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Thread: Go Calgary Flames we are Fans
ratherBgolfing
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Go Calgary Flames we are Fans
Posted:
11/25/2009 5:08:19 AM
So Kipper has stated that if he's not the starting goalie for Finland at the Olympics, he won't go. Hmmm. real team player, that Kiprusoff. Quite rankly. you Flames fans shoulf cheer for that to happen. He is always burnt out by playoff time. He can't play the kind of schedule the Flames have asked him to. He proves that every single year.
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CFL football
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11/22/2009 10:21:44 PM
I've been to a few Grey Cups and have never seen the Eskimos in one... to me attending the Grey Cup is about the event ... they entire week... not about the teams so much.
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Onsides kick
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11/22/2009 10:18:46 PM
The ball doesn't have to hit the ground prior to the ten yards for the kicking team to recover.
Not necessarily prior to the 10 yards, but it does have to hit the ground for the kicking team to recover it without the receiving team touching it first. It either has to hit the ground, or be touched by the receiving team, before the kicking team is eligible to recover... at least that's how I understand the rule to be.
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CFL football
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11/22/2009 12:13:28 PM
TRUE Edmonton fans recognize that the CFL season officially ended last week and, really, the Grey Cup should be cancelled because it really doesn't matter!!!!
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Onsides kick
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11/22/2009 9:45:29 AM
If the ball is touched first within 10 yards by the kickoff receiving team then it's also anyone's ball.
Good point. Although the OP did mention the other team had not touched it this time.
It should also be noted that it must touch the ground and travel and additional 10 yards before the kicking team can recover. That's why when you see an onside kick, it is usually popped up by the kicker having the ball basically touch right in front of the tee and popped up for the additional 10 yards.
Not sure about this one. I always thought that the kicking team did that in American football simply because the ball had to hit the gound once before they could recover it. If it were to hit the ground 8 yards from where they kicked off and they recovered it 11 yards downfield, it would be OK I think. Pretty sure it does not have to travel an extra 10 yards or there would be virtually no fumble recoveries on deep kicks that are bobbled by the kick-off return guy.
It's one of the main differences between NFL and CFL. In Canadian football the receiving team has no guarded "right" to a kick-off that has yet to touch the ground, so quite often the ball will be chipped high in the air making it a jump ball 10 yards downfield. (The NFL does not have the onside punt rule either)
Can anyone confirm ezzee's or my interpretation?
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CFL football
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11/21/2009 10:02:34 PM
I'll have to watch it. That's scary. I've had 6 myself. Fortunately none of them were from playing football so I guess I'm okay
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Is the WWE High on Crack?
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11/21/2009 8:20:53 PM
Porn is fake???
I'm crushed!!
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Onsides kick
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11/21/2009 5:34:23 PM
You're confusing kick-offs and punts.
On a kick-off, as long as the ball travels 10 yards, it's anyone's ball.
On a punt if the punting team touches the ball first, it is dead where they touched it, unless the player who recovers it actually lined up BEHIND the punter. If he started the play behind the punter and got to the ball first, he is allowed to recover it for the punting team.
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Sweet home (game) chicago
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11/20/2009 9:10:26 AM
We'll be coming into town for the Phoenix game Monday.
Mt gf had never even watched a hockey game before she met me. She cheered so loud when Brule scored on Wednesday it made ME jump!
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Go Oilers Go
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11/19/2009 1:46:50 PM
Personally, I don't think he's a very good coach. It's not his fault. I don't think he's ever had to be coached so how would he know how to coach? If you look back, history shows that superstars make lousy coaches and I think it's precisely because of that: The superstars rarely need to be told what to do, they just do it. In that regard, it's really hard for someone with all the talent in the world to relate to role players.
As for any other role with the Oilers.... hmmm.... idunno... get him to put on his skates and see if he can still play?
Seriously though, I don't see that there's any role he could perform for the Oilers any better than anyone in that role right now. Coaching is the only thing he has ever done other than playing, and he sucks at it.
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Go Oilers Go
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11/19/2009 10:25:08 AM
I was wondering why Comrie wasn't dressed last night. Turns out he has mono.
H1N1, mono,... the Oilers must lead the league in man games lost due to illness, never mind injury. Is it just me, or does anyone else out there see the irony in a team owned by a drug store tycoon being sicker than any other team in the league?
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Is a guy that cooks *so* rare?
