TropicalFruitGirl26

Not sure about the pulling goalie early thing.
It's driving me crazy, and if he keeps doing it with nothing to show for it, could lead to questions about how "comfortable" he is as TB's head coach.
Not suggesting Cooper should be fired, but he needs to reinvent himself a bit to account for the big changes on the team.
They are no longer the dominant team that can beat teams while sleepwalking.
They are still good, but need to work harder to acheive the same results, and be smarter about how they play and manage themselves on the ice.
Right now, that isn't happening as well as it could, and Cooper is taking shots in the dark that aren't paying off.

Well, then good luck to your son's team tonight as well!

Oh no worries....we spent New Years at home. Some people dropped by, they had their designated drivers, but I was allowed to drink stuff because the only thing I was driving was people crazy with my alcohol fueled corny jokes...  

Welcome to 2019!  Hope yours will be good to you as well

Same to you nfj,same to you...
East will celebrate fifst, then uss here in the central us.

Exacuse my typing a am a bit tipsy...hahaah..

Gon go celebrate with my family and some friens are over... be safe my friend wherever yo uare!!

Same to you!! Thank you very much.
Off to more house hopping we go!   LOL...
Have a good n safe one.

What the heck...went and did it... Lucy it is!  

We liked our visit there.

Our entire trip went well.

Traveling with young children IS difficult (especially my special needs one), but overall, we enjoyed Alaska and north western Canada very much.

Cab drivers in Victoria were giddy because we were tipping in 10 US dollar increments...which I was told by a local is very generous due to the exchange rate...oh well, the drivers were friendly, informative and got us to where we wanted to go, so it was all good.

Some really breathtaking views and 'wow' moments for me during this trip.

Being a native of Florida in the US, seeing that many mountains right in your face was quite the new experience for me.

Oh, and while stopped in Skagway, Alaska (during a salmon bake of course), we had a live, unscheduled appearance by a local brown bear who decided the salmon was too tempting, ran into our camp area, snatched some, and took off.....a local said it was an adolescent bear and was just interested in the fish, and if we let it alone, it would just take its prize and go away.

I've had black cats cross my path and an assortment of other creatures suddenly surprise me, but NEVER a real live bear....I literally dropped my lemonade, grabbed my youngest and hid behind a tree...lol.

Frazier, Canada (yes, in the middle of nowhere) was another rural stop for us (all via the White Pass railroad), and customs really didn't seem to care we were there....wasn't until Victoria where they wanted to make sure we weren't in the "import / export" business...hehe.

Anyways, sorry for the long winded response (like you don't already expect that from me  ), but wanted to let you know we enjoyed everything about both AK and NW Can and Victoria was a very nice final spot before going back to Seattle then home.

My body is still on AK and Pacific time zones though...... 

Awww thanks.

Maybe a bit late, but you are the only one so far!  LOL!

To be honest, these days I don't really like advertising it (not that I hide it either).

Why? I turned...ugh..... Thirty flippin Three yesterday!

Feels like not so long ago, I was in my early twenties, in college, dating, and doing stuff I probably shouldn't be....lmao

Now I am over 30, married, have kids and am....gulp...responsible...who knew?? 

Anyways. Thanks!

Only thing I could find is this:

https://www.nhl.com/info/contact-us

Well, lucky for you, cats have nine lives.

Of course, if you are curious a TENTH time...... 

I don't know off the top of my head, but I would imagine some of it goes to some charities or organizations MLB supports, and the rest goes to league revenue.

I didn't see that one, but the Dodgers are working some magic this season. I DID see the end of the game against he Diamondbacks where they trailed 4-1 going into the 9th and won it 5-4.  That game capped off a 3-game sweep of Arizona too.  

Looks like after a slow start, the Dodgers are for real after all this season. They showed a stat that said Los Angeles has 22 comeback wins this season already.

I looked around the moderator queues and I see nothing flagged on ScottM.   HF either found it and took care of it, or another mod saw it, saw no infaction and just removed any flags.  All is good. But if for some reason Scott says he got flagged (he hasn't been around lately, much less reported anything), then one of us will explain the mistake.   Scott is easy going, he understands mistakes happen.  No need to worry on your part, everything will be fine.

Thanks. Same to you. In just a bit we will be having some people over for a good ol fashioned burger and hot dog grill. Haven't done one of those in a while.

Maybe your phone isn't cut out to be an actor...maybe a screen writer or producer would be a better career choice... 

I'm not so sure the coach in Pittsburgh blowing ANY amount of gaskets is gonna help.  The Pirates simply don't have the depth at any position to contend the way I thought they would.  Sure, they have good players at the starting positions...but beyond that, not much else it seems.   Add to that underperforming players like Andrew McCutchen (who should be near the league leaders in like, everything) and you can see Pittsburgh has a problem this year.

As for LA, well, they are the Dodgers. The Yankees of the West. As dirty as THAT sounds. 

They were expected to contend and they started off slow, but now are doing what they were supposed to.

Cept they still have some competition from Arizona and Colorado.

Looks like the Rockies maybe have fixed their issues...for now.

Giants are just downright awful this year.....just....plain....bad..

Hard to believe this is the same team that won two World Series not too long ago...

Rays are squarely a .500 team. Nothing more, nothing less.

They look like contenders for a stretch, then look like bottom feeders the next.

Outside of Evan Longoria, Chris Archer and maybe Alex Cobb, the team has a serious consistency problem.

This is pretty much what you will see from this team all year.  They finish a game or two below, at .500, or a game or two above.  Nothing special from my guys this year, sadly.

Not sure. Maybe the Rocks are just hitting their slump. They haven't really had one and all teams get them. Still though, maybe they have been playing over their heads and now they are falling back to reality.

They are just giving up a crapload of runs. Hard to win that way.

You're welcome.

I did some checking on the Lightning and they DO have a Matthew Peca (no relation to the Islander guy) on their AHL team. A smallish 23 yr old forward.

Still no Pecks though. hehe.

Don't know about "Peck", but there was a Michael PECA.

He was a gritty, two way type forward who was on the Islanders in the early-mid 2000's.

In fact, I remember the year the Bolts won the Cup in 2004, Peca was captain of the Islanders that year....Lightning beat them 4 games to 1 on the way to Lord Stanley's prize. 

Hey, NFJ...sorry, didn't get to your request till now, but it looks like another mod already took care of it.

Nope.  ALL shoot out statistics are tracked, of course, but are kept as just that...shoot out statistics. So any goals players get, whether game deciders or otherwise, are simply calculated into their SO% success rate (for instance, 10 for 15 in a shoot out just means that player is a 66.7% shooter in the SO).   It does NOT add to any of their regular season goal totals.....in the same way that NONE of the shoot out goals allowed affect season goalie statistics such as save % or GAA....again, goalies shoot out goals allowed and % are calculated separately so people can see how effective they were in allowing or not allowing SO goals.  Hope that helps.

Well there you are...message sent, message received. 

Why thank you very much, Mr. Greg!  Lots of happiness to you and your family this holiday season as well!

Heheh...yea, I know. I saw you and Joe posting about it.

I was just being a smart ass (again!)