This and that, and hockey!

  

 

I was brought to tears today.  I know it was a mixture of being happy and sad, but just the same it was draining.  Today was the trade deadline for the NHL.  Last day to add to your roster to make the push into the playoffs.  The league has a cap these days, which is a good thing most of the time.  Yet for us, having all the injuries caused us to have other guys from the minor league on the team and it pushed us right to the cap.  In order for some of the guys to come back from injury they had to get rid of salary, so adding anyone new was going to be tough.  Marty Biron has been with our team since 1995.  He's been our back up goalie as well as our starter through out those years.   He deserved to be a starter and could be on several NHL teams, but here he was backup again.  I knew with his salary and the fact that he would be unrestricted at the end of the season and could walk with no compensation to the team, he would be high on the 'trade' list.   I knew all this, yet today when they announced he was traded tears rolled my cheeks.  Marty has such a presence around him.  Say nothing about his 'wolf eyes', he has personality.  He loved to talk, had a great sense of humor, and no doubt was loved by many.  He is a great goalie and only circumstances kept him as back up here.  I know management would have kept him had his salary not been so high, had we not been up to the cap, but it wasn't to be.  He never once caused a stink, never made waves, just played his part.  He is a team player and definitely a calming force in the locker room.  I will miss him terribly.  He is now a Flyer.  They are lucky.. very lucky.  Now how am I suppose to hate them????  Since '75 they've been one of my least favorite teams... sorry you fans out there ...... but now... I have to cheer for Marty and his success.  I really think he will start there.  You guys have a great addition on and off the ice... congrats.  Just need to say..... Good Luck Marty!   We did improve with the trades but I'm too tired to write about it and you'd all be bored.  I am excited tho... very... then Iget sad....  'nuff on that for now............ 

 

I really have a million things going thru my head so I'm going to cut this short.... 

 

I did play with another tag offer... kind of simple... but I like it... I found a tutorial for it and just changed it up a little.  If you'd like your name on it just click on the graphic. 

 

          

 

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