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WHAT!?!? Why!

And if I was the NHL Commissioner, I would eliminate any and all teams south of St. Louis. With less teams, the Eastern and Western Conferences could play each other during the regular season. I would also bring back the old conference and division names.

I dunno about that! 82 games, is enough to play 29 other teams once at home, once on the road, with the rest of the games being down the stretch inter-division games, so things get tense like this season. If you have a player like Crosby or Ovechkin, they should get to every arena in the league. I'd move the Coyotes back to Winnipeg, the Predators to Seattle, Thrashers to Portland, Lightening to Winnipeg, Canes to Hamilton, and Panthers to Quebec City. Oh and Leafs to Mexico City. Just kidding. Seriously though, it's stupid that Florida has TWO struggling hockey teams and Seattle and Portland, places with a history of hockey (Seattle was the first American city to win the cup, Portland challenged for it, both cities have successful WHL teams) have none. But there's probably a reason why Gary Bettman has his job and I have mine. But really, I just think the Red Wings should go where they belong, the Eastern Conference.

Oh man I have sooo much I want to get off my chest.

Pink Floyd are the second most overrated band in history.

The Doors are #1.

The Arcade Fire suck.

The Catholics made better music then The Pixies.

I don't enjoy any jazz and the muted trumpet is the worst sound in the world.

Animal Collective/Panda Bear is just trendy shit and I honestly believe that no one likes them.

Anodyne is probably just as good as anything Wilco ever did.

Kurt Cobain, besides being completely unoriginal, was a bad singer, guitarist, and song writer.

Actually, The Police are the most overrated band of all time, I don't care what anyone thinks of me, Sting has never made one moment of music that I enjoy.

Elvis sucked. He was the original sell out and paved the way for generations of Rod Stewarts.

LCD Soundsystem have a few good songs and then a whole bunch of rubbish.

Harsh words? Yes. Did I mean to piss anyone off? No.

I've liked most of the non-Will Farrell Apatow Productions so I'll have the check this one out.

Avery's such a prick, especially what he said about Marty after. He lacks any professionalism and class.

I dunno, it's not a knock on baseball it just does NOTHING for me, I'd like to get into it cause I'm trying to get a career in broadcasting so that'd help but... yeah. Same with basketball. For me it'll always be hockey with a weee bit of football, lacrosse, or soccer.

Exactly. It breaks my heart every time I see that almost 40 page post for baseball. I guess that's America for you though.

Panther, my respect for you just doubled. I know The Leafs must be like a cult there, power to you brutha.

I wish I listened to Uncle Tupelo 14 years ago.

Im a huge Canadians fan and have hade "this is the year feelings" since I saw Carey Price frist game to much syncranisty its gonna happen.

Panther, I think you're a pretty cool dude.

So now that Boston is gone, who are all you Boston folks rooting for?

OK maaayyybeeee I spoke prematurely but that was during the first period, Montreal was in the lead, looking great, and Carey Price made a BREATH TAKING save. What happened tonight? Well he's a 20 year old rookie playing in the finals, he's allowed to have one bad game, just as long as it's in a series like this one. He made that one mistake and it seemed to throw him off for the rest of the game.

Montreal in 6.

Flyers () in 7.

Red Wings in 6.

Avalanche in 7.

Rangers in 5.

Sharks in 7*.

Stars in 5.

Those are my predictions. I really think the flames could pull this around or they could choke... they're probably the hardest team to predict in the league. It's strange since they have the second best leader in the league (after Burnaby Joe, of course). So, what's everyone else's predictions? I say predictions not "what would you like to see happen".

It's too bad Ovechkin plays for the Capitals, I'd love to see him on one of the more traditional American markets like New York, Detroit or Chicago (or better yet, Vancouver).

So now that Boston is gone, who are all you Boston folks rooting for?

So the last episode we saw was on day 99. Who wants to bet they get off the island on day 108??

I've been rewatching Lost from the beginning since the break. This has only increased my desire for a Rousseau flashback episode.

Sopcast is a p2p thing, I don't fully understand how it works but you can stream live tv onto your lap top. That way, say your in Massachusetts and you want to watch the Anaheim Ducks vs Dallas Stars but ESPN are a bunch of tools and Versus isn't showing it you can watch it using the power of the internet!

There's pretty much nothing you can't pirate on the internet these days.

awesome sweep by the Pens, and thanks to sopcast, I didn't miss a thing.

Ain't that great? I'm dissapointed I didn't find out about it until at the end of the season (round these parts almost every playoff game is on either CBC or TSN) but I'm stoked to never have to buy a shitty PPV again.

if you have sopcast, you can watch games from the IIHF World Championship. International hockey is so much better than the NHL.

