The Forsberg Questions

His ankles have been abused, his feet no longer fit comfortably into normal or even exceptionally constructed skates, and he has a history of groin issues, and other physical breakdowns from the hard core way he plays the game.

- If you are the Flyers, do you trade him?

Yes

- What can you get for him?

About what they are asking for; a first round pick and or a decent to awesome prospect.

- Who wants him?

Everybody will consider it, but a Western team in the hunt for the playoffs with cap space - and there are several - will be the obvious contenders.

Calgary: Other Gms don't ask for Phaneuf anymore because they already know the answer. Does Matthew Lombardi + a first get you Forsberg? Maybe. Throw in Brent Krahn-G prospect? Boyd? The Flames don't have a home-run prospect, but they have several who are above average and possess grit - making them ideal trade bait in this situation (ie. Boyd could easily be a Flyer couldn't he? Can't you see Nystrom as a Flyer?) However the deal happens, the Flames would instanty become the prohibitive Cup favourites. Foppa would join fellow Swede Huselius on a slick offensive unit (The Conroy-Iginla affair is back in bloom). Calgary fans would openly plan the parade while Oiler fans would become sucidal. The battle of Alberta would be totally lopsided again, only Calgary would be the dominant driver seat team. Please Cthullu, kill me last so I can see this happen.

Anaheim: Bobby Ryan, a first + change (a defenseman, or later round pick) looks like the winning deal to me. Burke will probably balk at putting Getzlaf or Perry into the mix - but he certainly could. The overall structure will end up depending on the status of Forsberg's wheels and what else might be coming back in the deal to Anaheim (i.e. would the Flyers include Jeff Carter to get Getzlaf+Perry?!?). When all is said and done, Detroit is the obvious choice, but Anaheim is the first place I would start shopping.

Detroit: At first glance this seems obvious. It also does at second. Kronwall and a 1st? That might do it. Grigorenko, Howard, and a 1st? Stefan Liv? Throw in Dan Cleary? Detroit is home to a bunch of elite Swedes who would love to give Mo-town a post-Stevie-Y Cup celebration, and Forsberg may well have included them as one of his preferred destinations to speed things along, but there isn't an obvious deal to make the Flyer braintrust happy in terms of the prospect they are getting back.

Should the Personal Vendetta keep him as an FP?

If they are in the top 4-5 as of Saturday morning, YES. If not, no matter what his decision for next year, or thereafter, it is I think more likely than not that Forsberg is having his PV farewell tour right now.

Will the PV trade Forsberg?

No. Forsberg is simply a love object at this stage. He's below a ppg, constantly hurt, always a threat to return to Sweden, on a crap team, without elite linemates (consider Gagne's stats sans the Forsbergian one), ready to retire, or have a limb fractured. In short, why would anyone want him?

Having said all that, here are 4 possible FUNHL scenarios to contemplate:

Scenario1: Forsberg is dealt to Detroit in real life and his numbers perk up to ppg+. Elias in NJ goes down for the rest of the year, or merely continues to suck, and like last year, the Edge begin to flirt with oblivion. Here's what happens;

---> Edge: Forsberg-C Det FP, Briere-C Buf, and a warm body at left.

---> PV: Elias-L NJ FP, Corey Perry-R P2, Edge 1st PRD in 07-08

The keys here are that Forsberg becomes a shorterm massive improvement on Elias and that the Edge is in danger of taking home bad hardware. It would be the first time Elias has ever played anywhere other than for the Edge.

Scenario 2: Forsberg is dealt to Anaheim and goes nuclear. Doug might think of something like;

---> Highlanders: Forsberg-C ANA FP,

---> Personal Vendetta: Richards-C TBay FP (inj, mysterious suckitude, or simply unexpected sub-superstarness)

....and Darrel might just take it. The key is simply that Forsberg be much hotter than Richards, the natural incentives of the pool will do the rest.

