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weirdoh
Toronto Maple Leafs
Joined: 07.09.2006

Nov 23 @ 7:29 PM ET
Hasn't been delivered yet. Waiting still. I've heard great things about blops deux
- AdamFrench




You did get Halo 4 correct?


I was on with Dan and Desi the other night. I'm so poop at that game that my skin is brown.
Adam French
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Isn't Cooley 5"11? You know who else is 5"11? Sydney Crosby. - Scabeh
Joined: 04.06.2011

Nov 23 @ 7:31 PM ET
You did get Halo 4 correct?


I was on with Dan and Desi the other night. I'm so poop at that game that my skin is brown.

- weirdoh

Ya I got Gaylo 4. When I get Blops we can all play together and get gay.


I meant happy.
weirdoh
Toronto Maple Leafs
Joined: 07.09.2006

Nov 23 @ 7:33 PM ET
Ya I got Gaylo 4. When I get Blops we can all play together and get gay.


I meant happy.

- AdamFrench




Sounds lie a gay time.


I meant both ways.


Not sure if you like the campaigns or not, but did you start the Halo one? Heard it was a good story.
Adam French
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Isn't Cooley 5"11? You know who else is 5"11? Sydney Crosby. - Scabeh
Joined: 04.06.2011

Nov 23 @ 7:36 PM ET
Sounds lie a gay time.


I meant both ways.


Not sure if you like the campaigns or not, but did you start the Halo one? Heard it was a good story.

- weirdoh

I only play multiplayer in FPS's, if I want to wallow alone I choose Skyrim or Saints Row 2.

You see the Farcry 3 trailer? God it's the gayest opening ever the most cliche bullpoop ever.

"We just wanted to have fun on a sweet island, but we got kidnapped....BUT NOW I'M FIGHTING BACK"

Like a bunch of teens on holiday drinking could fight back against a mercenary killing island.
weirdoh
Toronto Maple Leafs
Joined: 07.09.2006

Nov 23 @ 7:39 PM ET
I only play multiplayer in FPS's, if I want to wallow alone I choose Skyrim or Saints Row 2.

You see the Farcry 3 trailer? God it's the gayest opening ever the most cliche bullpoop ever.

"We just wanted to have fun on a sweet island, but we got kidnapped....BUT NOW I'M FIGHTING BACK"

Like a bunch of teens on holiday drinking could fight back against a mercenary killing island.

- AdamFrench




So you didn't bust out the Gears of War 3 campaign? (frank) it was awesome. Even brought a tear to my eye.


Haven't seen the FarCry, but I shall go and check it out now.
Adam French
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Isn't Cooley 5"11? You know who else is 5"11? Sydney Crosby. - Scabeh
Joined: 04.06.2011

Nov 23 @ 7:39 PM ET
So you didn't bust out the Gears of War 3 campaign? (frank) it was awesome. Even brought a tear to my eye.


Haven't seen the FarCry, but I shall go and check it out now.

- weirdoh

Never played Gears.

MAAARIIIIIAAAAA
weirdoh
Toronto Maple Leafs
Joined: 07.09.2006

Nov 23 @ 7:48 PM ET
Never played Gears.

MAAARIIIIIAAAAA

- AdamFrench


DOM!!!



Adam French
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Isn't Cooley 5"11? You know who else is 5"11? Sydney Crosby. - Scabeh
Joined: 04.06.2011

Nov 23 @ 7:51 PM ET
DOM!!!




- weirdoh

Hey Ken. How gay is the Wii U?
weirdoh
Toronto Maple Leafs
Joined: 07.09.2006

Nov 23 @ 7:58 PM ET
Hey Ken. How gay is the Wii U?
- AdamFrench





Doesn't interest me one bit. Same poop with Nintendo. They try to become an innovator with the system, which I guess they did with the Wii. This Wii U will probably be cool for the first bit of next year until the big boys start talking about their new systems. I don't get the love Nintendo gets anymore. It isn't 1996
Adam French
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Isn't Cooley 5"11? You know who else is 5"11? Sydney Crosby. - Scabeh
Joined: 04.06.2011

Nov 23 @ 8:02 PM ET
Doesn't interest me one bit. Same poop with Nintendo. They try to become an innovator with the system, which I guess they did with the Wii. This Wii U will probably be cool for the first bit of next year until the big boys start talking about their new systems. I don't get the love Nintendo gets anymore. It isn't 1996
- weirdoh

nay is seething. I agree however. "New Super Mario Bros" aka we copied Mario Bros 3 made it 3d hope you didn't notice.
weirdoh
Toronto Maple Leafs
Joined: 07.09.2006

Nov 23 @ 8:08 PM ET
nay is seething. I agree however. "New Super Mario Bros" aka we copied Mario Bros 3 made it 3d hope you didn't notice.
- AdamFrench



Was Nay the one who (frank)ing loves Nintendo and got all pissy when we called out the Wii one time? That poop is great for people under 10 and people who are just about to die.
Adam French
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Isn't Cooley 5"11? You know who else is 5"11? Sydney Crosby. - Scabeh
Joined: 04.06.2011

Nov 23 @ 8:10 PM ET
Was Nay the one who (frank)ing loves Nintendo and got all pissy when we called out the Wii one time? That poop is great for people under 10 and people who are just about to die.
- weirdoh

He's a boy fan...fan boy...he likes men...and nintendo.
mr.peanut
Vegas Golden Knights
Location: Born Wearing Gold 2023-24: 6-0-0, QC
Joined: 12.18.2011

Nov 23 @ 8:19 PM ET
Yoga Pants Friday!!!!


