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Oh yeah, completely forgot about that. Incentive for him to stick around one more year, perhaps...

Not that surprised to see DET go out so early. They're going to be hard pressed to make the playoffs next year if Lidstrom retires..

I have almost every soldier achievement, still need four, all tough ones.

I'd buy a shrubbery.

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Ehh...ask any pens fans, they'll tell you that fleury has slumps like this with some frequency. Of course, this one's happened at the worst possible time..

Hate to break it to you, but your suspicion is ridiculous.....Crosby has always been fairly chippy for being a star... Both these teams have had defensive and goaltending problems for a while, although masked...this was only a matter of time, although I certainly didn't expect it to be anything like this.

Nvm, it's 9-3 pittsburgh now..

Seven minutes into the second period, it's already 6-3 pittsburgh, and Bryz has been pulled. Lavi just called his timeout though, so I'm sure philly will have a three goal lead by the end of the period.

Torres with another borderline hit...this time on Hossa. As of right now hossa is at the hospital and is apparently not moving...

Haha yeah, a lot of Obama masks. Relevant: http://twitter.com/#!/kbieksa3/status/192072335069691904

From what I've seen of all the vancouver/LA games, Van has been the better team. At any rate, I'm not surprised that putting Schneider in for Luongo didn't help, Luongo had been fine both games imo. And yeah, I love the NHL. It's not like some sports where the early rounds are just for show - and team really can win.

Three games, twenty goals. Game three's are crucial - after two games I thought pittsburgh could come back - but no way now.

Wow. What an intense game. Fleury sure picked a bad time to suck though eh...

Actually, all the shots I saw, the puck wasn't in the net until 0. I think it was the right call, didn't see the penalty though.

Didn't Santorum withdraw anyway?

If your great grandmother was running, I'd consider voting for her. Housing bubble was caused by a push for getting everyone a house, starting in the 1990's. Banks were given a carrot and a stick - they were penalized for not making sub prime loans to low income, high risk people. They were allowed to offload those mortgages into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Big government caused the problem. They were allowed to offload those mortgages because there were no regulations preventing it - not big government... They offloaded the mortgages to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which were Government Sponsored Enterprises. I think its something like 90% of all housing loans are owned or backed by the U.S. government. Anyhow, if banks couldn't sell their mortgages to the government (big government's fault), and didn't have incentives to loan to people who couldn't pay them back (again, big government's fault), we wouldn't have had to bail them out. Then it's only the bad half of "big government". Canada's government is bigger than the states, yet the much stricter regulations we have over the banking industry prevented banks from handing out these kinds of mortgages.

If your great grandmother was running, I'd consider voting for her. Housing bubble was caused by a push for getting everyone a house, starting in the 1990's. Banks were given a carrot and a stick - they were penalized for not making sub prime loans to low income, high risk people. They were allowed to offload those mortgages into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Big government caused the problem. They were allowed to offload those mortgages because there were no regulations preventing it - not big government...

This. But I'm not american anyway...

Vancouver down to LA 2-0. Wow. From what I saw of the game last night (only about half of it) vancouver was the much better team too.

I believe he was injured for a good part of the season, but going into the year (around the time of the 2010 draft) some scouts were ranking him #1, and you can see why.

Yeah, that's a good series. But if you think that is intense, try watching Philly-Pittsburgh lol. Speaking of Philly/Pittsburgh...wow. Complete inability to defend on Pittsburgh's part. If they lose this series, all of Niskanen, Martin, Michalek and lovejoy should be replaced. Orpik and Letang are the only d-men they have who've played at all well this series.

It's just one game. Not time to panic yet. Although if they don't win game 2, then they'll be in a tough spot.

Big upset tonight Phi over Pitt 4-3 in overtime after Pit had a 3-0 lead. Series not disappointing at all so far...