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11/19/2009 9:26:32 AM
Something a lot of people don't realize causes gas but does is mushrooms. Don't believe me? Just pay attention, the next time you have mushrooms on your steak or whatever. Thing is, they are most often used with spices or other things and people don't realize what's giving them the farts
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Hand of God!!!
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11/19/2009 9:17:38 AM
HA HA HA ... yeah, OK. It's the first ever blown call in the history of sport.
here's an idea. Turn the frikkin page.
I suppose the Irish Association has to do something just to save face in the eyes of its fans. Clearly the protest will fall upon deaf ears.
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Go Oilers Go
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11/19/2009 9:15:39 AM
Frikkin Penner... 6 goals and not a single point from him. That doesn't help my pool AT ALL
Nice to see Gagner and Brule get back on the score sheet.
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UFC HW Champion Brock Lesnar Seriously ill and In Hospital
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11/18/2009 10:02:09 PM
Saying he never tested positive for steriods does not prove that he did not do them.
Is there actually a way to prove that anyone has never done 'roids?
I don't think so. I mean, maybe there is, but I doubt it.
OT: I wish him well. He was the best thing that happened to Dana White's business, from a pure marketing standpoint, but right now I am sure UFC is the furthest thing from his and his family's minds. Here's hoping he recovers fully from this infection and he can go on leading a normal life.
I do hope, for his sake and for the sport's sake, that this does not turn out to be a steroid-induced or -triggered illness. That would be exactly the kind of fuel MMA dissentors would feast upon.
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World series of Poker
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11/18/2009 1:58:52 PM
I had a friend who went blind when he was 25. He had been a part of our monthly poker games prior to his blindness and afterward we "brailed" the cards so he could play once again.
Of course this was just for quarters, so nothing like the scale of a WSOP event ... but it was neat that there was a way he could be included in our games once again.
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Go Oilers Go
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11/18/2009 6:48:27 AM
Big game tonight: Oilers rested, on home ice, Avs played last night, then travelled, might even see Colorado's back-up goalie...should be 2 points in the bag
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Go Calgary Flames we are Fans
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11/17/2009 9:07:37 PM
Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk thanks for the chuckle Flames. Like chicken soup for the ailing Oilers soul
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Bad Calls, Decisions, and Quotes 2009/10 NFL Football Season
Posted:
11/16/2009 4:33:28 PM
]a radio sports broadcaster said it was a good call, bad results.
if they make it i would call them the luckiest team in the nfl.
I see it the other way around. I was saying this morning that, had the play worked, there would be a lot of people praising it, but personally, I'd have called it a bad play with good results.
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Go Oilers Go
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11/16/2009 3:00:52 PM
Well you couldn't be talking about MacT because he IS working... and he has a pretty good gig too. Although MacT doing "colour" is rather oxymoron-ish
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Go Calgary Flames we are Fans
Posted:
11/16/2009 2:58:58 PM
The fact that my team lost again has nothing to do wtih the Flames sucking eggs. They just do!!!!
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Bad Calls, Decisions, and Quotes 2009/10 NFL Football Season
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11/16/2009 1:12:53 PM
"IF the patriots punt on 4th and 2, they win the game. Period."
You are making the same "If" assumption.
Not even close to the same IF assumption. Like I said, my IF is a tried, tested and true scenario.
If they did then why didn't they do it? Why didn't the Patriots punt the ball then?
That's the million-dollar question, to be sure
You honestly don't think the media wouldn't have been criticing the Patriots for blowing a 17 point lead in the 4th quater to end up losing the game when they had the Colts pretty much in check for the remainder of that game?
Again,,, punt the ball, you win the game. The media has no cause to criticize.
How much football do you watch, because teams like the Patriots are always looked at under a microscope by the media.
I watch enough football to know that was a very, very stupid call on behalf of Belichick. Then again, I guess that doesn't say a whole lot. There was an 11-year-old kid sitting next to me who knew that too.
The same question should really be thrown back at you: How much football do you watch, to actually think that WASN'T a bonehead call?
Just go look at the 2006 AFC Championship game, when the Patriots blew a big lead to the Colts and ended up losing the game, the media was all over the Patriots for blowing that lead for a while after that game.
As we should have been! They blew an 18-point lead! Guess what! Had they not blown that lead, we wouldn't have ragged on them! Thanks for defending us! Sheesh.
Oh, and incidentally, blowing an 18-point 2nd quarter lead is nowhere near as bad as blowing a 17-point lead int he fourth.
