Hola.

Kent Youngblood may have to fly west to pick up the rest of the trip because I’m contemplating surprising the powers-that-be at the Strib and not leaving San Jose.

Sorry, but the weather is insane. Youngblood, if you can stop playing brickbreaker for two seconds, you better start pricing out what a last second Minny to Vancouver to Calgary to Edmonton back to Minny trip would cost our paper.

I forgot what fresh-cut grass smelled like.

Sooooooooooooooo, here’s your pregame skate update:

Uno: Sean Hill is in for Keith Carney. We should have seen this coming after Carney logged a miniscule 5:42 of ice time Monday vs. the Lanche. Chris Simon, Aaron Voros and Matt Foy are also scratched.

Dos: Asst. coach Mike Ramsey, still unable to fly due to eye surgery last month, will be on the Wild bench tonight. Or, at least a picture of him will be. Coach Jacques Lemaire and assistant coach Mario Tremblay will tape up a picture of Ramsey on the glass tonight behind the visitors’ bench.

Tres: Lemaire said Simon was only acquired in case Derek Boogaard couldn’t return from a back injury, and since Boogaard’s back, Simon’s out. He’ll play some games, but clearly he’s an extra. I’ll tell ya, seems to me management spent an awful lot of time telling the local media about how much playoff experience it picked up in Simon at the deadline (73 playoff games, three Stanley Cup championship series, one Stanley Cup, yada, yada, yada).

Cuatro: Lately, the Sharks’ scratches have skated with three-inch fins attached to their helmets with their numbers on them. Each day, there is a star of the practice and they’ll accumulate points with a winner getting something at the end of the season. The scratches lately have been guys like Ozolinsh, Roenick, Semenov, Clowe, etc.

Think that’s it. And no more questions. No way I can answer that many.

Adios.

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