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		<title>Roll It Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BREAKING NEWS: Claude Avery didn&#8217;t talk about his Infamous Page 2 article this morning. He said (among other things) &#8220;Until we can do it right, it doesn&#8217;t make much sense to do it.&#8221;
Fair enough&#8211;though I seriously wonder what &#8220;do it right&#8221; entails. (edit: Claude went on to say in the commentbox that &#8220;doing it right [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/07/23/roll-it-up/</link>
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		<title>Save the Drama For Your Mama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;cos the AcidQueen don&#8217;t wanna hear it.
So many things to talk about today, so let&#8217;s get down to it shall we?
ISSUE ONE: The Defence.
Luke DeCock has opened a lovely can of worms with this week&#8217;s iteration of The Monday Debate&#8211;and I, of course, had to go and chum the waters a bit. I should have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/07/21/save-the-drama-for-your-mama/</link>
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		<title>A New Hope&#8230;.?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Guess Who Might Be Coming For Dinner? &#8212; LSB
I don&#8217;t even fucking believe it. Jeff O&#8217;Neill? The guy who needed shipped out of Raleigh before he wound up piledriving himself into a bridge abutment after getting tanked at Crowley&#8217;s?  The guy who was surly with fans (including his #1 fan on the whole damn planet, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/07/15/a-new-hope/</link>
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		<title>A history lesson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[4 March 1991. Eddie Johnston&#8211;then the GM of the Hartford Whalers&#8211;trades away Whalers captain Ron Francis, defenceman Ulf Samuelsson, and forward Grant Jennings to the Pittsburgh Penguins for John Cullen and Zarley Zalapski. As soon as the Whalers&#8217; season ends shortly thereafter, Johnston himself resigns and takes a job with&#8211;dun dun dun!&#8211;the Penguins, who go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/07/06/a-history-lesson/</link>
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		<title>Saturday Odds and Sods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First off: The SS Kevin Lowe has finally launched a retaliatory strike at Burkeistan. The only thing I take issue with is the crack on the market in Anaheim, because it reeks of the elitist snobbery that every franchise south of Chicago has had to take for years regardless of success. That was bush-league. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/07/05/saturday-odds-and-sods/</link>
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		<title>UFA Open Thread</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an open thread only because I&#8217;m swamped here at work and can&#8217;t spare the time to come up with a rant about Josef freaking Melichar.
The floor, folks&#8211;it is yours.
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		<link>http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/07/02/ufa-open-thread/</link>
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		<title>Yes, I know.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So as I said earlier, I knew about the trade the minute it was announced on NHL Live. My head hit the desk, because really&#8211;I know that Snatch (who is an RFA) is going to want stupid money that he&#8217;s not worth, which means that when JR signs him so that he can save face, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/07/01/yes-i-know/</link>
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		<title>The More Things Change&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well it happened again, the Canes draft someone out of the &#8220;Plymouth Pipeline&#8221; that has churned out &#8220;great&#8221; players for us such as Jonas Fiedler, Jared Newman, Damian Surma and Kevin Holdridge. In fact since the Canes have moved to NC they have made Plymouth Whalers 14 of their 114 selections. Combined all these picks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/06/29/the-more-things-change-2/</link>
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		<title>Gleason signs; Caniac Nation erupts in spontaneous rejoicing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gleason signed for 4 years. Hurricanes also trade for rights to tough guy Darcy Hordichuk &#8212; LSB
There is still much work to be done on this team, if manglement expects to be able to compete this coming season&#8211;but the signing is a positive sign.
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		<link>http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/06/19/gleason-signs-party-tiemz/</link>
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		<title>Can You Spell &#8220;Overrated&#8221;, Boys and Girls?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Way to be, toolbag. (850 The Buzz blog, comments)
To sum up: A fan went into a thread that should have been about applauding Glen Wesley, and decided to crap all over it by talking about how his boy Bret of the Gimpy Hip was the real loss to our defence.
I quote one of this clown&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/06/15/can-you-spell-overrated-boys-and-girls/</link>
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		<title>Finding the next Tselios</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So here&#8217;s the deal. We all know the off season sucks. For the most part it&#8217;s RFA signing this, depth signing that, which in itself isn’t a bad thing. It just usually happens at such a slow pace that it could drive a man to drink. I’d go golfing if it was not “holy hell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/06/15/finding-the-next-tselios/</link>
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		<title>An Army Navy of Two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to welcome DaveG as my partner in blog. Dave&#8217;s been a fan of the Hurricanes since the Hartford days (along with the Penguins), and is a regular poster on hfboards.com where he&#8217;s the Hurricanes board&#8217;s resident Amateur Draft Guru. He serves up commentary with a healthy side of sarcasm (and a little less [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/06/13/a-navy-of-two/</link>
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		<title>We Can Has Backup?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hurricanes ink Michael Leighton to 2 year deal &#8212; ch.com
Thank the gods for that, too. This will give us some stability in goal, which will help immensely. I just hope that they don&#8217;t suddenly decide to start fighting again.
In other news: Salaries are higher now than they were pre-Ragnarok. WTF?  Frakkin&#8217; hell people, why did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/06/11/we-can-has-backup/</link>
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		<title>Job Swap ftw? (and a scouting rant)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Daniels, Rowe swap positions &#8212; LSB
Press release &#8212; ch.com
This should be interesting&#8211;though really I am more interested to see how Jake does in Albany than I am to see how TRowe does here in R&#8217;lyeh.
And as an aside, OG Whalercane Robert Kron was hired by the Hurricanes as the team&#8217;s European scout. It&#8217;s not that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/06/09/job-swap-ftw-and-a-scouting-rant/</link>
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		<title>no good deed goes unpunished (and alumni nights)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I write a post congratulating the Red Wings on winning the Cup. I was&#8211;so I thought, anyway&#8211;quite complimentary, laudatory even. I went out of my way to praise them, even. The Chief links it, showing the contrast between my post and the rather venomous screeds that were posted by a few Avs and Blues fans.
As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/06/08/no-good-deed-goes-unpunished-and-alumni-nights/</link>
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		<title>Two Carolina Originals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week saw the retirement of the last two Original Whalercanes in the NHL.
Sami Kapanen announced his retirement from the NHL amid precious little fanfare, and is going back to Finland to play his last few years with KalPa Kuopio, the team that he has a majority ownership stake in (and that he played for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/06/06/two-carolina-originals/</link>
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		<title>And now you see that Evil will always triumph because GOOD is DUMB.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Note: I wrote this as Game 5 was winding down. I present it now, with minor changes.)
And the Malik Effect claims another victim. Congratulations, Red Wings.
As much as I hate that team, as much as I think that their fans are (with a few exceptions&#8211;three of whom are bloggers) a bunch of drooling moronic n00blets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/06/04/evil-will-always-triumph/</link>
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		<title>Srs Bzns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been reported in LSB (by way of the National Post) that Canadian gazillionaire Jim Balsillie was (according to his people) approached by eight US-based NHL teams about a possible sale. The writer of the article, one Theresa Tedesco, made a point of mentioning that four of those teams were based in the southern US (and three [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/06/04/srs-bzns/</link>
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		<title>Wednesday Woo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My current gaming obsession is EVE Online, so here is another EVE video&#8211;because I&#8217;d rather not think about a certain cerebrally-challenged band of idiots getting any kind of satisfaction tonight.
 
