Bob_Laublaw: However, I think the Cowtown record for consecutive seasons without a playoff appearance is 7 years. That's one record I hope the Oil doesn't match.

The seasons from 1996-1997 to 2002-03 were all playoff-less, so yeah, seven.

Bob_Laublaw: How's Staios been in action since donning the red jersey?

Well I jumped off my couch in startled surprise yesterday when I thought he scored a goal from the point. Turns out Borque deflected it, but still, I was pleased.

The guy is a shot blocking machine, I'll give him that, but Johnsson and a 3rd rounder is WAAAAAAY to high a price for 36-year old Staios.

FTFA: How GM Garth Snow failed to divest himself of at least one goalie at the deadline continues to mystify us.

Needs to be stated ad nauseum.

The Oilers shut out my Devils...I can never say anything bad about them :-(

/Rangers on the other hand
//Going to the game on Wednesday...Time to get your asses in gear Devils! Come on!!

Rev.K: Well I jumped off my couch in startled surprise yesterday when I thought he scored a goal from the point. Turns out Borque deflected it, but still, I was pleased.

The guy is a shot blocking machine, I'll give him that, but Johnsson and a 3rd rounder is WAAAAAAY to high a price for 36-year old Staios.

even if Johnson walks, you all got fleeced.

hockeyfarker: Rev.K: The guy is a shot blocking machine, I'll give him that, but Johnsson and a 3rd rounder is WAAAAAAY to high a price for 36-year old Staios.

it's because the frickin Sutters think that no team is complete without some grizzled stay at home D-man to round out the defensive corps. see Vandermeer, Jim.

Staios is still better than Vendermeer, but your point is valid. The Sutters farking LOVE gritty D, even if they're nearly as old as them.

Yanks_RSJ: The Rangers are the cure for what ails all struggling teams.

That's about the only solace I can take in the season at this point. The funny thing before the year I was expecting a crap year from the Isles, but they hung around playoff-ville for a while and got my hopes up a bit. Oh well, baby steps.

Oshawa: In conclusion nobody in Canada pees when hockey is on.

well...yeah don't want to miss anything!


we have bladders of steel up here.

carnifex2005: Speaking of the Olympics and Edmonton...

That's a really cool graph. What can we extrapolate from that?

Let's use the end-of-first-period spike, the most conservative one. It looks like the delta is about 70ML, or 70 million litres of water (can that be right? or is an ML the same as a m³?).

Because it's a spike like that, we can presume that most of those are bathroom breaks. Nobody is running a bath or watering the lawn between periods, especially not for 5 minutes. Let's be conservative and take only half of that amount for potty breaks- 35 million litres.

The average toilet is about 4l/flush. Add in another few litres for a hand wash (as doubtful as I am about Edmontonians washing their hands), and round it up to 10L/ bathroom break.

That would put us somewhere in the region of 3.5 million litres, or around 3 bathroom breaks per citizen in and around Edmonton.

Now I know a lot of beer was consumed and Edmontonians have bladders akin to walnuts, but that can't be right. Where is my math failing me?

Bob_Laublaw: Unless one has an old wine bottle for a urinal and a 42" flatscreen in the garage.

/multitasker

I'd be that hardcore, but I don't have a garage to keep piss bottles or portable poop seats around to avoid getting up.

Bob_Laublaw: On day, son, you too will have a garage bordered by a tall, uric-acid-resistant hedge.

One day I will capture this dream and run with it, and make all my bathroom-using neighbours totally jealous...or they would if they knew what was going down. The privacy is what makes the dream such a potential paradise.

mtylerjr: hockeyfarker: Rev.K: The guy is a shot blocking machine, I'll give him that, but Johnsson and a 3rd rounder is WAAAAAAY to high a price for 36-year old Staios.

it's because the frickin Sutters think that no team is complete without some grizzled stay at home D-man to round out the defensive corps. see Vandermeer, Jim.

Thats why the Sharks signed Wallin from Carolina, I think.

They sure didnt sign him for his personality (new window)

Traded for, and he wasn't completely honest. His nickname in the room was "Gorilla", or "Big Swede". And it was before the incident against Washington (for the most embarrassing moment question).

BTW, Wallin is tied for most playoff OT goals by a defenseman in a career with 3- He has 18 in the regular season in his career. And those 3 OT goals are the only ones he's ever scored in the playoffs.

Pardon Me Sultan:

The other is: Canes at 19? Really? Yes, they've been playing well recently, but.. At the very least: Who'da thunk it?

They have been playing very well, and won again last night. At this rate, playoffs are not unthinkable.

Which means we'll lose the last game of the season and wind up at #9 in the east... again.

jekostas: cptjeff:
They have been playing very well, and won again last night. At this rate, playoffs are not unthinkable.

Which means we'll lose the last game of the season and wind up at #9 in the east... again.

The Canes have won 8 of 9. Really bad time to go on a roll guys, you've already gutted the team.

Tried to link the TSN rankings, but somebody had already done it.

whereisian: cptjeff: They have been playing very well, and won again last night. At this rate, playoffs are not unthinkable.

Really, they are. Don't be Toronto. Just don't.

Yeah, no shiat. I was looking forward to having Hall next year.

Tim Thomas has come up big with Tuukka Rask on the shelf. Still, as always, the offense is the big deal in Boston, where the Bruins have gone 2-2 since the break but have managed just seven goals. That kind of production won't get you into the playoffs -- even in the mediocre Eastern Conference.

*sigh* ...and now, no Savard for the foreseeable future.

Go Bruins!

keylock71:

*sigh* ...and now, no Savard for the foreseeable future.

Go Bruins!

You mess with the Penguin you get pecked.