It’s time to do some season previewing, and this year IPB’s going at it all Bucci-style. That’s right, Gentle Reader — Just like Bucci does, we wrote down 30 song lyrics we thought were awesome and cool, then randomly assigned them to teams in the hopes that they would add a depth of meaning and emotional resonance to our predictions. Yeah, you heard us: we literally drew song lyrics out of a hat to assign to each team, exactly the way we assume Bucci does. We would be remiss not to mention that we are hockey savants, super-geniuses who correctly predicted who would win the Cup last year, so you can definitely take everything we say here to the bank. Today we’re starting with the Western Conference, listed from worst to first (click here for our Eastern Conference preview).
15. Phoenix Coyotes
Yub nub, eee chop yub nub,
toe meet toe pee chee keene, g’noop dock fling oh ah.
Yah wah, eee chop yah wah,
toe meet toe pee chee keene, g’noop dock fling oh ah
Coat ee chah tu yub nub,
Coat ee chah tu yah wah,
Coat ee chah tu glo wah.
allay loo ta nuv
Glo wah, eee chop glo wah, ya glo wah pee chu nee foam,
ah toot dee awe goon daa.
Coat ee cha tu goo (Yub nub!)
coat ee cha tu doo (Yah wah!)
coat ee cha tu too (ya chaa!)
allay loo tu nuv (3 times)
Glo wah, eee chop glo wah.
Ya glow wah pee chu nee foam,
ah toot dee awe goon daa
allay loo tu nuv.
-Yub nub, traditional Ewok song
We couldn’t have summed up the Coyotes season prospects better. Thanks, Wicket! (Oh, and no way Wayne’s still behind the bench by Christmas.)
14. Edmonton Oilers
Diff’rent types who wear a day coat, pants with stripes
And cutaway coat, perfect fits
Puttin’ on the Ritz
Dressed up like a million dollar trouper
Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper
Super duper
Come let’s mix where Rockefellers walk with sticks
Or “um-ber-ellas” in their mitts
Puttin’ on the Ritz
-Puttin’ on the Ritz, Irving Berlin
Oh sure, certain succubus wives of certain skankhole players might think Edmonton is a repulsive backwater (not to be confused with said succubus’s glamorous, world-capital hometown of St. Louis), but it’s not true! Look no further than Sheldon Souray — bright-light, big-city free agent that he am — choosing Edmonton over the clamoring hordes in New York and Los Angeles who were dying to get a piece of him in their lineups. Or so the rumors went as days turned to weeks after the free-agent deadline and he remained unsigned. Maybe it was just that the Rangers, Devils, Kings and Ducks wanted nothing to do with him and he was stuck with the Oilers. But whatever the reason, the Oil is going to be crazy ritzy with Shelly in the fold! Sure to see his numbers plummet now that he’s not in a contract year, and already sporting a catastrophic plus/minus, and with a lengthy history of chronic injuries, Souray is a great building-block for this reeling franchise. Other players Kevin Lowe hopes you will think look figuratively like Gary Cooper if you squint hard enough are RFA pick-up Dustin Penner and… well… um… yeah. Dustin Penner. It’s going to be a long year for the Oilers, and the ensuing draft pick is just going to Anaheim. Godspeed, Oilers fans. Godspeed.
13. Chicago Blackhawks
Come all you bold young thoughtless men a warning take by me
And never leave your happy homes to sail the raging sea.
-Traditional Sea Chanty
The Blackhawks are entering a new era – a new era Wirtz-less era with young stars in the making. But will this new era be smooth sailing, or will the choppy waves of the New NHL be uncharted territory for an organization that’s been all but embalmed in sucktitude for the last 60 years? There be monsters, Blackhawks, there be monsters. Regardless of how much Havlat, Kane and Toewes excel at filling the ‘Hawks’ sails with the gusty winds of fame and glory, their goaltending is still very much a remora*.
* Remora: a fish believed by ancient sailors to slow ships down by attaching their sucker-like jaws to the bows of boats
12. Columbus Blue Jackets
Ohh I know who you are
It wasn’t that hard
Just to figure you out
(Now and then, you wonder why)
And now I know who you are
It wasn’t that hard
just to figure you out
(Now and then, you wonder why)
-Favorite Damn Disease, Nickelback
We have no idea what this song lyric means. We have, in fact, never heard this song before. We just googled “Nickelback lyrics” and found it. But really, what NHL preview is complete without a little Nickelback? Of course, we have to admit it’s pretty hard for us to figure out who the Blue Jackets are, because we don’t think we’ve ever, in their entire history, seen them play a game. We know they’re out from under the Doug MacLean reign of terror, but it seems there should be a bit of a lag between the toppling of the statues in Blue Jackets Square and a marked improvement in drafting and free agent signings. There might be a glimmer of hope for the future in Columbus, but that doesn’t mean they’re making the playoffs this year.
11. Nashville Predators
Gummi Bears, bouncing here
and there and everywhere!
High adventure that’s beyond compare.
They are the Gummi Bears!
-“Gummi Bears” Theme Song
The Gummi Bears was a cartoon that never rose above the fact that it was a 22-minute commercial for those poor-quality gummi bears that came in the gold box at the crappy movie theater in the run-down strip mall off Route 1 (as opposed to the ritzier shopping centre a little further up the highway that sold fine cinema treats like Junior Mints and Milk Duds). They were a candy you never saw anyone buying, and a cartoon you never saw anyone else watching. The Nashville Preds are more like the Sno-Caps of hockey — a good movie theater candy you could understand someone wanting to buy, and one that you yourself went on a bit of a spree for, buying them four or five movies in a row, before you dropped one or two in your seat without realizing and then ended up with big chocolate blobs on your jeans when you got up, but then you realized that it was stupid to be buying old person candy like non-pareils when such delicacies like Sweet Tarts were available. However, as much as the quality of play on the ice might be Sno-Cap-worthy, the off-ice distactions facing the team in terms of ownership cast a distinctly Gummi Bear cartoon pall over the start of the season. As far as non-Nashville fans are concerned, the orgnization is serving as the team that can’t rise about the fact that it’s the poster child for stories of NHL business wheeling and dealing. Also, giving Arnott the C is about as smart as buying a box of Jujubees. Sure, you can remember the flavor of Jujubees being good, just the way Nashville can look at Arnie’s days as the hard-working center of the league’s top line back in 2001 and expect greatness, but the minute you get one of those stupid candies stuck on your molar, you remember why you never buy those things.
10. St. Louis Blues
Non piu andrai, farfallone amoroso
Notte e giorno d’intorno girando,
Delle belle turbando il riposo,
Narcisetto, Adoncino d’amor.
-Non piu andrai, Le Nozze Di Figaro, Mozart
Thanks to a long string of playoff appearances, the Blues were getting by fluttering around the mediocrity of the NHL like amorous little butterflies. Last year, JD had the fine feathers, light and jaunty hat and womanish red color of a new good-guy GM whom everyone wanted to see succeed. Those honeymoonish days are over! Now the chorus is “alla gloria militar”, “to military glory” indeed. However, the Blues might as well trade Kariya and Tkchuck in for a Cherubino or two considering how effective they’ll be. Here’s hoping Erik Johnson can sing those prima donnas off the stage, leading the Blues into competitiveness again (if for no other reason than to quit making life so easy for Detroit).
9. Calgary Flames
There she is, Miss America
There she is, your ideal
The dreams of a million girls
Who are more than pretty
May come true in Atlantic City
Oh she may turn out to be
The queen of femininity
-There She Is, Miss America, Bernie Wayne
Ah yes. We remember being among those million girls who were more than pretty. We dreamt such dreams! Dreams of backyard rinks, and golf games, and name-dropping Z-list hockey celebrities like Shjon Podein and Darren Pang. And then we discovered our schtick had already been taken by someone on TV, so now we’re reduced to blogging and living our workaday existences, only an hour’s drive from Atlantic City, a place we’ve never actually been. We’re sure this all ties in to the Flames’ chances this season somehow. Perhaps what we mean to say is that Mike Keenan gives us as much confidence behind the bench as Miss America might. When we got down to deciding which team would nail down the 8-seed in the West — LA or Calgary — we asked ourselves which mediocre squad is more likely to be fucked over by its lousy coach. As much as Marc Crawford has always struck us as a complete hack, we had to give the nod to Keenan.
Oh, and also: with the multitude of jingoistic flags all over their new unis, the Flames might as well be wearing little beauty pageant sashes that say “Miss Alberta” on them, too.
8. Los Angeles Kings
Stopped into a church
I passed along the way
well, I got down on my knees
and I pretend to pray
you know the preacher likes the cold
he knows I’m gonna stay
California Dreamin’
on such a winter’s day
-California Dreamin’, The Mamas And The Papas
We think it’s pretty cool that the Kings ended up getting “California Dreamin’” as their randomly-drawn song lyric. It’s almost kind of creepy!
We defer in all things Kings to our favorite blogger, RudyKelly. He says they’re going to make the playoffs, so we believe him.
7. Colorado Avalanche
Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts
Mutilated monkey meat, little baby birdie feet
Great green gobs of greasey, grimy gopher guts
That you eat without a spoon.
-Anonymous Folk Song
Based on how Avs fans have lapped up the Ryan Smyth signing, we’d believe they’d eat this menu in a heartbeat. Slag-faced whores like Scott Gomez and Chris Drury have been getting a lot of ink here this summer, but Smyth makes them look like amateurs, having pulled the slag-faced 2-step on two franchises last year. Look for him to be a significant, though overrated, player in getting this franchise back to the playoffs, but at what price for the league? At what price?
6. Vancouver Canucks
If I’ve got a hammer
And I’ve got a bell
And I’ve got a song to sing … all over this land,
It’s a hammer of justice
It’s a bell of freedom
It’s a song about love between all of my brothers and my sisters
All over this land.
-If I Had a Hammer, L. Hays and P. Seeger
If we’ve got a Naslund, and we’ve got a Sedin and we’ve got another Sedin — we’re thinking the team should be better than it’s been, particularly if we’ve also got a Luongo. They’ve proven they can make the playoffs, but at some point they’ve got to prove they can win more than one round. And until then, we’ll continue to not care enough about them to write more than a cheap dig at their uni re-design: By “this land” we mean Vancouver. Wait, let us spell that out for you. On the front of our sweaters.
5. Dallas Stars
Yippee yeah, there’ll be no wedding bells for today!
I got spurs that jingle, jangle, jingle
As I go ridin’ merrily along
And they sing, ‘Away, too glad, you’re single’
And that song ain’t so very far from wrong.
-I Got Spurs, Tex Ritter
Kind of like the Kings getting “California Dreamin’”, we were tickled with how literal our random draw ended up for the Stars. It’s a cowboy song! For the Dallas Stars! Get it? Get it? We’ve been to Dallas once. We stayed there while driving cross-country on our move back east, and suffered the single worst highway death-merge we’ve ever seen in our lives. We ended up having to essentially drive perpendicular to four lanes of oncoming traffic to get from an on-ramp to the off-ramp directly across from it for our hotel. Stupid AAA and their idiot driving directions. Anyway, that death-merge is probably a lot like what the Pacific Division is going to be this year, and the Stars are the team we see having the steepest uphill battle to get across those four lanes of oncoming traffic. (No, the Coyotes don’t count. They’re going to figuratively crash their car into a Jersey barrier at the base of the on-ramp, so they won’t even get a crack at the serious part of their traffic-metaphor season.) We like the way they stood pat on the free-agency market, although the standing pat was less a Glenn Ford, stoic hero kind of standing pat with the knowledge that they’ve got all the pieces they need to beat the bad guys, and more a standing pat because they have the wisdom to realize that the free-agent market this past summer was vastly, vastly overrated. So they come into this season a year older than they were last season, and without any obvious answers about where the scoring is going to come from, but they’re still a much better team than a lot of other squads out west.
4. Anaheim Ducks
Batti, batti, o bel Massetto,
La tua povera Zerlina;
Staro qui come agnellina
Le tue botte ad aspettar.
-Batti, batti, o bel Massetto, Don Giovanni, Mozart
Brian Burke and the Ducks would love to think the rest of the Pacific is sweetly singing, “beat us, beat us, o beautiful Ducks, beat your poor Pacific. We’ll stand here as meek as little lambs and bear the blows you lay on us.” But what the rest of the division is hearing is the constant tweeting of whistles writing a symphony of undisciplined penalties for the rough and tough and mentally unstable Ducks. With Captain Pronger leading by example, what else can happen? Seriously, we know the team can rebound from losing Selanne (we’re assuming Getzlaf takes the responsibility of being a star and handles it with grace and aplomb, eschewing his ego-problems from his Junior days) and are confident that their Schneidermayer’ed up D is solid enough to handle the loss of The Good Neidermayer. But can they find a way to keep Bertuzzi from not getting suspended for 20 games? That we’re not so sure about.
