As I write this, it is -9 degrees outside.  Minnesotans: what the heck are we doing with our lives?

*Starting off with hockey for the fifteenth week in a row: if you have not seen Rick Nash’s game-winner against Phoenix on Thursday, you really,
really, should.

*From Paging Jim Shikenjaski: There are many bad ways to react to a loss. Some have drank too much and regretted it the next day.  Some have punched or kicked an inanimate object, thus leading to injury.  There are even cases of people doing horrible things to each other — stabbings, dog-kickings, you get the idea.  I’m not exactly sure where this falls on the scale, but I do know this: this might be the worst reaction ever videotaped for posterity.

*Western College Hockey got its hands on a new form letter from the WCHA re: officiating. (For the background on the latest controversy, try here.)

*Remember when Air Jordans cost like $135, and every sports columnist over the age of 40 wrote about this being the end of Western civilization as we knew it?  Don’t tell them about the new version. On the bright side, I’m officially an old codger now; my first car cost lest than one of these shoes.  Not one pair — one.

*We have video evidence: Bud Selig is Ralph Kramden. I don’t even know what to say about this.  It did, however, remind me of the time that Tim Pawlenty tried to say “It’s time to drop the puck” at a Wild game and, well, failed.

*Finally, TrueHoop points out a dude that thinks Joakim Noah might be the next Muhammad Ali.  You know, Joakim Noah — this guy. Hmmm… there might be some work yet to be done.

That’s it for me; stay warm today.  By which I mean just stay inside.  Maybe check on your neighbors, make sure their heat is working, but that’s about it.  We’ll all pull through this if we just pull together.  And if you’re heading out to Lake Nokomis to check out the US Pond Hockey Championships today, then you, friend, are insane.  Kudos.

Proprietor note: One last gratuitous shot.

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