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    Default FTR Fantasy Hockey League Updates

    Who's winning the hockey league?
    Who's been hurt with injuries?

    It would be cool if we could get weekly updates.
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    Update for week of the Oct 23rd!

    Muxy is running away with it so far, although it HAS only been about 10 games into the season, so no worries ... yet ... Markus Naslund is getting millions of points for him (it still depresses me so much because I could have gotten him but I didn't and now Muxy is kicking my ass). Glen Murray is also doing a great job for Muxy's team, he has 12 points on the season so far. All in all, Muxy's team is killing everyone is pretty much every category ... goals ... assists ... power play points ... even his goalie stats are awesome. The ONLY thing he's not doing great in so far is penalty minutes, his friend Geoff is winning that category. I swear this league is rigged ... lol ...

    It's hard to update on other teams because I still have no ideas who's who. Someone enlighten me! Second place right now is held by the team Gods Among Men, he's got one point over Muxy when it comes to goalie wins and goals against average (he's got Manny Legace who's just destroying everyone who plays Detroit so far this year). He's a distant second though ... Muxy has 101.5 points vs Gods Among Men's 70.5 points.

    My team's not doing great so far, I only have 58 points. My goals stat is pretty horrible, and my goalie stats are even worse. Theodore is getting me wins, but his GAA and SV% are horrible. Anyone got some good goalie suggestions for me? Rick Nash has been out since the start of the season for me, so that's hurting a lot. Ryan Smyth isn't perfectly healthy right now (and the Oilers have been playing terribly), and Gaborik is sitting out AGAIN ... he came back for a couple of games, but now he's re-injured. So three of my best players are injured, which is probably why my team has hardly any goals so far.

    Just some other notable injuries in the league: Sergei Federov (Muxy) is day to day, as is Steve Yzerman (Gods Among Men); Valeri Bure (Gods Among Men), Mats Sundin (Stupid Team), Gary Roberts (Rilla), Keith Tkachuk (lets go kings), and Patrik Elias (lets go kings) are all on IR.
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    Quote Originally Posted by courtiebee
    Rick Nash has been out since the start of the season for me, so that's hurting a lot. Ryan Smyth isn't perfectly healthy right now
    Hang in there. This sounds like my football team where my best receiver went down early with a season-ending injury. Somehow my team recovered and I'm 6-1.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eric
    Hang in there. This sounds like my football team where my best receiver went down early with a season-ending injury. Somehow my team recovered and I'm 6-1.
    Nice nice, I like a good recovery ... I fully plan on making a complete comeback, the season is super young!
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    Keep those updates coming. Muxy, where did your Chris Farley avatar go?
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    Update for week of Oct. 30! (Happy Halloween)

    Suddenly Muxy doesn't seem invincible anymore! Probably due mostly to the Canucks having a bad last couple of games (lost twice in a row to Colorado ), Muxy has dropped in points to 87.5. He's still in first place, but now the second place team (Stupid Team) is only 11.5 points behind. Freekshows rounds off the top three with 71 points.

    Who played well this past week? Marleau for Muxy had 7 points including a game winning goal and 3 power play points; Thornton (Rilla) had 6 assists this past week for a total of 7 points; Forsberg did well for The Simon Gagne's; Staal kicked ass this past week for Stupid team with 4 goals and 6 assists, and I'm sure you know about Heatley's crazy 4 goal game which brought him up to 10 points for this past week. A lot of goalies did well in our league, but Lundgvist (NYR) on Gods Among Men was awesome with 2 wins and stats of 1.50 GAA, 0.958 SV%. Man, I need a goalie like that ... Other players racking up 7 or points this week: Spezza (Skate like Andy Holt), Selanne and Kovalchuck (both Freeekshows, although he added Selanne just a couple days ago, so most of them don't count for this week), and Pitkanen (Geoff). Ooh and I just noticed that Timonen got 10 PIMs this week for lets go kings ... haha nice. Goals aren't everything!

    Yeah. You'll notice that in the last paragraph, neither Miffed or I had any outstanding players. That's why we are the failures of the FTR fantasy hockey league ...

    Haha j/k, I know we'll both come back and kick everyone else's asses. Mwahahah ...

    New injuries? Boston goalie Raycroft is DTD, as is Jersey goalie Brodeur. Gaborik played for like a day and then went back to being injured, so there goes my team's only hope for this week, lol. Runcinsky is also DTD.

