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  9. Posted · Edited by jaz4debo

    Okay, if you caught Lost tonight you understand the quote.  One of the Islanders was marking a path with a red shirt they were ripping up - then he starting talking about red shirts.  He had to explain it to his comrade - and related how the red shirts were always the ones to die.  The other guy (a hunter) shook his head and said - sounds like a ---- poor Captain to me. 

     

    I had never thought of it that way - I guess he wasn't very good at protecting his redshirts.

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    Although I did not see that episode, I take issue with Kirk not being a good captain merely because he did not - allegedly - "protect " his crewmen. Besides, I don't think any lower-ranking officer would put their own life before the captain. It is a sense of duty, I believe.

    Besides, how could the series continue if the star character was killed off? :assimilated:

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    Hello Jaz.

     

    Ahhh, I see, it's a salary/union dispute of some sort?

     

    That kind of thing is amazing. If someone said that the Premiership football league would be cancelled next year over here, people would go nuts.

     

    :)

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    :assimilated: Yep, when the Minnesota Gophers won the NCAA championship, the rioting in "dinkytown( the neighboring area to the UofM)" was horribly disgusting. If Gopher hockey were somehow cancelled... well, lets not go there :( :)

  13. Posted · Edited by jaz4debo

    Why won't there be any NHL this year?

     

    What's happened?

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    Hey there King! It isn't official, but the buzz is that there will not be NHL hockey this year unless something "miraculous" happens within the next two weeks. I have more info in my thread Hockey anyone? :assimilated:

     

    I have reposted it here:

    Thanks, Odie! I believe that your assessment of the current NHL season is correct. According to Lets' Play Hockey newspaper, dated 12/2/04, "that unless there is a miraculous turnaround in the posture of the NHL Players Association (NHLPA) in the next two weeks, the NHL will officially cancel the season." So says the columnist, Wally Shaver. He goes on in the article to say "that there would be a day of reckoning in the NHL because player costs were escalating to the point where the league would eventually be in a calamitous financial situation. Welcome to the day of reckoning."

    Mr. Shaver brings up the term "cost certainty." The way he explains it "is what this whole mess [lockout] is all about." I don't quite understand it, but a lot of the teams have loans based on an out-dated franchise value. And that the NHL is "bleeding buckets of money." He believes if this cost certainty isn't in the new labor agreement, that at least a dozen teams will fold.