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NY vs SF
Why To Watch
The teams kicked off the regular season at New Jersey and are playing for much higher stakes in their postseason rematch at San Francisco.
The Giants have reeled off four consecutive wins after a 6-6 start as their injuries have healed, their veterans have rallied and coach Jim Fassel took command of their offensive play calling.
The 49ers' path was much steadier, but after clinching the division three weeks ago and with key players such as Terrell Owens, Jeff Garcia, Derrick Deese, Ahmed Plummer and Kevan Barlow and Garrison Hearst all missing time down the stretch to rest and recuperate, the NFC West champs must avoid rust
Maddox, Steelers notch huge comeback win
January 5, 2003 Print it
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By ALAN ROBINSON
AP Sports Writer
PITTSBURGH -- The Cleveland Browns have been haunted for 16 years by The Drive. Now they've got to live with The Comeback by the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Tommy Maddox, the Comeback Player of the Year, led one of Pittsburgh's great comebacks ever, throwing three touchdown passes in the final 19 minutes as the Steelers rallied from a 17-point deficit in the second half to stun the Browns 36-33 Sunday in an AFC wild-card game.
Chris Fuamatu-Ma'afala's 3-yard touchdown run with 54 seconds left won it as the Steelers, coming off so many playoff disappointments at home under coach Bill Cowher, kept their postseason going with one of the franchise's most memorable victories.
"I don't think anybody in the building thought we weren't going to win," Browns quarterback Kelly Holcomb said. "I think everybody thought we were going to go on."
They Steelers denied the Browns their first road playoff victory since 1969, their first playoff win of any kind since returning to the NFL in 1999 and gave themselves a huge momentum lift going into Saturday's divisional round game at AFC second-seeded Tennessee.
The Jets, shutout winners Saturday over the Colts, now play Sunday at top-seeded Oakland -- no doubt after thinking for most of the afternoon they were going to Tennessee.
"I was already in Oakland," Browns receiver Kevin Johnson said, wistfully, referring to where Cleveland would have played.
Not even the Steelers of the '70s ever pulled off a comeback from a deficit like this mostly because they rarely fell behind like this. Even in the famed Immaculate Reception game, they trailed Oakland only 7-6 before Franco Harris' game-winning tipped pass scoring catch in 1972.
"It's one of those wins that you can't see happening, but you just keep hoping it will keep going the way it's going," Steelers coach Bill Cowher said of the frantic comeback.
For the Browns, it was an eerie flashback to John Elway's memorable 98-yard "The Drive" to beat the Browns for Denver in a 1987 playoff game.
The Steelers were shredded all afternoon by Holcomb, who threw for 429 yards and three touchdowns, and trailed 24-7 until Maddox's 6-yard touchdown pass to Plaxico Burress with 3:50 left in the third quarter.
"I can't say how many times I must have said, "We've got time. We have time, so don't panic,"' offensive coordinator Mike Mularkey said. "I never felt there was a panic button pushed by anyone."
Except the Browns.
Their game-long inability to run the ball -- rookie star William Green ran 25 times for just 30 yards -- proved their undoing in a game they seemed to have locked up. It would have been their first playoff victory over their biggest rival, who also beat them in January 1995 in their only previous postseason matchup.
"This is going to hurt. This burns inside," Browns receiver Dennis Northcutt said. "It's going to be very hard to move on."
Unable to wind the clock down, the Browns were forced to throw on almost every down, and, once the Steelers' defense tightened up, that left Pittsburgh the time to come back.
Even after Pittsburgh's comeback began, the Browns had enough left to drive for Phil Dawson's 24-yard field goal and Holcomb's 22-yard touchdown pass to Andre Davis that made it 33-21 with 10:17 remaining.
The Steelers, who have lost four home playoff games under Cowher since 1992, including last year's AFC championship game to New England, didn't fold this time. It helped they rallied from 11 points down in the fourth quarter only last week to beat Baltimore 34-31.
The Browns forced Pittsburgh to punt once, but Maddox -- making his first playoff appearance since a few insignificant downs with Denver in 1992 -- led a 77-yard drive that ended with his 5-yard scoring pass to Hines Ward with 3:06 left, cutting the deficit to 33-28.