    Last week I mentioned that my goalie stats are awful, so I went ahead and picked up two new goalies, Alex Auld (just in case Cloutier is injured, still not sure about him) and Manny Fernandez. Fernandez is the Wild's second goalie, I believe he's played the same number of games as Roloson (who's on Rilla's team). Both Minnesota's goalies have great stats. Er ... I didn't drop either of my other goalies, so now I have four goaltenders. Logical, I know. No wonder I'm not winning the league LOL Who should I drop? Only this coming week will tell!
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    I've been rather forgetful. I've been in lament over my pens going about 8 weeks into the season w/o a win. But now that's over so I should get back to the fantasy game.

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    Quote Originally Posted by a500lbgorilla
    I've been in lament over my pens going about 8 weeks into the season w/o a win.
    The penguins doubled their wins today! Beat the Devils in overtime ... now they have two wins! ooooh
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    my goalie stats were JUST pulling up the past couple of days, but after today, they're back in the tank. today was brutal. grahame got killed today, lightning ended up losing 6-4. six goals in 28 shots ... there goes the GAA and the SV% fernandez lost too ... 3-0, 23 shots ... I was trying to decide if minnesota would play roloson or fernandez and i guessed that they would play manny and i was RIGHT ... but now i wish i'd been wrong.

    i can't post to brag, so this is how i make up for it. haha
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    From Another Thread:
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    my boyfriend thought that my poker playing was a waste of time. so i got rid of him.
    How did he feel about hockey?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eric
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    Quote Originally Posted by courtiebee
    my boyfriend thought that my poker playing was a waste of time. so i got rid of him.
    How did he feel about hockey?
    Haha yes, I have guy-like hobbies. Hockey he KIND OF understood a little more, but still not really. He didn't follow it and watch it like I did, but at least he didn't think I was wasting my time with it. He plays hockey from time to time, he was in some league during the summer. But not a hockey lover (and it was roller hockey which is clearly inferior to ice, so I don't count it for much haha)

    Eric, you've made me realize that I haven't ever gone out with a guy who's truly loved hockey! There's so many of them out there yet I keep missing them. You'd think that it'd be easy to find one who loves hockey and loves poker, but I can't find one worth dating
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    OH and BTW, Rick Nash is off IR!!! WOOHOO! It's about time, I hope he's okay, he needs to start scoring for my team (which moved up to 4th place last night despite my horrible goaltending stats )! I'm extra excited about this because it means he might play on Friday against the Canucks, and I'm going to that game that night! I was so afraid I wouldn't get to see him, he's the only reason to go to a Columbus game. First live game of the season for me (exhibition games don't count), I'm SUPER excited!

    Now I just need Gaborik to come back ...
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    Quote Originally Posted by courtiebee
    Eric, you've made me realize that I haven't ever gone out with a guy who's truly loved hockey! There's so many of them out there yet I keep missing them. You'd think that it'd be easy to find one who loves hockey and loves poker, but I can't find one worth dating :?
    I know what you mean. There are tons and tons of guys who love poker. As for hockey, it isn't big where I live in California but there are tons of guys who love it in other parts of the US and Canada.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Miffed22001
    yey
    im starting to move up (a bit)
    me too i went up 6 points last night this week has been craziness, the standings are totally different now, and only 3.5 points separate 1st and 6th place ...
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    Um well you are all lucky my account go hacked or someone gained acsess and moved every single one of my star players to the bench and only left Segei Federov who is injured playing.

    I dropped like a machine but you all know i will be back i reset my roster and changed my password.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Muxy
    Um well you are all lucky my account go hacked or someone gained acsess and moved every single one of my star players to the bench and only left Segei Federov who is injured playing.

    I dropped like a machine but you all know i will be back i reset my roster and changed my password.
    are you SERIOUS????? wow ... wtf ... that sucks ...

    luckily it happened during a slight canucks downswing. vancouver's first line has been just awful lately. i went to the game last night and they were just so bad ... not much better tonight either. i'm sure they'll pick it up soon though, and then you'll be back to kicking our asses
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    Update for week Nov. 6 (I have an accounting assignment due today, can someone do it for me? )

    It's been a crazy week for our league, with the standings radically changing. Only 7 points separate fifth from first place, and the past seven days just shows how quickly the tables can turn. The Simon Gagne's are now in first place with 75 points, courtiecanucks (omg my team, do you believe it?) are in second with 72.5 points, and Stupid Team rounds out the top three with 70 points. Somewhat notable is the fact that Geoff's team is only 0.5 behind third place. Muxy, who was in first place last week, has dropped to 6th place. He is only 12 points behind first, however. A couple days could change everything really fast.

