7pm, NBC Sports Channel (which I guess is the old Comcast Sports Net? Yeah?)

Washington Capitals at Chicago Blackhawks (Stanley Cup Banner Raising Night)!!!

Caps at the Hawks to light off the 2013 Season! FINALLY!

Are my gays ready?

Ready to drop the biscuit?

Hawks look to become the first repeat team since Detwoyt, and they say this guy Alex Ovechkin might be decent so there's that.

Anyway here's to the new season and the future winners of the 2014 Stanley Cup finals.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

CH likely had an obscure song lyric title and 700 word preview primed and you steal his thunder.

He'll have his chance. Or hell post it. It's probably a better damn lyric than this one anyway. I don't like this song.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Finally, my misery is over.

Hockey, Gays, Championships!

I assume the banner raising ceremony and such will be on CSN?

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I am ready but its the old Vs Darko.

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Elections have consequences.

Hey, you used the same song I was going to use! I had like the first six blocked out last week!

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Don't fret if the Hawks lose. They whomped the Kings on their banner night, the Bruins lost to the Flyers, and the Hawks lost to the Wings. It happens. This could be the only time Alex Ovechkin gives a fuck between now and Sochi.

The Caps look scary on their top two lines, but shitty past that, which is about right for a team that regularly does just enough and no more -- something they won't get to do anymore in a non-bullshit division. Johansson-Backstrom-Ovechkin will do damage, Laich-Grabovski-Brouwer can as well, but man, fuck Troy Brouwer. All that guy has ever done is be a bitch. The bottom six looks ripe for exploitation, with Eric Fehr, a guy Winnipeg once signed as a human mascot but still didn't see fit to bring back, looking to center the checking line, and the brainfart-prone Martin Erat on his wing. The fourth line is Joel Ward in his age 33 season and some other replacement-level dudes.

At defense, Mike Green is a dangerous puck-mover but a defensive liability, Alzner/Erskine/Carlson whaaaaaatever, and their third pairing of Jack Hillen-Steve Oleksy is a fringe NHLer and a 27-year-old with a significant amount of time spent in the ECHL. So have fun with that. The Caps were 18th in preventing goals last year, not a surprise.

Prospective Hawks lineup:
Bickell - Toews - Kane
Sharp - Handzus - Hossa
Saad - Shaw - Hayes
Bollig - Kruger - Nordstrom
Keith - Seabrook
Leddy - Hjalmarsson
Oduya - Rozsival/Brookbank
Crawford
Khabibulin yeah I can't believe it either

Not crazy about scratching Ben Smith; I'll take his limited talent over Bollig's no talent against a finesse team. Nordstrom has apparently performed admirably on the kill this preseason, so we shall see. Probably good to start him at a wing and move him to center later. Hayes better stay off his ass.

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It's game day! Whoop whoop!

Have a fuckwad at work who decided to call in sick today so as I result I have to cover his shift tonight therefore will not be watching the opener. He just made the list. Go get'em gays.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Not looking forward to this game, just glad it will be over with tonight. Teams always get their ass kicked on banner raising night. I expect no different tonight.


The league should adopt my proposed rule whereby the team that raises the banner the previous year gets to be the opponent on banner raising night the next season for whoever the champ is. Since banner night is essentially a guaranteed loss this will help offset that by getting a guaranteed win the next season. Under this rule, we would be playing LA tonight.

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Celebrating with various beers tonight

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Ovi can suck it.

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All ready here

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Omgomgomgomgomgomg!

I'm so ready.

Freaking.

Got my lucky spatula ready.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

See you when playoffs start

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I'm going to bounce from the spot for awhile but I will be back at some point to argue with you about this hoops stuff again. Playoffs have been great this season. See ya up the road.

I'm out.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

I wanted to do her and a young sean young in that flick.

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LOVE using the ice as a giant bigscreen.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

watching all over again. They ran a 1.5 hour special last night too on the playoff run.

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Elections have consequences.

The ceiling feeling the effects of my lucky spatula... and the wife's commentary...

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

It's difficult to find a more disappointing future than Sean Young.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

"Glad your dad's dead" ... clap, clap, clap-clap-clap ...

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

So did the ever fire Kompon?

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Glad we got in a boo-ing of Bettman.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

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I'm getting a bit misty here

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It's ok mook.

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"Play until it hurts, then play until it hurts to not play."
http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014