Mason looks like the real deal in goal. Now that he has a few games under his belt he seems to be getting up to speed to NHL caliber play.

What’s wrong with Stemper? His hands seemed to have hardened the past couple of years. Suddenly making a move and passing the puck look a little harder than they used to.

I’d say the Jackman signing was a good move. He has looked very good this year. I liked Salvador, but Jackman is better.

The Note are doing everything well except for one glaring exception - passing out of their own zone. I don’t know if it is the defensemen taking too long to make a decision, the forwards not finding the open passing lanes, or something else entirely, but I really think are passing going up the ice needs some serious work.

Happy Halloween all. Two out of five pumpkins today.

Tim…I only watched a couple of minutes of the first and second periods last night. The Blues seem to work like hell to get the puck out of their own zone into center ice then just fire it behind the opponents net.

What ever happened to carrying the puck into the other zone?

Happy Halloween, witches!

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10.31.2008 8:15 am
Mike Singletary, motivational genius
By Jeff Gordon
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You have to love Mike Singletary’s old-coach approach with the 49ers.

During the first game as interim coach in San Francisco, he banished temperamental tight end Vernon Davis from his sidelines, switched quarterbacks without consulting offensive coordinator Mike Martz and apologized to fans for the 34-13 loss on his way off the field.

And, oh yeah, he removed his pants during his halftime address to the team. (Fortunately, he did not remove his boxers, too.)

“I used my pants to illustrate that we were getting our tails whipped on Sunday and how humiliating that should feel for all of us,” Singletary confirmed in a blog post on the 49ers’ Web site. “I needed to do something to dramatize my point; there were other ways I could have done it, but I think this got the message across.

“I am excited about having the team back at practice on Monday so we can get back to work.”

This is going to be a LOT of fun for the next two months.

MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE

Questions to ponder while Andy Murray tries to jump-start the Blues offense:

Will Sidney Crosby be on the ice when the Penguins visit Scottrade Center Saturday?
And if he does sit out, will Blues fans be happy about his absence or sad they didn’t get to see him play?
Will Dodgers still love Manny Ramirez after giving him enormous long-term money? Or will the franchise develop buyer’s remorse after he starts acting out again?
THAT WILL LEAVE A MARK

Check out of this video from the Phillies fan celebration:

Make sure to turn up your computer volume to hear the sound of glass hitting skull.

QUIPS ‘R US

Here is what some of America’s leading sports pundits have been writing:

Steve Rosenbloom, ChicagoTribune.com: “Who doesn’t like 80 minutes of baseball and then they hand out a trophy? Three innings, a homer, some great defensive plays, some clutch hitting, a closer closing out a perfect season, and the daily maximum amount of Tim McCarver as recommended by the American Medical Association. Baseball’s AARP thinking stumbled into appealing to ADD America.”

Ray Ratto, San Francisco Chronicle: “Thursday broke clear and dry for Bud Selig, a comforting feeling given how damp and dope-slapped he’d been portrayed during the previous five days for being an inadequate meteorologist, tactician, planner and public speaker. The commissioner’s decision to truncate Game 5 of the World Series, although flawed, turned out to produce a new, hyperkinetic kind of bite-sized baseball that caught the fancy of a jaded public. Then again, anything after a half-hour political broadcast would figure to look effervescent in comparison.”

Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel: “The Magic lost their season opener, 99-85, to the Atlanta Hawks and looked horrible doing it. This was like the husband coming home early from work with flowers and candy for a 20th wedding-anniversary celebration and finding his wife making out with the pool guy. It tends to ruin the moment.”

Greg Cote, Miami Herald: “A handwritten letter from Mickey Mantle to his fiancée failed to sell at an auction. Could be the economy. Or it could be this: Why would anybody want a letter to his fiancée that even his fiancée didn’t want enough to keep?”

Dan Daly, Washington Times, on mercurial Giants receiver Plaxico Burress: “Burress’ latest fines were for verbally abusing an official during the game ($20,000), ‘inappropriate’ comments about the zebras after the game ($20,000) and throwing a football into the stands ($5,000). What was wrong with throwing a ball into the stands, anyway? Was he trying to hit the replay judge?”

Dwight Perry, Seattle Times: “Yes, that man found drunk outside a Hooters restaurant in Winston-Salem, N.C., early Sunday was none other than John Daly. No sign of any irons or drivers, eyewitnesses said, but the golfer was definitely in the bag.”

Bill Simmons, ESPN.com: “Speaking of ESPN, did I mention that we decided to form a pregame show team of Stu Scott, Avery Johnson and Bill Walton? Have we ever seen anything in television history that remotely approaches those three voices? Why couldn’t they get Cartman from ‘South Park’ to be the fourth guy? Hell, why couldn’t they have brought in me? It’s the ESPN Pregame Show, sponsored by Tylenol!”

MEGAPHONE

“No. 1, the job of the manager is really not to be buddies with all the players. You have to make very difficult decisions over the course of the year. Sometimes players get a little personal and think it’s personal. It really isn’t.”

New Brewers manager Ken Macha.

Tags: Mike Singletary, Sidney Crosby

If Daly had had a driver with him, could he have been arrested for driving under the influence?