    Looking at the standings, I think it's interesting to consider why certain people are on top right now. The reason The Simon Gagne's are in first place is because of their goaltending: Joseph for Phoenix (who has two shut outs) and Markkanen for Edmonton are doing a great job for him (Markkanen wasn't doing very well at the beginning of the season, it looks like he's improving). The Simon Gagne's are also on top when it comes to assists and second for PPP. So, his team is on top in certain categories, but doing only mediocre in others. My team, on the other hand, is just slightly above average in most categories, which is enough for second right now. Then again, it's kind of silly to analyze standings this early in the season.

    Injuries? I really have to complain about Rick Nash. He was supposed to be back on the third, and he DID play against Calgary that night. Unfortunately for me and Columbus, he got reinjured that day and didn't play against the Canucks the following day (and I had tickets to that game just to see him, too ). So Nash is on IR ... AGAIN. It seems like Gaborik and Nash have been on IR all season (oh wait, they have). Oh well. The season's only a month old, they'll be back eventually. New inuries of note: Robitaille (Muxy) is on IR, as is Leetch (Rilla). I just noticed that The Simon Gagne's have no injuries, which definitely doesn't hurt the rise to the top of the standings.

    Who has the team lets go kings? I don't think this person is even playing anymore ... he has two N/A players on his team and he hasn't made a move sinse the season started.

    Okay I'm done, I always write more than I expect to (does anyone even read these?).

    P.S. I still have four goalies. I don't know which to get rid of.

    P.P.S. I got an Alex Auld jersey over the weekend! I had to have it custom made. They told me that it's the only Auld jersey they've ever made.

    P.P.P.S. Almost 100 posts
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    (does anyone even read these?).


    i read them, i think you are doing a great job.
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    Quote Originally Posted by courtiebee
    Okay I'm done, I always write more than I expect to (does anyone even read these?).
    More is better than less. I read these and plenty of other people do too. This thread isn't even a month old and it already has almost 200 views.

    Keep up the good work.
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    Thanks muchly, mindfreeek and Eric, it's nice to know I'm not talking to myself when I write these! Then again, even if I were, I probably wouldn't mind TOO much haha.
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    Update for week Nov. 20 (my bday week, maybe Fantasy will be good to me for once!)

    It's been two weeks since I wrote an update post and The Simon Gagne's are still at the top with 79 points. The difference, however, is that my team decided to drop like a stone for a couple days and gave up second place to Geoff's Picks. His team has been lurking around at the top of the standings for a while, I expect it'll be around the top for most of the season. Third place is fairly far away from the top spots and is held by Mindfreeeks right now (I just realized he's a Toronto fan ) with 67.5 points.

    The Simon Gagne's are still at the top due to their goal tending, which continues to have amazing stats in both the GAA and SV% categories. If the team's goalies could start racking up a few more wins, they'd be running away with it right now. Geoff's team, on the other hand, is DESTROYING everyone in all places except the goalie categories. He is literally first or second in every single category that is NOT goalie-related. He's actually last in GAA and second to last in SV% ... let's hope it stays that way so that HE doesn't start running away with the top spot. Mindfreeeks is pretty nicely balanced in all stats. My team is sitting in fourth spot right now, and it's doing great in some categories and terribly in others. My team has a grand total of 3 game winning goals, good for last place in our league, and it doesn't look like it's going to improve any time soon, lol. My goalie stats are improving, however (I still have four goalies, but I will be dropping Auld soon since Cloutier is healthy once again), which is encouraging.

    INJURIES ... oh injuries ... Yes, it is all about me and my team's injuries. I don't mean to beat a dead horse, but Gaborik and Nash are STILL out ... no wonder I don't have any goals. To make matters worse for my team, Kovalev had surgery done and is expected to be out for 8 weeks ... there goes another one of my top scorers. I know that when they are all healthy, my team is going to be killer (well I hope that at least haha), but I wonder if my team will fall too far behind to even catch up by the time that happens? It's early in the season, but precious time is ticking away as these players continue to sit on IR. ANYWAY enough about my team, there are other injuries too (despite what I may think sometimes, lol): Gonchar (The Simon Gagne's) was put on IR just this past Saturday; Robitaille (Muxy) remains on IR, as do Leetch, Rucinsky (Rilla), and Bure (Gods Among Men).

