Phightins

Russia wins. Their 2nd goal was total BS, so perhaps it never should have gone to OT. Sucks for Sweden.

Hell of a game between Sweden and Russia. Going to a shootout.

Carlos Gonzalez officially signs a 7 year extension with the Rockies.

One of Smith/Ellis will almost definitely be waived, and I am sure Roloson is gone after the season, but yeah that's a ton of depth.

Leighton on waivers. No surprises, and no reason to put it off any longer.

Lolz @ you making this a Kolb vs. McGee thing. Give Kolb the first team to work with and the Eagles win by 40.

Looks like Adrian Beltre is going to the Rangers. Wow. Wonder if there's another shoe to fall with Michael Young. Pretty rough winter for the Angels.

Eagles-Packers at Linc, 4:30 next Sunday.

Lolz, only a matter of time until the Cowboys got to this scrubfest defense.

See y'all next week.

Other good news: Trevard Lindley is better than Dimitri Patterson. Probably better than Joselio Hanson too. No reason for Patterson to play next week.

The Eagles are winning right now. Which is absolutely hilarious when you see who the Eagles have on the field.

Don't waste your time. Nothing exciting.

Well, he hasn't played in 2 months, has no weapons, has a second-string offensive line (second string behind a pretty weak first string), and the playing conditions suck. So on second thought, this makes total sense. I was hoping for a strong game, as I posted earlier, but this is more of what I should have expected I guess.

Nothing really to report on here so far. Except that Tony Siragusa is in rare form today. Even bigger tool than usual.

TORP !!!!

There is a lot of talk that the Flyers are frontrunners to host the Winter Classic next year. That would be pretty sweet, and it actually makes a bit of sense. The Flyers were just in this last year, but when you think about the realistic choices that NBC/the NHL have for hosting this game, the list is very small. The game would supposedly be at Lincoln Financial Field. I'd much rather have it at CBP, but the NHL likes the football stadium model more than the baseball stadium model. Either way, it would be fun. Also, the future of this game depends a lot on the NHL's next television contract. The deal with NBC/Versus is running out, and if ESPN gets the next contract, there is a chance that they will want to can the game (as a New Years Day thing, anyway) so that it does not take away ratings from their New Years Day bowl games. But similarly, the NHL will probably demand that the new network agrees to the Winter Classic idea, since it is the league's biggest money maker each year.

I agree. And I expect a big effort out of Kevin Kolb. It is a big game for him personally.

Eagles inactives: McCoy, Justice, D.Jackson, T.Cole, Laws, Bradley, Samuel and Vick Preseason in January!

NFL scheduling FTL. If only they could have left the starting times of the last two weeks alone. This game now interferes with Green Bay-Chicago (which would be more annoying if that game was still relevant to the Eagles), and on a more personal level, Flyers-Red Wings, which is pissing off a lot of people around here (myself included). Not like the NFL cares about that though. But alas, money and television contracts continue to be the death of professional (and college) sports.

They didn't really have many options.

I'm guessing one will be waived, unless they want to keep three goalies on the active roster for the time being. This also probably means Evgeni Nabokov won't be back in the NHL this year. Tampa was the only logical fit for him.

That was a pretty meh game. The weather was obviously a big reason for that, the ice looked horrendous. Still a very cool spectacle, though.

Blah. Pretty typical. Close game with a good team that they can't pull out. At least the sixth time this year this has happened. Also, that was a pretty awful call at the end to give the Lakers the ball. Whatever, probably wouldn't have won anyway.

The IIHF shootout rules are stupid. Just sayin'.