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I didn't think HNIC could do worse than Garrett for colour, but Crawford is even worse. All the guy said the entire third period, was "We'll see if this young kings team can come back" over and over again. A little different than the Leafs game. Might not have been pretty, but when you have <EDIT eight > powerplays against you - I defy any team to play cohesively. Kings had 20 of 41 shots on the powerplay. I think the shot counter was a little genrous - kings went from 34-41 shots in the last minute. Really nice the way the kings practically trampled Kipper in the last minute and no call, after Iginla barely touches Labarbera and gets called. A great job by the Zebras to try and make it close. Kipper played well tonight.

Once again, Weedy, you seem to be able to read the words but fail to understand the meaning. The message was that I find it humourous that people make fun of George Bush's intelligence, when in reality he is more intelligent than 90% of the population. You read that but somehow translate it to - he believes that George Bush makes a good President of the United States because he has an IQ of 125. So off you go to google someone with the same IQ and suggest he could be president. Maybe you should spend the winter working on your reading comprehension. http://learningdisabilities.about.com/od/i...q4rstrategy.htm As for IQ - You are mistaken in your conversion. In Canada, everyone takes the IQ test and when you get the results you take 50 points from those with high IQs and donate them to those with lower IQ.

You just described Richard Simmons.

Anyone want to guess George W Bush's IQ? 125 is the estimate based on his SAT scores. That would put him in the top 10% of the population, which is why I get a laugh out of people making fun of his intelligence.

I think they were referred to as retarded, which the correct term. Here is more info: The correct terms in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders are: Mild Mental Retardation (IQ 50-69) Moderate Mental Retardation (IQ 40-50) Severe Mental Retardation (IQ 20-40) Profound Mental Retardation (IQ under 20 and/or from Edmonton) Mental Retardation Severity Unspecified (an exact IQ can't be determined) Borderline Intellectual Functioning (IQ 70 to 83; lower than average but not MR)

I will. The difference between the first 6 games and the last 4 was that instead of playing horribly, Kipprusoff has played average. His bet performance was Nashville, although he gave up 3 goals on 10 shots in the 2nd - but he was the difference. He remains 31st in save % despite his team winning 5 straight, likewise his GAA is still 3. And unless you can see into the future - he has one shut-out not two. He was not the difference in any of the wins except the Nashville win. it could be argued he was the difference against Col, but more because Budaj was poor, Bourque dominated the period, and Col hit the post twice (Calgary also outshot Col 10-2 in the third). The Col game could have gone either way until mid-way through the 3rd. Like I said I am a fan of the TEAM - but when players aren't playing up to expectations on a consistent basis, I won't pretend they are. If Kipper has 8 out of 10 games in a row where he plays great (even if team loses), I'll be the first to say so. That does not mean he wasn't stinking it up in the first 5 games. Unfortunately for Kipper, when you're one of the top paid Goaltenders in the league, people will expect you to consistently perform like a top goalie in the leaugue. he has not done this for the past 2 1/2 seasons.

So that explains why you and the other oiler fans moved to Calgary. I could not figure that one out.

Hey - great Game Edmonton. Best performance in 4 games - took all the way to overtime for you to lose. Too bad about those penalties in overtime. Say, did you guys happen to catch the absurdity in the Ottawa game. Apparently one of Buffalo's superstars (Weber) hit one of the Senators lesser players (think his name was Alfredsson or something). Anyway - right after, Mike Fisher goes after Weber and starts a fight. Here's the absurd part. Bufallo did not get a 9 minute power play, even though that seems to be the standard call for this play according to the non biased oiler fans. In fact, the Sens ended up with the power play. Something wrong here, cause the same thing happened in Phoenix the other night with Carcillo jumping in to protect Mueller after Giordano hit him with a clean check. Calgary also did not get the prescribed 9 minute power play - the standard punishment for this offence.

The thread seemed to disappear for awhile from the list. All we need to do is outshoot teams 19-6 in the second and we can win.

