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3. Los Angeles Kings

• Oh, baby! I'll be staying up to watch the Kings and Ducks on Thursday night, Big Boy Western Conference hockey. 

5. Anaheim Ducks

• Speaking of preseason thoughts, I'm feeling a tad better about my Lightning-Ducks Cup finals prediction. Chicago and L.A. are the teams to beat in the West, but Anaheim has risen back to life. Big week for the Ducks with Pacific Division tilts with San Jose, L.A. and Arizona.

14. San Jose Sharks

• Chewbacca and his Sharks went 8-0-2 entering the break, continuing to mystify us with a season full of streaks at both ends of the spectrum. Can they hold off Anaheim for second place in the Pacific between now and the end of the year?

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Gibson's Net Skills On Full Display At The 2016 NHL All Star Game

16 moments from All-Star Weekend


5. Gibson's save on Seguin

The goalies were a huge factor Sunday with some remarkable saves and even some offense, including assists from Anaheim Ducks goalie John Gibson, Nashville Predators goalie Pekka Rinne, New Jersey Devils goalie Cory Schneider and Tampa Bay Lightning goalie Ben Bishop.

It was hard to find a more memorable goalie moment than Gibson's right skate save on Dallas Stars forward Tyler Seguin with 2:26 left in the semifinal game between the Pacific and Central Divisions.

Vancouver Canucks forward Daniel Sedin carried the puck in with Seguin, joining him for a 2-on-1. Sedin delivered a perfect pass across the slot to Seguin for a one-timer from below the left circle. Somehow, Gibson pushed off, slid across and stopped the shot with his skate.

Burns got to the puck first and quickly moved it up to Calgary Flames forward Johnny Gaudreau, who went in on a 2-on-0 with Edmonton Oilers forward Taylor Hall. Gaudreau dished to Hall, who scored 10 seconds after Gibson made the save, giving the Pacific an 8-5 lead when it was inches away from being in a one-goal game.

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A Great Read If You Got A Few Minutes

The Hy-Vee Football Academy

Kurt Warner’s sojourn as a supermarket stock boy is part of Super Bowl lore, and the NFL flame is still alive at that Iowa grocery store

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — In the retelling of Kurt Warner’s glum-to-glory career, the year 1994 serves as a montage: successive scenes of sacrifice and rejection, a dream withering each morning at dawn as he slipped into the back door of his girlfriend’s parents’ home, snagging four hours of sleep on a cot in the basement.

Warner, an undrafted free agent out of Northern Iowa, had been cut by the Packers in training camp. NFL Europe shunned him, as did the Canadian Football League, despite his numerous calls to CFL teams. Truth was, there just wasn’t much of a market for a one-year starter from a Division I-AA school. Warner spent afternoons babysitting his girlfriend’s two children (Brenda, a divorced single mom, was in nursing school) and three hours each evening lifting weights and throwing passes at UNI’s campus. At 10 p.m. he reported to work at the local Hy-Vee. Warner was paid $5.50 an hour to stock shelves, sweep floors, bag groceries and tell anyone who would listen that someday he’d be a starting quarterback in the NFL.

(MMQB.SI.com)

College Hoops Is A Great Example Of This

3. I think Wade Phillips spoke on Friday on what every coach on every level of sports should hear. All sports, not just football. Phillips thinks coaches should tailor what they do to the talent they have, not the other way around. “I don’t understand the people that say, ‘Hey, this is our scheme and that guy can’t play in it,’” Phillips said Friday. “Well, to me, there’s something wrong with your scheme. You adapt the scheme to what the players can do, not what you can think of.

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Can You Believe It Has Been A Decade?

Ten years ago this week—on Feb. 4, 2006—Warren Moon was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

That is the last time a quarterback was elected to the Hall.

Sixty men have been enshrined in the nine years since then.

On Saturday, 10 years and two days after Moon got the call, Brett Favre will get a similar one.

(MMQB.SI.com)

The Most Underrated Quarter & Stat In Super Bowl History?

An oral history of the greatest offensive quarter in Super Bowl history . . . . .

