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Friday, October 29 Montreal at NY Islanders Carolina at NY Rangers Philadelphia at Pittsburgh Buffalo at Atlanta Edmonton at Chicago New Jersey at Anaheim Saturday, October 30 Nashville at Detroit x2 Pittsburgh at Carolina Florida at Montreal Boston at Ottawa NY Islanders at Philadelphia NY Rangers at Toronto Buffalo at Dallas Atlanta at St. Louis Chicago at Minnesota Columbus at Colorado Tampa Bay at Phoenix Washington at Calgary New Jersey at Los Angeles Anaheim at San Jose

I don't think that is entirely true. There are still a handful of teams in the East which play a dump and chase, bang it out ugly style which you don't see in the West. All you have to do is watch the last ten minutes of any Rangers game and you will see two exhausted teams dragging ass up and down the ice. Your opponent doesn't have to win to suck the life out of you over 82 games. Endurance is a much bigger factor in the East.

I want them in the West for hockey reasons, but not necessarily because it is better. I just don't think the Wings team or the organization is geared toward or necessarily equipped for a full schedule of crash and bang hockey in the East. They just excel with a skill based system. With some retooling I'm sure they'd do fine, but I'm not ready or anxious to see them retool. I'd be happy to see then greatly increase the number of inter conference games though.

Yes, but you will be behind. You will be able to drop your two lowest scores (the first two you missed) and will have a 0 for week 3. Its a long season though so who knows?

PLEASE COPY AND PASTE THE SCHEDULE TO YOUR POST, AND MARK YOUR SELECTION BY MAKING IT BOLD AND BE SURE TO MARK YOUR DOUBLE GAME AS "X2" picks have to be posted before the puck drops / everyone will drop their worst two week's scores / one game a week counts double Friday, October 22 Calgary at Columbus Ottawa at Buffalo Tampa Bay at Atlanta Chicago at St. Louis Minnesota at Vancouver Saturday, October 23 NY Rangers at Boston Anaheim at Detroit Buffalo at New Jersey Montreal at Ottawa Toronto at Philadelphia Atlanta at Washington NY Islanders at Florida Nashville at Dallas Pittsburgh at St. Louis Columbus at Chicago Los Angeles at Colorado Carolina at Phoenix San Jose at Edmonton Sunday, October 24 Nashville at Tampa Bay New Jersey at NY Rangers San Jose at Calgary ----------- STANDINGS a/o WEEK 2 (without dropping worst 2 weeks) #1 TX Wing 26 #2 dat's sick 25 #2 hokeychik22 25 #2 akustyk 25 #2 Cloune 25 #2 LEBDA22 25 #7 acidroach420 24 #7 dirtydangles 24 #7 Dominator2005 24 #7 aflac9262 24 #7 ChitownWingsfan 24 #7 Zeowingsfan 24 #13 Batigol2k 23 #13 Echolalia 23 #13 FinRedWing 23 #13 Blood On The Ice 23 #13 mjtm77 23 #13 wingfanatic4alltime 23 #13 juice71285 23 #13 Motown4013 23 #13 russianswede919293 23 #22 Xitium 22 #22 Carman 22 #22 Howard He Do It?! 22 #22 Aussie_Wing 22 #22 kook_10 22 #22 Swayze 22 #22 CanadaBoy 22 #22 Hockey13Playa 22 #22 brett 22 #22 Superman54 22 #22 Greatness=PavelDatsyuk 22 #22 irishtemper14+25 22 #34 Buppy 21 #34 TRD604 21 #34 Zombi 21 #34 FinWing 21 #34 hooon 21 #34 Original-Six 21 #34 Systemfel 21 #34 Z and D for the C 21 #34 GoWings1905 21 #34 Sprsquirt7 21 #34 edicius 21 #45 TheDetroitRedWings 20 #45 redwingcapt 20 #45 HD30 20 #45 NeverForgetMac25 20 #45 Vladimir316 20 #45 wingsgirl001 20 #45 Hockeytown0001 20 #45 lookalive07 20 #45 CaliWingsNut 20 #54 SeeinRed 19 #55 Drake_Marcus 18 #55 #19=Legend 18 #55 Dan Bylsma 18 #55 RedOrDead 18 #55 Din758 18 #60 crotty99 16 #61 Duck Guy 13 #61 Naranja 13 #63 Gerryjo1984 12 #63 Wingsequallife13 12 #65 ricky0034 11 #65 The Edge 11 #65 8 Legged RedWing 11 #65 dats13owns 11 #65 T-Ruff 11 #70 CrossCheck24 10 #70 soldier_sean82 10 #70 ToMaToToWnWinGsFaN_24 10 #70 dragonballgtz 10 #70 MulesWillFly93 10 #75 Konnan511 9 #75 rwfan007 9 #75 Timothy1997 9

A lot of people in north Jersey are Rangers fans too so the fanbase is a little split. I live 10 minutes or less away from the Rock. It's a nice arena, but it's in Newark which is not so nice. There is a subway train (the PATH) which runs from 33rd St in NYC right next to the Garden and goes to Newark a few blocks from the Prudential Center. It takes about an hour or maybe a little less. Its much closer than that time would suggest though. The owners hoped that being near the PATH would get more people from Manhattan out to Devils games. You have to consider that most people who make a lot of money and pay a lot of money for sports tickets work in Manhattan and either don't want to go to NJ, or if they live there have a difficult time getting to the arena for a 7-730 weeknight game. Traffic around there weeknights is usually terrible. For most people its just easier to go to the Garden and the Rangers are an original six team.

