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With today's TVs, most teams should be wearing bright colors. Obviously I don't mean Seattle Seahawk highlighter bright, but we need to move away from the color schemes that may as well have been intended for black and white TVs.

All I can think of is all those people who say we can't ever make a trade with Toronto.

That episode itself is a christmas tradition in my house.

Duval is a former golf ball? Thanks, now I'm picturing him as some sort of Syracuse orange-type character.

Again, to the soccer jersey thing I say: Why?

Go read any recap you can find of David Duval's day yesterday. I'm willing to bet that you won't find a single one that says "he played the wrong golf ball" .

I've always called him overrated, and that was before he just inexplicably was thrown in the top ten. I was one of those guys who was on the Adam Oates HoF train every single year he was passed over. Take a look at him and Francis, a first ballot inductee from the same era, side by side. There are only two differences: longevity and riding the coattails of a superteam to back to back cups. These were both really good players worth of the HoF, but there's a long list of busts I would flock to first if I ever make it back to that building.

Why?

I'm sure you could find a positive trade somewhere on Mike Milbury's list too. Zero playoff appearances over a GM's tenure is all I need to see for a basic summary of his performance. Now maybe you give that kind of guy a shot when you need a GM today. But Seattle had so much more time to shop around or even wait until someone else became available. It's definitely a head scratcher.

I posted it over on the bills board last week so I'll paste it over here: If that free agency list doesn't make you throw up, you've got a much stronger stomach than most.

Take a look at the defensemen Murray added during his tenure. That list is the reason why he is unemployed.

I randomly found this through google. The Bisons will be wearing Sabre themed jerseys next month. The color choice is interesting.

Just be careful what you say about bouncyball players while you're over there.?

Reading through this, I was wondering how long it would take someone to mention Mittelstadt (oops, looking back, dudacek actually did). It's one hell of a case of generalization, but I'd say that this 3-4 year window should be the expectation for just about anyone outside of that first wave of 1-2 elite picks each draft.

That's a bit of an odd choice. He wasn't the least bit successful in Carolina. There must have been better options out there.

As crazy as it sounds, I don't think a building gets any louder than a home ice win to take 3-0 series lead. That moment where you know the series is yours and you have a little fun ahead, it does wonders for the attitude. The loudest game I ever saw in person was game 3 against Ottawa in round 1 of 1999. The whole thing just felt special.

Thanks, now that I'm picturing 3PO closing it, I'm incredibly annoyed. People love Empire, but that movie would have been so much better if Chewie left him on the scrap heap.

Each picture reminds me of just how young NHL draft picks are.

I still don't get that whole idea of "we're done negotiating, so we'll let someone else do it for us". Sure, the player may get a better idea of his actual value after talking to someone else, but it just seems like a good way to stick yourself with a term you don't like all while establishing some bad blood.

I'd say theater if you enjoy those movies. In general, the action scenes are so much better on the big screen. The last fight here is a great example of that.

I can't really throw together a list of 3, so I'll go for 1 at each slot. Sabre: I was always a LaFontaine guy Non-Sabre: Yzerman - I used to get his hockey card in just about every pack when I was a kid, and what youngster doesn't like a name that starts with Y-Z I have a hard time picking a least favorite guy around the league, so instead I'll go with my most hated Sabre: Nate Gerbe

Convincing the others to mutilate the poor bumble? Yukon deserves to suffer for what he has done. Rumor: He may or may not have convinced Cal O'Reily to do the same to Nylander back in Rochester.

It means that the internet is a wasteland of stupidity.

What would they learn, to get a job with the big market or else you have no chance whatsoever, short of catching lightning in a bottle for one year?

I just finished spiderman. Gyllenhaal’s voice was bugging me throughout the whole movie. It took me a while to place it and then I finally did. He sounds just like Paul Rudd.