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JWillie out 4-6 months with blown Achilles tendon, Warchief getting knee cleaned up — N&O

That thump-thump-thump sound you hear is me beating my head on the desk. The Warchief’s surgery I dig–he’s just getting the knee cleaned up.
Now, I can dig that we’re one of the best-conditioned teams in the NHL. It’s cool, it’s a badge of honour and all (I guess), but there comes a time when you have to go to the training staff and ask them “Dude, WTF?” Setting aside the flu that tore through the locker room last season, the ‘Canes are in injury trouble. Look at the man-games lost to serious injury in the last two seasons (608–not the ridonkulous amount that teams like the Islanders had, but still significant when you consider that it’s spread out over several guys rather than one or two), and you’re forced to wonder:

1) what the hell the training staff is huffing

and

2) whether or not Pete Friesen’s balls-out approach to conditioning is a good thing anymore.

The Hurricanes should look long and hard at Pete and his gang, and ask themselves if dudeman is still worth it.

NHL tells ‘Canes:
You must do that deal over, kids!
Word it better this time.

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And the reviews continue to roll in for the new third jerseys.

My old pal Greg Wyshynski, czar of Yahoo’s “Puck Daddy” blog, isn’t a big fan.

That’s cool, I don’t expect everyone to like it (least of all a fan of a team that once proudly sported Yule-shrub jerseys–washed-out video of those jerseys can be found here), but some of Wysh’s commenters just take the cake with their lameness. Even The Chief can come up with better and more clever digs than that band of idiots did (except for “emocanes”. That was a good one). Since the ‘Canes are rolling these bad boys out against the Red Wings, I am hopeful positive that The Chief will back me up on this by coming up with some intelligent and witty snark (and, as always, his regulars will attempt to back him up with a tide of dim-witted and cerebrally-challenged digital effluent).

Personally, I don’t buy the org’s line that it took five years to come up with the design–unless they mean it took five years to come up with a design that no fan could sue them over (on the grounds of “HEY THEY STOLE MY SUBMISSION!”), in which case I’d believe that. But eh.

IN OTHER NEWS:

USA Today’s Kevin Allen is reporting that the Atlanta Thrashers are looking at signing
The Serene Master–which is depressing, but at least it’s not that clownshow in Tampa. Poor bastard.

And finally:
The Chief talks about 9/11.

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(picture courtesy carolinahurricanes.com)

The jerseys are here, and they actually look pretty good.

Jersey specs (PDF — ch.com)

The to-do itself was kinda eh, mostly because a dude from a certain AM station tried to monopolize the proceedings with a bunch of immature questions that just made everyone roll eyes (except for one question–”do you think the black has a slimming effect?” that led to some comedic gold from Tim Gleason). They go on sale at the Caniac Carnival later this month. $300 will get you a jersey AND if you’re one of the first 200 to buy them you get an EZ-Pass to the front of the autograph lines.

Hurry up and get ‘em before GRANDMA and the rest of the eBay memorabilia sellers snap up all the chances to get to the front of the autograph lines.

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Just when you thought it was safe to have your kids at a training camp, sleazebag and all-around shitpile David Frost has gotten clearance from the OPP to go to Phoenix for the Coyotes training camp.

‘Yotes GM Don Maloney, on the other hand, has declared Frost PNG and has said that if their prospect Adam Keefe (kid bro of former Frost victim protege Sheldon Keefe) is associated with that fleabag, then the kid is PNG too.

Who in their right mind gave this pillock clearance to leave the province of Ontario, and who in the State Department is responsible for letting him cross the border? For all the times the US has barred authors, doctors, historians, and scholars for little more than saying something that somebody didn’t like, why the hells couldn’t they keep this piece of crap out? Was it because he didn’t say that he was going to take a shotgun and fire it in the general direction of military jets that were flying low (but not nearly low enough to get hit by shotgun pellets)? Or because he’s not a community activist for poor farmers? Maybe it was because he hasn’t run for Parliament as a member of a minority party or because he didn’t publicly say that he experimented with LSD back in the 60s?

Somebody please explain it to me, cos I don’t get it–of course, I also don’t get how a sports drink or Nad’s can blow up an airplane, so…

(oops, guess I won’t be allowed to fly out to visit my sister anymore–sorry sis, guess I gotta drive or take a train from now on!)

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Dwayne-o plagiarized again!

And he’s allowed a membership in the PHWA (and given any sort of credibility)….why?

10 Quatloos sez he trots out the “My IP was stolen!” excuse again.

The Hurricanes will be debuting their third jersey this coming Wednesday.

if this is an indicator of what will be, I have three words:

Sign me up.

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