton, 13 Matt Smith, 12 Dan Bowden, 11 Adam Thompstone, 10 Toby Flood, 9 Ben Youngs, 8 Thomas Waldrom, 7 Steve Mafi, 6 Tom Croft, 5 Ed Slater, 4 Louis Deacon (c), 3 Martin Castrogiovanni, 2 Rob Hawkins, 1 Logovi'i Mulipola.
Replacements: 16 George Chuter, 17 Marcos Ayerza, 18 Dan Cole, 19 Graham Kitchener, 20 Julian Salvi, 21 Micky Young, 22 Anthony Allen, 23 Niall Morris.
Referee: JP Doyle
Assistant referees: Andrew Pearce, Peter Huckle
Television match official: Trevor Fisher
Timekeeper: Laurie Bryant
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Standing Still
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Is there a suggestion that all nine also wrote the dissents as well? I think not. Nor do I think that all nine wrote the decisions.
Kennedy, Sotomayor and Alito held for standing in each case.
Thomas liked the dissent for its state rights noises, including "the people" of the state. In DOMA, he thought government didn't have standing since the Administration supported Windsor. But, in Prop 8, "the people" to him had standing to challenge.
Scalia and Roberts didn't want standing in either case. There was not only a generalized interest in Windsor, but standing failed for a separate reason.
Kagan and Breyer felt that Windsor and the Administration were in conflict, there was individual standing there and not just a generalized interest. That was the case in CA.
If individualized standing is not the rule any more, I guess we can just change things. The argument in CA specifically is that their initiative system sets up a strong enough interest. Debatable.
If the person died, the case is moot. There is no grounds to decide any other question.
Here's what I don't get. Surely if Kennedy wanted to decide the constitutional issue -- either in favor of a right to gay marriage or opposed to it -- he could have found four addition votes to support his position, either the four liberals or the four conservatives, depending on which way Kennedy wanted to go.
But the court didn't reach the constitutional question -- suggesting that Kennedy didn't want to reach the question. BUT if that's the case, how does Kennedy end up in the dissent?
For different reasons, perhaps, a mix of conservatives and liberals didn't want to decide the merits. Scalia and Roberts, e.g., on principle has been against broad standing for years. This gave Kennedy a free pass to support a broad view of standing without having to worry about the merits question.
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I don't know what my yield will be this year, but each year I get more than the previous. The other hops Cascade, and Golding aren't doing a thing, so I think its time to move them, or pull them.
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A week of holiday tournaments shook up the rankings a bit in men's hoops, but those changes don't start at the top.
It still isn't quite unanimous, but Michigan State easily retained the No.1 ranking in the new USA TODAY Sports coaches poll. The Spartans, who won their lone contest of the week in convincing fashion, were voted first on 31 of 32 ballots.
COACHES POLL: Full top 25 rankings
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The rest of the top five looks a bit different, but it still features plenty of Wildcats. Arizona climbed to the No.2 spot and picked up the remaining first-place vote on the strength of its title in the NIT Season Tip-off, concluding with a victory against Duke in the title game. The Blue Devils slid three places to No.8.
Ohio State jumped three places to No.3, leapfrogging Kentucky which stayed put at No.4. Maui Invitational champion Syracuse moved up to fifth, just a single poll point behind UK Wildcats.
Stock up: Memphis.
The Tigers are back on the rise after winning their rematch with Oklahoma State, Their gain this week was four positions, into a tie for 15th with Gonzaga.
Stock down: Kansas.
The Jayhawks fell victim to yet another set of Wildcats in the Battle for Atlantis in the Bahamas. Though they rebounded to win the third-place game, the Jayhawks nevertheless tumbled five positions to No.7. Tournament champion Villanova, meanwhile, made their top-25 season debut at No.19.
Stock up: UCLA.
The voters seemed to be taking a wait-and-see approach with the Bruins under new management. But it's so far so good for first-year coach Steve Alford as UCLA improved to 7-0 and moved up four places to No.17.
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The Tar Heels' up-and-down November concluded on a down note with a loss to unranked UAB. They held on to a top-25 spot barely, but their nine-position drop was the largest within the poll this week.
Stock up: Iowa State.
The Cyclones' upward mobility continued. After entering the rankings a week ago, they matched the biggest move of the week gaining four spots to No.18.
