eddievercetti: I'm off to watch the Trumpy show. Until manana, good night and good luck!

What the Trumpy show might look like
/Kitty is like a potato

Gawdzila: BOOO no more Bob Miller, now I have to listen to the rubes on the networks. SIGH.
Thank you, Bob & Jim!

10,000x this. Glad when I was on a seminar trip to Nashville I couldn't hear the NBC/HNiC Game 2 feed at the pizza joint/bar I watched the game in. Came home and had to hear their Game 4 and realized just how lucky Kings, Sharks and Ducks fans are with their play-by-play callers and color guys (well, Anaheim's troll, Brian Hayward, is the exception). Guess I'll just listen to the radio and watch the TV on mute; the Kings' radio guy Nick Nickson is just a step behind Bob Miller in calling games and doesn't do the homer angle either.

Good series, glad to root for something other than The Curse of Marty McSorley in the second round.

/longtime bitter, cynical Kings fan
//Hm, St. Louis, Kings came up together in expansion, neither have won Lord Stanley's Cup ... an omen?

FiendishFellow05: 9beers: Luongo still has 3 years left on his contract at 6.7 mil per. Ouch!

6 years, actually.

Well that's just funny now.

luongo is not getting traded, he will be a very very expensive backup next season

To those laughing at Canucks getting eliminated in the first round.. NYR could be gone tomorrow, and so could the stanley cup champs on wednesday
nobody is safe

ontariolightning: luongo is not getting traded, he will be a very very expensive backup next season

Pretty much. No sucker big enough to take on that onerous contract, and prohibitively expensive to buyout. Consider it the manifested risk of trying to get around the salary cap with extra years.

ontariolightning: To those laughing at Canucks getting eliminated in the first round.. NYR could be gone tomorrow, and so could the stanley cup champs on wednesday
nobody is safe

Hey, we know we're headed to a Game 7. If we lose, we lose. But I hope we win, and punt the Caps ass back home. But we'll see.

I don't know who's going to win Kings-Blues. But I'm willing to bet there'll be more OT periods than even Phoenix and Chicago have managed. Possibly during a single game.

FiendishFellow05: ontariolightning: To those laughing at Canucks getting eliminated in the first round.. NYR could be gone tomorrow, and so could the stanley cup champs on wednesday
nobody is safe

Hey, we know we're headed to a Game 7. If we lose, we lose. But I hope we win, and punt the Caps ass back home. But we'll see.

I think it'd be a huge shock to have wings, sharks, penguins, canucks, rangers, bruins, hawks, devils all eliminated in the first round

caira: I don't know who's going to win Kings-Blues. But I'm willing to bet there'll be more OT periods than even Phoenix and Chicago have managed. Possibly during a single game.

St Louis is destined to win the cup

I figure it will be St Louis vs Washington in the finals

ontariolightning: FiendishFellow05: ontariolightning: To those laughing at Canucks getting eliminated in the first round.. NYR could be gone tomorrow, and so could the stanley cup champs on wednesday
nobody is safe

Hey, we know we're headed to a Game 7. If we lose, we lose. But I hope we win, and punt the Caps ass back home. But we'll see.

I think it'd be a huge shock to have wings, sharks, penguins, canucks, rangers, bruins, hawks, devils all eliminated in the first round

The crazy thing is that it seems not only possible, but almost probable.
Not a single one of those teams that are still left has a lead in their series, and most are down.

Renegade Pervert: Root for whoever the fark you want, this 'Canada's team' stuff is a load of shiat

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/4 1/2 hours to go
//Go Kings Go

LA claims sierra nevada beer?

RminusQ: Alberta's choices are the Progressive Conservatives or the Wild Rose party. bobbette, Canadian politics confuse me.

/I do remember reading that the Wild Rose leader (or at least one of their candidates) is absolutely fantastically racist.

The Progressive Conservatives are Alberta's ruling dynasty. They have been in power unopposed for approximately one century. Okay, not really, but right-wing parties have ruled Alberta uninterrupted for 80 years, and the PCs have been in power since 1971. (Long periods of government by one party is not unusual in Canada, but even by Canadian standards, this is a farking long and ridiculous period of one-party rule.) Alberta is Canada's most right-wing province, which explains why they keep electing the same right-wing party with huge majorities, over and over. This has not exactly led to accountable or good government for the province, which is moderately functional largely because it has an incredible amount of oil wealth. (Note: the "progressive" label was applied to the Conservatives in 1942. It doesn't have the same connotations as in the United States.)

The Progressive Conservatives were also a mostly affiliated center-right party on the federal scene until 1993, when they were hammered into near inexistence from both the more right-wing, (and Alberta and BC-based) Reform Party, and had all their centrist support bled away by the Liberal Party of Canada. They attempted several comebacks before "uniting the right" by merging with the Reform Party and emerging as the Conservative Party in 2003, and after a 2004 leadership election were led by Stephen Harper, a very right-wing Albertan. Due to scandal, ineffective leadership and internecine warfare in the Liberal Party of Canada and a split on the center-left between the Liberals and the socialist New Democratic Party, the Conservatives have won three successive federal elections since 2006, including a majority in 2011. Among the notable differences between the PCs and Conservatives were things like "being mostly cool with gays" and "not wanting to ruin the environment completely" and "mostly evidence-based view of the world". Essentially, the Conservative Party of Canada is much more right-wing than its PC predecessor, and is kind of in line with U.S. Republicans. You with me so far?

