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  1. they turned out a hell of a lot better than I was fearing.
  2. That game was about as shittily officiated as I've seen in a while this deep into the playoffs, and I say that as a fan of the team that had the edge in PP opportunities.
  3. holy shit and of course the Leafs will go full Leafs and double down on not fixing their defense in the offseason. And how fitting that it was Reilly that got torched.
  4. and Kings lead, would love to see them force a game 6 since the East (aside from Boston-Toronto) is all decided now.
  5. Canes jump out to an early lead on the Isles moments after the Bruins tie it back up at 1 vs Toronto.
  6. this Caps team may be the worst team I've ever seen make the playoffs in the cap era
  7. usually I'll do a quick carb (oranges seem to be my go-to lately) with some caffeine in the morning, hit the gym for about an hour and a half, and then do a protein shake and a light breakfast. Typically Greek yogurt and some sort of complex carb with it. As for which one to go with I really couldn't recommend one way or the other. Isolate is generally going to cost a bit more than concentrate but you'll also generally get more protein per serving from isolate, with less carbs and fat. Couldn't speak on specific brands though Optimum Nutrition tends to be a go-to for a lot of people. Personally I have been doing some of the Revolution Nutrition High Whey varieties lately, though that was mostly because the price point was hard to pass up at the time. Not sure if it's still on sale.
  8. I'm sure somewhat, but I think the fact that it's Stroll and the fact that Lance is trying to blame someone else for that shit is what really set him off. Bottom 3 driver on the grid right now IMO.
  9. I thought Demko would carry them through this round, but 100% in agreement there. Preds have been lights out for a while now and without Demko the Nucks are pretty much turbofucked. Boston, Carolina, or Vegas might be able to survive an injury to one of their goalies among the contenders, Vancouver not so much.
  10. Holy hell the comeback in the Canes game last night. I nearly had a stroke when Aho tied it up and my ears are still ringing.
  11. The Avs seem to be taking a "the goalie can't cost us games if the puck's down in the other end the entire game" approach.
  12. weighed in at a very nice 196.9 this morning post-workout. has anyone noticed their NEAT going way down as they lose weight? I've been fidgeting at my desk a lot less and noticed my calories burned on a rest day went from about 27-2800 about 2 months ago down to about 2500 now. Dropping the weight certainly helps explain some of that, but not all of it. I've been trying to make an effort to take a couple laps around the office each hour or trying to park at the far end of the lot if I run out to the store to try to compensate a bit. Any other strategies you guys use that might help?
  13. Yeah that was a very "off" game for the Canes in game 1, at least the first 2 periods, and they still came out with the W. Isles have essentially been playing for their season since before the deadline, so you can get some games where the favorite takes a while to get to their game. The Isles might take one back up in NY but that's probably it. Canes in 5 Rangers in 6 Bruins in 5 Bolts in 7 Stars in 6 Jets in 7 (don't trust the Jets but I trust the Avs goaltending even less) Nucks in 7 Oil in 5
  14. The franchise has been completely mismanaged since about 2000 when the team was sold to a group based around a Phoenix area developer and Gretzky as co-owners. Scottsdale was the preferred location for the team at that point, but that fell through and the arena was eventually built in Glendale. The belief there is that the developer was looking to develop the area around the arena in Glendale which he would not have had the opportunity to do in Scottsdale. Said development never happened and shortly after that ownership group sold the team again to Jerry Moyes. They were bleeding money at that point and the league was in talks with Jerry Reinsdorf to buy the team (no idea on if they were planning on keeping the team in the area or not at that point), however Moyes preferred to sell the team to Blackberry CEO Jim Balsillie, who would have moved the team to Hamilton, and declared bankruptcy to try to facilitate that instead. Bettman and the NHL were having none of that and stripped Moyes of ownership of the team with the courts agreeing with the NHL in the following suit. From there it just was chaos: Reinsdorf again tried to buy the team and had approval from the City of Glendale only for that to fall apart. Another group had essentially completed the process only for that to be cancelled after some lawsuits from the Goldwater Institute. They were actually the team that was initially supposed to move (back) to Winnipeg in 2011 until the situation in Atlanta became untenable and the league shifted the focus for that group to buy the Thrashers instead. Basically a few years after that shit show resolved itself the team was eventually sold to Alex Meruelo for about 300M, who then promptly started to refuse to pay the lease at the Glendale arena and the team moved into ASU's hockey arena temporarily, which only seats about 5K. There was a vote on some land in Tempe that would have been used for an arena district that was rejected after AM basically spurned some union labor for the job to save money and the mis-information campaign the union put out was successful enough to get the locals to vote it down, that space is still a landfill. That ended up being the last hope for the team and the league came to an agreement with Smith out of SLC to buy the team at what's essentially expansion team prices (1 Billion+). No idea how he ended up jumping Fertitta in Houston in priority for that other than the possibility that Fertitta was trying to nickel and dime the NHL and wasn't about to pay up expansion team prices for the frigin Coyotes. Meruelo is still actively involved in a bid for some land out by Scottsdale with the intention of turning it into an arena district but the league had enough at that point so essentially the Yotes are going "inactive" until that gets sorted out and an arena gets built, which no idea how long that will take. The assumption is that IF he wins that bid and they can get an arena project off the ground then he'll be granted an expansion team Cleveland Browns 2.0 style.
  15. man having been around when the Charlotte Hornets 1.0 were ripped away from the area by some complete bullshit this gives me all the feels.
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