I’m not expecting much. Home game, dead crowd, struggling goalie, D working their way through fixing mistakes… They could win, but I prefer them on the road again–betting on a good performance in Toronto.
Good morning, boneheads!
Game Day!
Did you watch Washington- Pittsburgh game last night? Wow! Passionate, physical, high scoring game. Defense? Out the window!
Gimp line lol
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Ilb
Passion filled physical hockey…what is that? Lol. We do have the D out the window part down.
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No to Doan…or iggy for that matter (unless fast goes the other way).
Who gets waived when Puemple comes back. I know the logical answer is Puemple, but I get the impression the Rangers really like him, and think they may have something. Would they carry 14 forwards? Not something they have done before.
BDL- I wouldn’t be surprised if they do carry 14 forwards. So long as they aren’t over 23 man roster limit. They are projected to have close to $9M space at deadline as it is, with all their injuries all year, more than enough to make moves. Removing Puempel will not make that much of a difference, and isn’t worth taking a risk. Especially if they like what they see.
also a pretty good chance that a guy who was waived by Ottawa, passed waivers all the way through to the Rangers, and has since had two concussions, will clear waivers.
Hopefully Hank will string a few good game together and prove us all wrong. If he can’t pull it together it could get really ugly. Not only would the window close, but, the house would fall down.
Dan Rosen
@drosennhl
Interesting tidbit from Vigneault. He said Zibanejad did the training camp on-ice testing again last week. His results: Better than in camp.
Not a fan of an offensive configured 4th line; Puree, Pums, etc. Watching Puree try to skate and back check is painful and Pumps has proven he is no banger.
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Staal update?
I’m glad the blog has finally moved to Eastern Europe Time (EET)! Bos, Otw, Fla, SJ and LA look to be the teams most in need of offensive help. Depending standings may be hard to deal in conference for D help but what do SJ/LA have that we could realistically trade for without giving away the kids (or at least not many)?
#Isles News: Jack Capuano has been relieved of his duties as Head Coach. Assistant GM Doug Weight will serve as interim Head Coach.
18 mins ago – Twitter
Not sure I see the problem with gudbranson. He’s a good player (been on crappy teams from day 1 in NHL), solid D man, good mobility, is a righty, a pending ufa, decent contract, only 24 or 25 yrs old
I haven’t been nearly as active as I’ve wanted to be as far as contributing doodie. Do you hate me? It’s my wife’s fault. Can’t win an argument with an attorney 😑
Zibanejad will need a little time. Once he’s in full stride the forward lines should be better than we’ve seen since early Oct. Who’s on the fourth line? Pirri Lindberg and Vesey?
BTW RE: Isles. Wouldn’t Gerard Gallant or Bob Hartley make total sense as the next coach? One who could come in change the dynamic over there and really do some good by installing values and setting the bar high? Doesn’t that make sense? That’s why neither will get the vacant coaching position. Makes too much sense. Snow will come hire like Tom Barasso or Barry Melrose. Stupidity loves company.
Wick you don’t have to worry. The Isles will never hire a coach that makes any sense. That’s not Snow’s way. His top 3 phone calls tomorrow morning will probably be to Trottier, Nolan and Perry Pearn.
And I love it. I love Garth Snow as the Isles GM. I really do. I hope he stays 15 more years. Meanwhile over in Winnipeg, I think the race is on as to which they bring in first. A new goalie or a new GM.
You gotta hand it to the Isles. Snow resists firing Capuano and then pulls the trigger after his team beats Boston 4-0. I wonder if Snow was afraid Cappy would get the team on a roll before finally flopping.
From what I have heard, Gallant would be the perfect Snow hire. Not sure where I heard/read about it, but Gallant was not portrayed as a good coach at all.
Rangers Report 2.0 
First.
I’m expecting a passionate and hard working team with a high compete level Tuesday night vs the Dallas Stars.
Sure was nice seeing the Cowboys lose in such a heartbreaking manner.
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First…of the non in charge variety
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Terd
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I’m not expecting much. Home game, dead crowd, struggling goalie, D working their way through fixing mistakes… They could win, but I prefer them on the road again–betting on a good performance in Toronto.
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Hey, wait a minute! This isn’t a clean slate. There are 4 comments here already!
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5 actually! Good morning Boneheads welcome to Tuesday! I have no comments on the game tonight I just hope they find a way to win!
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Good morning, boneheads!
Game Day!
Did you watch Washington- Pittsburgh game last night? Wow! Passionate, physical, high scoring game. Defense? Out the window!
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The Defense Rests…bigger nets last night?? Murray 7 goals against on 28 shots
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What are the chances the real Henrik shows up between now & when Auntie is back?
