Cuts made this morning

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A post on HFboards states that Skinner becomes an Unrestricted free agent after this season if he doesn't play 80 NHL games this season. As long as Kessel plays 10 NHL games this season, he will be a Restricted free agent. If true, might be a big factor in the decision.

Correct and that’s a very good point. It’s the Group 6 UFA rule. So definitely could’ve factored into the decision on why they kept Kessel over Skinner - Skinner is almost certain to become a UFA this summer while Kessel will remain a RFA.

That said, injuries happen and we will very likely need Skinner at some point in the season. He just needs to keep his chin up and continue to do well in Springfield and I bet he’ll get his chance.

I heard once that someone made the Kessel run in 5 parsecs.

They made a valiant attempt to explain that in “Solo”. They coated it in special effects, but hey…it closed the gap!

Totally OT:
I'll grant that they made an effort.
But if I'm being honest, I haven't been thrilled with anything Star Wars related since the abomination known as the Sequel trilogy(The Mandalorian is good and Rogue One filled a lot of gaps in the backstory but everything else has been borderline garbage).
Lucas never should have sold the franchise to Disney. They just don't have any story writing capabilities anymore(Disney would have been better off using the original Star Wars EU as their template).

Returning to the topic of the Blues; I'm still convinced that Army is secretly a Sith Lord.

Lucas brought us jar jar binks and those 3 awful movies. I’m not sure anything good comes out under his watch.

We DO NOT speak of The Destroyer of Galaxies(referring to the devil spawn creation of Lucas).

Lucas himself had plenty of great flicks in his early days(Indiana Jones, Star Wars). But you could tell he was in idgaf mode by the time the Sequel's came out.
And they were still better than the garbage Disney dumped on the world.

I don't think Lucas was dgaf mode for the prequels. I think his focus had clearly changed. He always needed someone to curate the dialogue. And he attempted to get his buddies to do it with Spielberg and others being asked to direct. No one wanted to do it because they respected Lucas too much and kept telling him that this is his thing. Anyways, what Lucas wanted to do and felt very passionate about was adding in new ways to film. That's what the prequels were all about. They used more practical effects than the originals, while also utilizing that green/blue screen in a way that had never been used before. Lucas was so consumed by that and pushing the envelope there, he was OK with weird dialogue exchanges and not doing multiple takes with the actors, as long as the "shot" got done.

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Skinner is on waivers.

https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/hocke ... -st-louis/