FTB - Bittersweet
by PPP on Jan 14, 2009 9:19 AM EST
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You cannot finish in last place without losing. That's a fact that is hard to recall while you are in the midst of watching your team approach their latest game with the same enthusiasm with which Chemmy took his second cousin to his high school prom. And it certainly does not help when you read that Garth Snow is pulling out all of the stops in order win Tavares.
Anyway, here are some links to numb the pain:
- Just how bad have the last 10 games been? I'll let The General paint you the picture. I think he called it Guernica.
- MF37 listened to the Andy Frost Show after the game. Huge mistake. Our mistake? Thinking that the early effort level could ever be sustained.
- TSM points us towards an important clip from McCown on concussions. Patrice Bergeron might be done for the year again and Van Ryn is still loopy. What needs to be done?
- Steve looks at LeafsTV slobbering over the Predators. Turns out that they aren't the drafting machine that they are made out to be.
- Ron Wilson says his team stinks and Don Cherry freaks out.
- Is Lecavalier overrated?
- Johnny Bower looks 100 in this 40 year old picture.
- Eyebeleaf misses his little Belarussian buddy. I do too :(
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Second cousin.
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by Chemmy on Jan 14, 2009 9:23 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
fixed
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by PPP on Jan 14, 2009 9:32 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
She’s really hot though, and doesn’t have braces so
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by Chemmy on Jan 14, 2009 9:51 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
How many fingers?
When in Emor, do as the Snamor.
by Mattblack on Jan 14, 2009 9:56 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Six, it runs in the family and lets me blog 20% faster.
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by Chemmy on Jan 14, 2009 9:58 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Diversity is well and truely embraced at PPP.
Literally, in this case.
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by Mattblack on Jan 14, 2009 10:03 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I was in line at the grocery store buying some lunch meat a few years ago and realized the guy in front of me had six fingers on each hand.
I got the fuck out of there. Seriously I was out the door.
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by Chemmy on Jan 14, 2009 10:07 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Word
Lunch meat is minging.
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by Mattblack on Jan 14, 2009 10:12 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I don’t understand your commie talk.
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by Chemmy on Jan 14, 2009 10:28 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
It’s depressingly possible to lose and not even finish in the bottom three thou, yes?
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by Mattblack on Jan 14, 2009 9:23 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Yeah
The other terrible teams are pulling out all of the stops.
Hopefully the senators win last night gets them kind of back on track.
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by PPP on Jan 14, 2009 9:29 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Many a slip twixt the cup and the lip, hopefully.
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by Mattblack on Jan 14, 2009 9:39 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
One more link...
A letter to Mikhail Grabovski
http://www.sportsandthecity.com/2009/01/dear-mikhail-grabovski.html
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by eyebleaf on Jan 14, 2009 10:07 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Speaking of letters to people who don’t care, have you ever read “Letters to Wendy’s”?
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by Chemmy on Jan 14, 2009 10:36 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I haven’t.
Are you saying that no one cares about the letters I write? That’s mean, man.
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by eyebleaf on Jan 14, 2009 10:37 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I’m saying that Mikhail doesn’t care. I care.
Similarly, Wendy’s doesn’t care about Letters to Wendy’s, but I love them.
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by Chemmy on Jan 14, 2009 10:38 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I knew you cared. And I like to think that Mikhail cares too.
I’m going to read this Letters to Wendy’s bidness. Thanks buddy.
I’m on this letter-writing tip right now. Don’t know why.
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by eyebleaf on Jan 14, 2009 10:39 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
It’s like $10 on Amazon, and you’ll end up loaning it to all of your friends.
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by Chemmy on Jan 14, 2009 10:41 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Unless you have friends who can’t read.
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by Chemmy on Jan 14, 2009 10:42 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
they tell me they choose not to read, but I know the truth…
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by eyebleaf on Jan 14, 2009 10:43 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
More importantly, it’s a collection of poems under the guise of comment cards left at a Wendy’s that get more and more bizarre as they go on.
“Letters to Wendy’s” by Joe Wenderoth
Today I had a Biggie. Usually I just have a small and refill — why pay more? But today I needed a Biggie inside me. Some days, I guess, are like that.
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by Chemmy on Jan 14, 2009 10:39 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
that is awesome. I think I’m going to pick that up. Cheers mate.