    I just noticed that there are A LOT of Detroit players in our league. Is anyone here a Red Wings fan? Gods Among Men has EIGHT Detroit players ... that's crazy! It's putting all your eggs in one basket, but if the Wings go far this year, it might pay off. The rest of us can go ahead and hope that Detroit goes on multiple extended losing streaks mwahahahha

    P.S. I'm sorry for missing last week's update, I've been crazy busy. Besides, not much really changed ... except my team dropped like a stone to around 8th place at one point :P Hmm maybe THAT'S why I didn't want to update ...
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    Happy Birthday courtiebee!

    I'm a November birthday too, there seem to be a lot of birthdays this time of year, maybe because of Valentine's Day.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eric
    Happy Birthday courtiebee!

    I'm a November birthday too, there seem to be a lot of birthdays this time of year, maybe because of Valentine's Day.
    Aww thanks Has your birthday passed? If so, happy belated birthday! There ARE a ton of birthdays in November, I figured it's because of Valentine's Day too It makes me hard to believe I wasn't an "accident" ...
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    thanks, mine was on the 4th. My parents thought I might be born on Halloween for awhile.
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    Vancouver just had the most brutal game ever. We always look like idiots when we play Colorado. Alex Auld couldn't stop anything, but jeez, he didn't get ANY help. Ohlund scored on his own net, that's the most useful thing he did all night, too bad it didn't help the Canucks. Our defense was horrible. ARRRGGGHHHH!!!

    Anyway, I was gonna write a fantasy update for this week, but I figure I should do it tomorrow when the games for today are in. My team will drop like 3 spots over night after today's game I bet ... thanks to the 6 goals against ... don't even want to imagine what Auld's SV% was tonight. I said I was gonna drop him, why didn't I??????

    Oh well.
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    Thanks for the little update courtiebee. Congrats on the gauntlet game today, you did well!
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    update=rant haha it made me feel good to write it, sometimes hockey drives me crazy! having these players on my fantasy team does NOT help matters, lol.

    thank you muchly, congrats on your finish too! i had a great time playing.
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    Update for the week of Dec. 4!

    Well no major changes once again, The Simon Gagne's still sit at the top of the league (80 points), with Mindfreeeks' team closely following behind with 79 points. Geoff's team rounds out the top three in a somewhat distant third place with 70.5 points. My lowly team needs some game winning goals if it ever wants to break the top three again, right now it's in 6th place with a somewhat pitiful 64 points.

    There's quite a lot of movement of players amongst the top teams in the league. Stupid Team has dropped both Nagy and Lindros over the past few weeks, and both have been picked up by The Simon Gagne's and MapleLeafMindFreeeks respectively. We'll see if they significantly contribute and if Stupid Team will regret dropping them! Interestingly, Geoff picked up Nolan Schaefer, the back up goalie of the Sharks, a couple days ago. We'll see if Schaefer gets enough games in to make this a worthwhile addition.

    The BIG news of the past week in the NHL was the trade between Boston and San Jose. Joe Thornton, one of the greatest players in the league right now, was traded to San Jose by Boston for all of Marco Sturm, Wayne Primeau, and Brad Stuart. The big player going to Boston was Stuart (who is on my Fantasy team), but in all honesty, he pales in comparison to Thornton. IMHO, the Sharks won this trade by far, Thornton is truly an amazing player. He was very disappointed to leave Boston, but I'm sure he'll do well in San Jose and hopefully turn the team around a bit (since he's been traded, it's been going well so far). Glenn Murray is on IR right now, but it will be interesting to see how he does when he comes back now that Thornton is no longer there with him. This trade definitely affects Muxy (who has Murray) and Rilla (who has Thornton) the most.

    I'm actually still in shock regarding that trade. It's so huge!

    I still haven't dropped a goalie, so it's probably my fault I don't have any goals. I just can't bring myself to drop anyone as they're all playing very well on a consistent basis. I'm first in the league when it comes to wins for my goalies; all of them win more than they lose (by far), so it's hard to decide whom to drop. I'll have to drop someone when my players finally come off IR, but I'll probably wait for now. When I do have to drop someone though, it'll probably be (my beloved) Alex Auld just because he won't be playing too many more games when Cloutier comes back (yeah, he's injured again).

