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D'agostini sent down as well... Maxwell up to Montreal. Risky move here exposing D'ags to waivers, hopefully nobody claims him as he could use some time with Boucher in Hamilton.

terrible news, get well soon Jean!

That's ridiculous, the guy is an enforcer, he is being brought in to fight. You really think if the team were to go out and sign Daniel Carcillo or Todd Fedoruk that Gainey would have to have a sit down and say... "listen, before you sign, I need to make sure you understand what the job of being an NHL enforcer is?"

This is the key quote from Gainey's press conference: Gainey: Don't have a copy of BGL's code, don't know what it is, should be to support teammates This is why he has been told to leave the team. Eric Engels followed that up nicely with this tweet: There's a code and Georges abides by it to the letter, and unfortunately no one else does.which essentially rendered him useless in his role I couldn't have said it better myself.

The key here is that Laraque was signed to be an enforcer and he at times was unwilling to do his job. His job is to go out and intimidate the other team. If that means he has to jump another guy and take a possible instigator and suspension/fine than so be it. He was being paid 1.5 million to be an enforcer and all he was doing to fighting in prearranged bouts with the other teams big man. Bottom line, he never was willing to do the job he was hired to do.

Man Gomez blows tonight.

Fairly sure that Anaheim and NY Rangers are available. Send BTH a message and he should be able to set you up.

+1

Chan Gailey? Chan Gailey? What the hell is going on here Ralph Wilson. Promises the fan base a thorough overhaul of the front office and instead they promote the GM to CEO and promote a National scout to GM and keep all the other bums in their original jobs. Then he promises a major hire as head coach. Chan Gailey hasn't been a head coach in the NFL in 10 years, this is your major hire?!?!

I couldn't agree more, I wasn't implying that he should be the coach now, but simply that it seems as though he is being groomed to be the eventual coach down the line.

With all the positives that I keep hearing about Boucher and the job he's done in Hamilton thus far (coupled with him being francophone) make me feel like its only a matter of time before he's coaching the big club.

Man I hate the Jets, they don't even deserve to be in the playoffs.

Hoping for a good game, breaking in my brand new Habs jersey tonight amongst the Sens fans down in the Byward Market. Don't let me down boys!

Yah english Canada seems to be fairly polarized as well. If you're a liberal you watch CBC, if you're a conservative you watch CTV and I suppose some people still watch Global...

Bad goal on Carey but what the hell is wrong with Jacques Martin. Why send the 4th line in to take a faceoff in the offensive zone. Both 1st and 2nd lines were rested and able to take that draw. That mistake (missed faceoff, turnover, poor defensive coverage) all led to that first goal, and I blame Martin as much as Price for it.

I think, (and I'm no media expert) that the theory is that if people are tuned in to a channel for the previous program maybe they have the next show on while they are looking for something else to watch. In the case of a late night talk show maybe this means they catch the start of the monologue. If the person finds it funny they are more likely to keep watching. If they aren't already tuned into the channel they aren't being exposed to the product. Also by having someone tuned into NBC immediately prior to the show it allows the network to air promos about the upcoming episode, who the guests are, clips, etc. Anything that can get the viewer interested in sticking around.

Here's the problem with this argument. You're arguing that the shows in recent years leading into Leno have been bad (which they have) and that it didn't negatively affect his audience. The difference is that he was already established. Jay Leno debuted in 1992 on The Tonight Show. His lead-ins at the time were: Dateline (in its first season), Law & Order (3rd season), and LA Law (7th season). Not to mention Seinfeld, Mad about you, Cheers, Wings which all aired 8-9pm on NBC. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992%E2%80%93...ision_schedule) Now let's look at what NBC has been airing during Conan's first year on the Tonight show. The Jay Leno Show at 10 we all know about, what about leading into the Jay Leno Show... Law & Order SVU, The biggest loser, Heroes, 30 Rock (the only show with any current success). The point isn't that Leno had success on the Tonight Show recently without a good lead in, because he has had the previous decade and a half to establish his viewing audience. Conan moved to a new show, at a new time and NBC didn't provide him with an opportunity to successfully build his audience as they did with Leno in 1992 by saddling him with a terrible supporting cast.

Fanpuck, you'd be hard pressed to find any news article about this that doesn't argue that having a poor lead in has severly hampered Conan's ratings. It is certainly the consensus opinion that the show that leads into you has a significant impact on your overall ratings.

I think that's an unfair characerization of the situation. NBC gave Conan an contractual guarantee that he would take over from Leno in 2009. This was a decision made by Leno, Conan and the network. The decision to late move Leno to a 10pm show was not Conan's doing. The biggest issue for Conan is that he has no legitimate lead in. When leno was doing the show NBC always had relatively strong shows leading into the news which lead into the Tonight show. When NBC made the decision to move Leno to 10pm it killed Conan. Leno's show at 10 has been TERRIBLE. The ratings have plummeted and it has affected the viewership of the Tonight Show. Basically because Leno is performing poorly it is hurting Conan's ratings. Let's also not forget that Conan has moved his entire family, all his staff, all his staff's families from New York to LA to do this show, and now NBC is telling him 9 months later sorry for all your trouble but it isn't working out. NBC has to be the worst run network out there right now, these guys continue to show how incompetent they are by mismanaging talent. I don't blame Conan for being pissed off at being jerked around, I hope he follows through on his threat and walks.

Trotter seems to be on fire lately. Really pushing to be the next guy called up.

Eric Engels just tweeted this... really quite funny. http://www.mauvaisoeil.com/extras/gainey/en/index.html#

Ravens looked awfully good today. I have to say that we really couldn't have asked for better matchups next week. All four games (IND vs BAL, SD vs NYJ, MIN vs DAL and NO vs ARI) should be very competitive and exciting football. Thrilled the Patriots lost... now if San Diego can knock off the Jets all will be right in the world.

Good win by the Jets today, however I still dont think they deserved to get in the playoffs. Face it the only reason they got in was by beating two teams with nothing to play for. Even the Commissioner of the NFL has said that something needs to be done to avoid teams playing glorified exhibition games late in the season. I'd have much rathered see the Texans make it after having to battle their way in, then a team that got rewarded because the Colts decided to mail it in by benching their starters and playing backups for 3/4 of the game.

ahh ok, I wasn't sure if that was the case. I figured if I put that up here somebody would set me straight.

Not that he's the answer, but aren't we still paying Stewart an NHL salary to go to the AHL for conditioning? How out of shape was this guy, he's been down there over a month. At least would be nice to have someone like him to sit in the press box in case of emergencies.