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I think you're the man tonight. I hope someone is keeping track...

I'll take Roslovic tonight in Calgary.

Canes are favored on the road against a 5-0-1 team in Calgary. That being said, the Flames succeeded against a relatively weak schedule thus far, winning against Vancouver in OT, Philly, Edmonton, and Chicago. They lost to Seattle in OT and beat the Pens in a shootout Tuesday. Suffice to say, the Flames haven't faced a team as deep as Carolina and I think the Canes can win this by wearing the Calgary D down in the offensive zone. Puck possession!

We traveled to Cleveland for a long weekend to attend the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the Rocket Mortgage Arena Saturday night, and earlier in the day, we walked thru the HOF and museum to see some of the newer exhibits since our last visit in 2021. Within a few feet of each other, I found a Jay-Z and a DMX Canes jersey in 2 separate display cases. My wife got a pic of Jack Black nearly running me over trying to escape the paparazzi and autograph hounds in the baggage claim area as he flew out the door, only to return a few minutes later and have to walk around me while I stood in one spot. Dude is only 5'8", if that. Anyway, great night of music and stories told.

As I swallow my words, I'll just leave the room now. Thanks for playing along. Have a good day.

2 goals to tie in the 3rd is a tall order.

And I remember taking some heat when I revealed my tempered expectations and said this is a .500 team who might make the playoffs, but I'm not holding my breath.

Can't buy a goal.

Missed 2 gaping nets....

Bally's auto-updated to FanDuel today. Changed logo of channel, nothing else changed.

Yeah, well, the Canes aren't much better in that regard.

Going with Staal again.

He nor his people "bring anyone in." There are still these big entities known as promoters who negotiate the deal with the venue. BOA simply pockets the money from sales, gate, rent, etc. Regardless, she is still hot as fug at 47. And, because her birthday is February 2nd, I guess that means she gets to celebrate it everyday?

Anyone care to challenge who will come closer to filling BOA- her or the ass-bad football team?

I'd rather have a top tier goalie instead of this team continually trying to save money at the position.

Her 2 hour show will be more entertaining than the last 8 years of Panther football.

BSSO was carried by DirecTV when I had it. NHL needs to land a streaming contract.

Friday night v. Pittsburgh: taking a 4th line guy to get us going- Jack Drury Saturday night in St. Louis: I'll go with Necas.

To be reassigned to Chicago. No word on who, if anyone, is being called up. Right now the Canes have 21 of 23 active roster spots filled.

I'll be missing Friday and Saturday's games, so I'll get my picks in tomorrow sometime. Headed to Cleveland on Friday for the Rock Hall induction ceremony Saturday night. We had such a great time in 2021, we had to make this a priority- it'll be our last time to this event.

I'm going top line tonight- Aho.

Got 13 minutes? Watch this:

I'm not convinced Necas will still be here after the TDL if the right suitor comes along. I don't think Orlov comes back- he's not played up to the salary he's getting now.

When your team is an embarrassment to the league, you're not getting any benefit of a doubt from the refs. But it wasn't a low block.

If anyone thought for a minute the Canes were going to storm the gates this season, I don't know what to tell you. The off-season saw an exodus of players who accounted for 30% of last year's goal scoring during the regular season. They lost one of the better 2-way defensemen in the league in Brady Skjei and one of the best net-front guys in the league in Stef Noesen. I'm hoping for a .500 season, anything better will be a worthy accomplishment in my mind. I'm not even thinking playoffs this season- I'll be happy if they can gel and start playing as a team. I'm not making this assessment based off one game, because the Canes never played best-on-best in their preseason schedule, so we didn't know what to make of it all.