*We’ve about 36 hours to wait until Pat Verbeek tells us in which way Danny Briere will have screwed him over — because you know it’ll be like, 7:57 p.m. when he makes the call. Men are so petty. Anyway, what if Verbeek got a little spicy and picked up the phone a little earlier to propose a trade? [BSH]
*So where do things stand right now? No one knows, of course, but that won’t stop these two guys from confidently speculating. [The Athletic]
*We should probably all enjoy this… fun? (this is fun, right?) …while we can, because it’ll probably be a real long time, like the length of a Shea Weber contract, before we see a move this spicy again. [BSH]
*No matter what happens tomorrow, one thing is clear: this move has signaled a change in the way Danny Briere is approaching the management of this roster, and that’s a big deal. [BSH]
*For funsies, we ran through a little exercise to think about what kind of players we will miss out on if we end up sending four first-round picks to Anaheim. Who doesn’t love a fun little exercise? [BSH]
*If you’re a subscriber over at Charlie’s website, you can check out a deep-dive into Maksim Sokolovskii’s game, brought to you by their foreign correspondent. It would appear that this kid’s game is a little more nuanced than “he big”. [PHLY]
*And finally, because everything is sports and we’re all trying to fill some time while we wait to learn our collective fate, we wrote about the final season of The Bear, and try to decide is this acclaimed show managed to stick the landing. [BSH]
