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Young Stars Collide
Oct 30, 2007, 5:31 PM EDT​

Colorado Avalanche fans will be treated to some of the National Hockey League’s brightest young stars on Thursday night when the Pittsburgh Penguins visit Pepsi Center.

Reigning NHL MVP Sidney Crosby leads a rejuvenated Penguins team – which also boasts 2006-07 Calder Memorial Trophy winner Evgeni Malkin and Calder runner-up Jordan Staal – into Colorado to face the Avalanche and its young stars, including Paul Stastny and Wojtek Wolski.

While the Pittsburgh trio will be making their first trip to the Mile High City, the Avalanche isn’t entirely unfamiliar with Crosby, the Pittsburgh phenom.

During Crosby’s 2005-06 rookie campaign, Colorado traveled to Pittsburgh’s Mellon Arena to face the Penguins for a Dec. 10 match-up. Crosby recorded an assist during that game in a 4-3 Penguins victory.

Since that contest nearly two years ago, Crosby has enjoyed an incredible amount of success.

A season ago, the Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, native cleaned up at the NHL’s year-end awards, claiming the Art Ross Trophy (NHL’s top scorer), Lester B. Pearson Award (Most Outstanding Player as voted on by the NHL Players Association.) and Hart Memorial Trophy (NHL MVP). He was also named to the NHL First All-Star Team after leading the league with 120 points (36g/84a).

Paul Stastny finished second to Evgeni Malkin in voting for last year's Calder Trophy

“Obviously Crosby is in a league of his own,” said Stastny, who finished second to Malkin in last year’s Calder voting. “Anytime you have a chance to play against someone that talented, you enjoy the moment, but you have to compete and try to outdo them.”

As for the other Pittsburgh youngsters, Malkin led all rookies in scoring with 85 points (33g/52a) during the 2006-07 campaign, while Staal notched 29 goals to go along with 13 assists during his first NHL season. Staal also led the NHL and set a rookie record with a shooting percentage of 22.1%.

On the home bench, Stastny and Wolski are no slouches themselves. A season ago, Stastny notched 78 points (28g/50a) and reeled off an NHL rookie-record 20-game point streak from Feb. 3 to March 17. As an encore, Stastny scored a hat trick on the opening night of the 2007-08 campaign and followed that up with a five-point effort on Oct. 7 against San Jose. For his efforts, the 21-year-old was named the NHL’s First Star of the Week for the league’s opening weekend.

Wolski enjoyed a fine first season of his own in 2006-07, finishing fourth among league rookies with 50 points (22g/28a) in 76 games. He and Stastny became only the third rookie duo since the 1993-94 season to both reach 50 points.

Wojtek Wolski ranked fourth among NHL rookies with 50 points last season

This season, Stastny, Crosby and Malkin all rank among the NHL’s top-20 scorers through Monday’s games, with Stastny totaling 15 points (5g/10a) in 11 games and both Crosby (4g/9a) and Malkin (3g/10a) tallying 13 points in 10 contests.

It’s not often that hockey fans can see four of the last six finalists for the Calder trophy on the same sheet of ice, but it’s something Avalanche fans will have the privilege of watching on Thursday night.

“It will be like the future of the NHL out there,” said Stastny. “Pittsburgh will be a fun team to play against. They have a lot of skilled players and play at a fast pace, so it should be an entertaining game for the fans.”
 
EasyEJL said:
basically they are so similar it hardly matters, as they both store using the same codecs, so 1080p on either is identical.

bluray has slightly more capacity today, hddvd is cheaper to produce. The porn industry has 1 bluray title last time I checked, about 10-20 in hddvd.

