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Pictured, left to right: Alex Galchenyuk, Filip Forsberg, Malcolm Subban, Nail Yakupov, Mikhail Grigorenko, Ryan Murray.

An argument could be made for these six prospects getting drafted as the top six picks overall, in three weeks. Not a very convincing one, but a plausible one, maybe.

But I don't care about any of that shit. All I want to hear from you people is movie title / TV show / whatever, followed by a list of its 6 characters, as portrayed by the actors in the above movie poster. Bonus points for things like excerpted dialogue, photoshops, whatever you got, I dunno, I'm already starting to care less and less, so let's do this thing now.

Prize money will be paid by .... let's say .... Parisi .... and whoever garners the most rec's wins, or something.

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I think every season needs to end - and even begin - with 15 games in a single day. I'd even schedule 15 games for the day before and the day after the All-Star break, as well as the day before Christmas Eve and 15 more on Boxing Day.

That's right. Fuck you, Kazakhstan-Canada and your inferior ratings.

Follow me over the jump to .... wait, wassat? .... there's no need for every single FanPost to contain this phrase, especially since it can only be interpreted as a cheap ploy to be front-paged, what with FanPosts actually containing no such jump?

Fine. Fuck you too, then.

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I think every season needs to end - and even begin - with 15 games in a single day. I'd even schedule 15 games for the day before and the day after the All-Star break, as well as the day before Christmas Eve and 15 more on Boxing Day.

That's right. Fuck you, Kazakhstan-Canada and your inferior ratings.

Follow me over the jump to .... wait, wassat? .... there's no need for every single FanPost to contain this phrase, especially since it can only be interpreted as a cheap ploy to be front-paged, what with FanPosts actually containing no such jump?

Fine. Fuck you too, then.

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[***UPDATE*** The response was overwhelming. Literally, in the case of the scheduling tool, which had trouble keeping up with all the last-minute updates. In the end, I determined that a Friday night draft was simply too little lead time and with so many people expressing a desire to postpone it, I have tentatively rescheduled the draft for Saturday night at 7 PM EDT.]

[***UPDATE*** The league is now full. If you were not one of the 20 who got in, but would still like to participate, please leave a comment below and we'll look into adding a second Division]

I’m not sure how much interest there might be in this, especially given how late in the season it is, but I thought I’d put it out there that I am willing to host a Silver Seven fantasy league on Yahoo.

I thought that maybe in lieu of a GDT, we could use the Live Chat feature of a fantasy draft to follow a game, whilst we pick our teams. It doesn’t have to be this weekend, but it should be noted that any draft not completed by Sunday will prevent us from scoring any points until the 18th of October.

Perhaps delaying the draft for a few weeks wouldn’t be a horrible idea. A 20-team league that begins play on November 1st would create a symmetrical 19-week schedule, as well as allow us to exploit the knowledge that comes with having watched three or more weeks of regular season games.

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Daniel Alfredsson took part in the World Hockey Summit in Toronto last night and spoke to members of the press afterwards. One of the things that he discussed during the first Hot Stove Session, moderated by Paul Romanuk, and also featuring Glenn Healy and Bob McCown, included the differences in rink sizes in Europe versus the NHL.

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In case you missed this hilarious offering from Down Goes Brown back in February, the premise was that the above image was a screenshot of Gary Bettman's gmail account. This was just one example that really sticks out from among the huge collection of gut-busting posts by the funniest blogger in all of sports. I would highly recommend checking out his entire archives if you happened to just crawl out from under a rock.

I wouldn't think it possible, but if some of his timeless humour starts to seem slightly dated, then I would strongly suggest that you head down to the newsstand and buy yourself a copy of The National Post, where you can keep up with all his new shit (albeit roughly 12 hours after he posts it to his blog).

That's right. You heard right. Ottawa's own DGB has made the big time.

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Of the 27 players who filed for salary arbitration this summer, eight of them have since agreed to new contracts before setting foot in Toronto for their scheduled hearings.

Two players who have made the trek have both been rewarded with favourable rulings, though only one came away with a shiny new contract in hand.

The Atlanta Thrashers exercised their option to walk away from the arbitrator's ruling that would have seen Clarke MacArthur get a hefty raise, from $1.4M to $2.4M, after scoring 16 goals and 35 points for the Thrashers and Buffalo Sabres.

A second, and possibly more satisfying victory for the players' side came a day later, when the Vancouver Canucks felt compelled to accept a ruling in favour of Danish-born winger, Jannik Hansen. The team had given Hansen a qualifying offer of $605,000 (the required 10% raise from his $550,000 salary from last season), but the arbitrator sided with the player, awarding him a one-way contract worth $825,000 for the upcoming season. The Canucks had opted for a one-year deal, meaning Hansen will become an RFA again next summer.

What does this have to do with the Senators, you ask? That's a good question. Pat yourself on the back for me.

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