    Hmmm more to say but I'll save it for next time I update

    P.S. I have 5 injuries right now. Injuries are killing me.
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    Just wondering how many people we still have that are actively playing in the league, i think we have 4 ppl still trying maybe 5
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    I know 5 of us are still participating for sure. I'm hoping more though ... it's hard to tell when teams don't make very many changes. I haven't made any player switches in a while, but I'm still actively watching ...

    Can't wait to be done exams, I have lots of complain about in my next update
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    Merry Christmas everyone, and Happy New Year.


    And i'd like to add, GO CANADA GO, at the World Junior Tournament
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    oh yeah and GO LEAFS GO!
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    Hopefully you'll have at least 5 teams staying active all year. In our football league we had a few teams that weren't very active. It is too early to tell how active all the teams will be in our basketball league.
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    CONGRATULATIONS CANADA on gold in the World Juniors! In Vancouver too, it doesn't get much sweeter! (well aside from the fact that I had to work through almost every single game ) Watch out for team Canada in the 2006 olympics too, we're so taking hockey down again.

    Fantasy update pending, currently trying to figure out the most non-whiny way to express my team's woes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by courtiebee
    Fantasy update pending, currently trying to figure out the most non-whiny way to express my team's woes.
    I know what you mean, just when I was starting to build momentum in our basketball league my rookie of the year point guard, Chris Paul, went down tonight with an injury. Hopefully he'll only be out 2 weeks, we'll see...
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    Update for week of January 8

    Well I think I've dropped as low as I'm going to go in the standings, things can only get better now (9/11 ... at least it's not last I suppose) ... Haha my team is NOT doing well, I still have plenty of injuries; I don't think there's been a time this season when I haven't had at least two guys on IR! Oh well, I think I should become more active and start changing my line up a bit.

    The people who are at the top of the standings are the people who have been most active with moving players around. Is it better to drop a player who's going to be injured for a very long period of time, even though he's a premium player? I waited months for Rick Nash to become healthy, are the potential future points worth this wait? What's the best strategy here?

    Not much difference at the top of the standings since I last updated, although there's been some shuffling among them. Geoff is leading with 93 points, MindFreeeks is second with 84, and Stupid Team is third with 73.5 points. The Simon Gagne's is still up there in fourth place, although a little behind with 65 points. Goalie stats have slipped for The Simon Gagne's since last time, which is primarily why he isn't at the top anymore.

    Crossing my fingers for a better week. Alex Auld needs to start stopping more pucks.
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    Sure, i finally crawl into first and no updates, lol, had to drop all the leafs i had to do it too, that hurt, hope my goalies keep it up.
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    lol sorry dude, I've been having the most brutal week ever. I missed Gauntlet yesterday too Congrats on first place, I've been watching you and your player movement, good choices so far!

    My team went into the crapper a couple of weeks ago, and it's FINALLY starting to creep up again, thanks to a few game winning goals, a shut out, and better goalie performance overall. 4th right now for me, I wonder how long I can stay there (hopefully not long, I need to get in the top 3 ) I don't hope your goalies keep it up, you're my competition for goalie wins We keep exchanging first place for # of wins, I hope Garon breaks a leg (can't hope that Brodeur does because he's gotta win gold for us at Olympics, and can't wish bad things on Hasek because Ottawa's gonna play Vancouver in the cup final ... so Garon has to go)
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    my team sucks balls, at least the flyers are kicking ass
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    Quote Originally Posted by Miffed22001
    my team sucks balls, at least the flyers are kicking ass
    Drop your players and get new ones! Can I have Lecavalier and St. Louis when you do?
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    mindfreeek,

    who the hell do you think you are, picking up Huet? Do you think that Montreal is gonna give up on my Theodore or something? HAH! Huet is gonna crack under the pressure, I hope he loses 8-0 a few times, and the Canadiens will realize how lucky they are to have Jose once they have to play him.

    Sigh. Banned substances. Ugh.
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    Quote Originally Posted by courtiebee
    mindfreeek,

    who the hell do you think you are, picking up Huet? Do you think that Montreal is gonna give up on my Theodore or something? HAH! Huet is gonna crack under the pressure, I hope he loses 8-0 a few times, and the Canadiens will realize how lucky they are to have Jose once they have to play him.

