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DEFEAT! Also: MORAL VICTORY! [it's acceptable for the Tank to win games at home against opponents we hate.] Now let's TANK ON!

You want him? YOU GOT HIM! ONWARD!

Unfortunately, it's for the best, IMO, and that sickens me to say that. But the way, or rather when, they're going to do it isn't right. The newest A-10s are 30 years old, they're increasingly susceptible to modern shoulder-fired SAMs, and they're almost completely out-matched in any air-to-air combat scenario. So they're great for blowing ###### up and cutting armor in half in third world countries that have AKs, RPGs, no air force, and no appreciable air defense systems. Which is why we've loved them over the past 30 years. We need a new generation of aircraft for the CAS role, but due to cost and relative fragility, the F-35B's not going to cut it. So we need a new aircraft program for CAS, which could be expensive to get off the ground. Or drones, which I'm pretty meh about for various reasons. So the A-10 fleet needs to be maintained until that new solution is flight ready. Otherwise, we forfeit a serious CAS capability, which in the current threat environment, is definitely one we shouldn't.

That was actually Patton, whom, albeit ignorantly, did not believe in the existence of battle fatigue and forbade its diagnosis in the Seventh Army. Before he slapped the ###### out of some guys that had it. Then apologized. Then took the Third Army all the way across Europe.

From here: Desert Storm: 4 downed, all by SAMs. 3 captured and released. 1 pilot killed, body was recovered. Iraqi Freedom: 1 downed, by SAM, pilot survived, recovered by friendlies. So from 716 aircraft built, over 42 years of service, only five have been shot down, with only one casualty, and it took missiles to do it- no flak, AA-gun fire, or small arms fire. And three of those missiles, by the way, were the Russian-built mobile platform we're-not-######-around-surface-to-air-missiles.

You're gonna. A team doesn't tank as hard as ours and hope for #2, son. I won't have cowards in my army.

You forgot to acquire Danny Briere. And trade them Jerome Gauthier-Leduc, because he's from QC and because he's the most french-sounding.

It's not a coincidence the A-10s were labeled the Thunderbolt II. The mission is very, very similar. And such a simple design premise. Take the biggest gatling gun that can fly, attach eight Maverick missiles, put tank armor on the bottom of it, give it double-redundant flight systems, design it to fly with one engine, one tail, one elevator, and half a wing missing, and you end up with a nearly-unkillable flying monster that destroys everything it looks at.

Those ######! Just kidding, that's fine. I'm willing to bet the Islanders remain considerably awful next year. We'll get two high draft picks in the first in 2015 which will 1) increase our chance at winning the McDavid lottery and 2) make it easier to trade those picks for the 1st overall if we don't win the lottery and choose to do so.

Maybe Regier felt that way, maybe not. But Regier would probably have been more conservative when talking about specific player trades with the media.

A fine point. Everyone everywhere knows what the record is and what happens when when it's like that. TM also doesn't have the established personal relationships, so any reservation about being completely up front about, "yeah, I'm definitely try to move that guy" may not be as present.

I can't tell yet if TM's smarter than Regier, but he sure isn't dumb. He also seems to be somewhat more transparent, which is probably important when you're trying rebuild. Keeps everyone inside and outside the organization on the same page.

Defeat! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvQ4RH-UNMw Bonus: Carolina fans are pissed that they lost, not just because it was us, but also because we're dead last.

I sincerely apologize. In no way did I mean to convey that any of us should stop doing those things. Also, let's get the BBQ sauce going in the rapey part too. Spice things up a bit.

Got Godzilla-sized roids? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1LnLsMW19U

They piss and moan that we're "the worst fans they've ever seen," when, in fact, they have no idea what the ###### they're talking about. So, our fans perpetuate that bogus legend in conversation, just to make them look even more stupid. We fill up that rats nest, rape their women, steal their babies, and eat them both in the parking lot. Then the raping starts again. And some more baby eating. And we wash it all down with something that doesn't rhyme with Udweiser.

I'm tanking so hard right now.

I'm still cautiously optimistic that this will work out. Sky hasn't fallen yet.

Best players in the world in the Olympics. Period. Bill Daly:

Haha, all the Scott hataz taking the opportunity because the coach tossed him out of a drill.

Signing Miller to a big long contract is far from the worst move we can make here. We need *someone* to play in net, we've got plenty of cap space, and we've got plenty of other areas to improve. Trading him for peanuts would be a worse move. Letting him go UFA would be a worse move. Should we try to trade him? Hells yes. That's priority #1. Gather offers of return. If they all suck, throw a bunch of money at Miller guilt free, because at least you were able to retain an asset valuable to this organization. And don't fault Darcy for not trading him earlier. I've seen nothing that suggests the "market," the offers of return, were any better at any time previously.

Instead of the NHL just taking a planned break, nations wishing to host the summer games would have to engineer, build, and pay for new hockey stadiums for a winter sport. Insanity.

I suppose the only shred of sort-of news is the last line, that trading Miller is the priority over signing him. We knew TM would shop Miller around, but there were some in the organization that were saying that they would like to see Miller stay. For example, Ted Nolan in that article.

Wawrow says he's gotta source inside: http://sports.yahoo....49542--nhl.html ###### is gonna go down.