matcat1116
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The main argument for the Devils (if of course the denial is disputed) should NOT be that other players have lasted until their mid-40s. That happens rarely, with few and far between examples, and the Devils cannot convince anybody that they intend to play Kovalchuk at 44.
What SHOULD be the absolute main argument is the fact that other players have signed contracts with similar career-ending payouts to bring down the cap hit. This hypocrisy cannot stand.
However, the argument shouldn't even be tossed around that Kovalchuk could be playing at 44, because he won't be.
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Bush Jr was in Normandy for a special anniversary there. Much different then going home IMO.
Regardless this is one issue that is not criticizable (this from a very conservative poster). It's not at all as if he took the day off to relax, he paid his respects at a National cemetery. He has at least (and hopefully at most) 2 more memorial day opportunities to be present at Arlington.
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One problem the NHL can do nothing about but what's happened with the Winter Classic is the now over-saturation of outdoor hockey games period. I'm not talking about the NHL having 2 games now (unlike the NFL/NBA/MLB the NHL is the only professional league in North America which has to satisfy multiple major broadcast partners over international lines so a game to satisfy Canada was inevitable). But we've seen multiple outdoor games now at the minor league and college level with more scheduled for next season. Next year Michigan State and Michigan will be playing at The Big House before 100K which is fine given the rich history between them. But add that to a proposed outdoor game between UConn and Sacred Heart (the college hockey equal of Monmouth vs. Saint Peters hoops) as well as more schools and minor league teams doing the same just for some quick exposure.
The golden goose is not just being killed but is being raped and gutted by money grubbing entities.
Inevitably the winter classics will begin to get less and less special (you'll no longer see the ratings jolt that you have with the past 3 winter classics) but they'll never stop being fun to watch for the millions of dedicated fans. Even if it continues to happen on professional, semi-professional, college, etc levels more often they'll still be a lot of fun to watch.
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Did Christian founding fathers bother to adapt to the culture and language of the people who had been living there before they came
If you find it a mistake that they didn't then you should completely agree with the post that you quoted.
Regardless, completely different scenario which is incompatible with the scenario of today. You should be able to figure out why.
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That shot by Cammalleri was a beaut.
Habs have shown that they can not only beat the Caps but beat the Pens on the shoulders of Halak
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Interested in purchasing playoff tickets for game 2, wanted to know what you guys think.
Is it better to purchase tickets in 110-113 or 127-130 and sit in row 5 or 6 or purchase tickets in 126, 131, 109, or 114 and sit in row 1 or 2? Does being center ice outweigh the four or five row pushback? The only game I've attended in these mezzanine seats I sat in 114 row 1, and I feel like I'd like to move a little closer to center ice but not if the move back to row 5 or 6 compromises the center ice advantage.
FIgured I'd' ask all the Prudential Center frequents.
Thanks!
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Considering the implications, I'd bet there are for more Devils fans rooting for the Islanders tonight than there are Islander fans.
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According to sportsclubstats.com, a very reliable statistics website, Rags have a 31% chance of playoffs. The big losses today by the surrounding teams boosted it up about 8 points in one day.
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I have a Wal-mart in my town and our Waldbaums, King Kullen, Target, Stop and Shop, and costco are doing just fine.
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The way it's shaping up the Devils have a good chance to deal the Rangers season a death blow on 3/25.
Isles @ Rags 3/24
Rags @ Devils 3/25
Hopefully my two favorite clubs can double-team those fvcking clowns. Two L's in two days to the lowly Islanders and Devils will have raggy fans collapsing in their chairs.
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How does one become an "Islander-Devil fan"?
Looks like I will be watching the non HD Devils feed instead of the Isles HD one....
http://njdevs.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=36148
Let's go Devils!!!
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This is a no brainer.
Isles loss=higher draft pick
Devils win=push out Pissburgh
Quite frankly as an Islander-Devil fan, it's never been so easy to decide as it is tonight.
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Matt Cooke just rocked Savard with a hit to the head. Down on the ice, stretcher being brought out.
If that doesn't warrant a 5 game suspension I'm personally protesting the NHL offices.
