Hank

I'm sure mr zinden is completely objective and unbiased........

No doubt. But, big picture, the important thing to me is the long term growth and financial stability of the league. I'd rather lose a season, or even two if it means we get that then have the owners cave just because I want to see hockey.

Who cares? The point is in 20 years you'll cheer for the sabres sweater, regardless of who's wearing it.

I own a home in Clarksville, TN, population about 130,000 and growing rapidly, this is where I will retire and it is about 40 minutes NW of Nashville. If the Preds owner decided to put an AHL/ECHL team in my city and wanted an arena built, I would happily vote yes to have funded through an increase in property tax.

"I'm a fan, I want my hockey! Waaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!!!!" IMO this is a short sighted and selfish attitude. Shouldn't the important thing be the financial stability and long term growth of the league?

Why? An NHL team uses an arena 41 days out of the year, with a max of 57 days if they win the cup, every series goes seven games, and they are the home team all four rounds. Does the arena stay dark the other 300+ days of the year? No. It's filled with concerts, fairs, expos, final fours, whatever else can be lured to the city. An arena brings in jobs and money to the city. If taxpayers don't want to foot the bill for something that will bring in jobs, money, entertainment, a sense of community pride....that's cool. But don't piss and moan when your team leaves for Kansas City, Vegas, Seattle, Quebec....you get the idea. All taxpayers want an arena that benefits thier community, few want to help fund it.

I respect your opinion, but I am 100% on the owners side.

Well put.

Cool, thanks for sharing. Army doctors aren't really big on comfort, I'm cautiously optimistic.

Thanks. Scared to tell the doc, don't like the idea of him wanting to go up there with a camera. Anyone know if they sedate you first?

I have blood in my stool. Kinda scared about that.

Am I the only one that thinks that arenas SHOULD be paid for with tax dollars?

And?

In theatre we are exempt.

My pay for November of 6270.74 was taxed 7.46% (federal, FICA, social security) Come tax time I take standard deductions, everything I'm allowed but nothing unusual.

I make a little over 70K a year. If my taxes were raised to 13%, $760 per month, that would cripple me financially. If it was a gradual raise that aligned with my annual raise I could live with it, but to just jump to 13% would really hurt.

I'll take Dempsey over Donovan any day.

I had XM for a couple years, cancelled it when I deployed, now have Sirius because its what came in the truck. The biggest difference for me is that XM had fox sports radio and sporting news radio, at least they did when I cancelled in JAN 11. Sirius does not carry those two channels. Sports talk is all I listen to so I miss those options. On a related note, I can download the Czab show and Dan Patrick on the phone, but I can't find JT the Brick anywhere. If anyone out there is a fan of JT and knows where to find his podcast please let me know.

K-town on track for promotion, eight wins, eight draws, zero losses for 32 points. Very happy about that.

I've never understood the need to create an alias to play on the Internet....

Thank you, I'll give it a shot.

Backpacks and dufflebags....

Question for the whiskey enthusiasts. My boss gave me a bottle of 10 year old Glenmorangie. Perhaps I'm just not sophisticated enough, but I don't enjoy it. Is this supposed to be the good stuff? Or did my boss give me some cheap shite? What I do enjoy is something really sweet, disaronno. Is there something similar in the scotch world?

60hrz refresh rate makes it lousy for sports

I respectfully disagree, those men are cowards.