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I miss when ESPN used to air the tournaments. Can't find them anywhere now.

Yes, uprights = vertical posts of net. I'm not 100% on the exact origin, but darkstar965 has it right - it's a matter of distance.

Yes, you'll aim for a specific hole. Achieving that is another question. It's kind of like trying to hit a line with a serve in tennis.

In high school, we would have competitions at the end of practice to see who could hit the post the most with slapshots from the blue line

Watch this to see how accurate the pros can be:

Short side = upright closest to the puck

Long side =  upright farthest from the puck

Posting this for a friend...

The Urban Winery is hiring!

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Sous Chef

Servers

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So, sounds like they won a huge game tonight while the Nats did a faceplant. In other words, nothing like the perfectly wonderful DC Sports Hat Trick Tuesday night.

But, while also not a big hockey fan (more fair weather come playoff time), I have to ask those who are.  Aren't these Caps guys the ones who always impress early but never get it done as the playoffs advance toward actually crowning a Stanley Cup winner?  Right or wrong, kind of what I've been thinking so hard to get too excited about a possible win over...what are they called again?...the Islanders.

As much as I hate the Caps, their major failing for the last couple of years was they only had 2 NHL quality defensemen. With the addition of Niskanen and Orpik they really added a huge amount of quality to the D. That said, I still don't see them in the finals.

By contrast, my Pens did not really fill the holes left by losing those two. Add to that the raft of injuries to the Pens D and their late season limping to the playoffs and most probable exit from the playoffs tonight make sense.

On a whim, I just went to check out the forums at eG. There are almost as many members signed on to dr.com (15) as there are signed on to eG (20).

Loretta Lynch !

Thought Daniel posted on this. A group of us were the second or third table seated for the first meal served (Monday lunch). Largely agreed it was quite good for the first day with no disasters if not quite the same as PC's best. Forgetting some of the names but the numbing pork belly and meatless ma po tofu and dry eggplant...what was that..were all good/tasty with just a bit of variance around the table. Our scallion pancakes weren't greasy and were summarily devoured. Oh, and the fried fish swimming in chili peppers and oil was nice as well. Only one of the dishes had more serious heat and I can't recall which. Heat more understated on the other dishes.

Maybe PC moved on after that lunch to open up the next location and the sous in Rockville just ain't the same?

Nothing was seriously hot, but the pork belly was LOADED with Szechuan peppercorn

Also, Magruder's in Chevy Chase (DC). I've bought most of what I listed above there as well.

Fenwick in downtown silver spring.

I buy DCBrau there and I know that they carry Port City. A little further afield, they carry Dogfish, Baltimore Beer Works, Brewer's Art, Flying Dog, Troegs, Starr Hill, and Heavy Seas.

I'm in

Homaro Cantu. Way WAY too young.

I'll be there.

My business card says North Bethesda, MD 20852. I still tell people that I work in Rockville. North Bethesda is a figment of the "developer of the townhouses that I can see out my office window's" imagination.

The greatest post-Jim Thorpe multi pro sport athlete? I'd probably give the edge to Deion Sanders.

The greatest post-Jim Thorpe multi pro sport athlete? Jim Brown

Effing Baylor!

Drove by yesterday. Those storefronts are toast. Incredibly bad smoke/fire damage to the left side of Bombay Gaylord. I would imagine that demolition is the only option (and probably the best economic option) for the landlord. Knew some people who were in QHT when the smoke started pouring in. Scary stuff. Amazing that there were no severe injuries.

In 7th Grade I executed an unassisted triple play in kickball during gym class.

I can't recall exactly when they started doing it and don't have time to research, but I want to say that I remember noticing it some time in the early 80s (or so my old mind tells me). The other advantage that Lemieux and Gretzsky had was that the early 80s was that overall goal scoring was much higher than it is today - just take a look at goalie pads then and now!

BTW - Although Stan Mikita and Bobby Hull were the ones to popularize the curved blade, it is usually accepted that Andy Bathgate (NYR) was the first to regularly use one in games. But Mikita and Hull get all of the credit because who has ever heard of Andy Bathgate?

In his 8 main years in Boston he led the league in plus/minus rating (points scored by your team while on the ice - points scored by other team while on ice) 6 times, including the all-time record of +124 in 70-71.

The only person within spitting distance of that record is the also great Larry Robinson.

Bye Bye Birdie

Ann-Margret at 22. :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub:

Orr as the greatest of all time is a more than reasonable argument. As lovehockey noted, he transformed the potential of a position more than anyone else. It's a little misleading to just look at numbers - Gretzky played in an era that was wide open offensive hockey. He also played in an era where they started handing out assists to the last two guys to touch the puck on the goal scorer's team. It used to be much more judgemental about if they assisted the play or not (kind of like hoops).

Then again I'm a little biased

It's not a Top 10 list without Carl Lewis' rendition.

Where did you play? I know the high school team played games at Robert Crown (still does, AFAIK).

Too long ago to remember, but that name strikes a bell. I do remember that it wasn't too far a drive from campus (maybe 10 minutes).

I can't remember the rules on these new arts forums in terms of which forum to use when a subject overlaps two like a sports film. This just felt more appropriate here than under Films.

I'd strongly recommend the new film "Red Army" to anyone with interests in hockey OR the 1980 "Miracle on ice" OR the Cold War OR the Soviet Union.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3264102/

My use of "OR" in that line is intentional. Interest in any one of those topics is enough to really enjoy this film. I saw it at a film festival last year and was a little surprised when Sony Films picked it up and it ended up getting some real buzz on TV, radio/NPR and even the Oscars.

It's a fascinating documentary about the Soviet hockey team before, during and well after Lake Placid, importantly told entirely from the Soviet players' perspectives. Fetisov, the current Russian Minister for Sport and Captain of those great teams, plays a starting role in explaining and interpreting the event which literally helped shaped the superpower relationship with profound impact on the many players and their families.

+1. Caught this the other day on NBC (?). Great documentary. Especially the tale of Fetisov making it to the NJ Devils.