Chadd

Best of luck with the surgery man, we did everything we could to save our dog and it kicked me in the guts when it didn't work out. I miss my Aussie, she was a great dog.

Yes and it isn't difficult as long as you honestly care about putting a good edge on the skates and have some level of manual dexterity.

They just got the new machine in Harrisburg a month or two ago, so it is a fairly recent list. I will probably be in Pittsburgh the weekend before thanksgiving if anyone out there wants to try it. I only have a couple spinners at the moment though.

Why would anyone be excited about a guy that can't stay healthy more than a few games at a time and will tie up almost every penny just freed up from sending Nylander to Russia?

two shops in PA. http://www.blackstonesport.com/fbv_where.cfm#Pennsylvania Those are my old shop and the new shop right around the corner from my house.

If you're a caps fan, you should be hoping for a defenseman.

Bob McKenzie was reporting the same thing on NHL Network

Just use the same wheel, you aren't losing that much material when dressing the wheel and unless you're doing a high volume of skates, the wheel is going to last a long time.

What you are describing is the type of play that is typical of Simon after returning from injury/surgery, he seems to take longer than most to re-acclimate himself to the game, and will play a very timid style. He has been pressured by the team to return a couple times in the past.

Gagne needs someone to get him the puck in a decent scoring position, but can finish once he has the puck. He isn't an Ovechkin or Lemieux that can seemingly score at will, but he has never really had a great playmaking center in Philly to work with. And please, don't get me started on Hitchcock and his coaching style. I think Forsberg was obviously one of the best he had. Not hard to question that one, and it's a shame he was hurt so often How many games were both of them in the lineup at the same time?

Gagne needs someone to get him the puck in a decent scoring position, but can finish once he has the puck. He isn't an Ovechkin or Lemieux that can seemingly score at will, but he has never really had a great playmaking center in Philly to work with. And please, don't get me started on Hitchcock and his coaching style.

I went to a Bears game a couple weeks ago and wouldn't put too much hope into those young d-men for this season. Obviously one game isn't a good indicator of overall performance, but they certainly didn't stand out at the AHL level.

Did my first night dive the other night and saw some really cool stuff. One lobster was taller than our cats and probably could have fed at least six of us.

I had to come back

Hotel booked

Happy to hear that. Hopefully you don't have much more recovery to go. First actual day of work is the 10th, I should be 100% by then. Now that I'm back on the active list again, I can leave for vacation on Saturday.

Doc says I can go back to work.

I think you have to start Halak against the Pens. If he loses, no big deal and you start Price the next game. If you put Price in and he gets shelled, your bad situation just got worse.

lmfao Orr tried to make the linesman give him a little more time in the fight and bowled him right over, then gets taken down by Parros. That should have been a ten game suspension for Orr I didn't even think was up for debate....touching a ref is an auto... (oh, wait...it's the Leafs) <_< /realize I'm a Habs fan open to TONS of ribbing for that...but what the hell! The rules don't matter anymore as long as Campbell doesn't think the guy meant to do it.

lmfao Orr tried to make the linesman give him a little more time in the fight and bowled him right over, then gets taken down by Parros. That should have been a ten game suspension for Orr

did you get screwed by autodraft too ? You would think that the guy that schedules the draft wouldn't schedule it for the same time as one of his games.

Given the fact that my other fantasy goalies are Toskala and Vokoun, I'd like to see Halak play a lot more.

You are... ugh. Chadd wouldn't approve. oh im sorry. i didnt realize i was arguing for approval. i thought we could just have a legitimate discussion about a hockey play. so sorry. wont happen again. He was censoring himself, the implication being that he was going to use language that I would find inappropriate.

Of course he was contrite after the game and hopefully he never throws another hit like that again. However, there was no concern for the other guy at the time he tried to decapitate Booth.

He didn't care what the result was.