GM Central's Pool - ...and it begins...

I have Brodeur and Nabokov, so y'all can go **** yourselves ******* ******ers.

I really wish I had joined ...

504Heater wrote:I have Brodeur and Nabokov, so y'all can go **** yourselves ******* ******ers.

Holy anger managemant Heater...tell Mel to get you a xanax and a glass of water for Christmas...

All kidding aside, my lineup has already been decimated by injuries and under performance.

504Heater wrote:I have Brodeur and Nabokov, so y'all can go **** yourselves ******* ******ers.

Brodeur was a nasty, nasty blow to your team. Nabakov will come back soon I think (hope).

Other than that, I looked at your team the other day and it looked pretty solid.

Oooops, you don't have Neil do you?

I am leading the annual pool with my friends... but I have Semin and MacDonald. Ouch for me on MacDonald

could somebody post the standings in this thread? Since I'm at work, I cannot see them...

Cronenbergfan wrote:could somebody post the standings in this thread? Since I'm at work, I cannot see them...

As of November 27...

Name - Points - Points behind next - Points behind leader

1 Aetherial 299
2 504Heater 264 35 35
3 jamvan 259 5 40
3 dennycrane 259 5 40
5 SensGirl11 254 5 45
6 wprager 253 1 46
7 Cronenbergfan 250 3 49
8 PKC 244 6 55
9 rooneypoo 239 5 60
10 Acrobat 235 4 64
11 pgood 234 1 65
12 BigRig77 233 1 66
13 beedub 232 1 67
14 Jordo 224 8 75
15 nprovan 221 3 78
16 Phoenix30 220 1 79
17 blazer_2458 215 5 84
18 Mosky 209 6 90
19 MurderOnIce 201 8 98
20 Monkhouse 195 6 104
21 towelie112 183 12 116

Cronenbergfan wrote:could somebody post the standings in this thread? Since I'm at work, I cannot see them...

They are e-mailed to me every week. At my work e-mail (that's the one I used to send in my picks). If you are receiving these at your webmail address but cannot access that at work, maybe you can ask Heater to change that. If you want daily updates, sorry.

November 27? You sure about that? Do you have the 6/49 numbers for the 26th?

Aetherial wrote:

Cronenbergfan wrote:could somebody post the standings in this thread? Since I'm at work, I cannot see them...

As of November 27...

Name - Points - Points behind next - Points behind leader

1 Aetherial 299
2 504Heater 264 35 35
3 jamvan 259 5 40
3 dennycrane 259 5 40
5 SensGirl11 254 5 45
6 wprager 253 1 46
7 Cronenbergfan 250 3 49
8 PKC 244 6 55
9 rooneypoo 239 5 60
10 Acrobat 235 4 64
11 pgood 234 1 65
12 BigRig77 233 1 66
13 beedub 232 1 67
14 Jordo 224 8 75
15 nprovan 221 3 78
16 Phoenix30 220 1 79
17 blazer_2458 215 5 84
18 Mosky 209 6 90
19 MurderOnIce 201 8 98
20 Monkhouse 195 6 104
21 towelie112 183 12 116

wprager wrote:November 27? You sure about that? Do you have the 6/49 numbers for the 26th?

Aetherial wrote:

Cronenbergfan wrote:could somebody post the standings in this thread? Since I'm at work, I cannot see them...

As of November 27...

Name - Points - Points behind next - Points behind leader

1 Aetherial 299
2 504Heater 264 35 35
3 jamvan 259 5 40
3 dennycrane 259 5 40
5 SensGirl11 254 5 45
6 wprager 253 1 46
7 Cronenbergfan 250 3 49
8 PKC 244 6 55
9 rooneypoo 239 5 60
10 Acrobat 235 4 64
11 pgood 234 1 65
12 BigRig77 233 1 66
13 beedub 232 1 67
14 Jordo 224 8 75
15 nprovan 221 3 78
16 Phoenix30 220 1 79
17 blazer_2458 215 5 84
18 Mosky 209 6 90
19 MurderOnIce 201 8 98
20 Monkhouse 195 6 104
21 towelie112 183 12 116

Heh, I was subconsciously trying to skip beyond my wedding anniversary (3rd, today!) ... since I don't know what I am getting her. I think I am going to have to suck it up and buy her the new Canon SD880IS

dang! That's a MEAN piece of equipment Aetherial. Nice choice if I may say so.