3. Minnesota Wild
You’re the top
You’re Miss Pinkham’s tonic
You’re the top
You’re a high colonic.
You’re the burning heat of a bridal suite in use
You’re the breasts of Venus
You’re King Kong’s penis,
You’re self-abuse
You’re an arch
In the Rome collection
You’re the starch
In a groom’s erection
I’m an enuch who
Has just been through an op,
But if, Baby, I’m the bottom
You’re the top
-You’re The Top (Parody Lyrics), Cole Porter (or alleg. Irving Berlin)
We like Minnesota because they’re the Devils of the West, right down to the “often flaming out early in the playoffs” thing the Devils do so well. And while we’re not sure we’d go so far as to call them the breasts of Venus or King Kong’s penis, there is certainly some self-abuse involved in watching a team that’s the Devils of the West. But really, when you get down to it, parody lyrics probably aren’t the best way to go for the Wild, since Jacques Lemaire doesn’t believe in things that are fun.
2. San Jose Sharks
The farmer and the cowman should be friends
Oh, the farmer and the cowman should be friends
One man likes to push a plough
The other likes to chase a cow
But that’s no reason why they cain’t be friends
Territory folks should stick together
Territory folks should all be pals
Cowboys dance with farmer’s daughters
Farmers dance with the ranchers’ gals
-The Cowman and the Farmer Should Be Friends, Rogers and Hammerstein
For many, many years we stood fast on a strict policy of hating all things musical theater. To us there was no such thing as a good musical. Sure “Guys and Dolls” might be good for a chortle or two, and maybe it was tough to resist belting out “Everything’s Coming up Roses” on particularly good days, but 99.9% of the time, musical=bad. Then one summer night, flipping channels on our cable box revealed we had two choices for television viewing — John Basedow infomercials or Oklahoma! on TCM. After seriously considering how awful seeing John Basedow’s commerical for the zillionth time would be, we settled on TCM. And something very strange happened. We discovered Oklahoma! was wonderful. From top to bottom, wonderful. (Or at least, that’s what we thought until we both ended up getting “territory folk should stick together” so firmly stuck in our heads that it was weeks before we could stop spontaneously blurting it out and incurring the extreme wrath of the other who had maybe gotten a hair closer to getting the ditty to recede just a hair in her brain.) In any event, we were forced to reconsider the strict “musical=bad” policy.
In a related story, for many, many years we have stood fast on a strict policy of believing “this is the year the Sharks are gonna make some noise”. To us there was no team out West more suited to making the Finals. Since this is the year we’ve finally had to admit there might be a flaw in this policy as well, there is no doubt in our hearts the Sharks will prove us wrong.
1. Detroit Red Wings
And the rivers flow backwards
And my tears are dry
Swans hate the water
And eagles can’t fly
But I’m alright now
Now that I’m over you
And the sky is green
And the grass is blue
And I don’t love you
And the grass is blue
-The Grass is Blue, Dolly Parton
“The Grass is Blue” is one of our very favorite sad, sad songs, and is thus appropriate for the Wings’ inevitable march through the West because that’s a sad, sad song in and of itself. We don’t think this team is really that great, and obviously their entire season really hinges on the questionable health — mental and otherwise — of Dominik Hasek, but it would be impossible for a team of their pedigree not to finish first overall considering they get 32 of their 82 games this season against the minor-league franchises populating their division. We don’t doubt they’re going to be their typical paper (division) champions, and will fall way short in the playoffs when they have to play a best-of-seven against a real team, but until then we’ll be stuck hearing more of the same old lauds being shoveled on this team just because they’re racking up points in the standings in a division we think our cats might stand a chance against. Basically what we’re saying here is that “The Grass is Blue” is a song wherein the narrator convinces herself that she’s over her broken heart because she’s saying the opposite of everything is true. But in the Wings’ case, we’re going to say it’s literal. The grass outside is blue, the sky above it is green, and we don’t love the Wings. Really. We don’t.
Previewing the Devils on tonight’s show @ 9pm.
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You guys are insane. But the good, pretty sort of insane.
My brain couldn’t quite get around the Preds one though. Movie candy is a foreign concept! Or maybe I’m just slow…
How sad is that as soon as I saw “Yub nub” I knew Ewoks were involved? Pretty sad, right?
Heather, bear in mind that Pookie a) thought up the Ewok song in the first place, and b) successfully located the lyrics online. You are not the only sad one here!
Mags, thanks for the vote of confidence. When they come to take us away, we’ll say, “But we’re the good, pretty sort of insane! We’re a danger only to ourselves!”
Mags, you don’t have candy in movie theaters?! Talk about crazy!
Heather, when I was in second grade, my music teacher set English words to the Ewok song and taught it to us. I wish I remembered them now.
BEST SEASON PREVIEW EVER.
Seriously.
BTW, the Nickelback song is actually called “Figured You Out”
…I mean, I think it is anyway…not that I’ve ever…listened to Nickelback…or own the CD or anything…
I WAS YOUNG AND STUPID DAMMIT!
ahem.
You mean you still don’t care enough about the Canucks after having my beautiful visage around since late summer? I am shocked and appalled! My work is obviously not done here :p Matty O just sent me a very sad hum.
Josh, do you also play hockey? And is your favorite movie Wedding Crashers?
Ewok song, Oklahoma!, Gummi bears and La Nozze Di Figaro all brought together by hockey?! I love it!
I used to get “The Surrey With the Fringe On Top” tune stuck in my head. :P Also, one time, the campus radio station played the French and German versions of the Gummi Bear theme song at 7:30 in the morning. It was very surreal.
Actually my favorite movie is Fight Club =X
Crap that probably makes me sound like a I have a mullet and everything, doesn’t it?
…I mean, I think it is anyway…not that I’ve ever…listened to Nickelback…or own the CD or anything…
I WAS YOUNG AND STUPID DAMMIT!
Thanks for correcting us here, Josh. I’ll take your word over a website offering Nickelback lyrics any day! I mean, what kind of site offers Nickelback lyrics anyway? A disreputable one, that’s what kind! And don’t be too ashamed — we all have embarrassing musical tastes in our pasts. Please note that some of us here — self-respecting professional women in our 30′s no less — when asked to think of song lyrics off the tops of our heads come up with the theme song to “Gummi Bears”. (Which I would think is way cool if I heard it in French and German at an ungodly hour in the morning…)
I am shocked and appalled! My work is obviously not done here :p
I think a few weeks of the season with humminggiraffe showing us the error of our ways will make us into appropriately Canucks-respecting people!
Hey Josh, break a leg on the radio tonight!
Some of us like Gummi Bears, you know!
Or perhaps it’s just nostalgia for the days when they used to have cartoons on network TV after school…
I’m suspicious of this so-called “random lyric selection” (two Mozarts?). How exactly was this all orchestrated, if not by the usual mp3 shuffle?
Pookie – Thanks! Hopefully I don’t come off as too much of an idiot!
Interesting full-circle type deal – the last time I listened to that particular Nickelback song was when I had to play it on my own radio show in college a few years ago.
Josh, I’d take that as a great sign that you and Patricia are going to rock the house tonight!
DS, you are so right that the days of cartoons after school were the good old days, indeed. We were actually torn about which cartoon theme song qualified as “coolest”; I was seriously tempted by Thundercats, to be honest, but that one wasn’t really that much of a song, per se.
As for the “random lyric selection”, we brainstormed to think of 30 song lyrics, and this is what we came up with. Then we numbered them 1-30 and drew out of a hat to assign them to teams. We’ll confess that there are three lyrics we specifically assigned to Eastern Conference teams, but the rest were totally arbitrary. I suppose this would have been a lot more delightfully random if we’d done an iPod shuffle to generate them, but our iPods are actually pretty homogenous — there’s only so many Red House Painters and Baby Bird lyrics you can manipulate to fit a hockey preview! :P
My dream of someone mentioning Red House Painters on a hockey blog has been fulfilled.
(Sorry, I needed to re-claim some of my indie rock geekery snobbery back after the Nickeldebacle).
Great job! Except now I really want some Gummi Bears.
I can’t wait to read what you’ve come up with for the Eastern Conference.
(Sorry, I needed to re-claim some of my indie rock geekery snobbery back after the Nickeldebacle).
Nickeldebacle! Hee hee! I used to worry about my indie rock geekery snobbery until my super-duper cool friend with impeccable taste in music invited me to use Simplify Media to share his iTunes library. He was like, “Feel free to listen to whatever you want! Oh, but um, you know, just ignore the stupid stuff.” I figure if even super-cool Jarlette (not his real name) can have less cool stuff in his library, so can I.
Josh, we actually had “Make Like Paper” in the running as one of our 30 song lyrics before we realized we could think of 30 dorky song choices, instead of having to assign songs we really like to teams we might loathe. I wouldn’t be able to deal with thinking about, say, the Coyotes every time I hear “Make Like Paper”. IPB is a good place to be to feel indie rock geeky — we’ve got quite a few people here with impeccable taste in music! :D
(Oh, and “Nickeldebacle” is by far my favorite new word coined this weekend!)
Also, giving Arnott the C is about as smart as buying a box of Jujubees. Sure, you can remember the flavor of Jujubees being good, just the way Nashville can look at Arnie’s days as the hard-working center of the league’s top line back in 2001 and expect greatness, but the minute you get one of those stupid candies stuck on your molar, you remember why you never buy those things.
Oh my gosh. What a genius analogy!
And, to extend it… He’s also the kind of candy that everybody raves about but I just never understood why. (Just like Jujubees.)
And thanks for not leaving the Stars completely out of the playoffs, like some “experts” have done.
One can only wonder what kind of problems Arnott could get himself into with a box of jujubees. A normal freak-injury prone guy would end up with dental trouble; Arnott could probably find a way to get a jujubee stuck so deeply in his ear canal that his balance would be thrown off, resulting in his unfortunate tumble off an escalator at the local mall.
I actually really like jujubees. I was always fascinated by the texture of the bumps on the tops. The bumps were such an unnecessary decorative touch, which makes the candies sort of irresistible.
I should probably add that I have not have had jujubees in probably 15 years. I wonder if they’re still in production.
I think I’m gonna have to dust of the fauxPod and do my own version of this preview…
Jujubees are indeed still in production, we sell them at my soul-sucking job…
Jujubees are indeed still in production, we sell them at my soul-sucking job…
Huh. Well it’s good to know they’re still around. And now maybe your job will seem less soul-killing, since you can look at them and be reminded of how great the A-Line days were but also how great it is that we have Langer (bum groin and all) instead of Arnie! (Sorry, Patty [in Dallas].)
I think I’m gonna have to dust of the fauxPod and do my own version of this preview…
Oh, please do! We need to wrest control of this trope away from John Buccigross and start populating the blogosphere with more of these!
And surely the mental image of Jason Arnott with a jujubee stuck in his ear will make your job a little less soul-killing, right? :D
This preview was such a great idea! I guess I’ll have to believe you when you say California Dreamin’ and I Got Spurs fell randomly to their respective teams.
*wink*
I’m totally serious, Patty! They did! We were gobsmacked by it, and more than a little bit relieved. I mean, how do you tie “California Dreamin’” into, say, a Panthers preview? (Again, though, tomorrow’s EC preview does have three lyrics we specifically assigned, but you didn’t think we’d leave, say, the Devils entirely to fate, did you?)
Oh, and now I know why Bucci relies on song lyrics so much. It’s because, besides the actually having to think of lyrics to use, it makes writing a post moronically easy. Sure, the post makes no sense, but it almost literally wrote itself.
Yeah, so that nap? I just woke up. I’m so screwed. (But feeling much more rested!)
Nice one, Heather! What time do you have to be up tomorrow? (I totally feel like I have to be at work tomorrow — but I don’t! Not until Thursday! Yay!)
Way to go, Heather! When you’re sucking fumes tomorrow morning, remember how nice it was to say, “eh, screw being responsible! I’m taking a nap” today.
Well, I have to leave home by 7:30 so I guess we’ll just see how early I feel like getting out of bed. (I’m guessing 7:23ish.) One good thing about my job is that it’s very casual so if I show up looking bleary and slightly disheveled no one will make too big of a fuss. They’re just glad we come at all.)
Here’s what’s going to happen. I’m going to feel like death tomorrow and drag myself through the whole day. Since I don’t have to work tomorrow night I’ll take a nap after work tomorrow, sleep entirely too long, and do it all again the next day! I’m very predictable.
Sounds like the cycle of sleep abuse that is my life, Heather! Thank goodness the hockey season is starting — it saves me from myself. If I have to be awake for hockey at 7:00 (or, preferably, 7:30. *Grumble, grumble*), I can’t very well expect to be able to take a nap after work and make dinner.
Oh, Schnookie! I never thought about it that way but you’re right! Even if I did nap, the one thing I would drag myself out of bed for was the Sabres. They save me from myself!