I gather from your reaction to all this, you're a Patriots fan. Well, I say this steel ...Put down the Kool-Aid for a sec and look at it totally objectively. It was a very, very stupid decision.
Better yet, go back in time to when you were watching the play live. Were you yelling "Yeah baby, good call" as you saw that Chris Hanson was not on the field as the Patriorts lined up for their 4th down play?
I was sitting with die-hard Patriot fans and I thought there was going to be a beer bottle put through the TV set when they saw Brady lining up for fourth down. Sorry man... go ahead, support Belichick, blame the media if that makes you feel good, because yeah, it's always the media's fault
It was the strangest coaching decision I have seen since the Detroit Lions opted to kick in the OT after winning the coin toss a couple of years ago.
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Go Calgary Flames we are Fans
Posted:
11/16/2009 11:53:05 AM
The Flames suck eggs!!!!
OK I feel better now
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Bad Calls, Decisions, and Quotes 2009/10 NFL Football Season
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11/16/2009 10:17:58 AM
billicheck has forgotton more football than i will ever know.
That was PARTICULARLY evident with 2:08 to play last night, when he forgot what a team is supposed to do on 4th down inside their own 30 when trying to protect a lead.
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Go Oilers Go
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11/16/2009 10:14:42 AM
Out of work coach? Who would that be? Mike keenan?
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Bad Calls, Decisions, and Quotes 2009/10 NFL Football Season
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11/16/2009 9:20:08 AM
If it wasn't because of that play, it would have been something else. ..
If my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle.
I have to disagree with that, steel... The only if I saw last night is "IF the patriots punt on 4th and 2, they win the game. Period
People would have been criticing them for mismanaging of their timeouts in the second half or allowing the Colts to comeback and win the game after the Patriots were up by 17 points in 4th quater etc...
Wrong. People would not have been criticizing them, because the Pats would not have lost.
You know how I can say that with such certainty?
Because I've seen that play (the one where the Patriots punt the ball to the Colt 20-yard line, then prevent the Colts from marching 80 yards in 120 seconds) 1,153 times in the past 30 years
I gotta say though, in all my years of watching football, I have never, ever seen a coach gamble on 4th and 2 from his own 27 with two minutes left in a game in which his team is ahead.
That's not gutsy. That's just plain stupid. That's almost "call out the Nevada Gaming Commission for a full investigation" stupid.
You almost gotta wonder whether Belichick pulled a Pete Rose on this one
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Go Oilers Go
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11/16/2009 8:18:27 AM
Ha ha ha now THAT'S funny!!!!.. welcome back Fox
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Bad Calls, Decisions, and Quotes 2009/10 NFL Football Season
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11/16/2009 6:26:50 AM
That was a frikkin AWFUL call! You're basically announcing to the world that you don't think your defence can hold a team from gaining 80 yards in 2 minutes.
That's the kind of coaching decision from the likes of Jim Schwarz or Tob Cable... not from Bill Belichick
Nothing like having a complete brain fart on national TV.
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Go Oilers Go
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11/15/2009 2:19:07 PM
Good news is that the Oilers are back to being relatively healthy: Only 2 "non-regulars" (Potulny, Reddox) in line-up today and really, they were replacing Pisani and Nilsson, so not like the team was losing anything in that regard.
Horcoff and Souray make their returns.
Bad news is the team lost its sixth game in last seven today, 3-2 to the Atlanta Thrashers.
Saddest part of it is, teams are now using the Edmonton Oilers as an opportunity to rest their No. 1 goalies.
Another back-up (Hedberg) beat us today. That's four back-ups that have beaten the Oilers in the past 6 losses.
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Hockey-Changing the shoot-out.
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11/15/2009 8:57:59 AM
^^^
I think giving a point for a loss is more gimmicky than a shootout. If I were king for a day, I'd make regulation wins worth 3, OT wins worth 2, shootout wins worth 1, and losses worth nothing, ever.
Do that and you cut the shootouts away drastically. They are worth less, as they should be, so teams will battle to end it earlier.
You will also have teams play for the win in the final 10 minutes of reguilation, rather than protecting the tie, because there's more to gain by winning in regulation and losing is losing regardless of when it happens.
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What to do with old wedding rings?
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11/13/2009 2:46:11 PM
Idunno... find someone else to give it to?