The long period of uninterrupted PC rule in Alberta since the 70s has led to disaffection among the electorate and a couple of recent leadership changes in the Alberta PC party, after the departure of the long-ruling ex-Premier Ralph Klein. But given the culture of Alberta, it is impossible for a challenger to the moribund PCs to emerge from the center or the left. So a challenger appeared from even further right - namely, Danielle Smith, whose climate change-denying, strongly ideologically conservative ways earned her a lot of fans among Canada's current, largely Alberta-based power elite. She was an upstart three years ago, but now her Wild Rose party has considerable backing, including the blatant support of most federal Conservatives. It's all part of two-decade trend of a shift away from the center and further towards the right among Canada's conservatives, which reflects a geographic shift in power from central Canada (Ontario/Québec) to the more economically powerful and fast-growing west (Alberta/BC.)

Oh yeah, and Danielle Smith refuses to condemn the racism and homophobia of some members of her party because honestly? She doesn't give a fark. And that's why our federal Tories like her.

The Bestest: Brodeur retires, Luongo to Devils

Why would Luongo waive his no trade clause to go to NJ?

fatalvenom: Probably this guy.

/Windsorite, so... sorry 'bout that.

The Bestest: 4NSpy: The Bestest: Brodeur retires, Luongo to Devils

Why would Luongo waive his no trade clause to go to NJ?

Depends on the type of guy he is. He can inherit a legacy, play in the big city and be the man or he can sit on the bench and cash a check.

NJ is the big city?

I thought the Devils played in "The Big Parking Lot"

bobbette

Hey! Keep the politics out of the playoffs, please and thank you.

Philly and LA finally got it done, and Bruins go to a game 7, so all in all, a good night

now just hoping the Rangers can send their series back to NY and MSG

bobbette: RminusQ: Alberta's choices are the Progressive Conservatives or the Wild Rose party. bobbette, Canadian politics confuse me.

/I do remember reading that the Wild Rose leader (or at least one of their candidates) is absolutely fantastically racist.

The Progressive Conservatives are Alberta's ruling dynasty. They have been in power unopposed for approximately one century. Okay, not really, but right-wing parties have ruled Alberta uninterrupted for 80 years, and the PCs have been in power since 1971. (Long periods of government by one party is not unusual in Canada, but even by Canadian standards, this is a farking long and ridiculous period of one-party rule.) Alberta is Canada's most right-wing province, which explains why they keep electing the same right-wing party with huge majorities, over and over. This has not exactly led to accountable or good government for the province, which is moderately functional largely because it has an incredible amount of oil wealth. (Note: the "progressive" label was applied to the Conservatives in 1942. It doesn't have the same connotations as in the United States.)

The Progressive Conservatives were also a mostly affiliated center-right party on the federal scene until 1993, when they were hammered into near inexistence from both the more right-wing, (and Alberta and BC-based) Reform Party, and had all their centrist support bled away by the Liberal Party of Canada. They attempted several comebacks before "uniting the right" by merging with the Reform Party and emerging as the Conservative Party in 2003, and after a 2004 leadership election were led by Stephen Harper, a very right-wing Albertan. Due to scandal, ineffective leadership and internecine warfare in the Liberal Party of Canada and a split on the center-left between the Liberals and the socialist New Democratic Party, the Conservatives have won three successive federal elections since 2006, including a majority in 2011. Among the notable differences between ...

And some of us are looking at the election tomorrow with a mood of "Well damn it, I thought we had a chance to elect non-crazy, useful people this time"

Anyway, happy to see the Nucks out, since my only playoff team bowed out 2 days ago (next year Wings! Lidstrom needs to stay one more year so I can watch him at the Winter Classic), I guess I should pull for Nashville next round, since if I have to lose, I'd rather lose to the eventual champs. Hopefully Ottawa wins tomorrow, just to add to the chaos, even if as a Leafs fan, I should hate them. Would like to see Phoenix/Chicago go to 7, just so we have both an East and West game go the distance (although those two will probably play the equivalent of 8 games if they keep going to OT)

But LA vs STL in the 2nd round. Should be an interesting series of 1-0 and 2-1 games...

The Bestest: You're thinking of Izod/Continental/Byrne, where the Devils haven't played in years.. and is also closer to Manhattan than Nassau.

Guilty.

Is their new stadium the one that you don't want to be around after the sun goes down?

Glad I got to see the first game, pissed I missed the last two (just saw highlights). Looked like some fantastic games.

4NSpy: The Bestest: Brodeur retires, Luongo to Devils

Why would Luongo waive his no trade clause to go to NJ?

luongo to the lightning makes sense to me.

RminusQ: So this is soundly analogous to the USA Tea Party.

Sorry I didn't answer this earlier. No, although you could say the birth of the Reform Party in the late 80s was more analogous to the Tea Party - but it was literally a separate political party. I don't think there's a clear American equivalent in terms of having decades of rule on one side of the political spectrum and new party formation to cope with changing realities and/or disaffected voters/party elites.

keylock71: I like the Bruins' chance on home ice with the series on the line.

ditto.

of course i'd prefer a Caps advancing. it's not like they haven't been playing well in this series. none of the wins really were "lucky".

Bos PP needs to step up though.

we got a green for tonight yet?

RminusQ: Time Traveling Bunnies: we got a green for tonight yet?

Yeah it'll launch at 5:45.

awesome. missus put out a corned beef to defrost earlier today so i'll be slow cooking that beast up... will have some hockey on and some homo wrestling because oh they so oily and big mmmmmmmmmmmm I LOVE WOMEN

so yeah uhh...

goddamn mondays can be boring.

RminusQ: Time Traveling Bunnies: we got a green for tonight yet?

Yeah it'll launch at 5:45.

SWEET! I'm ready for more eliminations

3 hour RAW and Yotes game, sorry fWc but the Yotes are hogging the bigger picture on the TV tonight.