Scenario 3: Injuries to vital players on the Highlanders and Bladerunners put the Great Whites back within striking distance, Forsberg is hot in Calgary, and the previously ppg+ Marleau goes cold. I don't get the sense that the Great Whites are invested heavily in Marleau, and if they felt they had a real shot at the title we could easily see something like;

---> Great Whites: Forsberg-C Cgy FP

---> PV: Marleau-C SJ FP (inj)

The stumbling blocks are that the Great Whites are slipping further away from the leaders rather than closing on them, and that Marleau is both younger and superior to Forsberg at the moment.

Scenario 4: and ultimately - the most likely trade of all;

---> Shadowmen: Forsberg-C Pha

---> PV: an FP + assorted stuff

Quiet Night, No Changes in the Standings

With only three games in the NHL last night the impact on the FunHL standings was minimal. These stats do include the Official Stats as of Week 17, thanks again Darrell, but again not much changes as a result.

Here are the stats following Wednesday night's action:

Ramapithicines cross 600pts while passing Wolves

The big event of last night was the entry of yet another club, the Ramapithicines, to the 600pt club. They joined the club in spectacular fashion posting a 20pt night and racing past the Wolves, whom they are also playing in the Challenge Cup this week, to move into 6th place.

Further down the table, the Edge continue to have a solid week in their efforts to stay ahead of the last-placed Scourge. The race to avoid the Herbivore looks to be as closely fought as the race to win the Predator Cup. Speaking of which, the Bladerunners had a good night last evening but it might have been better had the latest installment of Brian's +/- experiment not fizzled on him. D.Markov got two points last night, on the power play, but went -1 for the night. Certainly not devestating but enough to temper what could have been an even better evening for the Bladerunners.

In the Challenge Cup, the game of the week is the tilt between the Bladerunners and the Severed Heads. The Heads are currently leading by a narrow margin but should that lead hold, the Severed Heads could move into first place. I say "could" because while the Heads hold the tie-breaker against the Bladerunners, the Shadowmen are also leading in their game and should the three teams be tied atop the Challenge Cup standings the situation gets much more complicated: Bladeruners are 2-0 vs the Shadowmen while the Shadowmen are 1-0 vs the Severed Heads with their final match in week 20. If all three teams have 2-2 records at the end of the season against the others you next go to pts scored in those games. Ironically, pts scored by the Severed Heads against the Bladerunners may help them win a tie-breaker against the Shadowmen.

There is also a spirited battle for the final playoff spot. The Knights Templar are doing their part in leading the current 4th placed team, the Highlanders. Beneath them, however, are 6 teams that still have a mathematical chance of making the post-season. Contenders and pretenders may become clearer after this week as all 6 are playing each other including the Great Whites and Lost Boys who are less than a point apart in their match. Should be fun to sort out.

Here are the stats as of last night's action:

Amid Cries of Protest, Stats Return to FunHL Blog!!

Ok, ok. I get it. You do love me...or at least you are as addicted to your daily stats "hit" as I am and can't be bothered to add another favourite to your lists. I won't take it personally that you didn't want to visit my site and just assume that you would rather we all do this together, like a dysfunctional family. I'm cool with that.



Seriously, I'm thrilled that so many of you have been asking for the stats to return here and now that Cam has converted to the Google-ized version of Blogger - I can post them myself again, so here we go.



Week 18 starts with only two games on the schedule and there is not much change in the numbers from the end of Week 17, with the exception of the race to avoid the Herbivore. The Edge, who had been slipping further and further back in recent weeks get Week 18 off with a bang - a 9pt night fueled by a +3 performance by M.Malik (6pts) and another 2pt night from B.Shanahan. Coupled with the Scourge's T.Priessing going -1, the Edge have doubled their lead on the Scourge from 10pts to over 20 in one night.



The rest of the Predator Cup standings, early Challenge Cup action (remember only four regular season games left, including this week) and the most recent Omnivore standings are as follows:

Stats going into WD2

For those who still look here for stats!

