I thought you lived in Montreal! 
OC transpo runs game day shuttles. 30 minutes from downtown, 45 minutes from my neck o’ the woods. It is sort of annoying that SBP is in the middle of nowhere, but we have the 1992 ownership group to thank for that. Every asshole (myself included) will gladly tell you where every past Sens GM went wrong, and how the stadium should have been built on the Quebec border at Lebreton Flats.
I do! Montreal is a big city compared to Kanata… and even compared to Ottawa! 
SBP is not really in the middle of nowhere…it IS surrounded by car dealerships, after all! Was there no option to build it on the Montreal-bound stretch of the 417? It would make it easier for fans to get there to help SBP get those 6 sold-out games per year when the Habs visit…
Crazy game in Newark last night.
In no particular order it featured: a goalie pull (Brodeur looks terrible when he’s not making highlight reel saves this season); the first PP goal given up by the Devils on home ice this season (1 for 44); 3 short-handed goals; Chris Neil getting bloodied (I don’t root for injury, but it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy); Milan Michalek taking sole possession of the Leagues top goal scorer category (everyone’s pick before the season started, right?); a 3 goal comeback; a game-tying goal with 5 seconds left; a rare 5-on-5 OT situation; and a shootout that went four rounds that featured 5 guys scoring.
Hurricanes send Kaberle to Montreal for Spacek.
Seems about an even swap of crappy players, but I’m unsure why Montreal took on 2 extra years of contract for said crappy player.
Scotiabank Place is the worst located stadium in the universe. Of course it’s only 10 minutes from my house, so I’m not complaining! (Except no buses come out to my area.)
That’s what’s pissing a lot of fans off. If Kaberle were UFA this year, it’s basically a wash at worst or an upgrade and a bit of a steal at best. Two more years of a heavy, toxic contract (I have faith in Markov, but that’s a tough cap hit, Gomez, and the way they are playing, Gionta and Cammalleri) is hard to swallow.
Perhaps the GMs/owners already know there’s likely to be a buy-out with the new CBA? Then it wouldn’t be so bad.
Plekanec and Kaberle are good friends… maybe that will turn out to be a good thing?
Then again, something needed to be done. If Kaberle can help the PP, that would be very good - it’s just brutal this year.
Worse than Glendale? I mean, my understanding of the big cities in the southern USA is that mass transit is kind of not all that common, and the Glendale location is particularly bad for getting people to and from the arena. Never mind that fact that it’s a hockey team in Phoenix, Arizona, which makes about as much sense of having a team in Dubai. 
And it’s your own fault for living out in the freaking boonies. Even with the expansion, I hate driving highway 7. So glad my friend moved out of Carleton Place! You don’t deserve transit 
You live in Montreal, and you hate driving on a four lane rural highway?
Does not compute.
The Glendale location is bad because it is very far away from where most of the middle/upper middle class areas of the Phoenix area. It is next to the Cardinals football stadium, where a remote location doesn’t hurt as most games are on Sunday and they are only 8 games a year. Driving 45 minutes to an hour in rush hour traffic to get to a 7 PM game is a pain for a weekday game. Plus, most of the newer houses that were built around the area are in foreclosure or deeply upside down on their mortgages, so there isn’t a lot of extra cash in the areas close to the arena.
The Florida Panthers also have a strange location for their arena. It is right across the street from a huge outlet mall. I didn’t notice too much around it besides the mall.
Maybe it is just because he is killing a couple of my fantasy teams, but I’m not impressed with Reimer tonight. Is he 100% healthy? He doesn’t deserve to be an All Star, that is for sure.
I think we need to start wrapping the entire team in bubble-wrap. Jesus. We’re basically calling up the entire Wilkes-Barre Scranton line-up at this point.
Most of my life is within walking distance or a 15-20 minute bus/metro ride, if that explains anything. I kind of get creeped out by rural emptiness - it’s so sad and devoid of life… and I realise that’s entirely in my head and my own issue, but it’s how I feel
I’m trying to think of what drives me crazy about highway 7…part of it is the flatness, but that annoys me about the 417 between Montreal and Ottawa and the 401 as well. I like hills and mountains when I’m driving.
