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Back in the day, even the goalies didn't wear face masks - Lol. That was insanity!! Can you imagine .... frozen rubber coming at you every game? No wonder those goalies were all scarred up and no teeth!! Jacques Plante with the Montreal Canadiens was the first to have a piece of fiberglass formed into a face mask in 1959 I believe. Goalies like Terry Sawchuk with Detroit didn't go to the mask until later. I guess they didn't care how many stitches they got in their face?

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Here's an old hockey drinking song for ya Jo! Note the lack of helmets back then!

Lost all interest in sports when the Lingerie Football League died

Well, today where she is. Tomorrow where others are. Those Aussies, always gotta be first in Congrats my friend on reaching 5 wonderful months being free of that deadly smoking addiction. That's fabulous; couldn't be happier for ya!! Now, go celebrate, Maybe a night out dancing?

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Even worse ........... West Virginia

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Congrats! You done good Very good indeed.

Yeah - that's how it goes unfortunately We ALL go through that or similar. It's a matter of knowing they will come at you and you need to just mentally say "F-YOU!!" and ride it out when that stuff overcomes you without warning. Good news is, those episodes happen less frequently and with less intensity because you have been successful fighting them off so often. Eventually they just give up and die out. It's like everything in this quitting game tho. It happens so gradually you don't really notice big changes. It just gets gradually better and better. I still have smoking thoughts occasionally but now they are very infrequent and with a mental head shake, they're gone - no biggie Maybe think about flip-flops for the wedding. I hear they're in these days

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I believe you have it correct except, the resulting face-off goes back to Team #1's end of the ice if Team #1 shot the puck into Team #2's end.

Yes, I believe you got the Offside Rule correct. No Offensive player can be over the oppositions Blue Line before the puck. If they are, the official stops play only when a player for the offensive team makes contact with the puck. If they don't make contact, it's a delayed offside. If all the offensive players get back over to their side of the oppositions blue line before they touch the puck then the delayed offside is waved off. Oh and years ago, there used to be a "2-line pass" offside rule. They got rid of that one though Now - splain "Icing" to us

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Keep fighting the Good fight against this Evil addiction Ren! You're doing great

Wow! I'm in awe! 9 years smoke free is such an accomplishment. Congratulations Pattoola

Well done Farmgirl! 4 months smoke free is very respectable. Keep up the good work Don't forget to reward yourself!

I'm too lazy and stupid to learn new sports at this point. I don't even much care for the ones I have watched for years. I do like the Wilson's Prom beach pic though

And, what the heck's going on with this Las Vegas team? They are already ahead 4-0 in game 1 of their second series? I don't even recognize many names on this team so, how do they make it this far in their 1st year?? Beginner's luck?

I was just trying to get you riled up Jo - lol. I don;t even watch the North American sports much let alone the more "European" ones. Can't stand soccer because I don't understand the strategies etc and there's almost no scoring. On the other hand, I can't watch basketball either and the scoring there is almost meaningless it's so frequent. Isn't it nice that we have all this variety to choose from though? I used to watch golf too, back in the day when I played that game. Now - forget it!! Threw my clubs, bag and all in the bushes last time I played golf and drove away in my car without them. Just got pissed off with the game and have never played again

WTF's a Prom? Though that was a fancy school dance where girls had to wear a fancy dress or something? And by the way, Yes! If it's played on a field outdoors and people are not wearing any real sort of protective equipment and there doesn't appear to ever be any sort of scoring happening then, it's either rugby or soccer (which is the proper word for "football?). From what I've seen, those two sports are pretty much the same anyway except in soccer they appear to be a little more calm in their treatment of other players?