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How opposing GMs gifted Vegas the winningest team in hockey at the expansion draft:
Bad Trades
• Anaheim traded Vegas Shea Theodore so they take on Clayton Stoner's $3.25m x 1y contract.
• Minnesota traded Vegas Alex Tuch so they would pick up Erik Haula instead of Matt Dumba or Eric Staal.
• Pittsburgh traded Vegas a 2nd round pick (Drew Commesso) so they would take on Marc-Andre Fleury's $5.75m x 3y contract.
• NY Islanders traded Vegas the 15th overall pick (Erik Brannstrom) and a 2nd round pick (Egor Sokolov) so they would take on Mikhail Grabovski's $5m x 1y contract.
• Tampa Bay traded Vegas Nikita Gusev, a 2nd round pick (Alex Texier) and a 4th round pick (Paul Cotter) so would take on Jason Garrison's $4.6m x 1y contract
• Winnipeg traded the 13th overall pick (Nick Suzuki) for the 24th overall pick so Vegas wouldn't select Tobias Enstrom.
Bad Protections
• Boston protected Kevan Miller over Colin Miller.
• Los Angeles protected Derek Forbort over Brayden McNabb.
• St. Louis protected Sobotka, Berglund, Reaves over David Perron and Jordan Binnington.
Bad Everything
• Florida traded them Reilly Smith for a 4th round pick, left Jonathan Marchessault exposed, while protecting Alex Petrovic & Mark Pysyk.
• Columbus traded them a 1st & 2nd round pick so they would take on David Clarkson's $5.25m x 3y contract. Then they exposed 43-goal scorer William Karlsson.
In total, they finessed:
• Shea Theodore
• Jonathan Marchessault
• William Karlsson
• Reilly Smith
• David Perron
• Brayden McNabb
• Marc-Andre Fleury
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• Alex Tuch (huge part of Jack Eichel package)
• Nick Suzuki (huge part of Max Pacioretty package)
• Drew Commesso (huge part of Robin Lehner package)
• Colin Miller (huge part of Alec Martinez package)
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• Erik Brannstrom & Egor Sokolov (became Mark Stone)
• Erik Haula (became Nicolas Roy -> Mitch Marner)
• Alex Texier (became Keegan Kolesar)
• Nikita Gusev (became Daniil Chayka, Lukas Cormier, and Jakub Demek)
• Paul Cotter (became Alex Holtz, Akira Schmid, and Mason Moe)
The league's got no one to blame but themselves.
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Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.
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Everything Happens For A Reason. Believe Nothing You Hear & Half Of What You See. Im A Raider. I’m Back. Run That Sh*t. 🦅🏴☠️
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If nothing changes in College Sports this is what I predict will happen next :
* 25-30 schools playing Football in two super conferences
* several mid major or low major football programs will fold.
* Boosters / Donors won’t be able to keep up long term with the money requests. They get nothing from it. It’s just literally giving your money to someone else. Thats fine normally but - with the new money at millions of dollars it won’t work consistently. Year after year after year.
* for the schools that want to continue forward you will have more and more true “outside interests” like Institutional Investment Funds own a share or an controlling majority interest in College Athletic Departments. They will set pricing for tickets , merch , concessions etc. You basically get “Owners” in college sports.
*Basketball will be a sport where more schools will try to compete (Georgetown , St John’s , Creighton can compete on even footing with Alabama and Texas A&M in that sport. It’s doable). But in the long run you will get to the same place Football is.
I can see this happening over the next 5-8 years. You still have schools making runs w boosters and donors (like Texas Tech this year ) but we’re one recession away from that going away.
You need bold political intervention to change this and create a set of rules and enforcement that works. However that’s a political hot potato - nobody wants to get involved with it.
“NIL” is honestly insulting. Call it salary , call it whatever. Calling it “NIL” is really not in touch w reality.
#NIL #NCAA #CFP #SEC #BIG10
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Sources: Washington State has targeted Missouri offensive coordinator Kirby Moore to be the school's next coach. The sides are working toward a deal, that's expected to come together today. He's a former wide receiver at Boise and the former Fresno State OC.
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So
@AgentSploots x @KalshiEco
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LFPredict!
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I’m excited to partner up with @Kalshi (hence the badge)
What does this mean?
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This is a MASSIVE box all the way from Pullman, Washington... It's the Cougars of Washington State!!
What a storied program with a long line of great coaches and quarterbacks, even some basketball greats went there!
Thank you Coach Rogers and @WSUCougarFB for sending this box!
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Giving away a @psychanon Genesis and a @Ledgart_io Wonky Stonks. Tag a friend and RT to be entered in. Will pick a winner on Monday the 30th.
Psychedelics Anonymous is inevitable.
Wonky Stonks is inevitable.