Still, the Browns -- who had already convinced thousands of Steelers fans to head for the exits -- needed only a first down or two to run it out and secure one of the sweetest victories in the franchise's history, new Browns or old.
"We came in here with the idea this was like a heavyweight prize fight, that you've got to knock them out because they're not going to quit," Browns coach Butch Davis said.
But Northcutt, who had made big play after big play with two scoring catches and a long punt return, couldn't hold onto a Holcomb throw on third-and-12 and the Browns punted.
"I just dropped it, plain and simple," Northcutt said. "It hurt standing on the sideline, knowing I could have secured the game."
Maddox, going 30-of-48 for 367 yards and overcoming two interceptions, then found Plaxico Burress for 24 yards, Hines Ward for 10, Burress again for 17 and Ward for 7. Fuamatu-Ma'afala, playing the power back role that Jerome Bettis usually plays when he's not hurting with a sore knee, then powered up the middle from the 3 with 54 seconds left, and the Steelers' sideline erupted.
The game ended with Holcomb's 16-yard completion to Andre King at the Steelers' 29 as the Browns couldn't get into range for a possible tying field goal.
Until Maddox took over, it was all Holcomb all the time in a remarkable performance by a quarterback starting only his fourth NFL game as Cleveland tried to win a road playoff game for the first time since 1969. Now, that winless streak has reached eight.
Holcomb, subbing for the injured Tim Couch, had no running game for support, not a single minute of playoff experience -- and no fear. Only Bernie Kosar, who threw for 489 yards in 1987 against Jets, has thrown for more yards in a Browns playoff game.
Holcomb, one of the most inexperienced quarterbacks to start an NFL playoff game, threaded completions of 83, 32, 29, 15 and 43 yards against the NFL's seventh-ranked defense but one weakened by injuries to cornerback Chad Scott and safety Mike Logan.
Holcomb set the tone on the third offensive play of the game, a third-and-14 from the Browns' 16, to find Kevin Johnson behind safety Brent Alexander for an 83-yard completion to the 1.
Green, coming off a 187-yard game against Atlanta, scored on the next play, one of his few positive-yardage runs of the day, and just like that, it was 7-0 Browns with only 1:16 gone.
Pittsburgh, troubled by turnovers all season, then turned it over three times in a span of 51/2 minutes, twice on Maddox-thrown interceptions by Daylon McCutcheon, but only rookie Antwaan Randle El's fumbled punt was turned into points.
Randle El, unwisely electing not to make a fair catch with Darnell Sanders bearing down on him, fumbled into Chris Akins' hands at his own 32. On the next play, Northcutt got behind Hank Poteat for a 32-yard scoring catch that made it 14-0.
With the Steelers desperately seeking something to get them back into the game, Randle El supplied it with a 66-yard punt return touchdown. But Cleveland answered with Dawson's 31-yard field goal off a soggy turf that was softened by a pregame snow shower.
The $200,000 nap. Just recover the extra financial incursions off his cheque.
JR
Barb did.
I tried to figure the Fibo into playing the sega last night, it didn't work. Any suggestions on how to do that?
JR
I played the Sega at bully's last night and lost $500. Sak was there, so was pius. It was very quiet and not much fun.
JR
I;m doing some industry investigation myself. I'll post my results when I have them compiled.
JR
2002 or 2003?
YOU KNOW YOU’RE LIVING IN THE YEAR 2002 WHEN:
1. Your reason for not staying in touch with family is because they do not have e-mail addresses.
2. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.
3. You call your son! ‘s beeper to let him know it’s time to eat. He e-mails you back from his bedroom, “What’s for dinner?”
4. Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her web site.
5. You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa, but you haven’t spoken with your next door neighbor yet this year.
6. You check the ingredients on a can of chicken noodle soup to see if it contains Echinacea.
7. Your grandmother asks you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so she can create a screen saver.
8. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.
9. Every commercial on television has a web site address at the bottom of the screen.
10. You buy a computer and 6 months later it is out of date and now sells for half the price you paid.
11. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn’t have the first 20 or 30 years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go get it.
