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Right? I kind of don't appreciate the gap in the schedule. I mean, it's nice our brothers and sisters in Sweden get to see some live NHL games, but it does make for a long week for the rest of us.

That's a great quote. I hope it bears fruit.

1pt in 7 vs 2pt in 12. Vesey wins that logic.

This overseas trip is likely getting in the way of making anything happen.

Vesey is the odd man out. I wouldn't have expected that.

Can't disagree. He was a mess personally, but the team was a mess professionally while he was here.

So I just watched the Last Jedi for the first time since it came out. There are so many clues in there about what's going on. Luke, at the end, gives CP30 an icy stare. Luke knows something is up with CP30. Was it C3PO who they were tracking? Is C3PO carrying the essence of Darth Sidious? I think there's some connection here. The Rebel emblem is a phoenix. There will always be a rebellion and something to rebel against. The Rise of Skywalker will not end definitively. Several reasons: as far as a universal narrative goes, the battle between "good" and "evil", "light" and "dark, must always continue because that is the essence of our reality. It just takes new forms over time, hence the phoenix, and the very ending plot maneuvering at the end of VIII. Also, in our world, there is too much money tied up in the Star Wars property for the main story to just end. The farmers Kylo tells Rey are his parents are either Han and Leia or Luke and someone who, after the end of Episode 6, went off to live a quiet life somewhere. Just because Kylo "saw" them buried in the desert, doesn't mean that is actually where her parents ended up. I can envision Han and Leia starting a farm to get away from everything. Their first born is Kylo, who gets sent to Luke very young, and Rey is born to Han and Leia just afterward. Then the New Order comes to power, perhaps going after Leia among the first things they do trying to quell the resistance before it starts - which would be a Snoke/sith thing to try and do. The "buried in the desert" vision could be a result of the N.O. blowing up Han and Leia's homestead, but they escape - leaving Rey on the planet to be safe since no one knew about her - a similar convention like Jyn's in Rogue One, which is the Star Wars way of recycling story arcs. Replace Luke and red-shirt wife in the above for the same fundamental character origin story is Kylo and Rey are to be cousins rather than siblings (and hence "the rise of Skywalker"). Either way, so, as Luke explains in VIII with the help of Kylo and Snoke, there is always a darkness to offset a light and vice versa. The attention of Kylo's upbringing offsets the abandonment of Rey's, Rey is tied to the light side of the Force as much as Kylo is tied to the dark side. This current cycle of the Force is attaining equilibrium, which is what the scene with Yoda and Luke indicates, and the theme of the entire series if you think about it. Kylo (and Luke) isn't wrong when he says it all needs to go; the Sith, the Jedi, the New Order and the Rebellion, because all of that causes imbalance. So the final balancing of this Force cycle will be Kylo and Rey both becoming balanced with the Force, even though one might be dark and one might be light - both will still end up being neither dark or light, because by biasing in either direction brings imbalance to the Force. That's how the Skywalker arc will end - the progeny of Skywalker will achieve the ultimate balance between light/dark/good/evil. And the universe will be at peace for another 30 years or so until... Whatever those kids on the gambling planet in VIII do to react to whatever fills the void of the New Order because, as time goes on, something is introduced into the universe to cause the Force to destabilize and go out of balance. Like Saṃsāra, reality and energy consists of never-ending cycles and so it must be that the Force goes out of balance, it is the beginning of another cycle.

Did you poll most fans? How on Earth do you know this?

IMHO, I should add.

And Tage is the panacea? That's insane thinking, right there.

Why?

I wonder what Botterill thinks of his stacked D roster now.

RK was hired to break this annual pattern. He NEEDS to come through.

No...freaking...movement. What happened to that? Does RK speak English?

Well, depends on what they're into.

He would be one of those unbearable musicians who think they're better than they are. And, big hands don't mean anything. Ask Angus Young.

Naw. The chances were too close in the second. Not to put on my blue and gold shades, but the Sabres either press harder and get two or three, or keep playing the way they have been and tie it. The Islanders don't seem to have much left in them, while the Sabres seem to have something to work with.

Eichel was slow to reaction to the situations. He should have passed the moment he got it, but instead was holding on to it. He waits too long to decide.

Eichel needs a vacation already I think.

It is kind of weird to watch. Everything is going against them like someone had modified the Holodeck. They are playing sound hockey, just nothing is going their way.

The refs owe us calls going back 5 periods.

These last two games are just like the post 10-game run last year...they can not find luck to save their lives.

All you Dahlin haters, Dahlin has had an exceptional game...so far...for Dahlin.

I'd rather Sheary be on the top line than Vesey. I like Vesey okay, but Sheary has been very good this season so far.