So I had to install special meters today that could be remotely disconnected. People for some reason don't pay their bills if they think they can cheat the system by not allowing people to get access to their meters. I know what you're thinking, people steal? Yup. This one dude owed 10k...an apartment, not a store...10 (frank)ing thousand dollars. Anyways, they finally got access and I had to put them in. I had to call the girl at the property and she would walk me around to where I had to go. This blonde comes out, damn pretty and yes Peanut, she was wearing yoga pants. Not just any kind of yoga pants, but the kind that were ever so slightly see through that you could make out the skin colour underneath. So she takes me into this building, pitch black, so I get out the torch light and she leads the way. It was the happiest I've been in a while.

- weirdoh

This made my day, I'm very happy for you. And those are my favourite kind of yogapants
weirdoh
Toronto Maple Leafs
Joined: 07.09.2006

Nov 23 @ 8:24 PM ET
This made my day, I'm very happy for you. And those are my favourite kind of yogapants
- mr.peanut




That poor girl won't even know what I'll be doing to her for the next couple of mornings.
Tee-Dot
Toronto Maple Leafs
Location: For being Stee's alternate personality or being associated with M. Night Shyamalan?
Joined: 12.11.2008

Nov 23 @ 8:27 PM ET
That poor girl won't even know what I'll be doing to her for the next couple of mornings.
- weirdoh

I do not recommend that game in which you are the main character (ahem, Creed, III). Had it finished in one week.

p.s. ...and that's with only playing 1½ hours a day.
mr.peanut
Vegas Golden Knights
Location: Born Wearing Gold 2023-24: 6-0-0, QC
Joined: 12.18.2011

Nov 23 @ 8:28 PM ET
That poor girl won't even know what I'll be doing to her for the next couple of mornings.
- weirdoh



weirdoh
Toronto Maple Leafs
Joined: 07.09.2006

Nov 23 @ 8:29 PM ET
I do not recommend that game in which you are the main character (ahem, Creed, III). Had it finished in one week.

p.s. ...and that's with only playing 1½ hours a day.

- Tee-Dot



Though this has nothing to do with me thinking of the yoga pants, I know what you mean. Jr played the campaign for BO 2 and seemed to have it finished in a matter of 3 or 4 hours.
Adam French
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Isn't Cooley 5"11? You know who else is 5"11? Sydney Crosby. - Scabeh
Joined: 04.06.2011

Nov 23 @ 8:30 PM ET
I do not recommend that game in which you are the main character (ahem, Creed, III). Had it finished in one week.

p.s. ...and that's with only playing 1½ hours a day.

- Tee-Dot

AC3 sucks
dt99999
Montreal Canadiens
Location: wow, hope that's sarcasim
Joined: 11.18.2008

Nov 23 @ 8:33 PM ET
You did get Halo 4 correct?


I was on with Dan and Desi the other night. I'm so poop at that game that my skin is brown.

- weirdoh

it'd s poopty game ken i'm sorry i made everyone buy it
weirdoh
Toronto Maple Leafs
Joined: 07.09.2006

Nov 23 @ 8:34 PM ET
it'd s poopty game ken i'm sorry i made everyone buy it
- dt99999




Maybe if you'd stop being an bumhole and play Zombies with me we can rekindle the magic that Marcus and Dom shared a year ago.
Adam French
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Isn't Cooley 5"11? You know who else is 5"11? Sydney Crosby. - Scabeh
Joined: 04.06.2011

Nov 23 @ 8:35 PM ET
it'd s poopty game ken i'm sorry i made everyone buy it
- dt99999

Is it MW3 bad?
mr.peanut
Vegas Golden Knights
Location: Born Wearing Gold 2023-24: 6-0-0, QC
Joined: 12.18.2011

Nov 23 @ 8:39 PM ET
Is it MW3 bad?
- AdamFrench

Probably.
weirdoh
Toronto Maple Leafs
Joined: 07.09.2006

Nov 23 @ 8:40 PM ET
Is it MW3 bad?
- AdamFrench




I got to give Makarov his due, it wasn't all bad. I think I played it a handful of times after finishing the 6 hour campaign.
Adam French
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Isn't Cooley 5"11? You know who else is 5"11? Sydney Crosby. - Scabeh
Joined: 04.06.2011

Nov 23 @ 8:42 PM ET
I got to give Makarov his due, it wasn't all bad. I think I played it a handful of times after finishing the 6 hour campaign.
- weirdoh

I only play multiplayer so I can kill 12 year olds legally.
Adam French
Atlanta Thrashers
Location: Isn't Cooley 5"11? You know who else is 5"11? Sydney Crosby. - Scabeh
Joined: 04.06.2011

Nov 23 @ 8:55 PM ET
Tomas Plekanec knows more than just a little about coming up through the Canadiens system.

