Blake Comeau Agrees to 1-Year Deal with Islanders, Avoids Arbitration
by Dominik on Aug 2, 2011 9:08 PM EDT
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PrintPer a team news release, the Islanders have agreed to terms with Blake Comeau on a one-year deal, avoiding the arbitration hearing scheduled for Thursday. Newsday's Katie Strang reports it's for $2.5 million (check her reporting for quotes later, I'm sure), which is right in the expected salary range we discussed last month.
This is probably ideal for both sides (unless Comeau was hoping for a "core" length deal). Comeau is coming off a career year; he has another season to prove it's repeatable before either side wades into something more lasting. Meanwhile, if he's pushed for ice time from the young prospect forwards, then both sides will have a better idea of where he fits next year at this time, when he'll be eligible for restricted free agency again.
For those still fretting the cap floor, this one puts the Islanders within a few million, still not counting Josh Bailey's pending new deal nor if a bonus baby like Nino Niederreiter makes the team. The only selfishly bad news I see: Now my post topic for tomorrow morning is scuttled. But sheer laziness this is why I wait until the day before the hearing to really dig into the details.
As an odd footnote to this, the only NHL case this year to go all the way to an actual arbitration hearing is Shea Weber -- and his was a team-elected arbitration, which is all the rarer. The arbitrator has 48 hours to deliver Weber's prize.
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That would be nice
If he keeps getting better, they start to get that luxury surplus — we all win. Especially Quebec! /obligatory gallows humor
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speaking of the quebec rumors
On TSN there was Nabokov thread of course so I read maybe 3 comments all saying how the islanders sucked and were never making the playoffs so I responded with this:
So what your saying is the likelihood of the Islanders making the playoffs is the same likelihood of a Canadian club ever winning the Cup again
Good Signing.
by ghalbart on Aug 2, 2011 9:24 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Well done
TSN comments are like Yahoo on steroids. Canadian steroids.
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for all they boast about hockey
too many of them are extremely ignorant when it comes to the rest of the league. If it was up to them they would have 8 teams in Canada to battle for the cup so at least one of them could win it. They just get me riled up.
Hockey in Canada is often like Football in America. Just because a lot of people follow it, doesn't mean they know anything about it.
This isn’t a knock on Canadian hockey fans at all, since for the most part they are exposed to more hockey news than the average American sports fan. However, US hockey fans though fewer in number require greater dedication to the sport.
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This is why I've never minded hockey's lower popularity in the States
When I hear football discussed in most avenues in the U.S., I end up vomiting. SO many people with no clue are provided ample air time.
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when i was a kid, newspapers up here rountinely reported studies that showed hockey ranking below bowling in southern USA
and that was fine by me. it was when hockey started to become more popular in the USA when the Canadian game became threatened. With 10 times the population and worlds largest economic market, Canada simply could not compete…hard to believe in the dynasty yearsa, half a mil was average salary per year for a star.
by CanadianIsleslifer on Aug 3, 2011 7:16 PM EDT up reply actions
Wow I thought I was the only one in a fighting mood.
You may as well as gone to a PETA site and posted this:
"Look at my new clothes," said the Emperor to the Nassau County residents.
by metalcoconut on Aug 2, 2011 10:24 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I love that image. Im totally would post that at PETA.
Hunter said he was just finishing his check.
by Turgeon1992 on Aug 3, 2011 12:15 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
added another
If the Islanders moved to Canada, they would be the first team in Canada to win the Cup since Montreal. Since they are not moving to Canada, I guess the wait will continue.
by ghalbart on Aug 3, 2011 7:45 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Ha!
Go get ’em, ghalbart! Hope your computer is unhackable, though. Have you ever had a Canadian computer virus? It fills your PC with maple syrup and makes your files riot every time a Canadian team is eliminated from the playoffs.
Vote Yes, dammit!
by ICanSeeForIslesAndIsles on Aug 3, 2011 9:06 AM EDT up reply actions
CANADA DID NOT VOTE THE NYI OFF THE ISLAND, NASSAU DID: Come on guys...have you any idea how threatened Canadian pro-hockey was by uncle Sam back in the days when the Canadian dollar was worth 60 cents American???
