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Could Aebischer have looked any worse last night? Oh wait, yes. He could have looked as bad as Raycroft.

I think Muckler is still looking for someone like a Roberts to play with Speeza and Heatley. Neither Neil or McAmmond has looked consistently good on the top line. I'd guess they wait it out until the last minute to see if prices come down. Muck has repeated that he won't move a roster player... wait and see...

I'm with Booche. I've already quit faking starting to get sick for tomorrow. Last year was the "busiest" trade deadline in history, but 2/3rds of the deals were for veteran depth defenseman type players. Maybe the most interesting deal will be if Sabres opt to send Biron somewhere for some injury relief.

Happy belated Chris! Hope it was a good one.

The new Bob Wiseman cd is great. Reminds me of a low fi Ron Sexsmith at times.

As expected (by me anyway), Ruff fined but no suspension.

Hell, the guy's from Parry Sound. Does anything more need to be said?

Good point Will. A penalty to Neil (deserved or not) could have avoided the whole mess. That game certainly wasn't called up to the new standard of officiating - both ways. But it sure made for an entertaining watch!

Obviously it would have been nice if somebody jumped in. But given the circumstances of guys tied up and already put in the penalty box, it's understandable. You'd know that if you watched the game. You're making a mountain out of a molehill. Suggesting someone should have left the bench? Speaking of bush league... And Booche, you better hope that I'd have your back if a brawl broke out. Don't forget that I actually play hockey, as opposed to reminiscing about the good ol' days before blowing a knee out like you do, old man.

Proper retribution would be to send Gratts after Briere. I can't see Murray doing that though. But you know if this was someone like Anaheim, Burke & Carlyle wouldn't hesitate sending an O'Brien/Moen/Parros after a skilled player.

For the record it was before not after the brawl, but it was still an error.

I've been doing some 'sitting in' on keys myself lately. I've got a Hammond XB-2 that needs repair. Is anyone here familiar with that model? I've traced the problem back to the DSP section (I think). Big question is, does anyone know - is this fixable, or am I fucked? Hammond-Suzuki doesn't provide support for these models any more, so getting a replacement chip seems unlikely.

Who on the ice was going to jump in? Speeza, Heatley or Comrie? Philips and Volchenkov were tied up with Mair and Kaleta. Emery was the best suited and handled himself just fine, Peters didn't land a single punch. That was one of the best games of the year, even without the fighting (and from what I saw of Mtl - Nash, it was pretty much just as good!). Lindy Ruff is a disgrace to the game though. It's guys like this that keep the NHL at bush league status. How can anyone - league, media or fans - believe a word he says? After watching the replays he comes out in his press conference and says that Neil hit Drury with an elbow to the head. Clean hit or not, when your best player gets laid out you need to get retribution. But you don't get it by sending out the likes of Peters and Mair to jump Speeza and Heatley. That's just plain cowardly. Murray made a mistake over-estimating Ruff's class and he shouldn't have had those guys on the ice. You've gotta give some props to Marty Biron. Obviously he had never been in a scrap in his life, but he knuckled up and took it from Emery.

Lots of rumours of a Maritimes date (Halifax?) TBA. There's 4 nights off between Portland ME and Quebec City in their tour schedule right now.

Cheers Brian!

I may have never coached in the NHL, but I'd give this a try: Kariya - Arnott - Erat Dumont - Legwand - Sullivan Hartnell - Forsberg - Radulov

Is anyone having any luck with the Mtl tickets today? I can't even bring up the page to select quantities on Admission.com. I expect a second show on the Thursday will be added within the hour, just like what happened with Toronto.

Most classical guitarist use some form of acrylic nail. I was actually advised to look into them when I was doing the conservatory exams.

No disrespect intended, but how ironic is it that the guy calling like he sees it and not sugar-coating his opinion gets told to "take it elsewhere" in a Kung related thread? Oh, and bump.

I'm with Freeker and Ms Hux. For whatever reason, I always liked seeing shows at Babylon. And even more so, I loved playing that venue.

Don't you have a lame twist on the Survivor game to watch fall off the first page?

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Gotta love how 50 year old Nels Cline, with a discography dating back to 1979, made it into a list of "New Guitar Gods".

Hmmm, I did the same thing and didn't receive any codes. I also noticed that Ticketmaster has an option to bill the fan club membership at the same time as you purchase tickets. So that takes care of my concern above.