It’s just one more way hockey makes us better people!
we literally drew song lyrics out of a hat to assign to each team, exactly the way we assume Bucci does
HAHA, love it!!
How much would you want to kill me if I send Bucci a link to this “must-read season preview!”
HAHAHA. That would kill me.
Heather, Schnookie and I agree that we’d die laughing if you sent it to him.
I’ll get printed in the mailbag and he’ll share the link because he’ll mistake it for a loving, admiring tribute.
I’ll get printed in the mailbag and he’ll share the link because he’ll mistake it for a loving, admiring tribute.
Yeah, because what Schnookie wrote in the Flames preview is totally loving and admiring.
You guys, this post is hilar! Well done!
Kate, if you’re still here, I have to say that I sat staring at your email for a good five minutes because I could not wrap my brain around Chris Drury dropping the gloves. My brain was spinning like a CD player that can’t load the CD. What the hell? I can’t remember him ever fighting here. (Mark tells me he did once when he first joined the team.) I felt like I’d entered bizarro world.
Are you guys going to tell us which three teams you assigned songs to?
Wait, Drury fought? His self-loathing is starting to manifest itself externally! He’s lashing out because he hates himself so much!
Are you guys going to tell us which three teams you assigned songs to?
You’ll have to wait until tomorrow’s EC preview to find out! (They’re pretty obvious.)
Wait, Drury fought? His self-loathing is starting to manifest itself externally! He’s lashing out because he hates himself so much!
He fought to protect JAGR! Even worse. That is just disgusting.
He fought to protect JAGR! Even worse. That is just disgusting.
EW! What in the hell was happening to Jagr that stupid robot-herpes Drury thought he had to avenge? Were Jagsie’s bookies coming after him or something?
I don’t really know what happened and I haven’t been able to find any video. I’m just reporting what I’ve heard. But I’m a little offended. He never dropped the gloves for any of the likable fellas in Buffalo but he’s going to defend Jagr? Again, ew.
Heather I have been scouring the interwebs looking for evidence of this fight, but I can’t find any. I am SO fucking intrigued. Chris Drury fought to protect Jagr. It makes no sense. He is clearly already losing his mind with regret. I have GOT to see the video on this one. I MUST.
Maybe it says more about how strangely the Rangers are prioritized than it does about how Drury felt about his teammates in Buffalo? Like, that on the Sabres there were scads of scrubbier guys to do the fighting, but the Rangers spent their entire payroll on Gomez and Drury, so Drury’s stuck doing the fighting because they can’t afford scrubby guys? I don’t know. It’s just stupid.
Oh, and in HILARIOUS news, it took the Devils until today to give away Gomer’s number. That’s right: the Great Hope For The Future, David Clarkson, was assigned 23 today. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I can’t WAIT to read the Sabres lyrics. Hopefully you chose something from the “Kiss me, Kate” songbook. It seems like the only logical choice….
YAY! The Devils have freed the innocent 23! I hope we get a new 48 and 23 right away.
Kate, I found a still photo but no video. In the photo it doesn’t look good for him.
Schnookie, I think you might have the right idea as far as where Drury fits in on the team. Here he was the top dog and if there was a problem, the other guys stepped in and did the fighting. In NY, maybe he has to fill a different role.
Or maybe he’s just lost his frickin’ mind.
I can’t WAIT to read the Sabres lyrics. Hopefully you chose something from the “Kiss me, Kate” songbook. It seems like the only logical choice…
Funny! (But I was here first!)
I just checked again what we ended up with for Buffalo and it’s… not obvious. It’s probably the worst fit of all the lyrics we picked. Yikes. It’s not going to be an easy one to write! :D
I love seeing how quickly Lou gives away numbers we identify strongly with a departed player. He seemed kind of reluctant to reassign 27 (Nieder) permanently, but he slapped 16 (Holik) onto the first lousy scrub to walk through the dressing room doors. He was probably looking for a hobo outside CAA he could assign that one to. I’ve got to say, the 23 turnaround was certainly swift and merciless! (I hope Buffalo gives 23 away quickly, but you know what? 48 is a dumb number. I think the best thing for 48 would be for it to fade into oblivion, to be forgotten as the ages wear on, never to be spoken of again.)
I just checked again what we ended up with for Buffalo and it’s… not obvious. It’s probably the worst fit of all the lyrics we picked. Yikes. It’s not going to be an easy one to write! :D
Hmph! And here I assumed we were good enough for assigned, personalized lyrics.
Nobody in Rochester currently wears 23 or 48 so we’ll have to trade for one.
Marshawn Lynch of the Bills wears 23 though and a couple of weeks ago I cashed out a guy who had LYNCH written on duct tape and placed over DRURY which I thought was pretty hilarious. “I paid a lot for this damn thing. May as well get some use out of it.”
This prediction really opened up my eyes. For example, I had no idea the gummi bears actually had a theme song. Amazing!
The fighting just seems so out of step with Drury’s steely/robotic persona. I can’t wrap my brain around the rules of hockey fighting. It’s still inconceivable to me that they are often fighting without the impetus of actual personal rage. So often they are playing a role. If Drury all of a sudden becomes a punchy guy, I will know, once and for all, that he is really truly a hollow shell of a man, with absolutely no hint of an actual personality.
I am offended that the Sabres were randomly drawn out of a hat. So wrong. So you chose the Devils and the Penguins, but who else?
I kind of like 48! It’s so divisible.
He fought to protect JAGR!
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Ookies, this season preview is hysterical! I can’t wait to see what new lyrics the EC version has in store.
The Devils have freed the innocent 23! I hope we get a new 48 and 23 right away.
I don’t know, I feel like I wouldn’t be able to deal with seeing another guy in 23 right away (48 I could deal with), because somehow that number has become so repulsive to me that I don’t want to see any Sabre sullied with it. It just seems to crop up in the most evil of places. Like today when I was watching Dexter and it turned out that the big bad serial killer villan lived in apartment number 23, I was like “But of course!” In my perfect world, 23 would get the same treatment on the Sabres that 13 does in hotels. It wouldn’t get retired or anything, but it would just get skipped over all the time without anyone mentioning that it exists.
So you chose the Devils and the Penguins, but who else?
Guess again! You’ll be able to tell, don’t worry. They’re very, very obvious. And except for the Devils, the songs were thought up first and then assigned after we realized how apropos they were.
Heather shouldn’t be whining since “Puttin’ on the Ritz” was actually a shout-out of sorts. Hank called us and asked us to use a song from his favorite fan’s favorite movie.
The Sabres need some kind of punky, kick ass, us against the world song. I’m going to have to ponder this.
From what I read, someone hip checked Jagr, who’s been having hip flexor problems, and Drury took offense. And while I’m totally beating this into the ground, I’m stunned. I think Kate nailed it: He just seems to emotionless to get that worked up about anything.
Kate, the fighting rules are weird. You should read The Code.
So you chose the Devils and the Penguins, but who else?
So quick to assume we assigned something to the Penguins! I’ll have you know we did not. We came up with all the lyrics first, and two of them just perfectly fit two specific teams, who happen to be in the Eastern Conference. And Pookie had thought of a lyric for the Devils a day earlier, so that was never up for debate!
Sherri, I’m shocked that you didn’t know the Gummi Bears song. I thought that was just a cultural institution! :P (Just kidding. I was kind of horrified that it popped into my head so easily. It floored Pookie when I suggested it. And needless to say, the thinking-up-lyrics thing was very much a game of one-upsmanship.)
That story about the Lynch/Drury sweater is too funny!
In my perfect world, 23 would get the same treatment on the Sabres that 13 does in hotels.
I was thinking along those lines too, Gambler, but then I saw all the scrubby Baby Sabres in the leftover 23 and 48 jerseys at the practices, and it was weirdly cathartic.
I was just kidding about being offended that the Sabres didn’t get specially assigned song lyrics! You guys have earned you “Sabres fan” stripes. You’ve got nothing to prove in that regard!
You’ve got nothing to prove in that regard!
I’m beginning to think we need an emoticon for excessive, unnecessary apologies…
:’^( @@@@
(Those are cinnamon buns, the universal sign of excessive, unnecessary apologies.)
Heather shouldn’t be whining since “Puttin’ on the Ritz” was actually a shout-out of sorts. Hank called us and asked us to use a song from his favorite fan’s favorite movie.
That Hank. What a sweetheart. Or should I say “Captain Hank” (until the next game atleast).
I forgot to mention that I’m tickled that someone out there took the time to decipher and transcribe the Ewok song. Which I’ve had in my head all day since reading this btw.
Heh. We DO need the excessive, unnecessary apology cinnamon buns! We do!
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I love it! Because most of the time when I’m excessively apologizing, I totally know I’m doing it. It would be much easier to just slide you some cinnamon buns. @@@
Which I’ve had in my head all day since reading this btw.
Oh, I’m so sorry! And that was not an excessive or unnecessary apology! Still, it could be worse — it could be “Territory folks should stick together”.
Drury is such a fraud. (Sorry I’m not ready to let it go yet. @@@)
Either he was trying to prove some sort of weird “I’ll die with my Ranger teammates” point, or all of his years in Buffalo he was being a total wuss allowing the “scrubs” to fight his fights. Either way HE’S A WHORE.
It would be much easier to just slide you some cinnamon buns. @@@
Agreed. In fact, here are some for the fact that I made the original emoticon unnecessarily complicated @@@@
(Do you all want to laugh really hard at me? My goal today was to finally learn how to spell unnecessary. Seriously. I’m a terrible, terrible, terrible, horrifically awful speller. Catastrophically bad speller. Always have been. I had a 4.0 in grad school and still can’t spell “restaurant” to save my life [although I seem to have gotten it right this time, huh]. So that was my goal, and I’ve now successfully spelled it three times in a row. I’ve tried to work it into every comment tonight! Am I the biggest dork/loser/idiot you know? Don’t answer that. It’s not neccessary. DAMMIT!)
Either way HE’S A WHORE.
Maybe he’s one of those guys who really hates socially awkward situations. And really, what’s more socially awkward than when the ostensibly best player on your team gets cheap-shotted and no one responds? He was probably sitting there with his little robot herpes brain going, “Someone fight that guy. Someone fight that guy, please! Oh crap. No one’s going to do it. No one else thinks it’s necessary. But I think it’s necessary… is it just me, or is this new team of mine a bad fit for me? Oh well. Can’t think about it now. Gotta get my robot-herpes, whorish ass handed to me in a fight now.”
Either he was trying to prove some sort of weird “I’ll die with my Ranger teammates” point, or all of his years in Buffalo he was being a total wuss allowing the “scrubs” to fight his fights. Either way HE’S A WHORE.
Either way, Goose and Mairsy both owe him a good punch in the head in February.
Necessary is TOTALLY hard. I have this setting on my computer (maybe all computers have it but I never had it until I got this computer), where every time I misspell a word, a little red line appears underneath it. This feature has improved my spelling SO MUCH. My very hardest word is immediately. So, so hard.
Either way, Goose and Mairsy both owe him a good punch in the head in February.
HAHAHAHA!!! They so do!!!! I mean, he’s proven he’s up for a fight now. (Meanwhile, I hope Rupp does his henchperson duty properly and takes a piece out of Gomer.)
My very hardest word is immediately. So, so hard.
I’ve never had a problem with immediately, oddly enough. The red line feature is one of the greatest inventions ever. EVER!
Only one of our laptops does the red line spelling awareness assistance program. And I LOVE it. I used to be a fairly decent speller, but that feature has become a crutch on which I rely wholly. I am no longer capable of spelling unnnneccccessssarrrrry. Or restauraunt. Or immedddiatttely.
Oh, wait. I think both of our laptops do it, because I’m on the non-spell-assist computer right now and it’s freaking about this comment.
I can’t WAIT for one of the Sabres to bowl Drury over in February. God, I’m getting happy chills just thinking about it. Goose, punch Drury! Mairsie, think of all those times you fought when HE should have been doing it! Punch Drury!
But the red line doesn’t give you the answer it merely let’s you know that there is a problem. That’s my favorite thing about the red line; it forces me to spell the word a million different ways until I figure it out.
Either way, Goose and Mairsy both owe him a good punch in the head in February.
I think Staffy should get one in there, too, just so he can feel better about sticking up for the SFW after the brain-scrambling incident. I mean, by the transitive property, Staffy stuck up for Jagr, which, EW!
I was delighted when I finally installed the new Mozilla upgrade and found the little red line working its magic. I’m a pretty decent speller but there are certain words that I just can’t get a handle on. Plus I tend to skip letters when I type quickly. I suspect Top Shelf is much more readable because of the red line.
And actually I’ve decided Derek should just bug the hell out of Chris all night. He’s pretty good at that.
Still, it could be worse — it could be “Territory folks should stick together”.
