He just needs to try some Himalayan salt lamps

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

I will always remember how well he could hold the puck in traffic. Oh and that one time they were giving him some award on the ice at the UC, and his wife looked liked she wanted nothing to do with him. I bet he was in the dog house at home or something.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

My favorite Hawk of the current era by far. I got a little emotional when I heard about it this morning.

They're calling it this season, but once the cap space gets reallocated, there's no coming back...even if he did figure this out.

What a joy it's been to watch him play the game.

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I thought he COULD come back if he choose to, but it would completely fuck over the hawks and would accelerate the entire cap hit to the year he came back.

He could come back, and it wouldn't "accelerate" anything. I think you're conflating LTIRetirement and recapture.

Let me just say, fuck that useless pothead Jonathan Toews for what he did. The Western Conference was wide open this year, as evidenced by an 8 seed with piss-on-a-platter forward depth winning it. If Captain Cannabis didn't nap through the first four periods of the Nashville series and give off the idea that all his team had to do was exist, there's a damn good chance the Hawks are in the Final. We could have sent one of the best off with a fourth championship if our captain could have gotten himself and the players he's nominally responsible for to care, but he wouldn't do it. The wrong guy is covered in allegedly life-threatening rashes.

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I'm sorry for your guys' loss.

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No you're not.

His number eventually hangs in the rafters, yes?

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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

Yes

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Along with 2, 7, 19, and 88

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

I absolutely love that a thread about hossa retiring with a terrible health condition gives hair a forum to bitch about toews. Thats delightful.

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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

I conflate many things each day. So Hossa could go on LTIR and come back in a year with no cap punishment to the hawks? Seems like they would get pounded for circumvention.

This doesn't pass the smell test, the first year he is set to be severely underpaid he has a rash.

Great player, great career, will miss watching him and really hope this is cap circumvention and he has a long and happy retirement.

Yeah, "my guy" texted me a few days ago hinting at this....sad.

2: definitely
88: definitely
19: sigh, definitely, but at the rate he's declining I'd sooner honor his number on United Center doormats
7: ehhhh probably not without a split with Chelios, whom Kane has still not passed for greatest American hockey player whether you like it or not
4: won't be retired but in the final analysis I think you could end up saying it ought to be
50: Ibid.
10: nope

The only real case against retiring 81 is that he's the only core player not to be drafted and developed: he was already a superstar in his own right from his years in Ottawa and his Atlanta/Pittsburgh/Detroit scoring prime. He eventually did play more games as a Blackhawk than he did as a Senator, but never crossed the >50% threshold. As key as he was to the great turnaround, it would be a little unusual for an established free agent signing to ascend to retired-number status. But then there's nothing usual about Marian Hossa.

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How dare you suggest that the Blackhawks would bestow such an honor on an accused-without-real-evidence-but-still-presumed-guilty-because-SJW-feefees rapist!!!

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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

his hate for a great player runs deep....so deep

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Not a great player. He use to be a good player though. CH has every right to hate him now.

2008-2014 Toews was a phenomenal player. Accrued injuries, a bloated contract, and a 15-year-old's love affair with weed ended his meaningful career.

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I suffer from the same allergy, in hockey terms its called "the guck". I started breaking out in high school and it got so bad my eye closed up from the rash. From then on I started wearing long underwear covering me from neck to toe so no equipment would touch my skin. It worked as I no longer get breakouts, but there's been a couple times when the rash started to come in a bit so I would imagine that playing 6 days a week would cause even more breakouts than I experienced playing 4x a week.

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yep, that's it.

It's pretty bad when you have it, but I've always found it easy to control with under armor. But like I said, might be worse for Hossa skating every day.

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not when it comes to shitting on his career achievements for the team he doesn't.

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Shakes,


Is it the sweat in the equipment that rubs on your, that irritates it?

The fact that the sun rose today gives him a forum to bitch about Toews. I figure that he spends any time he is alone in the car muttering and bitching about Toews.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

The sweat gets into the equipment and a bacteria develops in the equipment and then when the equipment interacts with the sweat and heat from the body it becomes a nice bacteria stew.

It's been a thing in hockey circles ever since I can remember and I'm sure long before that as well.

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Staph bacteria finds a home in the moisture build-up of hockey equipment. It's one of the reasons hockey gear develops such an awful odor.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

I can see Hossa saying I'm not putting myself through this shit for only 1 million a year but I don't think he nor the Blackhawks are jaking this .

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

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

I once developed a rash on my forearm that required some topicals, but otherwise, played heavily from 5-18 with only that. And the smell. I can't imagine having to hang them up because of this. It'd be so painful.

This is exactly why I'm always riding my son's ass about his equipment. My wife and I are the only ones that seem to think this is possible and try to get his stuff washed with amonia once a week....yes...that and wearing under armour. His mother is not to be bothered to help wash his stuff. Drives me nuts.

Even with him not being the player we once was, Hossa always brings it and is a great 2-way player. I see far less "I-don't-give-a-shit-itis" from him compared to most of the others on the team. I will miss him terribly.

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If you're a hockey player making millions of dollars per season, wouldn't you be replacing your gear very frequently to prevent these types of skin infections? Hell, I would even have it negotiated in my contract that the team picks up any of these expenses.

Rub some aloe on it and get back on the ice you pussy.

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Provisions like those are banned by the collective bargaining agreement; all player contracts are standardized.

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