Don - I don't doubt it. I'm not suggesting that you are a capitalist or elitist (cleary you are not). Just that most of your clients are a) likely not voting for the left, buying the rods as jewelery. Same guys that buy $500 custom landing nets.

I hear you!

I believe this was in the flames thread this morning. Thats why I asked. Sorry Don - but I find it really hard to listen to socialist rhetoric from someone that sells $1500 fishing rods. I just think that a $1500 fly rod is about the best example of capitalist excess that I can think of. Not trying to pick a fight.

How does this relate to hockey? Interesting that Gerogia and Iraq are the twho most in favour of John - Could it be that the rest of the world's opinion on US involvement in those two countries has been shaped by a left wing media? Flames dominated last night - Hey, if anyone gets a chance - go look at the highlights (they are available on TSN). I could be wrong, and I'm sure Smitty will straighten me out, but almost looked to me like Giordano had a nice clean hit on Muller early on, and, I must be mistaken, but it looked a little bit like Carcillo jumped in to fight Girodano - even though that never happens. And then it looked almost like they each got 5 for fighting and Carcillo two for instigating. Someone please correct me - cause I know that Carcillo 9 minutes and Giordano 0.

All kidding aside - there was a big fire in Edmonton tonight. City Hall burned down and nearly took out the whole trailer park.

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WTF - listening to the game and it has been almost three minutes STRAIGHT without a powerplay. This is absurd. How are we supposed put up with this crap.

5 for dropping the gloves - watch the video. Either Rene was wearing 4 gloves, or Sloan dropped them also. And Smitty - we all know you are brilliant and not at all biased. Since you brought up Gretzky - Isn't it a good job that no-one ever started a fight when he got hit? Seems to me I was in the crowd in Winnipeg when he got bumped (barely) by Barry Long and Cementhead came from the far corner and broke his nose. Pretty much every time Wayne got hit, someone else jumped in: Whether it should or should not happen is not the question, the question is whether it does or does not happen. It happens. Since you like the word absurd, how about this. If on his way, Bourque had stopped to take off his helmet, then proceeded to jump Sloan - he would only have received 7 minutes. That's absurd.

Q: The Stanley Cup was recently on tour in my town, and I kissed it. Do I have to worry about being infected by listeria? A: You are safe. The Stanley Cup has not been in contact with any Maple Leaf product in over 40 years.

Just to be clear - my comment about the league wanting more powerplays was not a conspiracy theory about the penguin having it in for Canada or Calgary (although I do think Mick McGeough had it in for C-town, but don't have to worry about that anymore). However, the penguin wants more goals. More Power plays = more goals - therefore call more penalties. Wiggler and I are right about the Bourque call. Some clown playing in his first (and if he gets to play in 10 games in his career he'll be lucky) game takes a run at Langkow. Langkow is one of our two best players - who went out with a concussion last year if you will recall. I've seen at least 6 other times in the past two years where a star gets hit and someone jumps in to protect him. It is always 2 extra minutes for the guy that jumps in - and 5 each for fighting, regardless of whether the sucker gets any shots in. I defy anyone to find me an instance of 9 minutes consecutive powerplay in the past 20 years of hockey. This isn't like he had possession and was watching his pass, he barely reached out to touch the puck. 2 minutes for instigating and 5 each for fighting - You don't pull that $%it in you first game and then turtle. Click here if the movie does not play. As for the Flames. Definately their worst game of the season. The difference was that our has-been was better than there has-been. (Iggy's goal was weak!) Overall - I hate watching a game that is non-stop power-plays, but the Flames power-play looked horrible and Washington's was not much good either. Now on to more important topics. What happens when the Salary cap goes down next year? Cdn $ is under 80 cents again. All players paid in US $. All Canadian teams make most of their income in CDN dollars, and the Canadian teams make a disproportionate % of league revenue. So ya got a recession (maybe depression) about to hit, that WILL (somebody should tell the penguin) affect revenues accross the league. On top of those losses, Canadian teams will take a 20% hit on the exchange. Lets say that the Toronto Make-me-laughs made $100M Cdn in revenue last year - that was $100M US. Lets say this year they make $95m Cdn (good luck on that without Sundin) - well thats only $75M US. Smells like a 25% decline in revenue. My guess - Cap will go down by 10% at least. That can't be good news for Calgary who are at max even with this year's cap. Could it be that our salary cap will barely cover one line and a goalie?