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by eyebleaf on Jan 14, 2009 10:43 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
This might be me...
but I’ve never had a day when I needed a Biggie inside me.
Proving at least one peson in the South CARES about hockey!
by floridaLEAF on Jan 14, 2009 11:25 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Things that make me smile
the same enthusiasm with which Chemmy took his second cousin to his high school prom
Nice.
Mats and Fats
Excellent.
Since announcing the signing of Mats Sundin, Vancouver has 4 wins and 9 losses.
The best.
by general borschevsky on Jan 14, 2009 10:52 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Sundin = cancer in the dressing room.
Not real cancer, like Jason Blake. But teammate cancer.
Sundin was the problem all along in Toronto. It all makes sense now!
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by eyebleaf on Jan 14, 2009 11:03 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
you know what would help!
Ryan Hollweg. He’s supposed to be a great dressing room guy…
maybe they’ll send us Hodgson in return…
"You do dat, you go to da box, you know, uh, two minutes by yourself, and you feel shame, you know, and then you get free."
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by blurr1974 on Jan 14, 2009 11:21 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Alright
Who hacked into Eyebeleaf’s account?
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by PPP on Jan 14, 2009 11:26 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Who the fuck wrote that shit!?
It must have been tank nation
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by eyebleaf on Jan 14, 2009 11:36 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I believe Sundin was in the penalty box for two game losing goals in his first three appearances with Vancouver.
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by Chemmy on Jan 14, 2009 11:08 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
1/9 vs. St. Louis http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20082009/GS020612.HTM
1/10 vs. San Jose http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20082009/GS020624.HTM
Ouch.
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by Chemmy on Jan 14, 2009 11:16 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
All will be fine when Bobby Lu comes back.
I think we all knew Mats would be rusty. He looks slow out there.
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by eyebleaf on Jan 14, 2009 11:36 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
He looks old out there.
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by Chemmy on Jan 14, 2009 11:43 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
He looks like someone who has a great deal of passion for poker and ice-fishing. Y’know, sports that you can play sitting down.
by general borschevsky on Jan 14, 2009 1:54 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Don Cherry this week on HNIC:
``Gretzky got all his records because of Samenko. You cannot be honorable. You have to be honorable.``
Enough said.
by penaltyshots on Jan 14, 2009 11:17 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Someone out there used to transcribe all of the nightly chatter between Alex Trebeck and the Jeopardy guests. I think it was called, “The World’s Smallest Talk”
I’d like to see someone do that for Cherry. He sounds like a drunk uncle at the best of times, but it would be nice to have some sort of textural record of his inanity.
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by mf37 on Jan 14, 2009 11:25 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I think that could be a great book idea…
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by PPP on Jan 14, 2009 11:27 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
it's scary...
for the longest time, I chalked it up to being his schtick: the old outrageous xenophobe.
now, i’m thinking he’s truly an idiot
"You do dat, you go to da box, you know, uh, two minutes by yourself, and you feel shame, you know, and then you get free."
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by blurr1974 on Jan 14, 2009 11:28 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I think he’s just holding on to his positions harder and harder and making them more extreme. I used to like him more but his vendetta against Wilson just makes no sense.
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by PPP on Jan 14, 2009 11:33 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
i could enjoy him when i chalked it up to an act, but if he truly believes some of these things then…yuck
and yes, his personal vendetta against Wilson just makes him look petty and petulant. not flattering at all…
"You do dat, you go to da box, you know, uh, two minutes by yourself, and you feel shame, you know, and then you get free."
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by blurr1974 on Jan 14, 2009 11:40 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I’d love to make a topic matrix for Cherry. I think you could sum up every program ever in five categories or less:
Advice to kids (DON’T: flamingo, put your stick in front of the goalie, hit from behind; DO: put stuffing in your shinpads, emulate “good” Canadian Boys)
Open ended prediction that no one will remember (Jason Smith scoring in OT would turn Ottawa’s season around. Bochenski for the Calder)
Honoring/remembering dead Canadians
40+ year old story involving some combination of the Boston Bruins/ Rochester Americans
For colour, you could list all the names mis-pronounced each episode or the number of times he goes limp wristed and lisps when mentioning those who disagree with him.