My ex took BOTH the rings. Have no idea what she did with them. Don't really care. Maybe she proposed to her girlfriend with them
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Go Oilers Go
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11/13/2009 1:32:29 PM
Wednesday was a tough night for them, 3 of the 10 (not 11) on the list played in Wednesday's game ... but actually only 2 were injured - Grebeshkov and Reddox. The Oilers have Pisani on their list because of his Colitis but he played Wednesday and is expected to play Sunday.
And look at the list... that's the problem with the Oilers right there. Guys like Robert Nilsson, a second-liner with 1 goal and 4 points in 12 games are considered regulars.
Shawn Horcoff, who has 5 points, 3 of which were amassed in a single game, is considered a 1st liner.
Sadly, only 3 of those players (Souray, Horcoff and Grebeshkov) would be considered regulars on pretty much any other team in the league ... certainly any decent team.
But hey, if you think the Oilers, with players like Nilsson, JF Junk (a "first liner" with 3 NHL goals in 75 career games), Fernando Pisani, Ryan Stone and Mark Pouliot are otherwise playoff contenders, should those players be healthy, good on ya. Personally I see no need to make excuses for their bad record. They are quite simply a bad team. A bad team with a good coach? Sure, I'll go with that. But a bad team.
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What to do with old wedding rings?
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11/13/2009 8:40:30 AM
Technically (ie legally), the proper thing to do is return them. They are a representation of a contract. That contract was broken. The purchaser of the ring is the rightful owner.
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Invasion of privacy?
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11/12/2009 1:20:03 PM
I kind of chuckled when I read the title of this thread... "invasion of privacy"... and saw it was about telecommunications. Since when has that had to do anything to do with privacy, whatsoever?
Telecommunications and privacy are two words that, quite frankly, do not belong in the same sentence. Never have, never will. If you think otherwise, then, like you said yourself ... be happy in your ignorance.
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calgary flames, line jumpers
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11/12/2009 7:27:35 AM
It was Big news in Edmonton for longer than anywhere else in the Province, I feel because deep down it was because the Calgary Flames got shots and Edmonton Oilers didn't.
Not to mention the fact that damn near the entire Oilers roster actually came down with the bug.
But to tell the truth, it wasn't any bigger news in Edmonton than anywhere else. In fact, very few people outside of POF are talking about it any more
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Old jokes that never die ...
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11/11/2009 3:40:43 PM
Why did Helen Keller only masterbate with one hand?
So she could moan with the other
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Hockey-Changing the shoot-out.
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11/11/2009 11:10:25 AM
Well, you wouldn't be allowed to turn the TV off in my house when a shootout happens. Regardless of whether I agree with how it is decided or not, I still want to know who wins.
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Hockey-Changing the shoot-out.
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11/10/2009 9:42:40 AM
I have to disagree with you(Attie21), the shootout is no more than an exciting way to toss a coin.
... which, oddly enough, is the way the vast majority of NFL overtime games are decided
it may be attracting a few of them, but at the same time it's losing the real fans of hockey.
It's not losing the real fans in any respect whatsoever. Real fans complain about it, but I don't know of a single "real" hockey fan who no longer watches NHL hockey because of the shootout.
The "real" fans are in the Canadian markets... where every game continues to sell out and hockey remains the number-one televised sport in the country.
Losing the real fans? Nahh... Bettman knows he can **stardize the sport however he wants and us real fans will continue watching. We'll b1tch and moan, but he won't lose us.
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Go Oilers Go
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11/10/2009 9:37:28 AM
I think Quinn has confidence in Horcoff too - otherwise he should have been tossed off the first line long before his injury.
He was.
Horcoff was replaced on the first line by Sam Gagner, Oc. 22 ... 6 games before Horcoff's injury.
Horcoff was put back on the first line Oct. 29 and picked up three of his 5 points on the season in that game. He then blew chunks (as did most of the team ... both figuratively and literally
) for the next two games ... losses in Boston and Long Island.
Horcoff sucked last season too so there really isn't a good comparison there.
Horcoff was the team's second-leading scorer last year, with 53 points. He is on pace for a 27-point campaign this season... almost EXACTLY half of last year's points.
Still think he played as poorly last year as he has been this season?
and you all harassed me for championing Penner.
Please explain to me how Dustin Penner's 37-point season last season was worthy of 'championing' whereas Horcoff's 53-point season sucked. I look forward to reading the spin on that one.
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calgary flames, line jumpers
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11/6/2009 5:54:26 AM
if they can cancel a hockey season over contract talks and money, why wouldn't they suspend the season to avert or lessen effects of a worldwide pandemic?