9 minute powerplay. The farce that the NHL has become, never ceases to amaze me. That was a complete joke. Never ever ever seen that before - and if the league diodn't need to see the russian score, you'd have never seen it this time.

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I think the fans and media have cut Kipper a tremendous amount of slack (far too much in my opinion). When a goalie gets first star he takes credit for the win and no-one has any problem saying he was the difference. They have no "Bum of the Game" award, but lets face it, Kipper would have earned it in at least 3 of the games this year. I hear all sorts of media spewing that it is team defense that is hurting, but that is bunk. Fact it that there is a goatending statistic that is perhaps the most overlooked, but also the most indicative of how a goalie is playing. Its called save percentage. There have been 56 goalies that have played in at least one game in the NHL this Year. Mr. Kiprusoff is ranked 48th out of 56 in Save percentage. (As a side note, Brian Boucher is No 1 - LOL). Kipper was in the bottom 10 all last year. Blame team defense all you want, but this guy is playing poorly, and has played poorly for the past two seasons. People need to wake up and realize that this is professional sports, not kids kockey. He gets paid well to perform, and he is not performing. Iginla has been the best Flames player every year he has been on the team, but if he has 7 games without a goal, he gets singled out - and he has no problem with it, he responds by playing even better. Here, this guy stinks it up night in and night out, and the team takes a rap for it. Game 1 - everyone remembers it was 6-0 for Vancouver. Anyone remember what shots on goal were? 25-23 FOR CALGARY. So far Flames have outshot opponents 147-142, but been outscored 22-14. Talk about team defence all you want but the other teams' defences are giving up more shots and their goalies are stopping >50% more of those shots than our boy. Sit him for a few games and get working on your next goaltender. Look at what the Deadmonton Doilies did - played a rookie. Flames are good enough to win even if the goalie is only average - they just can't compensate as much as they are being asked to. I said it before - Sutter blew it. He saw what happened with Turek and then went out an did the same thing. I know what he was worried about - Kipper turns it around last year, has a great run to the cup, and then leaves as a free agent - so he buckles and gives in to a long term deal. Bad move and this team might pay for it for the next four years. Theodore, Gigere, Huet, Khabibulin, Nabakov, Turco - The only GMs that gets what it takes to have a good gosltending are - Mr. Lemaire and Mr. Gainey. Get more than one good one and keep them competeing. When one drops off, get another good one. This Backstrom guy is going to be really good. As for Bert - we got to see the real Bert late in the 3rd when he took that bonehead penalty. Don't care how many he scores - the guy is a jerk and I can't be a fan of someone I can't respect.

I blame myself. I read a good article on Adjustable Rate Mortgages last summer (2007). The woman that wrote it spelled out exactly what has happened - it is scary how accurate she was. At the time, I just could not believe that it was true, but inside I sort of knew it was. There are many people that have not been impacted much at all by this. Less than 20% in equities, and those are down about 30% - so a 6% impact to their savings. I blame myself for not being one of them.

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We'll see how he handles Kipper. Is it me or has he been scored on first minute about 8 games over the past two seasons? He was great in '04 when the team wasn't, but since then he has been beneficiary of a very good team in front of him. This isn't bandwagon jumping - he did not play well last year for the entire year (starting with a string of losses in pre-season that carried over in to regular season). As far as I'm concerned, the team carried him - .906 save % isn't going to get it done. The only time he played really well last year was after Joseph went in for a game and played great. If he doesn't feel he is playing for his job, he just does not seem to get it done. Maybe if Keenan plays Mc for a few games, he get it together early. Rememeber the goalie Calgary lost to in the Finals? He just cleared waivers and his save % and GAA were better than Kipper's last year - and he played for a Chicago team that was awful.