That is what led to all but Toronto becoming a small market team, heck the majority of players are Canadian, and they all demanded pay in American greenbacks…even though your money looks more like play money…no offense, just saying….if not for economic times, Quebec and Winnipeg would have never ended up south, and the Canadian teams would have been better able to compete…even Betman knew they had to do something, b/c if Canadians stop treating hockey like religion, the sport is going to have trouble finding athletes…we still make up over 60% of league, even today…
And in LI, yes, the Lighthouse plan was killed for political reasons, in much better economic times, when the private sector would have paid…now economic times have changed, and it doesn’t look like private sector funding is there for Nassau…as much as i love the Isles, if i owned the team, no way in hell i would ever spend one red cent to keep the team there after that referendum…if Queens or Brooklyn offered same deal Nassau turned down, i’d take it…if it were my money, i’d build where i have transit, airport and close to the large urban market…
don’t blame Canada, Canadians did not vote the Islanders off the Island!!!
by CanadianIsleslifer on Aug 3, 2011 9:41 AM EDT up reply actions
sorry about that
Not speaking for ghalbart, but I think he’s just tweaking the Canadian attitude that their sport is too good for the likes of Yanks and Euros and Russkies. We appreciate how hard the currency imbalance was on Canadian teams in the 80’s and 90’s. I think the difference is, no American fans wanted Quebec or Winnipeg to lose their teams, any more than we wanted the Whalers and North Stars to relocate. I would have loved the league to expand into Colorado and Carolina and Phoenix and Dallas, not to simply snatch teams away. I think even if you asked the fans of the new cities, they would have said that getting a team at the expense of another fan base wasn’t ideal. It’s better than seeing teams fold, though.
The way some Canadian hockey fans talk, you’d think they regard any hockey south of Detroit and Boston as a mutation unworthy of the purity of the Original Six. The world went to hell in a handbasket when the Flyers won the Stanley Cup with those orange uniforms. Some of those Canadian hockey fans are national writers and commentators for the sport. So… yeah, they get teased a bit. They deserve it the same way the “America’s Hat” folks deserve it.
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Even the "original" six was 66.6% American based.
Nassau Coliseum lost a veteran and an original Islander fan. ACC 1918-2011
Exactly
Honestly I love Canada, I have a Canadian brother-in Law that rules, I love poutine, I love that they speak french in la belle provence, and I love Hockey. I go to TSN for the articles, because their is so much more coverage then say espn or any other american mainstream site.
Anytime an Islanders blurb is mentioned, there is either a circus, wang, dp, contract, joke, train wreck, never making it to the playoffs comment constructed in a misinformed ignorant fashion. I honestly do not mind the banter, its banter, everyone makes fun of the leafs or canadiens or other teams they dislike. But the sentiment towards the Islanders or teams in the sunshine belt is different.
I honestly would have loved to keep the Nordiques in their place, or teams like the original North Stars and Whalers in their place, but Hockey has moved for better or worse. I would never go on a US site and comment how lets say the Nordiques were a joke of franchise, should move, ect…and certainly not in a misinformed fashion.
I really just posted those remarks, which were not likely ever posted by moderators, to capture how ridiculous they are with their comments. Do I think a Canadian team will win the cup again, yes. Would I like to see a Canadian teem win the cup, yes, over the Islanders, no.
by ghalbart on Aug 3, 2011 6:09 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
My wife is a former Toronto Sun Sunshine Girl, so I love Canada.
Lived and worked in Montreal while commuting to visit Toronto and have in-laws in Calgary and she has more family in Vancouver.
My kids are dual-citizens, but I do have limits. They must HATE Sydney Crosby for the OT goal against the US at the Olympics and are not allowed near any Leafs gear. Which is fine since my wife comes from a long line of Hab season ticket holders.
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no way lol
what date? i’ll see if i can look it up…
come on, Crosby’s goal restored the balance of the universe…i’m so-so with Leafs….grew up with them living in Ontario of course, would cheer for them against most teams, but the Isles have always been my favourite team…Montreal and Ottawa in my view have the best looking women in Canada….it may be b/c they tend to put so much into dressing so well…i guess culturally i am bit of a red neck, born and raised…we are sometimes called hill billy’s by toronto – very very few ppl of color where i grew up, you can count them on one hand for the most part, literally. but i left to go to university, which was a cultural experience to say the least…where i grew up, there has literally been no immigration since after the Irish Potato Famine, outside of teachers, Drs, Nurses, cops, lawyers and Hydro workers…
by CanadianIsleslifer on Aug 4, 2011 10:48 PM EDT up reply actions
Twice in the late nineties, not even I remember the dates anymore.
but I do have the proofs and the clippings somewhere since I did get a shout-out in one of the articles. The girls on there now are often quite a bit on the skanky side, so I don’t mention it often.