12. Using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase would be a hassle and takes planning.
13. Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.
14. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.
15. You consider second day air delivery painfully slow.
16. Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet.
17. Your idea of being organized is multiple colored Post-it notes.
18. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person.
19. You get an extra phone line so you can get phone calls.
20. You disconnect from the Internet and get this awful feeling, as if you just pulled the plug on a loved one.
21. You get up in morning and go on-line before getting your coffee.
22. You wake up at 2 AM to go to the bathroom and check your E-mail on your way back to bed.
23. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. :)
24. You’re reading this.
25. Even worse; you’re going to forward it to someone else.
Restaurant
A man is dining in a fancy restaurant and there is a gorgeous redhead sitting at the next table. He has been checking her out since he sat down, but lacks the nerve to talk with her. Suddenly, she sneezes and her glass eye comes flying out of its socket towards the man. He reflexively reaches out, grabs it out of the air, and hands it back.
"Oh my, I am so sorry," the woman says as she pops her eye back in place. "Let me buy your dinner to make it up to you," she says.
They enjoy a wonderful dinner together, and afterwards the theater followed by drinks. They talk, they laugh, she shares her deepest dreams and he shares his. She listens.
After paying for everything, she asks him if he would like to come to her place for a nightcap ......... and stay for breakfast.
The next morning, she cooks a gourmet meal with all the trimmings. The guy is amazed!! Everything had been SO incredible!!!! "You know," he said, "you are the perfect woman. Are you this nice to every guy you meet?".
"No," she replies, "You just happened to catch my eye."
Prayers
A Girls Prayer:
Lord,
Before I lay me down to sleep,
I pray for a man, who's not a creep,
One who's handsome, smart and strong,
One who's willy is thick and long.
One who thinks before he speaks,
When he promises to call, he won't wait weeks.
I pray that he is gainfully employed,
And when I spend his cash, won't be annoyed.
Pulls out my chair and opens my door,
Massages my back and begs to do more.
Oh! send me a man who'll make love to my mind,
Knows just what to say, when I ask "How big's my behind?"
One who'll make love till my body's a twitchin,
In the hall, the loo, the garden and kitchen!
I pray that this man will love me to no end,
And never attempt to shag my best friend.
And as I kneel and pray by my bed,
I look at the dweep you sent me instead.
Amen.
A Boy's Prayer:
Lord,
I pray for a nympho with huge boobs
who owns a liquor store.
Amen
His and hers diary entries
Her Side of the Story:
He was in an odd mood Saturday night. We planned to meet at a pub for a drink, I spent the afternoon shopping with the girls and I thought it might have been my fault because I was a bit later than I promised, but he didn't say anything much about it. The conversation was very slow going so I thought we should go off somewhere more intimate so we could talk more privately. We went to this restaurant and he was still acting a bit funny, so I tried to cheer him up and started to wonder whether it was me or something else. I asked him, and he said no but I wasn't really sure. So anyway, in the car on the way back home I said that I loved him deeply and he just put his arm around me. I didn't know what the hell that meant because you know he didn't say it back or anything, this is really worrying me. We finally got back home and I was wondering if he was going to leave me! So I tried to get him to talk but he just switched on the TV and sat with a distant look in his eyes that seemed to say 'its all over between us'. Reluctantly, I said I was going to bed, then after about 10 minutes, he joined me and to my surprise he responded to my advances and we made love. But he still seemed really distracted, so afterwards I just wanted to confront him but I just cried myself to sleep. I just don't know what to do anymore. I mean, I really think he is seeing someone else and that my life is a disaster.
His side of the story:
England lost. Got a shag though.
Strawberry
PATIENT: "Doctor, I've got a strawberry stuck up my bum."
DOCTOR: "I've got some cream for that."
Freudian slip
A patient says, "Doctor, last night I made a Freudian slip, I was having dinner with my mother-in-law and wanted to say: 'Could you please pass the butter?' But instead I said: 'You silly cow, you have completely ruined my life.'"