It’s worse. :D And I didn’t realize the Ewok song actually had lyrics. I always thought they were singing syllables at random. And while my spelling is decent, I’ve recently taken to switching the lirst fetter of words while talking. I mean first letter.
I’ve changed my mind about Rupp laying a beating into Gomer. I think Clarkson should do it. “How do you like number 23 now, bitch?” (Actually, I’d prefer Clarkson to go into Madison Square Garden and score a hat trick on his birthday. And then turn to Gomer and say, “How do you like number 23 now, bitch?” That would be much more satisfying. Of course, we’re not playing the Rangers in NY on March 31, but a girl can dream, right?)
Oh GOD! Do STD rules apply to fighting?! If you fight for a guy, you’re fighting for all the people he’s ever fought for, and all the guys he will fight for, and so on and so on….
How hilarious would Roy and Drury be fighting?
I mean, by the transitive property, Staffy stuck up for Jagr, which, EW!
Oh, I wish you hadn’t mentioned this! Poor Staffy! He needs to de-Jagr-ify himself somehow! STAT!
Does Gomer fight? He seems too dopey to get pissed.
Poor Staffy! He needs to de-Jagr-ify himself somehow! STAT!
He needs a round of Valtrex! ASAP!
But the red line doesn’t give you the answer it merely let’s you know that there is a problem. That’s my favorite thing about the red line; it forces me to spell the word a million different ways until I figure it out.
Kate, on my computer, if you right click on the misspelled word, it gives you a list of suggestion at the top of the menu that pops up. So I take the lazy way out :-)
Gambler, you’re so right about Staffy. He definitely owes Chris. And I love the “I’ve defended everyone you’ve defended” idea. Poor Staffy.
I’ve recently taken to switching the lirst fetter of words while talking.
I’ve been doing that a lot lately, too! I keep having to convince myself I’m not drunk.
As for the Ewok song, I remember being hugely jealous of Pookie because she learned it in her second-grade music class. I was like, “She learned Ewok!” Now in hindsight I get to say, “I never once knew the words to that song, so I am that much cooler. Sure, you had no control over what you learned in second-grade music class, but the fact remains that not a single cell in my brain ever had knowledge of the Ewok language. So there!”
Hey, how ridiculous is asking andrew to trade Staffy for Mark Recchi?…..because I may or may not have done that. :D
How hilarious would Roy and Drury be fighting?
Funny. And my money is on Derek, the little rat. He seems like the type to have plenty of bar brawl experience. I’m sure he flies off the handle every time someone calls him “little buddy” or something like that.
Does Gomer fight? He seems too dopey to get pissed.
Nope, he doesn’t fight. Which would make the beat-down that much more satisfying!
I am so concerned for Staffy’s health now. This is a very distressing thing we’ve learned tonight about hockey fights and social diseases.
Kate, on my computer, if you right click on the misspelled word, it gives you a list of suggestion at the top of the menu that pops up.
No way! I can’t believe I never figured that out before! Well, there goes my ideal learning tool!
“I never once knew the words to that song, so I am that much cooler. Sure, you had no control over what you learned in second-grade music class, but the fact remains that not a single cell in my brain ever had knowledge of the Ewok language. So there!”
Is it sad that I think this scenario actually makes Pookie the cool one?
Hey, how ridiculous is asking andrew to trade Staffy for Mark Recchi?…..because I may or may not have done that. :D
In andrew agrees, we’ll know he’s been drinking. I’ve spent more time trying to convince someone to pick up Timmy than actually worrying about my own team. Poor Tally-hos!
No way! I can’t believe I never figured that out before! Well, there goes my ideal learning tool!
I didn’t want to say anything, because your vision of the red line as a learning tool that makes the world a better place is such a happy one, but yeah… I am definitely a lazy red-line learner.
I am so concerned for Staffy’s health now. This is a very distressing thing we’ve learned tonight about hockey fights and social diseases.
I’m not sure if Staffy’s flesh-eating zombie blood is susceptible to social diseases. He might be immune. (I just right clicked to figure out the spelling of susceptible.)
Is it sad that I think this scenario actually makes Pookie the cool one?
I will readily admit that Pookie is cooler than I am in almost every aspect, but Ewok language knowledge is not one of them. So I guess my answer is yes, Heather, it is sad that you think that’s cool! :P
Hey, how ridiculous is asking andrew to trade Staffy for Mark Recchi?…..because I may or may not have done that. :D
I’m not totally clear on the concept of trading block, but since Recchi’s up there, why not? Heh, I’m not really helpful, am I?
Is it sad that I think this scenario actually makes Pookie the cool one?
It’s always a safe bet in any situation that I’m the cool one. :)
I’m so cool, I’m too cool for school. Or in this case, commenting. Time to take my cool-assed ass to bed. Good night everyone! 10 IPBucks to anyone who correctly guesses the Sabres song before we post the EC preview tomorrow!
Is it sad that I think this scenario actually makes Pookie the cool one?
No matter what Schnookie says, I don’t think it’s sad. Of course, I used to recite whole lines of dialogue when I was younger. :P
I will readily admit that Pookie is cooler than I am in almost every aspect, but Ewok language knowledge is not one of them. So I guess my answer is yes, Heather, it is sad that you think that’s cool! :P
I mean, it’s definitely not as cool as speaking Wookiee or R2-D2. The Ewoks are pretty lame. But yeah, the Star Wars geek in me thinks it’s pretty cool. I’m proudly sad!
Oh, I bet the flesh-eating zombie blood definitely saves Staffy. And whatever immunities he’s built up after years of close personal contact with Jordy Parise (seriously, for those who may have glossed over it in today’s game diary, he literally, in real life, has the Shattuck crest tattooed on his arm).
(I just right clicked to figure out the spelling of susceptible.)
I can’t ever spell words that end -ible correctly. I think everything should end -able.
This is a very distressing thing we’ve learned tonight about hockey fights and social diseases.
Just goes to show, you have to be careful about who’s honor you fight for these days. You may not think it’s possible that anyone’s ever thrown down the gloves for Jagr’s sake, but Drury proves there are some sick, stupid people out there.
You may not think it’s possible that anyone’s ever thrown down the gloves for Jagr’s sake, but Drury proves there are some sick, stupid people out there.
Yup, no matter how clean and pure they look, it’s never safe to make assumptions.
I mean, it’s definitely not as cool as speaking Wookiee
Of course not, but it’s more difficult to vocalize those “Arroo”s and “Urrrrh”s. :P (Is that grammar correct?)
Yup, no matter how clean and pure they look, it’s never safe to make assumptions.
What’s the saying? It’s always the quiet ones?
Goodnight, Pookie! Is the song “I Wanna Be Like Kate”, by Ben Folds Five? Because it should be.
…Jordy Parise (seriously, for those who may have glossed over it in today’s game diary, he literally, in real life, has the Shattuck crest tattooed on his arm)
I saw that in the game diary, Schnookie. I sort of can’t believe that it is true. How did you find out?
I saw that in the game diary, Schnookie. I sort of can’t believe that it is true. How did you find out?
We have a quiet-on-the-comments-front Gentle Reader who is extraordinarily gifted at interweb searches that result in Parise news. A lengthy interview with Jordy that discussed his many tattoos was brought to our attention yesterday, and I’m still reeling, trying to figure out how the Parise boys keep ending up sounding even stranger than I can make them up to be. Now, there were no pictures (dammit!), but Jordy claims to actually have the Shattuck crest tattooed on his arm. Considering how much more ardently Zach seems to love SSM than Jordy does, I can only assume this means Zach has the crest tattooed on BOTH arms. And several other body parts. (And seriously, who gets their high school crest tattooed on them?)
Zach has the SSM crest on his chest. He also had it painted on Boxworthy’s shell.
Is SSM an accredited high school? Are those degrees real?
Okay dudes, I’m falling asleep at the wheel here. I got to get some sleeps. I’ll talk to you all tomorrow!
Oh, just to clarify my Staffy/Mark Recchi question….I have Staffy, but I want Mark Recchi.
‘Night Katebits!
(And how can you doubt SSM is real? Wayne Gretzky’s kid goes there!)
Okay, goodnight… for reals.
Oh, just to clarify my Staffy/Mark Recchi question….I have Staffy, but I want Mark Recchi.
What?! Kate, I can’t believe you would drop that on us and then leave. Recchi?!
Okay, fine! I;m still here! Is that totally wrong? The thing is, I already have Max on my fantasy team, and I figure I shoudl have two guys in one position on the same team. On nights the Sabres don’t play, I’ll only have one playable RW. So, one of them has to go, and I fugure Max is more valuable. Should I halt the trade? Is it monumentally stupid? Is Recchi a slag-faced whore?
Okay, fine! I;m still here! Is that totally wrong? The thing is, I already have Max on my fantasy team, and I figure I shouldn’t have two guys in one position on the same team. On nights the Sabres don’t play, I’ll only have one playable RW. So, one of them has to go, and I figure Max is more valuable. Should I halt the trade? Is it monumentally stupid? Is Recchi a slag-faced whore?
Whoops. My typoed post got through. @@@
Well, I’m sure the SSM is real, I’m just not convinced the degree is real.
No, no that all actually makes sense. And if Recchi plays with Sid he should get his fair share of points. The whole “too many players from one team” thing does stink in that they all have the same night off. After your explanation, I think it does actually make sense. I was just surprised since I assumed you were trying to pick up Staffy.
It’s okay to have typos when you’re falling asleep at the wheel! I’d say to go ahead with the Recchi deal. Staffy’s going to be on the third line, remember!
And apparently the SSM degrees were real until JP Parise turned it into a hockey factory. Now? Not so much. :D
Staffy’s going to be on the third line, remember!
Well, there are rumblings that Lindy’s enjoyed how well he’s played with Van and Derek during the preseason (Max has been sidelined for most of it) and Max has proven chemistry with Timmy… But I don’t know who would drop to the third line in that situation so I’d bet on Staffy atleast starting there. But you never know.
That said, I think Max is probably more valuable on the first OR second line so I’m not sure it matters. Derek and Timmy are both set-up machines.
Staffy’s going to be on the third line, remember!
I dunno anymore, Schnookie. Lindy played him last night with Vanek and Roy, so who knows? Andrew hasn’t agreed to my proposal yet, so we’ll have to see what happens.
Oh wait. SSM’s isn’t specifically design to churn out hockey players? I thought that JP Parise started the school. i’m all mixed up!
Marlon Brando went to SSM! It’s this venerable old school, but I’m under the impression it’s taken a bit of a downturn academically since it went all hockey-factory. I mean, they’ll let any old riff-raff in now if they have an acceptable monocle brow!
I think Recchi’s still probably a safer bet than Staffy, just because if he buckles a bit under the pressure, at least he’ll only be breaking your real-life heart and not your fantasy heart.
Goodie! I hope that andrew bites. I’m sort of impressed with myself for coming up with a reasonable trade idea.
Marlon Brando had hockey aspirations? :P
Okay. Bedtime. FOR REALS!
Marlon Brando had hockey aspirations? :P
He did, until Staffy’s grandfather, then a young, pyromaniacal buck, set his hockey bag on fire and stomped on his hands. Brando was never the same again…
And on that note, I, too, am falling asleep at the wheel. See you all tomorrow!
Oh GOD! Do STD rules apply to fighting?! If you fight for a guy, you’re fighting for all the people he’s ever fought for, and all the guys he will fight for, and so on and so on….
I’m late to the party, but that means Marty Biron fought for Jagr, based on his role in the brawl last year. I’m having trouble processing that. Sweet, sweet Marty and cranky-pants Jagr does not compute.
I also agree that getting a tattoo of your high school crest is a pretty big WTF moment. Maybe its some sort of SSM thing, and for all we know Staffy, Zach, and Sid himself have one. Inquiring minds want to know!
Maybe its some sort of SSM thing, and for all we know Staffy, Zach, and Sid himself have one. Inquiring minds want to know!
Eek! It hadn’t occured to me that Sid would have been forced to get the same tattoo! Poor guy!
In an unrelated note, to all you Sabres fans out there (and as someone who watches a fair amount of them on TV myself, I feel like is directed at myself, too) I am so, so, so, so sorry about the report that apparently Harry Neale is replacing Lorenz. This is terrible, terrible news!
You know what seems really weird? I was just singing the greasy grimy gopher guts song a few days. Hilarious post, nice work, -ookies.
I was just singing the greasy grimy gopher guts song a few days.
Were you thinking about the Colorado Avalanche at the time?
In an unrelated note, to all you Sabres fans out there (and as someone who watches a fair amount of them on TV myself, I feel like is directed at myself, too) I am so, so, so, so sorry about the report that apparently Harry Neale is replacing Lorenz. This is terrible, terrible news!
What’s so funny about this whole thing is that Hockeybuzz was reporting this rumor yesterday, but a lot of people just blew it off as typical HB nonsense.