Montreal was a pleasant place to live for the eye candy alone, but I was already on a tight leash.
Nassau Coliseum lost a veteran and an original Islander fan. ACC 1918-2011
have to remember...it was the NHL calculated risk to open southern USA market
combined with economy, USA having 10 times the population of Canada that essentially - don’t want to use the word “robbed” but it is close" cost Canada its national sport. In a very short time, cities that are large by Canadian standards, swimming in the same pool as USA, became “small markets”…i always like to point out how Winnipeg and Quebec City never had problems putting butts in seats…they didn’t have the populations to land the big TV deal, and had no where near the money of the big rich USA cities. Can’t even keep your own home-grown talent b/c as soon as they hit UFA, they’ll go for the money…
Toronto really is/was the only Canadian Market that could compete, and for whatever reason, the Leafs have had bad management virtually since 1967 with the exception of Cliff Fletcher years.
by CanadianIsleslifer on Aug 3, 2011 7:24 PM EDT up reply actions
Quebec, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Hartford where really WHA markets
Hard to imagine that two of those markets still exist. I doubt there ever would have been direct expansion into any of those cities. If it weren’t for the WHA, I also doubt there ever would have been a team in Long Island, Atlanta and even DC.
Nassau Coliseum lost a veteran and an original Islander fan. ACC 1918-2011
agreed but...
in terms of seat sales, Quebec and Winnipeg had no problems…it was always the fact that they could not get a lucrative TV contract, and merchandise…it was a main factor in Lindros refusing to go to Quebec…
by CanadianIsleslifer on Aug 4, 2011 10:50 PM EDT up reply actions
Funny that NHL is a gate driven league, but local TV rights really do drive profits.
Selling Nordique jerseys in Montreal just isn’t going to happen and that is your biggest Quebec market. The Hab-haters already root for the Bruins.
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what's the caption from?
The Wire?
Success was survival and, kid, it still is
by IslesFanInNJ on Aug 2, 2011 9:22 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
That's from Frans
Oh Tavares sick, that what he do.
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by Keith Quinn on Aug 2, 2011 9:47 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Here's the source
I tend to mold the original verbiage a little bit. Just trying to capture the spirit of the thing.
The referendum saga has made me want to quote The Wire a lot lately.
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I think season 3 was when they focused on the relative ineffectiveness of our government institutions
Will have to hit IMDB to find a few pertinent quotes.
Success was survival and, kid, it still is
by IslesFanInNJ on Aug 2, 2011 11:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Stock reaction to "The Wire" mention
“The Wire? The best show ever. I have all the DVDs. You MUST watch it. You MUST!!”
by DP'sknee(andhipandflubugandotherknee) on Aug 3, 2011 9:14 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Hear hear
My hockey teammates — about five of whom I’ve since turned on to it — must be tired of hearing me praise it, so when someone new asks I just give that stock answer. “If you want to know why, I’ll be happy to go into detail. But we’ve got to step aside and spare these others.”
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Comeau is a couple years for so from his prime.
I believe he will be part of the core
possibly
you might be right. He played a lot better last season than previously, so hopefully he is more confident and takes it up another notch this season
Any task BIG or small, Do it well or not at all
by Rickfansince76 on Aug 3, 2011 5:03 PM EDT up reply actions
of course if he gets much better he may be out of our price range
Any task BIG or small, Do it well or not at all
by Rickfansince76 on Aug 3, 2011 5:04 PM EDT up reply actions
and his was a team-elected arbitration, which is all the rarer.
According to this, it’s so rare, it’s never happened.
@TitanSports365
Just on a break at Shea Webers arbitration hearing. 1st time in NHL history a “team elected arbitration” has gone to hearing.
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Yeah that can't be good
Dirk Hoag seems to be a little panicked about it…for good reason of course. He’s been tweeting weird arbitration stats all day. I think another one was (don’t hold me to this) “10 of 11 cases that went through arbitration saw the player switch teams within one year”…or something.
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by Keith Quinn on Aug 2, 2011 9:49 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I'd heard the "1st time in NHL history" part but hadn't verified it
Really makes me wonder what’s going on (and was I on vacation when the RFA qualifying offer issue was resolved?). I think Dirk is supposed to be more panicked than an outsider, but it is legitimately unsettling for them.