Pennington, Jets rout Colts 41-0
January 4, 2003 Print it
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- After what they went through to make the playoffs, what a waste it would have been to exit early.
That was the message Herman Edwards gave his New York Jets. They heeded it superbly, routing the befuddled Indianapolis Colts 41-0 on Saturday.
After barely getting into the postseason, the Jets emphatically showed they belong with their biggest playoff victory and their first postseason shutout. Chad Pennington, the sparkplug of their turnaround, threw for three touchdowns; LaMont Jordan ran for two; and the defense had Peyton Manning and the Colts off-stride from the outset.
"I am so proud of my teammates to see in every one of them that they are not complacent," Pennington said. "To me, it's special when you're able to step in the huddle and see the intensity and focus in the eyes of your teammates."
New York (10-7) began the season 1-4 but won seven of its last nine to storm to the AFC East title on the final day of the season. The surge continued against the wild-card Colts (10-7).
"This is a breath of fresh air, but it is only the first win on a long road," Wayne Chrebet said.
The Jets will be at either Oakland or Tennessee next weekend. It was their first postseason victory since 1998, when they made it to the AFC championship game, and the score matched the last playoff game at the Meadowlands, when the Giants beat Minnesota for the 2000 NFC title.
"I'm 82-0 in my last two playoffs here," said safety Sam Garnes, who was with those Giants. "It definitely feels good to do 41-0 as a Jet."
The only more lopsided shutout win in NFL postseason history was Chicago's 73-0 victory over Washington for the 1940 title.
This was the first NFL playoff game featuring two black head coaches. The Colts' Tony Dungy and the Jets' Edwards, longtime friends, are the only black head coaches in the league. Edwards spent five seasons as Dungy's top assistant in Tampa before becoming the Jets' coach in 2001.
The student came out on top of the mentor because his offense was unstoppable, his defense stingy and his special teams dominant.
"I'm just thankful for our friendship and the chance he gave me to stand here and be a head coach," Edwards said.
Dungy said he'll be rooting for Edwards' team the rest of the way.
"They played awfully well and made us look awfully bad," said Dungy, who took Indianapolis from 6-10 to 10-6 in his first season after being fired by the Bucs.
On the Jets' fifth offensive play, Pennington's screen pass floated into Richie Anderson's hands and he rambled down the left side for a 56-yard score. The touchdown was the longest of his 10-year career, the longest this season for the Jets and the longest scoring play from scrimmage in their playoff history.
The Peyton Manning-to-Marvin Harrison connection got the Colts moving -- for just about the only time -- immediately after the TD with three completions for 38 yards. But Mike Vanderjagt was short and wide with a 41-yard field-goal attempt into the wind.
John Hall made one from the same spot early in the second quarter for a 10-0 lead.
Troy Walters then fumbled the kickoff and Ray Mickens pounced on it at the Indianapolis 39. Jordan eventually swept left from the 1 for a 17-point lead.
It became 24-0 with 37 seconds remaining in the first half when Pennington rolled out and found Santana Moss alone in the right corner of the end zone. Moss grabbed the high throw and barely got both feet in-bounds.
In matching their biggest playoff output in a half, the Jets effectively secured their spot in the next round of the playoffs. But they didn't pull back. Chad Morton ran the second-half kickoff 70 yards to the Indy 19, setting up Hall's 39-yard field goal. Rookie tight end Chris Baker caught his first TD pass, a 3-yarder late in the third quarter. And Jordan, who rushed for 102 yards (89 in the second half), scored again from the 1 in the fourth period.
Manning was a miserable 14-for-31 for 137 yards and two interceptions, and his team had the ball for just 19:42 -- 7:44 in the second half.
Manning, who consistently barked instructions to his teammates at the line of scrimmage -- often to no avail as New York's aggressive defense applied steady pressure -- is 0-3 in the playoffs, and this was the worst of those defeats.
"I tried to be patient," Manning said, "but I got to be impatient because the more you get in the hole, they more they take you out of your game plan. So I ended up doing a lot of things I shouldn't have."
