the max

And Pittsburgh will be last in two years time. It'll be interesting to see how they handle it. If they sign Hossa, Malone and probably Staal are gone and it would give them a modified Tampa Bay style of having three highly paid players (Lecavalier, Richards, St. Louis v. Crosby, Malkin, Hossa). The only difference would be if Pittsburgh signs Fleury. That's what made Tampa struggle; Tampa never had the quality goaltending. Really? I certainly never thought of Khabibulin as a superstar, but he always seemed like a solid #1 to me. I remember saying earlier in this season that if it were 2003, Chicago might have the league's best 1-2 punch in net. Khabibulin was gone before they signed Richards and St. Louis to their contracts.

Last olympics with baseball. That's pretty much all I'll watch. Fuck running, swimming, etc.

I'm keeping quiet because there's a chance I might get the players I want... *walks away whistling*

And Pittsburgh will be last in two years time. It'll be interesting to see how they handle it. If they sign Hossa, Malone and probably Staal are gone and it would give them a modified Tampa Bay style of having three highly paid players (Lecavalier, Richards, St. Louis v. Crosby, Malkin, Hossa). The only difference would be if Pittsburgh signs Fleury. That's what made Tampa struggle; Tampa never had the quality goaltending.

For Chara I want 1st/2nd/prospect. It would leave me with a defense of: Belle-Johnson Daley-Sigalet Bourdon-? ? = Probably Mike Egener, though I would have to call up someone with a two-way deal which Egener doesn't have. I have a bunch of young defensemen that I drafted.

Tiger laughing incredulously at one-hopping that one shot in was a great reaction shot.

You have the updated roster, right? Denis was sent down for being 1-5 with a 4.05/.859 in 10 games. He cleared waivers. David Krejci has been a house of fire since Bergeron and Zherdev went down. In the 25 games since, he's gone for 20-25-45. He's making a superstar out of Troy Brouwer. I went 1-4-3 through my first eight without Bergeron and Zherdev, but am 14-1-2 since with Krejci being unstoppable. I might be able to deal Chara anyway.

That's what trades are for. I never end up keeping my draft picks in my first season. They're an easy way to stock up the farm system.

I think so. I've never tried to leave them alone to find out the other way, but I've had guys have huge years in The Divine City and had their overall jump by four or five points.

Two great games today. Stanford blew FSU's doors off with 11 in the 9th and Georgia just handed Miami its first loss in 46 games when leading after 8.

http://blog.dispatch.com/cbj/2008/06/more_buggsy.shtml Pens offer Hossa 7/50.

I hated it too until I stopped using the canned cream of mushroom soup. Now, a casserole with homemade COM soup...that's good.

Every time I see his name I think of this awful fox saturday baseball skit called "Byrning Questions" that featured Byrnes as host of this wacky game show. He was also the two contestants and the "jury" of six. I thought I was in hell.

It took me a few months to figure out that I controlled where the shot went. Eventually I noticed on replays that goalies were always playing me to go high glove. It's one of the greatest things about the skill stick.

I held Manchester to 0 shots in a game two or three seasons ago. My defensemen must have blocked 15 shots that game.

Fuck you.

Wheel? I think they either want you to circle in the slot to look for a pass or dump the puck around the boards. Deke stick moves are pretty fun. I suggest just messing around with them in practice. Practice mode kicks ass. Ladies and Germmmssss...youuuurrrrrr Boston Bruins: Troy Brouwer-Pascal Pelletier-David Krejci Nick Antonio*-Joakim Lindstrom-Lauri Tukonen Roman Voloshenko-Valeri Lisin*-Bryan Bickell Cal O'Reilly-Freddy Cabana-Daniel Winnik Had to call up Lisin who has 50 points in 27 WannaB games. I thought of bringing up Rick Spezza* who has 73 points in 27 games but the entire Providence offense would probably collapse on itself. On defense: Zdeno Chara-Aaron Johnson Shawn Belle-Jonathan Sigalet Trevor Daley-Luc Bourdon

God is snipering my players one by one. Two more games and Bergeron is hurt (lacerated arm) and out for about a month. Oh and Braydon Coburn hurt his knee. Out until the end of march. I'm in december. *cries*

Oh I've already decided that other lines are going to have to pick up the slack big time. I'm going to have to move some bruisers onto Bergeron's line as well to help him out. You may not recognize some of the guys on my team since I'm five years in and have drastically changed the team. I will * players who don't exist that I drafted. Troy Brouwer-Patrice Bergeron-David Krejci Nick Antonio*-Pascal Pelletier-Lauri Tukonen Roman Voloshenko-Joakim Lindstrom-Bryan Bickell Cal O'Reilly-Freddy Cabana-Daniel Winnik I'm thinking of making a Brouwer-Bergeron-Bickell line and setting that physicality loose. My second line has been struggling big time as of late, 0 points and a -6 in their last four games. I'm not going to make a trade to help though. It does fuck up the timing on my Chara trade and I might be faced with not moving him but keeping him for the playoffs and losing him to free agency. If I do lose Chara to free agency it will be three years in a row that I have failed to retain my top free agent. Two years ago I lost Kessel to Nashville(!) and last year I lost Bernier to St. Louis. Kessel only went for 5.9 million after he sat out half the year. Bernier went for 9.5(!) and is currently 1-2-3 -15 in St. Louis. Guess he misses playing with the BZ.

Zherdev is out for four months with a broken leg. Fuck. I lost the three games I've played so far without him and lost by multiple goals. Bergeron is basically being assaulted and is a -5 with 1 assist in the three games without Zherdev. I don't know what to do.

If you're just going to switch to "classic" controls, why buy the new game? Most of the enjoyment is derived from figuring out the skill stick and using it to utterly dominate.

They always do that. Every month, I get an email from Chara about how great his stats are and to not forget it when we enter contract negotiations. And one from Zherdev about how great his ice time is. And one from my backup goalie demanding a trade.

Hey nobody ever thought Wirtz would finally die. Maybe someone should pick Reinsdorf in the death pool next year or something.

I'm sure Al will continue to tell us he's a surefire first ballot HOF'er, but this is yet another reason why I think he's worthless. Way to kill the team twice this week you trash talking piece of shit. I eagerly await your list of pitchers who never blew saves. 1- Sidd Finch.

I usually wait until the new year to start dealing. I think that's, like, 40 games or something.