Stock down: Gonzaga.
Maui wasn't quite as good to the Zags, who took a five-place fall into the tie for 15th after picking up their first loss of the campaign.
New kids on the block: No.19 Villanova, No.22 Massachusetts.
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by Joe Buscaglia
posted Aug 4 2014 12:06AM
CANTON, Ohio —
Under the lights of Fawcett Stadium and under the microscope of the National Football League and the annual Hall of Fame Game, EJ Manuel's first official game in 2014 came to a halt without any stark plays from one side to the other.
Manuel, the second-year quarterback of the Buffalo Bills, was given the first two offensive series by Doug Marrone to see what he could do. The former first-round pick led two short drives and came away with a mediocre stat line and led his team to three points.
"The performances was not good enough for a win, and we've got to get better," Marrone said of Manuel and the rest of his team. "All of them."
Manuel completed his first pass attempt of the evening to Lee Smith, an 8-yard gain right in between the hashmarks to signal the middle of the field. From there, Manuel missed on a deep throw to rookie wide receiver Sammy Watkins and had his next attempt batted down at the line of scrimmage by Mathias Kiwanuka.
A Bills fumble recovery set Manuel and the first-team offense up at the 22-yard line of the New York Giants. The second-year quarterback had one 11-yard completion marred by another batted down pass and one that almost resulted in an interception in the end zone, ending Manuel's day at 2-of-7 for 19 yards.
"We're still gonna look at the film. I'm still gonna critique what I need to critique. I thought I did a pretty good job when I was in. I thought the first unit, we did what we had to do," Manuel said, summing up his performance. "I think if it was a point where Coach wanted us to continue to play and show what we needed to show, he would have done that. But I think he knows that being that it's our first game and we have another one coming up soon, I'm sure we'll get some more run coming up next week."
The Bills' second in command for the evening, second-year quarterback Jeff Tuel, came into the game against the Giants' second-team defense and got the offense moving for the first time of the night.
Over three series to end the first half, Tuel completed 12-of-17 passes for 74 yards, a touchdown and an interception. He has been in a battle with Thad Lewis to be the second-string quarterback during training camp, and got the nod in the team's first foray into the preseason schedule.
As for the rest of the team, the Bills fell victim to a 17-13 loss from the hands of the Giants to complete the annual contest staged just behind the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
Robert Woods claimed the team's first and only touchdown off the arm of Tuel, Dan Carpenter had two field goals, but it wasn't enough as New York used a 73-yard touchdown pass from Ryan Nassib to wide receiver Corey Washington to take the lead for good.
"We had an opportunity to win the game and didn't. That's the one thing we've got to do, we've got to win football games," Marrone said. "I'm glad we have five [preseason games]. I'm glad we've got some time to get better. But make no mistake about it, when we go out there it doesn't really matter to me whether it's player A or player Z at the bottom of the roster. For me, we have to win as a team no matter what we do."
Although a turnover set them up close to the Giants' end zone early on in the game which resulted in a field goal, the Bills squandered two separate opportunities in the red zone to put points on the board. Both Tuel and Lewis threw an interception the end zone that changed the course of the game and gave New York possession at their own 20-yard line.
The debut for one of the most highly anticipated rookies in the NFL this year was a quiet one to say the least. The Bills' first-round pick, Watkins, was targeted twice but came away from the contest without a reception.
The rookie said nerves were not among his feelings ahead of the game.
"Oh not at all. Once I'm on the field and have two or three plays, I'm fine," Watkins remarked. "I wish I could have got a ball and got tackled, then it would have been out the window. I can't wait to catch a ball and get hit."
It was also a special evening for the Bills as an organization, seeing former wide receiver and Hall of Fame inductee Andre Reed get honored in front of the packed house at Fawcett Stadium one more time. The coin toss also had a Bills feel to it as well, with Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly doing the honors.
"It was everything," Manuel said of watching Kelly flip the coin. "Just to see him out here and to see he was doing a lot better was awesome."
Among those not in the lineup for the Bills on Sunday were cornerbacks Stephon Gilmore (hip), Leodis McKelvin (hip), tight ends Scott Chandler (groin), Tony Moeaki (hamstring) and wide receiver Marquise Goodwin. The Bills have a short week of practice before going back on the road to take on the Carolina Panthers Friday night.
