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Bill Foley had this to say about his Vegas expansion team, according to Yahoo

"The league has been positive and supportive with our efforts. We feel like we're on the 1-yard line with this thing."

It looks like the similarities with Seattle don't stop at the fact that neither of them are getting NHL franchises anytime soon.

They still have 99 yards to go.

Sometimes when I click the notifications icons, it gives me a drop down box. Sometimes, it redirects me to a new page. How do I make it give me the drop down box?

Anybody know?

This happens to me as well. It seems the javascript for the drop down box isn't properly activated when loading the page. The only way I found to have the drop down box is to first hover on a member name. This will trigger a popup of the member. Then when you hover the notifications icons, it will give you the drop down box. It's a workaround, but it allows you to remove the number on the notifications icons.

Activate the smart guides to help you (View -> Smart Guides). You have two options to modify this:

1- Unselect whatever selection you currently have. Select the Direct Selection Tool (A). Hover around the anchor that is below the line, you will see the line light up with a small "Anchor" beside it. Click on the anchor and move it up until you intersect the other path. The other path will then light up to show you that you're dead on.

2- Bring your path to the front and keep it selected. Pick the scissors. Hover around the intersection until you get both lines colored with a "intersection" text. Click on the intersection - it will cut the top path in two sections. Take the selection tool and select the part you want to remove. Delete.

The smart guides are probably your best friend at this point. It took me a while to discover those, but I don't know how I managed to use Illustrator without them. It saves a ton of time.

I'm looking to match both fonts from the Brampton Capitals logo:

What is the maximum image size we can add in a post before it is automatically resized by the boards?

Is anyone else blocked from viewing certain threads? I have Avast antivirus for my macbook, and almost every time I click on a thread that hasn't been posted in for a couple weeks, I get an "Infection blocked" message that says there is an HTML:Script-inf.

I know there's probably nothing Chris can do, I'm just curious if anyone else with Avast is having the same problem.

I get the exact same issue, especially when looking at threads in the Forum Announcements. I looked into the code and there is a call to an unknown script from another website:

Hopefully a mod can bring this to Chris's or Clark's attention?

Here's a question:

I'm trying to send a message to more than 1 recipient but it is not working. I am able to select the 1st recipient from the list but not the 2nd one.

I have left a space and, have used a comma with a space. Neither seem to work.

I'm sure it's something small and stupid that I'm over looking but can someone please advise?

Only mods can send messages to more than 1 recipient.

Does any one have a suggestion for a good program other then photoshop? I'm new to logo making and was wondering if there was a way I could get the professional look but without the cost.

Gimp.

IT'S STILL NOT WORKING! HOW DO I PUT AN IMAGE IN A POST?

1. Calm down.

2. Can you post the URL you are trying to use so we can better help? Just copy and paste it in a post, without any tags.

Is the "Automatically detect DST" checkbox checked?

That's the only other thing I could see messing this up.

Why is it that it says my post is at at 6:35, when it is actually 7:35 here at my house?

Timezone settings, maybe? Check your profile.

So, hey, did anybody happen to notice that the owner, general manager, and vice president of hockey operations for the Quebec Remparts decided to leave the team for another position today?

Wonder what would compel him to do that.

Wait, what? Did the owner just, like, post on Craigslist "Free hockey team to a good home. Must provide your own rink. Pick them up at the corner of 3rd and Wellington"? How does an owner just leave a team?

He'll still be part owner, just as he's been ever since he joined the Remparts.

I smell a cap? kinda confused on this one.

Eye-Smell-Erat.

Phoenix to QC really isn't that big of a problem in terms of realignment. QC takes Detroit's place in the East, Detroit moves back to the Western Conference and they take Colorado's spot in that divison, Colorado takes Phoenix's spot in that division.

It's too logical for the NHL to actually do something like that.

Joyce Clark apparently has a blog now at joyceclarkunfiltered.com but as with her twitter feed, I suspect that too has the child-molester-glasses stink of George Fallar.

Yo, internet whiz kids, is there anything to the fact that his website and that one both have the same IP address on a WHOIS search? 74.###.###.# because I'm enough of a gentleman not to post people's IP#s but you can find them yourselves at http://www.networkso...hois/index.jsp?

Yes and no... It means, as the nameservers point out, that both sites are hosted by 1and1... The coincidence is uncanny, and the Joyce Clark website has been registered privately, but other than that, there's not much you can say.

All web hosts share server space for websites, so ultimately, they have the same IP address as others, but are locally (as in the server) redirected to show the correct website.

Verdict: possible coincidence, but does look fishy, considering Fallar's antics.

They speak French, though! Fun fact: the penalty for "roughing" translates to Quebec French as "rudesse." You are sent to the box for rudeness. I love it. Hockey just sounds so right in French, I don't know what it is.

Not quite... Rudeness, in French, would be "grossièreté". Rudesse really translates to roughing as it is a physical act, whereas grossièreté is more of a verbal act.

Actually, the entire site is messed up on my IE 8 machine. The search bar is in the middle of the main banner, the reply buttons are in the wrong place, and there are many other alignment issues. It could be my browser since it's work controlled and they could have put some update on that messses things up, but again, I'm not seeing this with any other site.

Fonts/Font size appears different to me too.

Same for me on Firefox.

This is like a saga straight out of a really bad sports movie. I live in the Valley, love the Coyotes and ? shock! ? find this whole thing a shipwreck. I'd love it if the Coyotes stayed here, yes. But I'm starting to see that the opportunity cost to keeping the Coyotes is exorbitant.

