wildwing64

From her Twitter account: Just... I can't even...

Nope. Just click the "Add me as a friend" button on a member's profile. That's all there is to it.

So a 34 team NHL, assuming the Coyotes and Panthers survive beyond 2019.

Until it's fixed, you can use the Import photo from URL function instead. -- Also, I'm getting the "you do not have permission to use this feature" error message when I try to mark my notifications as read.

Funnily enough, Tottenham were my team during a very brief football phase as a kid. My family's never really been into it - save for my Grandmother who's a big West Ham fan - so I never grew up with an interest in the game. But I picked Tottenham as my team simply because someone before me said it in a class activity and it was the easiest to remember. That and to six year old me, "West Ham" just sounded stoopid. My parents tried to convert me to being a West Ham supporter instead, going so far as to tell me that my newborn baby brother was also a West Ham fan. I always found that weird as they never cared about football before, but in hindsight they were probably more wary of my safety as West Ham were the local team, and given the, *ahem*, fan culture of that particular team I certainly don't blame them for trying. But despite me being a stubborn git and continuing to proclaim my loyalty to "Tott-num", I ended up just losing interest. Don't remember when or why, but one day it just stopped being a thing for me. These days, basically everything about the culture of the game puts me off, but where the media force feeding was once a personal gear grinder of mine I've since learned to tune it out and ignore it - which tends to be even more difficult when Euro and the World Cup come around

Isn't this exactly why the Panthers got lumped into the same division as the Habs?

I also have no connection to the Anaheim Ducks, the team I root for the most despite living more than 5,450 miles away and in a completely different country. I knew nothing of their successes (or rather, their lack of) when I became a fan, I picked them as my team after growing up watching a TV show about superhero hockey playing ducks from outer space, which for whatever reason planted a love of ice hockey into the back of my mind. I almost became a Red Wings fan, simply because red is my favourite colour, but seeing that logo with the duck mask and crossed hockey sticks again was what won me over. Even after they rebranded and got rid of everything but the Ducks moniker that drew me to the team, I stuck with them as my interactions with other fans online always made me feel that little bit less far away. So, how do I support my team when living on the other side of the world? The short answer could simply be "With great difficulty", but strictly speaking that would be incorrect. NHL coverage (or for that matter, any non-British sports coverage) is piss poor in my part of the world, so I follow them almost exclusively through the internet, whether that be through the highlight reels, game recaps, a number of Ducks-based blogs, even through Twitter and live notifications through my iPhone. There was also a time when I could subscribe to services like GameCenter Live and actually watch the games as they were happening, but I've had to abandon that luxury as working six days a week means I'm no longer able to stay up until 3 or 4am while streaming that one Ducks game I could catch every week. Nowadays I get my fix just fine with the highlight reels, when I remember to watch them. Or when I haven't spent my lunch break typing out a long-winded post such as this

Maybe they're paying tribute to digital piracy Didn't think that was an unpopular opinion but oh well. It probably could've done without the black yoke but I don't mind it. If the current uniforms had to be changed now I'd get rid of the side panels first, and swap 'em out for a hemstripe. Then again I just spent eight years wanting them to dump the soulless wordmark jerseys for something more visually distinctive, so I'm not going to kick up a fuss for a while

I like roundels on hockey uniforms. I think they work best as shoulder patches, not so much as primary crests.

The Graveyard should have been a good learning tool. See what ends up there, and learn what NOT to do. Any thought to just locking threads such that people can see what went wrong/what not to do? Thing is if we're seeing locked threads here and there, wouldn't that clutter the boards up? I can see the Graveyard being a good learning tool, but I also agree with its burial. I'm sure there are a bunch of threads in there that just aren't worth seeing or mentioning, even if the odd thread was mildly amusing. At least it'll stop all the "lol inb4 graveyard"s. -- New warning points system is interesting. Is there a maximum number that one can get before being banned, or will the mods still get to a point where a member's bad enough to warrant suspending or banning anyway, regardless of how close to zero they are?

Weird definition of "lake". More like a puddle.

Is that a scarf or is his neck on fire? He looks awfully happy about it.

Despite what he's said there, you just know he'll pull something out of his arse at the last minute to keep them there. Like, more lengthy extensions and convenient forgetting of absolutely final deadlines!

Does anyone know how to un-friend an account that's no longer active? I've still got Loogodude on my friends list even though he's been banned for a while. I should add, I have no idea why he added me in the first place, and I'm sure I un-friended him before he got banned.

It amazes me that even with that kind of fan support they were still bleeding money. Was their arena lease screwing them over back then too?

What does the NHL want, exactly?

Nah, that's absurd-HOLY CRAP, YOU'RE RIGHT.

Looks pretty good to me. If the NHL is now angry at Glendale and canceling meetings this is the best possible news. The Coyotes might finally be on the way out of town. Here come the Quebec Newdiques!

Apparently, Bill Daly is no longer ruling out the possibility of the Coyotes being relocated. inb4 The Final Countdo ...oh

That's no Photoshop, it's a real-life cartoon character. I mean, just look at the three fingers and the oversized head!

Hang on. Let me get this straight. So basically, the one year the arena operated without a tenant, the city made money from it. Every year the NHL has been in control of the franchise, it has been costing the city money. Glendale are desperate to keep the Coyotes around for whatever reason, probably because they're the only tenant of the arena, and it's costing them more money every year. They're willing to cut public services in order to shell out even more money to attract an owner for the Coyotes franchise that's losing money every year. The city will continue to lose money from this franchise every year the Phoenix Coyotes still exist, even with an owner, and even 20 years down the line if the team is consistently the best team in the NHL every year. They're willing to continue to drain the city of its money to keep the Coyotes around, even though they profited that one year the Coyotes didn't play in the arena and would be better off without them there...

Apparently a tentative agreement has been reached. Can't remember the guy's name. There's no mention of it anywhere on NHL.com or the Coyotes website

Devin Dark? Nah Devin Dark's Jim Balsillie. Whatever happened to that NHL Guardians nonsense anyway? FAKE EDIT- Nothing's happened since the 2011 All-Star game. Heck, they still have "The Thrasher." All that hype and nothing came of it. So much for the "hey if they market it well and it gets kids interested then it's ok" argument. They had a "Guardian Vault" thing that they occasionally updated on the website, then they just flat out stopped after April or June for no apparent reason. Now the whole thing's in a weird sort of limbo where it still exists, but nothing's been said as to whether the NHL are going to keep it around or have deemed it a failure. If it's dead, NBC certainly won't be happy after spending a hundred-or-so million dollars on it

Devin Dark?