In fairness, I’ve only driven the new highway once or twice. The multiple years of the old one, though… why the hell do people like to stop for the green lights at those roads out near Ashton (Cemetery Side Road and whatever the others are?). Seriously, that’s the only place in the world where people slow down for a green light. Pissed me off every time. I’ve been stuck behind slow drivers, construction trucks and just plain morons (the aforementioned green-light-stoppers) so many times, it just drives me crazy.
Also, I like to taunt you and my friend and any applicable Sens fan for living out there. It’s childish but it amuses me and I’m not going to stop
Welcome to Habs Nation. Have you seen our defensive lineup? Your rawest rookie probably has a similar number of NHL games played than the majority of our d-men…combined! Also, Eller, Pacioretty, Desharnais, Leblanc/Enqvist/Palushaj all have about a year or less of experience as forwards at this level (4 games for Leblanc!).
Fun, isn’t it?
Wow. That’s the first I’ve heard about him being an all star candidate. I hope not. He’s certainly unproven in every regard and doesn’t in any way deserve to be there, at all.
I’ll take the rural life over city squalor any day! And don’t complain about Ontario drivers, obviously it’s the Quebec drivers who are idiots. *I mean everyone in Ontario knows that!
*You wouldn’t believe the number of times I’ve heard otherwise rational people try to make such a claim. :rolleyes:
Reimer is the leading goalie vote getter right now. Disgusting.
I hardly live in squalor (though I do need to vacuum…). Welcome to my front yard. Bonus: someone else mows the lawn
In 6 years in the GTA, I never quite understood how people drive there; I struggled to predict the crazy. Seems I can predict the crazy with ease in Québec. I had no trouble driving in Montreal the first time I ever did. I’m convinced it comes down to where you learned - different regions have different levels of crazy, or different crazy behaviour tendencies, and you learn to understand those when you learn to drive.
Now, to talk about hockey again - the fan votes for the All-Star game generally skew towards the players of the hosting team (heck, Habs fans voted in Mike Komisarek when the All-Star weekend was at the Bell Centre!) and while I know it’s in Ottawa this year, it’s still pretty much Leafs territory. Get a modest win streak going on for the Habs, and I’m sure their votes will go up too!
I was moderately impressed by Kaberle yesterday, though one game isn’t enough to make me like this trade. If this deal means the Habs don’t keep Josh Gorges because of cap issues, I’ll be pissed off.
While I recognize his talent, I feel “the Nuge” is one of the worst nicknames I’ve ever heard. Poor kid - you’d think someone could come up with something better!
You’d have some trouble explaining most of the top vote getters to me.
Oh fuck fuck FUCK.
Sidney Crosby out indefinitely with concussion-like symptoms
What the hell, do the hockey gods hate us?
(At least the ImPACT test seems to be good)
I’m beginning to think the ImPACT test isn’t very good. Is that the same test that cleared Letang to come back into the Montreal game? I’m sure there are other players who passed it but ended up with concussion symptoms later on; I just can’t think of them offhand. There’s a piece of the Understanding Concussions puzzle that we haven’t figured out yet but need to find soon!
This is, basically, what we all feared, isn’t it? One big hit - or even an accidental moderate one - and symptoms return and Crosby’s out again. How many more times will we see this? For Crosby’s sake, I hope he comes back and never has any more problems, but…well, how likely is that, really? His career is important, but so is his long-term health.
What a sucky situation for him.
LA Kings just fired Terry Murray.Story
5th coaching change in the NHL and we’re not even out of December. I think there are a few more coming up as well. I’m watching Columbus, Colorado, and maybe even the Islanders.
There’s been a few not serious suggestions in Montreal that they should hire Randy Carlisle…
…it’s figured he’d compliment Randy Cunneyworth and Randy Ladouceur fairly well…! 
No, the hockey gods love Sidney Crosby by having had him born in a time and place where they’re smart enough to sit him.
Had he been born 25 years earlier theyd have kept running him out there too fast and he might have ended up a vegetable or killing himself or something.
So consider the positive. The Penguins should just sit him for the rest of the season, IMHO. It sucks, but if he’s concussed every time he takes a hard hit he cannot play professional hockey.