ya ya, i GET it !!!

i only have a couple things to say about tonight's loss in dallas:

1. there were a few games where i actually started thinking bertuzzi wasn't useless... now i'm back to where i was in the first 20-or-so games: watching him float, glide, and suck. taking penalties in the offensive zone is straight up dumb...

2. speaking of penalties, my boy gio has been taking a crapload of 'em lately --but for some reason, he has become the reigning king of the mysterious infraction. the winning goal was scored tonight while gio was in the box for... well... the refs called it holding the stick but i think he was just guilty of bad angles and clumsy play... at least tonight his penalty wasn't called in make-believe time like it was during that game v. the wild....

moving on...

at madison square garden tonight, the new york rangers retired adam graves' #9. i know this because i follow the rangers. i know this because i read nhl.com. i know this because i watch sportsnet and sportscentre and the score. but unlike most of you, i've actually known about the adam graves jersey retirement ceremony since mid-december because in 2005 i ordered a pair of rangers tickets online. in the past month, my inbox has been innundated with junk mail on the subject:


so congratulations, adam graves ---i was totally bored with the news of tonight's ceremony a month ago, thanks to e-harassment from your former team. giddyup.

also congratulations to leafsnation for proving (yet again) that former players just can't win.... first you take mats to the gallows for refusing to waive his no trader (cause the captain wanted to stick out his commitment to the team), then boo bryan mccabe, in his first game back to the ACC as a panther, because he did. i still maintain that all the tomato throwing should be saved for JFJ, and not the guys that took advantage of his idiocy...