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Come on Boozer. [expletive] lame.

That was outrageous. I can't buy into any "fix is in" theory -- makes more sense for the league for this series to go longer -- but this is some incompetence.

You have to be [expletive] kidding me.

Weak.

I don't see how that's a foul on Noah.

This is some sloppy [expletive].

Miller>Korver

Winner.

As Lou Brown would say, nice shot Deng, don't ever [expletive] do it again.

[expletive] Rose.

WOW! That was a fantastic pass out to Rose.

Boozer cherry-picking like Kane.

I love how Lebron clearly hooks around and then can't believe he actually got called for it. And a Korver sighting!

Boozer is going as a turnstile for Halloween.

Sure looks like Chalmers threw up an elbow at Korver there.

Nice Brewer. Great start.

Not going with a veteran backup in goal again next year, apparently: http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nhl/news/story?id=6570139 Know nothing about this guy.

Hamilton is where Balsillie was going to move the Predators. They have an arena there that is bigger than the new one in Winnipeg, but it needed some money put into it. Winnipeg's arena only holds 15K or so. I really hope they make it work up there, if it happens. Hamilton is a fairly legit market. Toronto is only like 50 miles away, and they can certainly support another franchise, especially one that might only take a bit of the southern fanbase away. Other towns within a 2 hour drive. Brantford (Gretzky birthplace): 90,000 (23 mi) Kitchener: 200,000 - Metro 400,000 (41 mi) London: 350,000 - Metro 450,000 (78 mi...basically Chicago to Milwaukee) And then when Buffalo continues to dwindle in size in 50 years and lose their team, thats another 1.1 million within 70 miles of you. So without even including Toronto and Buffalo, that's still ~1.5 million people within a 90 minute drive of Hamilton, with 1.1 being within an hour. That would give them a larger market than Nashville, Buffalo, Carolina, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton and the Winnipeg team. And that's without including the ~7 million people within 90 minutes of Hamilton in Toronto and Buffalo. Edit: And I realize this is extremely fuzzy math I'm using because I used the official metro numbers to determine all the smaller markets in the NHL, while the actual metro size of Hamilton is only 450k. But none of those markets listed have multiple populated metros within 90 miles of them that are hockey crazed and willing to make the drive to Hamilton. Those numbers are legit. I think the most important thing for the viability of hockey in Canada is the value of their dollar, which obviously fluctuates. If you get a perfect storm of any negative condition, such as a crappy arena, a bad team for several years or a bad owner, and couple that with a weak (or strong, I don't recall which is bad for them -- I nearly failed econ 100) dollar, and the team is in trouble in a hurry. Of course things like that don't matter to Balsillie, who I think qualifies as filthy rich.

Hamilton is where Balsillie was going to move the Predators. They have an arena there that is bigger than the new one in Winnipeg, but it needed some money put into it. Winnipeg's arena only holds 15K or so. I really hope they make it work up there, if it happens.

Nashville or Columbus will be the one to move. Much as Detroit would push for it, the league is not going to get rid of the divisional rivalries between the Wings and the Hawks and Blues. But it's not final yet. Sounds like word may come down tomorrow. This is great. Get the teams out of Miami and Phoenix and up to Hamilton and Hartford and the league would be a lot more interesting.

WTF Deng.

How is that a foul on Bogans? That's got to be a no call.

These refs have been pretty horrid tonight.

I don't know what kind of year he had this season, but if the price was right, absolutely.

Game 2 isn't until Wednesday, and Game 3 not until Sunday? Good lord.