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With blinding, wind-whipped snow buffeting their young faces, 21 Castle Rock sixth-graders snowshoed six miles up a mountain trail last month as part of their class curriculum.
Seven of those 21 opted to take their outdoor education a step further, sleeping under the stars in a shallow snow trough while temperatures dipped into the 20s.
The experiences were part of an annual four-day Winter Voyage, organized through Renaissance Elementary Magnet School's Expeditionary Learning program. An extension of Outward Bound, it exposes students to challenging experiences with results that flow into all facets of their lives.
"Basically, we put them in situations outside their comfort zone but not to their panic zone," teacher Lisa Johnson said. "They learn to value being between the two — in their growth zone. And they learn they can do a lot more than they thought they could."
Not all who participated in the Feb. 11-14 trip on Cameron Pass near Fort Collins believed they'd finish the six-mile hike to Lake Agnes. Conditions were brutal, Johnson said.
"I was tired, cold, and scared," wrote Jeannette in a class-required journal entry about the experience. "The hill was steep and the wind was blowing, hard. I couldn't stop for a rest because my feet would get more pained and numb then they already were. The only choice I had was to keep going.
"Before this hike, I thought I wasn't very good at pushing myself to accomplish goals. I know that I can accomplish anything if I just focus on that and work hard," she concluded.
Classmate Colin wrote that he kept his head down, "hoping it would just end"
"My goal on this voyage was to … go from my nervous zone to a freakishly awesome zone. I went from slow huffy-puffy breathing Colin to fast-paced, awesome Colin."
The students and adult supervisors that include trained backcountry guides stay in cabins that have wood-burning stoves but no electricity or indoor toilets. They learn how to build snow shelters, avalanche awareness, proper backcountry attire and equipment, and how to prevent and combat hypothermia.
"A lot of these things are just to be smart Colorado residents," Johnson said. "As far as what they learned about themselves, that's way more important to me."
Those lessons were not only in self-reliance, but teamwork.
"We had kids who were struggling, and they were encouraging each other, really supporting each other," she said. "You wouldn't believe the camaraderie this builds."
Johnson's already used the experience her students had during those four days to guide them in more practical matters.
One of the students recently told her he was anxious about a test. She responded, "'I've seen you make it up to Lake Agnes in a freezing, six-mile hike. I know you can get through this hour-long test.' And he did."
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the close ups when Guy was brawling himself was also sooo bad.. DBZ is much older and if u see any figth even regular DB fights the quality and fighting sequence is vastly superior
the close ups when Guy was brawling himself was also sooo bad.. DBZ is much older and if u see any figth even regular DB fights the quality and fighting sequence is vastly superior
The filler episodes were all pretty lame I think we can agree.
- But then thats excusable considering they had nothing to work with and could never really do anything too drastic - storywise I mean.
But thats what makes Shippuden so dissapointing - Because they do have a lot to work with - There is a good story there but they're just not telling it right.
So yeah! - I hope it gets better soon.
I feel that the quality and hardwork that was once put into the naruto anime has long since retired. The drawings, dialouge, and storyline speed are absolute crap.
the only exciting fighting scene so far was chiyo vs sasori with the parents puppets vs the 3rd kazekage puppet
current pace: 1 episode=1 chapter
Zabuza arc 1 ep.=1.5 ch.
Chunin exams: same
so they've slowed the series by .5 chapters per episode or so.
My pants are on break right now.
Why do I like Naruto?
I like the character because while he may not be the strongest or the smartest or the best he chooses to rise above his darkness which has been substantial, and he is willing to put everything he has on the line for his friends because he'd rather never become hokage and have them with him than achieve his dreams with even one of them sacrificed.
I thought it was going to be alright but then they reached the cave and have been there for like the last 5 episodes...it took Sakura 5 episodes to get out Sasori's true form and Naruto's been chasing Deidara for the last 5 episodes. Team Gai is just being retarded doing the same dance over and over again. Episode 24 was a huge let down on that part, Gai's fight sequence was just repeated over and over again and wasted half the episode.
