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As of 12pm ET the NHL’s annual trade freeze is in effect until 27 December… so no trading players around Burke. That doesn’t mean you can’t discuss… you just can’t actually trade anyone else away.

Things that could be in the works for the Anaheim Ducks following this holiday trade freeze…
Trim the blueline… that would mean someone like Beauchemin or O’Donnell could be headed out the door. While I’d rather neither leave… I’d rather keep Beauchemin as he seems to be a pest to announcers who try to pronounce his name…

Free up cap space for next season in order to re-sign Perry… no way in hell Burke is stupid enough to let Perry go and he’s come out and said that his intentions are to re-sign Perry prior to the end of this season.
Might want to leave some room in that cap space for the scorer of our goal of the game last night coming from Bobby Ryan. Bobby who? Ryan was a prospect that Anaheim got long ago that is finally paying off. Seriously… teams were willing to give away the farm for this kid. He is supposed to blossom to be THAT good. Over the past couple of games that he has played in I can see definite potential in Ryan. He just needs to grow some more. Last night I was watching him getting pummeled in the corner by guys that towered over him. Granted, he was on his hands and knees but he’s not that big of a player either. But whatever he’s brought to the team, keep it coming…

Improve on the stupid penalties… seriously. Enough is enough. Granted, there were some bullshit calls last night… and a lot of non-calls made. Anaheim cannot win games by continually playing down a man… in the game on Sunday they had how many penalties? Eight? Nine? At least one of which was a double-minor (4 minutes). This wears out your penalty killers and does not give your team the chance to get scoring chances. Thankfully the penalty killers did their job that night and didn’t let any pucks into the goal.

Play the game that you know how to play… get under the other team’s skin. Seriously… it was working for you last night. I have never seen Nabakov loose it as he did last night… spearing Getzlaf… slashing Parros… Anaheim got under his skin and he ended up paying the price by taking an penalty. San Jose tried to play the same type of game that Anaheim plays… extremely physical… and it kicked their asses. Sure there were scrums after whistles and a lot of hard hitting into the boards, but overall Anaheim was the one dominating the hitting. San Jose just looked like they were out to take runs at the Anaheim players.

Get Parros out there more… seriously. I don’t know what in the hell he did over the summer but his skating has improved… his playing has improved… his fighting has improved. Take for example last night Parros vs. Davison fight. Parros got in there and just unleashed on Davison. Davison got the takedown but I call it a win for Parros as Davison was just trying to get out of the fight.
At least that was more of an even match-up than the Carter vs. Rivet fight later in the game… horribly mis-matched. Hey Rivet… can’t you pick on someone your own size or do you also like to look at little girls too? You fuckin’ perv…
Kudos to Carter for at least trying to stay in the fight and not turtling. If Nabakov hadn’t been a prat then that fight would probably not have happened…

Christmas is coming and I’m not getting fat…
Annoyances from work yesterday morning… a couple of months ago we were told that we would be working on 24 December. No big deal, right? It’s not like I was going to be going anywhere. Milady has Disney working her ragged during that time… as usual… and we find whatever time we can for doing our thing.
Yesterday morning we get an email stating that instead of working on the 24th that everyone was to come in on the 22nd to work. A couple of us kind of kiboshed that plan by announcing that the head of our company had told our biggest client that we would be open on the 24th. We cannot change that in less than a week with this client. So a couple of us are coming in Monday morning for a few hours to hammer through reports… and are forcing a skeleton warehouse crew to come in as well. Sorry, but don’t fuck with us… we make our plans accordingly and you trying to change things at the last minute doesn’t bode well with those of us following what was stated a couple of months ago.

More annoyances from work… I’m moving offices… again…
June ’06: started working and shared an office with the person handling the FL account here.
September ’06: moved to my own office for handling the FL account in IL
January ’07: moved to middle office area for some reason… don’t recall
April ’07: moved to first office and shared briefly with new person handling FL account in IL… then he moved and Lotion Girl arrived on the scene (much drama)
December ’07: moving to a completely different office in a completely different area of the building…
Problems with this new move… no filing cabinets have been set up. Copier/printer/fax were just set up yesterday… the move was to take place this past Friday (two of us are holding out for as long as possible)…

And let us not even get into the totalitarian rule of the offices now. Nothing may be hung on the walls… at least for now. At such a time items are allowed to be hung on the walls, they must be approved by the wife of the boss.
No papers may be left on one’s desk at the end of the day… desks must be immaculate. No boxes allowed in offices, even if hidden under desks.
We must take out our own trash… wife of boss thought it would be intelligent to not allow the cleaning crews into the new office area. Which makes me laugh because I don’t see that family taking out their own trash… so we’ll have to see how long this lasts. Merry Christmas… you’re fired… now get the fuck out…

Odd scene on the bus yesterday evening on the ride home. Some gal gets on and sits in the seats in front of me… a few minutes later another passenger joins her and starts getting personal with her. He introduces himself to her… and it’s odd… overhearing them discussing prices… and then it dawns on me. Hooker!!!
When in the hell did the OCTA become a place to pick up streetwalkers? And do they qualify for the “streetwalker” name if they are riding the bus?

and that will do it for me… at least for now.
The Colorado Avalanche roll into town for a game tonight at the Honda Center… 7pm puck drop. Let’s see how Anaheim is looking after playing a physical game in San Jose… flying down here… and then getting prepared for playing another game. Doubtful the boss is going to give up tickets for the game… but if he does who shall I contact first?

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Tomorrow is it… only about a dozen folks in attendance which will be fine since we will most likely be inside trying to not freeze our asses off… Milady has today off so she is spending part of it cleaning and whatnot.

In other news… don’t piss off Tori Amos…
It seems that Tori got a bit peeved at a pair of girls that were sitting in the front row gabbing on the phone during concert. She was mid-song when she finally had had enough… stopped playing and verbally attacked the girls telling them to get the fuck out of the concert. Harsh? Maybe… but Tori saves those front row seats for people who were in the back… and upgrades them. She picks them… they are not bought seats. So for someone to have the gall to sit gabbing on the phone during a concert where you were hand-picked to sit there by Tori, you better be prepared to face the lashing these two girls got.
She did pick up right where she left off after the two left the seats… so not all is bad, right?

Moral of the story? When you are sitting at a concert, don’t be an ass and turn off the cellphone…

Ducks time…

Game tonight against the Minnesota Wild… and I’m not expecting to see Scott in tonight’s game. Burke hasn’t been able to trade anyone yet to free up that “tag cap” of less than $1 million… and with the trade freeze coming up next Wednesday I don’t see anything happening until after the new year.
What can we expect tonight? A bloodbath… these two teams hate each other with a passion. Expect Parros, May, DiPenta, and who knows who else to end up with fighting majors…
Game prediction? Duck win by TKO… with at least one fight between Giguere and whoever the Wild goalie is…

Oh well… off to deal with the chaos that is known as the Customer Service Clusterfuck of an Office Move. No filing cabinets… no one can hook up their computers… and a bunch of bullshit rules set by Der Fueher…
And somewhere in this pandemonium there is the company Christmas party… O_o

A lot of drinking will be happening tonight to cleanse the mind of this mess…

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