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Wow. Nice debut for Rolie in Tampa Bay!

You were saying?

Eh, I'd say it was 95% D, 5% Ozzie. It may have been a stoppable puck, but that was god awful defensive coverage. Puck came from behind the net, into the slot, onto a waiting stick and shot in for the goal. Honestly, I think if Ozzie had stopped it, it would have been due to sheer luck.

At least we're not the Devils.

PP to start the 2nd.

Wow, nice goal. Nice defense too.

John Osgood in the crowd.

Aw man! Chances for Helm and Drapes!

Heh, even Hedberg can't help the Devils win. But at least Kovalchuk scored their lone goal tonight.

I keep having to remind myself that he won a Cup with Tampa Bay.

Zata! Nice start to the game tonight. Improve my day, Wings!

Even SI's getting in on things. Gotta love an article entitled "Crosby's whine is hard to swallow". http://nhl-red-light.si.com/2011/01/04/crosbys-whine-is-hard-to-swallow/

My left calf feels tight as hell. Damn elliptical. Weight's fluttering between 196 and 198 right now. Better than 200+. But I'm sticking with it. Probably gonna take Thursday as my break day, since I have a dentist appointment that evening.

Shocked that Babcock changed his mind.

Howard's season stats are only marginally better than Osgood's at this point: 2.70 GAA, .908 SV% and 2.74 GAA, .905 SV%, respectively. And that's with Howard having two shutouts, while Osgood has none. And, this just in from Twitter:

Huh, I actually remember reading a poll just last month or so that stated that in a poll of something like 126 current NHL players, Datsyuk was overwhelmingly voted the best player in the league (46% or so). Wish I could find it, but I swear I read it recently.

Stabbing Westward, "The Thing I Hate".

Crosby (and the rest of the Penguins) have now begun to whine about the Steckel hit. Stay classy, morons. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/s_716481.html

Hat trick for Rafalski.

Consider this, everyone: even Brodeur has accepted that he's not the clear-cut starter for the Devils anymore, since he's been significantly outplayed by Hedberg as of late. And you know what? Lemaire is leaning toward starting Hedberg in more games than Brodeur. From TSN: Brodeur is cold 0-3-0, 4.67, .783 in last 4 GPI (3.15 GAA, .882 SV% overall) Hedberg 1-1-0, 2.14, .915 in last 2 GPI (2.93 GAA, .899 SV% overall) Small sample size, but Hedberg's clearly performing better, so they go with him - even over Brodeur who is rarely shelved (though he's been pulled 7 times this season and only 8 minutes into his last game) except for injury. Now let's look at Ozzie and Howard, again, from TSN: Osgood is hot 1-0-0, 2.18, .944 in last 2 GPI (2.74 GAA, .905 SV% overall) Howard is cold 0-1-1, 4.04, .860 in last 2 GPI (2.70 GAA, .908 SV% overall) Hell, before checking this, I didn't even realize how close their overall stats had become. Overall, there's very little difference now - short term, however, Ozzie's clearly got the hot hand. I can sort of understand, though, why Babcock is going with Howard against Edmonton - ordinarily, that's a game that he would throw in Osgood, because Edmonton's a s*** team. Does this mean that Osgood is going to start getting the Vancouvers and Washingtons of the league until he slumps while Howard will be relegated to the Edmontons and New Jerseys of the league?

Fehr ruined the Winter Classic. http://intenttoblow.com/2011/01/fehr-suspended-for-remainder-of-season-for-going-off-script-during-winter-classic/

Thinking of what Drake said re: a dark secret.... Given the era that he played - and mind you, this is just a shot in the dark and not an accusation - perhaps he was discovered to be a Nazi sympathizer or something? I mean, that would be something pretty damning.

196 at the gym yesterday. Been eating decently too and monitoring the calories successfully, despite the fact that there's a lot of tempting, s***ty food in the house from the holidays.

Flyers break the drought at JLA too. Saw that coming.

Meh. Good 4rd, but the first two periods were ass. I don't like losing streaks. Props to Boucher, though, he played well.