"I'm about to explode, yo!"

MGD is one of the foulest non malt liquors I've had. Natural Ice too.

I've done some simple Mr. Beer brews before which came out well. I have a new 5 gal setup I have yet to try out, but have a batch of European Double Bock to make when I do.

I hope you brought enough to share with everybody.

It's the same old rule change league BS. Overcall the new rule before the all star break, then selectively ( not on Penguins) enforce after.

Guys regularly get their clocks cleaned while shooting. This is no different. The only reason this could be construed as blind side us because he turned his hips to shoot. Clean hit.

I don't like the sound of that, but if that's what he's thinking I'm guessing Flip is gonna be moved to the third line. He can act as a defensive stop gap for them, while maybe Bert can bank a couple in off Modano's shinpads.

Looks like Big Lou is backing Maclean after all: Devils' GM supports John MacLean Maclean is loved by long time Devils fans so he does carry some weight, especially since basically everyone is wary of Kovy. Rookie head coach or not, he has a long history with the club including one ring as a player and one as an asst coach.

Huds doesn't engage physically enough to usefully play on the fourth line with those guys. I say healthy scratch him for a couple games and get Abby on the 3rd to get them going. Then pops Huds back in there and send Abby down to Millers spot.

WEEK 3 RESULTS #1 dirtydangles 15 #1 aflac9262 15 #3 ChitownWingsfan 14 #3 GoWings1905 14 #3 Sprsquirt7 14 #3 wingfanatic4alltime 14 #3 redwingcapt 14 #3 Konnan511 14 #9 acidroach420 13 #9 Cloune 13 #9 Buppy 13 #9 edicius 13 #9 Howard He Do It?! 13 #9 irishtemper14+25 13 #9 juice71285 13 #9 Zeowingsfan 13 #9 Zombi 13 #9 FinWing 13 #9 hooon 13 #9 ricky0034 13 #21 Aussie_Wing 12 #21 FinRedWing 12 #21 mjtm77 12 #21 Swayze 12 #21 Hockey13Playa 12 #21 Hockeytown0001 12 #21 Vladimir316 12 #21 wingsgirl001 12 #21 RedOrDead 12 #30 Dominator2005 11 #30 hokeychik22 11 #30 russianswede919293 11 #30 brett 11 #30 CaliWingsNut 11 #30 CanadaBoy 11 #36 akustyk 10 #36 dat's sick 10 #36 LEBDA22 10 #36 Batigol2k 10 #36 Carman 10 #36 Echolalia 10 #36 Greatness=PavelDatsyuk 10 #36 TheDetroitRedWings 10 #36 kook_10 10 #36 lookalive07 10 #36 Original-Six 10 #36 Din758 10 #36 HD30 10 #36 NeverForgetMac25 10 #36 wingslogo19 10 #51 T-Ruff 9 #51 SeeinRed 9 #51 #19=Legend 9 #51 crotty99 9 #55 TX Wing 8 #55 Xitium 8 #55 Dan Bylsma 8 #58 Systemfel 7 #58 Naranja 7 #60 Blood On The Ice 6 #60 Motown4013 6 CURRENT STANDINGS a/o WK 3 (we'll drop one this week, two next week. i figure if we do it early and readjust as we go, it saves the mystery.)

I added a couple of those mugs to my cabinet too. Too sick today to hit the Founders Old Curmudgeon in the fridge.

Yes please.

I don't expect the top line to carry the team, but I must say it's a relief to see they can still put 5 on the board. My worry from last year had overlapped a little that they would have to rely mostly on defense. Now if we get Huds some points any residual "ZOMG Hossa''s gone! Watta we gonna do?!" will be permanenty gone.

In some sense it was a defensive hit too. He had the puck and saw someone bearing down on him. Most other Ducks would have finished the check on Kronner, and that is what he was prepared for. Instead, Selanne let up and was Krushed.

Apparently it was Maclean's decision. With $100M on the line, I wouldn't be surprised to see a coaching change before the all-star break.

your PMs are full, so sorry but I gotta write you here. can you please not reorder your picks? i use a spreadsheet to score and it kind of makes it a pain in the ass. it really helps when everyone does it the same way - i don't have to look at the teams, and just enter it as home or away.

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Friday, October 22 Calgary at Columbus Ottawa at Buffalo Tampa Bay at Atlanta Chicago at St. Louis Minnesota at Vancouver Saturday, October 23 NY Rangers at Boston Anaheim at Detroit Buffalo at New Jersey Montreal at Ottawa Toronto at Philadelphia Atlanta at Washington x2 NY Islanders at Florida Nashville at Dallas Pittsburgh at St. Louis Columbus at Chicago Los Angeles at Colorado Carolina at Phoenix San Jose at Edmonton Sunday, October 24 Nashville at Tampa Bay New Jersey at NY Rangers San Jose at Calgary