Ghost of Dwight Drane

Chronic dehydration and rehydration can also cause brain swelling and related problems. You see it in some dialysis patients most severely because they filter right off the blood, but when you pull salts and water, the first thing your body does is rush extra water to balance the brain. Big guys' bodies go through added flux given the fact they are burning so much in such a short period of time, repeatedly. Urea and nitrates build up quicker. Then say an intense period of time like training camp with 2 a-days....these guys are putting their bodies through a series of 60-100 potential episodes of brain swelling. I'm sure hits contribute to plenty of brain issues, but I am interested in the numbers of former players at certain positions. I would hypothesize that the rate of brain disease goes up with weight. Of course, the NFL can't very well come out with this as any of their defense....as it's probably even more damning.

Let's see...what are the salary caps again? $120 million and $71 million? Yes...men were men......maybe I am in the minority. I'd much rather join the VFW and pay $1.50 for a beer than go and pay $70 for a 3 hour figure skating show and $8 beers.... Not there yet...getting close....

No...the solution is to eliminate body contact....or play by pond rules, so when a shot goes wide, the defense starts with it behind their net. We can play without boards. Again, Marcus Foligno took 2 legitimate charges on the same shift last night. Nothing was called because the guy didn't take for granted that he was going to peel off. I took it as Marcus trying to get some momentum going having just gone down 2-0. I am sure the coach applauded his effort. If one of his rivals went flying into the boards, and knocked himself woozy, a penalty would have been called, and Twitter would have lit up, and we'd have 28 Youtube angles of it and people clamoring for suspensions. Wilson didn't even have the intent Foligno did. He was taking a path to help gain possession. When possession was lost, the next smartest thing to do was to take out the guy with the puck...who happened to make himself a sitting duck because instead of getting rid of the thing, he figured Wilson would pull a Hecht or Hodgson and peel off like an overripe banana. Sorry Schenn.....some 19 year olds are as big as you and don't take their job for granted. Save the outrage for real things. The NHL and NFL are pussifying themselves enough. I used to LOVE watching both sports. Now I only watch the NHL playoffs and most Sabres games with occasional other regular season games....and as much as I still watch football, the flow of the game between BS calls and replay and TV timeouts is really starting to drag that down.

I don't play organized hockey. I also have never ridden a horse. Thanks for the attention.

Here's an idea....don't take for granted that because you have 3 on 1 in the corner that you can then lallygag with the puck and not get lit up. There have been a ton of goalies with groin injuries this year. Maybe if Sydney Crosby only wraps around the net with 50% momentum, it will give a chance for the goalie to get across the pipe without having to strain himself. Everyone is crying wolf with this stuff. I don't think that people are doing it on purpose...I'm just having a hard time figuring out what the triggering mechanism is. Is it media driven? Have we just become bombarded with anti-bullying and kumbaya messages for so long? Have people lost discernment? All of the above? You sit down at a poker table, prepare to lose your chips. You enter an NHL arena, prepare to get smoked when you are playing ministicks with yourself in the corner for 3 seconds.

Thank You... Should the 19 year old have just floated aimlessly at the top of the circle and let his guy lose all chance at possession when all 5 Flyers were cornered in the same half of the zone and there was plenty of defensive support in case of transition? That's how you lose your job. I just have no idea what some people are looking at. You explained perfectly. If he was making a B-Line charge, Simmonds would have interfered with his trajectory....he was originally going hard for the puck scrum, and was already built up on speed and made a 2 stride acceleration when he realized it was the perfect hit with Schenn dangling there. He decided to hit Schenn the last 20% of his trajectory from the blueline. That's not intent. That's playing hard, and making a split decision. Shoulder to shoulder....what more does anyone want? You keep taking paychecks from guys for just playing hard, and that's when you will see someone truly lose it out there. If I'm doing 3 years in Attica for eating a grape from the produce bin at Wegmans...I might as well risk 15 years and go rob a jewelry store.

