What is that little flower looking thing all the hockey coaches and anouncers have been wearing this week?
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It's a poppy. It's for Remembrance Day, honouring all the veterans of war.
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Rumors are starting to heat up about the Answer departing.  Names I've heard include Telfair, Wally Szczerbiak and draft picks.  Still no word yet but everything is under wraps, still.
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Hockey (A PUCK IS A BALL)
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If you're going to have anybody pitching your product around here these days, you couldn't do much better than Lindy Ruff. \nWith a big assist from the Sabres' head coach, some Clarence Central School District youngsters are closing in on their goal of raising enough money to travel later this month to Knoxville, Tenn. They will compete in the global finals of the Destination ImagiNation tournament, a kind of mental Olympics in which student teams do creative problem solving. \n\nThe vehicle to get them there - aside from the bus on which they'll travel - is a rubber wristband. Kids and their parents are selling 6,000 of them in the Sabres' old and new team color combinations, as a fund-raiser. \n\nRuff purchased four of the rubber bracelets for good luck, then talked about them at a news conference earlier this week. His endorsement appears to be paying off, according to Helena Kleinlein, president of Clarence "DI" Boosters, a parent organization that assists the student teams and conducts fund-raisers. The group already had raised about $8,000. \n\n"I don't think [Ruff] actually meant to endorse the bracelets. I think he was just being a good sport and supporting the children, but we do appreciate his comments," Kleinlein said. \n\n"I would imagine the words "Creative Teamwork' that appear on the bands might have struck home with some and, perhaps, that is what any team manager hopes to achieve with their team," she added. \n\nAnd as his team gels into playoff success, it's what Ruff has had in mind for the Sabres. That's the same lesson Kleinlein hopes will be instilled in the young participants in the Destination ImagiNation competition. \n\n"I absolutely see parallels," Kleinlein said. "When you begin the year . . . with seven individuals [on a team], each of these students thinks that their idea is the biggest and brightest. The challenge, as a team manager, is to get the children to step back and listen to their teammates and find a way to work together to accomplish a goal. \n\n"Once a team becomes a family, that is when they can really achieve greatness. They respect each other, they listen to each and they acknowledge good points that everyone brings up. They use each other to raise the team higher," she said. \n\nSeven teams from the Clarence School District qualified for the state competition, held April 8 in Binghamton. Ruff's youngest children, 11-year-old twins Brian and Madeleine, are on one of the three Clarence teams that qualified for the global finals, scheduled for May 24-27. \n\nThis is the fourth year teams from Clarence have been in the competition, and the second year that any have made it to the global finals. \n\nKathy Cipresso, treasurer of the "DI" Boosters, has a daughter on one of the three teams in the finals. This year's team is made up of elementary and middle schoolers. \n\n"We're trying to grow the program. There's such an interest now that we may end up having a high school team next year," Cipresso said. \n\nTeams from all 50 states are in the global finals, as well as teams from Israel, China, Great Britain, France and Spain. \n\nAt the invitation of the Sabres organization, the youngsters and their parent boosters were at the HSBC Arena pavilion before the start of Game Four Thursday to sell what remained of their rubber wristband inventory. The items were sold for $2 apiece. \n\n"The goal is to make sure that the travel expenses of the children and their team managers are met. It's imperative that the children are not held back by finances," said Kleinlein. \n\nDoes it matter to them that those buying the bracelets may have been motivated more by helping the Sabres than assisting Clarence Destination ImagiNation team? Not really, said Kleinlein. \n\n"The message on the bracelet is far-reaching. If it has another meaning for some, that&#39
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cool\n\n\n\n\n\n\nwhos puck? and what ability lol?\n\noh i know who puck is thank you person on the bottom
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Boy, I wish I knew.  All I can say is I feel the Rangers were hurt the most of any team by having the Olympics in the middle of the season.  That broke the momentum they had at the time.  They sent sent 10 or so players, 5 or 6 of them ended up on the teams in the medal round so they had no time at all to recuperate before the NHL schedule began.  Remember their 6 game losing streak right after the resumption of play?\n\nI haven't calculated it, but I'd have to say their winning % after the break was probably one of the lowest in the league.\n\nNow the flu bug has hit the team with 6 or more players having it heading into Saturday's Game 1 with the Devils.\n\nI'm trying to remain calm and optimistic, but.....
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here u go http://www.pyh.org/hockey_dictionary.htm
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Edmonton has found their scoring touch (and not a minute too soon).  They rattled off 5 unanswered goals last night to even up the series.  The momentum has definitely shifted.  The series is far from over, however.  The Oilers still have to go into SJ and take one in their building (no easy task).  I say it goes to seven games but the Sharks fall to the Albertans.\n\n*I joined everyone else in saying that Roloson was not the guy to carry the Oilers deep into the play-offs.  I'm a believer now!*
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tradition\njust like when they hit their sticks against the goalie's pads \nafter he makes a good save. that was originally done to make the pads bigger, because when they were made of leather in the earlie days, htey would shrink after absorbing water(from the ice)
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During a short time long pants was worn by a team. (1981-82 Flyers and 1982-83 Flyers and Whalers)\n\n \nThe best for you is to check photos on this site you'll see each year uniform since 1917
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It is stamped on the inside with a number and the Coach emblem. I'm a Coach bag junkie. :)
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They have promoted to wear white shirts during Heat games in the playoffs and in this game. I think it's called "White Heat."\n\nGuys, do me a favor, answer this question for me.\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AnEjoo81qrvqNmu9YVFgSM3sy6IX?qid=20060613211136AA17IvC
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THEY'RE TRYING TO GET READY FOR COLL. LIFE . IN COLL. THEY HAVE TO DRESS UP. IF YOUR GOING TO LOOK UP TO THESE GUYS IN COLL.  YOU BETTER START ACTING LIKE THEM . COACHES NOW MAKE IT YOUR JOB TO LOOK & ACT LIKE YOUR A PRO. SCOUTS &COLL. TEAMS ARE LOOKING FOR KIDS WHO ARE READY TO BE MORE PRO. LIKE.
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actually pending on the mood of the coach they do like to keep the goalies name secret. And that they can do last minute suprises.
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A team dresses one back-up goalie. Conklin just so happened to be the back-up that night.\n\nBesides, I think the Oilers had lost that game already by the time Conklin came in.  They had blown a huge lead; it was their game to lose no matter who was in net.
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Bad refs!! (Just kidding)\n\nUmmmm - We don't know. Personally - I looked at every single aspect (including ownership Bill) \nPhila has made a lot of changes in every different catagory.\nEsche has to go and he wants to go. / Nittymaki is a backup goalie who'se only playing because Esche's heart is not in Phila.\n\n*I'm only now beginning to agree that Hatcher has to go. / An enforcer was called up from the minors today and that's a damn-good indication that they're looking to get rid of their old enforcer - Hatcher.*\n\n**Peter did not skate tonight - he has the flu. The flu?\nOK - With-that Phila played their best game in a long long time... so this might be an indication of some captain-conflicts within the team.... / I have said since the season began that Gagne should be captain but Gagne held-out for more $\n*Peter is also having reoccuring ankle problems and the Flyer's new GM stated today that he's not untradable. / At the end of the season he's free-picking for any team.\n\nIn short - I don't know..\nBut I can say that I love these kids and I'm proud of them.
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HOCKEY ROX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\n\nGO HABS GO!!!!!!!!!\n\nLeafs suk!!!\n\nGO lf LEAFS GO lf\n\n\nOLE OLE OLE OLE,  OLE,  OLE!!!!