So it’s with a learned eye and with more than just passing interest that he considers the case of current Habs prospect Alex Galchenyuk, a highly touted centreman who’s expected to make a big splash in Montreal when he finally arrives on what might be hockey’s grandest stage.

Plekanec was the Habs’ third-round pick (71st overall) in the 2001 entry draft, joining the organization’s Hamilton Bulldogs American league farm team in 2002-03 from his hometown organization in Kladno, Czech Republic.

Two full seasons with Hamilton, and a tantalizing two-game skate in the NHL in his second year, taught Plekanec a great many of the ins and outs of being a pro.

That taste of the Canadiens in 2003-04 was the promise of more to come the following year – until the plug was pulled on an entire NHL season with a lockout, the first of Plekanec’s two big-league work stoppages.

“I don’t know about full time but definitely I was told there’d be way more,” he said of an expected promotion from the AHL in 2004-05. “That’s what I got from management back then. (The lockout) was unfortunate for me and for everyone and obviously, I wasn’t only player who was cost a season in the NHL. I was sure I’d play half, maybe more of the season with the Canadiens but that’s the way it was.”

Plekanec played 80 games for the Bulldogs in the lockout year, scoring 29 goals and adding 35 assists.

“It would be kind of key for my career that I played in Hamilton that year because the AHL was such a good league,” he said in reflection.

Plekanec graduated to the Canadiens in 2005-06, where he’s been ever since.

Galchenyuk, of course, is following a different path to the Canadiens. As the NHL’s third overall draft selection last June, he had been on everyone’s radar as he starred for the Chicago Young Americans of the Midwest Elite Hockey League, then put up an 83-point season in 2010-11 with the Sarnia Sting of the Ontario major-junior league.

The 18-year-old – he’s @AGally94 on Twitter – has 14 goals and 23 assists in 23 games with the Sting this season, rebounding from the fallow 2011-12 season that saw him sidelined for all but two games after suffering a horrific knee injury in a pre-season game.

Signed in July by the Canadiens to a three-year entry-level contract, Galchenyuk certainly will be brought along in good time by the Habs. The NHL club surely is in no rush to throw him into the deep end of Montreal’s turbulent hockey waters, no matter how badly fans are clamoring to see him.

From his hometown of Kladno during the current lockout, Plekanec has a few thoughts about this phenom and his future:

“I was in a different situation,” he said by way of comparison. “I was a third-round pick, not a high prospect, and nobody really believed in me at first. (Galchenyuk) is a high pick, obviously a talented kid that everybody sees playing first-line centre or forward for the next 15 years in Montreal. For him, it’s a different situation than it was for me back in the day.

“What I’d advise him is to stay on his course of his work. To work hard every day. I know it’s a cliché but that’s the way it is, with Montreal especially.

“Don’t listen to all the hype. Everybody’s going to tell him he’s a great guy, a great player, that he’s going to be great. If I were him, I wouldn’t listen to those things too much.”

To Plekanec, I quote an old hockey saying: “A player is never as good as the media say he is, and he’s never as bad as the media say he is.”

Plekanec laughed and replied, “That’s it exactly.

“(Galchenyuk) should just be focused on his game, his work ethic, his practices. What will really make him a good player in the NHL is not his talent right now, but his work ethic and attention to details that will come into play in the NHL. That’s the biggest thing for him.”

Plekanec will at some point get a first-hand look at the youngster, but not from where the Habs veteran is working now. He’s having a fine season with the Czech Extraliga’s HC Kladno Knights, third in league scoring playing on a line with fellow NHLers Jaromir Jagr and Jiri Tlusty.

The 30-year-old expects that the quality hockey he’s playing now will translate to an advantage for jumping back to the NHL, assuming that happens this season.

“I’m in game shape now and it will be much easier for guys doing this than those not playing and just working out and skating, playing charity games,” he said. “It could be really hard for them. But it depends. It’s a very individual thing.

Will it take them 10 or 20 games to get into game shape? Maybe more? Less? It will be huge for those who are able to play now, and maybe very hard for (other) guys to get into game shape right away.”

And then Plekanec considers the other side of the coin.

“But on the other hand, if it’s going to be a long (NHL) season, maybe the guys who aren’t playing now will have an advantage in the end. They’ll be fresher, able to play until almost July, while the guys playing now might get back to the NHL already having 30 games behind them.

“So, maybe they won’t be as an energized in the end.”

None of this, of course, has any bearing on the golden prospect Alex Galchenyuk. He’ll be watching from the junior ranks, an NHL lockout of his own possibly waiting sometime into his professional career if this sport continues on its often self-destructive path.
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