Admin status granted to Highlanders and Red 5

California Criminal Code 187

The Numbers 187 have turned up besides the team names highlander, bladerunners and great whites with xs' through their names.

An x through the shadowmen and severed heads with 187 - completed has also been seen...

Be Wary.

Invitations to FUNHL

You should all have recieved an invitation to join the FUNHL blog again.

My apologies for the difficulties this is putting us through.

Blogging the FUNHL

Hey everyone,

Because of the technological gap that was forming between Blogger and the version of the software I have been using, I have recently moved my blogs (including theFUNHL) to the new Google version of Blogger.

I suspect all that is necessary is for each of you to get your own G-mail account through Google, in order to be restored as permissable members to the FUNHL, but as yet I am not sure this is the case.

Please take a moment to survey the situation so I can assess what issues may exist.

Thanks,
Cameron

Highlanders' Blog Is Up

For some reason I am now able to post again. Good.

That said, I was only able to do it on my own blog as recently as yesterday so I've resurected it and would invite you to come check out the stats there.

Cam/Dan, any chance the Highlanders site could be added to the Blog list?

http://funhl-highlanders.blogspot.com/

FuNHL All Star Rosters

Here are the All-Star Line-up I have. The Shadowmen have now traded all
of their original nominees, twice. :-)

With the recent Lost Boys/Great Whites trade, I have the Lost Boys
sending Visnovsky on defense as opposed to Boucher.

Thanks for participating everyone. Enjoy the skills tonight, the NHL's
All-Star Warm-up Tomorrow and the FunHL All-Star game starting on
Friday.

FUNHL Blog etiquette

Just so we can keep the FUNHL blog somewhat focussed on its purpose for existing, not to mention readable, I'd like to reccomend the following;

- Please keep posts relevant to hockey, hockey pool, or poolie issues. (i.e. if Yzerman dies, if Yzerman comes out of retirement, if Yzerman is porking your atheist girlfriend, or even if you just want to post naked pictures of your girlfriend, that's all ok.

- If you wish to post Pizza menus, movie reviews, etc. let me know and I'll help you set up your own blog. Failing that, if what you have to say is actually interesting, send me an e-mail and I might just post it on my own blog (antiphonrising@blogspot.com).

- No embedded video on the FUNHL site until Rob gets Cable - which apparently will be in 2010. Video should be YouTube, and a simple link will be fine.

- Picture are ok

- Try to keep posts to less than a couple of pages of text. More than that and you bore me.

- Excessive foul language, porn, etc. will be deleted. My mom reads this blog.

- Keep it fun!

Line up clarification

I've already submitted a line up for this week. In fact, I submitted it before the extension through to Friday happened. I am disinclined to submit another line-up.

If I now make trades, what does my line up for Friday have to be based on? What my roster was Sunday night, or what my roster will be Thursday night? What about everyone who has not yet submitted a roster?

Uh, I'll talk in more detail with the GMs whose trades I am pursuing, but it occurs to me that timing might matter to me.

Richard.

My girlfriend is cool!

Well... if Brian gets to post regarding Pizza I get to talk about the coolest woman in Toronto.

Anyone who's done their reading of the loony blogosphere is well aware of the conspiracy by atheists and sexual deviants to corrupt the school system, overthrow good old-fashioned moral values and generally ruin the Christian US of A.

Until now I had thought this was worth a good laugh. My experience with atheists is they are prone to arguing, and not exactly "cohesive." I had always figured organized religion was a much greater threat to social stability because it was, you know, organized.

Well, then I met Jennie and her social group, and have been proven entirely wrong. The atheists are organized, and they are out to upset stable conservative society. They've had the prayer taken out of graduation at U of T. (Apparently we don't owe obtaining our degree to the grace of God anymore.) They write letters to the editor, crash "multi-faith" gatherings, and have decided that publicly funded Catholic education in Ontario is going down... constitutional guarantee nothing.

