here is my attempt to feel...excitement!

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Today I nearly punched faded-lilac in the face (it would've been out of excitement.) (it would have been great. well, until her mom rolled up, then it would have been like my high school years ALL OVER AGAIN.) We went out to dinner, to commemorate our last Bible Study this year, and our minister said that she had watched the Flyers-Sabres game, and liked when

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I am here mainly to say that Alex Edler is indeed fine, that his Corsi is also fine, and that he dresses like a model and sleeps 90% of the time he isn't playing hockey (this is as close as he comes to a character trait.) There is no known cause for his hair.

Also that Andrew Alberts and Keith Ballard should form a band called the Press Box Minnesotans, whom I would certainly see at the Railway and possibly interview for a print-only zine.

(Ian White is lucky to still have a face after that Stoll hit, even though it was unintentional and you could see clearly on Stoll's face the moment at which he thought 'Oh shit, am I killing a guy? I think I'm killing guy.')

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Given that this is essentially a long-form complaint about the Oilers' scouting of the early 2000s, fun and somewhat factual commentary about other things is very much welcomed.

Always important to back these things up with facts; advanced statistics add so much to our lives & our experience of hockey. Admittedly, my fondness for Edler began several months ago when writing a four thousand word joke where various Swedish National Team members worked for Vogue but he is a delightful player.

Unfortunately, I am not ready with sufficiently indie titles for songs, and will assume that at a venue such as the Railway, the set is a high-concept thing reflecting certain ideas about tonality and syndicalism.

(this comment keeps on deleting itself; hopefully, the first and most-clever version made its way to you.)

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In the province of Alberta it is illegal to have an interest in another human without statistical evidence of his superiority. There are check stops on the highway and everything.

I did not notice it was a complaint re:Oilers scouting because playoff teams can generally be divided into Teams With Ex-Canucks and Teams From Which Current Canucks Were Waived. When the former exceed the latter by a ratio of at least 2:1 Vancouver is allowed to move on to the next round. There are debates about the formula, but generally it is agreed that Ryan Johnson is some kind of friendly living curse.

Edler Fact File Fact #23: The Sedins were on his local junior team when he was a preteen. When asked if he found them inspirational he laughed and then stared into the camera.

Tonality, syndicalism, homer hankies, the Hold Steady, and the Baudette Fire of 1910. Perhaps an elegy for the North Stars.

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Excellent: there the priorities are in order. Very fine to know that the rest of Alberta (outside the Oilers' front office) uses math for purposes other than cooking over it.

One can really never have enough numbers, is the thrust of this. Which, yes, quality of competition is great and so is trivial data or this sort. (not to diminish it! just that you can win pub quizzes with it.) This is generally a palace of complaint, and the Canucks' acquisition strategies are a nice change, since that formula seems to work quite well. (looked Ryan Johnson up, what have I done. more like, what has he done. curse, indeed.)

That sounds...exceedingly good, I will defer to your superior judgment. The value that small-ish town-ish Minnesota has contributed to the international scene is incalculable, this is a thing that ought to be more real than it is, only partly joking.

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I'm here to tell them that it's more uncool to be dead."

And people say athletes don't make good role models!

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Yes but he's a bitch.

Not on the order of noted person Michael Ryder, certainly.

Honestly, though.