The preseason continues apace for Los Huricans de Carolina, who have sent another 4 guys (and little Jakub Petruzalek) down to the AHL and returned four prospects to their junior teams. Brandon Sutter will be sent back to juniors after Tuesday night’s game. Saturday’s slack-ass lackluster effort in Nashville managed to get the game thread on letsgocanes.com to degenerate into one person whining about people “bashing” Crackers for his wild inconsistency–and then it immediately turned into a John “Spicy Italian” Tortorella-bashing thread after a fan of Crackers posted about how so wicked mean the Spicy Italian was to poor Johnny when he was in Tampa. Torts is LGC.com’s favorite target among the NHL’s coaches (more so than Whingey Ruff), because he’s mouthy and over-the-top (stop looking at me like that).

Gee, I dunno–maybe if Crackers would stop getting all durnk and actin’ the fool at local watering holes on his off-time, he might actually be a little less inconsistent in the net. Just sayin’–not that I and others have seen him do this or anything.

In other news: Top Gear is all kinds of win. Monday nights at 8 on BBC America–watch and be amused. Even if you’re not a car fan, it’s still a hoot.

Just sayin’. Next game is Tuesday night at the Phone Booth vs. the Washington Capitals. Leighton in net, puck drops at 7. Go Canes.