    Sigh. Banned substances. Ugh.
    LOL, just wanted another goalie to replace Garon he has killed my stats long enough, i probably won't be playing him that often anyway, see what happens with Jose after the Olpympic break.

    And one last thing....

    GO CANADA GO
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    courtie, since you're a fan of Jose thought you would like this link...

    http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/inst...ne-chance.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by mindfreeek
    courtie, since you're a fan of Jose thought you would like this link...

    http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/inst...ne-chance.html
    *CRY*

    you have just ruined my day
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    Feb 19: Theodore is expected to miss six to eight weeks after fracturing his right heel bone Thursday at his Montreal home. The Canadiens' goalie suffered the injury walking down the frozen steps of his home following a winter storm. Theodore is 17-15-5 with a 3.46 goals-against average this season.
    I guess it's finally time to let him go. I've been hanging on to him all season despite his bad stats and all his lack of shut outs ... I love him. I don't wanna drop him.

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    Thanks for the updates courtie. I was reading about the Olympics today and saw something that said Wayne Gretzky wanted to see more spirit out of the Canadian team.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eric
    Thanks for the updates courtie. I was reading about the Olympics today and saw something that said Wayne Gretzky wanted to see more spirit out of the Canadian team.
    Canada has not been playing well in this year's olympics so far. The games that matter are starting today, they will have to pick up the pace or be knocked out. Anything less than gold is pretty much a failure in this country, so they have a long ways to go. We will see starting in 25 min when they take on Russia ...

    Brodeur will save the day. That man is a great goalie.
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    Well folks the trade deadline is getting close, we're coming up on the home stretch and its still a close one between the top 4 teams, the only active teams mind you. but its still anybodys hockey game. gl all

    P.S. courtie - GO HUET GO!!!!
    did i hear correctly that theo will be out at least 8 weeks?
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    Well 2 weeks to go and its still anybody's game. i won't be able to make any changes from now to the end of the year so i hope no one gets hurt on my team. I got a promotion at work to manage a hotel in another city, so its gonna be awhile till i find a place and get settled, its pretty short notice i just found out yetserday and i go to the new job on Sunday.

    Anyways so after i win just hold on to my money i'll come looking for it lol jk, good luck all and see ya on the ice next year.
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    great season all, gl next year. i woulda given up first if it meant the leafs would make the playoffs, i'm gonna miss the leafs game at the brewery. but on a lighter note where do i get my 30 bucks lol.
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    Rank Team G A +/- PIM PPP GWG W GAA SV% SHO TOTAL
    1 MapleLeafMindfreeeks 9 6.5 8.5 9 6 11 11 9 10.5 11 91.5
    2 Stupid Team 11 10 8.5 8 10 9.5 9 6 7 8 87
    3 Geoff's Picks 10 11 11 10 11 9.5 8 1 4.5 5.5 81.5
    4 courtiecanucks 8 9 4 6 9 8 10 3 3 5.5 65.5
    5 lets go kings 4 5 7 11 5 2 2 10 8.5 10 64.5
    6 Muxy KGB 7 6.5 1 7 8 7 6 4.5 10.5 5.5 63
    7 Gods Among Men 1 2 10 1 1 3.5 7 11 8.5 9 54
    8 BlAcK MaMbA 5 1 5 2 3 6 4 7 6 1.5 40.5
    9 3BetsForSuccess 3 4 2 4 2 5 5 8 1.5 5.5 40
    10 The Simon Gagne's 6 8 3 3 7 3.5 1 2 1.5 3 38
    11 Skate like Andy Holt 2 3 6 5 4 1 3 4.5 4.5 1.5 34.5

    Haha that looks like this, so don't read it. The point is, mindfreeek kicked all of our asses. When it got closer to the end of the season, it was really between the top three teams, and then the rest of us were playing for fourth (GO ME). Congrats mindfreeeks!

    But yeah, the Leafs suck. Bye bye Quinn?

    Next year I'd like to get much more active participation. By the time the new year rolled around, there were probably only 5 of us actively watching the games and moving our lineups around. Next year I'd also like to encourage more active discussion regarding the games and such. Which means, it's time to recruit more hockey fans

    P.S. I'm very bitter about the Canucks.
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    Congrats mindfreek!

    Please send me a pm with your neteller email and your neteller acct number.

    Thanks to courtie for the updates, I enjoyed reading them.

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