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I say they're not but everybody else would probably disagree with me.
One reason I don't buy authentics is because I'd be so afraid of something happening to it (a stain or a rip) that I wouldn't be able to function in day-to-day life. Not like the premiers are exactly cheap enough to be throwing them around, but still, the premiers aren't nearly as bad as people make them out to be IMO.
If you're planning on personalizing it though do NOT buy it with the numbers already on (unless it's from rivercitysports). The numbers that are pressed on from NHL.com or Modells are absolute crap.
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That's ridiculous, that's like saying if you got a raise you didn't get a tax cut because now you are paying more tax then you did before. If you made money in the stock market last year (and good for you if you did) you didn't get a tax increase because of capital gains tax, you are just playing the same tax that was already in place.
There was a tax cut for 95% of the working Americans with NO additional tax increases to offset that on the federal level.
The end.
You're not reading what I'm saying.
I don't believe Americans are misinformed and uninterested in the truth, I believe that Americans aren't seeing the tax cut that Obama promised. That's why they're responding in the poll that they don't think Obama's decreasing taxes.
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"felt" and "got" are two very different things. If you want to say that spacing out $350 over 20 or say paychecks "feels" less like less of a tax cut then say getting a check for $350 fine. There were reasons it was done that way, obviously one of them wasn't to score political points as they are getting very little credit for it.
But it's the same amount at the end of the day (or in this case, year) and the fact is 95% of working Americans got a tax cut and only 12% realize it. Spin that however you want, you can't change the truth.
I didn't mean that way, I meant that at the end of the day, maybe only 12% of Americans' taxes actually went down. The rest went up in the end due to other factors that surpassed Obama's so called "tax cut for 95% of Americans", which is suspect in and of itself, not an absolute. If a middle class family was given a rebate of $350, but had to pay an extra $400 in capital gains taxes because they tried to make money on the stock market, it's hardly a tax cut for them. So why should they hold the opinion that other families had their taxes lowered when in the end they didn't have their taxes lowered?
I'm not saying that it's necessarily Obama's fault that another tax may be high. I'm saying that it's not that Americans are misinformed, it's that they're observing their own situation and are not seeing much to praise.
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I don't think Americans are dumb, I do think they are misinformed and uninterested in the truth.
Only 12% of the country realizes we got a tax cut last year. Twice as many people think there was a tax increase when there has been none what so ever.
No wonder they are so upset, they've been brain washed.
Maybe because only those 12% of people have actually seen their taxes go down? A tax cut isn't a tax cut unless people's taxes are actually lowered. So for people who didn't see a decrease, why shouldn't they assume that nobody else felt one either?
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If Wellpoints CEO doesn't make $9,094,271.00 a year, maybe they have a better profit margin.
How dare her, wanting to be rich, succeeding in the American dream, what an evil person.
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Unfortunately, the Nets couldn't get the same turn out...
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2012 is irrelevant since Obama will easily win reelection.
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A Rangers fan talking about somebody being dirty, and he's not talking about Avery. Oh, the irony.
And by the way, if someone on the Devils hits Avery so hard, his head winds up on the lap of an obnoxious Rangers spectator: I don't care if it puts them in jail, "he did his job". Avery's "job" is being a bush-league punk, and it's pathetic how much you love that. You probably beat-off to Avery making a mockery of the Rangers sweater as much as you do Lundqvist's awesome saves last night.
I agree with you 100%, Avery's a little punk who deserves to be expelled from the league permanently due to his lack of respect. However, the fact that he still plays in the NHL means that the players still have to be smart about him. Avery's a punk, but Kovalchuk has gotta let it go in that situation. He's way too important to his team to get a penalty that'll take him past regulation time. If it was the middle of the second period, I'd have said go for it. But Kovalchuk's gotta be smart in the last 2.25 minutes of the game.
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I wonder how the roads and rails'll be tomorrow night, gotta be in Manhattan to see Kovie.
New Kovy Update ("As the Kovy Turns")
in Hall of Fame
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That makes me really suspicious... do you think there's a possibility that the league could reject the contract?