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Can I see a pic of Conklin's mask?

That already happened, it's called the EDGE jersey system. You can fit just about every team's jersey into about four or five templates.

I've never understood the near-universal appeal of the vintage Sabres logo. Personally I think it looks hideous. The Blues 3rd looks pretty cool, though the logo is a bit samey to the Wild's.

I also recommend the YWCA Hotel. I stayed there for a few weeks for my dorm to belatedly open; pretty basic accommodation - almost akin to a hostel - but it was very clean, quiet, just about as cheap as you can get for downtown Vancouver, and all of a five minute walk from GM Place.

Ressurecting the thread since Canucks single-game tickets went on sale today, huzzah! I got a lower-bowl end seat for Nov. 2, havent gotten anything for the 24th, but definately something cheaper. Ticket prices for GM Place has shot up yet again.

Haha, score. I already have a Hank jersey so I'm gonna pass on this, but if the Wings have one-off jerseys for the Winter Classic and this guy makes copies I'll likely pitch in. Other than 'Zetterberg' being in much smaller font than it should be it looks pretty darn close to the real deal for 1/10th the price.

I gotta concur with Tiff, actually. I obviously can't speak for every chinese bootleg jersey out there but there's a guy here in Van who does replica jerseys off of eBay. Of course they're all Canucks jerseys but for the money they actually look pretty darn good, at a casual look they don't look any different from a CCM replica.

If it happens, great. Montreal is a no-brainer for an outdoor game.

What I don't get is why now of all times is his 'second chance'. Even if you want to exclude his stint in Florida he's had a 'fresh start' two times in as many seasons. Calgary's 'fan'base has been a problem for years, Bertuzzi or no. Growing up here, it's amazing how many 'lifetime' fans suddenly emerged from the woodwork in 2004. I don't know where they were all this time, but they sure as hell weren't in the Saddledome.

There's a bit of an apples-and-oranges thing with that though, since players are wearing authentic jerseys, not the replicas. I'm sure that the authentic EDGE jerseys are much better quality, but there's no way I'd get one for the price they go for, especially when you can get a fine-quality CCM replica for double-digit prices now.

To me his Calgary signing felt like a practical joke was pulled that only Vancouver, Florida, Detroit, and Anaheim are in on.

If I didn't already have a Zata jersey I might be tempted to pick one up just as a personal boycott to those godawful EDGE replicas. Given their cheap feel and the inexcusable use of awful-looking leatherette sew-ons for shoulder logos (despite it being a non-factor for the Wings), 25$ is about as much as I'd be willing to pay for one anyway. What a downgrade from the pre-EDGE CCM replicas for about double the price.

He's irreversibly a shadow of his former self. If playing alongside not one but two Stanley Cup-winning rosters has kept him in perpetual mediocrity, how is playing in Calgary going to miraculously bring him back to form? Though it has been amusing being in Calgary to listen to all the people calling into The FAN desperately trying to convince themselves that Todd freaking Bertuzzi is the missing link that's going to propel them out of the first round.

Sundin unfortunately put it off for far too long for me to care anymore. I wouldn't be surprised if he even goes back on his wanting-to-play-a-full-season pledge by this point and pull a Neidermeyer-like half-season signing.

Spitz didn't have the advantage of a hydrodynamic bodysuit, goggles, or a swimcap, plus he had to deal with the added drag caused by his manly mustache. Spitz > Phelps

They barely won the Central in 2006-07, if I recall. Plus, as gets said ad-nauseum on this forum, inter-division play involving the Wings isn't anything close to uncompetitive, and that's only going to increase for next season the way Chicago has been shaping up. Triathlon, 10k swim, little bit of gymnastics, and a little bit of rowing.

They waltzed into a podium finish they didn't play as though they deserved, which if anything is only more telling of how pathetic the rest of the international competition is. Come back to me when the event's laughably monopolized talent pool leaves the US with no medal of any kind - which has all of zero chance of happening since, lending to aforementioned monopolized talent pool, the only time the US hasn't hit the podium in the Olympic history of the sport was on account of the 1980 boycott - then you can start legitimately talking to me about a level playing field.

If they do well on the basis of decent competition, fine. If they as you say clearly didn't give a s*** in 2004 and *still* manage to get an easy ride onto the podium, that to me doesn't suggest anything close to 'decent competition'. Other teams can 'come to play' as badly as they want, all the heart in the world isn't going to do much good when you have a team of all-stars play against people who might as well be at a high school level. That isn't a competition, that's a farce to the sport. I could do well arm-wrestling against five-year-olds, does that mean I should be practically wetting my pants with fake anticipation as though there's any remote chance of me not winning? I see someone has yet to encounter the subtle art of SPEED GOLF.

Then what's the point of watching? They might as well just give them the gold now and not bother with an event with zero competition. I'd much rather see ALL teams be motivated because of a more even playing field rather than have only ONE team be motivated and everyone else not even trying because they're the only one in the running. Breezing to the gold by playing against university-level-plus-one-token-NBAer teams isn't 'focus', it's ridiculously mismatched pairings. It's like saying you're fascinated in spending hours on end dropping stones because they're guaranteed to fall instead of rise. In any case it does little more than contribute to the US-topping-the-podium-yet-again situation that for me equates watching the summer games with watching grass grow in the first place. They might as well make american football an olympic sport while they're at it.

Not really too interested in the summer games - yet more podium domination by China and the US dosen't make for very interesting viewing for me, honestly. What's the point/fun in watching Olympic basketball when its almost inevitably little more than a coronation for the 'Dream Team'? Am I seriously the only person who considers a competition with virtually no genuine...competition to be mind-numbingly boring? Anyway, I'll be surprised if Canada's medal count gets into double digits this year. The winter olympics have more events that interest me enough to want to watch, plus we tend to do a fair bit better.

Teams I see on the rise: -Phoenix -Chicago -Tampa Bay (more or less by default given last season's performance)

So Canada DOSEN'T have a history as an immigrant-accepting country?

Why is that? Soccer allows goalies to be captains.

Sundin