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uuummm his trophy case isn't exactly oveflowing either......actully less success at the pro level than quinn.....

was my go to shop as closest to inner city but will miss mike and noelle as i enjoyed dealing with them. but then again he/she who has the money has the power......who are the owners? maybe the new manager will be as good as the old.....

oops didn't register the $$, no idea.

what has quinn won as a coach except the under 18 world title? not the right choice for the oilers imdao he's an old school guy in a new school league.

surely we'd all agree that there are questionable areas in every quadrant of the city. NE and SE should not be dismissed as there are some good options in both esp in the inner city. traffic in caglary is horrendous (for various reasons - right everyone?) and i'd definitely be considering that in the decision as to where to live as they could end up with a hellish daily commute (and public transit is not exactly one of Calgary's strong suits either - this is a car city). if one of the selling features of the neighbourhood is "minutes to downtown" it usually means about 65 commuting minutes. i've lived my entire 23 years in calgary in the inner city: downtown, then NW and now Altadore in the SW (anyone on here own that aluminum drift boat i see hooked up to a pathfinder on 34th Ave at about 15th St?). i'd never move out of the inner city as that's where i work and play (city play that is) and where my friends live. but inner city can be pricey esp for new(er) homes (likely over $600K for 3 bdrm new house although maybe there are deals around right now). more for the money for farther out but then more hassle to get around...but if you don't want or need to go downtown then inner city may not be the place to be. as someone said depends on lifestyle and of course budget. if you really mean bedroom communities (okotoks, cochrane, langdon etc) be cautious as those as prices can be almost equivalent to calgary with a nasty commute and possible selling problems down the road. my 2 cents would be chose a farther out neighbourhood in calgayr rather than a bedroom community. makes sense to rent for a while and learn about the city and determine a neighbourhood that fits all their criteria to purchase a home. may be a good time to buy as things are definitely down. and get a good realtor who knows the city and the market.

i've had a few dell computers and i think the warranties on dell can vary in "performance." the return to depot are not great as you have to send them in. the next day on site are better but i've found that in some cases they will require you to reconfigure your computer (reinstall windows etc) before they will come out at 2 to 4 hours of your time. the other thing i've found is that if you have the "consumer" model vs the "business" model your service will be affected. when i've had the consumer models you end up on the phone in India trying to diagnose your problem. the business models' service is actually in canada. my most recent computer i've had all sorts of problems with the cursur jumping around. had the keyboard replaced twice as well as some other issues and finally a new laptop. but the cursor issue didn't end. i gave up trying to fight it and am now used to a cursor with a mind of its own. just about time for a new laptop for me too....

only saw about the last 15 mins of that game but the part i saw the reffing seemed fine. penalties called both ways. certainly nothing bad enough to throw crap on the ice. and as we said about the flames even if there are missed calls or phantom penalties they generally don't result in a win or loss. still up to the team and that night the canucks were not up to it (nor the next one).

it'd be cool if it were an original six final. say bruins v. hawks (not the wings pls, pls, pls). gotta go back 30 years for that to 1978 - habs v. rangers. it'll be interesting to see what happens with the canucks in the offseason. think they'll sign the sedin sisters? will the sisters really only sign with the same team or is that an unfounded rumour? not sure why the canucks would bother signing them. if they get the kind of $ that the panelists on tsn/score were suggesting (+/-$6.5mill) that'd be a lot of money for nothing. how about luongo? what do you do with him? will he sign again after next season? seems unlikely given his past comments about wanting to play on a cup contender and hedging about his plans. the canucks oughta trade him to the wings for some of their swedish talent. could work out for both teams. although i'd hate to see how good the wings would be with a great goaltender (which i think all in all luogo probably is). here's a question for the canucks fans out there. what the h-e-double hockey sticks was up with the fans littering the ice with garbage after game 5? is it me or is that a completely inane, classless thing to do?

lynn nailed the issue. you can win in court but still have to collect the money. not always an easy thing to do especially if they don't have any assets (or skeletons in the closet to use as leverage). so after all the time put in on the court side you're faced with as much time trying to collect....not a pleasant situation to say the least....

