If there's no room for him in Buffalo next year, that's a good thing.
Borgen is waivers-exempt which mean they can call him up and ease him into the nhl game. Which is a good thing.
And he'll be on the final year of his entry-level deal at the end of next year meaning he could be one of those "value contracts" everyone wants. That's another good thing.
And, if i'm not mistaken, he'll be automatically protected in the expansion draft. Which is also good.
There's no need to rush him and there's no need to trade him thus creating a gap in the prospect depth chart.
imo, of course - Michael Pachla
It's not really a value unless he's on the team. I'd either trade Risto and Miller to make room for him or package him with Montour and Mittelstadt and get something sweet
I think the best years for Hasek were with Buffalo and I won’t dispute that he may have been their best player at that time. That doesn’t mean if he was in Edmonton when Gretzky was there that he would have made any difference above what Fuhr did. Remember Fuhr actually had around 14 points one year and has quite a few career points as a goalie. Oilers relied on him to handle the puck and it played into their system. That’s the point I see as a big difference in who could play in today’s NHL. - Camel
He had 14 one season and 8 another. Most his time in Edmonton he had around 2-3 points, 4 years he had zero. I think you give him to much credit offensively given who he was playing with. That one year he had 14 assists Gretzky had 205 points. Fuhr offensive output playing on Edmonton is about equal to Barrasso's playing in Pittsburgh. Is it just a coincidence that each team had generational players setting scoring records nearly every season?
It's not really a value unless he's on the team. I'd either trade Risto and Miller to make room for him or package him with Montour and Mittelstadt and get something sweet - jcragcrumple
he'll be their top d-prospect next year or if he isnt' he'll be their most nhl-ready prospect...and you want to trade him?...
for something sweet...like...poptarts or cap'n crunch?
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Mar 25 @ 1:44 PM ET
If there's no room for him in Buffalo next year, that's a good thing.
Borgen is waivers-exempt which mean they can call him up and ease him into the nhl game. Which is a good thing.
And he'll be on the final year of his entry-level deal at the end of next year meaning he could be one of those "value contracts" everyone wants. That's another good thing.
And, if i'm not mistaken, he'll be automatically protected in the expansion draft. Which is also good.
There's no need to rush him and there's no need to trade him thus creating a gap in the prospect depth chart.
imo, of course - Michael Pachla
I appreciate this information and hope he is not moved. I look forward to his toughness being on this team at some point.
If there's no room for him in Buffalo next year, that's a good thing.
Borgen is waivers-exempt which mean they can call him up and ease him into the nhl game. Which is a good thing.
And he'll be on the final year of his entry-level deal at the end of next year meaning he could be one of those "value contracts" everyone wants. That's another good thing.
And, if i'm not mistaken, he'll be automatically protected in the expansion draft. Which is also good.
There's no need to rush him and there's no need to trade him thus creating a gap in the prospect depth chart.
imo, of course - Michael Pachla
According to Capfriendly he is waiver exempt for the next two seasons or 66 more NHL games played, however he must be protected in the expansion draft.
I don't think at this point that I would worry too much about Seattle claiming him though.
According to Capfriendly he is waiver exempt for the next two seasons or 66 more NHL games played, however he must be protected in the expansion draft.
I don't think at this point that I would worry too much about Seattle claiming him though. - adambuffalo
It was a 40% return on investment. So while the markets went down 40%, I made 40%. So in essence you could have taken your portfolio amount on January 15th and multiplied it by 1.4
Just because I don’t have hundreds of thousands of dollars in a 401K being out of school for less than 2 years you’re going to discriminate against that return ? - Pegullaville
Glad you made some money in these trying times. Those numbers seem off though. The market hasn’t hit down 40% yet. And that would of been buying on the inverse at the absolute top since a large chunk of that was in 1-2 days at the beginning when I doubt anyone times those days perfect. More then half your gains is gone from yesterday and today now :/
Glad you made some money in these trying times. Those numbers seem off though. The market hasn’t hit down 40% yet. And that would of been buying on the inverse at the absolute top since a large chunk of that was in 1-2 days at the beginning when I doubt anyone times those days perfect. More then half your gains is gone from yesterday and today now :/ - Fattony1187
Compounding returns, I did most of the grunt work in the last few weeks. The markets were doing a see saw effect up one day, down the next, up one day, down the next.
On the days the markets were up, I made various bets ranging between $12-15K when the inverse was trading at its intraday low and sold it the next day for gains. I was making 30% a pop but I was increasing the amount each time.
I was up $10K on a portfolio of $25,000.
Now last Wednesday I made another bet, but this time I only went in half of the amount since I was nervous of the volatility levels seemingly decreasing lately. On a $7500 buy in (all profit at this point) I’m down almost 40% so exactly $3K.
7K profit on a 25,000 means I’m now up 28%.
So yes, I’m no longer up 40% after the butt kicking I took in the last 5 trading days.
