X. Benedict

Depends on the time frame, and definition. especially If you include lynching in the last 120 years. Congratulations. You sound like a law-abiding citizen.

I think you just thread the needle between a triumphant tone and bigoted one. Nice work.

I love Zappa/Mothers. That's on my list too. They don't get Jethro Tull either, but I've learned to compromise on that one.

Not going, but be sure to give us the full report.

Robot Chicken, Rush, The Three Stooges......... The things that the women in my life do not understand.

Great Hockey Night in the Seplechre matchup tonight. Winny vs. Winn Dixie Skinner and Sekera return tonight in a Carrion League game of the night. There is lots of pressure on Paul "I ###### make my players cry" Maurice, who even got a thank you note from Ted Nolan this week for taking his Pee Wee Warriors out of the news. maybe more F bombs to come. stay tuned? This is a 4 bag matchup.

Even in pick up games people tend to play rudimentarily positionally. Except for the league cherry picker. I guess we mean different things. Let's start with the neutral zone. There doesn't appear to be any effort to limit entries, steer the puck to one side, force a dump in, trap, or contest movement that I've noticed as far as I've seen so far. There just isn't anything in place that I've noticed. There is some puck pursuit positionally, but nothing in place as a team concept to limit the puck carriers options other than pick a man and go get him. The best thing about not having Lindy, Miller, and Darcy here are less Lindy, Miller, and Darcy discussions. Just my opinion.

No. Teddy might be your perfect coach.

Simply positional in terms of approach. Not sure what practice looks like.

No one rests easy on top of the Carrion.

We are chaffier!

Meditation on the Id of Ted Nolan: Part of me would like to believe that Ted Nolan's approach to coaching is a way to walk through the modern world. Don't over-analyze, just do. Don't get crippled by imposed order, just react. Don't think too much, play in the moment. In terms of a philosophy, Ted Nolan is pure ID. Be instinctive, as life is uncoordinated thrust. But what I really suspect is that any success that Nolan may have had, or has had up until now, has come from this approach, but it also contains the seeds of his own destruction.

It is time to start separating the chaff from the rest of the chaff.

I think it was the ice. Ouch. Except for that, props to deslauriers, Miller is a tough customer. I gave Miller a slight edge in the actual fight.

It's a thing of beauty. I can't wait for Carrot Top to present this to the winner.

I don't really care what coaches say to the press, but that's just me. . (really - I don't much care, unless they are informative as to injuries, interesting or funny, or in the playoffs, which is a different animal altogether) What coaches do in-game with line-changes, player selections, pairings, ice time, match-ups and systems say all I really want to know about how I view the game. I don't know why the league office would care. I can't think of a reason they would. Comments become an issue if TSN, Hockey News, Sportsnet, Fan 590, Toronto papers, and such pick up ill-advised comments, that's when the entire hockey community cares. If I'm Tim Murray, I'd probably be a little pissed at Nolan, because players he may be trying to trade for may be less likely to come if they are embarrassed to join a Pee Wee organization where only 2 forwards try. But, how would I know? I just think Murray would be silly not to mention that. If I had to guess, Tim Murray played NO hand in letting Nolan pick his staff. Those are Ted's guys from Ted's history. Trottier and Flynn from the Island, and Coolen and Irbe from the Latvian team. I can't think of any history any of them had with Murray.

Sabres board.

Yes. We can call it the Quinny. I like the Fart Ross! The Golden Sieve is good too.

FWIW - I thought Lindy was a good coach all categories, by the end I was ready to see him go. But why are we talking about Lindy at all? These aren't his players, and this isn't his team. Many guys here are fond of remembering who throws who under the bus. As for Nolan calling the team Pee Wee....and saying only 2 out of his 12 forwards are trying, that had legs well beyond Buffalo when it hit the national hockey media, and somehow Nolan has been wronged? By who? It seems to me the most obvious thing to suspect is that Murray told Nolan that if he is upset, take a 5 minutes breather before you go out to meet the press gaggle so you don't say things everyone will regret. The press will wait for you. Note. Yes, this may take longer than planned. I'm not optimistic about next year either.

McNabb has been playing a simple game for LA. He'll get more minutes. Voynov gets a lot of minutes. That's a lot off speed off their back end.

Excellent work by Bill Hoppe on the OTH article on the Zadorov dilemma. I had no idea there was a Russian release problem.

60? This isn't Nolan's first go round. Tell me how Nolan's coaching has evolved in 20 years and I'll listen.

You remember him as a stick swinging, head cracking sadist, if I remember...... But I really didn't have ruff in mind at all. I was actually wondering about Guy Boucher and how he'd handle this team.

I can't imagine Team US not figuring out a way to add him.

I like to think that I would have called for Lindys ouster if he started a year without a coherent system in all three zones. I expected much more from Nolan, or at least from his staff. I'm not calling for Nolan's removal yet, but I'm think the game has passed him by. I've never once thought that about Ruff even when I thought it was his time to go. So, yes, I think the game has passed Nolan by. And more than funny, I'm simply sad about it.