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19. Los Angeles (19)
Good:Four-game home winning streak in which they scored 18 goals.
Bad:Four-game road losing streak in which they scored four goals.
Curious:The Kings led the league in penalty killing percentage earlier in the season, but have since dropped into the lower third.
18. Montreal (17)
Good:Mariusz Czercawski was sent to the minors.
Bad:The Canadiens had a franchise low 12 shots in a 3-2 overtime loss at Ottawa. In their previous game, against the Islanders, they had 13 shots.
Curious:Had three consecutive games in which their shot total was under 20, after only doing that twice previously all season.
17. Carolina (15)
Good:Paul Maurice, still the youngest coach in the league, has now served the longest with the same team.
Bad:David Tanabe had an assist in Carolina’s first game in December, but has been blanked since.
Curious:Sami Kapanen has one goal in his last 14 games. If you count this whole season and last year’s playoffs, Kapanen has six goals in his last 49 games.
16. Anaheim (10)
Good:A six-game winning streak at home in which they’ve allowe a total of four goals.
Bad:A four-game road losing streak in which they’ve allowed a total of 20 goals.
Curious:When a penalty shot was awarded to the Ducks after a Calgary player fell on the puck in the crease, Anaheim tried to sneak Paul Kariya on the ice to to take the shot, but since he wasn’t on the ice at the time, he was not allowed to take it. Petr Sykora took the penalty shot and was stopped by Roman Turek.
15. Washington (18)
Good:The Caps are on a seven-game streak of earning at least one point in each game, their longest of the season.
Bad:The Caps are 3-52 on the power play in December.
Curious:The Caps have been outscored on the power play in December by a margin of 14-2.
14. Edmonton (12)
Good:Mike York has nine goals in December, tied for the league lead.
Bad:The Oilers don’t have a regulation time win in their last eight games.
Curious:The last seven Oilers games that have gone to overtime have ended with a decision, after only one of their first five did not end in a tie.
13. Tampa Bay (16)
Good:The Lightning have six players in double figures for the month of December, the most of any team in the league.
Bad:One win in their last nine road games.
Curious:In three of their last four games, the Lightning have had 40 or more shots, after previously reaching that level just once all season.
12. Toronto (13)
Good:A current consecutive home undefeated streak of 10 games (9-0-1).
Bad:Twelve of their next 17 games are on the road.
Curious:Mats Sundin missed a game, against Edmonton, after playing 269 consecutive games.
11. Colorado (14)
Good:The Avs are 4-1-0-1 since firing Bob Hartley.
Bad:Why did it take the firing of the coach to put together the team’s best stretch of the season?
Curious:The Avs have yet to play a road game against an Eastern Conference team.
10. Chicago (11)
Good:A current six-game undefeated streak (4-0-2).
Bad:The Blackhawks have two power play goals in their last 14 games.
Curious:Tyler Arnason, chosen 183rd overall in the 1998 draft, leads all rookies in points, goals, game winning goals and shots on net.
9. Minnesota (9)
Good:The Wild are 7-1-1 against the Eastern Conference.
Bad:The Wild scored 15 power play goals in their first 15 games; 10 in their next 23 games.
Curious:Seven of the next nine Wild games are at home.
8. Boston (4)
Good:The Bruins have outshot their opponents for 15 games in a row.
Bad:Sergei Samsonov will be lost to the team for the rest of the regular season, after undergoing surgery on his wrist.
Curious:A 1-0 victory in Atlanta, with John Grahame in net, was the first shutout of the season for the Bruins.
7. Philadelphia (6)
Good:Roman Cechmanek has the best goals against average in December (minimum 200 minutes played) at 1.59, while Robert Esche is fifth at 1.77.
Bad:A 4-0 loss to Phoenix was the fifth time the Flyers have been shut out this season. Last year, they were shut out three times for the whole season.
Curious:The Flyers have yet to allow more than three goals in a home game this year, but have only scored more than three goals twice.
6. New Jersey (7)
Good:After a regulation time loss, the Devils have a record of 8-0-0-2 in their next game.
Bad:20 points are the fewest for any player in the league leading his team in scoring.
Curious:After going 13 games without a power play goal, the Devils scored in each of their next two games.
5. Dallas (5)
Good:The Stars have allowed 1.6 goals against per game at home, best in the league.
Bad:A .500 record in December, at 4-4-4.
Curious:In four games against Detroit this year, Dallas has tied them four times.
4. St. Louis (8)
Good:A current four-game winning streak in which they’ve outscored their opponents 19-5.
Bad:The Blues have allowed 14 power play goals in December. Only the Rangers, with 17, have allowed more.