Since Neale is allegedly keeping his national HNiC gig, it will be interesting to see how they handle scheduling conflicts between the two.
What’s so funny about this whole thing is that Hockeybuzz was reporting this rumor yesterday, but a lot of people just blew it off as typical HB nonsense.
That’s exactly how awful this is. It’s so awful, it’s a bad as a hockeybuzz rumor turned true. Ugh!
Harry Neale??? That’s AWFUL news!
Did Harry Neale kill IPB?
Apparantly! I feel like I should draw a tumbleweed.
I’m here. I’m just reading about dump trucks.
I’m here, but I’m productively playing Zuma.
I feel like I should draw a tumbleweed.
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(look, town with tumbleweeds)
Why won’t yahoo put Dan Boyle on IR? I don’t want to just drop him, but I don’t want him to mess up my stats for four weeks either.
Very nice Mags.
Why won’t yahoo accurately reflect Visnovski’s SOG? Yahoo is a weird, weird place.
Were you thinking about the Colorado Avalanche at the time?
I have no idea what I was thinking about. But I just heard “Sledgehammer” by Peter Gabriel and me made think of the Ducks.
But I just heard “Sledgehammer” by Peter Gabriel and me made think of the Ducks.
Just like the gopher guts, it’s a nice, literal choice! :D
Alix, the Lightning have to officially put him on the IR first. You still a couple of days before the rest of the starts so just be patient. Lucky for me Schneider just went on the IR but there are slim pickins in the WC defensemen. Also, I couldn’t figure out how to put him my IR using drag&drop and had to switch to the ‘classic’ style.
Thanks Frisby. I’m just being an impatient twit. Gah. I need a nap already.
It’s so quiet here today, and with the season having already started and everything! Oh wait, what’s that? The season stopped again? Gah. (Seriously, they don’t ever have to do a start-stop-start again season opener again. This blows.)
I am so depressed about no hockey again! When is this mini off-season going to END?! It’s torture!
Final roster cuts come today I guess? That’s something. I have to wait until friday to watch my team! When do the Devs start? Wednesday?
When do the Devs start? Wednesday?
Thursday. None of our projected four teams to watch this season are playing on Wednesday. It’s a wild card night!
Devils start on Thursday, and it can’t come a moment too soon! I’m losing my mind! I’ve never paid this much attention to a preseason, and now I’m getting all anxious about the line combinations and the injuries and the forechecking system and my concerns that Pando won’t be happy and will leave when he hits UFAness this summer. It’s terrible! I just need hockey to start already!!!
When is this mini off-season going to END?! It’s torture!
This is like the longest, most terrible mini off-season I can recall. I’ve never had one seem so unbearable before! :P
Oh, and our chocolate order was placed too late to get them to commemorate this “real” opening night, so we’ll be treating Wednesday as the official opening night. Sorry, London, Ducks, and Kings — you all didn’t warrant fine chocolats!
Not even cute little jailbait Bernier? I’ve never watched a whole preseason either. I’m dying to know who ends up staying out of our prospects, and I keep thinking about stuff to write on my blog. I’m an official hockey nerd.
I’m an official hockey nerd.
Yeah, I feel like I’ve finally gone off the deep-end, too, from crazed fan to nerd. :D
I’ll have a chocolat in Bernier’s honor on Wednesday, but no, he didn’t warrant having the box delivered in time for Saturday, either! (Okay, that’s a lie. We were just lazy about ordering them in time.)
Oh my gosh, so much action on IPB over the last 3 days! Where to begin!?
Awesome, awesome job on the WC predictions. Randomly assigning lyrics was too funny. I did notice one small typo, you gals put the Sharks down for a second place finish. No big deal, they’ll just have to make sure and fix that for ya.
And you all honestly thought I would give up Recchi for Staffy?! Recchi is going to have his old ass planted on Sid’s right wing! That is the fantasy hockey equivalent of free points!!
Sigh. I just realized that i am not going to be in front of the television watching hockey until SUNDAY. I have evening plans/responsibilities Wed,Thurs,Fri,Sat.
My life is intolerable. :D
Does anyone know how many players Yahoo lets you have on IR? I’ve got Schneider and Giggy with the little red IR’s next to their name, but when I got to put them on IR, Yahoo tells me that I’ve got too many people on IR.
Sorry, London, Ducks, and Kings — you all didn’t warrant fine chocolats!
I just ordered Girl Scout cookies. Not in celebration of hockey season or anything, but because the form was in the kitchen at work.
I did notice one small typo, you gals put the Sharks down for a second place finish.
I have to be honest, we originally picked them to finish first. Then we were like, “Wait. We’ve got four teams from their division making the playoffs, and four in the Red Wings’ division in the draft lottery. That math doesn’t add up.” So be confident that, while we’re giving the Wings more points, the Sharks are our team to beat in the West. (How was your snowy weekend, by the way?)
Katebits, your life is nothing short of intolerable!!!
I was appealing to your Sabres love, andrew! I temporarily forgot you are a statbit driven boy!
I’ve got to unload Staffy! He keeps attacking the other players in the dressing room. He won’t stop trying to drink everybody’s blood.
Amy, I think you can only have one guy in IR.
Blergh. ESPN, if you want to do an insulting/un original preview of the Canucks, do you actually want to do research and get our players right? Thanks! Ass clowns, the lot of them. Except for that random guy that said they’d win the Stanley Cup I guess.
Ass clowns, the lot of them. Except for that random guy that said they’d win the Stanley Cup I guess.
Yeah, they’re all ass clowns! (The guy who picked them to win the Cup, by they way, had that desperate air of a guy who’s never seen a hockey game in his life and is secretly hoping, “There’s still a team called ‘The Canucks’, right? I’m not making that up, right?”)
Amy, one guy on IR…sorry, Yahoo’s rules.
“I have to be honest, we originally picked them to finish first.”
Yeah! That’s what I’m talking about! You guys totally picked them first but then realized they automatically needed to be dropped down to second on the strength of the Roenick signing.
“I was appealing to your Sabres love, andrew! I temporarily forgot you are a statbit driven boy!”
For sure Kate! I hear ya, but fantasy hockey has to remain an emotionless endeavour. I mean, I cheered for Chris “fuckhead” Pronger this weekend for jeebus’ sake! As a hockey fan, that makes me want to die, but as team owner of “The Fighting Pansies” in my only non-IPB league, it has to be done.
Ha! That’s what I figured he was like. Alright, I better get my sorry ass to class. Going to the late showing of a zombie movie when you have an early morning class? Not really a good idea.
“(How was your snowy weekend, by the way?)”
It was sooo good!!! Not a lot of snow, unfortunately. Just a light dusting on Friday night (like, half an inch), and most of it had melted of by 3:00 or 4:00 on Saturday, but still…snow!!! We had a great time thoughL: awesome room, great food, lots of drinking, Hockey, took the little lady shopping, more drinking, and I walked away only about $150 down from gambling (trust me, that’s a victory).
Amy, one guy on IR…sorry, Yahoo’s rules.
Oh, fudge. I think I may have to drop Schneider then.
I’ve got to unload Staffy! He keeps attacking the other players in the dressing room. He won’t stop trying to drink everybody’s blood.
Maybe that’s why he was being bantered about as trade bait last season?
You guys totally picked them first but then realized they automatically needed to be dropped down to second on the strength of the Roenick signing.
Oh wow. Yeah, in my hard-hitting analysis, I’d totally forgotten to factor in JR. I guess that should knock your guys down to fourth…
andrew, it sounds like a fantastic weekend, indeed!
And now that things are picking up around here, I have to go get my staples taken out (I know you were wondering about that), then hit the farm and the grocery store. Since when did my recovery vacation get so cluttered with errands?
I mean, I cheered for Chris “fuckhead” Pronger this weekend for jeebus’ sake! As a hockey fan, that makes me want to die, but as team owner of “The Fighting Pansies” in my only non-IPB league, it has to be done.
See now, this is where I have to argue with your strategy, andrew. Cheering for Pronger? That’s just bad for the soul. Those points will haunt you in the end. And by “the end” I mean when you die and you are trying to get into heaven but Peter is like, “Duuuude. You cheered for Pronger in 2007. Please step to the back of the line.”
This reminds me, does anyone know if Grace is playing? In my attempts to find a new home for Staffy, I noticed her team is all jumbled up, conference-wise. I only just thought of it because she’s got Pronger.
“Oh, fudge. I think I may have to drop Schneider then.”
Hold onto your guys if they’re really good players. Even if they’re out a couple of weeks, having a D-man like Schneider playing in a month is worth it. Just grab a scrub off the FA list to play in the spot you need filled the most and get rid of him when your guy comes off the IR.
“I guess that should knock your guys down to fourth…”
Whoa, let’s not get crazy here. JR sucks but remember, 5 goals and out. He’ll be retired by January.
“I mean when you die and you are trying to get into heaven but Peter is like, “Duuuude. You cheered for Pronger in 2007. Please step to the back of the line.””
It’s a cruel reality Katebits. But the eternal damnation of my soul is a small price to pay for winning first among the Puckbusters (Yahoo league 15464).
Sorry, London, Ducks, and Kings — you all didn’t warrant fine chocolats!
Ha! When I was in Delaware I bought a case of Pete’s Wicked Ale because I can’t find it anywhere down here. When I got home, my girlfriend started to put it in the fridge. I was like, “No, not yet! That’s my special occassion beer!”. Well guess what the first occassion is. That’s right, not the first official games of the season, but the first official Devils game of the season.
Cheering for Pronger? That’s just bad for the soul.
Good thing to know that I may not have a soul and was going to hell regardless of whether I cheer for Pronger or not. Maybe I can get into a cool circle now.
Mags, the Toronto paper was quoting re: London “one group of five Dutch fans which traveled from Amsterdam to bear witness to what they called…”real Canadian hockey”.” Were you in that? :P
You guys were banking on the fact that I haven’t been around here much lately when you wrote that, weren’t you? Well no such luck!
Quick, Steph, look at that hobo! Hee hee!
I don’t Patty’s around, but does anyone else know anything about Jussi Jokinen? I’ve only just realized that I probably don’t want all of my forwards playing on the same 2 teams, but I know so little about the WC I have no idea who to replace them with.
I suppose I should take solace in that we’re good enough to get nasty things said about us :P
As for Jokinen I think he was one of the guys the was briefly mentioned last year as someone the Oilers wanted to try and get at the trade deadline (along with every other defenseman in the NHL), but that’s all I know.
Meanwhile I need another goalie (um, and to not be possessed of Brendan Witt) – and once we get past starters in the east I have no idea what’s going on. Suggestions?
Er, and by defenseman…you know what I mean. Um, coffee. I need coffee.
DS, I don’t recall I was a part of that group. I met up with a bunch of people from my league before the games, so they probably meant Milan, Steph and the gang. They were certainly loud enough to warrant interviewing. If they did mean my group, they got it wrong, since none of us are technically Dutch :P
once we get past starters in the east I have no idea what’s going on. Suggestions?
Hm… Good question. I, for one, think taking Emery’s and Ward’s back-ups is solid, since I think both will be busts this year. That and don’t take Weekes, because I think Marty will continue to start every game, thus breaking Sutter’s spirit 30 games in. Other than that, I have no idea!
Steph, I just let Manny Fernandez go to waivers, take a look, he might not be a bad pick up at all. I just dropped him in order to upgrade to Lehtnonen.
Pookie, Jussi Jokinen is kick ass in shootouts, but I haven’t seen him do a whole hell of a lot in actual games. But Patty would be better suited to answer your question.
Does anyone know anything about Aubin in LA? I ended up with him, and based on what I’m reading, he doesn’t appear to be entering into the Kings picture at all, especially if Bernier continues to do well.
“Does anyone know anything about Aubin in LA?”
As of now, I think he’s third on the depth chart behind Bernier and LaBarbera. But it is LA, so who the hell knows what’s going to happen.
Andrew, that might work out – I was looking at Thomas earlier but I didn’t – well, still don’t – know who they actually intended to start or whether taking a goalie from Boston would be a remotely good idea ahaha.
And Pookie, sigh, thanks for ruining my dreams of having a constant stream of 80s porno music running in the background whenever I pulled up my roster.
3,153 IPB demerits to Mags! I can’t believe you, Mags, have the gall — the unmitigated GALL — to reject a trade with Pandora’s Boxworthy! Oooh, you think your Cheechoo’s all hot stuff, eh? Well, know now that he’s made Boxworthy’s list. And you know what that means! Bwah-ha-ha-ha!
Does anyone know anything about Aubin in LA
I wouldn’t be surprised if he was their last resort – considering the number of games in Toronto last year Raycroft got absolutely mauled and still wasn’t pulled because when he had been before, Aubin generally went out there and just looked even worse than he did.
As of now, I think he’s third on the depth chart behind Bernier and LaBarbera. But it is LA, so who the hell knows what’s going to happen.
