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It depends on where your friend is playing. If he's in the Boston area, he's easily going to pick up on something like. With one of the biggest bandwagon mentalities in the country, the fans around here don't care about the NHL right now. If your friend's playing in the Minnesota area, there's no way he'd ever pick up on something like that.

If this doesn't result in a billion dollar bribe, I'll be very upset.

Well since I was talking specifically about the home jersey, the white one really doesn't matter here. That jersey is a good example of how the general public can see things much differently than the so called hardcore fans. I've never heard anyone say that they actually like that thing, yet it was obviously selling really well since Atlanta has now made it their home jersey. Could the slugs actually have an appeal to the NHL fans as a whole like the powder blue jersey has? We won't know that for a while, but it's possible. I actually heard a good number of positive comments (and no negative comments) last week at the game in Boston.

Perfectly clean. He was in the middle of those extra strides because he's actually trying to play defense. He saw the puck about to go around the net so he went to cut off the play. For anyone who thinks it was dirty, is he supposed to avoid the hit and possibly allow a scoring chance for Detroit? Of course not. These people need to whine about the rock hard shoulder pads before they go after these hits. Oh, and yesterday someone on another board was trying to compare the Williams mess to the Malarchuk incident. There are idiots everywhere.

I'm really sick of reading random comments around the internet calling them the uggliest jerseys in hockey. Has anyone ever seen those monstrosities that Atlanta calls a home jersey?

The main problem there was that they were including OTL's in both the loss column and the OTL column (pre-shootout days). The numbers added up to more games than the teams actually played. That would've been easy enough to fix though.

I was just about to post that. That could easily ruin my day here at work.

I was actually shaking after the tying goal. It was absolutely amazing watching the crowd go silent so quickly after our 3rd goal. As one person I was probably making more noise than the entire Bruins crowd (all 27 of them).

Exactly. You have 3 columns: 1 that counts as 2 points, 0 points, and 1 point. Adding anything more will only confuse people.

High five!

I'll be there tonight. Luckily my new Pominville jersey was delievered today so I get to debut that tonight.

Actually, now that I think about it, the punch was at a college hockey game. I just happened to be walking down a stairwell (wearing my team's jersey) as the entire student section of the other school was walking up the stairs. Wrong place, wrong time. They were all pretty harmless, taunting me nonstop, but then one idiot decided to try to punch me. Since I have a lot of common sense, I just kept walking because yeah, that would've gotten ugly really fast. But anyway, the death threats did happen at a Sabres-Bruins game, and yes, I was wearing a Sabres jersey. I'm not an !@#$ during these games, so I'm safe. The ones who end up getting attacked are the ones who go out of their way to gain attention.

I missed last week's episode. How did T-Bag get the money?

Is it too late for me to get the Buffalo News to write a story about the death threats and the punch to the neck that I got while walking out of the Fleet Center after a Sabres-Bruins game last year? Yes, it sucks that this happened to him, but these kind of things don't generally happen unprovoked. If it was one person, maybe, but to set off an entire group of people, the guy had to have done/said something. Call me crazy, but if I'm surrounded by a large number of drunken rival fans, I'm going to cover up my jersey and not draw attention if at all possible, especially if I'm there with a pregnant woman. I realize that some people think that I may be trying to make excuses here. I'm not. The people who beat the guy are a bunch of idiots who should be banned from the Ralph and the HSBC. I just hate that some people will end up associating the entire fanbase with these idiots.

Hitler dressed up as the Verizon "can you hear me now" guy was hilarious.

The worst part is that the joke wasn't even a shot at the Croc Hunter. It was a shot at all the people who have been brining up that costume idea over the last few days. These idiot writers still think of South Park as nothing more than fart jokes. Maybe if they opened their eyes and actually watched any episode from the last 5 or so years, they'd realize what the show has become.

See, that's the thing. We have raffles for those tickets too, but the emails don't say "World Series Champion Boston Red Sox". Both teams are one season removed from their championship. Why do they use that billing for one and not the other? People will go see the Sox no matter what, but they have to throw that label out there for the Pats so that they look important around here.

I thought the Bruins one I listed earlier would be good, but then I remembered that I'm in the middle of bandwagon nation and they don't care about hockey anymore.

So each week here at work, they always send out this email about entering in a raffle to win tickets for the "Superbowl Champion New England Patriots". I am beyond sick of this at this point. The raffle itself is fine, but they're not the superbowl champions. Each time I've received the email this season, I've sent a different reply. Here's what I've said so far: 1. They're not the Superbowl champions. 2. You're giving away Steeler tickets? How should I respond this week? My only idea so far: "I'm not interested, but if you have any tickets for the Stanley Cup Champion Boston Bruins, please let me know."

I was barely paying attention this past week, but wasn't Reyes out with an injury?

The Bruins fans wanted to kill us. It was amazing.

This game is next to impossible with a ridiculously dirty mouse. At least it convinced me to finally clean the mouse up a bit.

But where's the convenience factor in that solution?

Move

We never got to do that at my school, but we did get some good tackle football games going. The teachers told us not to tackle each other, but they never really seemed to mind when we did.