Doktor Kosmos

There is nothing Waddell could have done and not come out the loser. Nothing. - - - - - Johnny Oduya I liked him very much the last year he played back home in Sweden. He made his Elite League debut with Djurgården (same team Patric Hörnqvist played for; Marty Turco, Jose Theodore and Dan "ma house burn't dahn when I was playun' hawkey" Boyle played for 'em during the lockout in 04/05) and as far as I can recall he was mostly used as a rugged defensive defender. Last season he played here in Sweden he played for Frölunda (Henrik Lundqvist, Daniel Alfredsson, Per Johan Axelsson) and it felt like he took his game to a different level and he did very well on the national team if memory serves me right. At Frölunda he was allowed to join the attack a lot more often and dude's got good offensive skills IMO. Then he ends up in LouLand and, well, doesn't feel like he got the same freedom there to play the kind of game he's capable of. So personally I'll be very interested to see what the move to Atlanta will mean for him. I'm not saying he's going to become the next Ray Bork or anything, but I hope/think he'll be more noticable playing for the Thrashers. Nicklas Bergfors I gotta admit I don't know much about the guy. All I remember is the Devils drafted him in the first round a couple years ago. I don't remember him much from his days back in Sweden tho. He's the same age as Professor Bäckström but I think he went over to North America sooner than Bäckström did and worked his way up through juniors/minors. He came out very strong at the start of the season but he seems to have slowed down a bit lately. But then again he is a rookie so that shouldn't be much of a surprise.

This. His demands seemed to have more to do with cashing in than playing for a contender, at least as far as the future (i.e. after this season when he becomes a UFA). I wouldn't feel comfortable cmmitting yourself to the contract terms he'll be seeking. I get the impression that in Kovalchuk's world $$$ > the chance of winning the Stanley Cup. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to see him sign with whatever KHL team coughs up the biggest pay check. And while I'd be the first to agree you can't pin all the blame for it solely on Kovalchuk, dude's got 4 playoff games in his 7 NHL seasons prior to this one. I am unconvinced. He's scored a lot of goals, true, but he strikes me as someone who cares more about his bank status than anything else. Until he actually signs with Le Bleu-Blanc-et-Rouge, this discussion is more or less moot though. I don't think we will ever find out what he could have done for our team and how he would have affected the team around him.

Actually neither have I. Nor do I plan to anytime soon.

Pics or it didn't happen! Noods!

Hehe, sorry. He does look scary creepy, doesn't he?

Respect the 'stache.

I think I've seen two of his movies, if memory serves me right. The first one I saw was Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai I liked it. Forest Whitaker did a good job and it's an interesting story IMO. The second one I saw was Night On Earth and it blew me away. Awesome movie. <3 <3 <3 I also tried to watch Coffee and Cigarettes but I just couldn't get into it. I don't like it when you have to force yourself to sit through something so I gave up on it. Maybe one day I'll give it another shot tho. I have a couple of his other movies on DVD (Stranger Than Paradise, Down By Law and Mystery Train) but I haven't gotten around to watching them yet. I haven't been in the right mood.

Ah! Memories.

I'm not a big Laraque fan, but it was sheer joy to see him after he scored the goal. <3 Eff Oveckin's goal celebrations - Laraque's was real happiness.

I agree. And now we can all sit back and watch as Bettman and Campbell do their best Chinese Sensorship Board impression and slap Burrows with a $10 000 fine.

Survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings has died at age 93.

Yes. Seriously tho, I like Scorsese's version, but the original is better.

The Oilers and the Blue Jackets suck at the time. And I think I heard that Atlanta did not win a single game in regulation during the month of December, but I'm not sure I heard that right.

God Jul och Gott Nytt År.

May not be safe for work.

Maybe not funny .

I saw The X Files: I Want to Believe and while I think it was decent, I was a little bit disappointed. And a bit grossed out I might add.

I have recently seen How The West Was Won and The Dirty Dozen. I liked The Dirty Dozen, but How The West Was Won, not so much.

Just finished watching the Canes@Caps game. Lots of drama, the kind the media loves. In the first period, Mike "hand-me-the-Norris-trophy-already" Green got struck by a stick in the face and is sprawled out in the Canes' defensive zone, Canes counter attack and scores the 1-0 goal. Later in the period Ovechkin fired a shot and the puck deflected off of Tim Gleason's stick and struck him square in the face. He had to go to the locker room, bleeding, and came back with a full face-shield after having had a lot of stitches. Later still in the period Green softly gives up the puck in his own end and Eric Staal scores the 2-0 goal for the Canes. Late in the second period Carolina had a powerplay and T. Ruutu scored a goal but it was correctly waived off because he kicked the puck and it never made contact with his stick before entering the goal. The Canes commentator kept saying that the rule is stupid and they should allow for players to kick the puck into the net (if I understand him correctly). Personally, there's no way I can agree with that, it just seems illogical. If I want to see players kicking stuff into the net I'll watch soccer (which I do frequently). I'm perfectly fine with the rule as it is. Anywho, with just a couple of seconds left of the period, Semin is cherry-picking and gets the puck and goes on a breakaway, steps around the aforementioned Gleason but loses control of the puck. Cam Ward tries to clear the puck away with his blocker but he only manages to give the puck back to Semin, who easily puts it in the back of the open net - with 0,6 seconds left to play. In the third the Caps go ahead 3-2 and then later gets a powerplay. Caps have possession in the Canes' zone and Mike Norris, eh, sorry, Green, skates from right to left along the blueline and tries to find some Capital with a pass but Tim Gleason intercepts the puck, goes the length of the ice, takes a huge slap shot and scores the shorthanded goal behind Theodore. Thankfully for Green and the Caps, in OT Nicklas Bäckström steals the puck from, I think, Pitkänen, passes it to Green who scores the OT GWG. So yeah, give the guy the trophy already. He's clearly so superior that no one has a chance of catching him anyway.

Good points. I like the fact that they've been able to come away with wins and points from a lot of games when they've been outplayed and outshot. When they get their act together, we'll have a pretty good team on our hands.

Did Nash use his hand to throw Moen into the board there, you know, right before Moen got 2 for roughging on the retaliation? Looked like Moen banged his head on the glass. Looked to me like that was the case. I'm getting really sick of all these headshots, especially with the refs standing 10 feet away.

...Bad Day at Black Rock Very good movie. I dig Spencer Tracy.

IMO it's the final proof that they need to start using goalcams in football. In other news... I'm not a religious man, but sweet tapdancing Christ! :blink: Spurs annihilate Wigan 9-1 Weird thing is that in my opinion, keeper Chris Kirkland was Wigan's best player.

Because there were a ton of players obstructing the ref's view?