Curious:Scott Mellanby is tied for the league lead in December goal scoring, with nine goals.
3. Vancouver (3)
Good:Markus Naslund has 18 points (9-9-18) in December to lead the league.
Bad:Ed Jovanovski will be lost to the team for a month with a broken ankle.
Curious:Artem Chubarov has seven points in his last five games, after earning five points in his first 28 games.
2. Detroit (2)
Good:9-1-4 in December, the best record in the league.
Bad:Injuries to three young defensemen – Jiri Fischer, Mathieu Dandenault and Jesse Wallin – as well as young forward Pavel Datsyuk.
Curious:Tomas Holmstrom has four goals in his last three games, after scoring five in his first 31.
Heres' the team rankings:
1. Ottawa (1)
Good:One loss in their last seven games, and three losses in their last 24.
Bad:Every seven games or so, the Senators actually lose.
Curious:Backup goalie, Martin Prusek, is 6-0. In his six starts, the Senators have scored 31 goals, an average of 5.2 per game.
player o the month
Ottawa's White named NHL Player of the Month
New York, NY (Sports Network) - Ottawa Senators center Todd White was named NHL Player of the Month for December after tallying 18 points (seven goals, 11 assists) in 15 games.
White also had a plus-eight rating for the month, as Ottawa posted a 10-3-2 mark in December. The Senators are the NHL's hottest club, posting an 18-3-4 record in their past 25 games and outscoring the opposition 91-51 during that span.
White recorded points in 11-of-15 contests, including a career-high six-game streak from December 5-16.
Other players nominated for the award were St. Louis Blues defenseman Al MacInnis, Vancouver Canucks left wing Markus Naslund, New York Islanders goaltender Chris Osgood and Chicago Blackhawks netminder Jocelyn Thibault.
01/02 14:34:42 ET
Tonights line up:
Status Time Score Details
7:00 PM Atlanta 0 OTTAWA 0 Preview / Log / Wrap / Box
8:00 PM Chicago 0 ST. LOUIS 0 Preview / Log / Wrap / Box
9:00 PM Tampa Bay 0 CALGARY 0 Preview / Log / Wrap / Box
9:00 PM Florida 0 COLORADO 0 Preview / Log / Wrap / Box
9:00 PM Minnesota 0 EDMONTON 0 Preview / Log / Wrap / Box
10:00 PM Philadelphia 0 LOS ANGELES 0 Preview / Log / Wrap / Box
10:00 PM Montreal 0 VANCOUVER 0 Preview / Log / Wrap / Box
10:30 PM Dallas 0 SAN JOSE 0 Preview / Log / Wrap / Box
As of January 2, 2003, at 03:36 PM ET
I know this is the NHL thread but I just wanted to post the WJ standings in case anyone was interested:
WJC: Standings & Scores
January 1, 2003
GROUP A
Country W L T GF GA Pts
Russia 4 0 0 21 7 8
U.S. 3 1 0 15 9 6
Slovakia 2 2 0 15 8 4
Switzerland 1 3 0 10 15 2
Belarus 0 4 0 6 28 0
GROUP B
Country W L T GF GA Pts
Canada 4 0 0 21 6 8
Finland 2 1 1 12 9 5
Czech Republic 2 1 1 8 7 5
Sweden 1 3 0 12 16 2
Germany 0 4 0 3 18 0
I was going to try to smuggle in some smokes, see if I could make any money ha ha ha.
JR
Me too! It's the drug testing I always sign up for. I want to make sure that nobody is slipping anything in my coke, ha ha ha.
JR
Well the day didnt finish as green as it was at noon. So I'm not sure if I'm drinkin to celebrate or to drown my sorrows?
JR
VLVT -- Veltex Corp.
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Change: +0.0150
Percent Change: +50.00
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Daily High: 0.0550 Daily Low: 0.0450
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Beer
For the women: 25 reasons why beer is better than men:
