IKnowPhysics

He is known for his quick release.

I've secretly always wanted to learn how to play the pipes. Then I'd walk up and down the beach in a kilt at sunset and ######, playing out the day. It'd also be the tits to play on St Patrick's Day and stuff. The problem is: how do you learn how to play those things in an apartment without getting murdered? Edit: Ah, blame it on the kinky deaf neighbors. Got it.

If they're gonna be a circus, they might as well send in the clowns. Let's do this.

It's interesting at least a tiny bit: formerly great goaltender is nearly battled out by an up-and-comer, and asks for a trade to escape the situation, but it's the up-and-comer that gets traded, and now he must re-find his will to play for the team whom he was ready to abandon. It's not relevant to the Sabres in any way, but I'll keep a very loose eye on how this goes for Vancouver. It's a rare situation, albeit one that doesn't deserve all of the Canadian media attention it gets. Can Luongo battle on, or is he ultimately resigned to his previously presumed fate: doomed? I guess it's interesting in the "it's a mildy interesting sports story" sense, not an "I give a ######" sense.

The Gelgamek ###### is six feet long and is filled with razor sharp teeth. Do you really expect us to have sex with that!?

Flyers fans are becoming self-aware... Judgement Day is coming, whereby the earth will be destroyed in a hail of D-cell batteries.

Jim Rome (on immediately after SHH, otherwise I wouldn't listen at all) called that one the day after A-Rod came back last week. He had hoped he would be hit at his first at bat, but understood why he wasn't because that pitcher was also involved in a juicing scandal previously.

Achieved the first plasma today in an experiment I designed, built, and ran. Good times. Opens the gateway, lots more fun work to do.

I use every finger but my ring finger and thumb.

Plasma physicsy stuff.

NdFeB is a ###### to machine.

Bryan Murray speaks, again: http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/NHL/Ottawa/2013/08/15/21049121.html But that's in line with what Alfie said. If it's a $7M/1 deal, that's $4M per year if you count last year. If it's a $12/2 deal, that's a $4.3M per year if you count last year. So the club offers $4.5M per year, and Alfie asks where the rest is from last year.

Yep, the story's pretty clear: So he agrees to help the club by tacking on the extra year at low salary, thinking that he'll retire before then. Then he doesn't retire, no big deal. Then thinks he'll play yet another year and get money "owed" from the last season- and that's where the contract negotiations stall. Dolla dolla bill y'all.

Ruff was here sixteen years, only won the cup once, and took a cup winner to the bottom of the division standings.

He does that a lot. The qualifier to Peters' statement is that he's Peters. "Grigorenko has elite talent... Stafford is a very good player..." It goes on and on.

Well, at least post the rest of his sentence. "Leino can be elite, I'm not saying he will be, but he can be. He can be a solid two way player." You can bust on Peters for being Peters just about all of the time, with no effort required.

Hockey Prospectus had Minnesota at 22 in the organizational prospect rankings. I'm betting (and hoping) that in this examination, him moving from 3rd to 8th, is an indicator of the strength of our prospect pool. HP is very much by-the-numbers, as can be seen here, where the math behind the individual rankings are explained. Do we have a link to those Hockey News rankings?

$0.02: I think it's a positive thing for hockey to grow as a sport, with a significant metric of growth being number of registered youth and adult amateur players. As of the end of 2012, 511,000 players were registered in the US, only 0.163% of the population (only 16 in every 10000 Americans play hockey!). It's been shown that the existence of NHL teams in non-traditional US markets make a siginificant positive impact on the growth of those numbers. So if sending teams to large TV, yet non-traditional hockey markets in order to gain a quick money grab from ratings and slowly develop a culture of hockey-love and more US players, I'm ok with that. But I'm also a hypocrit. It's garbage that the paper upon which the franchise rights to the Coyotes are printed has been allowed to suffer so long. That team needs to move, preferably to a market that will love and embrace them under a different branding, be it Canadian or Seattlean. Even if a city becomes the new amateur hockey mecca, if the NHL team isn't selling tickets, they need fix their ###### or pack their bags. I do want to tack on that I recognize the importance of quality hockey to these proceedings: the quality and visibility of the hockey in the last Olympics, I believe, helped to grow the sport world wide. It was ###### awesome and I can't wait for more of that.

Messier wants to add a million new hockey players by 2022: http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=428951

Toki would be proud.

You're healed!

Concussed as hell -> death metal punk hardcore. Perfect career transition? "Olen niin metallin, minun lääkäri ei anna minun pelata jääkiekkoa!"

Just watched that hit again. That could be it. Asswipe.

Neat. Good retirement to Lydman. Maybe he can go play SM-liiga for a while before he hangs 'em up if he wants to. Or keep playing in Mononen. Say what you will about "deathpunk hardcore," it's good enough for George Parros.