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It doesn't have to be much, but think of a straight line from your shoulders to your knees to the balls of your feet. You bend more when you're turning or skating long ice.

Watching Christie stand behind Trump as he speaks reminds me of Clemenza waiting for the Godfather to give the order on who to wack.

I hope Kassian doesn't take a run at Eichel. Lehner might have to go Billy Smith on him.

That's all you could find for a cup? In a pinch, use a shoe. I never go over the boards, I always use the door. I pulled my groin or hammy when I used to try it. The compromises of getting older.

I think McDavid is like P Kane and Eichel is like Toews. One has more skill but the other will be the better team leader.

I would rather a team bottom out, acquire top young talent, and then build around them (the Blackhawks model), then be so-so for decades but never in a position to get a top talent (the Bills QB situation). This is the first post-bottom out year. The best players are the young talent. The underachievers have been the veterans, many of whom won't be on the team in two years.

This team has been competitive and entertaining. That last game vs LA was a great game. Lehner has been playing well since his return. In those 3 Cal. Games they were outscored by a total of 4-3. Of course we want more goals and wins, but they're competitive in most games. And Marcus and Cal aren't getting top 6 minutes unless there's more injuries.

Kasich is the only remaining reasonable Republican. He would probably be like George H W Bush. Conservative but willing to compromise.

What you don't see or hear about much are all the good players still in juniors and college that have been drafted or traded for. It will be a couple more years before they start contributing, but it's all part of the plan to grow the team around Eichel, Reinhart, Risto, and O'Reilly.

At least it gives us a reason to root for a team in the playoffs, like Miller in St Louis.

Yes, but found out it was a fake so I deleted.

Did Bettman make another "screw the Sabres" move and tell the league to ignore GMTM? Uncle Bryan felt bad and threw him a bone with Amerks trade.

Finally got to watch the game. Loved the physical game. A shame that another great effort from Lehner was wasted, he kept them in and gave them a chance. I like that Eichel is getting mad and said afterwards he has to be better. A deficiency that needs to be addressed in the next couple years is the defense has to get faster. The opponent forwards close the gap quick after they dump in.

I agree, if they were supplying our oil, the US would have acted because of the effect on our national interests, as with Kuwait. But that's a long standing US policy regardless of who is president. And without that national interest, the US will try diplomacy before committing its troops to danger. Funny that you don't like the Clintons because you think we acted too slow, and Eleven thinks we would act too quickly with the Clintons.

Yes it should be snug so that if you hit your head the helmet doesn't move and absorbs the impact properly, and having your jaw tight reduces the chance you slam it up. You should be able to move your mouth a little. My old helmet was looser and I got a concussion from it moving when I hit my head. There's no guarantee, but in case you ever fall backwards, try to pull your head up so your back takes the impact. Watch how wrestlers do it.

To say Clinton did nothing to end it is factually wrong. They tried diplomacy, then they tried to get European countries to agree to take military action in their own backyard, who were slow to agree. I don't mean to sound harsh, but it was not a national threat to the US, so to take unilateral action would not have been in the best interest of the US. And even when NATO took action it was opposed by Republicans in Congress. If the US intervened unilaterally in every ethnic or civil war, we'd be in half the countries in Africa. I don't think any other president would have done any more, and some would have done less.

You'd rather support someone who has insulted Muslims and threatens to treat them different than Christians, than the wife of someone who got resistant European countries to join in a NATO coalition to end the conflict and lead the Dayton Peace Accords. I'm sorry, but that's like Log Cabin Republicans who support a party that considers them less than equal.

I thought you were Muslim. If so, how could you want Trump?

My son's girlfriend's friend from college dates Schneider. My six degrees of Schneider. But she lives in Binghamton, so that will be tough. Could be trying to get rid of some Amerk veterans so they don't have to sit some each game.

Yeah, but the voters that think Trump's behavior is acceptable for a president is still in the minority, even in the Republican Party. Bernie will stay in the race until the convention so he gets a prominent speaking slot.

I can fake work, I can't fake skate.

I have to get up at 6am to go play hockey, so I'm recording the game and will watch it tomorrow.

Remember when Rick Lazio was aggressive during the Senate debate and stepped to Hillary to get her to sign some pledge. He blew what chance he had right then.

Less than a week after he dropped out of the Republican presidential race following a poor performance in the New Hampshire primary, the new Rutgers-Eagleton poll shows just 29 percent of New Jersey's registered voters have a favorable view of the governor. That's down four points from the last poll in December. The governor's job approval ratings remained about the same, matching a record low of 33 percent approving and 61 percent disapproving, the poll found. http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/02/christies_approval_rating_sinks_to_new_low_poll_fi.html