@avclub-75e43c12ef9f1cfdaeae92ca6fa90640:disqus Speaking of scrappy, and speaking of the Avs, how about Patrick Roy shoving the partition between the two benches during his shouting match with Bruce Boudrou in their season opener last night?

I think you guys should at least make the playoffs, especially since, if I remember correctly, your new division is probably the weakest in the NHL at this point in time.  Either way, I expect Ryan Suter will continue to be awesome and probably come close to leading the league in minutes played among skaters again.

The Sens are currently my favorite Canadian team.  I like most of what they're doing as a franchise, and it should be interesting to see what they can do with Bobby Ryan on the team, and a (presumably) healthier Karlsson, Spezza (he was the injured star forward in Ottawa last season, right?), and Anderson.

Isn't it pretty tough to get Hawks tickets these days ever since the franchise got its shit back together?

Plus, Habs-Bruins is a much more storied rivalry.

I'm sorry, that sucks, and it's bullshit you'd be told that, especially since I knew girls who played hockey growing up in NC.  I'm sure that Chicago (assuming you grew up there) can only have even more opportunities for people of all genders to play hockey.

That's a good point.  It's just such a bullshit situation that it's really easy to get pissed even from the perspective of not actually having to deal with said bullshit situation myself, and the fact that I don't have to deal with it myself makes easy to forget that simply taking a "fuck them!" attitude might not…

Seriously, at one point I was wondering if my laptop just wasn't syncing Hulu's sound with the picture, but no, Gina's weird dance was literally just nonsensical and weird.

I think Muller has been defending the team's physicality this training camp/preseason saying that it's all part of proving that they can be a tough team to play against, but fighting in the preseason when you're already an established 2nd line vet is really dumb.

Fuck those fuckers.  That sounds really terrible.  I would absolutely stop caving in to any of their demands, even if they make a reasonable request in the future, because asking someone to stop walking in their own apartment and then homophobically losing their shit over it is fucking absurd.

Baton Rouge Kingfish is an awesome name for a hockey team.  I love the weird names that you run across in minor league hockey teams, my favorite being the newly re-formed Orlando Solar Bears of the ECHL.  And, sadly, according to Wikipedia, the Salmon Kings (also a fucking awesome name) folded in 2011, but their logo…

You should definitely consider following the NHL.  The Wings are great, as always, but now should be an interesting time to follow them, as a new era of great prospects gives Detroit one of the brightest futures in hockey in spite of a team that has a lot of aging stars like Zetterburg, Datsyuk, and Alfredsson (and…

That's an awesome shuffle.  The Mariner's Revenge Song is fucking amazing.

Well, as you said, the Devils will probably suck this year, so I fully expect Jagr to head to a Cup-contender before the trade deadline.  So at least you shouldn't have to deal with him for too long, and you'll probably get some sort of prospect for him come March.

Congrats!

I'll include my own thoughts on the Canes as a reply to the thread.

Does a D+ merit points (I picked We Are Men as one of my new shows).

Congrats!

It's admittedly the only Pynchon I've read, but I find it surprising that you'd include it under "Not that good".

Does unnecessarily trying to learn how to write and do other things better with my non-dominant hand count as "bettering myself"?