1. Beer makes you feel better when you have your period.
2. Beer stains don't smell funny the next day.
3. Beer goes where you want it to.
4. Your beer will always wait patiently for you in the car while you try on shoes at the mall.
5. Your beer never suffers performance anxiety.
6. When your beer won't get a head up, you can toss it out.
7. Beer doesn't stand there tapping it wristwatch.
8. No woman ever got stood up by a beer.
9. A beer doesn't start a fistfight with an ale.
10. Puking will rid you of that queasy feeling you get when you made the wrong choice.
11. Beer doesn't get drunk and call you at 3am to beg.
12. You don't need a restraining order with bad beer.
13. I never met a beer with a criminal record.
14. Beer labels come off when you want them to.
15. When you go to a bar, you can pick up a beer without worrying about that tan line on his ring finger.
16. You can pick up a beer in a bar right in front of your mom and she won't mind.
17. Beer never has a bad temper.
18. A beer won't throw you into the back seat of a 76' Datsun and dry hump you under a mercury vapor lamp.
19. A beer won't toss you in the passenger seat of a Mazda RX7 and show you it can go 100MPH on a flat stretch.
20. A beer doesn't bring strange people home with it.
21. Its easy to give beer good head with minimal shaking up.
22. You don't have to worry about a gag reflex with beer.
23. You can have more than one beer in a night without feeling sore.
24. You can talk to your girlfriends about your beer without it getting pissed off.
25. You have a good idea where that beer has been before you got it.
26. No one ever had to sleep in a beer spot.
27. Beer doesn't dis' you because you are a babe.
28. A beer won't shove its hand up your dress at your graduation party.
29. You don't have to fake it for a beer. Beer has no ego.
30. A cold beer is a good beer.
31. Beer tastes good.
32. Beer doesn't leave you. It snuggles around your hips for a lifetime.
33. A beer doesn't hate your cat.
34. You can get six at once without taxing yourself.
35. A beer doesn't mind if you don't finish.
okay that one is a little bit crude, should I delete it?
Truck Driver
A truck driver was going down a steep incline when, at the foot of the hill, he was able to make out a couple having sex in the middle of the road. Five times on his descent he sounded his horn, but they didn't move. He finally brought the truck to a halt inches from them. The truck driver got out and stormed: "What the hell's the matter with you two? Didn't you hear me? You could have been killed!"
The man replied nonchalantly: "Listen, I was coming, she was coming, and you were coming. You were the only one with brakes."
Bathroom Wisdom
Friends don't let friends take home ugly men.
----Women's restroom, Starboard, Dewey Beach, DE.
Make love, not war. Hell, do both, get married!
----Women's restroom, The Filling Station, Bozeman, Montana
A Woman's Rule of Thumb: If it has tires or testicles, you're going to have trouble with it.
----Women's restroom, Dick's Last Resort, Dallas, Texas
Beauty is only a light switch away.
---- Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
If voting could really change things, it would be illegal.
----Revolution Books, New York, New York
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
----The Irish Times, Washington, DC
Please don't throw your cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light.
----The Janitor
No matter how good she looks, some other guy is sick and tired of putting up with her crap.
----Men's Room, Linda's Bar and Grill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Don't trust anything that bleeds for 5 days and doesn't die.
----Men's restroom, Murphy's, Champaign, IL
What are you looking up on the wall for? The joke is in your hands.
----Men's restroom, Lynagh's, Lexington, KY
No wonder you always go home alone.
----Sign over mirror in Men's restroom, Ed Debevic's, Beverly Hills, CA
Flies
A woman walked into the kitchen to find her husband
stalking around with a fly swatter.
"What are you doing?" She asked.
"Hunting Flies" He responded.
"Oh. Killing any?" She asked.
"Yep, 3 males, 2 Females," he replied.
Intrigued, she asked. "How can you tell?"
He responded, "3 were on a beer can, 2 were on the phone."
Airport
While taxiing at London Gatwick, the crew of a US Air flight departing for Ft. Lauderdale made a wrong turn and came nose to nose with a United 727.
An irate female ground controller lashed out at the US Air crew, screaming: "US Air 2771, where the hell are you going? I told you to turn right onto Charlie taxiway! You turned right on Delta! Stop right there. I know it's difficult for you to tell the difference between Cs and Ds, but get it right!"
Continuing her tirade to the embarrassed crew, she was now shouting hysterically: "God, you've screwed everything up! It'll take forever to sort this out! You stay right there and don't move till I tell you to! You can expect progressive taxi instructions in about half an hour and I want you to go exactly where I tell you, when I tell you, and how I tell you! You got that, US Air 2771?"
"Yes ma'am," the humbled crew responded.
Naturally the ground control frequency went terribly silent after the verbal bashing of US Air 2771. Nobody wanted to engage the irate ground controller in her current state.
Tension in every cockpit at LGA was running high. Then, an unknown pilot broke the silence and asked: "Wasn't I married to you once?"
An oldy but a goody
Baked Beans
A man had a terrible passion for baked beans, but they always had a somewhat lively effect on him. After he met the woman of his dreams, he made the supreme sacrifice and gave them up; he couldn't imagine subjecting his new wife to his beastly emissions.
On his birthday, his car broke down, so he called his wife and told her he'd have to walk home. He walked past a cafe and the wonderful aroma of baked beans overwhelmed him. Since he was still a couple of miles from home, he figured he could indulge, and then walk off any ill effects. So he had three extra-large helpings of beans, and he "put-putted" all the way home.
