dark_faerie87

That's ridiculous.

What about Trunev with the Russian squad?

Plekanec is only considered "untouchable" in that he's the only young centre we have left with offensive upside and is ready now. If we get rid of him and don't get a centre in return, we'd be looking at forcing one of our youngsters from Hamiliton into the breach next year...or look for a short term plug and hope that a youngster emerges. If we had a plethora of young centres, I think it would be a different story, but not one of Maxwell, White or Lehoux are "sure things." Which makes Plekanec extremely valuable to the club...for the time being.

What's the verdict on the goalie interference call? I'm just listening to the radio, so I didn't get to see it, but the guys on CJAD are rather skeptical about it.

PLEKS! :ghg: :ghg: :ghg:

D'AGO! :ghg: :ghg:

He got suspended for THAT?! :lol:

Shhh! Stop giving away all my secrets!

Yeah, mine was an objective hypothetical example designed to illustrate the hardwiring of our brains and such. It was not meant to be taken as the absolute truth because nothing is truly black and white, but rather shades of grey. Now going to the "stealing a million dollars from a bank" idea, how is that in any way related to having a one-night stand? Let's see, what are the possible repercussions for having anonymous sex? Unwanted pregnancy, contracting a disease, screwing up a relationship (either with a significant other or friends/family), becoming a social pariah (more so for women than men, because females who have lots of sex are considered whores whereas males are heroes ). Now, is it possible to remove all of those potential repercussions? Yes. Now, when you're robbing a bank...you're in theory robbing other people and thus depriving them of their valuables/money. Even if you were guaranteed not to get caught, the guilt from that alone would hang over your head. It's not nearly as cut-and-dry as having sex with someone.

Yeah, my scenario was basically just in broad/general terms, as well as being a rather hypothetical situation. That said, you do raise a good point, but I still think that if you were able to remove any and all inhibitions (ie. risk of pregnancy, disease, already being in a monogamous relationship, etc), there would be no real justifiable reason to not want to bang someone both willing and attractive in your eyes. To say you wouldn't in such a situation is just denial as far as I'm concerned. Also, we could even take this one step further by saying that said apple of your eye actually attempts to seduce you, instead of simply being passively willing. And Colin, if you got me in a room I don't think we'd need the excuse of a bar of soap. Your opinion I suppose. I'm not here to start a flame war nor get dragged into some ridiculous internet argument, but going back to my previously stated hypothetical situation, if you're able to sate all of your desires with virtually no (if any) repercussions, is there any reason to exercise said self-control? And remember, this is assuming that you're single and have no commitments else where, so that eliminates any X-factors such as being in a relationship already and all that.

That too. I'm sure I probably forgot one or two other things as well. It's been a long day and my thought process is hardly coherent. But then, it rarely is at the best of times. *shrugs*

Okay, not to sound presumptuous and that I think I know better than all of you, but I think it's safe to say that I have a...different perspective than probably everyone else on this board. Anyways, from my own personal experiences and half-baked philosophizing/psychoanalyzing, I think it's safe to say that evolution has hardwired a number of traits into the male psyche. One of these being the urge to spread one's seed everywhere, aka knocking up random chicks. Now of course, a lot of guys are going to deny this, but it's the same thing with people who say that everyone is beautiful or that beauty is only skin deep. That's a load of bollocks and the only people who spew such ######ed propaganda are those who are in fact not beautiful themselves. It's a way for them to feel better about themselves. Now, going back to the scoring with random chicks tangent, if you put anyone, regardless of "moral/ethical" beliefs or whatever you want to call them, who's attracted to females in a room with a very attractive woman who is willing to go at it, every single one of those people would totally go for it. The people who claim they wouldn't are only lying to themselves because in reality they have no chance at actually landing the above mentioned woman. So, in order to feel better about themselves, they try to justify their lack of success with a "personal choice not to indulge." And on that note, Dr. Freud will now sign off.

Make that three people who despise Gretz.

I demand gender-neutral poll options!

A Toronto Maple Leafs skills competition?

Yet another kneejerk reaction from you. Somehow I'm not surprised. Anyways, I'm done with talking about O'Byrne for tonight. He, just like the rest of us, needs to leave it alone and look forward. Dwelling on the past isn't going to do any good for anyone.

Grinders scored three goals. We let a weak team claw their way back into the game, inside of turning on the killer instinct. Even after the O'Byrne gaffe, we had opportunities to score, but no one stepped up. Also, maybe not, but confidence and hard work can trump pure skill that isn't utilized. But that wasn't my point.

LOLOLOLOLOLOL! Some crazy psycho chick just called into CJAD saying she wants to break O'Byrne's legs. Tonya Harding much? o,O

I agree. O'Byrne did not lose this game for us. And I like how he didn't try to hide from the media. He's got more balls than the rest of you anonymous internet lurkers.

Ugggggh

Time to go "pee-pee" on McDonald! :ghg: :ghg: :ghg: :ghg:

Oh no. He can sure score...

*an heros* X_X

Nice kill. :ghg: :ghg: :ghg: :ghg: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU