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Linesmen could purposely not call an offside and turn the game.

Didn't we lose an offsides call because the puck was behind and while the skate was positionally over the line, it wasn't on the ice? Today the puck was over the line and the skate was again over, but not on the ice. WTF?

I'd like to see Ennis packaged up and traded for someone who can maintain possession.

But his skate wasn't on the ice!

The Padawan ties it!

Ryan O'Who? I said Ryan O'Who? Now tie this thing.

Hmmm....

The Dallas D system looks pretty familiar, don't it?

Both teams look gassed right now.

Dallas is good. We should be happy it's not a shooting gallery right now. The Sabres need an infusion on offense. I suspect this is the kind of game we'd appreciate Kane being on the roster.

Hanging in there...

Bogo, wow, making up for lost time or is he that good? I don't remember.

Dallas looks friggin' hot.

Yay, good pressure.

Lindy already sticking it to us.

Loving the gameday previews, WC. I think we could all use a good hockey game right about now, and Lindy has his team firing on all cylinders. Haven't caught a Dallas game, yet, this season, so I will be particularly interested in comparing each teams' system against the others'. At least as much as I can identify.

I wished I would have saved all of the tit-for-tat, hyperbolic responses I wrote but deleted prior to hitting the "POST" button. Amusement for days! It's difficult, I'm sure, for anyone when the stakes are so high.

To be fair, he was accused of being "bloodthirsty". He's also being accused of not caring for the lives of 100,000 innocent people. I would say swamp dialed up the hyperbole and absurdity in that exchange.

Because Carson was/is getting flack for messing up his recollection of the offer to attend West Point. That was almost 50 years ago. The Sierra Leone brutality was 5, and it still took me an hour to figure out what it was I had heard and read. FWIW, I thought I was going crazy, or worse, that history was being scrubbed on the internetz, until my long-term memory finally warmed up and I hit upon the right things.

The arms being cut off children comes from the stories out of Sierra Leone and the trial of Charles Taylor. I don't have the time to do a thorough research job, but the following links verify the general claims: http://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/africa/082299sierra-leone.html http://www.nbcnews.com/id/28933637/ns/world_news-africa/t/taylor-trial-witness-rebels-cut-my-hands/#.VkoFgnldF9M http://www.ocregister.com/articles/taylor-352467-war-leone.html http://www.itv.com/news/2012-04-26/tony-blair-proud-of-uk-role-in-sierra-leone/ It seems true that discussion of those events were mixed with the Kurtz line from Apocalypse Now, but that mix-up doesn't dilute the point and the reality is no less brutal and horrific. I would say the conversation was also mixed with reports out of the ME and in certain regions where health care workers were targeted for disseminating vaccines: http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/feb/02/karachi-polio-workers-pakistan-militants http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/12/pakistan-polio-workers-targeted-killing-201312118364851379.html So, yes, I suppose the recollection of the stories and subsequent discussion is not 1:1. This increases my empathy for Ben Carson. And you think you come off as any more "adult"?

I guess better late than never.

I heard there's talk of Swedish nipples in this thread.

Can't blame Johnson for this one.

Better than a loss!

Ryan O' Who? Ryan O' It's About Time, that's who!