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Lou will ban any Leafs player jumping off the penalty box.Anyone who loses a fight gets fired.

Don't know if I agree with that, but we'll just agree to disagree. I was at the Devils prospects game on Saturday and Lou was there taking pictures with people and signing autographs. Amazing that 5 days later he's gone. Devil fans I've spoke to are glad he's gone because the feeling was that he cast a shadow over the organization and now Shero can be 100% be in command. There really is a strong feeling there that Lou had lost it. Maybe he has a second wind in him but my gut just says no.

But he didn't. Look at the minutes inferior players like Buddle, Gomez, and Findley got in South Africa while Stu Holden barely got his cleats dirty. Those guys were in form. Buddle was scoring boatloads of goals at the time and Gomez was the first ever American to lead a foreign league in goals. They aren't worse than say Alan Gordon or Wondo for comparison.

Problem is that I really think time has passed Lou by. Last several years in NJ have been ugly and there's a reason he was pushed aside. Time may prove me wrong but this feels like WCW hiring Bill Watts.

It's more the idea that Klinsmann is a coaching genius who is going to show us dumb Americans how to play when that's clearly not the case that bothers me. Bob may have not been perfect but I think he did the best with what we had. I may be somewhat biased because I still hate fucking Lalas for firing him from Metro and killing the progress he had made (in particular his son immediately leaving, imagine if he had spent more time here). And of course the soda people topped it by firing Bruce and then Petkie.

Metro: lose to shit Philly team playing most of our starters in open cup, then run Chelsea off the pitch with basically our USL team the next day.

Yes, because what USMNT really needed was another decade of 4-4-2 sides with at least 1 speedy guy who is completely useless at all times. COME BACK TO US EDSON BUDDLE!I know Bradley was so awful. It's not like he ended up nearly coaching a country that was in a civil war/chaos to a world cup before being screwed by CAF and their nonsense.

Maybe Sunil can give Klinsmann another contract extension! So glad we got rid of Bob Bradley for him.

I'd have to go with the Raw the night after SummerSlam 2002 at MSG with the godawful HHH-Taker match that finished high in the Observer worst match of the year voting. For major companies I've been pretty fortunate to mostly see good shows.

From what I understand a lot of people hate city because of their rebranding of Melbourne Hearts to city jr. Watching one of their games you will notice the supporters section almost entirely clad in the old color of red. The Victory fans hate them because they own their in city rival.

WNBA news: The Tulsa Shock have announced they will move to Dallas next season. Now if only someone undoes the crime that was the disbanding of the Houston Comets I'll be happy. I'm a Liberty fan but them folding was a disgrace because they were the greatest team in league history.

As a Knicks fan I will almost be willing to forgive Dolan if he is the driving force behind the death of the salary cap.

Cuba has a family and America doesn't care!!!

At the Foo Fighters show at Citi Field tonight. Want to give them credit for making almost all the shirts at the merch stand $25 or less. Also a limited edition Mets Colors hat with the FF logo is only $15. Most major acts charge twice that, and even WWE charges $30-$35 for shirts so FFs deserve props for not gouging their fans.

They can pull of what the Sixers have been pulling off. Trade for players at the deadline to hit the floor. Their full salary for the season counts against the cap. Only have to pay what is left for the season. Can save even more money buying them out if the player feels they can get on a contender. Pisses off both the players union and other owners. Sixers profits have actually gone up since they started tanking use this loophole. Should've went to Ed $nider and made a deal for Chris Pronger's contract when they had the chance. Could've sent the Flyers the rights to Big Shot in exchange.

Sabres drew 17K to a rookie/prospects scrimmage yesterday. Making this even more impressive is that it apparently was at the same time as a Rolling Stones concert at Ralph Wilson Stadium. EICHELMANIA RUNNIN' WILD!!!

Eichel will wear #15, so the Sabres can now produce a jersey tee. Hurry up and take my money Sabres Store!!!

I'd have to put Wilt on top because he has records that are so insane that they will never be broken. My favorite is him averaging more than 48 minutes played per game one season.

Attended my very first game of the 2015-16 season tonight, the Isles blue-white prospects game. Blue team won 5-3 and were clearly better. Sam Anas, an undrafted kid out of Quinnipiac (go Bobcats!) had 2 goals for blue. The fact that he's 5'8 and 160 pounds probably is why he was undrafted. Hope he catches on for Bridgeport or Missouri. Joshua Ho-Sang was the star of the white team with assists on all three of their goals. Two of them were brilliant no look passes. I know it's a prospects game but that kid looks like an assist machine, many teams are going to look very bad for passing on him IMO. In other notes I lost count of how many times I overheard people say how much they hated the Barclays Center, and that probably wasn't helped by the fact the roof was leaking near my section. And for those of you looking to go to the opener vs Chicago be advised that cheapest face value ticket is $200 and that's before TicketScammer fees. They are doing the Flyers trick of making the box office price insanely expensive so as to encourage people to buy season tickets where there is a major per game discount. Really want to go to that game but if someone is willing to pay me north of $200 for my $20 ticket I'd have to strongly consider that as it would pay for a quarter of my tickets in one shot.

O'Reilly signs extension for 7 years/ $52 million. PEGULIA BUCKS~! For those of you in the NY area the Isles are hosting a Blue-White prospects scrimmage/game this Wednesday at Barclays. If you buy them online tickets are $10 (think they are $20 at the door). Anyone who needs a live hockey fix, there you go.

I think he should be a good fit for Detroit and he had his best season since his injury in 2011-12, but $6 million is a little steep. Not ridiculously so, but enough to put some pressure on him to perform up to it.Oof, yeah, Beleskey for 5 years at $3.8 million. Destined to be bought out in two/three seasons? So do we all agree Beleskey is the Ville Leino award winner?

Eichel has just turned pro officially by signing an entry level contract. Eichelmania starts NOW!!! I'm already refreshing the NHL shop page to see when the Eichel t-shirt is added for sale. God it's so fun to see the Sabres be an NHL team again.

Metro beats city and now move on to face the Cosmos to determine the best team in the NY Metro area. Best moment yesterday was clueless city supporters saying "You should root for NYC's team, you play in Jersey" to us and I reply "Where do New York's NFL teams play?". They got real quiet after that.