. . . . . By the man who engineered it in Super Bowl XXII, Washington quarterback Doug Williams. Seeing that we are on the verge of the 50th Super Bowl, I am giving the floor to Williams to recount what happened 28 years ago, because I believe Washington’s five-touchdown second quarter against the Broncos has been given far, far too little attention by history.

There’s not much to argue about here, when considering the greatest quarter in Super Bowl history by an offense. Washington had five drives in the second quarter of the 42-10 rout of Denver. The five drives lasted a total of 18 plays, and produced 357 yards and 35 points. Just think: It’s the Super Bowl, the game of your life, and you play the quarter of your life. Every time you touch the ball, 20 yards happens. At least, that was the average Washington gain in this quarter. I asked Williams to relive it, from the week before and the pressure of trying to be the first African-American quarterback to win a Super Bowl, to how the quarter actually played out.

“That was amazing. Just amazing. Thinking back on it … It’s not just five touchdowns in one quarter. We scored 35 points in 18 plays. Think about Peyton Manning drives. What are they—12, 13 plays? That's what you want, the clock-killing drive. To score 35 points in 18 plays, you're scoring a touchdown every three minutes. Less than that. In the Super Bowl! You ain’t doing that in no bowl! You ain’t doing that in Powder Puff!

(MMQB.SI.com)

Nice Socks, I Want A Pair

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Sorry, But Bo The #1 Ranked Player In Tecmo Bowl, Period!

The 17 Greatest Tecmo Bowl Players Of All Time, RANKED

2. Bo Jackson

Any time you purposely return a kickoff to your own 1-yard line for the sole purpose of busting a 99-yard zig-zag sprint for a TD usually meant you were using the Raiders and giving the ball to Bo Jackson all game long.

There’s no better example of that than the balanced stat sheet seen below. Bo with 22 carries for a mere 399 yards to go along with a whole lot of “production” from esteemed quarterback Jay Schroeder.

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Damn, That Is Just Beautiful

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Or At Least In The 'Normal' Range According To The FDA

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And It Has Such Easy To Follow Instructions

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It Makes Sense

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Because Race Car

Porsche Claims Tech Companies Need To Concentrate On Phones, Their Cars Are For REAL Drivers

It recently reaffirmed its commitment to manual transmissions and now Porsche CEO Oliver Blume has come out swinging against autonomous cars. "One wants to drive a Porsche by oneself. An iPhone belongs in your pocket, not on the road.” Blume made these comments in an interview with German newspaper Westfalen-Blatt.

(AutoSpies.com)

This Is A Well Built Machine

Real-Life Fast And Furious: Driving Sung Kang's ridiculously sexy Datsun 240Z 

We Drove The Fugu Z And Now We Want To Build One For Ourselves 

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They See Me Rollin' - Datsun Edition

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I've Met Somone Like This

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Here's Proof

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A Thought To Ponder

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I Wanna Know Where This Is Located

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These Are Damn Good Reasons

Top 8 Reasons L.A. Should Keep Its Mitts Off of Hosting the 2024 Paris Olympics

3. Traffic Last Time

• When L.A. hosted the '84 Olympics, everyone was all worried about traffic. In the end, people took the warnings to avoid downtown Los Angeles so seriously that the streets were empty, and Olympics planners got scared they wouldn't sell enough tickets. But things went smoothly and Olympics CEO Peter Ueberroth was a hero. That was 30 years ago, when L.A. had 3 million people who complained about "rush hour." Today, we are edging toward 4 million people and rush hour is a lifestyle.

4. Traffic This Time

• Remember when city leaders insisted that an NFL stadium downtown wouldn’t cause traffic jams because games were on Sundays? Some developer declared, “Traffic is so light on the 110 freeway that you could roll a bowling ball down the highway and never hit a car.” You may not remember that quote with our clarity, but maybe you should. During the Farmers Field NFL stadium frenzy, L.A. leaders squirmed out of discussing the $100 million in taxpayer costs to rebuild onramps and new lanes for the stadium. Now, Garcetti is making a move to beg the feds for money to finish the Metro Purple Line for the Olympics. Guess who might get stuck with that overrun?

Complete list (LAWeekly.com)