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Leeman was involved in one of the worst trades in hockey history, being the principle asset that Calgary received in exchange for Doug Gilmour. That trade spelled the final death for the great Calgary run of the eighties.

It's amazing how the West's wildcard race is running in lockstep: Calgary, Minnesota, LA, and the Jets all have 14 points over the last 10 games. Vancouver has 13 points and Chicago 15. No one's made up any ground in March.

Goals from Stafford, Myers, Stempniak -- nice work, Chevy.

It's inspired by an actual icelandic saga. It's utterly gorgeous (even if they do lean on the blue filter a little bit) and plotwise it is much simpler than Game of Thrones. The whole show revolves around a Viking jarl named Ragnar Lothbrok, a guy with a vision for his people and in each season different people come at him.

Never been sold on Pav as our starter, but I gotta say I love a redemption story, and he's been money since that fluky goal. Go Pav!

Back in the Jets 1.0 days, during the 1990 playoffs heartbreak, I remember a RANFORD chant that the organist joined in on.

I hate Orange County with the fury of a thousand burning suns, but yeah, go Ducks. Speaking of Vancouver goalies, why do their tailors leave the umlaut off Eddie Läck's namebar? Is it too metal?

The most recent episode was outstanding and had the best moment in the series.

Yeah, job 1 has got to be getting the Argos situation sorted out. Would love to see a CFL renaissance there.

Not related to the wild card race ... but Edmonton is up over Toronto 4-0 just over halfway through the first period. #tank #tank #tank #lolnotheyjustsuck

There is a lot of hockey left to be played you guys.

We're watching Vikings and Better Call Saul right now. Vikings is pretty good. Better Call Saul is okay, but it's getting a ton of Breaking Bad goodwill from me.

There are lots of busy two-tenant NBA/NHL arenas, and you'd figure it'd be easier for an arena to host two hockey teams than a hockey & basketball team because you don't have to spend time and money continuously re-laying out the basketball floor.

This might be just what we need. Every time we've faced big injuries the team has rallied. So whenever I see someone comment "if we have our healthiest lineup in the playoffs" I actually kinda hope we don't.

The Greatest CFL Nicknames (as of 1995) https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.sport.football.pro/tNuC5Pw8N_4 The old Ottawa Roughriders had the best QB names. Prince McJunkins. Julius Caesar Watts. And the Keye and Peele sketch where they're in whiteface and being questioned by the Gestapo is ******* hilarious.

18 games left and we need ~16 points to get to the playoffs. It looks promising for us, but there's much work left to be done.

I miss the smaller acrobatic goaltenders -- guys like Grant Fuhr or Billy Smith who made the position exciting to watch. Today it's all huge butterfly-style puck absorbers who always make the first save.I grew up in the era of ten-goal games where a good goalie would be slightly under 3.00GAA and .900SV%. To me, a come-from-behind 5-4 game is the perfect hockey game. Jesus Christ, I'm old. While we're fixing the NHL and talking about impossible things, let's make the ice a bit wider. Players are so much bigger now, let's expand the ice to match and open things up a bit.

Those seven OT losses really sting. Just quickly scanning the standings, looks like we're tied with Dallas and Colorado as the worst teams in the league playing 4-on-4.

Cool. I didn't know that Paul Stewart wrote a column for the Huffington Post. There's some great reading here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-stewart/

Just imagine contracting the NHL back to 24 teams from 30. You'd cut the bottom 20% of the league -- roughly four active players off every team. That'd push the average talent level up nicely. Of course, I'd also like to see a 60-game regular season with the Stanley Cup decided in March/April before the weather gets nice, but that isn't going to happen either.

This team responds to adversity again. Down two top-six forwards, no problem! Looks like we got pretty lucky, I didn't watch the game but man were there a lot of post-pings in the highlights.

I don't want another expansion team. The NHL talent pie is already cut thin enough, let's not cut another slice out of it.

The money HNIC spent on their bench-crotch cams ... could be better spent elsewhere, I think.

Healey really sucks to listen to. He talks about the game just like a Leafs fan would, sounding disappointed and disgusted. He takes their suckage personally. That said, I really like Hughson calling playoff games, because he doesn't have the Leafs to root for and so he actually does a great job.

Damn, that ACC crowd is limp. They make the Argos' home games sound like Mardi Gras.