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To Cowboy Poet's point - the Hawks are an Original 6 team, just like the Leafs. And Harold Ballard was as bad (or worse) than Bill Wirtz. I agree that it's even more dispicable to see these things in an O6 town...but you have to make an allowance for that; these cities have deep hockey roots, and the game will prevail, eventually. Leafs last won the Cup in '67, Hawks in '61. It'd be good for hockey if the Hawks won it this year.

Jonny Greenwood / Ed O'Brien. Bishop and Bloomfield. John and George did ok too.

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Ouch!! Hope you heal up fast.

Yeah, amazing. Eating my words here, on both predictions!

This is actually a really tough poll. I agree with most of the things that have already been said.....but War On War is just a bit too indespensible for me. I vote WoW.

Wings are burnt. I don't think the Habs have another win left in them either. Halak keeps them in it, but the Pens seem to have found their juju. I thought this would be a better series (fights don't count, I mean actual hockey)...

When you wake up feeling old..

Great game last night, Hawks really dominated the 2nd and 3rd periods and fought so hard to finally get something past Luongo. I'm torn, I like both teams in this series - the Hawks are my favorite team after the Habs (I grew up in Montreal). But I know the Canucks are the best hope for a Canadian team going to the finals. And they're a fun team to watch when they're "on" their game. Guess I'll be happy no matter the outcome.

We won't hold it against you if you aren't a Habs fan, but cheering for the Pens is...just....wrong.

The Boss needs to be there this time.

Habs.....unbelievable. I grew up on them and rolled out of bed every morning expecting them to win the Cup, but that was a long time ago. I mean the 70s and five Cups. Now Halak getting so hot reminds me of Roy in '86. Pittsburgh and Detroit are both beatable, hopefully they'll both get knocked out ASAP. Chicago-Vancouver should be a good series. I'd LOVE to see a Montreal-Chicago final, they're the only teams I've ever really liked. Not totally true...the Islanders won me over for a while there. Again, ancient history.

what HH said.

If you like Seven Days, check out Joe Cocker's version sometime. (from the album Sheffield Steel)

I'd like to see Montreal and/or Chicago in the final, but I know that ain't happening. They're the only teams I really care about. Short of that I'd love to see Washington and Detroit get knocked out early. Some pretty ferocious hits in game 2's, especially by the Pens and Caps. (from what I saw) Not very surprising, it's such a physical game - but checking to injure players seems like the rule nowadays. The fans want blood, so that's what the league allows/gives 'em.

There used to be a great live version on youtube, I think maybe from a Chicago show 3-4 years ago? But it was pulled and hasn't been there for a while now. Tweedy was very unshaved, and he did a much longer than usual amazing guitar intro. That was my favorite...sorry for the lack of details but I'd bet you can find this (audio) on a torrent, or maybe someone here will know.

Wish I'd picked up the Montreal upset. I watched the Buf-Bos game, pretty boring affair.

I'm sure I'm in the minority, but the only album that's really grabbed me is Another Fine Day. I've heard Down By and Blood and neither did much for me. AFD has a ton of good songs and ironically not much of Jeff's input, he was too busy that year I think. But it's a great record.

In The Street by Big Star, a "70's band" that's had a huge influence on Tweedy & co. Big Star's Alex Chilton died recently and Wilco has been playing tribute songs at every show since.

I read the Music From Big Pink 33 1/3 novella, it was pretty entertaining.

I take exception to this being referred to as W(TF). Seeing that it's on the Aug.15th weekend and not that far from Yasgur's farm - how about Wilcostock?

On a Thursday you may want to cut through southern Ontario and avoid the snarls in Cleveland. If you do, take the border at Niagara Falls (Rainbow Bridge)-- it's generally faster than the Lewiston and Buffalo crossings.

Ummm, yeah.

I thought most of it was very solid, actually 'The Band' was kind of a disappointment all sitting on their butts, and I thought Springsteen should've been there and Joe Cocker as well as some of Dylan's early 60's contemporaries. But I enjoyed the Bobfest.