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I'm thinking people will stop pointing to the Sharks "goalie controversy" as a problem. Nabakov shut out the Isles, and then Toskala played 57 minutes of shutout hockey, including an insane grab off of Langkow. Dion Phaneauf has a huge frickin' jaw.

I love how there are always really bizarre scores at the beginning of the season, like 8-6. You only get that for the first few weeks while everyone is warming up, and then it settles down.

*ahem* Matt Carle continues to score goals. It's only two games in, but I've yet to see Malkin, and I think Carle is looking good for rookie of the year honors.

Sharks will struggle on D for a chunk of the season, but I keep expecting them to move Toskala or Nabakov for a seasoned D-man. Still, I'm not too worried about them, they've got a young group that knows how to move the puck. They will make mistakes, but they have the offense to make up for it. Case in point, Carle missed his assignment and the Blues scored last night, but a few minutes later he made a great play and scored the first goal of the season. They won't shut many teams out, but they'll supply a good deal of offense.

For defenseman fantasy purposes, picking up Matt Carle is a good idea. The kid just scored in front of the net. He should be good for at least 50 points this season.

Milan Michalek had 7 goals in 6 preseason games. I hope he keeps that up during the regular season.

No you don't. It's not like being a vamp is hard, like it was in Morrowind. Bceome one, get the bonuses, enjoy it. (just make sure to feed) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'm afraid of the dark, so being a Vampire was a bit of an issue.

You can cure vampirism quickly by visiting a temple right away. If you let it fester, you have to do a long quest.

The only folks responsible for 9/11 are the folks who planned it and flew planes into buildings. Blaming politicians will not resolve anything. There are also quite a few people on the radar as security threats. People act like Osama Bin Laden was numero uno before 9/11. He is now, but you can't predict stuff like this. The blame game is a waste of time. Let's play the "enact change for the better" game.

I'm still playing NHL 07 every night. It's still very challenging, but I'm a bit frustrated at the lack of goals. I had an exciting 4-3 win in OT last night, but usually games are 2-1 affairs.

I'll keep watching it to see if it improves, but I think the 4400 was a lot more interesting off the bat. Some of the stories are painful, like the druggie guy. I like the Japanese guy.

Silicon Valley.

I'll always take Sturm in any pool, since I've got a soft spot for ex Sharks. But he's actually a pretty good pick up, as he'll be top line in Boston and as long as he's healthy, he's consistent. Comrie is about equal, I would think, but I haven't looked closely.

Oh man, we are having the same problems! You can't even lift a guys stick with getting a penalty. I'm hoping it will calm down a few games into the season, but my team was in the box pretty much the entire game last week. It wasn't like the other team was getting called, either. The penalties were 15-5.

Nolan played in an adult league during his rehab out in San Jose. He was playing defense, but he didn't dominate or anything. He had something like 8 points in 6 games.

Uh, my fantasy football team is 1-1. It's like a RPG/strategy game where real people get hurt.

Making games doesn't seem like any easy business to me, particularly the complex RPG's that Troika was tackling. The fact is, we are still playing and talking about games like Arcanum and Bloodlines, so they clearly did some good stuff.

They didn't fail as game developers. My guess is they had a bad business model and weren't meeting sales expectations. From what I remember, they didn't have a really good business team in place. They didn't get good publishing deals and they weren't realistic about the RPG market.

I'm enjoying it. It's a definite improvement over the sticky pucks of the previous games. It's far from perfect, there are some odd things that happen, but I've seen odd things happen in real games.

Are you using the skill stick? I didn't even know there was a spin-o-rama option with that, all my skill moves are done with the stick. On the 360, change player is the same as pass. Anyways, I've had less one-timers, but they are pretty rewarding when I've connected on them. I'm thinking about upping the difficulty to the max, as I've only lost one game and that went to a shootout. I'm 5-0-1. It's not that I've had easy games, it just seems like the other team can't score enough.

The cinematics in Fallout were pretty awesome.

The Flames did make some great changes, and Tanguay is a serious weapon. Still, I don't think they did enough to their offense. They seem to have one awesome line and then grinders.

I doubt he'd do The Hobbit after covering the whole trilogy. I'm a bit surprised to see the Peter Jackson criticisms. I can understand not liking the movie, but not if you're a fan of Tolkien. What movie did you expect? It was long, but so were the books, and it captured some pretty amazing scenes from the series. I thought it was an amazingly good book to movie translation. I definitely don't see how he could have improved on it, except maybe including Tom Bombadil.

I watched the second goal over and over again, trying to figure out how to replicate it. He gets the stick around the opposite side of his legs, instead of in between. It looks super hard.

Mark Bell is on my team, and the rosters all seem pretty current. He put a couple hits on. He's not facing prosecution in the game. I picked it up at Best Buy. I'm a bit surprised EB doesn't have it yet for you. It should be out today, I'd imagine.