JoeSchmoe

The views are pretty good. The Wasatch are a lot more impressive looking than the Front Range mountains near Denver, and they're a lot closer too. On a clear day with snow in the peaks it's quite the scene. If you take the Cottonwood Canyons up into the mountains you can go from a high desert SLC suburb to a Rocky Mountain alpine wilderness in maybe 15 or 20 minutes. One time we saw a moose chilling on the side of the hill just off the road maybe just 5 minutes from the city. This video is old, but it's pretty cool. Spring in the drab SLC suburbs to full winter. From canyon entry to Brighton is about 20min. Because the Wasatch rise so high and so steeply out of the desert, and because they sit beside the Great Salt Lake which never freezes, the SLC ski resorts average 500 inches of snow / year

I've done 6 or 7 snowboarding trips to SLC over the years. The skiing and snowboarding up the Cottonwood Canyons (Snowbird, Alta, Brighton, Solitude) is far better than anywhere else I've been to in North America, including all the major resorts in Colorado. That said, the city is pretty grey in the winter and prone to heavy smog during temperature inversions (because the city sits at the bottom of the Great Basin and all the pollution pools down there). The downtown is pretty quiet and meh. While the drinking laws are very, very much improved, there's still a Mormon vibe that heavily pervades. Other than Park City, which is a pretty far commute in, I'm not aware of the type of neighbourhoods there that would appeal to NHL'ers. I'm sure they're there... but it's definitely not Scottsdale.

I like Tiger. He might be a hot head, and he might be a little too into Tiger, but watching him when he was at the top of his game was like nothing else I've seen in golf. The cynic in me also liked how he turned the blue blood golf establishment upside down. The Nicklaus vs Tiger debate is an entertaining one, but I'm firmly in Tiger's camp. Yes, Tiger likely won't win the same number of majors as Jack did, but in Jack's prime, there were far fewer golfers around the world, playing on far fewer golf courses, and only the well heeled played the game. Realistically, there were only a handful of guys capable of winning on a week to week basis, and a lot of them were stars in their own right. By Tiger's era, there were so many more people golfing... There were far more guys guys competing for 2nd place than in Jack's era... And maybe only Phil was able to gain any kind of real notoriety. By extension, if there's ever another golfer that dominates like Jack and Tiger did, he'll be able to lay claim that he was the best, since in the post-Tiger era everyone golfs!

The team with the best hockey players wins regardless of age. Dallas has a lot of good hockey players. At the same time it's hard to be the best team if all your guys young and still learning.

I didn't see the article itself, but the thread title says we're number 1 in "prospects". So they have to be talking about the pipeline, not players with multiple years of NHL experience.

Love these annual articles. Unfortunately, I can't think of a prospect in the pipeline with a realistic ceiling better than a 2nd liner. And we're worse on defense.

He voted for Mondale and still hasn't lived down the loss.

Do we make the playoffs if Adams gets Kane?

Glad most people got to see it. We had a great show here in West Niagara. I expected to be underwhelmed and was happy to be proven very wrong.

Got my first glimpse through a brief break in the clouds here in West Niagara.

On my street when we were kids, we all learned to shoot on our own without our parents' instruction. I ended up left, my brother was right. We're both right handed. It was random between my friends as well. On a similar note, I was into rowing in my teens and twenties. In the boat you have oars going out to half the rower's left (starboard side) and you have oars going out to the the other half's right (port side). Again, it was random as to what side the athletes would gravitate towards.

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I don't think there's much correlation between hockey handedness and normal handedness. Kids just do whatever feels good, and it's kind of random.

...JoeSchmoe dusts off guitar and jams out 2112 (however terribly and incorrectly) end to end.

Yes. Yes it was.

The saving grace for the rest of us is that as long as the Sabres aren't mathematically eliminated, we can avoid having to watch any more Comrie starts.

Ok... "catch" everyone.

Man... I'm watching scoreboards as much as everyone here, but we're not back in. Not enough games to pass this many teams. I'm a glutton for punishment though and will watch to the bitter end. So bitter.

Krebs, Girgensons, and Robinson can join him.

Sloppy game. Poor reffing.

When I was a kid, I'd watch SCTA only to hope Bob and Doug would be on. I watched Strange Brew with my kids a few years back. Obviously I'm a lot older now, but it was still pretty funny in a most juvenile way. Edit: I vehemently disagree with you on the Trailer Park Boys. On the surface it was a crude lowbrow comedy, but it was actually under the radar brilliant.

Man... As much as I try, I just can't find the old SCTV clips funny. I REALLY respect the cast, and really want to like it, but either it's all dated now or maybe wasn't really all that funny in the first place. That clip really wasn't funny in the least. Was cool seeing the vintage Canadian mall and sports store, and hearing the old Leafs announcer though.

When you're doing an internet troll, the key is to flame things up with only a minimum amount of typing. When you invest a lot of time in a troll, the joke's very much on you. Go Sabres! Let's Go Buffalo

He's going to be a real humdinger!

I still think we're in fight for a playoff spot if Adams actually did the minimum amount of homework and not signed him.