ouch ouch ouch. that hurt just to watch. hard to imagine what it would have been like to play in that game. the reffing was again pretty crappy. how about the hold on nystrom (on the first penalty kill i think) after he chipped it past the defenceman? could have been a breakaway. that was a terrible call on sarich. hockey is a man's game and if you're going to flop like a raggedy ann everytime sometime touches you....not that the reffing cost the game by any stretch of the imagination but that set the tone early.... time to sit the guys who are hurt and let the youngsters have a go. i don't think langkow, bourque or conroy should have been in the lineup. may as well have the young guys step in and play....at 100% healthy they're likely at least as good as the starters who are playing at 80% (or less). greentree was second in goal scoring in the ahl for qc this year (39 goals)....give him a chance.... gotta do something to shake things up....although......someone stole the flames flag off my truck antenna last night......the flames haven't won a series since i started flying that flag during the playoffs....could be just the jumpstart needed.....

OK, here's my theory on the reffing. there are teams that have reputations as bullies and brawlers and the flame are one of those team. philly gets the same treatment. for years the flames did play that way and often led the league in fights (or were near the top). that gets in a referee's head over the years and you don't get the benefit of the doubt on calls. when we had but 1 or 2 guys who could score and not much else we definitely were on the edge when it came to penalties and fighting etc. but we're not that kind of team any longer....and haven't been for a few years now. that's why it's tought to swallow when we get treated as that kind of team now. same for certain players. you know the ones. chris simon was called on phantom penalties all the time when he played with the flames because of his rep. i don't believe it's b/c we're canadian....that seems a bit too much like a conspiracy.....although there was that goal in 2004 when we actually won the cup but it was taken away from us....reaching for the tinfoil hat now.....

anyone hear any news about the injuries to bourque, langkow or conroy (as if but ... you never know a friend of my bro-in-law talked to regher so i'm pretty sure he's not coming back)? it'll be tough to win this series without 5 or 6 starters including our best defencemen and two of our 20 goal scorers. we need some guys to step it up big time - bertuzzi now's your chance to show us we were wrong to doubt you - or as my dtr says bertuzzi needs to pick up his socks. wouldn't hurt if cammalleri started scoring again.... go flames go!!!

now now if we are true hockey fans who understand the game etc etc you cannot but at least respect the way the canucks took care of biz vs the blues. don't have to like it & it doesn't make me dislike the canucks any less but they did in fact sweep. i still don't think they'll beat a well rounded hockey club - only beat the blues by 1 goal in 3 of the games so it was hardly a crushing sweep. really hoping the flames can pull it out against the hawks as if we do in all probability it'll be flames v canucks - which will be a kick ass series. gonna be tough without 5 or 6 of our starters including our best defenceman, a top 4 defencemen and one (or maybe 2) of our 20 goal scorers.

begrudging congrats to you canucks fans. your team is getting the job done nicely.

can't say i quite agree with hawgstoppah on the officiating last night. overall pretty good. the only thing that really got me was at about 3mins left in the second the puck was centred in front of the hawks net and the flames player was crosschecked from behind before the puck got there....would have been a scoring chance. but once again you can't blame the loss on the officiating. the flames couldn't score on their many opportunities. a lot of scrambles around the net and rebounds just out reach etc etc. need a couple of bounces to go our way.....for a change. it was a decent effort but unfortunately not enough finish .... again .... and still not enough physical play in my view. but give the 'hawks credit. they're playing well....esp their big guns. and damn that 'bulin and his acrobatics. decent games to watch with lots of action.

concrete examples. the goal called back against us a few games ago when glencrosses skate was barely touching the crease....he was a foot away from the goaltender. (not to mention the phantom high stick goal calle off 30 seconds later). ladd makes no effort to avoid kipper and it's a non-call. byflglien trips kipper behind the net with the ref in the corner watching the play. no penalty. jokinen punched in the face while the ref is watching. no penalty. just saying..... still no excuse for not winning the last game though....it wasn't because of officiating they lost. and cammilleri didn't deserve a suspension for the tap he gave havlat....it barely warranted a penalty in the first place and highsticking is the call? yeah another good call.......