You have no idea how pumped I am for the World Championship. Someone should start a thread for it come closer to May.

If I were to bet on any of these series being a sweep it wouldn't have been Senators vs Penguins it would have been Red Wings vs Predators but that's turning out to be a pretty interesting series.

Anyways, the thought of a Penguin vs Canadien series has me drooling.

I like it. I've always wanted to make my own 8 or 10 string lap steel with one of these bridges.

Yeah I wouldn't be surprised if there was some sort of division in the locker room, I don't know. The Canucks need a new captain, new coach, and now a new GM. This could be good though.

He had a better D-line in front of him last year, due to literally every defense man being injured at one point this season. That being said, his wife was pregnant this season and had "complications" so I think that wore on him mentally. She went to Florida to be with her family so that didn't help either. The baby was born at the end of March so he had some staggering traveling hours, which caused him to play some bad games. I really think they should have just rested him or let him be in Florida for a few days. Our backup goalie, Sanford, is good... the entire point of getting him was so if Luongo couldn't play we wouldn't be totally screwed. But down the stretch when the man was under considerable mental stress, they made him play, and he had to be pulled twice in two nights... ugh.

That said, there were times he looked spectacular this season. Like when Crosby came to Vancouver for the first time and got an over-time penalty shot and Bobby Lou totally stopped him. Or when Luongo got a franchise record of three consecutive shut outs.

And yeah, there's rumours about the coach and team members not getting along with him, which wouldn't surprise me. The big rumour I've heard was that during a game against Edmonton, there was a lot of fighting towards the end and Linden, the classy dude he is, refused to fight so coach Vigneault made him a healthy scratch continuously after that. All the players look up to me and probably commands more respect then Alain Vigneault. However I don't think that's why he wasn't performing as well as last season.

He had both. I want to say the leg braces were during the Blue album. He had braces on his teeth between Pinkerton and Green. I thought I read somewhere it corrected a lisp he had, which changed his singing voice.

Yeah the leg braces were before Pinkerton, hence the x-ray inside my Good Life EP. Anyways yeah the braces thing makes sense. The first post-Pinkerton stuff, the Christmas EP, was by far the worst example of his "new" voice.

Carey Price is actually from a town very close to my home town. He's a legend round these parts.

Did anyone see that shit Avery pulled the other night? That pisses me off a lot. Ruins the integrity of the game.

Anyways... The Canucks owner fired Dave Nonis (the GM) today. Ugh, this could be bad. I know we didn't make the playoffs this year but he's done us a lot of good, we have one of the best defensive cores in the league (that sadly didn't all get to play together this year due to injuries), got the best goalie in the league for next to something, and we have a lot of depth in prospects. Plus, in 06-07 we had more wins then in any previous season. This season wasn't our best but Nonis deserved on more year. Owners worry me... a lot. But who knows, this could be a real good thing. There will be a press conference tomorrow morning and rumours have it that my hero Trevor Linden will be there and he'll be "wearing a suit" next season.

You guys were pretty load, gave the Canadien fans a run for their money. Thomas was really good, if this series goes to 6 games it'll be because of him for sure.

What about Calgary, getting scored on three times in the opening minutes and then coming back and winning the game? That was inspiring.

New song sounds okay. Still don't like Rivers voice... something happened after Pinkerton.

As for The Shods: boo freakin hoo, you can only copyright melody and lyrics. Every artist has had this done to them and every artist has done it to someone else. Look at The Beatles, Paul's bass lines especially.

I think fade-outs work good on a FEW songs but they are waaayyy over used. I see it as lazy song writing/arranging.

ummmmm what???

Sloan! One of my favorite "mainstream" rock bands! Excellent.

Exactly! We have figured out the entire "who's who" of the Office characters in the office where I work. I have to smirk every time I see the guy we have who fits the profile of Dwight. He just thinks I am a happy guy.

And which character are you?

Wow! What a way for the Canadiens to start their playoff run. 2-0 within the first few minutes.

What is the lowest seeding to make a SC final? Didn't an 8 make it a few years back?

Edmonton was an 8th in 06 and did it.

Aren't you forgetting someone???

Nope, not forgetting no one.

Just kidding. The Wild too. I think we can safely say that the only team that won't make the finals in the west is the Hamilton I mean Seattle oops I meant Winnipeg wait-- I actually meant to say Nashville Predators.

What a great first day of the play offs for teams I like... 9 minutes left in the 3rd and Calgary leads San Jose 3-1. The evil Avs have beat the even more evil Wild. And Malkin + Crosby + Hossa + those other guys beat Ottawa (no surprise).