I'm getting sick of this narrative and witch hunting. There was 1 Cap and 3 Flyers near the corner. If Wilson was coming from the blueline, he started when it was a tied up puck. Schenn was 1 of 3 who had a chance at it, plus the other Flyer was in the skating path of a direct approach. Instead of moving the puck right away like a hot potato as defensemen do 95% of the time in that situation...Schenn dangled it, and Wilson popped him. I saw Marcus Foligno line up 2 guys from across the ice in a 15 second span last night....and I'm glad he did. They were by themselves and intent was clear...he just didn't explode them. I really want to find out what the government has been putting in the drinking water the past decade or 2......the collective nads of our society are about the size of a couple of wasabi peas.

Seriously....just get rid of checking...like an 8 year old league.... Maybe the new team figure skating competition in the Olympics is just another name for hockey. Save us Putin.....

@430 375 on Peg Miller is all sore from the Catwalk.....

I swear....if I have Pegula's $$$, I find out who directed that whole puppy and came up with the idea and bring him in. That was classic for anyone, but a junior team to pull that off is sweet. And after watching the figure skaters in the background...I have to go google Jamie Sale and see what she is up to....

Regier, Feaster and Snow in that race is like watching Secretariat, Seattle Slew, and Spectacular Bid coming down the stretch at the same time....

This is why I love you.......... You could just as easily have put this in the Awesome thread...

OK....all caught up. One request....if you want to comment on a game, please quote your original post and then comment instead of editing a post with a wager in it. I'm sure nobody is goofing around, but it adds to the integrity of the contest when something isn't edited after puckdrop. Also....we had 6 people eliminated because they didn't wager in November. Rayzer32, Thirty-Eight, cwchze, Rico7, thesportsbuff, and BuffalofansRcrazy. If I missed something, let me know, but dems da rules. Here is the current leaderboard: TrueBluePhD $3050 wjag 2575 UBKev 2255 wyldnwdy44 2130 Eleven 2110 LGR4GM 1840 TaroT 1305 TM8-PL16 1040 ClaudeVeret 955 GhostofDD 430 Mattiepie 400 RCentered 375 Cereal 305 mustacheofgod 240 Assquatch 100 Hank 100 Considering Liger went from 360 to 1840.....everyone has a chance..... And special thanks to wjag for setting some lines.....been limited lately, so I appreciate it.

Been a long few weeks....will tally up totals over the next few days....

Awesome. I always figured he and Lindy were the worst possible combo you could put together. I have liked the guy a lot. He's a bit of an old soul you can't BS. I think Nolan may be able to tap into that...which is why I have always stressed the "eyes and feel" over the drill sgt. route. I'm still crossing my fingers Dr. Teddy can salvage what seems to be the worst contracts in Myers, Leino and Stafford. So far so good, but we need to build and make progress before the goodwill goes.

Boyfriend banished 1500 miles away....a stash of Loritabs......bio's stock is rising faster than Sydney Crosby in UFA.......

So did the doc say gallbladder?

One way to liven up the draft is to go to an auction system instead of a draft slot. Give teams a set amount of dollars slotted by finish. Say each team gets $4 million to allocate on the rookie pool. Then you get an extra $20,000 for each slot in the standings....so the worst team in the league gets a bankroll of $4.6 million. You can use your money in any fashion, but you would pretty much let the worst team get the #1 pick if they went all-in. This could really test the scouting powers of teams and would be the only way to answer a question like Detroit. It would make for great drama considering just about any team can get any player. You could also turn your franchise around overnight. You may end up with 15 players or 1....but either way it could be huge.

Tell that to Larry King.....

Looks like a fracking drill.......

Toronto -145 Buffalo +125

I was just joking.....NY looks like dog doodoo right now though. I wonder how many other clauses are out there that we don't know about.

So can we change the title of the thread yet?

Pre or post? There was a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode on that!

I swear this on the Baby Jesus.....at the Sabres wine fest, Cliff Benson just cut right in front of me in line to pick up auction items. There were 8 people waiting and I guess the fact that I wasn't right on top of the person in front of me was a cue to slip between us. It was even funnier since he has a nice little movember mustache working. I wasn't quite tipsy enough to give him a "We Are Penn State!"