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NICK! He's on my "nice" list

ooh, that was nasty

PASHA!

I didn't get to see it. Think it'll be you-tubed? Did they sing or recite?

for fun? Dude. You are odd. In a good way, but still, odd. The person below me wishes they had a Star Trek replicator thingie.

I do like candles, although I don't light them often. The person below me can not look at an octopus without counting to make sure it has all of its legs (even if it's a picture of a pendant).

I can take or leave Italian food. I'm a fan of noodles, but not so much a fan of sauces, especially tomato ones. Guess what you're making...hmmm...chop suey? The person below me has never wished he/she was an Oscar Mayer Weiner.

Nope, I'm going to visit my dad (mom and sisters will be off visiting relatives=peace and quiet for the game). We're too old for that nonsense. Besides, I hate drinking with a bunch of idiots who only get drunk once a year and don't know how to handle it. My friend who tended bar for many years used to call NYE "amatuer night". The person below me has a carbon monoxide detector.

It's in the script. The person below me bites their nails.

Wow. That' too bad. I like the guy, despite a couple of the teams he's played for. Hope he recovers fully.

Nope, 2 little sisters. One is 40 and the baby is 35. The person below me has hot-wired a furnace (the things I learn living in ND).

I have a soft spot for the Kings. Kopitar, Quincey. I like them. I really hope we only beat them by 3 or 4 goals. Wings: Sammy, Flip, Malts, Dats, Z, Hossa. Kings: Quincey, Kopitar (maybe x2)

Face and hair. Peanut butter does work to get gum out of your hair, but then you have to get the peanut butter out. The person below me is thankful for indoor plumbing.

Cookie Monster is not what one would call svelte. He's kind of a blob. I think he has a high metabolism, plus if you look closely, the crumbs and stuff fall out of his mouth at an alarming rate. He's not getting the calories. The person below me has "relived the magic" of last summer's Cup win thanks to the marvel of video technology. Edut four speling.

This just has to be a great confidence-builder. For us, anyway. Woo-hoo Wings. Now that's Red Wing Hockey!

...a turnover in the second period here, a rebound there, someone failing to get 50 in 50. There's always something. Seriously, I'd bet the other way. When the team is doing well, that's when people hop back on the bandwagon and trill happily about how they've never doubted.

So, for those of you who are watching on television, has anyone seen a gal (probably wearing a fedora) holding a sign wishing Cleary a happy birthday?

So that's 2 assists for Lebda? I'll be back. I have some crow to marinate.

May I warm your beer for you?

Hossa's going to Vancouver next year. They just got Sundin so they could trade him at the deadline for Kopecky to get Hossa bait. (It's a joke, people. No need to tell me why it wouldn't work. I'm just playing around.)

Little late for a prediction here, but I'm calling Danny Cleary get a birthday goal. Happy b-day Danny!

I have not done that. Shouldn't that be 5318008? I sat here with my head tilted because I'm too lazy to get a calculator. The person below me has successfully made divinity and will tell me why mine never turns out. My sister can't make it either. We call it purgatory.

I did once in kindergarten and got an A+. It took forever. I have the worst handwriting on the planet. The person below me believes there is life on other planets.

It's a valid question, esteef. You hear a lot of things on the ice, either at a game or if a mic picks it up. It's on the ice. Fans aren't the intended audience. If you go to or watch a hockey game, you know that if it offends you, you have taken that risk be being in an atmosphere where that sort of thing is likely to be overheard. Most NHL players have enough class that they aren't going to repeat that stuff when they are being interviewed. Many of them are parents themselves; many are married. They probably don't go home to their wives and kids and ramble on about how many relatives of other players they have been involved with sexually. When they are on camera, even if they don't care about the wives, children, and mothers of others, they do care about their own. Quite frankly, I've done factory work long enough that very little phases me. Again, time and place. If I ran into a co-worker at Walmart when I was with my mother, I'd expect that he wouldn't begin the conversation with "hey, you butt-ugly fu(k". I have a buddy at work where this is our standard greeting. I wouldn't address him in this manner if I saw him with his child, nor would I say it loudly in a public place even if he was alone. Bottom line: On the ice it's expected. If you don't want to hear it, sit farther from the ice or keep your TV on mute. Off the ice, there are standards, and the players know well what they are. Avery didn't just make a random comment that was accidentally picked up. If that was the case, I would be on his side. He purposely went to the camera. He had to know that there would be women and little children listening. He just didn't care. He showed a complete lack of self-restraint in a situation where self-restraint is expected. Most guys have enough class to know better. Avery knows better, but has no class. PS: I agree with Opie's last post. Yes, I can't stand Bettman, and I disagree with 99.5% of his decisions, but his daughter is not responsible for the actions of her father, even if he does look like a Star Wars Cantina scene extra with a bad toupee.

Exactly! That sort of thing belongs on the ice. I'd go as far as to say it's part of the game. The whole point of trash talk is to get the other guy off his game. Guy to guy I have no problem with it. I actually kind of get it, as well as a girl can, anyway. There are guys that think that women are conveniently mobile vaginas, and there are men who love and respect their wives/daughters/girlfriends/sisters/grandmas....women in their lives. If there weren't men who actually loved the women in their lives, trash talk wouldn't work. If the general response to "Hey, a$$hole- I fu(ked your sister" was "Splendid! I've had occasion with her myself! Flexible little thing, isn't she? Those years in gymnastics paid off!" no one would bother. They'd just insult each other's cars. What makes it work is that it is offensive to the person to whom it is being said. It is intended to be offensive. It is purposely offensive. And that's fine on the ice, or in the locker room if a guy is trying to impress the other guys. Time and place. That's the issue here. He chose to degrade women (his exes, and, by extention, any woman who has had more than one man) by insinuating that it makes a woman less worthy to have gone on to another man, whereas he could have as many women as he wanted. That women were property or playthings of which one transferred ownership. That kind of thing belongs in private conversation, not aired out to the public. As I said before, the suspension was a bit much. A fine would have done the job. Women would have been placated; believing that the league did not hold to the belief that it was ok to degrade women, and life would have gone on without the uproar. And we wouldn't be having this conversation.