Sens are offering Chiasson $1 million per season.  Chiasson is looking for $2.45 million per season.

I don't think Murray will trade Chiasson just yet.  I've watched Pau play during the season and I've watched both Guptil and Paul play at the rookie tourney in London. 

I like Guptil's game, but I don't think he'll ever make it to the NHL.  Maybe as a 4th liner.  I like how he goes to the net and could probably make it as a super pest.  He sure seemed to annoy the hell out of the Pittsburgh rookies last year.

I was impressed with Paul at the rookie tourney.  He'll need a bit of time in the AHL, but not much.  He's big, physical, drives to the net...he's a Murray player.  Will he be a top 6 forward?  Don't know, but he'll definitely carve out a niche for himself on the 3rd line.

Subban not suspended, but then again I forgot who the head NHL disciplinarian was.  For Montreal Canadien, Stephane Quintal.  Since he's come in, he's consistently turned a blind eye where the Habs are concerned.

Obviously having 9 dmen is a problem.  Condra and Greening are issues as well.  But this move has Melnyk written all over it.  Melnyk was never sold on MacLean and now he has his man in as the head coach.  This team is a mess.

So far what I've noticed about NHL GameCentre Live is that now that it is run by Rogers it looks as though I now have access to see all the games.  Since I live in a cable free home, it is worth the $200 I spent to get it.

Only real beefs I have, before Rogers took over you could rewind during a game to watch a play that you missed or replay the game if you missed some of it.  I don't have that ability anymore.  I can pause a game and go pick up my son at his hockey practice, but if I've missed anything I have to wait a day before I can watch a replay of the game.

I remember the one golden rule of being a kid back in the day..."You come home when the street lights come on."

I encourage my kids to go out and hang out with friends all the time, just so long as they let us know where they're going, who they are with, and when they intend to come home (that's when the negotiation starts).

Although my oldest could never understand why we always got on him over playing video games and not his younger brother.  We kept trying to explain to him that the difference was he never let the house to physically socialize with anyone, while his younger brother would go hang out with friends, play video games, play outside, then go back to playing video games.

I can't believe they actually got Legwand.  It's a great signing and all, but I wouldn't have thought that Ottawa would've been his first choice of stops.

But if you didn't place the order then someone somewhere has your card number and the 3 digit code on the back. You could get charged again and again and again.

True enough.  Forgot to mention that I do have a new card.

A couple of months ago there was a charge on my credit to some company in Utah.  We disputed the purchase and won.

Yeah, hockey isn't the only place where politics can get wacky. City hall can be quite the side-show for such a small-ish place. Still, the relative peace and quiet (as long as you don't live in the downtown area) is pretty nice. I lived in Brights Grove and would go back there anytime. Nothing like walking by the lake after dark in the summer...

We're currently on Lakshore.  Downtown is really quiet now.  Been to one Sting game when the 67s came to town, but I really liked watching the Legionnaires. 

Another reason for hockey not being too great here is that they're looking at closing two arenas.  That would leave only 4 ice pads for the entire city and that's no where near enough.  They already charge more than most places for ice time and it costs extra to drill holes into the ice to put down the pegs.  Nets come off a lot.

The Sarnia rep teams play in, what I call the '401 league'.  The closest team you play against is in London, which is over a 200km round trip.  There are closer towns who play in the Shamrock league and I asked one parent why Sarnia doesn't play in that.  He told me that they did for a couple of years, but they kept getting their asses handed to them, so they got out and went back to the London league.  London is going to be tougher next season, because they are only going to have two AA instead of 4, which means their MD (Rep B in Ottawa) teams will be stronger as well.  The house league is a bit of a joke because they only play each other and they don't try to develop their players at all.  Never mind questioning the refs because they'll either throw you out or make fun of your kids.

Sarnia is a nice quiet place to retire to, but I'm glad I'm renting because my son isn't playing hockey here next season.  They only way we stay is if he makes AAA or they release him.  It's too bad because his high school coach keeps asking him if he'll be here next season because they have 10 players graduating and I think he'd be one of two defencemen returning.

Meh...what are you going to do?