Tell me which one will win.
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That is what I figured, but haven't had the caysh for a player, so I never did any further research....
 
will definitely be sub $200 after thanksgiving, maybe under 150 even. Got anything good to trade for a lightly used toshiba A1 hd-dvd player? :)
 
I have been really fortunate in my life, I am thankful for that. But i've worked hard at it as well. now i'm getting old + lazy :D
 
I was born with a brain too, that helped. my party was sort of a lite roast, so my mother brought up some tidbits. by 3 I was able to read, by 3 1/2 I could write my name and remembered our address, phone number, and other bits of data. Some other fun along the way, at 13 I taught an adult school class in computer use/programming
 
whassup wil? i'm thinking the xfactor is kicking in now. Not doms, but nice muscle tightness sort of semi-pumps all day long
 
thank god, i'll be able to stop on sunday I guess. then I should be fully kicked in, and then my normal egg intake of 3-4 a day should be fine and I can eat real foods again.

I'm still pondering what to do when this is over in the beginning of dec :)
 
Ok, so lets go with from dec 11 when this ends to jan 1 just coasting with no crazy anything, just continuing whatever workout routine, and what I consider basic supps - bcaa, beta alanine, creatine, glutamine.

What do I do jan 1?
 
EasyEJL said:
Ok, so lets go with from dec 11 when this ends to jan 1 just coasting with no crazy anything, just continuing whatever workout routine, and what I consider basic supps - bcaa, beta alanine, creatine, glutamine.

What do I do jan 1?
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those are fine
and vitamins/minerals, too!
dec 11 to jan 1 is not very long

you could learn from this guy

he is infinitely patient
 
he also seems to have plenty of strength, a good grip, and a good overall build. I wonder if there is a michael myers workout plan?
 
EasyEJL said:
he also seems to have plenty of strength, a good grip, and a good overall build. I wonder if there is a michael myers workout plan?
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you gotta have a good grip for when the knife handle gets all bloody



20-Minute Stress-Busting Cardio
This workout from Michael Meyers, Ph.D., director of the Human Performance Research Laboratory at West Texas A&M University, can be done on a bike, on a track, or in a pool -- whatever your thing is.

1. Warm up for 3 to 5 minutes at a conversational pace.
2. Accelerate to a speed that has you almost <00AD>winded—you can speak only in spurts of a few words -- for 20 seconds.
3. Return to your original speed for 1 minute.
4. Continue alternating 20-second sprints -- each a bit faster than the one before -- with 1-minute recovery in between.
5. When you can't keep up the pace of your previous sprint, begin reducing the intensity a smidge. Complete a total of 10 sprints.
6. Cool down with 2 minutes at an easy pace.
 
so I guess he must have some good sprinting ability and could use that to catch his victims, but he chooses to walk because he is infinitely patient, in addition to being a psychopath
 
1point21gigawatts.org is still not a taken domain name, but the .com and .net have been
should I go for it?
or anyone got any other clever domain names?
 

Am I the only one that hasn't seen this tewl yet? Good hell, talk about not in a good state of mind...


Anyhoo...

Downed 9.6g of liquid fish along with 9g of encapsulated liquid fish for a grand total of 18.6g of liquified fishy delight. God damned gym was closed early because of this stupid 'holiday'. So no gym tonight. Tomorrow...back day.

The last 2 nights I've had a very constant, somewhat forceful spasm in my left quad. It spasmed nearly all night last night, and it was so bad that I didn't sleep all that well. Nothing touchd it either. Stretching, extra taurine/potassium/calcium/magneseum, punching it, etc. It hasn't twitched once since this morning. If it twitches ONCE tonight I swear I'm gonna cut the damn thing off.
 
Dr Packenwood said:
The last 2 nights I've had a very constant, somewhat forceful spasm in my left quad. It spasmed nearly all night last night, and it was so bad that I didn't sleep all that well. Nothing touchd it either. Stretching, extra taurine/potassium/calcium/magneseum, punching it, etc. It hasn't twitched once since this morning. If it twitches ONCE tonight I swear I'm gonna cut the damn thing off.
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have you recently had a few small fast dogs escape from your yard and had to chase them down and catch them before they got hit by a car and didn't take the time to stretch first?
 
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