There was a great profile of Jack Eichel in Sports Illustrated during his rookie season where he talked about not liking people “kissing his ass,” and his great respect for his father Bob’s willingness to tell him the truth. It is hard to talk about personal success during a hard team year. So I tried this approach: What did your dad say about your season?
“My dad’s always been my toughest critic,” Buffalo’s captain wrote. “He measures success with winning, so in that sense it was a tough season to swallow. I think when you look at our competitiveness from a night-in and night-out basis, and playing to our identity, our team did make a lot of strides this season, which was something to be positive about. In terms of my personal year, my dad gave me a huge compliment around the New Year when he told me how proud he was of the player that I had become. He thought I made a lot of strides as a complete centre, meaning I was much more responsible in our defensive zone. The hard minutes took a toll in his mind, but overall he was very complimentary of the year.”
Eichel added that one of his targets was to score more, and he’d already hit a career-high 36.
“We worked very hard at that in the summer, so that was also rewarding.”
At the NHL/NHLPA pre-season media tour, he talked at great length about his newly formed relationship with Ralph Krueger. There was a lot of optimism and a strong bond. How did that evolve?
“Getting to play and learn from Ralph this season was a real pleasure. He’s someone that comes into the rink every day with the best possible attitude no matter what happened the day before. He’s able to reset the group back into the right frame of mind so well. Obviously as the year we went we became more comfortable with each other. Not saying we weren’t at the start — it just was easier to go to him with things as we got to know each other better. With his background in leadership, it was great to be able to learn from him every day. He taught me a lot about myself, which I’m very thankful for.”
Eichel is a workout fiend. Did any of his teammates “beat” his determination?
“Working out and off-ice training is something I’ve always enjoyed. With the long season and tough schedule we are always trying to find time to fit in workouts. We have a lot of great athletes in our room that push each other in the gym every day which is great. We do a bike test at the beginning of the year. They use your weight and bike results to find an endurance score. I posted a really good score that I was happy with until I saw Sam Reinhart’s score. He blew everyone out of the water.”
Compounding returns, I did most of the grunt work in the last few weeks. The markets were doing a see saw effect up one day, down the next, up one day, down the next.
On the days the markets were up, I made various bets ranging between $12-15K when the inverse was trading at its intraday low and sold it the next day for gains. I was making 30% a pop but I was increasing the amount each time.
I was up $10K on a portfolio of $25,000.
Now last Wednesday I made another bet, but this time I only went in half of the amount since I was nervous of the volatility levels seemingly decreasing lately. On a $7500 buy in (all profit at this point) I’m down almost 40% so exactly $3K.
7K profit on a 25,000 means I’m now up 28%.
So yes, I’m no longer up 40% after the butt kicking I took in the last 5 trading days. - Pegullaville
There was a great profile of Jack Eichel in Sports Illustrated during his rookie season where he talked about not liking people “kissing his ass,” and his great respect for his father Bob’s willingness to tell him the truth. It is hard to talk about personal success during a hard team year. So I tried this approach: What did your dad say about your season?
“My dad’s always been my toughest critic,” Buffalo’s captain wrote. “He measures success with winning, so in that sense it was a tough season to swallow. I think when you look at our competitiveness from a night-in and night-out basis, and playing to our identity, our team did make a lot of strides this season, which was something to be positive about. In terms of my personal year, my dad gave me a huge compliment around the New Year when he told me how proud he was of the player that I had become. He thought I made a lot of strides as a complete centre, meaning I was much more responsible in our defensive zone. The hard minutes took a toll in his mind, but overall he was very complimentary of the year.”
Eichel added that one of his targets was to score more, and he’d already hit a career-high 36.
“We worked very hard at that in the summer, so that was also rewarding.”
At the NHL/NHLPA pre-season media tour, he talked at great length about his newly formed relationship with Ralph Krueger. There was a lot of optimism and a strong bond. How did that evolve?
“Getting to play and learn from Ralph this season was a real pleasure. He’s someone that comes into the rink every day with the best possible attitude no matter what happened the day before. He’s able to reset the group back into the right frame of mind so well. Obviously as the year we went we became more comfortable with each other. Not saying we weren’t at the start — it just was easier to go to him with things as we got to know each other better. With his background in leadership, it was great to be able to learn from him every day. He taught me a lot about myself, which I’m very thankful for.”
Eichel is a workout fiend. Did any of his teammates “beat” his determination?
“Working out and off-ice training is something I’ve always enjoyed. With the long season and tough schedule we are always trying to find time to fit in workouts. We have a lot of great athletes in our room that push each other in the gym every day which is great. We do a bike test at the beginning of the year. They use your weight and bike results to find an endurance score. I posted a really good score that I was happy with until I saw Sam Reinhart’s score. He blew everyone out of the water.” - adambuffalo
Skunk has definitely put in the work..... even though people hate him here.
I would never advise a client to do what I did. It’s probably the riskiest equity you can buy.
However if I lose my own money I can stomach that. - Pegullaville
I would of cashed out and bought back in long term. Market will be back up again in 2-3 years and that would be another 30% gain for ya. Not as fast but it sounds like your young so low risk easy money