Read all about it... and donate! (Apparently their magazine is going national, so you could even write.)

But yes, it turns out I was mistaken: the atheists are organized.

http://secularfreethought.ca/

Final Stats Week 16

At the All Star Break:

Great Saturdays for a lot of teams resulting in some movement in the standings. The Bladerunners have the best week, the Edge the worst. The Highlanders hold on to their lead in the Predator Cup but the Bladerunners have halved the gap. The Severed Heads retake 5th spot. The Shadowmen join the 600pt club.

In the Challenge Cup, the Bladerunners' win over the Wolves clinches them a spot in the post-season while the Severed Heads and Shadowmen swap spots, and home-ice advantage, again.

In the Omnivore, the Severed Heads have a great night while the Highlanders falter and that moves the Severed Heads into 3rd but both teams remain in the "black".

Stats Through Friday Night

Quiet night in the NHL and even quieter night pool-wise. Several very close Challenge Cup games, including two within a point, going into the last night of the week. On the Omnivore side, the Severed Heads have, again, inched back over to the good side.

Lots of games tonight, as usual Saturday night will tell the tale for the week.

Stats Through Thursday Night

Nice night for the Great Whites, thank you Mr. Marleau – again with the 3 point night. The Personal Vendetta’s fall appears to have ended as they pull themselves out of 11th and ahead of the Edge. The Scourge are still making ground on both!



The game with the most potential standings implications is the Wolves-Bladerunners game, which the Bladerunners are currently leading. If the score holds up (and the Great Whites and Lost Boys continue to hold their leads in their games (against the Personal Vendetta and Severed Heads, respectively) then there will be a three-way tie for fifth place and a real race for the playoffs following the All-Star game.



The Bladerunners, having a very solid week, have consolidated their lead atop the Omnivore standings. Note that half the league is now either positive or better than -10pts. If the trend continues more than half the league could be positive by season’s end.

Ok... how about some non-hockey blogs?

Theory of relativity
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Two-dimensional analogy of space-time distortion described in General Relativity.
The theory of relativity, or simply relativity, refers specifically to two theories: Albert Einstein's special relativity and general relativity.
The term "relativity" was coined by Max Planck in 1908 to emphasize how special relativity (and later, general relativity) uses the principle of relativity.
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1 Special relativity
2 General relativity
3 References and links
4 External links
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[edit] Special relativity
Main article: Special relativity
Albert Einstein's 1905 paper "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" introduced the special theory of relativity. Special relativity considers that observers in inertial reference frames, which are in uniform motion relative to one another, cannot perform any experiment to determine which one of them is "stationary". This is actually Galileo's principle of relativity; Einstein's contribution was to explicitly include electromagnetism within this principle, which required that the Galilean transformations be replaced by the Lorentz transformations. The resultant theory has many surprising consequences. In particular, it requires that the speed of light in a vacuum be the same for all these observers, regardless of their motion, or the motion of the source of the light, since the invariance of the speed of light is a consequence of Maxwell's equations of electromagnetism.

[edit] General relativity
Main article: General relativity
General relativity was developed by Einstein in the years 1907 - 1915. General relativity replaces the global Lorentz symmetry of special relativity with a local Lorentz symmetry in the presence of matter. The presence of matter "curves" spacetime, and this curvature affects the path of free particles (and even the path of light). General relativity uses the mathematics of differential geometry and tensors in order to describe gravitation as an effect of the geometry of spacetime. This theory is based on the general principle of relativity, which requires all observers to experience the same laws of physics, not just those moving with uniform speed, hence its name.

[edit] References and links
See the special relativity references and the general relativity references. For information on the silent film produced on this subject, see The Einstein Theory of Relativity.

Hockey Fights

I was watching some great NHL fight videos on You Tube and came across this video - ugly, just ugly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z8l9d2ogqc&mode=related&search=

Future player?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoedHDZER7k