Need a Break From the Work I Ignored All Weekend

So I figured I would talk hockey for a bit. As we speak we are less than a week away from the official, albeit hokey, start of the NHL season in Prague. The Sabres played another preseason game tonight against the Wild and lost 2-1 in a shootout. Last night the boys beat the Leafs 3-2 in OT. I neither watched nor listened to either of these games so unfortunately I cannot comment on them other than its a bummer we lost tonight on a bad bounce with 3 minutes left. Here are the headlines:

• The Ducks traded 19 season veteran defenseman Mathieu Schneider to Atlanta in exchange for 3 no namers in a move to clear cap space. Schneider had already passed through waivers but Anaheim was having a hard time moving him because of his large salary. Atlanta gets the better deal here but, believe me, this guy is not going to make the Thrashers magically start winning games.
  
• A day after trading Schneider the Ducks signed veteran winger Teemu Selanne. Selanne was very patient in waiting for the Ducks and displayed his loyalty to the franchise. The terms of the deal are two years at $2.625 million per. Thats dirt cheap for a player of his calibre in today's NHL.
• On a sad note, Paul Newman, the main character in the greatest sports movie of all time died of cancer over the weekend. Newman will be forever immortalized by puckheads for his role as Reg Dunlop in Slapshot.
• Note in the picture above that the Sabres logo at center ice is the vintage logo. Sick!