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Score or save the next one and its a win

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Ugh..crapshoot time with Emery in goal. He was pathetic the last time he was involved in one of these.

And the Wild are gifted at least 1 point in the standings. They are now at 44 points in 32 games, with the Hawks at 41 points in 31 games, with 1 more point to be decided now.

Rip officially signed with the Bulls tonight. 2 years $10 million with a team option for a 3rd year. http://www.nba.com/bulls/news/bulls-sign-free-agent-guard-richard-hamilton.html

I really wanted 2 regulation points out of this game to make a statement that the Wild are not amongst the elite yet. Come on guys

Wow the linesman apologized to the Hawks bench for botching that icing call. How bout you take the [expletive] goal away you jackass. And the Wild just tied it with 5 minutes left. [expletive] Score should be 3-2 but its 3-3

Toews on pace for 45 goals and 42 assists for 87 points. I believe he still leads the NHL in faceoff percentage and is consistently called one of the best two way centers in hockey. I think he's going to be in the Hart discussion into the very end and has a legitimate chance at winning.

That was some sick stickwork by Hossa.

I'm not going to lie, I don't think any of these jokers know what these teams actually bid. I have a feeling that the Cubs won it. They have been very stealth in this process, their stated mission is to acquire top end talent, with big market resources at their disposal, and Theo has obviously won the bidding for a high profile pitcher before so its likely is willing to submit a big bid. But I guess I could see the Rangers with their new revenue streams and loss of Wilson just throwing up $80 mil randomly so that they virtually guarantee a win.

Just a sick goal by Toews. I love him

Guess we're trying to build a no power, all defensive team, or at least OF

Yeah its not bad. I pop them in every once in awhile. Since the MLB are nazis about allowing places like youtube to stream old baseball games, its hard to watch games like this anywhere else.

Did these teams switch jerseys during the intermission? Hawks spank the Wild in the 1st, Wild starting to take control in the 2nd. Still no scoring though

Pretty sure that Billups can't be traded Yeah I figured that might be the case. Can he be waived if he complains about not starting? I'm guessing they will make him the starting SG and see what happens.

Damn, Carcillo just got his ass kicked.

I know the Clippers had to make this trade. If you have a chance to build your team around Chris Paul and Blake Griffin, you have to do it and work out the rest later. But I hate to see them have to give up Gordon and the Minnesota 1st rounder. I am a big Gordon fan and if they somehow managed to keep him in a trade they might be contenders this year. Instead, they could still be but probably need a little more. It's gonna be interesting to see how they fill out their roster. Looking at their roster on ESPN.com, it looks like they have 9 players currently under contract: PGs - Chris Paul, Mo Williams, Chauncey Billups, Eric Bledsoe (4) SGs - Randy Foye (1) SFs - Caron Butler, Ryan Gomes (1) PFs - Blake Griffin, Brian Cook (2) C - DeAndre Jordan (1) I gotta think they will be in on some front court FAs, and they will have to make some sort of decision on their PG flux. Billups will not be a backup, so you either make him the starting SG, which seems awkward to do, or you have to trade him if thats even possible. Then you have Mo Williams, another PG who wants to start or at least play 6th man minutes. Also, Bledsoe is supposedly a young up and coming player, so its stupid to make him ride the bench too. My guess is that they will try the Billups at SG experiment, and make a trade involving Williams, Bledsoe or both for front court depth. The starting 5 of Paul, Billups (if it works out), Butler, Griffin, Jordan is pretty solid though.

Blackhawks have yet to allow a SOG with 5 minutes left in the 1st period.

Love me some Bolland: Vigneault's full response:

Eh? So it's no longer CBS gets the AFC road games and FOX gets the NFC road games? It could have something to do with flex scheduling. A couple weeks ago CBS was convinced to give a Denver game up to Fox because the Sunday night game (New England/Indy) was returned to CBS and a Fox game (Detroit/New Orleans) was put in its place. That left the schedule unbalanced so the Denver game was moved. Then apparently the league wanted to flex Denver/New England to Sunday night this week and CBS threw a fit because they felt they've lost too many Denver games already. So you are saying Tim Tebow forced changes to a multi-billion dollar television contract?

why cant you just leave my life forever scott

Combined with the expected drop in draft spending that is a pretty steep cut in the baseball operations. Yup, which goes against everything we've seen or heard from the Cubs the last 6 months.

Good investment. McDonald's revenue has been down 50% since Jim Hendry was fired, so this is a good time to redevelop. (get it? because he's fat he must eat a lot of mcdonalds)

http://www.bleachernation.com/2011/12/14/obsessive-prince-fielder-watch-another-national-pundit-knows-the-cubs-are-in-on-fielder/ Unless we put some enormous bid on the Darvish posting (so enormous that they're basically sure they're going to get it), I don't understand how we wouldn't have the money. Yeah seriously. Maybe Darvish and Cespedes are higher priorities for them?

Old man Wakefield? No thanks.