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Essensa could never get any respect in the playoffs. I've just been watching this series about the 1992 collapse vs. the Canucks. We lost the last three games 8-2, 8-3, and 5-0, and Rick Tabaracci started them all. That was the year that Goalie Bob was a Vezina finalist. Man, Jets 1.0 was a freakshow.

Nicely done

Getting pumped for Jets vs. Wild! Fly to live ... live to fly ... do or die! man, Aces High would be great intro music for the Jets.

Oh man after the heartbreaks of 1985, 1990, 1992, and 2015 even the prediction that anyone on the Jets will score a goal feels too bold. Following this team for so long, you get some scars...hopefully the 2018 Jets will be the plastic surgery I need...

Essensa ran hot and cold during the series -- he was horrible in Game 1 . He had his best game in Game 3, and Murdoch interrupted the rotation to go back to him in Game 4, but he got his bell rung and Beauregard was great in 2OT. Then, when Essensa got his chance again, he was bad again in Game 6. He barely even flinched on that Kurri GWG. I don't think either goalie played well enough to win the series, but it was a team effort, not just Beau sucking.

Oh man, the 1990 Jets. That Jari Kurri game-winner in Game 6 was just such a backbreaker. After being down 3-0, coming back to tie it, and then blowing it... Ranford got better and better as the series wore on, and the Jets goalies, not so much. Starting Beauregard in Game 7 was a big ? but the Jets were so flat I don't think that it mattered. I remember the official marketing name of the Whiteout that year was "The Charge of the White Brigade." Which was perfect for the 1990 Jets playoff run -- gallant, brutal, short, and resulting in the utter defeat of the white team.

Go Jets Go Bruins. That is all.

My wife was an attorney. We watched that interview a couple weeks ago where Cohen's buffoon attorney was getting grilled by Megyn Kelly. Her audience was laughing openly at his assertions that Cohen was just a good guy who just wanted to take care of the boss. When she asked him if Cohen ever threatened people, he said "I have heard that through the grapevine" which is a HILARIOUS thing for your attorney to say on national TV. After my wife was done laughing, she explained that we were looking at the attorney dumb enough to work for a guy who is dumb enough to work for Donald Trump, and that the stupid doesn't add up, it multiplies.

Ugh Jamie Macoun. I hate that guy like the Russians hated Bobby Clarke.

That fake trailer is freaking great. "Give me the karking keys, you karking nerf herder." <-- always great to hear callbacks to Benicio del Toro's greatest role.

This is probably a stealth attack on the US postal service. Republicans hate the post office.

must-win because I hate the leafs

yeah, watching him was like watching a way more consistent Odell Willis. like you know how Odell gets on those 6-game tears where he's unstoppable? I remember Quick having multiple entire seasons like that.

whoah, Quick Parker was a nightmare made real (as a football player) I don't know much about Parker's character but I do know that he's going to heaven, because St. Peter doesn't have Chris Walby to keep him out.

I think it's meaningless unless you compare it to the draft records of other NFL teams. And with most NFL careers being so short, that number doesn't stink on its own, it needs context.

i yeah, I think this makes Jacquie's point -- a legit GOAT like Milt doesn't even have a .500 record, it's tough to say anything about a football player by looking at their W/L. (except maybe that Milt was more patient than the Bombers deserved.)

yeah, Jacquie is right. I'd hate to see Milt Stegall's lifetime W-L record...

******* Anthony Weiner.

Damn, Hope Hicks has some shitty taste in men. Control freak Lewandowski and bedroom boxer Porter. If I were in her family / inner circle / whatever, I'd be saying to her "You know, Hope, maybe men aren't for you. Maybe start looking for a good woman to settle down with?"

From the article: Man, those tricky three-syllable words...

Another thing that comes through on the rewatch is that for all Leia and Holdo grind his gears, Poe was right to attack the dreadnought -- presumably its big cannons would have made short work of the escaping fleet after the first hyperspace jump.

I don't really know either exactly where it's going, but the table is set -- Kylo Ren owns all the core worlds, Skywalker is dead and Rey is his heir. The entire resistance now fits in the Falcon and they're running for the sanctuary in the boondocks, and the porgs are going to be the cane toads of the Outer Rim. It's more clear than things were at the end of TFA, when we're not really sure if the New Republic is finished off by the Starkiller attack, or if it's more of a Pearl Harbor type situation that they can come back from.

yeah, re-watched it last night. still think it's a mixed bag with some great stuff and some pacing problems, I was leaning on the fast-forward during the casino bits (tho I did pause to take a look at some of the costumes, which were bananas) Still the #4 Star Wars film for me and I think that ep. IX is set up pretty nicely at the end, which is what a middle chapter really needs to do. Bring on the next one.

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yeah, that's the play that I think of when I think of Hurl's tenure here. An MLB one-on-one with an RB in some traffic in the red zone in an elimination game -- he's gotta be able to make that tackle or at the very least slow the RB and give the rest of the D the chance to rally. Like Dave Ritchie said, you gotta beat the guy lining up opposite you if you want to win the game.