He wasn't helped by six drops and an offensive line that couldn't keep pressure off him. Harrison, who smashed the NFL record with 143 receptions this season, had only four Saturday.
"This was more than we could ask for," Jets linebacker Marvin Jones said. "But the job isn't done."
Notes: Pennington, the league's most efficient passer, wound up 19-for-25 for 222 yards. ... Donnie Abraham and James Darling had the interceptions. ... Pennington tied the team record for TD passes in a playoff game, held by Joe Namath in the 1968 AFL championship game vs. Oakland and Vinny Testaverde last year in a loss to the Raiders. ... The only other playoff game between the franchises was the Jets' 1969 Super Bowl win. ... The much-maligned Giants Stadium turf was not a factor, even though it was chewed up by the second quarter.
Vick, Falcons shock Packers
January 4, 2003 Print it
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GREEN BAY, Wis. -- It looked so perfect for Green Bay. Snow falling. Packers in green and gold. Lambeau Field in January.
Only it wasn't Brett Favre making all the plays.
It was Michael Vick, who looked right at home.
Undaunted by the storied stadium where his own coach lost in the "Ice Bowl" 35 years ago, Vick made history of his own Saturday night.
The 22-year-old improvisational genius led the Atlanta Falcons to a shocking 27-7 upset of the Packers in a wild-card playoff before a record crowd of 65,358 stunned souls.
"We were underdogs. We wanted to show 'em we had the potential to come out and make history," Vick said after his first NFL playoff game.
The Packers (12-5) were the only team to go unbeaten at home during the regular season. And they had never lost a home playoff game since the NFL instituted a postseason in 1933, going 13-0 with 11 of the wins coming at Lambeau and two more in Milwaukee.
"That's what we were talking about all week, the winning streak in the playoffs. It had to come to an end," Vick said.
The closest the Packers had come to losing in the land of Lombardi was on New Year's Eve 1967, when Bart Starr knifed into the end zone with 13 seconds left to give Green Bay a 21-17 victory over Dallas in the coldest game in NFL history.
Falcons coach Dan Reeves threw a 50-yard touchdown pass on a halfback option that gave the Cowboys a 17-14 fourth-quarter lead in that game.
"Thirty-five years ago and they're still showing that. And all I did was complete one little old pass," Reeves said. "To be the first team to win a game up here, they'll be showing this for a long time."
Favre had built a reputation as the game's greatest cold-weather quarterback, winning all 35 of his starts at home in which the temperature was 34 or below.
And what did Favre think of his second straight thumping in the playoffs?
Who knows.
For the first time in his career, he bolted without a word.
It was an unseasonably warm 31 degrees at kickoff. By the time snow began falling at halftime, the Falcons had an astonishing 24-0 lead.
Favre was without Pro Bowl running back Ahman Green (knee) and leading receivers Donald Driver (shoulder) and Terry Glenn (concussion) in a futile second-half comeback attempt.
Vick's numbers weren't great -- 117 yards passing, 64 rushing -- but he was his usual phenomenal self. Over and over, he turned broken plays into big ones.
"He's amazing," Reeves said. "It seems the tougher the situation, the better he is."
The Falcons (10-6-1), who had backed into the playoffs after losing three of four in December, will travel to Philadelphia for a divisional playoff next weekend.
The Packers, who just one week ago still had a shot at home-field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs, began their offseason much sooner than anyone expected.
"To say this is disappointing is as big an understatement as I could ever make," incensed Packers coach Mike Sherman said.
"Michael Vick's a great player, he made some great plays, we couldn't tackle him," Sherman said. "But their whole team played well. It wasn't just Michael Vick."
Still deflated from a 42-17 defeat to the New York Jets last week that cost them a first-round bye, the Packers received a series of rapid-fire jolts in the first night playoff game in their history.
First, Pro Bowl safety Darren Sharper (knee) was unable to play, leaving the Packers without their fastest defender to help contain Vick.
Their next best bet was a snowstorm, but it arrived too late.
"We were expecting bad weather, and it didn't happen," Vick said.
Atlanta, which hadn't reached the end zone on its opening drive all season, went 76 yards in 10 plays, the payoff coming on Shawn Jefferson's 10-yard touchdown catch.
