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I was at the home game after Huddy's 1000th. I think it was against Calgary, can't be bothered to look it up. They presented him a silver stick and traded him almost immediately. Good times. Oh, and Go Sabres.

"You shouldn't hang me on a hook, Johnny. My mother hung me on a hook once. Once." Second only to: "Did you know your last name's an adverb?"

Also currently available on Netflix. Not that I've watched it several times recently or anything.

Missed most of the game due to a sick child. So much vomit... Anyway, caught it in full this am. Best game all year. I hope, and is certainly reads as if, everyone had a good time. Allow me to be the 300th poster wanting to make it up for the next meetup.

He's effectively Johnny Dangerously, and DoPS is his mom. Everyone else in the world gets it. Willful ignorance out of necessity. Both of you who have also seen that film will surely appreciate my analogy.

Kadri is pathetic.

I like where Evander's head is at. Dinging Crosby, working hard tonight, showing some emotion after that goal. Extend that man!

Fairly certain he was more worried about locating the rest of his finger.

Awwwww that was ugly.

Ed Belfour. That's is all.

Tuning in to the WBC final. Jim Kaat doing color commentary, looks like the crypt-keeper's older brother. I can remember him pitching for St. Louis. I am also old. Let's hope this game is at least interesting.

I'd forgotten all about Carrier.

No, you're right.

He's also been injured literally the entire time he's been here, minus the beginning of training camp. I'm not sure how good an idea overlooking this is. Is he Bobby Orr when healthy? Nah. But he's a better player, and would have been (again, if healthy) a positive on this this team this year, and will likely do well wherever he plays next year.

Stop it.

I mean, one can have a stick touch you lightly about the face without resorting to recreating Tom Berenger's seminal scene in "Platoon".

Best hope Jack has 007 bullet dodging skills. I suggest he hang out directly behind Nilsson's trapper...

Puh-leeze. If anyone, Jack Eichel or otherwise, attempted to strike Darling Sidney roughly with a closed fist, the refs would be instructed to remove their concealed weapons and shoot to kill. Gary Bettman himself would parachute down from the rafters with a net to isolate the brute who would dare besmirch the shimmering flower of all that is hockey so as to facilitate his immediate execution. Am I laying it on a bit thick here? Just wondering.

Sidney Crosby can die in a fire any day now. Supremely talented player, complete and total little bitch. Risto got unlucky. If the Pens player isn't inexplicably bending over whilst simultaneously looking behind him and almost touching the puck that's 2. Lenny, once again, and I may be starting to sound like a broken record here, owes every skater on his team a kick to the balls in the locker room. This team is not as bad as the coach is making them. I heard Rob Ray before puck drop quoting Terry Murray with the old "turn the defense" nonsense tonight. Two things there: 1: the team doesn't seem to be able to do it consistently (I think largely since dumping it in past today's defenseman is an entirely different proposition to 1998 when Disco played 4 minutes a night, and 2: even when it happens, they don't seem to win or keep the puck at all ever). This team is talented. The best power play in the league, and yet awful at 5v5. What does this tell us? That perhaps what we're doing at even strength isn't working, or perhaps is insane and/or stupid. The defense is another matter entirely and gores to the root of the argument as to what is truly responsible for all the badness, coach or roster. They, the players, and specifically the D, are not this bad. Crosby's goal tonight, countless others this year, right up the middle of the freaking ice. It's obviously the system they're being told to play, nobody has a damn clue what to do or where to go when the puck ends up coming straight up,the middle. Over and over and over again. You can see the thought bubbles coming off of at least four guys at any one time when the puck is in between yet above the face off circles. No clue, no plan. Which can not be possible, but it's happened so many times there can be no other explanation. Can the defense get better? Of course, always, yes please. But the team can get better with a coach who maybe is conversant with hockey post Y2K (and didn't luck into coaching one of the most talented teams in recent memory, but still underachieving by only winning once).

Full Language of the CBA: 8.9 Eligibility for Play in the League. No Player shall be eligible for play in the League unless he: (a) had been claimed in the last Entry Draft, or was ineligible for claim under Section 8.4; or (b) had been eligible for claim in the last Entry Draft, but was unclaimed, and: (i) had played hockey in North America the prior season and was age 20 or older at the time of the last Entry Draft, and signed an SPC which was signed and registered with the League between the conclusion of the Entry Draft and commencement of the next NHL Season. (ii) had played hockey in North America the prior season and was under age 20 at the time of the last Entry Draft, and signed an SPC which was signed and registered with the League between the conclusion of the Entry Draft and commencement of the Major Juniors season (except that if such Player had signed an NHL try-out form, which was signed and registered with the League during the aforesaid time period, then the deadline for signing and registering with the League an SPC with such try-out Club shall be the commencement of the NHL Season). (iii) had played hockey outside of North America in the prior season and was age 22 or older at the time of the last Entry Draft and signed an SPC which was signed and registered with the League between the conclusion of the Entry Draft and the commencement of the next NHL Season. (iv) The words "eligible for claim in the last Entry Draft" in subparagraph (b) above mean "eligible for claim in all rounds of the last Entry Draft." The words "the prior season" in subparagraph (i), (ii) and (iii) above mean "a full season prior to the last Entry Draft

In which case your avatar should be Mulder instead of Moulson.

It's been so long since I've seen the Sabres actually outplay another team for any length of time I'm at a loss for words here.

If you read Chris Salewicz's biography of Joe Strummer the reunion was never going to officially happen. Joe and Mick took the stage together, ironically enough, the weekend before Joe died and killed it on London Calling and I forget the other song. Beautiful, followef by tragedy.

I didn't catch that. Interesting. Unfortunately, it absolutely is entirely his decision. Otherwise he'd have been fired awhile ago. Assuming he hasn't just signed the contract extension that's been on the table for awhile.

Wenger will be the Arsenal manager beyond the inevitable heat death of the universe. He'll be back. Unfortunately.