Ducky

Don't you just love it when supper tries to walk through your backyard? He tried it he tried it this morning but didn't quite make it.

Worst season for ducks and geese on well over twenty years but I finally got into some northern mallards the other day. Managed some Lesser Scaup, Buffleheads, Redheads and Canvasbacks along with the 4 geese and 13 mallards. Best shoot of the year. Braving the freezing temps this Thursday for my last hunt of the season.

Lemieux deserved 6 games easy. A frickin joke. It was a blatant attempt to injure. I don't want this guy on this team. Send him to the Moose and bench him. As far as Myers goes, he is so bad in his own end with the puck that my a$$ could crack walnuts when he tries to handle the puck in the D zone. A 3rd pairing D man taking up 5.5m of the cap? Kulikov taking up another 4.33m. That's 9.83m for your two 3rd pair D men!

Brendan Lemieux with a dirty cheap shot on Trochek. I hope he gets 10 games and then is sent to the Moose where he is subsequently benched. No place for a POS like that in the league.

Trouba's hit didn't look that bad but the powder puff went to the bench immediately.

The better half picked up tickets for my birthday present to the Sabres game on the 16th. First game of the year for me. Can't wait for those $10.50 beer...she's driving too!

The Jets lost Dano to waivers today (Avs) and rumor has it that Lemieux will play next game. He had a really strong camp. They must like Lemieux because they could have sent him down without waivers.

He has 4 points in 3 games??? Why complain??? He's young...people develop on different arcs. Eichel will be fine....10m fine is still to be determined but he will do much better as he ages and plays with different wingers and D men (Dahlin).

Isn't it 25 games in a season for a rookie to lose his status?

LOTS of bears up there too.

My God, Maurice was playing Myers on the left side with Buff tonight and he can't even play the D zone on his natural side...to say he wasn't very good is a compliment. Has Bogo got into any games yet? How did he look?

Are you going north of Lake Winnipeg or the east side of it? Don't have to do anything to moose meat for me to like it. My hunting partner uses all of the goose meat and makes pate out of the liver. She saves the hearts for me. She makes a stock out of the necks and the bigger breasts she corns and makes pastrami and she grinds the rest (including wing, leg and back meat) of it and makes sausages and ground meat. She gives me some (because I don't go after birds in the field) pate, pastrami and ground meat and it is all great. Goose burgers and meatloaf are excellente! My better half won't eat factory farmed meat but she loves wild meat!

Most of the southern part of MB is closed to hunting because of low populations. I love moose hunting but the best way to hunt them now in MB is to fly in to a remote spot. Thinking of doing it next year. Boats are there and a modest cabin/shack. My favorite meat that doesn't have wings. I've had Barren Ground Caribou and it was excellent. I don't hunt deer or Elk because I dont' like the tase. Newfieland for moose would be good and I think a moose/caribou hunt is reasonably priced.

I think it is a smart move by management. There are a lot of UFAs coming off of the books by then and besides Skinner and Scandella, how many are going to be re-signed? Lots of ELC contracts coming up to offset the bigger contracts that will need to be signed. This GM realizes that you cannot build a year-after-year contender in a season or two and likes to hold onto his high end draft picks. Three first round draft picks is nuts. Imagine what some astute drafting could do for the organization with those picks to add to an up and coming young team.

What kind of swans are they? We only see Tundra swans moving through here. We have tons of geese here as we live near Oak Hammock Wildlife Management Area...if I'm not mistaken, it is the biggest staging area for gees in NA. You can't hunt the water there and I am a water hunter. We take them in the other marshes but we are mainly there for ducks. My favorite eating duck is a teal duck. Of the 4 ducks I brought home, the Redhead and the 2 Widgeons will make a nice stew. They've been in the fridge since we shot them and I will clean them today. I will probably freeze the teal and save it for more of them and deep-fry them with hearts or put them in a stir fry. My better half won't eat store-bought meat but she will shoot any game I am lucky enough to harvest. She is in Kingston, ON visiting her mom so chances are she won't get any!

Ducks or geese?

Man, it is hard to find ducks this year because of the lack of rain all summer. We managed to scratch out 8 this evening. We shut it down an hour early because of the rain and work tomorrow. Of the three dogs that we had with u,s one was a student, one was working and one was a retiree! We managed to get a blue Wing teal a green Wing teal 2 Widgeon a redhead 2 pintails and a mallard.

96m over 8 years for EK? Morrissey signed a 2 year 6.3m for an AAV of 3.15m per year. I would have liked to have seen him signed for 7 or 8 years. This move is going to benefit Morrissey in the long run.

My guess is that it is Reinhart asking for too much (or JBots offering too low) on a long term and maybe JBots is leaning towards a 2 year deal. I think the very same thing is happening with Nurse and Morrissey. The team is probably offering them a 2 year show me contract. 3-3.5m per year.

Drinking age is 21? 18 here and in October we can buy weed legal...I think it's October. Might have to be 19 for weed too, not sure. If you are under 18 and there is any hint of alcohol in your system, I believe the car is impounded and the driver loses their license for I can't remember how long. .08 is the limit. Back in 1984, a cop told me I would walk if I blew a .10 or less and I blew a .11. It cost me 495.00 for the fine that I paid over the counter and lost my license for 6 months but I got a work permit. I had 12 demerits and it gave me 10 more. This scenario today would cost me thousands of dollars and rightly so. Probably close to 10,000.00 when all is said and done.

I have tickets to Paul McCartney on the 28th of September this year. I've seen him once before and this is probably the last time he'll be coming through.

Winnipeg's 5 day forecast with with and without humidity... 33 35 35 32 23 27 31 7 39 41 37 23 29 24 Multiply by 1.8 and add 32 for F. 37 is 98.6 or body temperature. edit ... too hot! 21-24 is perfect.

Makita was a great playmaker but it didn't hurt to have Hull on his wing. Stone is playing out his year and coming home to Winnipeg! Ceci got an overpayment if you ask me.

Lots of centers get owned when they first start playing that position. They are often moved to the wing and back to center. Many hope this is what is happening with Roslovic. Mittlestadt can start at wing and move to center, nothing wrong with that at all.

Kaner asked Bobby Hull if he could wear 9 while a Jet. Some of the greatest players ever have worn 9.