#freejame

Biz has been talking about rust all playoffs long on spittin’ chicklets. I don’t want to misquote the statistic, but teams who played seven games and then went on to face a team that swept fair much better than the team that swept. Granted the Blues only went six, but it’s a real long break for Boston and no doubt they’ve lost some rhythm. Though it’s a long wait for the Blues too so who knows.

I would much prefer this to be the case rather than it was because of his locker clean-out comments. I think people would be hard pressed to find a professional who at some point felt they were losing the love for what they do because they had a ***** boss, a crummy project, personal situations, etc. What makes a person a professional is putting their nose down and handling their business to their best capacity anyway, which is exactly what ROR did. To me, people who wanted him gone for that reason are holding themselves to much lower standards than those around them. Not to mention those people also probably bitch about vanilla hockey player quotes and non-stop cliche. My preferred option would be the Pegulas didn’t want to have someone with a drunk driving incident on their team. With any luck they’ll confirm this someday by pulling #2 from the rafters.

Except every time they win it fuels the hatred even more. I’d rather feel hatred towards a rival than disappointed over yet another team coming into yet another league and winning a championship before my teams do.

Part of it comes from a baseball mindset. It’s my favorite sport and what I follow most closely. I’ll be damned if some dirty American League team wins the WS, so I always pull for the National League. If I’m going to pull for a home league/conference, why not extrapolate that all the way to division (though I couldn’t stomach an NLE win right now, less the Nats). What’s good enough for one sport is good enough for the other. I’d rather Boston win the next ten cups than ten teams without cups (since 1970 to include the leafs) win one. Maybe I’m petty. Maybe it’s a bit of schadenfreude. But so long as my teams aren’t winning, let those with wins keep winning.

I hate the Bruins and I don’t hate the Blues so naturally I’m rooting for the Bruins. Not only does it bring the cup to the division, but I’ll always take a repeat winner over a new one until Buffalo wins. Same reason I find myself wanting the Pats to win the super bowl.

Let the record show I dissent.

We haven’t actually landed on RaKru as the official nickname, have we? It’s pretty terrible.

The 41st home game is in Sweden, correct?

Not to mention the depth of their defense. Five of their top six could be on our top pair.

I don’t think this is the case at all. There’s plenty of posters that wanted a long term deal and had strong suspicions of the player Sam would become/was.

The biggest issue with Let Me Clear My Throat is they picked the wrong time stamp.

I would be interested in seeing the overlap between the trade ROR and trade Risto camps and vice-versa

I would love to go back to song 2

That was literally laugh-out-loud bad

I’m really trying not to get my hopes up for a goatheqd, but I get more excited every time I hear someone mention it.

I’m a fan. As long as they aren’t horrible (slug, turds) I’m usually happy. I would have liked the blue to be a little brighter, it’s so dark.

At game four, 300s right at center ice. Hoping for a B’s win to see the ceremonies. Hoping even more for a regulation result before a 3.5 hour drive back. Also, the hallways in PNC are too wide, it causes people to walk like idiots.

Sucks that they’re probably right.

By “guys like Thomas Vanek” I certainly hope you don’t mean pure goal scores that’ll score more than 250 goals at a .42g/g rate. I do agree that Thomas Vanek doesn’t need a roster though.

Charlotte has had a really great team for the past few years. I don’t know much about their coach, but I think it would be a promising hire.

In a positive or negative manner?

I’m a big fan of economics and of hockey. I like the hire, at least until he comes out as a salt-water economists and the Sabres go on their first losing streak.

I’m not usually this kind of guy but as a veteran it means a lot to me seeing the best of the nation wanting to support their country. We all play our part in creating the best country possible, even if it is just a hockey tournament

I’ve found some helpful “birds of NC” websites in the past. I’ll see if I can find them for you later

I’ve been watching so I can discuss it at work, but I’ve never really been a fan of the showing (though I’ve seen the first five seasons or so). With that said, I fully support the bold.