January OT thread

Maybe Wilson can pull off a ninja trade and get one of them over to San Jose. :D

did kris barsch really use a racial slur?

Doesn’t matter. Lots of people use racial slurs. Ignore it, move on; last thing we need is hippie crap in hockey, questioning issues of race. It’s best to treat all your hockey-playing colleagues as one big happy family: singling out race is a great way to ostracize black/Mexican/Martian/whatever hockey players.

are concussions going to go down?

No, but knee-on-knee hits are going to keep becoming more common as more people bemoan concussions.

will crosby be back soon? as good as before?

Nope and nope. I think he’ll be out for a year or two, then stage a Lemieux-like comeback for a couple of seasons.

what’s the meaning of life? is 42 the right answer?

Life has no meaning, that’s the fun of it.

Has anyone taken an arrow to the knee yet??

Skyrim Hate +3.

okay I think im past the 75 word limit, so the idiotic questions are over. enjoy :) question to get you guys started off: any new year resolutions? and what are you most looking forward to, hockey related or not, in 2012?

New Years Resolution: Laugh at people who fail at their New Years Resolutions.
Looking forward to: Sharks winning cup.

Paradox? HELL YEAH

no that wasn’t supposed to make any sense :P

Seriously, Plekanec fights with Subban? That’s not really a surprise for me. Subban could be a stud, but he has an attitude worse than Jagr IMO. But Jagr was great so….

Resolutions? Same as ever: lose a few pounds, quit smoking, exercise more. Sadly walking to the pub for beer, chips and cigarettes will not count towards the last of those resolutions.

Looking forward to…two visits to the Tank next month. Will I finally get to witness a Sharks win in person? Will I be banned for life if my record in SJ goes 0-4? Only time will tell…

As I said on another blog, I’m not making any resolutions or setting any lofty goals for this year. Last year was a real pisser. So I’ve decided that this year we will NOT win a million dollars, I will not get anything published and the cat will not accidentally dig up an old shoebox full of IBM stock from the ’40’s in the back yard. See now I’ll be able to look back on this in a year and know that I did everything on my list!

Flyer’s SBN blog Broad Street Hockey may have caught a (really dumb) criminal.

I’m very much enjoying it so far, playing as a Zabrak Bounty Hunter on The Crucible Pitts (server). As a big fan of both KotOR games, I’ve been keeping my eye out for references to the original games and I haven’t seen too many, but I’m only Level 11.

It’s this futuristic show about superheros who are sponsored by real-life companies like Ustream and Amazon and the main character is a hilarious father, not an egomaniacal high school dork. He doesn’t like to party or anything.
I’m really loving the show.

hit me @noctro on the twitters or on my profile email addy.

Remember when there used to be so many comments we’d need multiple OT threads per month?

Interesting article on Roy Sommer (head coach in Worcester).

Here’s a little excerpt:

At the time, Sommer was going through a divorce and "everything was kind of going downhill." All his possessions were in the back of his truck, but before he left for Canada again, his brother wanted to celebrate at an Oakland A’s baseball game… "I was too cheap to park in the parking lot, so I went to another place," he said. "I came back and the back of my truck was open and everything was gone. So I got to Prince Albert with my truck and that was about it. The insurance check got sent to Indianapolis where my ex-wife was and she cashed it. And that was the start of my coaching career.