i'm in avatar hell 'til friday (fffffffuuuuuuuuu sylar)

if you want to do a 5-day bet, i'd serve my sentence sat-wed if i lose (which i will)

Uno, Due, Lou's, or Gino's East?

I'll lose all respect for you if you say Giordanos

+1, sigh.

Conroy's gone after this season and then Backlund assumes a starting job effective immediately out of camp. He should be playing right now...he was showing excellent chemistry with Hagman and certainly has far more offensive creativity than Conroy, something that this team is severely lacking.

Most nights, Rene Bourque has been Calgary's best/2nd best forward. Langkow's regressed badly since the start of the season, Dawes ran into injury trouble, meh. I like Dawes and I was hoping he'd found a nice little niche in Calgary because he definitely has game. Langkow's contract really sucks, but Bourque would've come very close to hitting 30 goals and 60+ points this season had he stayed healthy.

Jesus Christ no. Sorry...you can call Bouwmeester overrated, but come on. Kim Johnsson?

The guy has a rough 2nd half of the season and already everyone's ready to write off his career. He's 26 years old for chrissake.

cwice, what's your go-to philly cheesesteak place?

whenever i'm in philly i try to hit Steaks On South on 308 So. Street

edit: sorry for the offtopic conversation here but i'm baked and pretty hungry and rueing the rangers/habs game 2moro

My buddies and I did an NHL/NFL trip this year (Canadiens @ Caps, Colts@Ravens), and are planning to make it an annual event.

We'd been rating possible destinations for next year according to NHL/NFL game possibilities, proximity to poker, perceived stripper quality, but maybe we should be considering pizza-factors as well.

dawes is a nice player but it's really hard to make use of him. he is just too small and too slow. he has a great wrist shot and some nice moves, but he's always going to be a fringe sort of player.

yea kim johnsson is wrong. how about redden in his prime? i want to convey the idea that bouwmeester is very good, but that he is not elite, nor should he ever be considered elite - he can play a ton of minutes and basically break-even against strong competition, while being an average player on the power play. it will take a very good corsi season or a lot of points to shake me of this belief.

Yeah I would definitely say that Rene Bourque is the Flames 2nd best forward. That might help explain their lack of goals...

Iginla - 31 goals
Bourque - 20
Glencross - 15
Langkow - 13
Jokinen - 11
Giordano - 11
Dawes - 10
Phaneuf - 10
Boyd - 8
Moss - 8
Nystrom - 7
Lundmark - 4

Then again, if they had Stajan, Hagman, Higgins, Kotalik all year, they probably would have been better. Just noticed that Ian White has 5 points and is +9 in 14 games as a Flame, damn!

sick life... i love goin on trips to sporting events and casinos with buddies... i had the craziest 1000 mile road trip from NYC to Buffalo and back while stopping at a Sabres-Rangers game, Turning Stone casino, beirut tourney and rock show in NJ, all in like 36 hrs no sleep lol

lol out of the one's you like, Gino's East is by far the closest to me, so that's we've gone to. The other ones are PITA to get to. Giodarno's really close, so I've been there a few times.

I like to mix it up between a lot of local places, although I haven't ordered much of it because I'm trying to reign in the fatty.

to me the nhl is becoming more about forward play. calgary just doesn't have very many good forwards past iginla. it's results-oriented, and as i've said, almost everyone there has performed worse than expected, but guys like jokinen and langkow and even iginla are not the players they were 5 years ago.

i'd agree with you minus the kotalik remark

Favorite Wings of all-time deezy?

Mine go like this:

1. Yzerman






2. D-Mac
3. Probert
4. Cheveldae
5. Lidstrom
6. Shanny
7. Konstantinov

8. Zetterberg
9. Datsyuk

10. Helm

This is weird to me, because the scouting report on him when he was coming up was that he had Bobby Orr-like physical tools (size and speed, basically).

You'd figure a guy like that would either become elite or flame out (e.g. Alexandre Daigle), depending on whether or not he had the intangibles/grit/WIM/whatever, rather than become a very-good-but-not-elite player.

Pequod's

Love that crust

Yeah he blows, but he's still probably good for 15-20 goals in the right role, and is likely going to give you more than Moss, Boyd, random plugs like Lundmark, etc. They also might have given Jason Jaffray a shot in an offensive role, given their struggles (and on the PP). He's been a good AHL scorer for years now, might be able to give you something. Or Backlund, like I mentioned earlier.

I know the forward group isn't great, but maybe the struggles have something to do with Sutter's system/style of play?

this question is so hard.

1. Yzerman -You really can't say any different. I shed more than one tear watching his retirement press conference
2. Fedorov - Supremely talented and I always wanted to grow my hair like him when I was younger. Red Wing fans are so dumb for booing him.
3. Lidstrom - Ultimate profession. Perfection on the ice
4. Zetterberg - I wanted him as the captain over Lidstrom tbh
5. Vladdy - Warrior

Yeah, he definitely has the physical tools, but he doesn't seem to have much in the way of intangibles/grit/WIM/whatever, or at least is about the least assertive player I've ever seen. Or maybe he's just burned out from all the minutes he's played over his career, or is shackled or misused by Sutter. I don't really know, but he's been a bit of a disappointment this year as a $6.7m D-man.

eh. most of NHL prospect projection is just that - projection. there's very few players who are ready for the NHL at age 18 and even then, their skills aren't fully fleshed out. they will get faster and stronger after they are drafted.

with bouwmeester, it's just that to me, he didn't hit his top end - his skills didn't fully develop. there is still time - hell, it took scott niedermayer until he was 30 - but while bouwmeester developed some, it just didn't happen all the way. i'm pretty sure an 'average' projection of bouwmeester would have him around this sort of skill level.

you brought up speed as a way if making ovechkin hit look worse than adams'. It's a subjective measure of something that's already covered by the rules. Yes, let's just ignore the rules as written and assess penalties on nuances of the what happened.

except this situation is already covered by the rules. Completely and clearly. But by all means let's extend the suspension by a couple of games for good measure.

search harder, or admit that adams' play was every bit as dirty as ovechkins.
way to undersell the "he needs to be suspended for more games" crowd

where do you peg him in comparison to guys such as kaberle, markov, and gonchar, players that are very good/elite on the pp/offensively, but not very good defensively

lol. How true was this though?

Back in elementary, gr.7's got to go 'cross the block to Tony's Pizza.

All us gr.6ers needed notes for Tim (our playground supervisor ldo).
"omg. omg. omg. I got $2. I want a pizza!" "you can't we don't have notes" "ah poo!" "maybe we can ask someone" "nah, wanna try to sneak over" "no man too dangerous" "come on" "wait wheres tim?" "pooey, he's right there!" "come on!" "gogogogogogo!"

And this was like 20 lil' 4 foot kids scrambling over.

I still wear my Fedorov jersey to the Joe. F the haters

(but really I only wear it because I don't want to wear my Osgood or CuJo jersey)

Idk where you live, but Piece Pizza on North and Damen is a very good place for New Haven style pizza.

man, I can't believe I left out Pequods in that list

If Yzerman isn't #2 behind BBQ on the greatest Wings list, you're insane.