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It gets better. Barclays was originally going to pay $400M dollars for the naming rights for 20 years (a world record for an indoor arena), but renegotiated down to more than $200M dollars. Barclays does not have or even plan to have any retail bank branches in the US and did not put any of its own ATMs in the building. Zany.

Heh, 14,500 is still more than their league-worst average attendance last year of 13,306. 13,306, by the way, is way up from their '10-'11 average attendance of 11,059.

So, the Islanders were on the front page of NHL.com because they visited the Barclay Center, which, I didn't realize until now, was retrofitted from basketball-only. So it's weird. And pretty laughable. Keep in mind that this cost $1 billion to build. That's 5.3 times what it would cost to build the FNC today. And because it wasn't designed for hockey, the atrocious sightlines eliminate seats. It seats "14,500" for hockey, which is the smallest venue in the NHL and a move down from the 16,170 of the (dilapidated) Coliseum. It's like the team is skating in a world class college hockey rink- three NCAA venues have higher capacity. More pics here, including a pic of the scoreboard that's over there. I'm not knocking it that hard. I'm sure for the dollars-per-seat spent, it's a nice lavish place to catch a game, and everyone knows it'll be better than the Coliseum, but damned if it isn't funny looking. WANG'D.

Work is doing a remote upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7 next week. I'm backing up all of my files, and I expect total and utter failure that will result in about a week's worth of computerlessness. Actually, just putting a GPS transceiver on the truck (they may already have them) and then putting that location with the planned route on a map online wouldn't bee all that hard. Could probably give estimates of arrival within a two hour window pretty easily.

I like it as well.

They should try that out in the AHL first to see if it actually increases scoring rates or non-shootout finish rates, and to see how exactly insanely gimmick-y that will look. Not saying it wouldn't be fun, but if it doesn't decrease the chance of going to SO, or it doesn't correlate at all to team ability, it's all for show.

As we've all figured out by now, "Hockey Heaven" was a probably a bit presumptuous, but that doesn't mean I didn't enjoy the ambition on and off the ice. I miss "hardest working team in hockey."

Don't backpedal on your verbs. Your original statement is incorrect, and there's no way around it. As is a series of videos of preseason interviews with players. (Ugh, I hope it's not Hodger, but knowing this team... Hodgsy? Blech.) I'm not trying to be a dick with this nitpickery, but getting uppity over the use of a particular word used as the hashtag title of a video series... Anyways, what's up with marketing?

Got it. So, anyone who calls anything a blue print needs to be a licensed professional, because to call something a blue print necessarily requires accredited professionalism with regard to the project being planned. :w00t: Petey and Hodgson were chilling with sick kids at a Niagara hospital the other day and someone took pictures. What self-congratulating thing did they call that?

Semantics. I can draw blue print for a house that falls down when built because I designed it wrong. Blue prints are far, far from foolproof. Calling something a blue print isn't self congratulating. It just indicates that somebody put a plan on paper; it's no guarantee of success. It perhaps carries a connotation that there's some aspect that's attempted to have been well-thought out, but that's still not self-congratulating. Maybe they went with that because they're blue chip prospects.

Maybe they want to show videos of the new guys, maybe because they think fans will be interested and will want to learn about all of the new faces on the team, since there are quite a few. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and not a penis. Also, neat, a thread devoted to keeping PR discussion focused and out of other threads immediately gets trampled by anti-DR discussion that invades all threads. #Dwight######sUpAgain

Might have to wait to get Chris Pronger's roster spot and cap hit to LTIR?

Dolla Dolla Bill, Y'all was all like And then he's all like And the Blackhawks are all like

Lulz.

Really? Cause I had to watch some bootleg Russian streaming to see it coming. I enjoyed this game. It would have been the titties to pull out the win, but with that many penalties and Tom Brady not being able to telekinetically will the ball into the hands of his 2nd-hand receivers any more than he did in the last drive, it wasn't in the cards. As said before, lots of good things in this game, lots of good things to come. It was a joy to watch the Patriots fail as much as they did- embarrassing them is just about as enjoyable as getting the W.

And he and Manuel are all smiles. I'm glad they're having fun out there. And that's not sarcasm. I want this to be a fun team to watch.

Amen. I don't care how many Super Bowls we didn't win and/or didn't get to, I will still grind 18-1 into the faces of every Patriots fan I meet. First of many NFL touchdowns for the rookies: EJ Manuel to Robert Woods.

QFT

The message was "we trade with more than just Calgary and Dwight is full of crap."

Leino judges a fashion show: http://video.nhl.com...=443034&lang=en Not quite: (NSFW) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWM-fNJ1dO8

My favorite part is the Speedy Gonzalez arriba arriba dance that the girl who comes in does at 0:31. Also, obligatory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPu59h8OrL4[/url] Oh ###### do this: 1) Set the Ohio Players to start playing at 0:11 to listen to the audio in the background. 2) Immediately start and watch the twerking video. 3) Perfection.

Los Angeles? Or Minnestoga.

Nashville.

Brian Burke and Jay Feaster in the same office? I smell a sitcom!