You're just starting to see this??

Fact of the matter is.... most of the NHL sees this as an incredible underdog story. Look at any other message board. I've seen so many people say they are behind the coyotes and their story, so many people from random teams saying.. good luck or.. I hope y'all beat the odds. No credit on here. Just hate.

Out of curiosity, what do they exactly see as the incredible underdog story? Their current run for the Cup or that there might finally be an owner willing to buy the franchise?

Out of curiousity, what's the Yotes attendance during the playoffs been?

First round

17,538

17,539

17,746

Second round

17,187

17,217

17,182

Arena capacity: 17,125 (17,799 with standing room)

I should probably know this but, How do you link to a specific post?

Also, I remember seeing before that you can view statistics of specific threads (like who has posted the most times in a given thread). How do you use this feature?

To see the stats of the thread, just click on the amount of post under the stats column when you're looking in one forum.

I can't watch it at work. Cany anybody summarize it?

It's a sim rendering of a new Quebec arena, descriptively called "the multifunctional amphitheater of Quebec -- from dreams to reality!" It shows the key features of the place, like a 360 degree concourse, bars and restaurants and "all the services" in a "Zone Club," neat-o VIP seats right next to the benches, a glass wall so you can watch the players come in and out of the locker room, and an outdoor patio.

Looks really cool, but I didn't see a call to action or timeline. Also, my French isn't very good, so who knows?

That's pretty much what was in the video. No need to be good in French to understand it

As far as timeline goes, it is set to break ground late this summer, and to be ready three years after, late summer in 2015.

From twitter:

les gens occupant le Colisée auraient eu l'ordre de faire un "ménage" dans leurs locaux.

"The gentlemen occupying the Colisee will have to make order of the mess in their place."

I think Quebec City just evicted the Remparts

I think your translation's off. Google Translate says: "People occupying the Colisee would have to order a "household" in their premises". I think what it means is not that the Remparts are out, but that they would have to be a secondary tenant in the case an NHL team moves in (until the new arena is built).

In this case, it simply means that they should tidy up their offices... Likely to make room for another tenant.

Well, I don't know what kind of scheduling they have at the Colisee for next year. It might be that there won't be enough dates for the Nordiques, Remparts, and concerts/conventions/whatever, so the Remparts may have to move to a smaller building or out of town altogether. At any rate, the Nords are gonna need the office space.

EDIT: http://qmjhlarenagui...om/jeunesse.htm

This seems like a good alternative site for the Remparts. Youth Pavilion!

I don't think this would work... It can hold only 5,000, and the Remparts usually have around 10,000 in attendance. It's pretty obvious those numbers will drop if the NHL returns to Québec City, but my guess is the QMJHL would like to have the Remparts stay at the Colisée for now.

Arrogance of the "fanbase". Their sense of entitlement. General snobbery.

The whole thing just rubs me the wrong way. It happens.

Also, yea... frogs do suck...

Bigot.

Once again, the deal between Quebecor and Quebec City is not about building the arena. The deal is for naming rights and facilities management.

Quebec City and the provincial government have already announced their financial participation in funding the $400M arena. The city is simply taking into account the money that Quebecor will pay into what they can afford, and that's why they say they can't go forward without that deal. They should build something within their financial means, but of course, that's not going to happen.

They're starting work on an 18,000-seat arena that should be open by 2015. They'd have to play three years at a half-assedly renovated Colisee in the meantime. Also, Quebecor, the prospective owner for a new QC team, is supposed to be establishing a new TVA sports channel that would be carried in the entire province. So the pieces are coming together, it's just a matter of whether the Phoenix thing will get ugly enough that the league stops messing around with Reinsdorf, Goldwater objecting to Reinsdorf, and the union objecting to everything, and just decides to cash out to Quebecor.

I'm sure I saw a post on here about what percentage of the $400 million Quebecor are willing to offer, something about between $100-200 million from Quebecor, depending on the arena's use. So my theory is the people of Quebec City and the rest of the province don't want to pay taxes for a $400 million arena, if they're paying it all on there own. If QC can secure an NHL team before say 2013, then Quebecor could pay a substantial amount of that $400 million (up to 50%), making the average Quebecois taxpayer happy and hockey fans extremely happy knowing they have a team back.

If they do get a team sooner than 2015 then it could be a possibility playing in the Colisee Pepsi, or whatever its called these days, for a season or 2 until they move into their new arena. If QC get a team before then it could concrete the planned arena and risk it falling through.

Quebecor isn't paying anything out of the $400 million the arena will cost. The provincial government will pay $200 million, the city will pay the rest, even if the bill comes up to more than $400 million.

Quebecor will pay upfront for naming rights of the arena for the next 25 years: $30-some million if they don't have an NHL team when the arena opens, $63 million if there's an NHL team. They :censored:ed both municipal and provincial governments by having them both provide cash for an arena that may or may not be used for a hockey team. At least, if they do get an NHL team, they have agreed to keep it here for the next 25 years and would pay hefty charges if they decided to move the team.

Basically, while the average fan is happy, everyone in the province will be footing the bill for the new arena, which is simply nonsense. Add to this that the Bell Centre cost $270 million to build, all privately funded (which would come to $364 million in 2011 dollars). I just don't see how an arena smaller than the Bell Centre would cost $400 million, unless they put gold plated :censored:holes.

TVA Sports is already on the air, and this begins the "sports cold war" between Bell and Videotron (Quebecor's cable TV company): Bell doesn't agree to carry TVA Sports, therefore Videotron refuses to carry RDS2 (french equivalent of TSN2).