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Dad always said that he'd pay us to elope. I always said that I'd elope, but former fiances had other ideas. Never happened either way, and pretty sure it won't. Now that Dad isn't around to pay up, I think I'd just have a few friends and family and go low-key. Unless he has other ideas. Skim, 1%, 2%, or whole milk?

I have fewer posts and less of a life. The person below me buys lottery tickets on a regular basis.

Obligatory "in defense of God" post. Now, before this all gets out of hand, can we all agree that each of us believes differently and go on with hockey? I think the Wings will win just because they're sick of losing. Wings 3: (Kronner, Miller, Z) Caps 2: Ovechkin

He got waived after practice. Maybe he didn't have his phone with him to get the message until after he showered. Still... you'd think if Holland couldn't be there personally, he'd have made sure that someone caught him before the press did.

But which girl's dad owns the brewery? That's the important thing. Back last summer, I don't recall Babcock publicly saying anything about Cleary, but the players said they wanted him back. After he was signed, Babcock talked a lot about his "leadership", which is different from just being a veteran. IIRC, he was the one in charge of locker room music at one point, but then that fell to one of the younger guys. Maybe Cleary picked better tunes. There's got to be something there. I think we all respect that he plays with heart and played injured, and that's important to acknowledge the past. As for the present and future, it doesn't get you very far unless it's coupled with production and performance. I like Cleary, but I don't think that he's the best thing for the team at this point. If we had no one coming up, he'd be an asset. As it is, we're waiving some people and holding back others.

One more question: Do they say anything before the deadline if any team(s) put in a claim for him, or do they just announce the winner at the end?

Or maybe Babcock sees something in Cleary that we don't because we're too focused on his faults. Maybe it's something that you can only see if you work with the guy day in and day out. You know... kind of like how you can't understand why your friend dates the ugly fat chick, but then you get to know her and you find that she's a lovely, kind, gracious, caring person with a great sense of humour and her dad owns a brewery.

I read this completely wrong and thought that you were saying that Gary was going to create a league in which every game ends in a tie. Talk about parity! Next time I'll wake up my brain before I read. Or maybe not... it was kind of funny figuring it out.

Just checking to make sure I'm thinking right: Tootoo can still be sent down since he's cleared, so this waiving Eaves is more for cap constraints than roster constraints. Is this right? Or are they planning on getting rid of Eaves or sending him down if he passes through and maybe bringing up Nyquist? Or is it something else that I'm not getting?

How about five minutes of 4-4, followed by five minutes of 3-3, and if it's still tied, each team gets one point? Then have a shootout which wouldn't be worth any points, but the teams with the best shootout % get the first draft picks instead of using a lottery system. (All other teams that wouldn't be considered for lottery go in the order that they would go in anyway, so it would only count for bottom teams.) No three-point games. Shootout fans get to see a shootout. Side bets can be settled with the shootout results, so there's always a winner and loser in case you and your buddy are deciding who has to buy beer for the next game, or something important like that. People who don't like shootouts can just shut off the tv after the tie is over. Maybe, just to make sure that both teams put the effort into it, they can make a rule that the losing team has to buy the winning team cookies. Or something.

When it was "the speculation", that worried me too. People don't realize how bad those sort of problems can be. It's not like you want it to happen, or like you can stop it from happening. Coping mechanisms can help, but they're not a cure-all, nor do they help all the time. Fortunately, the last word from Franzen (in one of the links above) was that it was not a mental issue and is not anxiety-related. I'm very glad for him that it's not. Sometimes the "invisible" problems are harder to treat than the ones that show up on an MRI. In the mean time, it is a weird thing that he is saying he'll tell people later, but then doesn't. It does make me wonder, especially when no one seems to know that it is that is his problem. When Lidstrom got speared in the huevos, they did try to make the explanation subtle, but word got out really quickly.

Or it could be the opposite of the poops, and he's afraid to talk to the media because he's afraid if he says, "I don't give a s***" that people will think that he means that he doesn't care.

I'm reading Hank's lips. It looks like he said, "Shower?" and shook his head. Maybe that's what Pierre was asking him to do after the game.

NHL? 2008. He's been in the AHL and Latvia since.

There are all kinds of side effects of medications. Since we don't know what the upper body injury was in the first place, we have no idea what meds cause the side effects. I agree that the team should have some up with something, even if it was the dreaded "flu-like symptoms".

Ken briefly alluded to effects of medications for his upper body injury. Maybe he had the poops. I sure would leave a game and not come back, miss a flight, and take time off if that was my problem. I also wouldn't want to talk about it to the media.

Not a hockey player, but I was a big fan of Joe Theismann. I remember that break like it was yesterday. Hopefully Stamkos can recover and go on to the career he deserves.

I didn't get the buyout either. I guess they figured that Smith would be ready and able. All the best Carlo. As they say in the theatre, "Break a leg".

He's an arrogant, annoying freak that makes me wish I'd been in the NHL just to throw punches at him (and get re-arranged so badly I'd have to part my hair to fart, of course) just to get all of the anger and aggression out of me that he could incite with a mere leering grin. He is one of the very few that I wouldn't have wanted no matter how talented he was, and that is a list of... one that I can think of. HHOF? Without a doubt. The question is whether or not it will be first ballot or if they'll pull a Shanny and make him sweat it for a year.

Maybe he's got amnesia and keeps writing it down so that he can tell us, but then he forgets where the paper is or to whom he gave it so he just has to put off telling us, but he doesn't remember that he's been putting it off, so he just keeps telling us that he'll tell us later and then when someone reminds him, he writes it down but he forgets where he put it, so when reporters ask what's wrong, he doesn't remember, and he asks someone what it is that's wrong and then he writes it down, but he forgets where he put it, and then when reporters ask what's wrong, he doesn't remember so...

Happy 27th birthday! Woohoo! Wings win 27-0!

Please win. Hopefully the Wings remember that they beat us the last time we met and will not underestimate them again.

Yeah, technically, nauseated. Can we LTIR him for maternity leave? What about pregnancy? Isn't that covered in the new CBA? Didn't the last lockout teach us ANYTHING? Weren't they supposed to fix every thing so that there'd never be another lockout? Or was that the lockout before that one? Dang Bettman can't get anything right!

It looked bad when it happened. He even said on the ice that it was broken, so I'm not surprised that it was. The poor kid was in serious pain. Hopefully it was a clean break and it's something that will heal and he'll be able to get back to his career. It's nice to have someone of his caliber that isn't arrogant or self-centered in the NHL. BTW- since there's not a thread for it- just want to add kudos to the Boston players who bought all those tickets for military personnel so that they could attend the game in honour of Veterans Day. Classy move.