As I said in a previous thread, I'm really happy that I chose to watch football over this Islanders game. The recent 3-game win streak gave me the slightest bit of hope but it's not going to happen this year. Doan's on my fantasy team though, so at least I benefited in some way.

Despite what I said above, John Tavares is making The Leap, to use Bill Simmons parlance. He's an absolute pleasure to watch and I'm happy/shocked that he was willing to commit 6 more years to this team.

He was awesome in Mantracker. What a great idea for off-season training.

And Danny Briere kicked a guys ass in a fight and scored a hat trick, the third goal coming with 5 seconds left in OT.

/good for Doan though. Liked him in NHL 96

paj: Meanwhile in Calgary:
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And the 1st chance they get, Iginla and Doan will be celebrating that they got those achievements on the same night. Cool for both guys.

And I've never been so hesitant to celebrate a milestone goal in all my life. I was like "hold on! did it go in on time!" I had to explain to everyone I was watching with that it's not like basketball and that it had to be in the net by the buzzer.

/Iginla and Doan were teammates in juniors
//Kamloops, I believe.

jekostas: And now Julien is claiming that Sami Salo was taking a run at Brad Marchand.

There's an interesting dynamic at play here.

Yes, the Bruins are the Big Bad Bruins, and they won the Cup being the Big Bad Bruins, but I think if they continue with this behavior, they'll end up having to fight every other team in the league. Now, I don't doubt they are easily the meanest, the toughest, and the biggest team, but I don't think for a second that they want to fight 29 other teams night after night for the rest of the year. Nor do they have the stamina too.

Because the league, fans, and opponents are just about to the point now where they are absolutely sick of putting up with Boston's shiat.

fatalvenom: Burrows puts his blade to Thornton's throat???

2:05: Burrows heading off for change, gives Paille a little "how ya doin'" tap on the front of the legs. Not a slash, just a little agitator music, what Kevin Weekes likes to call "sandpaper hockey". Psychological warfare like this happens hundreds of times a game.

2:06: Thornton comes by and returns the favor, taps Burrows on the back of the legs (should be noted that hockey players do not have padding back there, so this is seen as a small escalation in grievances).

2:07: Burrows turns and says "I felt that, you ain't so slick" and pokes Thornton in the chest, just to the bottom-right of the 'B' crest. Thornton takes exception to this and swats Burrows stick up and away, clipping himself in the face with Burrows blade.

2:08: Burrows does not retract his stick, keeping it inches from Thornton's face. Burrows:


2:09: Thornton:


2:10: Canucks

jekostas: I'm sure Zac Rinaldo would like to talk to Lucic about that boarding. Ditto with anyone on the Penguins team to Marchand for the slewfoot. Or Ottawa to Adam McQuaid for the knee-on-knee hit.

Montreal doesn't much like them either.

That is an ever-growing roster of enemies they're building.

We will know when the ball has finally dropped when every team starts to specifically call up their AHL enforcers whenever they play the Bruins.