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FTFY. All Boston players are like this. It's the patriot attitude. They're going to do what they think they can get away with to get ahead, and not even the rules are going to stop them. And if you dare to fight back, then they'll just go over the top, often in some dirty or illegal way to demonstrate that they make the law on the ice, regardless of league rules. And if the league were to actually punish that behavior in a meaningful way, the pissing and moaning from the fans, media, and players would endless on two fronts: 1) that's not old-school hockey/the league is a bunch of pussies 2) that's not fair/Boston gets screwed too much. This is why John Scott exists*. He was brought in to show Bruins players that no matter what they think about rules or supplemental discipline, they might forget how to eat soup at age 45 because they thought they were above league rule and had to have their septum caved in by an ice skating Goliath. * He's a nice guy, an educated guy, and funny. I hope he develops into a worthwhile player, but I don't have really any expectations for him on-ice.

Denver @ BC and ND @ Wisconsin are going to be absolutely dynamite games. Denver, after sneaking into the tournament by winning the NCHC Tournament but only posting a 10-11-3 conference record, might get rocked playing BC's high-power offense on almost home ice in Worcester, but Denver's a proud organization with a lot of history and may not fall easily. North Dakota and Wisconsin are old WCHA rivals that haven't seen each other yet this year. Wisconsin, like Minnesota, is rocking the first season of Big Ten Hockey, as North Dakota reigns over the NCHC with St Cloud. I was pondering that myself. A: Maybe quite a bit. High draft picks like him, even as freshmen, can be game-breakers on college ice. Dany Heatley (3rd overall) posted 113 points in 77 games over two seasons for Wisconsin. They went from from 4th in the conference (13-12-3) before he arrived to Conference champions (25-3-0) his freshman year.

The brackets for the NCAA Division I Men's Hockey Championship are set! The final rankings were: The printable bracket is here: http://i.turner.ncaa...men_d1_2013.pdf A loose breakdown is here (w/ vid): http://espn.go.com/c...-college-hockey Lots of great first round matchups and lots of great college hockey on ESPN networks. Minnesota, who is ranked 1 going into the national tournament bracket, lost to Ohio State in the Big Ten tournament, allowing Union to finish #1 in the polls. Also, some all-important women's college hockey news: After going 38-2-1 and winning the last two national titles, the Minnesota women's team was STUNNED in the NCAA Championship FInal by Clarkson: http://www.startribu.../251795151.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YepO9Pq4iNI

The players and fans are trying to sell it. Hard. It looks like a rummage sale out there. For the second time this season, a fan tosses their jersey out on the ice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD1JksflupE Meanwhile, Taylor Hall throws a tantrum, smashing his water bottle down on the bench, which sprays Dallas Eakins with water: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntBqq6fuSac Then TSN just goes ahead and lays it on thick anyways.

Don your Sabres colors or get mowed down like Jonah.

If you think that the support has waned because people bought into the meddling idea, you are way out of touch. This "meddling" bit is so ###### tired, I can't waste my time with it anymore. It's a joke; this whole topic has become an enormously ###### joke because of its relentless stupidity. It's an unfounded, baseless, paranoid delusion that has somehow, through sheer ignorance and unwillingness to listen to reason, willed it's way into perpetuity. And I'm tired of fighting it. I'm tired of typing out requests for evidence and the exercise of reason and rational thought. So if being exhausted by trying to demonstrate how weak these dumb arguments are makes me a "Pegula fanboi in hiding," then ###### so be it. Congratulations. But don't claim righteous victory in the name of what is right. Claim one because you are successfully defending what so many people think is too stupid to contest. I'm not even convinced that this whole concept wasn't designed to troll users that can think straight. This. All of that. And I'm not even mad. I'm really ambivalent, because at the end of the day, none of this ###### matters. Pegula owns the team, He'll operate it in the fashion of his choosing. And whether you agree or disagree with what it is, it is what it is. In my perception, Pegula's doing quite a lot of good inside and outside the Sabres organization, and inside and outside the hockey department of the Sabres organization. I'm fine with all of that, and I've grown weary of defending that position. edit: This thread is it's own perfect example. Back on page three, nine months ago:

Eleven points away from second (last), twelve games to go. Two games in hand over Edmonton, who has decided to lose their last two. There has been secretive research being conducted throughout the war, in preparation for a time that we would need a dominating battle technology against a coastal opponent. Scientists have been working for months to achieve a new level of seaside combat efficiency. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoy4_h7Pb3M How does one tank against the ocean-born killer whale? Experiments with amphibious tanks didn't go as well as expected. Instead, we captured current ocean-going technology and developed it into a new, tank-worthy platform, fit for battle on land and in the fjords of British Columbia. UNLEASH THE MECHA WHALES!! ONWARD!!

THIS ###### RIGHT HERE: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/now-every-school-can-access-fancy-plasma-physics-laboratory-180950234/#cSTEAAkewtkeI8ri.01 One of my friends got this going. Control a real plasma physics experiment via internet connection. Play with pressure, voltage, and magnet current settings, and watch the plasma light up and change shape and color.

Realistic? Probably not, but I think we're in a better position to accomplish that than most teams. With the draft selections and cap space available to us, we can pretty much hand pick our team for at least the next seven years. I think that's why we're reading articles that every GM in the league is jealous of Tim Murray's situation. For as far as we've fallen, we dare not fail to dream big.

I enjoyed this.

Nah.

###### that team. I'm a little in the same boat, being in LA. If someone likes another team in the Eastern Conference, I'm not friends with them. Period. Thankfully, though, most EC fans I run into are, in typical LA fashion, extremely fair weather. So even if they were fans of another EC team, I could tolerate them just long enough to out-shittalk them and walk away victorious.

Don't forget the injuries. I think both of those are challenging him, but are quite possibly only minor setbacks in his development.

If you want, I guess.

Maybe a difference between the casual fan and the die hard? Die hard fans will root for the team to lose in order for the team to get better and win and will generally stick around. Casual fans won't make that connection and will be scared away by losing? If so, that could be a concept that helps us: Florida, Nashville, and Carolina are all bottom eight. How can we possibly not tank if they're trying to win?

I'm ecstatic that the subtleties of my art are not lost.

Need a little bit of the old ultra violence?

DEFEAT! We're still in 1st place by 11 points with 12 games to go and one game in hand over Edmonton. The upside is the Tank has had a hell of a stretch. Of Florida, Nashville, Carolina, Islanders, Calgary, and Edmonton, six of the seven other worst teamstanks in the league, we only were DEFEAT'd by one of them. We also played Chicago and Montreal and had VICTORY. Edmonton was the last of the major battle of 2014. As we move forward, we'll experience small pockets of resistance to our Tank, namely the Predators, Devils, and Islanders, but the Tank's advancement should be boosted by skirmishes away at St Louis, Detroit, Philly, NYR, and Boston.

Gracias. There's no problem with speculation, except for its occasional treatment as fact by some that can't or don't want to differentiate.

I'm slowly running out of quality animated tank gifs on google image search. I need to broaden search horizons.

I have, but not in quite some time. I should probably go back to it at some point.

TANK ON!