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Alright so the relegation system in the English soccer leagues is way crazier than I even thought: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_football_league_system Hundreds of teams, dozens of leagues. It must be that every man on that island plays?

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Wah! Haha, I specifically didn't log back in to check my picks, because I wanted to go with my initial gut from Sunday evening rather than change my picks based on Sabrespace chatter. I guess I never submitted or something. I think I had CHI over MIN, LAK over ANA, WAS over PIT, TB over FLA. And LAK over WAS in the finals. Oh well. Good luck, fellas!

I think you're not supposed to be able to see one another's brackets until after they're locked in, so that you can't cheat off someone else. Y'all are just dangling your whole brackets out here in the open air.

Martin Van Biron??

Dane Jackson, and of course Calvin O'Reilly Coolidge

Also, ONE of Detroit and Boston must get in (third place in Atlantic Division). So Philly just needs to beat out one of them in order to get in.

Yeah that huge list of exercises twice/day is grueling, huh? It sucks, but think about the long-term. You went through all the effort to get the surgery and all that. Listen to the physical therapist and do it right. Otherwise you may end up (like me) always being at 90%, never getting back to 100%. By the way, I cannot throw a football or baseball for the life of me now. I haven't even tried picking tennis back up :( I attribute it to rushing back into things after surgery + stopping the exercises. Hopefully I am scaring you into staying consistent with the strengthening exercises :thumbsup:

ADVICE: I had surgery on a torn labrum (shoulder) in '08... Do NOT stop doing the exercises your physical therapist has prescribed for you. I stopped for a six months, my shoulder started getting bad again, and I went back to PT... Now I MUST do them once/week... My shoulder is always at 90% but will never be 100%... This is for ultimate frisbee by the way. Well, it does kinda come across as you bragging :P BUT, I'll say I really enjoy the posts too! PLUS it seems to be working for you (the weight-loss), PLUS this seems like an appropriate place to post all those. Also it makes me miss when I lived in Austin; I'd try to bike everywhere and it was glorious :wub:

Wild v vBlackhawks is a free game on NHL.com by the way. 1-1 right now, I assume it's gotta be a good one for after Sabres-Pens OT...

Nice! So, can y'all name the six d-men who dressed for all 16 playoff games in '07? Spacek is one freebie.

Wow. I got impatient and looked it up. This shouldn't give anything away, but: For all the injury issues we had on defense the previous year, remarkably only six defensemen dressed in the '07 playoffs (each playing all 16 games)!

Hmmm. Thanks for the "Playoff Primer" link. According to this, the top FOUR teams in the Atlantic Division get in, and the top THREE teams in the North Division get in. Then there is ONE wildcard team that can come from either division. This doesn't really change much; the Amerks need to beat out four out of those other five teams that you listed.

Roughly... six teams for two spots? 76 games in the AHL season. Eastern Conference GP W L OTL SOL PTS PCT GF GA STK P10 S/O PIM x Toronto Marlies 66 46 15 5 0 97 0.735 257 170 1-0-0-0 4-5-1-0 4-0 832 Albany Devils 64 39 16 8 1 87 0.680 182 146 1-0-0-0 6-3-0-1 1-1 968 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins 65 39 21 4 1 83 0.638 207 165 3-0-0-0 6-4-0-0 1-1 957 Hershey Bears 65 36 18 4 7 83 0.638 227 192 1-0-1-0 6-3-1-0 3-7 936 Providence Bruins 65 34 19 9 3 80 0.615 202 178 4-0-0-0 7-1-1-1 2-3 839 Bridgeport Sound Tigers 66 36 24 3 3 78 0.591 185 187 0-1-0-0 7-2-0-1 3-3 1054 Portland Pirates 64 33 24 5 2 73 0.570 178 177 2-0-2-0 2-4-3-1 1-2 851 Utica Comets 64 31 23 6 4 72 0.562 187 182 0-2-1-1 4-4-1-1 1-4 926 Hartford Wolf Pack 65 35 27 3 0 73 0.562 170 175 6-0-1-0 7-2-1-0 7-0 636 Rochester Americans 64 32 29 2 1 67 0.523 176 207 1-0-0-0 6-4-0-0 3-1 836 Syracuse Crunch 66 28 25 10 3 69 0.523 184 208 3-0-1-0 6-2-1-1 1-3 1173 St. John's IceCaps 67 28 28 8 3 67 0.500 186 211 0-3-0-0 4-5-1-0 2-3 1114 Lehigh Valley Phantoms 66 27 32 4 3 61 0.462 181 202 0-6-2-0 2-6-2-0 5-3 801 Binghamton Senators 65 27 33 4 1 59 0.454 183 212 0-1-0-0 6-3-1-0 2-1 1209 Springfield Falcons 64 23 33 3 5 54 0.422 165 217 0-3-0-1 2-7-0-1 2-5 875

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Nice work, BTP! Howard/Jeremy/whoever on WGR this morning was talking about how fantastic it is. Apparently he suggested that it be on display at the arena.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvmpfTQTbZY

Senior year of high school, I memorized 483 digits of pi in order to eclipse the school record and get my name on a plaque. The following year, I was hit by truck on Pi Day during a run while a freshman in college. I agree with pizza. With banana peppers.

What happened to Brian Flynn? Looked it up -- Lower Body Injury, 6-8 weeks, about four weeks ago. Less go burrs

We can only pray that our grandchildren may live to see the day

Hmm. Pancake Day is supposed to be on Fat Tuesday -- so it already happened four weeks ago. http://www.calendarpedia.com/when-is/pancake-day.html Looks like IHOP took matters into their own hands and changed it to today? Harrumph.

Is Cake the band allowed in here? Mmmmmm.

I thought Team North America was a Young Guns type of conglomerate.

Has it changed since the Sabres did that with Ehrhoff (if I remember correctly...)?

Zubov! Quick story time. I was in Salt Lake City for work a couple years ago, and I was speaking with a Russian fella there who was in college in Utah during the 2002 Olympics. Because he spoke the language, he was hired by the Russian hockey team to help them find their way around the city. Most notably, he had to drive Zubov to Nevada so he could gamble. Zubov apparently promptly blew $15,000, and then argued with his wife the entire drive back to SLC. It sounded real awkward.