Deraldin

So close...

I'm now tempted to dress up as a ninja for the third one.

Here's my fantasy team. I think this team will do better than last years. Half of the people I chose last year were great in the first round, but they were still eliminated. Last year I had a bunch of Montreal players (including Koivu. Damn you Williams!), my only Carolina player was Brind'Amor and 9/10th of my starting players were gone by the end of the second round. I've got another couple days to make changes. There are some people on there that I'm not sure about, but managed to find a spot based on the rest of the picks in that round. Rnd Team Player 1 Ott Dany Heatley 2 SJ Joe Thornton 3 Ott Jason Spezza 4 NJ Patrik Elias 5 Buf Chris Drury 6 Buf Maxim Afinogenov 7 SJ Jonathan Cheechoo 8 Ana Ryan Getzlaf 9 Van Brendan Morrison 10 NJ Brian Gionta 11 Ott Peter Schaefer 12 Ott Mike Comrie 13 NJ Travis Zajac 14 Pit Gary Roberts 15 Ana Scott Niedermayer 16 Nsh Kimmo Timonen 17 NJ Brian Rafalski 18 SJ Matt Carle 19 Van Sami Salo 20 NJ Martin Brodeur

Don't spend it all in one place!

I don't see why they require that he wears a helmet anyway. His hair can survive a lot more than any mere helmet can. Kerry Fraser's Helmet Hair

Seems the NHL has selected the refs for the playoffs. Kerry Fraser is missing from the list.

I'm hoping that I can beat my showing last year in the Future Shop pool. I managed to come in around 2000th, which isn't as bad as it sounds considering there were around 30,000 people entered. I like your predictions for who wins each series, but only a couple changes. Eastern Conference Buf/NYI : There is going to be at least one game when the Islanders come out flying, but it won't change the outcome of the series. Sabres in five. NJD/TBL : Sorry, but I've gotta go with the Devils here. The Lightning goaltending is the weak spot and I don't think they'll be able to power enough past Brodeur to make up for it. Devils in six. ATL/NRY : I like the Rangers and I think they'll be able to down Atlanta. Rangers in six. Sens/Pens : Likely going to be one of the best match-ups in the first round. Senators in seven. Western Conference DET/CAL : Calgary has been pretty bad lately, but I do think they will be able to take the Wings in the end. They'll need a couple games to get going and Hasek will go down in game 4 with a groin injury. Flames in six. ANA/MIN : Anaheim has been pretty bad lately while Minny has been hot and I think that momentum will carry over into the first round. Minnesota in seven. VAN/DAL : I predict another choke job by the Stars and another first round exit. Vancouver in five. NAS/SJS : This is a tough one to call, but I think the Sharks can do it. Sharks in seven.

I never got past that one mission in Homeworld 1 where you have to get through the sphere of Ion Cannon frigates and destroy the warp thingy. The closest I managed to get was sending wave after wave of kamikaze fighters. I ran out of money before I could kill them all though.

So it's a Life of Brian RPG, then? I suppose so...

They still managed to do it in the shootout. Mkreku: Looks like my Canadiens will be seeing you on the golf course sooner rather than later.

How about a game where you are not the chosen one, but rather some guy who scams people into think that he is the chosen one. After all the chosen one is the one who gets all the perks, fabulous riches, all the girls, that new castle next door. All through the game you have to dodge assassins sent your way who think that you are the real chosen one and various other people all mistaking you for the real hero. You could either help or hinder the real hero depending on how you act in his/her name, possibly ending up thrown in the dungeon by the BBEG who really doesn't want to hear your story about how you aren't actually the chosen one and just happened to have the same name...

With the regular season all but wrapped up (with the Islanders beating the Devils!) it's time to start talking playoffs. Who are your picks? Whose going all the way? Who's getting upset in the first round? Who I ask, who?!

I finally beat the Nod campaign, but I had to lower the difficulty to do so. No matter what I did GDI always wiped out the Scrin. I managed to work my way to a near standoff where I had enough vertigo's that I could wipe out 90% of the forces that GDI sent at the Scrin, but it was that last 10% that really did the damage. I was so busy sending waves of vertigo's out that I didn't have time to do anything else. It didn't help that the Scrin had absolutely nothing in the way of units and didn't bother to build anything despite having 6 harvesters constantly harvesting and several production structures just doing nothing!

ARGH!

10 minutes in and the shots are like 20-3 for Toronto. Thank God it's still only 1-1... YES! Higgins muscles past Kubina and dekes another Leaf right off his skates and scores! Ryder scores a hat trick to put the Canadians up 4-3!

According to TSN his contract this year was $7.6 million and I found this on CBC. Mats Sundin for $5.32 million? That's a good 2 million less than this year, why wouldn't they pay it?

FRAPS doesn't like numbers larger than 4 digits?

Am I reading that FPS count right? Does that actually say 1888?

Atlanta isn't a picnic, but I'd still rather play Atlanta instead of Pittsburgh. Kor: It's games like the Habs-Leafs tonight that make me sad that I don't have a big screen TV. Maybe I'll wander down to Future Shop. They have a really nice setup with these awesome couches and a 60" Sony plasma with surround sound. Maybe I can convince them to switch on the game. Too bad they close at 9. Hey mkreku! Straight from TSN as of 2:48 am!

I only saw 1 and 2 for the first time this past year. They were both showing around Christmas. I had fun laughing at the bleeping of swearwords. The only bleeped the mild stuff yet left a lot of the rest in.

Heh. The Rangers can still end up in 7th place. You get to take on Pittsburgh while Tampa only has Atlanta. And I notice that there hasn't been anything from mkreku lately. Come on man! Habs vs Leafs for the 8th seed in the east. How can you not be here trash talking!?

Because not every monitor does let you see at those angles. A lot of older LCD's, those on laptops especially, would turn completely black at only 45 degrees off center. It's not as big a deal now as just about any monitor now has a viewing angle of at least 160 degrees.

You can see what's on the screen as long as you are not behind it.

It feels odd to agree with Volo on something, but I don't know how anyone can think Avery is overrated.

Yes! Those were awesome!