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I didnt say it was isolated to Sens fans but I will say that Sens fans are idiotic in their approach and commentaries. Keep trying to defend all these faux-hockey fans in Ottawa buddy! How else would you explain a city full of band-wagon jumpers? Now THAT is something I consider to be isolated and will continue to bring up each and every opportunity some Moncton Sens fans in their 30's decides to sound-off about MTL talk radio. I suppose you listen to that every day, hmm?

Hahahaha, you are one of them Dinghy!!!

Oh man, I didnt want to get out of the car this morning. The familiar 'sky is falling' Sens fans were phoning into the Team in full force. Whiners, the lot of you. "This team is going to get knocked out of the first round of the playoffs." It was those sorts of messages. I love the faith your collective has. If you fuckers dont take 4 pts from the Leafs in the next two games I am going to be some pissed.

Some kid on PT called this album "dad rock" That's fucking brilliantly hilarious.

Hate It Here is already gaining a huge following.

And zero is the best thing that could have happened to this thread...............

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Well, I didnt word that as well as I should have. I meant that it seems like it is going to be much harder for the top teams in the West during their first round matchups than it is going to be in the East. We'll see what happens.

I am unsure what you mean Dinghy but you should go on a date with Andrew. I do want to say that I can see what Low Roller is talking about. We are not really going to know until the playoffs come around. I just think the playoffs are going to be insanely competitive in the West which is going to have a huge impact on whatever team comes out of it. Getting back to Detroit if they dont amp up their physical play in the second season, they are going to get blown out of the water.

Are they not testing the '3 pts for a win' system in the AHL this season? And if they are, what seems to be the consensus? It works in soccer but that is because they dont play nearly as many games. Seems to me like there would be huge gaps between teams if hockey went that route.

We heard that on the way in this morning. I kinda wish I went to that party.

If anything, the East teams have a better chance of being physically stronger because the top seeds are going to roll through their first round opponents because the number 6-7-8 seeds had to work so hard to get there. That is not going to happen in the West. Those series are going to be heavy hitters right off the bat. You should go on a date with Dinghy.

Thanks Ollie. Now I no longer believe in climate change or RRSP's. Your ideas intrigue me. I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.

I can smell Dinghy's boner from here!

I suppose you get to see alot of that in England, eh? Slow down there pal. Aint going to be no easy route on the West side in the playoffs. 1 through 8 are each going to be challenging as facking hell. You and Rubber Dinghy should go on a date.

Atlanta's recent play suggests they might fall through the cracks. Nothing is said and done but modern developments certainly lead to easy speculations. This is a tight fucking race and one that I think MTL (based on play) and TOR (based on play and remaining schedule) are going to have a really tough time with. The rest of the teams are doing exactly what they want to be doing. Having a winning record over their last 10 games. Carolina better had pick it up, and strong. Like every team. This is exactly how MTL got in last year. A wicked run at the end. If you are going to say 5 are fighting for 8th, I am going to propose that 7 are fighting for the 7th and 8th spots, if you believe the Islanders are a lock. Dont count out Florida man. They are 7-1-2 in their last ten games. All these teams are facing off against one another so their playoff availability depends on what they do each night. MVP gueses? I am going to hold off on that for now. Those top 3 are too close at this point. Lets see where everything ends up.

