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Not to be an ass, but you now have 9 teams in the West, and only 7 teams in the East, making the postseason. While I personally would love if it the NHL adopted a "top 16 teams, regardless of conference" approach to the playoffs, I don't think it's happening just yet.

1. Who will win the Hart Trophy? - Kipper 2. Who will win the Vezina Trophy? - Kipper 3. Who will win the Calder Trophy? - Kessel 4. Who will win the Art Ross Trophy? - Thornton 5. Who will win the Richard Trophy? - If he stays healthy, Nash ... if not, Ovechkin 6. What team had the best offseason? - Since I'm biased, Boston 7. What team had the worst offseason? - Islanders 8. Which team will be the most improved over last year? - Boston 9. Which team will be the biggest disappointment? - Edmonton & Carolina 10. What was the best offseason move? - Pittsburgh hiring Shero 11. What was the worst offseason move? - Dipietro + 15 year contract = lunacy 12. Who will make the playoffs that didn't last year? Boston, Columbus, Minnesota 13. Who will not make the playoffs that did last year? Montreal, Colorado, Edmonton 14. Who would make your All-NHL first team? Thornton, Nash, Ovechkin, Pronger, Phaneuf, Kipper 15. Who will be the division winners? Ottawa, Jersey, Atlanta, Nashville, Calgary, Anaheim 16. Eastern Conference Final: Ottawa over Boston 17. Western Conference Final: Nashville over Detroit 18. Stanley Cup Final: Ottawa over Nashville 19. Who will win the Conn Smythe Trophy? Kariya 20. Make one bold prediction - Peter Forsberg stays healthy for a full season

Arizona Tennessee N.Y. Jets Houston Buffalo Carolina Baltimore San Francisco St. Louis Cleveland Jacksonville Cincinnati Chicago Green Bay The Pats will score 20 points this week.

I hate the Manning/Manning one ... but then again, I hate Eli & Peyton with a passion, so it's not a stretch for me to dislike their ad. And I used to dislike Whitlock until I heard that he got canned from ESPN for calling out "Scoop" Jackson, the writer on espn.com. Now I respect his willingness to go against the corporate grain for something that he believes in.

He's currently inactive there at well. And the Pit is horrible compared to here?!? Pshaw.

He's currently inactive there at well. And the Pit is horrible compared to here?!? Pshaw.

While I'm not sure which of these you'd like Chave, lately I've been listening to a lot of: Aphex Twin TV on the Radio Eels Built to Spill Burzum (has replaced Prussian Blue and Neo-Hate as my current favorite racist music) But caveat emptor: all of the above are very hit or miss ... the good, though, is good enough to outweigh the not-so-good.

Czech, if you ever needed to travel to Massachusetts to fight someone, I could make room at the casa de niskie if you needed a place to crash. I'm cool like that.

It's pretty cool that there was a 4-corners match in the mid-80s. You normally associate that with the mid-90s, or even more recent. That's a pretty cool stipulation. I'd like to see someone pilfer that idea and use it now. And it's surprising that the faces won the 1st match - and thus the chance to have a 2-on-1.

I don't think that the WWE will be without blame if/when something tragic happened to Angle. Even if this something happened to him in a TNA ring, the fact that most of the damage done to his body & psyche was done in a WWE one wouldn't be ignored. Just because they washed their hands of him now - once the damage has been done - doesn't mean that they wouldn't be accountable if he ends up in a wheelchair.

Carolina Chicago Cincinnati Detroit Jacksonville Buffalo Tennessee Houston Baltimore Seattle Philadelphia Arizona New England Atlanta The beloved New England Patriots will score 27 points.

I wonder if he was planning on visiting Gu all along, or if the idea came to him when he was 2 or 3 jugs deep. I've done a lot of stupid things while drunk ... but never gone to a zoo. Let alone get into a bite-fight with a panda.

If you all were really college chicks, I'd be hitting on you all. And dating one of you. For like 3 months. And then getting all bent out of shape & emo about the break-up. Luckily for me, you aren't really college chicks.

Y'know, the Habs would have probably felt even more like winners if they'd won. I was pleased to hear how well the B's played ... 2 G for Sturm, 2 A for Kessel, 1 G/1 A for Chara. Yes, I recognize that it's pre-season (and early in the pre-season at that) but it's good to see the players that the team is counting on playing well.

Doesn't everyone? I have no problems with Mole as a message boarder ... but his stories & pictures about his real life reminded me so much of everyone that I detested growing up that it was hard for me to really like him that much as a board pesonality.

Regarding purposely causing an accident to prove a point: People with that mentality crack me up. Yeah, they're really showing that evil tailgater by potentially causing a multi-car pile-up. And there's no chance that the insurance investigators will see through a "cat ran across my path" excuse ... no chance at all. And the potential for causing a fatality (no matter how slim) would be a small price to pay to prove a point! It's a foolproof plan! Regarding the repeatedly saying no to a salesperson: Say it once, and then just stop responding. Or just say, "no" as soon as they open their mouths. It's not like the sales person likes having to ask the questions. Maybe just ask to see a manager as soon as you go up to pay, and inform them that you shop there regularly and it angers you that you're forced to endure their questions each time ... tell the manager you want to be rung up with no questions asked.

The best part of that black.white. show was how horribly amateur the make-up looked. Helen Keller would have recognized that the black family was really a white family in make-up, and vice versa.

The only thing worse than starting off with two losses is having both of them be to divisional foes.

So, TNA is competition even though the WWE is generating much more revenue, but UFC is not competition even though they're destroying them in PPV buys?!?

Yes, I did mean pedestrian. I don't know how or why I used "passenger" there ... other than starting with the same letter, there's really no reason to get the two words confused. I wish someone else had made that mistake, so I could mock them for their confusion. Regardless, I've corrected my mistake-laden post.

Bicyclists that butter their bread on both sides, and want to be treated like a vehicle when it comes to yielding the right of way & whatnot, but want to be treated like a pedestrian when it comes to red lights & stopping at stop signs. Either you're a real vehicle or a pedestrian on wheels ... not both. Oh, and people that say "butter their bread on both sides".

Y'know, for how little I really knew or retained about Marvin, he seemed like an Ok board member. I, for one, don't welcome our new "Done with TSM" overlords.

Leena > Cameron Chaos

I agree with Lushus ... Miami Inked is good TV. Also, correction to your entry re: Dog the Bounty Hunter: he's after "iceheads" (meth users) not crackheads.

Maybe so, but he wasn't as bad as some of the muppets on here, he wasnt aggressive or racist or any of that shit, from what I could see anyroad. Just out of curiosity ... which posters did you have in mind when you referred to the muppets that WP was superior to?