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I would be surprised at all if it was the blind Hutton news that angered the Pagulas. Playing hockey with a goalie that can’t see straight. Maybe not JBott fault, but looks terrible

I wouldn’t miss that for the world!

What? You mean how they dumped Jeff Skinner for Poo?

05-06 Canes?

So did JBott just trade ROR on his own, or was he pushed? I hope he talks about that

Oh, just Imagine all the people, living in peace

The trade for Jokiharu The emergence of a solid all around defense Ullmark’s emergence as a solid NHL goalie Goaloffson Curtis Lazar being added Adding Kahun There are bright spots

She seriously reminds me of Yoko Ono coming in and having an influence on John.

Oh, I’d be thrilled if I were the new GM, pretty good team ready to get a goaltender, a forward and go! Why?

Yoko, I mean Kim will speak for him...

Trading Risto for an overpriced goalie who is not much better than Hutton? No thank you

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I had no idea before I started riding how much the wind matters! Our bodies are like sails, it seems.

How far do you usually ride? I just started a few months ago and did about 18 miles in Buffalo last weekend. I was pretty tired at the end but most of the time I’m just having so much fun it doesn’t seem like exercise.

The rest of the team? The players in interviews last season were saying, "Yes, we have a whole bunch of confidence in Linus." Seemed to me they were also saying who they did not have confidence in

Especially if they find a guy who is reasonably priced, a steady backup and will sing for a few years. Jbott has no choice but to sign another goalie.

What would you do now?

I think they were stuck with him come what may last year. Johannson obviously wasn't ready.

Sounds right. I knew something happened to him. But at 34 things just start to not work right on men, lol. If he is ok, that would be great. Linus will be the starter but if Hutton can play 25-30 games and have a winning percentage we are good to go, but if this is just an excuse from a guy who just lost it for whatever reason then there had better be a serious backup plan. Jbott has some serious decisions to make about goaltending. Relying on Hutton is a big risk but he is here and signed for a season. Bringing in a player for Rochester is fine, but what security would that be if he is only an AHL caliber player? If a good backup goalie in free agency is available can you really afford to pass? If we go into the season with Ullmark and Hutton and Ullmark gets injured again and Hutton can't stop a beachball, it's another disaster season. If they are the starters and perform really well, we probably make the playoffs.

So I was not feeling well last night and flopped down in my chair and watched a science fiction movie Ad Astra with Brad Pitt. He produced and starred in the movie and got Donal Southerland and Tommy Lee Jones roles in it. I disliked the movie but watched the whole thing, as I am interested in astronomy and space so I gave it a try. The one fact that just leaped out of the movie was that the script was just a rehashing of the basic plot line from Apocalypse Now, which, so I am told, was created with the book Heart of Darkness in mind. Pitt’s father (Tommy Lee Jones) has gone crazy off near the far off planet of Neptune and Pitt has to go find him and terminate his command. And just like Martin Sheen having to travel the river to find Marlon Brando, Pitt sets off into the vastness of space to find Jones. Both movies have at their center a psychological angst. For Sheen in Apocalypse Now it’s the insanity of war and pointlessness of all the killing. The most iconic line from Apocalypse Now is Robert Duval declaring, “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” He then sadly states, “You know, some day this war will be over,” as he hangs his head dejectedly. Senseless, but entertaining. For Pitt in Ad Astra, it’s the emptiness of space and the lonliness of space travel from its confined crafts, bureaucratic impersonal nature and lack of a natural environment. Pitt has to continually take “psychological evaluations” because it’s well known the space environment can cause depression and other mental disorders, but when Pitt opens up to the computer about his real feelings it’s just spits back at him bureaucracies mumbo jumbo and thanks him. The whole movie is his dialogue and it’s not very good. He ends up killing a bunch of people and then his own dad and comes home to earth finally where he is welcomed very nicely. Strange movie. Dark, depressing and nothing to hang your hat on.

Why? Does he look like Brad Marchand?

I have four pots with budding sunflowers growing in them. Been waking every morning and moving them into the sunlight. Can't wait until they are big enough to be planted in the yard