That said, it’s not like arbitration can go Milbury-Salo style these days. This isn’t ’Nam. There are rules.
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The "1st time in history" thing isn't true
I saw that same tweet … and then another one (I can’t remember who) saying that there had actually been one previous case: Roberto Luongo
Wikipedia and it’s sources (USA today articles) verify that the Panthers elected to take Luongo to arbitration in 2005 (post-lockout) and that the case did go all the way to arbitration.
My instincts said “don’t trust agent speak,” which is why I made sure I quoted him and didn’t just pass it as definitive fact. Damn internet fooled me again.
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by George E. Ays on Aug 2, 2011 10:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Wow
Makes me want to dig back into that. For all his flaky drama, Luongo sure has dealt with his share of management chaos in his career.
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you mean
being a part of the Islanders and then the Panthers was Management Chaos?
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Good deal for both sides
Bit great for the Isles to get a reasonable deal done the day after a catastrophe. Sends a message to the fans and the players.
Like that a lot since there was some speculation that the team would walk from a high award.
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by Keith Quinn on Aug 2, 2011 9:51 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
Was there?
Man, my premise tomorrow morning was going to start, “No matter what happens, there is no way the Islanders walk away from Blake Comeau’s arbitration award.” I just figure there’s zero benefit to that. They don’t need the payroll/budget room, and they could swap him if they really wanted to get rid of him.
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I don't know how much such speculation there was...
…but I do remember seeing this tweet:
BDGallof
The first indication of a new mindset of #isles will be when they walk away from Comeau’s arbitration award
Heh.
How on earth would one square that with acquiring Rolston’s salary?
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Yeah it was mostly him
And then some others going back and forth on it. Galloff was saying that you can look for them to shed salary and operate at the cap floor till they move outside of NY…which really seems like a shitty business model IMO…but to me also, we’ve been operating at the cap floor for what 5 years?
What’s new?
I also don’t think this hurts JT signing his next deal and wanting to remain. Its not really about where you’re playing, it’s the construction of your team. If the Isles continue to do the right thing, why wouldn’t he want to stay with quality teammates and friends?
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by Keith Quinn on Aug 2, 2011 10:23 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
That's what I don't get
I mean, they are just inching up to the floor now. There is really nothing out there available for a $2.5M net increase in payroll that helps you more than keeping Blake Comeau, COZOs be damned.
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Of Course
Gallof tweets ten million times a day, taking the old model of throw enough shit at the wall… That way he can go back and point out that he was the first one to tweet the possibility.
Meanwhile I’ve noticed him taking odd pot shots at some of the other bigger name Isles bloggers, but he’s just as bad as anyone else.
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$2.5 a year? Sounds fair..............
One must figure at least one COZO per game, 82 game season= $30,487 per COZO.
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by Russel Ginart on Aug 2, 2011 10:25 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Just a rumor, but I heard that this deal was actually pretty much done almost a week ago,
but when Comeau went to present his counter offer to Snow, he did a Cozo as he slipped the paper across the table and disappeared for four days. Can we get the confirmed?
by Les Beaver on Aug 2, 2011 10:36 PM EDT up reply actions 5 recs
The mental picture
of Comeau circling Garth’s office for no reason is hilarious.
"He's depriving some small village of a pretty good idiot" - Mike Milbury on Ziggy Palffy's agent Paul Kraus.
we just cannot get away
from COZOs. They brighten our day and maybe, just maybe will save this franchise.
They brighten our day
Somethng has to.
<—- still depressed.
STOP effin' messin' with my FnGO!!
by Nova Scotia Isles Fan on Aug 3, 2011 7:40 AM EDT up reply actions
Garth Snow is the worst GM ever for ruining tomorrows headline!
It’s hard to root for this team sometimes. MANAGEMENT DOES NOT CARE ABOUT BLOGGING!
by Les Beaver on Aug 2, 2011 10:33 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
BLAKE BLOCK: How selfish signing ruined a blogger’s night, forced him to come with something about the Osgood cage or Colin White or something.
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How about a retrospective on Islanders throughout history named "Brad"?
When I first started posting here there was a subthread of Brad references that somehow morphed into a WWE show, or something. I mean, it’s August…what else is there to write about?
This should go in the hopper
On Darius Day, we’ll just have one man, and one Hootie.
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Point Blank analysis
OYE COMEAU VACould Blake’s early signing be a prelude to Snow’s big D move?
