laces out, dan!!

Rivet's stick in the way of Carolina's OT goal is exactly the idiotic play everyone's come to expect from him. The sole consolation from my side is that one of my favorite players, Stillman, scored the winner. At the start of the season I foolishly picked Carolina to win the cup because of 'the stillman factor,' as he'd been the last edition to the cup winning Tampa Bay team. Sadly, there's no way they're getting around New Jersey next round, but if all goes well they might be able to poke out a few eyes.

In tragic sports news, Doug Flutie may be retiring. He's 43, but still solid enough to be a number 2 on many teams - just not the Patriots, and he says he loves home too much to go anywhere else for a one year stay. Maybe, after losing Vinatieri and replacing him with the less than reliable Martin Gramatica, the Patriots could use Flutie to do single point drop kicks all year. Anything to keep me from accepting the fact that everyone everywhere eventually retires.