True, especially since the article on ESPN about Bernier mentions they’re trying to tread lightly with him, so he doesn’t end up like Fluery and DiPietro.
3,153 IPB demerits to Mags!
How did you know that last 4 numbers of my… Nevermind.
I’ll take it. I might be in the red now, but I’ll deal :P
(I also have no witty comeback. Eat my Pronger poisoned waffles)
“well, still don’t – know who they actually intended to start or whether taking a goalie from Boston would be a remotely good idea ahaha.”
I think Fernandez has the start locked up for now, it’s his job to lose for sure.
I know Boston blows nuts, but it’s been my experience that having a starter on a mediocre team who will win close to 30 is a lot better than having a really good backup who will only win 10-15.
Pookie, Jussi Jokinen is kick ass in shootouts, but I haven’t seen him do a whole hell of a lot in actual games.
Thanks, andrew. Do shootout points gain you a lot in Yahoo? Part of my problem is I really probably shouldn’t get rid of Hejduk, but I fell like I should spread my team out among more teams. It’s probably not a great idea to have two forwards from the same team, right? I should increase my chances of more teams to choose from to account for the schedule, right? Is that concern more or less important than keeping the points that Hejduk and Stasny might get?
“Oooh, you think your Cheechoo’s all hot stuff, eh?”
OHH! Pookie, who did you offer up for Cheech?! He’s my boy, I gotta make sure he’s taken care of.
Eat my Pronger poisoned waffles
Them be fightin’ words!
OHH! Pookie, who did you offer up for Cheech?!
Hejduk. It probably would have been a better deal for Mags in the long run, but someone doesn’t want Avs on their team!
I don’t think shootouts points got me anything last year…not sure if that’s just the way we were playing or what, though.
Or rather on “her team”. I know grammar, I promise!
“Do shootout points gain you a lot in Yahoo?”
About as much as they do in actual stats! Zero!
“It’s probably not a great idea to have two forwards from the same team, right?”
If they’re both really good, it’s perfectly fine. I’d rather have a kick ass couple of players with an unbalanced schedule than mediocre guys playing on different nights! The statbitties rule all in Yahoo! (also, the Statbitty Avengers rule too)
“Hejduk. It probably would have been a better deal for Mags in the long run, but someone doesn’t want Avs on their team!”
ah, can’t says I blame her. Avs are the Debil!
And Hejduk? for Cheechoo? Her?
I’d rather have a kick ass couple of players with an unbalanced schedule than mediocre guys playing on different nights!
So you’d keep Hejduk, Smyth and Stasny? This seems like an awful lot of putting all my eggs in one basket (thank you Earl, for making it so I can’t think of that metaphor in the same way every again).
I look at it this way, Pookie. Last year I could have had Datsyuk and Zetterberg and I only took one because I knew they’d be on the same line and I already had a couple Red Wings and didn’t want to stack my team like that.
And then they started putting up like 5 points EACH per game. I consider myself learned.
And Hejduk? for Cheechoo? Her?
Yeah. Her. I don’t like Hejduk. And I don’t like having so many Avs. And I’ve heard of Cheechoo and might actually watch a Sharks game or two this season. This is why I’m thinking of adding Jokinen. I don’t hate the Stars really anymore and would be happy to have a guy on the team to cheer for. I just can’t play this the statbitty way. I’m trying. I’m trying real hard.
Them be fightin’ words!
So?
It probably would have been a better deal for Mags in the long run, but someone doesn’t want Avs on their team!
I am aware. But Pronger AND an Av?! My conscience is strained already from the Duck-love I exhibited in London (to the point of beating my cousin up because he was booing Pronger)!
And then they started putting up like 5 points EACH per game. I consider myself learned.
Alriiiiight. But if I’m not getting 5 points each per night from my mighty Avs triumvirate, I’m never taking your fantasy advice again!
I’d rather have a kick ass couple of players with an unbalanced schedule than mediocre guys playing on different nights!
So, maybe it’s okay to have both Max and Staffy? Staffy might be on the first line with Roy and Vanek, so he could end up getting lots of points. Maybe I should just keep them both. I think Afinogenov Connolly and Pommers might be pretty fancy too.
Or is Staffy not what you meant by “kick ass”? :D
“So you’d keep Hejduk, Smyth and Stasny?”
If you can’t trade for anyone of equal talent….sure.
What I would try to do is, not to hit a homerun with your trade requests. Try and get a guy that is as “close” to your trade bait as possible, that way you’re just diversifying your roster, and the person on the other end of the trade will be more likely to agree. No one feels as though they’re getting cheated.
The hard part is agreeing on player “value”!
Ok what is up with Sutter breaking up Madden and Pando?
And putting Madden on wing?
And most importantly dropping Pando to the fourth line?
Is this the shake up the Devils need, or is Sutter going too far with his “New Sheriff in Town” schtick?
Can I type anything but a question?
So, maybe it’s okay to have both Max and Staffy?
Yeah, it could be. And you don’t have to trade them now. I mean, I figure watching and waiting is worth something too.
“Yeah. Her. I don’t like Hejduk. And I don’t like having so many Avs. And I’ve heard of Cheechoo and might actually watch a Sharks game or two this season.”
Hey I hate the Avs as much as the next Irregular.
No offense, but if I had Cheechoo, I woudn’t give him up for anyone less talented than a Datsyuk or Sedin.
No offense, but if I had Cheechoo, I woudn’t give him up for anyone less talented than a Datsyuk or Sedin.
This is when the WC-EC thing comes into play. Since I know nothing about the WC, I figured Hejduk playing on the top line in Colorado, and with point totals higher than Cheechoo’s the last few years, meant that I was actually offering Mags a player who could turn out to be equal to/better than Cheechoo. I guess my EC bias is showing, eh?
with point totals higher than Cheechoo’s the last few years
Heh heh. Oops. I somehow managed to not see the 93 pts Cheech got the season before last. OK, fine, they’re not even close. So sue me and my EC bias!
“I guess my EC bias is showing, eh?”
Yes, it certainly is! But, it’s cool, you have a perfectly reasonable excuse…you don’t really watch any WC teams!
Season Team GP G A P +/- PIM
2005-2006 Sharks 82 56 37 93 23 58
2006-2007 Sharks 76 37 32 69 11 69
2005-2006 Avalanche 74 24 34 58 13 24
2006-2007 Avalanche 80 35 35 70 10 44
Yay swedish twins! That’s about all I have to add.
I’m watching game 2 of the london series on DVR atm and it’s the Versus feed…. I am so, so, so, sorry to all of you who got this all the time for the playoffs (and whenever else you had to watch). I’m sorta getting sad listening to them.
Pookie, I’m EC biased too, so yeah, sue me too.
it’s the Versus feed…. I am so, so, so, sorry to all of you who got this all the time for the playoffs (and whenever else you had to watch).
That wasn’t the VS team. VS just picked up and aired the NHL Network production.
Oooh Mags, Mags, has the monstrous growth of a scorebar told you what the team colors are yet?
I’m STILL sad listening to them. Maybe it’s withdrawal.
Oooh Mags, Mags, has the monstrous growth of a scorebar told you what the team colors are yet?
It tells you what the team colors are? You’re kidding me, right? (I watched Saturday’s game on CBC, so I really don’t know).
No. The thing is massive to begin with and inexplicably it will add more bars of useless information so that the people who tuned in expecting their usual Saturday night bullfighting can figure out just exactly who the red team and the blue team are.
No. The thing is massive to begin with and inexplicably it will add more bars of useless information so that the people who tuned in expecting their usual Saturday night bullfighting can figure out just exactly who the red team and the blue team are.
I would’ve thought that the giant “Ducks” and “Kings” on the players sweaters would have been a dead giveaway as to who was playing, but what do I know?
Not to mention the the color they put behind the team name on their score bar (like the ANA or LAK abbreviations for example) are…also the team colors.
Then again, they’re not as bad as the Eurosport feed which had two guys who’d never watched a game of hockey before calling the game. I think they were used to soccer or something… “This game is so fast!”
Mags, has the monstrous growth of a scorebar told you what the team colors are yet?
Nope, not yet.
Has anyone taken a poke as to what the Sabres song might be?
I would take the cheap shot and cast The Pogues “The Old Main Drag”, but that might be better suited for the Isles (esp as Nassau Coliseum bears a fearsome resemblance to Shane MacGowan’s teeth: yellow, rotting and in Nassau County…)
Maybe a Journey tune. something that sounds ok on the radio but in person you realize how awful it really is?
Or possibly something from Lindy’s home jukebox? A tune he might force the team to listen to during practice…Hmmm…Ray Price or King of the Hoboes, Boxcar Willie? Lotsa choices there.
“Has anyone taken a poke as to what the Sabres song might be?”
How about The Dropkick Murphys “The Kids Are Alright”. Make sure Bucky and the TBN crew hears it too.
(esp as Nassau Coliseum bears a fearsome resemblance to Shane MacGowan’s teeth: yellow, rotting and in Nassau County…)
Hee hee!
Again, the Sabres song is really not at all applicable to the team. This randomly assigning songs trick backfired a few times. Sure “California Dreamin’” and “I Got Spurs” turned out good, but the Sabres song? Not so much. Although, now that I think about it, it is a little applicable to Lindy and his practice routines… very applicable!
Nice guesses, Stalky, but… no. It’s the kind of song that would be on Boomer’s home jukebox, and she’s a bit older than Lindy, so I’d be surprised (yet delighted) it it turned out to be a favorite of his! :D
Thanks for the comment on the Humming Giraffe, Andrew! I have to go to class, but I expect to have some good IPB comments to come back to, m’kay?
alix, you have to put your url into the box when you comment on IPB so that your name is in green and I can click on it to get to the Humming Giraffe. “Giraffe” is a really hard word for me, spelling-wise. I need a link!
Although, now that I think about it, it is a little applicable to Lindy and his practice routines… very applicable!
Oh, you’re RIGHT, Pookie! Hee hee! (And YEE-HAW!) (That was a hint.)
“Thanks for the comment on the Humming Giraffe, Andrew!”
You’re welcome alix! I hope blogging the Canucks brings you happiness and joy and victories over the Flames!
Yes, very interesting.
Lindy looks a little dastardly with his blonde Snidely Whiplash mustache and now I have a ‘Yee-Haw”.
I’ll hazard either the theme to Rawhide or something from the Buck Owens/ Roy Clark songbook…
andrew, I almost threw down MT’s “Small man, big mouth” more as a tribute than a criticism. Watching Ruff go batshit crazy and nearly climb the glass to get at the Sens bench was something of a minor heroic deed.
Pookie, Jussi Jokinen is kick ass in shootouts, but I haven’t seen him do a whole hell of a lot in actual games.
Kind of a busy day today, so I haven’t quite caught up, but I heard my name mentioned. :P
Juicy, as the boys call him, is projected to do pretty well this season. Last season was his sophomore slump, and I think he’s pretty anxious to get back to scoring well. The plan was to try him up on Modano’s line, where he did so well in his rookie season. I think that’s still the long-term plan, but he might center the second line for a while, while Ribeiro is out with ankle troubles. They’re not saying for sure how bad the ankle is, so I don’t know how long it will be.
He’s a really good playmaker, and can score when he’s on a line with a playmaker like Modano. Only Modano had a better +/- last season. But nobody had a great +/-. Oddly, nobody had anything really terrible, either. (Not counting Norstrom.)
So sue me and my EC bias!
That’s what the game is for! After this, we’ll all love all conferences equally!
Well, maybe the huge gap between our feelings for each conference will have narrowed a little.
Well, maybe the huge gap between our feelings for each conference will have narrowed a little.
IPB Fantasy Hockey: uniting fans since 2007.
I’m amused that the Flyers didn’t give Danny Briere (or his contract) a letter for this season. I thought this was supposed to be “his” team to lead?
Thanks for the scouting report, Patty. I’m thinking I’d rather have Juicy than Freddy Modin. Modin seems like a bit of a loser. And I don’t need 2 Blue Jackets. Keeping 3 Avs is one thing, keeping 2 Blue Jackets is another altogether!
Amy, I love that tagline for IPB Fantasy Hockey!
“I almost threw down MT’s “Small man, big mouth” more as a tribute than a criticism.”
Or Tiger Army “Towards Destiny”
Or The Slanderin’ “Get Out of my Way”
Or The Cramps “Wilder Wilder Faster Faster”
I’ll stop now, sorry.
I’ll hazard either the theme to Rawhide
And you’ll be right! That’s 10 IPBucks coming right up!
So yeah, now that the cat’s out of the bag, here’s a challenge to all our Sabres fans — this is the lyric we were going to use (Pookie thought of something far, far funnier, so we may not actually go with this one now):
Keep movin’, movin’, movin’,
Though they’re disapprovin’,
Keep them doggies movin’ Rawhide!
