I've met plenty of nice girls. The bad ones are more fun
I'm currently a "Red Sox Nation" member at the "Ultimate" level, used it to get tickets to a mid-week day game in August. The other perk is that they put batches of tickets on sale to RSN members first for special events (which is how I got tickets to a Sox-Yankees game in April without having to take out a second mortgage). Plus the discount at the Yawkey Way store is nice.
Your Caps are in quite the brouhaha.
Tampa has problems. Since that 2004 Cup, they've only managed to squeak into the playoffs as a 7/8 seed, and they haven't made it out of the first round. Meanwhile, Tortorella's temper gets worse and worse, to the point that he's doing a good job giving free agents a reason not to go there. Adam Proteau of The Hockey News had this little piece about Perrin's recent decision to go to Atlanta since the Thrashers A) offered more money, and B) told him they wouldn't bury him on the 4th line the way Tortorella and GM Jay Feaster had publicly said they would:
John Tortorella's mouth is on the loose again. This time, it attacked former player Eric Perrin, who left Tampa Bay this week and signed a two-year contract with Atlanta.
"He can kiss my (butt)," Tortorella said of Perrin, whom he implied wasn’t grateful enough for the opportunities the Bolts have afforded him. "I wish him well, but good riddance."
What a charmer. Perhaps the notion that worker bees such as Perrin only have a limited window to make a financial splash hasn’t yet occurred to Tortorella. Perhaps the Lightning coach would rather there be an "indentured servitude" clause in the collective bargaining agreement.
Or maybe the guy is just a sour, mean-spirited control freak. If Oilers GM Kevin Lowe is looking for a way to sell Edmonton to free agents, "Tortorella Doesn’t Work Here" might be as good a slogan as any.
Jeremy Roenick is retiring, just five goals short of 500, a milestone he'd been quite vocal about wanting to reach. From this I can only conclude one thing: He asked every single team, and absolutely no one in the NHL wanted him.
-Ricardo
