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Well maybe. It depends on what they launch the cats from.

According to Vogl, he may not be ready when training camp starts. And he has a three-team no-trade clause that kicks in in July. As in, once July comes, he gets to select only three teams to which he may be traded. Frankly, I didn't think this was one of Vogl's better efforts. If the article was "high-end players that the NHL might see moved at the deadline," maybe. But the Sabres? Yeah, Cirelli's really coming here. (Prove me wrong, Botterill, prove me wrong!)

He also threw Cirelli, Hertl, Kapanen, Gallagher, Laine and Kase into the mix. Why not McDavid, John?

I don't think it's tied to politics, though. Every time there's a significant virus outside of our country, the media gets all whipped up into a teen girl drama frenzy. Mad cows, SARS, ebola, whatever.

You are not.

It's because getting things right matters to them. They don't like to just make stuff up and then backfill, or worse, compound a bunch of lies. That's the Cult Leader's job.

"It's more than a little subpar, Mr. Hoover. It STINKS!"

What fanbase?

What you saw at the Habs game reflects every Habs game I've ever been to, including one in DC. It's like when the Yankees come to town. What you saw at the Ottawa game reflects the product on the ice. It's not our job to entertain the team. It's the team's job to entertain us. It wasn't doing that when it came out flat after 9 or 10 days off.

I'm in a better place than I was on Saturday, but I still wonder if it isn't better for the team long term if they lose out and fire everyone.

Also, I believe Mark Pysyk is the only NHL player ever to receive an awarded goal and also score a goal in Mike Smith's pants.

Yeah that's how the Iowa caucuses work for both parties, IIRC. Yes. It's silly. It is a complete disaster. Don't rule it out.

The best part was the ref calling the awarded goal (because of the trip) just slightly before the puck actually went in. I don't remember actually seeing an awarded goal before. I probably have and just forgot about it.

That, I have done. Just not as a grownup. I don't think it's my "thing."

Doesn't it kind of imply that they won't move him "on the cheap" if they're not shopping him?

I have not. That's literally what my post said!

Laviolette right now. I know it's about the ninetieth time I've mentioned it.

Hat trick for Pysyk now. The Leaves took a page from the Sabres' manual and didn't finish the game.

Mark Pysyk is on fire tonight.

It's not even just another day. It's another Tuesday. I don't think I've ever been without power for a whole day in my adult life. Even during the October Surprise I had a steady stream of friends and family coming over to get a hot shower, charge their flip phones, and do laundry.

Ah, the forbidden shrimp! Well, the proscription against pork and bivalves always made sense to me when considering hygienic practices in ancient times. Food that was potentially dangerous was deemed unclean and forbidden. Sensible. I never really got why the Jews banned lobster and crabs, though.

How do you even know that, though?

Well that sux.

Or they could just play the game on Saturday night.

It's equipment, so I figured the person in charge of equipment is ultimately responsible, regardless of whether he personally stitched the names on there. If it's from another department, it's from another department; I linked an org chart. We have a funny story in my family. My last name is spelled entirely with letters that look the same upside down as they do right side up, if capital letters are used. So when my father entered the National Guard, of course they stitched the name plate on upside down. His drill sergeant was not amused when no one was responding when his "name" was called.