You have about 29 teams tripping over themselves for a boss like P.K. I'd welcome him on the Sens or Jets instantly, dude is too good.

Yeah man, I agree!

Well, so far our powerplay is better without him! Markov is back and healthy and he has 3 goals in 3 games! P.k. is great, for sure, his attitude isn't.

i doubt it but anyone a fan of the A-league? love the Western Sydney Wanderers

If there were any justice in the world, Calgary would have beaten Chicago last night. Seriously, we should have lost 7-0, Emery just ate his Wheaties that morning, without him we would have been toast. Both our goals were weird as hell, the first one was just a flukey slip and the second one was Hossa just hitting IDDQD with two seconds left.

I saw the replay of that this morning, 'twas crazy.

I was also at the game three years ago when Calgary got five goals in ten shots within the first twelve minutes or something crazy, and still wound up losing 6-5 in overtime. That was two days after an 11 round shootout win over Colorado for the home opener. Best two-games-in-three-days I've ever been to, hands down. I couldn't talk for about four or five days because my voice was so shot from all the yelling.

Basically Calgary has to fucking hate Chicago at this point

Oh man that had to have been KILLER to be at the 6-5 OT game, I'd definitely be proud to be a Hawks fan if I were one.

So does anybody hate the way intereference and slashing has been called so far this season? The Bruins have been screwed with some pretty bunk slashing calls thus far, but luckily we've been able to kill the power play off. It'll probably get better as the season moves on, but I've never been this frustrated at officiating.

Superbowl?

Superbowl?

I thought/wanted the 49ers to win. They dug themselves to big a hole and mismanaged their timeouts in the 2nd half.

I also was not a fan of the playcalling for the Niners, especially on the goal line stand.

Also, the refs missed a couple calls against the Ravens...and I can't stand that murderer Ray Lewis getting one more ring.

A) Culliver was interfering all night, if anything the refs should have been calling more on San Fran.

B) That was a hold in the endzone and should have been called. They were both holding and pushing off each other but nine times out of ten, that's called and it's on the defense.

C) I love when Jim Harbaugh throws an absolute tantrum like a three year old.

D) Poo on Baltimore for not keeping their momentum through the power outage, but that was an absolute godsend for the Niners. That game was about to get away from them, and that was basically an extended halftime for them to get their heads on straight and get some extra practice/cooldown. If they would have won, I would have been one of the assholes who attributed a huge amount of it to the power outage, because you can't deny that that didn't give them a massive boost.

E) The best statuses I saw about the power outage were "OMG IT'S BANE" and "I bet Jim Harbaugh used to unplug the Nintendo when his brother was winning".

F) Ray Lewis is the most likeable murderer in the universe.

I disagree on that, Calgary is by far the worst team in the league. Their #2 faceoff guy is Jarome Iginla, who has played wing his whole career, because they neglected center depth and assumed they could put wingers in the middle, like having Iginla take his line's faceoffs and putting Tanguay in the position that he hasn't played since juniors. Sure, they looked decent against the Hawks, but the Hawks were having a bad game and still won because the Flames are such a poorly organized team that they can't capitalize on opportunities when given to them, like playing against Ray Emery.

What's really funny is seeing 11 no-trade/no-movement clauses on their team: http://capgeek.com/flames
It's like they're trying to be the 2007-08 New York Rangers by loading the team with borderline 2nd/3rd liners around a star right wing and some aging centers with some talent but not enough to make them much better than a potential 7th-8th place team. The difference is that the Flames are loading their teams with guys who used to be pretty good and are now not really good at all, and the Rangers had guys who used to be great and were playing decently, and the Flames are a bit shorter on prospects. They're also riding an aging goalie into the ground without much of a backup plan (though Lee Irving could turn out to be a solid goalie, he has played 7 NHL games and won only 1).

This is a team that could have seriously improved by signing Scott Gomez, that's how bad they are.

Oh yeah, Calgary is doomed for the toilet for the next several years, but in the microcosm of that one specific game, they vastly outplayed one of the best teams in the league, and managed to not come up with a win due to a hot goalie and an absolute dearth of good luck.

And if you're to believe NHL12, Irving is second only to Schneider as the best young backup to draft in a fantasy Be A GM mode. He'll be Lundqvist levels of good in two or three years according to videogames! Videogames are never wrong!

Flacco is class. This is all.

Of course video games are never wrong, why else would the Rangers sign Drury, Gomez, Rozsival, and Redden to huge contracts? That's an elite lineup in the corresponding years' NHL games. I'm glad that era is over

Those goaltender interference calls in Habs/Sens were pure bullshit. Fucking refs.

I suppose this would be the place to discuss Beyonce's half-time performance, no?

Did anyone else think she looked positively frightening at times, despite the generous curves? She had a look on her face like she had just cockslapped somebody - all catty and nefarious-like.

At one point I shivered, turned to my beloved, and said: "Succubus!"

She looked coked-out, if anything

she DID looked coked out, but still....hot and sexy as hell. Her music has always annoyed me even though she has a great voice, but coked out or not, I still thought she looked pretty dang good.

