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Written by SLC   
Sunday, 27 June 2010 13:52

Due to the Great Super Duper Server Transplant, Untransplant, Retransplant, Reuntransplant, We-Hope-To-Christ-It-Works-This-Time-Transplant Of 2010 that has rained naught but chaos and anarchy over the length and breadth of the Bloguin Kingdom for the last four days (none of which, I hasten to add, being the fault of our Benevolent Bloguin Overlords), I have been unable to offer you, loyal reader (Hi Mom!) my usual analytic brilliance of all things drafty and for that I apologize.  To make up for it, anyone who wants to peruse my live blog of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft is welcome to come to my house and read the 612 hand written Post-It Notes now adorning my garage door.

That said, there is one thing that transpired under the bright lights reflecting off of Gary Bettman's greasy, sweat streaked forehead that deserves special mention. To wit: Bryan Murray has apparently outsourced our scouting department to St Louis.

And he's a goddamned genius for doing so.

Hop for the why.

I have no idea who or what a David Rundblad is.  In fact, it may take me the better part of the next two years to learn how to write his name without looking it up (a problem I still have with a certain young Master Wirec...Wierci...Weirch...Patrick).  No matter.  If a bunch of people not named "Bruce" tell me this is a great move, then I will trust in their judgement.  Why?  Because they know more about these kinds of things than I do and are paid to do so.  Also, because I have a life.  But that's not the point I want to make here.  Sure if it all pans out and the stars align properly, we may be blessed with one of the most erection inducing young defence corps in the league a few years hence.  Fantastic.  But the real story is the breathtaking strategic brilliance of the trade itself.  Just think of the implications!

No longer need The Emperor be burdened with a cumbersome and expensive scouting staff what with their constant demands for "food" and "shelter" and "moist towelettes".  No longer need the Organization keep shamans, seers, gypsies and Oprah on retainer in a never ending quest to unearth a diamond in the rough like Mathieu Chouinard or Jakub Klepis or Brian Lee in Gary's annual crapshoot.  All of that, GONE!  Just let other teams do it for us!  Let them assume all the risks while we reap the rewards!  How awesome is that?  CAN YOU IMAGINE??  Who knows, with the money he'll save, maybe The Emperor will even buy us a real scoreboard.

But here's the real beauty of The Bryan's master stroke.  As all things must do in this Monkey-See league, this will catch on.  Other teams will start trading their current picks for other teams' old picks.  Other owners will dispense with their own scouting staffs to buy their own bigger and better scoreboards.  And as the trend picks up steam, round and round they will go, faster and faster until eventually a hole is ripped open in space time and Brian Burke trades two firsts and a second for the dessicated corpse of Turk Broda.  Win-win, baby.

So hey, Pittsburgh.  Do us a solid and let us know how that Beau Bennett works out, won't you?

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Tim Baines: Blogger says Alfredsson is the problem?
written by Steve HL, June 28, 2010
Hey SLC,

Tim Baines wrote in his Sun blog that a blogger said Alfredsson is the problem and should be traded...none of the regular Sens bloggers are saying this.

Have you heard any blogger suggest this? I'd like to read the reasoning/rant myself.

Cheers.
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written by SLC, June 28, 2010
@Steve HL: No idea what he's talking about. I certainly haven't seen it from anyone I respect. I left him a comment asking for a link, so we'll see.

As an aside, I have the feeling 'Lil Timmy may start second guessing himself on the wisdom of this little foray into the wilds of the interwebs, if he isn't already.
UPDATE
written by SLC, June 28, 2010
@Steve HL: Tim was actually referring to one of the comments from an earlier post on his own blog (confirmed in an email exchange about ten minutes ago). Sloppy mistake from a blogging rookie (for some reason the differences between "post", "blog" and "comment" seems to escape the MSM). I'll give him this one on that alone.

But Tim...if you're reading this...do it again and I'm ripping you to pieces.


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