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You’re wrong. Must win tonight!!! 🙂
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“Coach Alain Vigneault had Zibanejad on a line with Rick Nash and Pavel Buchnevich for Monday’s practice”
The Gimp Line!
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Gimp Line 🙂
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Just like Buchnevich, Zika probably won’t be playing in back-to-backs for a while 🙂
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Shane Doan is reportedly willing to waive his NTC to go to a playoff team. Doesn’t he have “bad Rangers deadline trade” written all over him?
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Shane Doan would legit put us over the top. Buch and a R1 seems fair. We might need to take on Dave Bolland’s contract though.
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Doan for Hank
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Done Doan has been destined to be a Ramger for years. Iginla too.
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Gimp line lol
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Ilb
Passion filled physical hockey…what is that? Lol. We do have the D out the window part down.
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No to Doan…or iggy for that matter (unless fast goes the other way).
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Lol carp…great minds (or in this case your great mind and me)
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Doan and Duclair for Yandle
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You have to wonder if the rangers need a “vocal” leader in the locker room like
Doan or iggy (S)
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I feel like Mike Ribeiro is approaching future Rangerdom as well.
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Journal News sports dept is fifth in Metro
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Hank needs a bigger glove and smaller 5 hole! And some side to side slide lessons from Danny G!
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DStars = tire fires, thusly the sexy boys will play down to their level & lose. Don’t book it.
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FG, not sure they can hold off Carolina or the Devils or Fish Tanks.
Good point about Ribeiro, Dave.
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I always like when their fans yell out “STARS” whenever the word is mentioned in the anthem. There’s usually a decent smattering across MSG.
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Ribeiro isn’t the “leader” or “winner” that the Rangers usually overpay for.
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TJN has a lot of loser points.
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Toughhockey times in the big D:
http://www.defendingbigd.com/2017/1/17/14292788/dallas-stars-look-to-bounce-back-against-new-york-rangers-6-00pm-cst
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not to mention football, Headzo.
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I hope Gorton stays away from all these high prized, expensive rentals this year.
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Maybe we can pry Barry Beck from Colorado.
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Brad Richards might be willing to return as well.
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Do we still have any interest in Chelios to pair with McDonagh until Mac learns the ropes?
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Caber!
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Who gets waived when Puemple comes back. I know the logical answer is Puemple, but I get the impression the Rangers really like him, and think they may have something. Would they carry 14 forwards? Not something they have done before.
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we will have to get a youngish quality Dman in here sooner or later. May as well be sooner.
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Chance there will be somebody else banged up by the time Pumper gets back.
Betcha Dan Boyle would come out of retirement to shore up the right side D.
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BDL- I wouldn’t be surprised if they do carry 14 forwards. So long as they aren’t over 23 man roster limit. They are projected to have close to $9M space at deadline as it is, with all their injuries all year, more than enough to make moves. Removing Puempel will not make that much of a difference, and isn’t worth taking a risk. Especially if they like what they see.
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They’re crying about them too Carp
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also a pretty good chance that a guy who was waived by Ottawa, passed waivers all the way through to the Rangers, and has since had two concussions, will clear waivers.
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Time to acquire Roussel from stars
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In time for tonight’s game?
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Dan Boyle? No play for Mister Grey. Richie Redux.
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Where’s Bobby Holik when you really need him? He’s a free agent, isn’t he?
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Carp
I wish
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I don’t disagree Carp,
But scoring is needed in this league, and in 12 games as a 4th liner, Puemple pumped in 5.
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Hopefully Hank will string a few good game together and prove us all wrong. If he can’t pull it together it could get really ugly. Not only would the window close, but, the house would fall down.
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Clean Slate? THE’s tee shirt reads ‘TABULA RASA.’
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No more gifs?!
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The one (semi) tough guy in the Ranger organization is doing crossword puzzles in Hartford.
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Mika is back! He’ll make Rangers great again!
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Didn’t Pumper pump three in one game? So other than that, his production is pretty underwhelming. I think they see some upside though.
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Dan Rosen
@drosennhl
Interesting tidbit from Vigneault. He said Zibanejad did the training camp on-ice testing again last week. His results: Better than in camp.
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So zpack came into camp out of shape…traid him 😉
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We shoulda traded Mika even before we traded for Mika! Fire Allaire!
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Doodie – I can enter a title and publish it to Create a new thread
But I’m unable to write anything into the WordPress editor.
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Not a fan of an offensive configured 4th line; Puree, Pums, etc. Watching Puree try to skate and back check is painful and Pumps has proven he is no banger.
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Staal update?
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They should make 61-93-89 the fourth line. Then they’d have a really good fourth line.
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I’m glad the blog has finally moved to Eastern Europe Time (EET)! Bos, Otw, Fla, SJ and LA look to be the teams most in need of offensive help. Depending standings may be hard to deal in conference for D help but what do SJ/LA have that we could realistically trade for without giving away the kids (or at least not many)?