"He's depriving some small village of a pretty good idiot" - Mike Milbury on Ziggy Palffy's agent Paul Kraus.
by PGI on Aug 2, 2011 11:04 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Is his byline: please vindicate my grand statements?
Hunter said he was just finishing his check.
by Turgeon1992 on Aug 3, 2011 12:21 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I never xomment on PB anymore
but I had to to set all the morons straight who think this may be a sign of a trade of Comeau. Matt Moulson last year signed a 1 year deal to avoid arbitration and then, after he proved he was for real, signed a long term extension during the season. I have a feeling this is the same situation with Blake. No body suspected that the Islanders signed Moulson to a 1 year deal last year to trade him. People are dumb.
Oh and the headline…Come On Baby, Do the COZO-motion
I went to an Islanders Power Play and all I got was this broken stick
by Chris McNally on Aug 3, 2011 6:57 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
rec'd for the closing
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Please tell me this is some sort of reporting mistake
i hope I just threw up my corn flakes for no reason
I went to an Islanders Power Play and all I got was this broken stick
hmm i cant post the link...but anyway
Jon Sim?!?!? JON SIM!??!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
I went to an Islanders Power Play and all I got was this broken stick
Hahahahaha!!!
Hahahahahaha!!!!! Jon Sim!!!!!!!! Hahahahaha!!!! Hahahhahahahaha!!!!
Ok, now seriously…Waawaawaaawaaa!!!! Waaaaaaawawwawawa!!! Mommy, why do thy always pick me.
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by Empire39 on Aug 3, 2011 7:21 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
It's two way
If he’s willing to stay in BPT I’m all for it.
Vote Yes on August 1st.
He was only on a 2-way last season
And he not only made the opening day lineup but he stuck around half the season. I know theres no room for him but he has this annoying way of sticking around.
I went to an Islanders Power Play and all I got was this broken stick
by Chris McNally on Aug 3, 2011 7:40 AM EDT up reply actions
Last year though
we had no idea what we were getting in PAP and KO and Schremp were hurt. This year should be totally different. There is virtually no vet presence in BPT and he’s a reliable 4th line call-up if necessary. He won’t get anywhere near the top 6 this year.
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Its not on the team website
or anywhere else. I could see it as depth move, but why would Sim want to comeback on a two way deal. Chances are he only plays in BPT.
THN had it too
but it could be from the same AP bulletin.
Vote Yes on August 1st.
Yesterday was August 1
Maybe it was August Fools Day
I went to an Islanders Power Play and all I got was this broken stick
by Chris McNally on Aug 3, 2011 7:45 AM EDT up reply actions
Link mechanism failed:( Manually inserting.....
http://islanders.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=585660
Tried creating a FanShot – couldn’t link it there either for some reason…..
How long
until Comeau is a UFA?
I think he’s still an RFA after the coming season, so I guess one year makes sense. Then they can think about a longer deal.
Wang to make statement Wednesday?
Did anybody catch the blurb in the yahoo sports article about Bettman supporting the Isles on LI, where they said that a team official has indicated that Wang will make a statement today?
If true, any thoughts what he might say?
by SchneiderDiricov on Aug 3, 2011 8:52 AM EDT reply actions
Link
“Wang, whose 2003 plan for a multibillion-dollar private development of the property foundered amid community opposition, was expected to issue a statement on Wednesday, a team spokeswoman said.”
by SchneiderDiricov on Aug 3, 2011 8:53 AM EDT up reply actions
statement was posted above
The one about committment to LI, etc. Hard to square that with the rumors re Wang being “done” with LI.
by DP'sknee(andhipandflubugandotherknee) on Aug 3, 2011 9:18 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Wang
I am not sure if Wang is done with LI or the freaking jerk politicians that inhabit it. And then there is the slime Jay Jacobs who seems to have his own agenda I wouldn’t surprise me if he has direct or indirect business dealings associated with the NVMC land.
I just hope Wang keeps the team and moves it to either Queens or Brooklyn.
PS
This was a good signing. We need to take care of the Bailey situation and go get us a big defenseman like Bogo….
Good signing because
…the last time Comeau was in a contract year he put up 20-something goals from the 3rd line. If he does it again, how about another one-year deal in the 3 to 3.2 mil range?
by North Dakota Red Eagle on Aug 3, 2011 9:51 AM EDT reply actions
We can give him the Semin treatment
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