Don’t try to understand ‘em,
Just rope and throw and grab ‘em,
Soon we’ll be living high and wide.
Boy my heart’s calculatin’
My true love will be waitin’, be waiting at the end of my ride.
- Rawhide Theme Song
How would you all tie that into a Sabres season preview?
Ookies, if you haven’t read Bucci’s first EC preview yet, you’ll be glad to know that there is a reference to Shjon Podein.
And while I’m way behind… Harry Neale? Why?
God bless Lux Interior
So in a totally unrelated aside, I just got a call from my hospital following up on my complaints about the incompetent care I received after my surgery (having to wait 90 minutes for painkillers after coming out of anesthesia, being unmonitored for over two hours when the whole point of being in the hospital was that someone was supposed to be keeping an eye on my post-anesthesia health, being discharged at 9 PM without any painkillers and after my pharmacy had closed), and I was informed my incompetent nurse has been severely disciplined AND demoted! SWEET! I am now hoping he’s been demoted to the role of personal medical attendant to Jagr’s “hip flexor” problems. The two of them deserve each other. (And here are some cinnamon buns for having gone on this tangent none of you care about; I was just so excited by this news I had to share. @@@@)
A tenner to spend in the IPB Prize Closet?
Ok, first I’ll take the croquet set for $3…Then the ceramic dalmation for $4..and, umm, the brass cuspidor for $2 and the rest on a gift certificate.
“And while I’m way behind… Harry Neale? Why?”
My thoughts exactly Heather, what the hell is everyone thinking?!?!
“God bless Lux Interior”
He’s a genius. A filthy, filthy genius.
Keep movin’, movin’, movin’,
Though they’re disapprovin’,
Keep them doggies movin’ Rawhide!
Don’t try to understand ‘em,
Just rope and throw and grab ‘em,
Soon we’ll be living high and wide.
Boy my heart’s calculatin’
My true love will be waitin’, be waiting at the end of my ride.
The “though they’re disapprovin” is clearly about Bucky, TBN, and many, many fans crying and whining about letting Chris and Danny go. “Don’t try to undertand ‘em” is Lindy telling the boys that those people are full of it and not worth bothering with. We still have 18 20 goal scorers so it can’t be all bad. “Soon we’ll be living high and wide?” Obviously about the big, shiny thing at the end of the season. And “my true love will be waitin’ at the end of my ride” is all the loyal, faithful fans who knew all along that Bucky and gang were ignorant idiots. Or it’s about me and Hank. Whichever.
Oh, I forgot! “Keep movin’, movin’, movin’” is clearly Lindy telling the boys that we’ll win as long as they skate their asses off and keep moving.
Ok, first I’ll take the croquet set for $3…Then the ceramic dalmation for $4..and, umm, the brass cuspidor for $2 and the rest on a gift certificate.
:^::::::::::::::
From way back… I don’t think there’s anything wrong with having more than one player from one team. Just not the Avs. :D
Ok, first I’ll take the croquet set for $3…Then the ceramic dalmation for $4..and, umm, the brass cuspidor for $2 and the rest on a gift certificate.
Oh! The ceramic dalmatian! GREAT choice!!
Heather, that was a beautiful lyric analysis. It’s like you’re channeling Bucci or something!
“Or it’s about me and Hank. Whichever.”
Zing!
Heather, that was a beautiful lyric analysis. It’s like you’re channeling Bucci or something!
I’m emailing it to him right now!
Don’t try to understand ‘em,
Just rope and throw and grab ‘em,
Not sure where you’re getting your lyrics, but it’s:
Don’t try to understand ‘em,
Just rope, throw and brand ‘em…
See how it rhymes?
:P
I’m emailing it to him right now!
Heather, if Bucci posts your amazing analysis, you will be my new hero.
Stalky, I was going to be very sad if you passed up the ceramic dalmatian. It’s by the far the best price in the IPB Prize Closet. (Oh, and :^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::).
Heather, great season preview! I think you’re onto something. (Except that big shiny prize at the end…)
Don’t try to understand ‘em,
Just rope, throw and brand ‘em
Patty, even better! I’ve got dibs on branding Bucky! (“Hold still little Buck-a-roo. This won’t hurt a’tall.”)
Amy, I wasn’t really emailing it. But maybe I will! I’m feeling just loopy enough today.
andrew, I have Recchi on my team, too, and I was disappointed at first. Until I heard he might skate on Crosby’s line.
Wait… Are you saying you have Crosby AND Recchi?
Or did I dream that I have Recchi?
Don’t try to understand ‘em,
Just rope, throw and brand ‘em…
See how it rhymes?
:P
Well, little miss lyric police, I’d like to see you try to brand a Sabre!
Not sure where you’re getting your lyrics
We’re getting our lyrics from The Interwebs. They are infallible! I mean, duh!
We’re getting our lyrics from The Interwebs. They are infallible! I mean, duh!
I could be wrong, now that you mention it!
Well, little miss lyric police, I’d like to see you try to brand a Sabre!
You make a good point, too. If I had roped and thrown a Sabre down, I wouldn’t mind grabbin’ him a little bit. :P
Or “Don’t try to understand ‘em” could be about Chris and Danny – I certainly don’t understand why they would leave us for the RANGERS and the FLYERS (ew) – and THEY could be the ones getting branded. Maybe with “Sabres Rule!” Or “I’m an Idiot!” or “God, Help Me I’ll Be Spending the Next Six Years Dropping the Gloves to Defend Freakin’ Jagr!”
This is fun!
Well, little miss lyric police, I’d like to see you try to brand a Sabre!
It probably wouldn’t be that hard if you caught one of them at Soho after a game when they’ve had a few.
Just rope and throw and grab ‘em,
But please, do this part when the refs aren’t looking!
I’m pretty sure I used witchcraft to brand Drury with “Katebits is too good for me” before he left town. It’s going to take a pretty racy locker room shot to find out if my spell worked.
Don`t know if Katebits is still around, but I never knew that`s why some names were green! I will do that from now on.
Excellent alix!
Oh, much better, alix! Now I can be lazy and still keep up on your blog!
I’m fairly certain Drury looks so sad all the time now because of the indelible, magical brand he received on his way out of Buffalo. He’s been scrubbing and scrubbing to get it off, and, well, now he’s pretty sore.
Kate, you need one of those magic Harry Potter pens that brands whatever you write with it into Chris’s skin. We could have some fun with that.
Hello, everybody, from the rainy-yet-sunny state of Wisconsin!
I thought since the Ducks and Kings had their games shuffled to London, I’d let my work send me to someplace idiotic, where I’d barely do anything, and then get sent back as quickly as possible (tomorrow).
I’m terrible at song lyrics, and I don’t make season predictions, so I guess I by default agree with everything here.
Yay! All my favorite baby Nucks are staying around. And most of them actually like to score goals. That`s totally it Schnookie. That must be why he`s freakin fighting for jagr too.
Yay! All my favorite baby Nucks are staying around. And most of them actually like to score goals. That`s totally it Schnookie. That must be why he`s freakin fighting for jagr too.
Hey, Earl! Sounds like your company runs a tight ship!
hey Earl!
I was shocked to see Parros make it through a whole fight without falling down on Sunday. It was awesome!
Hey Earl! Glad to hear your job is so sensible and productive with the travel plans and all! And I second andrew’s thought — I kept expecting Parros to fall over in that fight, and when he didn’t I thought, “Earl LIED to me!”
I was shocked to see Parros make it through a whole fight without falling down on Sunday.
Parros by FAR was the most improved Duck this summer, based on London. I mean, not only his ability to endure a multi-swing fight, but jeez, he almost looked like an NHL player out there, skating (!), defending (!), and creating offensive chances (!!!!).
Hopefully it’s not just something to do with British ice. I kind of like the idea of useful Parros.
The broadcasters kept mentioning that Parros looks like Frank Zappa now. The hair (facial and otherwise) certainly do, but I think that’s as far as it goes.
The broadcasters kept mentioning that Parros looks like Frank Zappa now. The hair (facial and otherwise) certainly do, but I think that’s as far as it goes.
If Zappa was a shitty skater, I wouldn’t even base it on facial hair.
“Hopefully it’s not just something to do with British ice. I kind of like the idea of useful Parros.”
Here’s to wishful thinking! Just kidding man, but seriously that was a great fight. Makes me almost wish the Sharks still had Scott Thornton in the lineup. Almost.
If anybody’s got Ribeiro, watch for the big red IR to pop up next to his name soon.
If Zappa was a shitty skater, I wouldn’t even base it on facial hair.
So, he looks more like Zappa than he does an NHL player.
The broadcasters kept mentioning that Parros looks like Frank Zappa now.
Every time they showed him this weekend I yelled out “Larry Csonka!” in an homage to my favorite Mystery Science Theater 3000 movie ever. Gotta love the porno stash.
Does anyone want to do an online quiz for me in my Classical Myths course? And then write my essay on Egypt and Mesopotamia? I’m still surprised Parros scored a goal and got an assist in that one pre season game against the Canucks. But maybe my team doesn’t actually suck, Parros is just vastly improved! That must be it.
If anybody’s got Ribeiro, watch for the big red IR to pop up next to his name soon.
Nooooooooooooo!
What the hell happened?
Does anyone want to do an online quiz for me in my Classical Myths course? And then write my essay on Egypt and Mesopotamia?
And after that does anyone want to write an essay about why I want to study abroad in Germany and Austria? Why “Because I’m studying German” doesn’t cut it is beyond me. (Sadly I don’t think “because Jochen Hecht,” or “because Thomas Vanek” are valid arguments either, so I’m totally lost.)
If anybody’s got Ribeiro, watch for the big red IR to pop up next to his name soon.
Is it playoff Oscar season already?
Does anyone want to do an online quiz for me in my Classical Myths course?
Oh! I love Classical Myths! I would have majored in Classics, except when I transferred to Rutgers they suddenly wanted me to take either Latin or Ancient Greek, unlike the “no language studies necessary” Classics major at Oberlin. After one semester of getting my ass kicked by Greek, I went Art History instead. So yeah, I’d totally do your quiz for you… except that’s CHEATING! (Just kidding. The real reason is that I’d probably fail it. And that I’m going out to dinner tonight and will therefore be too busy for online quizzes.) As for Egypt and Mesopotamia, I can’t help you out much there. All I can think of right now is the “Hippo Hunt” thing we studied in Art History 101.
False alarm. I was worried because I already have Schneider on the IR, but I don’t have Ribeiro in this league. He is on one of my other teams that still have an IR slot available.
That would be awesome if you put down Hecht and Vanek Gambler. Oh I missed that, what happened to Ribeiro?
Frisby, that’s good to hear. I was going to be all worried and tense during my dinner (at an actual restaurant!) thinking about your Ribeiro problems.
You need to stop worring about my problems, otherwise you will end up being worried 32/7. :P
I’m still waiting for Boyle to get put on the damn IR…C’mon people!
alix, Gambler, wish I could help out….but I’m so far removed from academic writing that my anaylsis would have gems like “bitchin’” and/or “totally sucks” popping up all over the place.
You need to stop worring about my problems, otherwise you will end up being worried 32/7. :P
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Although hasn’t the worry-load lessened at least a tiny bit now that the Mason sweater eagle has landed?
my favorite Mystery Science Theater 3000 movie ever
Why don’t they show MST3K reruns??? WHY!?
I love resteraunts! Have fun Schnookie. Now I should really go do some work for a while.
Now I should really go do some work for a while.
Hypothetically, of course.
I’m so far removed from academic writing that my anaylsis would have gems like “bitchin’” and/or “totally sucks” popping up all over the place.
Wait, you mean I shouldn’t have been using those terms when I was in college? DAMMIT! Why don’t people mention these things to me?
(Actually, true story: I tried to use “brobdingnagian” in every essay I wrote, be it an assigned paper or an essay exam. I probably would have been better off using “bitchin’” instead.)
Although hasn’t the worry-load lessened at least a tiny bit now that the Mason sweater eagle has landed?
True, but the Langenbrunner sweater eagle is still out there somewhere. I’m not sure if I mentioned that I ordered one a couple of weeks ago but the old style sweaters are going really cheap now at River City Sports.
True, but the Langenbrunner sweater eagle is still out there somewhere.
Oh, that eagle’s out 8-10 weeks with a sports hernia. I wouldn’t wait for that sweater while hanging from a rope ’round your neck!
Ribeiro has an ankle injury and I’m hearing rumors it might be the dreaded “high ankle sprain”. I haven’t seen any more details, just got an email saying that he was put on the IR.
Hopefully it’s somewhere in the middle of being okay and being something that keeps him out for weeks. Maybe just the first week. We need that guy.
One of my favorite scenes from last season is when he was on the PK with four right-handed skaters. He’d just be over in the right-hand corner, or down below the goal line, just looking around at all his choices, and there would be Boucher and Zubov and Lehtinen and Miettinen or somebody, all with their stick up waiting for the pass. And the penalty killers all freaking out trying to decide who leaves their guy to go get him.