Yeah, you should all be getting weekly updates. I put your e-mail that you signed in on here as the e-mail it would send it to.

Which is nice, because once a week I get a reminded that both goalies are injured and Aetherial is kicking my arse.

Then, I find out that this Aetherial nerd dude can see into the future by as little as 2 days and at most 2 months - so he knew that my goalies would both get hurt real bad.

All this amounts to a good:

Aetherial wrote:
Heh, I was subconsciously trying to skip beyond my wedding anniversary (3rd, today!) ... since I don't know what I am getting her. I think I am going to have to suck it up and buy her the new Canon SD880IS

[Borat]Niiice[/borat]

The traditional 3rd year gift is leather -- get her a nice leather case to go with it.

Cronenbergfan wrote:dang! That's a MEAN piece of equipment Aetherial. Nice choice if I may say so.

Brought it home last night... it is very nice. I am going to take a while just to figure out everything it can do. The 3" screen though is beautiful (Canon uses about 2x the pixels as other manufacturers)... and there is a lot of neat stuff you can do right on the camera (like red-eye reduction). The wide-angle lens is a very nice feature also.

270 at Future Shop, not too bad a price really.

wprager wrote:

Aetherial wrote:
Heh, I was subconsciously trying to skip beyond my wedding anniversary (3rd, today!) ... since I don't know what I am getting her. I think I am going to have to suck it up and buy her the new Canon SD880IS

[Borat]Niiice[/borat]

The traditional 3rd year gift is leather -- get her a nice leather case to go with it.

Hahah that is too funny...

I did exactly that, and for exactly that reason. She didn't know it was the leather anniversary, so I had to explain it. Funny that you also pay attention to stuff like that Walter.

Trying to find a leather case that would 1) fit, 2) have a spot for extra battery, and 3 - have a belt loop ... was a pain in the Donkey. For some reason Canon doesn't like to have little pouches for batteries. I ended up getting a Lowepro Napoli 20... had the nice suede interior which shouldn't be hard on the camera.

504Heater wrote:Yeah, you should all be getting weekly updates. I put your e-mail that you signed in on here as the e-mail it would send it to.

Which is nice, because once a week I get a reminded that both goalies are injured and Aetherial is kicking my arse.

Then, I find out that this Aetherial nerd dude can see into the future by as little as 2 days and at most 2 months - so he knew that my goalies would both get hurt real bad.

All this amounts to a good:

hey one of mine is hurt also!

I also have 2 guys out... both my on-pace-for 4-5 points- Defensemen.

Aetherial wrote:
hey one of mine is hurt also!

I also have 2 guys out... both my on-pace-for 4-5 points- Defensemen.

You picked a lot of Leafs. They've one twice int he last 10. I picked a lot of Sens. They've been playing better. The trends will certainly reverse. 46 points sounds like a commanding lead, but with a 20-man roster it can go really, really quickly.

wprager wrote:

Aetherial wrote:
hey one of mine is hurt also!

I also have 2 guys out... both my on-pace-for 4-5 points- Defensemen.

You picked a lot of Leafs. They've one twice int he last 10. I picked a lot of Sens. They've been playing better. The trends will certainly reverse. 46 points sounds like a commanding lead, but with a 20-man roster it can go really, really quickly.

As I said earlier in this thread, I never get too excited about pools until near the end. I have seen WAY too many *commanding* leads get frittered away.

In my other pool, I was up by almost 40. Now it is 14. Suddenly a bunch of guys go cold (Koivu, Dubinsky...) and other guys get in jured (Semin, MacDonald) ... and the whole thing turns around.

... then again, Colaiacovo should at least play in St. Louis once his foot isn't too sore... so that has to be good news for me. Also, Van Ryn will be back at some point and so will Nabakov

All I need is Nabby and Brodeur to come back and I might be able to sprint the final laps and get close.