it might be the shots, hardly anyone else in calgary is getting them apparently, short supply 

blowwwwwww
4-1 

hardly anyone else in calgary is getting them apparently, short supply

Helps out when the Health Minister just happens to be the MLA for Calgary-West. 

wow.. it had gotten to 2-1 when i went to take a shower, then i came out and saw the end score.. oh well, at least it was a good game for a period 

JDH annan said:

it might be the shots, hardly anyone else in calgary is getting them apparently, short supply

I got my seasonal one the day it was available and the H1N1 the day it was first available too. Fuck those old pregnant people, I got hockey to watch. 

CALGARY - The Alberta government has launched an investigation into how members of the Calgary Flames and their families scored swine flu shots at a special clinic as thousands of people waited in line for the vaccine or were turned away.

Apparently Alberta health services fired a senior member of thier staff over this. I honestly can't believe that people are so upset about all this. Just baffles my mind 'they are no better than us, so why do they get preferrential treatment'. Fucken people.

Okay, time for me to stir up some good old fashioned contraversy in here. This is my response to this whole garbage. I'm thinking of submitting it to the local paper.

I know it's just a sport, and it's just entertainment and these guys should be treated no different than the rest of us, I get that.

BUT, these teams dump a tonne of tax dollars into federal, provincial, and local gov'ts (no doubt helping pay for the vaccine for everyone else). Also, the 'spin off' businesses and the communities benefit huge from professional sports teams. What would happen if the flu went around the whole league and games had to start being cancelled?

Also, let's face it, there isn't anything in North America that dumps more money into charities (including stuff for sick people, especially kids) than professional sports.

The next time you want to bi**h about a hockey player getting preferrential treatment, I suggest you go back and see how many charity events the guy has organized, how many other events he's partaken in and the total amount of dollars that have been raised because of his presence in the community.

If Joe from across the road (just a hypothetical) did half as much charity work as these guys do (I know most of us are swamped just trying to provide for our families) I would have no problem with him jumping the line.

As people, hockey players are no better than anyone else.
As memebers of the community, these guys are head and shoulders above the 'regular Joe' and I'm sorry to say, but they simply ARE more important.

/end rant. 

peter maher was talking about it yesterday and he didn't paint quite a class-society picture as you do. The flames association contacted someone from alberta health and set this up way back when flu shots were first recommended and there were no shortages 

It just pisses me off because athletes and sports in general have dumped so much money into research for cures to much more important illnesses like AIDS, Cancer, MS, CP, etc.

All they want is to not wait in line.

BTW Alberta isn't doing the same thing as other provinces - they didn't put 'high risk' groups at the head of the line like Ontario has - it's basically a free for all. So it's not like they 'stole' someone else's vaccine that was in a high risk group.

I don't even agree with the vaccine in the first place, and I'm not all panicked to go get it, so maybe that plays into how I feel about the situation, but I just think people are making something out of nothing here. If anything, I hope this whole situation makes people realize that hockey players are stand-up members of thier community who do a hell of a lot of work for everyone living in the area. 

A lot of companies in Calgary brought in nurses to vaccinate all of their employees, and their employee's families. I personally know of 2 engineering firms who paid to have a nurse come to their office to vaccinate them. The engineering firm I work for was going to do the exact same thing, but the shortages and restrictions came along the day before we were set to be vaccinated.

I don't thing the Flames did anything wrong honestly. 

I'm sort of on the fence about it but I can't really understand the outrage... out of the millions of doses that will be produced, we're getting all up in arms about 40 or whatever?
I bet way more than that get lost or break or go bad or something. 

Okay seriously, whats up with Colorado - they're tied for first in the entire NHL and the announced crowd was 11012! 

World Series game 6. 

lots of yankees (or phillies) fans in denver? 

Oh, I have no clue. I just figured that being 'America's Passtime' it didn't really matter who was in the finals.

