kickingfrog

Despite the trade, and the Canucks paying 15% of his salary they could still get hit with penalties if he retires before the end of his deal. He turns 35 in a month and has 8 more years on his deal. If Luongo retires in 2016 the Canucks pay over $1.42 million for 6 years, Panthers $508K for 6 years. 2017 Van $1.7 mill and Fla $886K for 5 years. It continues until 2020 at $4.26 mill X2 years for Van and $73 thousand X2 for Fla And finally in 2021 $8.52 mill for Van and zero for Fla. Bobby Lou was right last trade deadline day.

Remember this guy? Some language. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaDBynIpbqM

I can't remember the last time I saw a car without being encrusted in road salt.

Tort's scorched earth demeanour is wearing thin even faster in Vancouver then it did in NY or Tampa.

I just smile and nod.

My son is 5. He loves to tell me that, "One hundred, plus one hundred, is two hundred and one thousand, plus one thousand, is two thousand." It's cute that he thinks he can add, my wife and I just smile and nod.

Can't speak to the accuracy… but here are 11 maps that might make you look at things differently. http://www.awesome-fun.com/11-cool-maps-didnt-teach-school/

And that's about what would be expected.

All class. Minus a few letters.

You're right. Anybody can play defence. Only a few talented players can produce points. And even less of them have class.

To be fair they weren't all the good to begin with. But it is hard to tell if they are getting worse or just sitting on bottom.

Good, I'm not sure if the Leaf's need him, but I am sure I don't want him. Were does Matt Moulson end up?

Since everyone has come out of this ok... The fishing must have been slow, cause who leaves a hot hole just to save someone. Or am I revealing too much about myself?

http://www.citynews.ca/2014/03/02/exclusive-fishermen-rescue-woman-after-car-goes-through-ice/#related-content-preview Ice fishermen came to the rescue of a woman and two children whose car sank into the frigid waters of Frenchmen’s Bay in Pickering on Sunday afternoon. All winter long, cars have been venturing out on the body of water — off Lake Ontario, near the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station — but just after 4 p.m., one hit a patch of thin ice. Two 12-year-olds in the vehicle got out on their own, but the mother of one of the kids was trapped in the front seat. Bystander Will Ferenc dove in and pulled the woman to safety. “My buddy Will here pretty much saved her life,” said fisherman Peter Kroone. “She was … trying to get out of the ice. The ice kept on breaking all around her. It was a pretty crazy thing to see.” Durham police said it’s the second time a car has broken through the ice at Frenchmen’s Bay in just over a month. There were no injuries in that incident either, but some believe warning signs are needed, especially as the weather warms up. “I’m concerned about people, especially with no idea what they’re getting into with ice,” Ferenc said. “People just drive onto the ice without knowing the thickness of the ice. They can get into an unsafe area and go down.” Officers said the woman will have to cover the cost of having the car removed from the bay.

http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/2014/03/02/georgian-bay-water-levels-expected-to-remain-low-despite-snowy-winter-official Georgian Bay water levels expected to remain low despite snowy winter: official A snowy, cold winter has brought winter water levels in Georgian Bay back up to where they were in 2012, but an adviser to the transnational body that oversees the Great Lakes says they’ll likely remain below average this season. “The average rise from winter to spring is about 30 centimetres. With everything else being equal, we expect water levels to be still roughly 30 centimetres below average,” said David Fay, engineering adviser to the International Joint Commission. The determining factor, he said, will be how much rain we get in the spring. “Right now, with the increase in snow accumulation, the ice cover on the lakes, things are suggesting that we’re going to have a greater-than-average rise,” Fay said. For more than a decade, water levels in Georgian Bay and in lakes Michigan and Huron have steadily dropped and reached an all-time record low of 175.57 metres above sea level in January 2013. While the long-term average in the summer is about 176.57 metres above sea level, the long-term mid-February average is about 176.28 metres above sea level. Right now, the water level in Georgian Bay is sitting about 175.95 metres above sea level. “We’re roughly 40 centimetres higher than the lowest point that we reached last year,” Fay said. “It’s still well below average, but it’s a nice recovery.” The Great Lakes are 82% ice covered. Lake Huron, including Georgian Bay, is about 92% ice covered. It’s twice as much as normal, Fay said, and more than it has been since 1994. “It’s unusual, especially compared to the past few years, which have had much below-normal ice coverage,” he said. So far this year, Fay said the total amount of precipitation for January and February is actually below average, but the winter has been exceptionally cold, which means more snow has accumulated because it hasn’t been thawing and melting. “We reach the low point of the seasonal cycles in the winter, in January, typically. It’s because there’s evaporation on the falls, there’s basically very little runoff to the lake in the winter because of accumulation of snow. Then, of course, in the spring, if the snow melts and we get summer rains, there’s quite a bit of runoff from the rivers into the lakes and the lakes’ levels rise the most that they do,” he said. “People’s memories tend to be rather short. A decade of relatively low, below-average water levels actually goes back to 1999, when water levels crossed from above average to below average on Lake Huron. Basically, we’re at the 15-year point now of below-average water levels and people are forgetting what average water levels are,” Fay said. An April 2013 report by the International Joint Commission attributed a significant portion of the decline in Georgian Bay water levels to dredging that took place between 1920 and 1960 to widen the St. Clair River, which connects Lake Huron and Lake Erie, so freight ships could fit through. The commission formally recommended the Canadian and American governments investigate installing water-control structures — like dams or sills or dikes — in the river stop the water from rushing out of Lake Huron. Neither government has issued a formal response to the recommendation. “That’s just one of the factors that’s affecting lake levels, especially on Michigan and Huron. The biggest one is the variability in the climate and the possibility of climate change,” Fay said. Generally, climate models project Great Lakes water levels will climb because there will be more evaporation from their surfaces, he said. “Why it’s so difficult to say with much confidence as to what’s going to happen in the long term with Great Lakes water levels is, generally, with the warmer climate, there will also be more water vapour in the air and more precipitation,” he continued. “There’s a lot of uncertainty in all that science, so it may be that there’s more evaporation from the lakes that would not be offset completely by the precipitation or it might be in the future that there’s greater precipitation that more than offsets the increase in evaporation so the net effect might be more water.” [email protected]

Thoughts on the uniforms at BC place? I think I like the Canuck's uniform but that might be because it's very different from anything else we've seen.

They do den for the winter in many areas.

Wear sunscreen.

Nailed it.

You've misinterpreted my tone and can put the glasses elsewhere. Just pointing out how unusual the 2 plays were. Can someone reference the last time an NHL ref took that long to blow a whistle when a puck is under a goalie and not visible? BTW I am for the refs taking longer to blow the whistle on those types of plays but they never do. Last time a goalie received a penalty for freezing the puck out of the crease? Refs "managing" the game will sometimes warn a goalie that they could get a penalty and maybe if it happens again in the game a penalty will be given but those are very rare and I've never seen it in overtime. I'm sure in all the games you've watched you must have seen both calls numerous times.

I know the rules. Thanks. That play gets called with 10 minutes gone in the first period and the ref gets ripped. That's complete bush league call in OT. You know that, and so does everybody else.

That's one ref who won't be busy come playoff time. Puck over glass is non-discretionary, but the goalie freezing the puck with a player right there is the type that puts a big red X next to a ref's name.

And this might be the best ice/conditions that the Pens have played in their 3 outdoor games.

Snowing like a son of a gun in Chicago for the outdoor game tonight.

That mild weather last weekend might have got them up and going but I would have thought that the Minus 30 temps over night would have sent them right back. I guess when you want some…. even if it is skunky.