I am Defecting

And the winner for city who cares most about consolation prize for being worst is... Buffalo. Well done tankers. I went bowling; you cheered against home team. You deserve great notoriety.

When did it matter more than now? Do points count double now. No, it matters the same as it always has, you drama queen.

Nolan gains more points with less talent. Analytics. Compare points. Compare what Nolan gained with last years team compared to Rolston. Disregard what Schopp says. He'd say anything. Compare the same team, two coaches. Compare this years team with last years team. You see improvement despite the talent purge. You feel it too.

Jeremy White, Mike Schopp, Totalitarian Instigators. It wouldn't be half the controversy without those radio boys.

You quoted the fellow who wrote Self-Reliance, eh? You still made that point?

Gave up alcohol, eh? Remained cohent, well that's par for the course. Continued posting... continued. Remained coherent, eh? Well, that's unusual. Looks like someone is running for office!

Marner Goooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Knights trail by one in the third, with a chance to sweep the series. http://player.cjbk.com/

If we pick first, and Arizona picks third, I would switch places for OEL and Domi. I'd consider it a fleecing. Would you? I didn't realize that the Coyotes also have Cristian Dvorak. Could we get an entire line, best line in OHL, this draft by switching a measly two spots?

My lovely, teehee. :wub:

Do I win a prize?

Dear Sabres, Thank you for winning recent games. Mitch Marner is my favorite player ever. He is best player ever and a big cutie. If you don't win out the rest of your games, I am certain that our stupid rookie GM will make mistake of picking McDavid or Eichel instead of Marner. I will hate you, and boo you, and never forgive you if you lose. You will like Mitch. He is a good boy, still growing. Marner is an good name, and 93 is very good number. -Sincerely, Anna

Has nobody mentioned fact that Mitch Marner has 12 points in 3 playoff games? SEVEN goals in 3 games. Legend growing. :worthy: That is 4 points per game. That is 2.3 goals per game when it counts most. Connor McDavid has 6 points in 4 playoff games. Two goals in 4 games. Shrinking violet. Very bad omen. Remember when he tried to punch and broke own hand. :w00t: 1st pick isn't the money spot. Only a fool would pick McDavid, and we prey on fools. Switch for Mitch! They give us the farm for McDavid, and we still will get best player, Marner!

Yuri: Why not make the non-playoff teams play actual hockey for the draft prize. Are you talking about some sort of draft tournament? Yuri: yes, the should have to earn it. Hockey pucks, rather than pingpong balls? Yuri: Yup, Last placed teams, single elimination, actually playing hockey, for the penultimate prize: A Tournament for a Prize?! Yuri: seems impossible for you?..

Yuri: Lots of folks aren't into your Marner-at-all-costs Agenda. They'll come around to my way of thinking once they see him playing professionally. These are the same folks that wanted Leino gone. Now, they waive the flag of long term vision. One thing is for sure: Tonight, tonight. Marner, Mariner - Ladies, Lake Erie.

Yuri: now you're going to be hungover at work, and you have an interview for a new job tomorrow. Was it worth it? No, but you saw what happened last time that nobody spoke up. I'll get by.

Yuri: Don't blame the fans. I would have kept Leino for another season. I don't mean to say that our party leaders made a mistake. Unfortunate victory was product of insurmountable pressure upon GM from NHL. I never said a bad word about Leino. Just goes to show you how fickle fashion can be.

Tee, the Fashion of our Times, Yuri. It is just the fashion of our times, and in a timeline lasting as long as mine own and yours, I would hate for us to be following every fad. Could you imagine, Yuri, if you live-published your masterwork, Envy, and absorbed every criticism? Do you respect yourself so little, Yuri, that you are willing to absorb each and every quibble with your jealous critics to appease them? Yuri: I don't make myself out to be more than I am, just one voice. I don't compromise that, and never have, no matter the "fad." I mean to say, that if we're not in fashion now, Anna, it doesn't mean that I have to wear pants that cling to my ass in order to print a sentence.