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Puempel and Pirri for Burns.
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Puempel and Pirri for Burns.
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Da! But only if Burns will shave that stoopid broom off his face. I bet mice live in that haystack of a beard.
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#Isles News: Jack Capuano has been relieved of his duties as Head Coach. Assistant GM Doug Weight will serve as interim Head Coach.
18 mins ago – Twitter
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And yet, Garth Sather, err, Snow still has a job lol
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Can we somehow steal Tavares from them?
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Burns is not pretty.
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E3, I have no idea what your issue is. I have no problems.
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What’s the WordPress Editor? Some other plug in or something? Or are you referring to just the native website?
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Gudbranson from the Canucks…no brainer
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I agree, that would be a brainless move.
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Rr2 – the WordPress window. Something happened somewhere somehow. Not sure what my issue is….
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Dallas with 2 wins in 10 against the East. Sporting the leagues worst PK @74.3, and a whopping 6 wins on the road. Should be a cake walk,
for the stars
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No idea. We can still go the old school way of you sending content to me.
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WordPress has designated user roles assigned by site admin
https://www.wpwhitesecurity.com/wordpress-security/wordpress-user-roles-wordpress-security/
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Not sure I see the problem with gudbranson. He’s a good player (been on crappy teams from day 1 in NHL), solid D man, good mobility, is a righty, a pending ufa, decent contract, only 24 or 25 yrs old
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Everything you said before “is a righty” is incorrect.
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SN, he uses my log in information and posts as me. It’s not a permission issue.
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I haven’t been nearly as active as I’ve wanted to be as far as contributing doodie. Do you hate me? It’s my wife’s fault. Can’t win an argument with an attorney 😑
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Let’s just call up Mat Bodie!!!
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He’ll be the guy with the rubber Ronald Regan mask and the parachute on his back
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@RR2 it could also be a cookie problem or possibly something related to an add-on such as noscript, ublock, adblock,etc.
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C3 they won’t have to steal Tavares. Just gotta wait til 7/2/18
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Could be that stuff, but I run a lot of things like that on my computers without any issues.
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I’ll try cut and paste from word when I get home
Do you have Go time? I can do the new post
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I think we need the great Carpini back!
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E3’s WTF = Wide Toilets Forever
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Zibanejad will need a little time. Once he’s in full stride the forward lines should be better than we’ve seen since early Oct. Who’s on the fourth line? Pirri Lindberg and Vesey?
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BTW RE: Isles. Wouldn’t Gerard Gallant or Bob Hartley make total sense as the next coach? One who could come in change the dynamic over there and really do some good by installing values and setting the bar high? Doesn’t that make sense? That’s why neither will get the vacant coaching position. Makes too much sense. Snow will come hire like Tom Barasso or Barry Melrose. Stupidity loves company.
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Why turds float
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Hopefully we’ll see some of this tonight: https://www.facebook.com/dallasstarshockeyfans/videos/1183089018465079/
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Click on that first video btw. Van Halen fans will dig…
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When
Toilets
Fly
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James
Sshhh…Hartley needs to be available when we get rid of double bubble this summer
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Tavares > Hartley :p
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AV now the senior coach in the Metro? …
Shelf life?
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So Lindberg the odd man out with Pirri going back to the middle on the fourth line? I don’t like it.
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Only ramen noodles have a longer shelf life than AV.
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“coach what are your thoughts on how Jamie Benn played tonight?”
“well he’s no Yesper Fast” ::chomp chomp::
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Wick you don’t have to worry. The Isles will never hire a coach that makes any sense. That’s not Snow’s way. His top 3 phone calls tomorrow morning will probably be to Trottier, Nolan and Perry Pearn.
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And I love it. I love Garth Snow as the Isles GM. I really do. I hope he stays 15 more years. Meanwhile over in Winnipeg, I think the race is on as to which they bring in first. A new goalie or a new GM.
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Rumors that Trots is already scribing his coaching application/hockey novel
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Oscar hits too much, needs to watch Puree to know how to back check and turn left on his skates.
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Hopefully AV next to go.
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You gotta hand it to the Isles. Snow resists firing Capuano and then pulls the trigger after his team beats Boston 4-0. I wonder if Snow was afraid Cappy would get the team on a roll before finally flopping.
From what I have heard, Gallant would be the perfect Snow hire. Not sure where I heard/read about it, but Gallant was not portrayed as a good coach at all.
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So Lindberg gets the Prucha?
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Manny
Rigoddamndiculous!!!
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I was a little surprised at the choice.
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I would HOPE that Pirri over Lindberg is to showcase Brandon as part of a deal.
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What could you get for Pirri? A 4th round pick?
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New post
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