I figured people would want to watch the World Series wrap up over one of 82 regular season Avalanche games. 

the avs beat writer wrote a whole article going 'fuck you guys' kinda

he feels hosed cause earlier he wrote an article bashing nashville for this same shit 

One thing to consider about the Flames H1N1 queue-jumping is the clinics might have become a media side-show with fans trying to get Phaneuf's autograph. 

well, queue jumping and "arranging an alternate locaiton" are two different things.
my office brings a nurse in for flu shots, not make all of us go to the hospital during work hours 

JD Hannan is a queue jumper! 

man, they need better PR people.

they could've went with.. the reason that we had to make sure that this team had their h1n1 shots is because of the number of times that they're going out of the country and the number of areas they visit that have a high number of cases. 

If the Flames are high-risk, what about Policemen, Retail Workers, Business Executives or anyone else that may come in contact with another person? 

JDH annan said:

well, queue jumping and "arranging an alternate locaiton" are two different things.
my office brings a nurse in for flu shots, not make all of us go to the hospital during work hours

I don't think there's much of a difference because of the fact they got it before some people who are considered "high-risk" could. 

they travel around so you don't want them spreading it or whatever 

you guys can argue this point to death if you want, but the fact remains that the flames organization did nothing wrong 

Was at the Habs game tonight... fuck dem Bruins bitches! 

Really strong game from Price... he needed that, especially with Halak having pulled his groin.

Bruins fans started streaming for the exits with 4 minutes left in a 1 goal game... it was half-empty with a minute left. Right before the B's tied it. Morons. 

halak pulled Price's groin? 

McBain said:

Bruins fans started streaming for the exits with 4 minutes left in a 1 goal game... it was half-empty with a minute left. Right before the B's tied it. Morons.

I just don't get that, especially in an Original Six hockey market.
You pay all that money to watch the game and then bail for the parking lot before it's over. 

JDH annan said:

halak pulled Price's groin?

I wouldn't put it past him.

Here's how long it took certain goalies to get to 50 wins.
Brodeur: 93 games
Roy: 102 games
Price: 102 games
Fleury: 143 games
Luongo: 150 games 

And that's with Luongo starting his career with the Islanders.
Imagine how fast it would have been if he played for a real hockey team. 

McBain said:

Brodeur: 93 games

I have such a mancrush on Brodeur 

Good quiz:
http://www.sporcle.com/games/Lauro/nhl_scorer_00
I got 35/50, I feel like I should have gotten more. 

.. didnt u post this a couple weeks ago? 

beh, fail
that was most goals by year 

so far i have as many 50+ as i do <50 

You got 20 out of 50 NHL players with the most points from 1999/00 to 2008/09.
You missed 6 Bonus Answers.

i'm actually not too unhappy with that
i shouldve gotten kovalev, savard, tanguay, lidstrom (called him holmstrom), kovalchuk, and jokinnen tho 

Spoiler tags!

They have the same quiz for the 90s if you're interested. 

oops oh well
You got 22 out of 27 NHL goalies of the year (Vezina Trophy).
got all of them i shouldve got except one who shall remain nameless (pittsburgh) 

You got ALL 6 six NHL players who have had their jersey number retired by two teams.
i'm done with quizzes 

I can't believe Denis Gauthier isn't playing anywhere 

I got 35/50, I feel like I should have gotten more.

I got the exact same score.. Missed Jagr..

How embarrasing. 

You got ALL 6 six NHL players who have had their jersey number retired by two teams.

I like how the teams they played for are on there too.

I might not have got hull without blackcocks 

So the Caps lose 3 d-men in one game.

Yet, the D seems to look better with the guys who remain sucking up the extra ice time.

Interesting. 

ffffffffuuuuuuuuuuu 

wtb gobchar pst 

gonchar 

i'm hoping it will give alzner and/or carlson a shot

apparently morrisonn might draw a suspension - he was on some kind of probation at the end of the season? Never heard of it before now, but the probation had stipulations about him not drawing a major penalty within a certain number of games. wtf? 

wat 

Finally, Coach Bruce Boudreau was concerned that defenseman Shaone Morrisonn might face a suspension for boarding Kenndal McArdle late in the third period. Morrisonn received five minutes and a game misconduct, but Boudreau revealed that Morrisonn was put on probation at the end of last season and couldn't receive a major penalty in the Capitals' first 15 or 20 games. Boudreau couldn't remember which it was, but obviously that will be key. Morrisonn said he was not aware of the situation.

 

shto 

i think alzner's legit
remember that game last year where he put the puck off the boards knowing it was going to bounce to the middle?