John Belushi, 25 years later, still an influence By LYNN ELBER Associated Press When a force of nature like John Belushi is lost, 25 years isn't time enough to ease the grief or erase the laughter. Actor-comedian Richard Belzer still dreams about him from time to time. John Landis, who directed Belushi in Animal House and The Blues Brothers, still is angry at him for dying foolishly and young. Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels feels an obligation to "restate the obvious," that Belushi was profoundly talented and part of the show's creative DNA. By most measures, the round comic with the sharp edges left a small body of work when a drug overdose killed him at age 33 in March 1982. But his TV, movie and music performances proved influential, hitting the baby-boomer sweet spot and surviving despite pop culture's truncated attention span. Belushi burst the seams of comedy alongside like-minded performers and writers energized by the social upheaval of the 1960s and '70s. He helped join humor and pop music in a lasting romance. He etched out the start of a promising acting career and his best movies reshaped industry expectations by catering to newly empowered young consumers and pushing comedy into the blockbuster realm. His legacy also includes the bleak Hollywood cliche of destructive behavior, now as much on display as ever. For Belushi, his tragic death overshadows, but can't diminish, his gifts. Endlessly versatile, he inhabited the samurai deli guy, Joe Cocker, Captain Kirk and more on Saturday Night Live. He gave us Bluto ("Food fight!") and Jake Blues, on a mission from God to save music. Always, there was a hint of intelligent mischief, if only in a masterfully lifted eyebrow. In 1978, on the eve of his 30th birthday, Belushi had the No. 1 movie with Animal House, the No. 1 record (with partner Dan Aykroyd), "Briefcase Full of Blues," and was the heart of television's hottest show. "No one had broken through like he did," said Bernie Brillstein, Belushi's manager. He always shared his good fortune and clout with friends, said Belzer (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit). When Belushi found out Belzer was getting paid less than Belushi and others on a TV show, he threatened to walk unless there was parity. "He was very generous, too, as a performer . . . A lot of great performers raise the game of those around them. He was one of those people," Belzer said. On the second Blues Brothers album, Belushi included songs from musicians who could use the royalties. He also regularly lived up to his reputation for excess and excitement. At New York City's Drake Hotel in 1977, Landis met him for the first time to discuss doing Animal House. "He came into my room like a tornado, this burst of energy," the director recalled. "He immediately called room service, ordering bottles of champagne and Courvoisier and beer and shrimp cocktails for 20, vast amounts of food." The world was Belushi's, for better and worse, as his contracts rose from $35,000 for Animal House to $2 million and more. As it had for others, success fueled destructive excess. The comedian was found dead on March 5, 1982, in a hotel bungalow at the Chateau Marmont hotel on the fabled Sunset Strip. Cathy Evelyn Smith, a drug dealer and user who was convicted of injecting Belushi with a fatal dose of heroin and cocaine, served 18 months in prison. "If you have a lot of money in your pocket, you will attract a lot of women. You will attract a lot of followers. And you will attract a lot of drugs," Brillstein said. "The hangers-on job is to keep the king happy. They will never tell them they're in danger of losing what they have." Belushi didn't consider himself an addict despite prodigious drug use, said Tanner Colby, co-author of the 2005 biography Belushi (written with Belushi's widow, Judith Belushi Pisano). "John Belushi, deep down, was a stable guy who knew who he was, had a lot of confidence, wasn't superficial but with no great internal trouble," Colby said. "I think that what happened to him was largely due to fame. For a year and a half, he was as big as Elvis." Colby is working on a biography of Chris Farley, a later-generation Saturday Night Live star who was a drug-overdose victim in 1997, also at age 33. Director Landis had an unsettling encounter with Farley some six months before, in which Farley declared his admiration for Animal House and his desire to emulate Belushi. "I found myself saying, "You know, Chris, John is not the best role model. John is dead,' " Landis recalled. (Farley's family runs the Chris Farley Foundation to educate young people about the dangers of substance abuse and how to avoid peer pressure.) Farley was in and out of rehab. Belushi lived in an era with fewer treatment options and, according to some accounts, much more acceptance of drug use. Some close to Belushi said they tried to stop him. "Many times," Landis said. "Do you know any drug addicts, alcoholics? . . . It's very difficult, like saying to a person who has cancer, "Stop fooling around. Stop this (expletive) at once.' " His friend faced a difficult fight, Belzer said. â€On some level he was gallantly struggling to straighten himself out, but the nature of the business, the nature of his personality and some of the people around him just made it harder,†he said. â€That happens to a lot of celebrities, when no one can say ’no’ around them.†Landis saw the dire results. In 1978’s â€Animal House,†Belushi was a disciplined and collaborative actor who took the â€crazed, wild character†of frat boy Bluto and made him lovable, said the director. â€By the time of ’The Blues Brothers’ (1980), he had a very bad drug problem,†Landis said, and it started undermining his work. His last project was 1981’s â€Neighbors†with Aykroyd; he was set to make â€Ghostbusters,†which filmed after his death with Bill Murray replacing him. What might a clean Belushi have gone on to do? His career could have paralleled that of Murray, his former â€Saturday Night Live†co-star who traveled from â€Caddyshack†to a 2004 Oscar nomination for his poignant performance in â€Lost in Translation.†â€I think John had a depth to his talent that would have allowed him to reinvent himself,†Michaels said. Landis agrees. â€He could have done anything.â€

I am sure you are discovering unique tastes based on the amount of droppings we witnessed throughout the evening.

NO ITS NOT! It's 100% disgusting!!! We went in there so Lynn could get a coffee. Guigs hit the can. I didnt step more than 5 feet inside the door because it was so dirty looking. Lynn threw the coffee out and Guigs was worried his pecker caught something in the bathroom. You need to get the hell out of Toronto if that is your definition of "decent"

Doing the DaveyBoy Bump.

Without pointing specific fingers, I tend to agree with William in that the core of this team is not playing with any consistency. How many coaches has this team gone through? It's time to look in the mirror and wonder where the problem really lies. Seems like MTL's most recent coaches are having moderate success with their current teams but had a difficult time with the Habs.

He's made some mistakes as any rookie coach is going to do.......but he is not the problem here.

Where is the consistency? If I have given up on the season, I am sure the players must have as well. Prove me wrong Habs!

Life is grand right now.