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Its just average. Some of the episodes are good. Some of em are really bad that almost make me quit the anime. :/
it doesn't have the same fast paced fighting as the original series it's all really slow paced and the talk scenes drag on for either aren't aren't done interestingly. At first I thought it was cos I've read the manga, but then I went back and realised I love things like bleach even though I've read all that, and that I loved the manga of Naruto, just the show is really bad.
I agree, anime comes out every two weeks instead.


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Anna Camp can't save "True Blood"
HBO's "" started out as a great show, as the vampire stories and cable TV sex scenes made it one of the hottest shows on television. But the show has slipped over the years, even if it still commands a decent audience. HBO has announced that next year's seventh season will be its last, and frankly the show lost it long ago. It used to be a regular on but this year was left off again.
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We love Anna Camp and were thrilled to see her character come back, but she's just not enough to carry the show.
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Virginia Intermont College deals with SACS decision
BRISTOL, Va. - The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges placed Virginia Intermont College on probation in December of 2012. School president Dr. Clorisa Phillips told News 5 back in April that the school's long-time financial problems were mainly to blame.
"VI needed to change, and needs to change drastically in the way it operates," said Phillips.
On Thursday, SACS reviewed Virginia Intermont's probation. SACS spokewoman Pamela Cravy provided News 5 the following statement:
"It is recommended that the following institution be removed from membership, Virginia Intermont College, for failure to comply with requirement 2.11.1 (financial resources) and comprehensive standards 3.10.1 (financial stability) of the Principles of Accreditation."
We contacted VI for comment on the decision and were told the school wasn't conducting interviews. We were told Phillips was working on the appeal and not available.
The school did post comments about action on the school's web page. "We will file an appeal and then enter into discussions with them. While that goes on, our accreditation is completely intact, and that also means students financial aid is intact, and of course our academic programs and offerings are as good as they've always been," said Phillips in the online statement.
Dr. Rosalind Reichard, the president of Emory and Henry College, says accreditation is key to keeping funding from the Department of Education intact. "You must be accredited by an agency approved by the Department of Education in order to provide federal financial aid," said Reichard.
As long as Virginia Intermont remains accredited, students who rely on federal aid programs can continue to pay for and attend school. VI also retains any federal support it may have. "Certainly you can regain your accreditation if you lose it, you can go back and regain it. But to regain it, you've got to take care of whatever challenges there might have been that brought about losing the accreditation," said Reichard.
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SUNTEC, Singapore, WiMAX Forum Congress Asia, April 28, 2009
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced it has added new functional test features to its E6651A Mobile WiMAX test set family. Now offering support for mobile station (MS) and base station (BS) initiated handover, sleep and idle mode, and security features, the E6651A test set is well suited for Mobile WiMAX developers performing R&D, system integration and verification, or conformance test in RF, protocol and functional application test.
"The E6651A test set family provides the solid foundation on which Agilent's protocol conformance test and network conformance test solutions are built," said Niels Faché, vice president and general manager of Agilent's Mobile Broadband Operation. "Today's introduction of new test features illustrates our commitment to supporting the needs of engineers, design teams and test houses working in the emerging WiMAX(tm) marketplace. We will continue to provide valuable feature updates that keep pace with the needs of our customers."
Agilent's new features for the E6651A test set include:
The Agilent E6651A Mobile WiMAX test set is the industry's first integrated test set for testing mobile WiMAX devices. It offers a unique combination of flexible base-station emulation and RF parametric tests for subscriber station tests in one integrated unit, with support for IEEE 802.16e 2005 protocol conformance test. It provides instrument-grade RF signal generation and signal analysis capability up to 6 GHz and is capable of addressing current and planned WiMAX profiles. A full suite of RF measurements can be used for characterization, calibration and verification of WiMAX transmitter and receiver performance.
U.S. Pricing and Availability
Agilent's new features for the E6651A Mobile WiMAX test set are available now. The firmware may be downloaded, free of charge, by existing E6651A customers, at www.agilent.com/find/e6651A_software. New customers will receive the features as part of the E6651A's standard feature set. The E6651A has a starting base-unit price of $130,000.
More information about the E6651A's functional test features is available at www.agilent.com/find/e6651A. A photo of the new feature is available at www.agilent.com/find/e6651A_FunctionalTest_images.
About Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is the world's premier measurement company and a technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company's 19,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenues of $5.8 billion in fiscal 2008. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com.
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Janet Smith