Falcons linebacker Mark Simoneau beat Matt Bowen and blocked Josh Bidwell's punt out of Green Bay's end zone. Artie Ulmer smothered the loose ball for another Atlanta touchdown and a 14-0 lead.
Then Kevin McCadem pushed Tyrone Williams into Green Bay punt returner Eric Metcalf, and Falcons fullback George Layne recovered the muffed punt at the Packers' 21.
Sherman didn't challenge the call -- and a review would have given Green Bay possession because the punted ball clearly bounced off McCadem's left shoulder.
Sherman said he spoke with an official on the field, "but he (mistakenly) led me to believe it would not be reviewable."
Four plays later, the Falcons made it 21-0 when T.J. Duckett carried the pile 6 yards into the end zone as a shocked Sherman crouched on the sideline.
The fervent Falcons then stopped the Packers with a goal-line stand with nose tackle Ellis Johnson dumping Green for a 4-yard loss on fourth down. Over Favre's career, the Packers had scored 48 touchdowns and one field goal when they had faced first-and-goal.
As the much-awaited snow began falling, the exhilarated Falcons didn't flinch. Vick led them 90 yards in 16 plays for Jay Feely's 22-yard field goal on the final play of the first half for a 24-0 lead.
Favre, who had two interceptions and a fumble, hit Driver with a 14-yard touchdown on the first drive after halftime, but Driver re-injured his dislocated shoulder on the play and the Packers were done.
"We did a lot of things right this year in the regular season," Sherman said. "We didn't do them right in the postseason."
Notes: The Falcons' victory was their first in the playoffs since they upset Minnesota in the 1998 NFC title game. ... Packers nose tackle Gilbert Brown injured a hip. ... The Falcons had no injuries of note.
Esche steps in and blanks Ducks 1/3/2003
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Robert Esche has given Ken Hitchcock the luxury of resting Roman Cechmanek a lot more often than other coaches can afford to sit their top goaltender.
Esche made 28 saves for his fifth career shutout, and Keith Primeau scored a power-play goal as the Philadelphia Flyers snapped the Anaheim Mighty Ducks' club-record six-game home winning streak with a 1-0 victory Friday night.
Esche, who has both of the Flyers' shutouts in just 12 starts, lowered his goals-against average to 1.83. The five-year veteran, obtained with Michal Handzus from Phoenix in a trade for goalie Brian Boucher in June, has allowed more than two goals in only one of his last seven starts.
That sounds fun. We don't get any action within many hours of here, lucky for DSS.
Matt are you sure you didn't mean $1.6180339887498949 (FIBO)
JR
Look even Matt is thinking in Fibo's
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=650289
JR
Finally a decent showing from my flyers
SCORING 1st 2nd 3rd TOTAL
Philadelphia 2 1 1 4
Los Angeles 0 1 0 1
First Period Scoring:
1, Philadelphia, Keith Primeau 9 (Kim Johnsson, Marty Murray), 7:33
2, Philadelphia, Andre Savage 2 (Marty Murray), 10:31
First Period Penalties:
C Mcallister, Phi (holding), 1:48
J Roenick, Phi (obstr hooking), 2:39
Bench, Los (too many men served by J Smithson), 5:30
T Fedoruk, Phi (major fighting), 9:51
K Brennan, Los (major fighting), 9:51.
Second Period Scoring:
3, Philadelphia, Tomi Kallio 2 (Jeremy Roenick, Kim Johnsson), 13:41
4, Los Angeles, Mikko Eloranta 3 (Brad Chartrand, Ian Laperriere), 15:30
Second Period Penalties:
M Norstrom, Los (interference), 0:18
C Mcallister, Phi (major fighting), 12:17
K Brennan, Los (major fighting), 12:17
D Brashear, Phi (major fighting), 12:19
B Norton, Los (major fighting), 12:19
M Handzus, Phi (elbowing), 19:21.