Officiating was terrible all game long but the bottom line was, lately for some reason the 49ers think they can get away with only showing up to play the second half. The game is four quarters long, not just the last two. "Lucky Seven" (do people in Reno call him that? man that guys badass!) played a great game and could conceivably have been the game MVP if they had won. But SF was let down by their secondary; and that has been pretty much the story for most of the season. The 49ers D-line is great, but their corners and safeties are, well, not so great. They looked like children playing a man's game out there Sunday evening.

Bruins/Habs tonight! Are you ready, Metantoine?

Sure, my class will finish right before the game and I'll go watch it with my univ comrades + beer!

4-1 Habs, fuck the Bruins!

I wasn't talking about orgies, though if it came down to it, I'm sure this would be quite a horrible sight.

In all seriousness, if our defense/Tuukka doesn't play like we did against Toronto last week and our powerplay doesn't show up, you'll probably be right. I think the only thing I can be certain of is Chara getting booed each time he touches the puck, and P.K. Subban diving at some point.

there is massive news in australian sport about match fixing and doping involving all 4 football codes at least, mass blood doping and possible match fixing i am unsure if this will have any impact outside of australia but i thought i would post it just incase

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/afl/more-ne ... 6572459574

Fuuuuuuuck, we had so many scoring chances in the first period, you guys were surprised but won with your defense.

Spring Training is almost here!

I was very impressed with Gregory Campbell's play, especially. Biggest WTF moment goes to that breakaway that Tomas Plekanec had, that's gotta be on a "Not Top 10" somewhere...

YES. Pitchers and catchers report Monday!

Bruins trade Tim Thomas to NYI for a conditional 2nd-round pick in 2014 or 2015. Not sure how I feel about that...on one hand we still have Tuukka Rask and $5 million dollars/year of cap space to fuck around with, but on the other, we lose a 2-time Vezina winner and the goalie that played a huge part in getting us our first Cup in over 30 years. Hmm...

To the Islanders? Weird, they have Nabokov and Dipietro already...

Nabby's old and he's not exactly the goaltender he was a few years back with the Sharks. Then again, he hasn't really had much to work with in front of him since the joining the Isles. And who's the other guy? Ohhhh, DiPietro, the guy that disappeared off the face of the earth from his 184972772 injuries.

It's hard to say how this deal will turn out for them. Thomas is also up there in age, so this definitely won't be anything long term, but I'd definitely say that it's an improvement for them. Thomas is still a very solid goaltender, and better than anyone the Isles have had in nets since DiPietro was healthy, which was like 900 years ago. (Actually, Thomas is probably the superior goalie).

Typical Isles cap move, haha. Although if Thomas comes back and plays like in the 2010-2011 season, say hello to the new Stanley Cup champs!

As a Diamondbacks fan, I'm cautiously stoked. They had as busy an offseason as anyone in the league. They acquired Brandon McCarthy who will bolster an already very deep rotation and they just extended one of the most underrated infielders in the NL in Aaron Hill who they heisted from Toronto. I'm not entirely certain the team is better without J-Up and they still have a glut of outfielders. Jason Kubel is now their only guy who has any semblance of a power hitter but he's a butcher in left field. Martin Prado, Hill and Schmitty have plenty of pop so hopefully they win plenty of two or three run games in that division )especially on the road.) What they got in return for Trevor Bauer was maddening. Even if he busts for the Indians that was all the more reason to have gotten more value from the swap. They probably could have instead packaged him with Upton for Chase Headly. If Heath Bell can return to his dominant form prior to last season, they'll be tough to come from behind in the late innings with him and Hernandez setting up for J.J. Putz.

United vs Real Madrid is going to be intense. Can't wait to see Ronaldo back at Old Trafford. I still remember the 2008 Champions League, his monstrous header. I wasn't aware of the shit he pulled to get to Real Madrid back then, so I still hold him highly as a footballer. Come on, United! We shall win the Champions League this year!

So the Bruins can score two goals in less than a minute with the goalie pulled, but we can't net one on an actual power play...seriously surprised we managed even a single point from tonight's game.

Yeah, I was following the NYR/BOS game with Zodi online and the Lightning fuckin' cameback against us too, it was 3-0 and we won 4-3 in sudden death, thanks to Desharnais and Price. Hopefully we'll destroy the Panthers thursday.

Ottawa's depth is amazing. No Spezza, Karlsson, Michalek or Cowen. They lose Andy mid-game. Still beat the Rangers.

I for one welcome our new Swedish overlords.

One game away from history tonight, let's see if we can do it without Seabs and Hoss. It'll be tough since we aren't nearly as deep as we were when we won the Cup a few years ago (when you've got Andrew Ladd on your third line, you're pretty well set), but I'm hoping the extra motivation will be enough. Personally, I'm a little worried since we always seem to have a habit of not trying very hard against teams that aren't all that great, and San Jose has definitely cooled off from that ludicrously great start.

Apparently Hossa is feeling like he'll be ready for tonight's game, so disregard what I said earlier, hopefully he can make it and we make history. That'd definitely make my night.

EDIT: Holy crap, Seabs and Car Bomb are in the lineup tonight? Looks like the whole "dealing with injury" thing was a myth.

I'm not able to watch any hockey tonight, but I hope you guys win!

I missed the third period due to prior obligations, but I see we won it. This is super exciting, we've already gone a third of the season without a regulation loss, that's completely unheard of (yeah yeah shortened season making it sound cooler than it is, but even by raw numbers we have the best start in NHL history).