i know it sounds like whining but i tend to agree with you on the reffing. we seem to get a lot of calls against us.....but earlier we were winning in spite of that so it was ok (not really ok but you know what i mean). however, you can't let that get into your head or you may as well not be on the ice. gotta play your game and let the chips fall where they may....at least the PK is working.... i think sometimes you may need to take a penalty to send a message. in the last game against vancouver i believed we needed to hit/bump/bother luongo and if resulted in a penalty rely on the PK. and now the same with 'bulin....get in his face and head if you can. look at the way byflglein tripped kipper and ladd's interference. that stuff adds up over a 7 game (hopefully) series. and i wouldn't mind if say vandemeer or nystrom (not roy save him for a real fight if necessary) were to hang a lickin' on the next hawk that gives kipper any guff at all even if it means and instigator minor....twice if necessary. let 'em know that we won't take it and you will be challenged and hopefully punished for bothering kipper. we've got a physical advantage over the 'hawks and we need to use it especially in the 'hawks end - pound the defence at every opportunity on the forecheck.....we won't win this series otherwise....and at least if we lose we lose playing the game that got us this far. there's a reason that don cherry likes the flames they play old time physical hockey. go flames go!!!

yeah pretty clearly should have been interference on the OT goal BUT the flames should not have let the game get into OT. what are they doing protecting a 2-1 lead with 15mins to go?!?!? a trapping team maybe but that is not the flames' game. that was a big mistake....keenan. a decent effort by the flames but they cannot and won't win unless the PP starts scoring....esp in the playoffs when goals are particularly hard to come by. and they have to be even more physical than we were last night as that's an area of the game where they have the advantage. how about some net crashing? kipper was tripped behind his own goal and there was no response by the flames. quid pro quo!!! hopefully the PP will finally come to life in the next game....

just wanna say thx to the oilers for beatin' the canucks. the gagne goal was a thing of beauty. luongo looked pathetic on it. always good to see a goal like that live.

bhurt, there's no question that saddam was a bad guy and did a lot of bad things to his own people - and no personally i don't believe it's ok for governments to purposely kill their own citizens. however, the original gulf war was because iraq invaded an independent soverign nation without provocation - kuwait. it had nuttin' to do with the kurds being massacred by saddam. and there are plenty of examples of situations where gov'ts around the world are killing their citizens - saddam had no monopoly on that. in the current iraq war it's not a question of the us military/intelligence giving wrong intel to the white house. it's the white house ignoring the real evidence and fabricating its own evidence to support their desire to take out saddam. the us chose to invade an independent sovereign nation without provocation. don't see why it's not ok for iraq to invade kuwait but it's ok for the us to invade iraq. the us really had no business invading iraq. or rather for some it was good business sense to invade iraq - there's a lot of people getting rich off that war. but not the ~100,000 dead iraq civilians or the 4,262 dead US soldiers or 179 dead UK soldiers. in one of the posts i deleted i did note that obama's recent announcements may bode well for the afghanistan situation so hopefully the situation will improve there for the Canadian (and coalition) troops and the afghan people.

....piping down...now...

learn to keep mouth shut and fingers off keyboard....

i say start mcelhinney tonight. shake 'em up. do something. it's ugly right now although i only listened to the last 2 games in the radio. wrt to ass kicking it's not so much that the players are trying hard it's how they're trying. sorta like after the sj blowout in november. time to rethink/rejig/remember to play position. take the man etc etc. some knute rockne inspiration. attitude adjustment. every game is a must win for the flames now or at the very least a point. the apr 7 contest will be critical although the flames could be behind the canucks by then....or maybe ahead...ya never know with this team. and to top it off the canucks get to play the avs twice more b/f the end of the year!!

like dave said sticks and stones baby sticks and stones. the issue, inmdfo, is that in the US they don't really get that it was the americans that started the war in afghanistan (or had to start and yes the taliban were bad and pretty much the whole world agreed they deserved what they got) then promptly dropped the ball and moved onto iraq leaving afghanistan in a mess and other countries to try and clean it up. now of course the taliban is all over afghanistan again flexing their muscle. the US didn't do things properly in afghanistan and pretty much dropped the ball to topple hussein for cheney's own personal reasons/vendetta......

i always say that it doesn't matter so much how the team is playing in december as it does in march/april. so far this spring the flames look mediocre. ay carumba it's hard to be a flames fan these days. could they be any more inconsistent? hopefully an ass-kicking by sutter will get things straightened out but if they don't turn it around they'll be in 5th before they know it (maybe on the weekend) playing the hawks on the road. alhthough if they don't win the division personally i'd rather see them in 6th playing the canucks in round 1. that would be a good series to watch.