Third Period Scoring:
5, Philadelphia, Pavel Brendl 3 (Justin Williams, Jeremy Roenick), 8:56
Third Period Penalties:
D Brashear, Phi (tripping), 1:50
L Visnovsky, Los (interference), 6:56
Bench, Phi (too many men served by D Brashear), 19:18.
I love Karaoke!
JR
Jim Lur brought the entire IDCC club over today. Something like 230 or more members to the club, lots of them RB posters who sense the bull is becoming a steer.
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1402 AKvetch
1406 Albert
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boards active on VLVT?
you mean like on yahoo or SI etc.
I don't know of any.
JR
Welcome aboard Jaymont. See any familair faces in here yet?
JR
oooooh, thats nasty soap.
JR
will do. I've got a list for tonight digging.
JR
drink the bag? heII I married her daughter ain't that enuff?
JR
Thanks, I still had him and the other 2 D marked as out.
JR
It's hard to find anything good to say about the bottom 12 or so teams except that they halp the statistics out.
30. Buffalo (28)
Good:Miroslav Satan is having a relatively decent December, with 8-8-16.
Bad:Yet another losing streak, this one is currently at six games.
Curious:Forwards Rob Ray and Eric Boulton have played a combined 52 games without earning a single point. Their combined penalty minute total is 167.
29. Atlanta (30)
Good:In a 5-3 defeat of Carolina, Don Waddell won his first game as coach and Milan Hnlicka won his first game of the year.
Bad:Four goals in their last five home games.
Curious:The Thrashers started three different goals in three consecutive games – Dafoe, Nurminen and Hnlicka.
28. Columbus (23)
Good:Geoff Sanderson in on pace for a 41-goal season which would be his best since he scored 41 for Hartford in 1993-94.
Bad:A current five-game losing streak in which they’ve been outscored 19-6.
Curious:Marc Denis has started 35 of the 36 Blue Jacket games.
27. Calgary (27)
Good:Hired Darryl Sutter as their new coach.
Bad:The Flames have lost eight games in a row against the Eastern Conference.
Curious:Darryl Sutter’s brother, Brian, coached the Flames previously.
26. NY Rangers (26)
Good:The Rangers lead the league with five overtime victories.
Bad:They haven’t won in regulation time in any of their last 12 games.
Curious:In their last six games, the Rangers have allowed 11 power play goals.
25. Nashville (29)
Good:3-1-1 on the road in December.
Bad:3-5-1 at home in December.
Curious:A 3-1 defeat of Dallas was the second time this season that the Predators have beaten Dallas at home, and accounts for two of their six home wins. Other home wins have come against other top teams, including Detroit and Ottawa.
24. Florida (20)
Good:The Panthers have earned at least one point in 12 straight road games.
Bad:Winless in their last seven home games (0-3-2-2).
Curious:The Panthers have lost seven overtime games, most in the league.
23. Phoenix (24)
Good:In Sean Burke’s first game back from his injury, he shut out Philadelphia 4-0.
Bad:Danny Markov broke his arm in the same 4-0 win.
Curious:The Coyotes need 62 points in their remaining 45 games to equal last year’s 95 points. They had 33 in their first 37 games.
22. San Jose (22)
Good:Since the start of November, Patrick Marleau’s longest pointless streak was one game before being blanked in his last two.
Bad:The Sharks’ penalty killing percentage in December is 75.9%, second worst to the Rangers.
Curious:Niklas Sundstrom finally scored his first goal of the season, after being blanked in the first 35.
21. Pittsburgh (25)
Good:A four-game winning streak in which they outscored their opponents 16-5. The streak ended with a 3-2 home loss to Atlanta.
Bad:Alexandre Daigle was sent to the minors, apparently ending an experiment that started out with promise.
Curious:The Penguins’ four-game winning streak followed a 10-game winless streak, which followed a four-game winning streak, which followed a seven-game winless streak.
20. NY Islanders (21)
Good:The Islanders have allowed one power play goal in the entire month of December.
Bad:Oleg Kvasha had three points in three games earlier in the season, and has none in the other 20 games he has played.
Curious:A 3-0 defeat of Carolina with Chris Osgood in net was the Islanders’ first shutout of the season. Last year, they had six.