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by mf37 on Jan 14, 2009 11:42 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Not gonna lie, I love Don Cherry like eyebleaf loves Tomas Kaberle.
I agree with 100% of your topic matrix though, which is why Don Cherry is amazing. Serious? Not serious? Don’t care it’s all hilarious.
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by Chemmy on Jan 14, 2009 11:45 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
he’s entertainment. pure and simple.
just like Tomas!
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by eyebleaf on Jan 14, 2009 11:48 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Kaberle to Boston at the deadline for Rask and their first.
:O
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by Chemmy on Jan 14, 2009 11:50 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Intriguing…
Kabs and Chara would make for one hell of a pair.
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by eyebleaf on Jan 14, 2009 11:57 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
That would be
possibly one of the greatest defensive pairing of our generation.
by general borschevsky on Jan 14, 2009 2:28 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I approve! Would be entertaining to see how the media would spin the whole rask → raycroft to kabs → rask swapperoo too.
by LeafFanInVan on Jan 14, 2009 4:52 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
say what you will...
about a lot of that stuff, but his honoring of fallen men and women in the serivice of their country is beautiful.
it’s a shame they don’t do that here in the states…
but that’s politics, and there’ no need to go down that road. Suffice to say, I get a little choked up each time he does that, never gets old to me.
i could find his stuff funny, if i didn’t start thinking he was serious, and that’s what my problem is now…
"You do dat, you go to da box, you know, uh, two minutes by yourself, and you feel shame, you know, and then you get free."
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by blurr1974 on Jan 14, 2009 11:47 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
We grind up too many young men and women in the name of oil to honor them all.
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by Chemmy on Jan 14, 2009 11:48 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
true, still…
"You do dat, you go to da box, you know, uh, two minutes by yourself, and you feel shame, you know, and then you get free."
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by blurr1974 on Jan 14, 2009 11:54 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Despite not liking Anti-flag, they have a lyric like
You’re gonna die for your government. You’re gonna die for your country like shit.
Sums it up pretty well to be honest. We send fresh faced kids into the meat grinder to enforce questionable global policy kept in place by the military industrial complex.
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by Chemmy on Jan 14, 2009 11:59 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
the US doesn’t “honor the fallen” due to the MSM being more than a little complicit in their choice of coverage.
if they give us the “bad news” (ie – kids dying daily) then they’re cushy imbedded posts and such will disappear.
thing is, i don’t want to see how realistic war is through the eyes of a cameraman riding shotgun in a humvee. if i did, i’d sign up…
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by blurr1974 on Jan 14, 2009 12:02 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
The thing is, you don’t want to see what it’s really like, but you should see it anyways. We should all be forced to see what is happening in our names.
People are dying and it’s not even being covered on the news.
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by Chemmy on Jan 14, 2009 12:33 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
well...
it’s not being covered on American news…
"You do dat, you go to da box, you know, uh, two minutes by yourself, and you feel shame, you know, and then you get free."
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by blurr1974 on Jan 14, 2009 12:35 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
you guys should watch the show I work for.
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by eyebleaf on Jan 14, 2009 1:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
My wife
is addicted to it.
Respect for the Paikin.
by general borschevsky on Jan 14, 2009 2:38 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
that mean’s a lot General. Cheers.
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by eyebleaf on Jan 14, 2009 2:50 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
is it streamed online…?
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by blurr1974 on Jan 14, 2009 2:44 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
You can catch our segments online.
I’ll send you an email, Blurr
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by eyebleaf on Jan 14, 2009 2:50 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
sounds good...
thanks!
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by blurr1974 on Jan 14, 2009 2:54 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
You are seriously putting together your book right in the comments where Chemmy can see it?
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by PPP on Jan 14, 2009 11:49 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
What’s that supposed to mean
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by Chemmy on Jan 14, 2009 11:50 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Nothing :|
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by PPP on Jan 14, 2009 11:52 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Tomorrow I’m going to write about that time I ran into you coming out of the Pink Triangles Disco.
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by Chemmy on Jan 14, 2009 11:53 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Well, I came out alone unlike you Mr. Three New Friends.
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by PPP on Jan 14, 2009 11:58 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
struck out again PPP…?
"You do dat, you go to da box, you know, uh, two minutes by yourself, and you feel shame, you know, and then you get free."
