It's a Wednesday Night Rivalry game on the Outdoor Life Network tonight, so gird your loins for creepy Pierre McGuire and his uncomfortable relationship with Eddie Olczyk. Foley got a good dig in on the whole thing the other night if you had your listening ears on.

The Flyers are a Raidersesque shitshow these days: old guy calling all the shots, front office stocked with incompetent ex-players, stupid brawls, and general bad decisions at every possible turn. They're being coached by a guy who once used the n-word on another player. After this trickled out, they announced a long-term extension for him. Everyone's hurt or bad and it's only by the grace of an effective Mason/Emery platoon, of all things, that they've done fucking anything this year. The team sucks, their division sucks, and their conference sucks, so this should be a safe win after this recent gauntlet of Western play. The only real concern is that it's a road-to-home back-to-back with a third-string goalie. Other than that, though, smooth sailing, right?

Flyers: 13-14-3 (29), 12-15-3 adjusted (27), 25.897 expected
Hawks: 22-6-5 (49), 18-8-7 adjusted (43), 43.223 expected

Flyers: 2.233 scored (27th), 2.533 allowed (14th), -0.300 differential (22nd)
Hawks: 3.576 scored (1st), 2.667 allowed (16th), 0.909 differential (2nd)

Flyers: 19/110 15.2% on the power play (19th), 105/125 84.0% on the kill (10th)
Hawks: 25/109 22.9% on the power play (5th), 71/95 74.7% on the kill (28th)

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Norwegian is a bad word?

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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

Foley will call the Flyers a .500 team if they win tonight.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

I did some quick math in Excel and found that the point inflation .500 mark, which is to say leaguewide points earned divided by leaguewide games played*2, is at .562, or roughly a 92-point season. Obviously, this number will fluctuate in proportion to the number of loser points awarded throughout the league, but I would expect it to land somewhere between .555 and .565. So when you inevitably hear that so-and-so had 91 points and still missed the playoffs, what an amazing season we're having in the NHL, remember that team is just average.

EDIT: so-and-so will probably be Dallas like it always is

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Not related to the game tonight but a really great interview with Kanes and Toews for all of you who have some time to kill.

http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/page/mag ... n-magazine

Impressive work CH. What pisses me off is that Pat and Eddie fall into these dumb traps. Is it me or are they becoming more annoying?

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Well that picture is as gay as the shots in their Chevy commercials.

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Nah, they're fine. I've heard Howie Rose refer to it as "the NHL's strange concept of .500" on Islanders games, but nobody from the league is going to call up and give him trouble for it. He has to watch every Islanders game.

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I know, isn't it great?

What was Foley's dig for those of us who were intoxicated?

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I liked the article.

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Olczyk was pointing out how the bench doors at the United Center are offside, so you can't use the door to make an onside line change in the second. Foley noted that with bigger players and more bench personnel than there used to be, it's hard to get on and off the benches sometimes. Olczyk said "then they need to make the benches longer." Pat, laughing, says "oh, but then there wouldn't be any room for your on-ice analyst between the benches!" Then they had one of their little shared giggle fits.

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Hawks on my regular PA tv tonight. Happy.

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I heard that live, but didn't make the connection. Was that a dig at the human penis?

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Human penis cometh, hello Pierre.

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I assumed it was.

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Well how about room for the fat people that win the CBOE seat auction?

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Count it, first wrong 500 reference.

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Wow NBC's feed looks glorious compared to CSN. Something must be done about that.

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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

Too much too soon!

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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

Personally, I'm just happy I get to watch a Hawks game!

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Great, as soon as a black guy actually gets in the United Center for a Hawks game he starts a fight

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

Welcome. And I hope Doc didn't say neither team has a hit yet.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Quebec...

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They look tired and stupid down 1-0

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Looked like a bit of a weak goal

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

Tight game so far.

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Nice whiff and a goal

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Not a mult.

thats a goal

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What the hell is wrong with penalty killing?

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