His wife met him at the door and seemed somewhat excited. She exclaimed, "Darling, I have the most wonderful surprise for you for dinner tonight!"
She blindfolded him, and led him to his chair at the head of the table, making him promise not to peek. At this point, he was beginning to feel another one coming on. Just as she was about to remove the blindfold, the telephone rang and she went to answer it.
While she was gone, he seized the opportunity. He shifted his weight to one leg and let go. It was not only loud, but ripe as a rotten egg. He gasped and felt for his napkin and fanned the air about him. He had just started to feel better, when another urge came on. This one sounded like a diesel engine revving, and smelled worse. He tried flapping his arms, to clear the air. But another one snuck out, and the windows rattled, the dishes on the table shook, and a minute later, the flowers on the table were dead.
When he heard his wife ending her conversation, he neatly laid his napkin on his lap and folded his hands on top of it. He was the picture of innocence when she walked in.
Apologizing for taking so long, she asked if he had peeked at the dinner. He assured her he had not, so she removed the blindfold and yelled, "Surprise!!!"
To his shock and horror, there were twelve dinner guests seated around the table for his surprise birthday party.
Engineer Death
An engineer dies and reports to hell. Pretty soon, the engineer becomes dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and starts designing and building improvements. After a while, they've got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and the engineer is a pretty popular guy. One day God calls Satan up on the telephone and says with a sneer: "So, how's it going down there in hell?"
Satan replies: "Hey things are going great. We've got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and there's no telling what this engineer is going to come up with next."
God replies: "What??? You've got an engineer? That's a mistake - he should never have gotten down there; send him up here."
Satan says: "No way. I like having an engineer on the staff, and I'm keeping him."
God says: "Send him back up here or I'll sue."
Satan laughs uproariously and answers: "Yeah, right. And just where are you going to get a lawyer?"
False Teeth
A dinner speaker was in such a hurry to get to his engagement that when he arrived and sat down at the head table, he suddenly realized that he had forgotten his false teeth. Turning to the man next to him, he said, "I forgot my teeth." The man said, "No problem." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a pair of false teeth. "Try these," he said.
The speaker tried them on. "Too loose," he said. The man then said, "I have another pair-- try these."
The speaker tried them on and responded, "Too tight." The man was not taken back at all. He said, "I have one more pair. Try them."
The speaker said, "They fit perfectly." With that, he ate his meal and gave his speech.
After the dinner meeting was over, the speaker went to thank the man who had helped him. I want to thank you for coming to my aid. Where is your office? I've been looking for a good dentist."
The man replied, "I'm not a dentist. I'm an undertaker."
Dear Abby
Dear Abby:
I have been engaged for almost a year. I am to be married next month. My fiancee's mother is not only very attractive but really great and understanding. She is putting the entire wedding together and invited me to her place to go over the invitation list because it had grown a bit beyond what we had expected it to be.
When I got to her place we reviewed the list and trimmed it down to just under a hundred ... then she floored me. She said that in a month I would be a married man and that before that happened, she wanted to have sex with me. Then she just stood up and walked to her bedroom and on her way said that I knew where the front door was if I wanted to leave.
I stood there for about five minutes and finally decided that I knew exactly how to deal with this situation. I headed straight out the front door . . .
There, leaning against my car was her husband, my father-in-law to be. He was smiling. He explained that they just wanted to be sure I was a good kid and would be true to their little girl. I shook his hand and he congratulated me on passing their little test.
Abby, should I tell my fiancee' what her parents did, and that I thought their "little test" was asinine and insulting to my character?
Or should I keep the whole thing to myself including the fact that the reason
I was walking out to my car was to get a condom?
I'm always afraid to read those for fear that I might be mentioned.
JR
HA HA HA I'm the first post on this board. I once owned Sungold stock. I bought it for .14 and watched it go down and down to about 10 cents. I averaged down to about 11 cents and then managed to sell it all about a year later for .19
I was very disappointed that the horsepower game was not marketed better. As much as I hated what the bashers were saying about the stock the whole time I owned it, they were more accurate that I wanted to admit.
I've checked back on this stock several times but never been tempted to buy in again. The history of numerous failures scared the crap out of me and makes me believe that it is more likely a scam than a legitimate attempt to ever have a successful project.
Sorry ImM, can't agree with you on this one hahahaha
Thanks for the invite. I'm more of a penny sorta guy but I'll play along like I know what I'm doing ha ha ha
JR
Rob are you watchin VLVT today??? its starting to wake up.
JR