Jenny

Not too soon or too dreadful- a cousin is getting married in April and that could bring some ridiculous drama with it, but I shouldn't be directly involved. The person below me knows the secret to self-motivation & will share it with the rest of us.

Tiger. Kitty! Hide or seek?

Street bike. I'll take a nice comfy one-speed cruiser, please. Regular villain or supervillain?

Yes. Sometimes even in colors that don't seem to exist when I'm awake. The person below me would like some hot cocoa.

Not too much so at the moment. The person below me has absolutely no idea what to get people for Christmas as of yet.

Keep fighting, but I may need to stop for a nap first. Stripes or polka-dots?

Callahan and/or Grant scored a late goal to make it 4-3, but the extra skater and empty net weren't enough to force overtime. *sigh*

These penalty kills are just doing the Griffins in. :-(

Okay, Grant needs some fighting lessons.

The AHL Live feed is using the Rochester home announcers. They're more than a little homerish, like when Pearce made a great pad save and the announcers insisted it went off the post. Never mind that there was no post sound and the replay clearly showed the puck hitting the pad. Ferraro's goal was lovely, though. Paetsche made it soar from the blue line and Ferraro tipped it in. Same style as a Holmstrom goal from Lidstrom!

Yeah, one of the big sticking points was that the players wanted a sample schedule to see what their travel schedules would really be like, and the NHL flatly refused to provide it. It seems impossible that the league wouldn't have made some sample schedules in the course of determining the realignment.

Yes, please. Funnier hockey moment: Colaiacovo hitting the glass right by the camera, or Yzerman kissing Lapointe when the Columbus arena crew put the "kiss cam" on them?

Not usually, unless I'm REALLY hungry. The person below me would like to have a spy device installed at today's NHL/PA meeting.

It just struck me as nasty that in an exercise with the prompt "Which of these things makes you miss hockey the most?" they used a fight picture of a guy who accidentally killed himself because of the symptoms of repeated concussions. After stepping away from my emotional reaction to the article a bit, I realize that the picture was probably picked from a Google image search by one of Luntz's employees who had no idea who was in it, but you'd think someone from the NHL would have vetted the surveys before they were given. Maybe they were expecting that casual fans from DC wouldn't know who Boogaard was, and they obviously didn't expect this to be leaked to the wider hockey community. Also, I apologize to the ghost of Derek Boogaard for misspelling his name in my last post.

The items in focus group exercise C (last picture) were lifted verbatim from a Puck Daddy article posted last week. And one of the guys in the fighting picture in Image Exercise 2 (3rd picture) is Derek Boogard. Complete trash.

People who know me through Twitter probably think I'm less innocent than I am, but most people who know me through this board, Facebook, or in real life probably have approximately the right estimate of my innocence level. Except for my stepdad and my uncle, to whom I will forever be 10 years old. Dragon or dinosaur?

It's kind of like my thought that the Wings aren't eliminated until the buzzer sounds on the 4th loss in a playoff round. We have until the 15th. I admit I don't have a lot of hope left to avoid a lockout, but I have a little left. The person below me needs to go to the grocery store.

I kind of am. I should probably go to bed (since it's 11 anyway) and start fresh tomorrow. The person below me will tell us their favorite movie. (Or one of their favorites, anyway, since it can be hard to narrow it to one.)

I have a few. The person below me has pierced ears.

Bringing home our rescue dog today! His name will be Pasha.

I'll go with the toast. Unless I'm suddenly responsible for a family reunion picnic or something. Caffeine or no?

Yes. Driving on horribly icy unsalted roads qualifies, right? I certainly FELT like my life was in danger! The person below me would take an earth orbit flight if it cost about the same as a normal vacation.

Disney. Mischief or Mayhem?

No. Food items in that large of an amount kind of nauseate me, so that would kind of defeat the purpose of the jello wrestling. The person below me has ridden a unicycle.

I think it's trademark related. The person below me is sometimes bored enough at work to make abstract art out of paper clips and binder clips.