Sorry, he was on the power play, not the penalty-kill.
Oooh! Pookie just got home! It’s time to go put on some actual clothes (as opposed to the pajamas I’ve been wearing all day) and go out to dinner! See you all later!
See ya Pookie, Schnookie. Get some good food!
“the old style sweaters are going really cheap now at River City Sports.”
Seriously, that’s what I need to do! Go check for mark downs around town here. hmmmm….
the old style sweaters are going really cheap now at River City Sports.
I need to check, too. I don’t care if they’re out of date, I like the star sweater.
Ribeiro has an ankle injury and I’m hearing rumors it might be the dreaded “high ankle sprain”.
Ooooh… Hank had one of those last year and I really think it stuck with him the rest of the season. They’re sucky.
They’re sucky.
I hate ‘em. It screwed up one of Jere Lehtinen’s seasons, too.
I need to check, too. I don’t care if they’re out of date, I like the star sweater.
I always liked the star too, Patty. And you know what? I think I’ve decided I really like that dorky DALLAS jersey.
Hey Heather, thanks for the heads-up about that article on Captain Yo-Yo today! I was getting totally pommerdoodly about it. On the one hand I think Yo-Yo might be better suited to an A than a C, but if they name him captain that makes me feel better about his chances to re-up his contract for next year. (Because that’s what happened with the last guys we named captain, right? Don’t answer that.) Then I could finally get that Hecht jersey I’ve had my eye on! And while the CCM throwbacks are still available! I may not hate it, but I’m not getting Slugified if I can help it.
I may not hate it, but I’m not getting Slugified if I can help it.
Good for you!
Mark just said that he read somewhere that Lindy’s supposed to be announcing a captain in the next couple of days and that they’re evidently taking a secret ballot from the players to get their input. I don’t really think of Yo-Yo as being very vocal but he did sound very captain-y in that article. And I do think that he has a maturity level that maybe some of the younger potentials haven’t worked up to yet. We’ll see, I guess! I’m just happy Lindy is evidently definitely going to pick someone.
I think I’ve decided I really like that dorky DALLAS jersey.
I do, too. I have plenty of time to get one of those, right? Unless they decide it was all a big mistake to go to the new ones…
I was just digging out my Stars hoodie (is a hooded sweatshirt necessarily a hoodie?) the other day and I was reminded that it says, “DALLAS” in big arched letters across the front. I’m a pioneer!
I do, too. I have plenty of time to get one of those, right? Unless they decide it was all a big mistake to go to the new ones…
I like the home-made simplicity a lot more than the overabundance of crap on most of the new jerseys. If you’re going to err one way or the other, I’d rather go Dallas’s way.
I’m just happy Lindy is evidently definitely going to pick someone.
Me too! I guess rotating the captaincy would make sense in this situation where no one who regularly wore a letter last year is available, but I prefer to have one guy get to really live with it and grow into the responsibility. I like the idea of player input, too. (Although how funny would it be if everyone just ended up voting for himself? Hee.) And I didn’t mean to suggest that Yo-Yo isn’t captain-y, I just generally think of him more as like a supporting cast kind of leader. But, you know, what do I know about it, really?
And I didn’t mean to suggest that Yo-Yo isn’t captain-y, I just generally think of him more as like a supporting cast kind of leader.
No, I know what you mean. I think of him the same way because he’s not overly emotional or vocal. But ol’ what’s-his-name wasn’t like that either so I’m sure we have no idea how important some of the quieter guys are. I’m looking forward to the players voting for some totally off-the-wall guy like Spacek or Peters.
Heather,
I just saw your Neidermayer post on the Amazingleague. Tough call!
I just read this today, it’s Randy Hahn (Sharks announcer) and his take on the Ducks’ big two. Might shed some light…Probably not though.
http://sharks.nhl.com/team/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=338818
Frisby, it looks like Ribeiro might not be that bad. The Dallas Morning News blog is saying that he might practice tomorrow. They put him on IR retroactive to the date of the injury so he can come off the list at any time. So I wouldn’t dump him if you like him.
Sorry for the scare. :D
andrew, I’ve heard the theory about them coming back halfway through the season and that makes it worse. I can’t have an empty spot just sitting there for three months. I guess I could dump one of my extra forwards and pick up a spare d-man until then but I don’t know… I was thinking maybe someone could like, break Scott’s finger or something. Then he’d qualify for IR status, right? I’m telling you, we need a suspension slot!
“I guess I could dump one of my extra forwards and pick up a spare d-man until then but I don’t know… ”
I don’t envy the choice you get to make! You could always just dump him and pick him back up later on. I don’t know that he’s worth poaching off the FA list if he’s just going to take up roster space until January, or even February. So he may be safe.
Who knows though!
I’ve heard the theory about them coming back halfway through the season and that makes it worse.
Woo hoo! It’s been upgraded to “theory”!
I don’t envy the choice you get to make! You could always just dump him and pick him back up later on. I don’t know that he’s worth poaching off the FA list if he’s just going to take up roster space until January, or even February. So he may be safe.
I’ve thought about that too but one of you little bastards will pick him back up before I do, I just know it!
Eh, I’ll figure it out. Mark says I just dump his ass and call it a day. (“Are you gonna jabber about Scott Niedermayer all season?”)
I’ve thought about that too but one of you little bastards will pick him back up before I do, I just know it!
It won’t be me, if that makes you feel any better!
“I’ve thought about that too but one of you little bastards will pick him back up before I do, I just know it! ”
Well, technically, only half of us little bastards could pick him up….so that helps.
“(”Are you gonna jabber about Scott Niedermayer all season?”)”
You could have a weekly “Neiderwatch ’07-’08″ post over on BoC.
Hypothetically, of course.
Ha! Good one. I actually did my stupid online quiz so for once I wasn`t just hypothetical.
In the dumper, I say Heather! He’s a slag-faced whore!
Heather, Hank has been scoring in the pre season right?
(”Are you gonna jabber about Scott Niedermayer all season?”)
If you do, you can write a guest piece for BoC!
Do it Heather! Where else can you drop f-bombs like Rudy and still get read by the L.A. Times?
“Do it Heather! Where else can you drop f-bombs like Rudy and still get read by the L.A. Times?”
She’s mulling it over…just not sure whether blogging is something that she still wants to do after being named “Sabre’s best blogger.” She really wants to go out on top, Earl. She’s going to talk it over with her family and let you know her decision sometime in the next few weeks. or months.
Or was it “Sabres’ best blogger”? Yeah, probably.
How fitting. She’s probably waiting to see what James O’Brien’s going to do.
Heather, Hank has been scoring in the pre season right?
He has, yes! Two goals in two games. I wouldn’t expect him to score every game, but he has a pretty accurate shot when he uses it. He’s good for tip-ins if the shot itself doesn’t get through.
She’s mulling it over…just not sure whether blogging is something that she still wants to do after being named “Sabre’s best blogger.” She really wants to go out on top, Earl. She’s going to talk it over with her family and let you know her decision sometime in the next few weeks. or months.
Hee! Yeah, you know, thanks for the offer and all. We’ll talk in February?
We’ll talk in February?
Fine, but I’m not paying your ridiculous salary then.
Hmm, what’s the Heather B. version of Schneider? Maybe I’ll have to send Mark a request.
Ok sweet! He’s on my meatballs. I’m a little worried that I have too many defensive defencemen, but I feel bad seperating Toni and Hank in fantasy land. Earl I just saw your comment on my blog. It’s only because he broke his thumb. He was the top prospect in camp by far.
It’s only because he broke his thumb.
Well, I guess there’s worse outcomes. He could have been Teppo’d.
“Well, I guess there’s worse outcomes. He could have been Teppo’d.”
That’s hate! Show some heart, you Teppo hating bastard!
alix, I would keep an eye on them because while Hank and Toni are the bestest duo in the world (let me live in my world, people) they are generally on the ice in defensive situations. They’re both capable of scoring but it’s not what they’re there for. I just don’t want to build them up too much. (If you need to dump one of them, dump Toni! :-))
Show some heart, you Teppo hating bastard!
Teppo makes my heart flutter.
Ooooh snap! There’s this totally sad and pathetic picture of Sami Salo and Jannick sitting next to eachother in matching casts on their wrists. They look just so bummed. I’m sure he’ll be the first call up when we have guys injured though.
“Teppo makes my heart flutter.”
That’s better. See, was that so hard?
Yeah I was thinking of dumping Toni(sorry Toni) But there’s probably just bottom feeders left.
Aw. Poor Toni Tony Tone Lydman. I love him so.
Although I just took a look at what’s available and Toni is probably my best option.
“But there’s probably just bottom feeders left.”
alix, looks like you can still get O’Brien, Witt, or Allen….They’re not bad, O’Brien ended up being pretty valuable to me last year from his fighting PIM’s alone. Of course you could put Joe Sakic on the Ducks and even he’d probably end up with a few fighting majors….
Just remember, defensive defensemen get you absolutely nowhere in fantasy hockey, unless they rack up PIMs and are killer on the +/-.
Of course you could put Joe Sakic on the Ducks
I’m giving that an (e1).
“I’m giving that an (e1).”
Awesome. Just remember to cite “random a-hole who hangs out on IPB” as your source.
Looks like it’s quittin’ time! see you all later!
Yeah I was pondering Allen. Didn’t know enough about O’Brien and Witt. Thanks for the advice! I’ll send you some more hookers and blow.
Bye Andrew! Have a good night.
Shane O’Brien is definitely worth a look. Fights like his job depends on it, not that bad a puck-mover, and has the initials S.O.B. What’s not to like?
I can’t think of a thing Earl! S.O.B. Ha. I just added him. The Meatballs officially have a fighter. He’s pretty squee worthy too.
Just remember, defensive defensemen get you absolutely nowhere in fantasy hockey, unless they rack up PIMs and are killer on the +/-.
Going back to Hank and Toni for a moment, neither of them rack up TOO many PIMs but their +/- is usually very good. So they do have some value there.
I did keep Hank. But I just didn’t want to put all my statbitties into one basket. I’m off to dinner. Have a good night everybody.
Aw. Poor Toni Tony Tone Lydman. I love him so.
Kate, it’s sounding more and more to me like Lindy is now leaning toward not breaking up the team. So you have to get your jersey! And then we’ll spend the season stalking Hank and Toni (because surely they go everywhere together!) until we get a photo with them in our jerseys! This is my goal!
Kate, it’s sounding more and more to me like Lindy is now leaning toward not breaking up the team.
Yeah, the split-Getzlaf-from-Perry experiment lasted about 2 periods in London, too.
Patty, the only league I have Ribeiro in is a Roto league and he is my backup center, if you will. In Roto, there is a maximimum games played for each position so he might not see the ice anyways unless he outperforms Lecavalier or Henrik Sedin (or one of them get injured).
Yeah, the split-Getzlaf-from-Perry experiment lasted about 2 periods in London, too.
Spacek and Campbell could still prove to be a pretty messy pairing… but either of those guys on the top pairing against other teams’ top lines could also be ugly. Plus Hank and Toni – especially Toni – never play quite as well with other people as they do with each other (how adorable). So I don’t know, we’ll see, I guess.
Yeah, the split-Getzlaf-from-Perry experiment lasted about 2 periods in London, too.
I totally can’t decide if I’m going to be hopeful that Pando and Madden will be put back together like all these pairings are, or if I like this new Sutter Era of breaking them up…
Demand a reunite, Schnookie. Thank him for trying, but don’t put up with it for very long. There’s a reason these moves don’t occur to us. They are bad and unnatural.
Any wordpress using people, do you know if there’s a way you can change having all the comments on your blog having to go through moderation from you first? Don’t know if that made any sense.
There’s a reason these moves don’t occur to us. They are bad and unnatural.
You’re right, Earl! Since I’m sure Coach Sutter reads IPB, we’ll start an “it’s bad and unnatural!” campaign posthaste. He’ll have no choice but to listen to us!
Sure it made sense, Alix! Go to your dashboard, and then to “Options”. Then click on “Discussion”. If you scroll down, the third section is about “Before a Comment Appears” and it lets you set requirements and stuff for commenting. If you uncheck the box saying “Admin must approve comment”, you won’t have comments sitting in moderation anymore! Let me know if this doesn’t work.
Thanks Pookie! I have to run to a stupid night class but I will do that when I get home.
alix, looks like you can still get O’Brien, Witt, or Allen….
Don’t say anything good about Witt, or I’ll regret dropping him!
Hey, where the heck is the EC preview? You’re re-writing it to include my bang-up Sabres summary, aren’t you?
Hey, where the heck is the EC preview?
Hold yer horses! We went out to dinner to celebrate the season starting, and didn’t get back until after 8. These posts don’t write themselves, you know! However, Schnookie is posting it as I type!