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Before we begin would anyone else like to declare bankruptcy? If so, please get in line behind the Ottawa Senators and the Buffalo Sabres and someone from the "How the hell did we wind up like this" department will be with you shortly… Now I was tempted once again to write another song parody but I couldn't get Pink Floyd's "Money" or the 60's hit, "Money (That's What I Want)" to work out lyrically for the Sabres. Let me just tell you, you might think this stuff's simple but not a lot of things rhyme with Biron or Miroslav! Back home in our league, nobody's bankrupt quite yet, but we do have got our 3rd trade of the past two weeks to report. No, this time it's not Trader Neil pullin' off a deal, it's Foil Up Walt and "Par"Don (my) Cardoza pulling off a 3-for-3 in which the big names are Shanahan and Nabokov. Both teams are obviously looking to improve their rankings but none more obvious than Foil Up, who currently playing to a 40 point-to-4 point split between their skater and goalie points! Walt's just 4 away from the maximum point total you can achieve offensively while also being just a single point away from last place in all three goalie categories! Can you say "Jekyll and Hyde"? Moving back over to the NHL again I see this rookie defenseman from Edmonton creeping into the free agent Top 10 plus/minus rankings. Some guy named Ales Pisa. Now I was "leaning" towards picking Ales up but after checking out the numbers, he's not as "towering" as it looks. Actually, you can say I'm not leaning towards picking up the not-so-towering Pisa. Leaning Tower of Pisa, get it? Hello? McFly! Yes, I will go to any lengths for a bad pun… Other "monumental" puns I might be able to make include Ranger minor league Roman "Colisseum" Lyashenko, the Lightning's "Big" Ben Clymer, and Thrasher Marc "De Triomphe" Savard. A few coaching changes going on these past few weeks that we need to catch up on as well. First former Avalanche head coach Bob Hartley will now be behind the bench for the Thrashers. Blue Jackets GM Doug MacLean takes over in Columbus, and a short time ago Darryl Sutter was named coach of the Flames. I also hear that the Mighty Ducks, despite moving into second place in the Pacific, are thinking about firing their coach since they're still a ways away from the last playoff spot in the West. Sorry to hear that, I always thought Emilio Estevez was a good coach. Especially the way he was able to motivate that fat goalie kid… On June 21st, the long awaited fifth novel in the Harry Potter series will be released. The book will be titled "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". Phoenix? As in "Coyotes"? Hmm, didn't know they played hockey at Hogwarts, I thought quidditch was their game? For those of you who are fans of the books and the movies (or both!), I offer up this week's Top 10 list…
Sorry to those of you who haven't read the book or seen the movies, you can now crawl back under that rock you've been living under all this time. Don't worry though, next week maybe I'll do a Top 10 with a Lord of the Rings theme? "Oh great, now The Commish is assigning winter reading!"… Any finally, a sad note, the director of the movie "Slap Shot", George Roy Hill, passed away in late December due to complications from Parkinson's disease. Of course we'll always have a place in our heart for everyone involved in the making of that classic hockey movie. And as a tribute to Mr. Hill, I think I'm going to go "foil up" and watch the DVD one more time! Everyone else feel free to do the same… Well that's about all I've got the room (and the stomach) for this week. 'til next week…
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