Yuri: I believe in the future, Anna. It's a future that you will take no part in, Yuri, but again as a sideshow entertainer. As capable as you are, Yuri, you are so scared to offend that you would rather appear ridiculous than satirize the party leaders. At the same time, you are unique. But for all your uniqueness, you are useless to the party, and you blunt your own strength, for fear of the very power that you granted your own oppressors. Yuri: My style, Anna, is not in fashion. It's nothing more than that.

Yuri: I was able to publish, Anna. A novella, a childrens story, a play. Those works were written in my own name, forever. Here, on this message board that we share I own zero creative titles. This is the way that we had imagined it throughout the Revolution. I take no pride in Warning Points. Therefore, I contribute more and more to the Conversation at Large. Our political leaders are in the right in what they choose to publish. I don't think that the ostentatious-ness of starting your own political party is merited, Yuri, but the guys who supressed you, Yuri, did start their own political party, and they did effectively suppress you.

This is where I do not agree with you at all Yuri, on the value of our current situation. You remember the very best ideals, and yet the majority of your life, you couldn't publish a word - you weren't favored. Even if you wanted to, you couldn't have done a Soviet Realist portrait is you had tried your best. You became marginalized, Yuri, and it hurt you so much that you refuse to remember it. Yuri: No, Anna. We all sacrificed, yourself included. If it had been about personal glory, we had all have abdicated from our homeland. We didn't because of our faith. It was our religion. as I shouldn't have to tell you now.

Yuri: Yes, a great deal of blood was let in those days, as was necessary, for the boyars and tsars had leeched our ancestors of their working lives. We expected freedom in our own generation, Anna, on a colossal scale. You know I do not blame us, for it was not in our control. We scribbled articles, and wrote poems, Yuri. We did our very best and sacrificed what was dearest. In the end, it was you and I at the end of the revolver, for we could never meet the quotas of those killers that ruled us. Yuri: Well, we wrote our best work in the meantime - things the world had never seen. Ideas that were entirely unique to our homeland. In the end... yes we were unlucky. We tried, Anna. We tried something never been done before.

Yuri: In my time, Anna, we fought for the Party of Lenin, and it was truly revolutionary. We were inspired, convinced we would conquer the world, and that was real, Anna, very real. It never did come to fruition the way we dreamed, but in 1917, I'd have killed you for the very idea of our future. I, too, was there, Yuri. We were full of ideals, like saints. Everything made sense. We were entirely commited, and let the sinners do the killing work. Our hands remained clean, but that just gave the killers the taste of blood!

Yuri: I remember it well, Anna, and I fought for it in my youth. My pen-name was The Chisel. My colleagues, some of them famous, helped to convince the proletariat to back the Bolsheviks when that all went down. What is the matter in that? My friend, it is one and the same, now, here what we see. Perhaps you do not see it, but it is one and the same...

Yuri: Anna, I expected better of you. Why so much effort for so little result. You're flailing around like a worm on the hook. How can you say that, Yuri? Last year, we had twenty one wins. This year, we have twenty one wins. I think I get better results this year with less talent, as much as I respect you. Yuri: And I respect You, full royal treatment, but you are not exactly getting your message across, for I cannot say you have a clear point. Meanwhile, you duck and dodge, but you have been impaled by this point certainly: It is better if we encourage losses. Though I respect your opinion Yuri, on this singular point, I believe you miscalculate. Allow me to explain... Do you remember the revolution?..

Thanks SDS. Why isn't anyone putting up signs on the 33, eh? Why isn't anybody riding the Buffaloes on the 90/190 interchange with a flag that says, "Welcome to SDSVille!" Why isn't anybody riding the Buffaloes? Why isn't anyone getting selfies of riding on buffaloes? How much I appreciate this place, and respect... Very much.