This bad boy is a trailer for the game. It really is a stunning, beautiful game.
Here&#8217;s a combat video set to &#8220;Furious Angels&#8221; by Rob Dougan:

And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/06/04/wednesday-woo/</link>
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		<title>Pardon me gentlemen, how do you like those apples?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well what can I say?
There I was, all set to make this big congratulatory post (because, fool that I am, I promised I would). My WoW guildies, most of whom are fans of the Unspeakables (much to my chagrin), were spooging themselves over another five-game Cup win, and I had my mom&#8217;s number blocked.
Oh wait, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/06/03/how-you-like-them-apples/</link>
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		<title>Mondistractions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an attempt to distract myself from the annoyance that will be tonight&#8217;s game, I went meandering around to find cool and amusing things.
Courtesy of Gizmodo, a YouTube video of a guy who hacked his Roomba into PacMan:
 
For those of you who are EVE Online players (like me), a video of GoonSwarm&#8217;s legendary Titan kill [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/06/02/mondistractions/</link>
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		<title>Fidel Deposed in Tampa?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hairy Gelrose to replace Fidel Tortorella as Lightning Coach - Toronto Star by way of TSN
The Leafs fans on TSN, of course, are hoping that Tortorella comes to coach the Leafs&#8211;boy, won&#8217;t they be in for a shock when they realize after the first season and a half that Fidel is a coach whose half-life [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/05/30/fidel-deposed-in-tampa/</link>
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		<title>Resquiescat In Pace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Canucks prospect Luc Bourdon killed in motorcycle crash &#8212; TSN
The exact circs, we don&#8217;t know about. According to what&#8217;s been released so far, Luc collided with a transport truck. Vancouver blogger Darren Barefoot had a commenter post that there were winds and a tragic wardrobe malfunction involved, but that report is of course being treated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://acidqueen.projectremains.com/2008/05/29/resquiescat-in-pace/</link>
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