If you could convince the NHL owners and players that by suspending another season, it would put more money in their collective pockets, they would do so.
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Go Oilers Go
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11/5/2009 6:16:14 PM
As for no difference with the coach, ask Penner how he feels about the new regime :)
OK, I'll ask Penner if you ask Shawn Horcoff
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Good Books?
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11/5/2009 6:11:28 PM
^^^
Yes, I've been "warned" for lack of a better word, of the WTC... or at least properly advised not to take it lightly.
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Go Oilers Go
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11/5/2009 1:47:57 PM
We have mostly the same team with some of our key players injured and our record is nearly the same as it was with a healthy roster.
Hmmm... weren't we playing healthier teams last year? Absolutely!
So how is it that the Vancouver Canucks, Colorado Avalanche and Chicago can handle the injury bug, but Edmonton can't? It has everything to do with the depth of the franchise.
If we had last seasons's relatively healthy roster this season, I think we would have at least a couple more games in the W column.
Particularly in light of how unhealthy all the other teams are this season, in comparison to last season.
If we were fielding a significantly different team this season, as many of those you list do
The reason we aren't fielding a significantly different team this year has everything to do with what is the Oilers' problem.
The fact this team has improved with new coaching really bothers some people when they should just be glad we're on the right track here.
The FACT that this team has improved? Where's the improvement? How can you figure a worse record as an improvement? We're on the exact same track we've been on for three years, Smilie: 11th place in the western conference. That's all that bothers me. The FACT that we can be in 11th place regardless of who is coaching the team just supports the argument that the biggest issue with the Edmonton Oilers is, and always has been, the personnel on the ice, not the personnel behind the bench.
There's no improvement whatsoever, in the big picture. Last year, with 12 of the team's first 15 games on the road, the Oilers were 8-6-1, in a playoff position, and you were screaming for MacT to be fired.
This season they have a worse record, have already played more home games than they did in the first two months of last season, and you somehow think the team has improved.
I think there's a PR job at Alberta Health for you smilie, with spin like that
Hey, I will admit that Quinn is doing OK with what he has to work with. The issue with the Oilers is that he doesn't have a whole lot to work with.... pretty much the same issue that MacT faced.
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calgary flames, line jumpers
Posted:
11/5/2009 10:39:19 AM
Yeah ... there have only been 2,800 H1N1-related deaths so far. Heck, that's not even as many as Sept. 11, 2001!
There's really no need to even pay any attention to this!!!
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Good Books?
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11/5/2009 8:56:01 AM
Another good life experience book is "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson. It's about him and a buddy walking the Appalachian trail – a 3,500km trail that cuts through 14 states in the Eastern United States.
Ever since reading that book, I've wanted to walk the West Coast Trail (a much shorter trail on the western coast of Vancouver Island) but have yet to get around to it.
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Good Books?
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11/5/2009 8:43:47 AM
Kind of surprised no one mentioned Life of Pi.
It did get a little bit silly, but I never saw that ending coming. Great finish.
And the part where the boy is trying to decide which religion to adopt is hilarious.
I just heard his (Yann Martel) second book should be released next year.
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Go Oilers Go
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11/5/2009 5:38:28 AM
Nope, not baiting anyone... but I did figure someone would be uninformed enough to use injuries as an excuse, without putting any kind of thought into it whatsoever
If it makes you feel any better patent, I had you at the top of the list
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Hockey-Changing the shoot-out.
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11/4/2009 2:04:24 PM
I'm not a big fan of it either, but I'm even less of a fan of the AJ's 3-on-3 for the second overtime. That's just a little too much like peewee tourney hockey for me.
When it comes to the shootout I don't think a team who loses in the shootout should get a point at all.
I agree totally. A point for a loss is just dumb.
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Favorite 80s music
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11/4/2009 2:00:16 PM
Never stopped Nickelback from making millions.
Yeah, but if you ever see them live, watch really closely, and every once in a while Chad Kroeger's left foot DOES change position on the stage. Sometimes he even takes one hand off the mic!!!!
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Favorite 80s music
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11/4/2009 12:34:57 PM
Molly Hatchet!
Funny... I saw them in the mid 90s at reds in Edmonton and there was not a single original member left. I wondered how they could even use the name... spoke to their manager and he told me he had bought the rights. He apparently was the original manager. Kind of cheapened my memories of the band... but I still have a ton of their stuff on my MP3. Great southern rock.
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