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by blurr1974 on Jan 14, 2009 12:03 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
he couldn't
not captain sexypants
Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing
by loser domi on Jan 14, 2009 12:21 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
This whole sky is suddenly falling attitude is insane. We are in 25th! Yes 25th…right where we want to be. Last’s game was boring, both teams were brutal. No one that we want to unload got hurt. We lost. It’s all good. I am tired of this Leaf fans won’t put up with this… HELLO we have put up with it for YEARS when we were promised the wholly grail…We can live with it when we all agree it is supposed to happen
by torontosportsmedia.com on Jan 14, 2009 11:48 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Absolutely.
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by Chemmy on Jan 14, 2009 11:49 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Sure
But as a fan no effort still pisses you off which is why last night’s game was a big deal for me.
Not that the Leafs haven’t been French-like in their defence of the ACC since the lockout so we shouldn’t really be surprised.
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by PPP on Jan 14, 2009 11:50 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
It’s disgusting how poor a home team we have become. It’s one thing to suck on the road, but everyone comes into town and spanks us like the naughty, naughty team that we are.
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by eyebleaf on Jan 14, 2009 11:50 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
splurt
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by Chemmy on Jan 14, 2009 11:51 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
i’ll never look at Borschevsky the same again….
"You do dat, you go to da box, you know, uh, two minutes by yourself, and you feel shame, you know, and then you get free."
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by blurr1974 on Jan 14, 2009 11:56 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
tuesday night home games are the worst though
if i’m ever really bored i’m going to go back and compile their tuesday night record from the last 3 or 4 seasons. they must be 20 games below .500.
by daoust on Jan 14, 2009 1:03 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
a friend of mine was in town last night and grabbed tix to the game, his first in a couple of years (he lives in timmins). you gotta feel bad for people who fork out cash to watch that sorry display, especially when it’s the only game they’re gonna see in a while.
by daoust on Jan 14, 2009 1:05 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah I hope they have a good show between periods. The Timbits probably were more entertaining at least.
by LeafFanInVan on Jan 14, 2009 1:10 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Agree with TSM – it’s amazing that the same media that predicted a last place finish for the Leafs can get in a lather over the Leafs not winning.
The media sure like to have it both ways in this town. It’s like the old joke about defining chutzpah: Killing your parents and asking for clemency because you’re an orphan.
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by mf37 on Jan 14, 2009 12:11 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Quick question
Kypreos and the other guy on Hockeycentral were just saying that the fact that Mike Dunham was warming up between periods last night exposed the lack of depth on the Islanders. My question: how would any other team, short of carrying a third goalie in the press box, not be exposed in the same way? If Toskala goes down during the first period, and Joseph gets hurt in the second, wouldn’t the Leafs be in the same position? Isn’t this common sense? Am I crazy?
Someone should really start a blog that makes snarky jokes at the expense of these guys…
by Kim Jorn on Jan 14, 2009 12:24 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Someone should really start a blog that makes snarky jokes at the expense of these guys…
That is a fantastic idea.
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by eyebleaf on Jan 14, 2009 12:26 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
And they should update it more than once every two weeks. Turns out that at least one sports reporter says or writes something stupid every single day.
by Kim Jorn on Jan 14, 2009 12:28 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I wish I could come up with the appropriate punch line re. John Garret as a roving goalie.
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by mf37 on Jan 14, 2009 12:32 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
The Islanders have lost their 1st overall pick franchise goaltender, their backup puts up a .900SV% over 37 games behind the worst team in the league, and they don’t have depth at goaltending when they bring in Mike Dunham who has better numbers than Toskala and they have Wade Dubliewicz who they’re trying to bring back from Russia?
Goaltending is the only bright spot of the Islanders.
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by Chemmy on Jan 14, 2009 12:37 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Interestingly, goaltending was JFJ’s blind spot. I wonder what would happen if somehow JFJ and Garth Snow were merged into a single GM…
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by mf37 on Jan 14, 2009 12:39 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
The opposite of the big bang: the universe would collapse into a singularity, a big bang would happen, and the cycle would begin anew.
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by Chemmy on Jan 14, 2009 12:41 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I would assume he was referring to the lack of depth in the Islanders web design department.
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