Not yet, I just emailed him back this morning. I'll let you know if I hear back.

Way to go, Matt! Did he send you a link to the site?

That is super cool, Matt!

Wow! Good on you Matt! Just getting the credit you deserve.

I just received a random $100 via paypal, for some code I give away for free. A few minutes later I got this email:

Hi Matt,

Thank you for your all help and plugin. I just send you the $100 donation for your wonderful plugin and all help (this $100 was funded by my NGO who works in India for improving the education)

I would not consider this as donation this just the bill of the coffee which I really like to have with you.(but as I am in India its not possible right now)

I wish I could donate much to you reading your help. But right now I don't have much budget for this. but just to let you know you actually help more then 0.5 million student in india for there education as I used your wonderful plugin in non profit education website for government of India. and now we want to increase this website to more then 5 million student but right now we have budget and technology constrain .

just to give you brief about me I am also an software engineer working for P&G(but in CMS interwoven) also active member in a educational NGO and in my spare time I have created this website for education. and also recommended your name here in NGO for help in this educational website. I would like to add your name in this educational website please let me know if you are OK with this. so that I can share you the link for the website.

Thanks

"Cheer up sleepy Jean
oh, what can it mean
to a daydream believer
and a homecoming queen"

Damn you, Matt!

Man, AD, all those wild and titillating rumours are EXACTLY what you find on the internet. That's what the internet's FOR. Also, I learned a long long time ago that you never trust a story that starts with "a friend of a friend". Tossing that aside, what's more likely, Pronger's wife doesn't want to live in Edmonton because she's the daughter of a billionaire, or because her husband cheated on her. One of them is based on a knowable fact, and a highly likely correlation to that fact. The other one, if it's true, (and there is no actual evidence that I've seen to prove that it is true), is a reason to leave your spouse maybe, but not to move to a bigger city, how's that supposed to help with infidelity?

You, my friend, have been sucked in to a sub-genre of professional sports called "made up soap operas written by losers with literally nothing better to do in their lives than daydream about their favourite athletes' sex lives, and physical fitness levels." And I'll even go one step further, if any or all of that WAS true (which I bet it's not) who give one iota of a crap? It's a teen gossip magazine, but instead of being about Justin Bieber or that new boy band, it's about hockey players.

I agree with Paras, from 4th line cup of coffee grinders , to first line snipers from Russia who have a reputation for laziness, there's nothing lazy about working the hours it takes to become so proficient at hockey that people will pay you millions of dollars to do it. They've all worked harder than 99% of the hockey-playing population. That's very hard.

But I do agree with the convoluted message of AD's post, it would be nice if it at least LOOKED like they gave a crap out there. It's like you paid $100 to see a 2 and a half hour Bruce Springsteen show, and then the Monkees come out instead, in their 60's, tired of life, sick of having to Monkee around as their sole source of income, nagging divorces to pay for, coming off some sort of prescription drug addiction, don't even know what day it is or what city they're in... That's the Oilers right now.

"Kill me, kill me, kill me, please don't make me sing this stupid- ......Cheer up, sleepy Jean..."

I guess we're just going to have to disagree on this one, AD.

The argument Par is that we've got a player who despite zero talent has worked his ass off to be a fourth line player in the NHL. Trust me when I say that people floating by on ability could learn a lot from that. I don't buy that all hockey players truly have that drive. Especially young players. If they're going to realize their potential a player like brown can help them get there. I think it's obvious that the Oilers are missing some kind of leadership and it would appear that Brown is an attempt to fill a part of that void. If he can't, then we've traded a fourth rounder for an Eager who scores less but bleeds way fewer chances. A minor upgrade at best.

As for Giblert, I don't think we'll find this on the internet anywhere "official". This is knowledge I've obtained from talking with someone who knows someone who has the inside information. It's the same way I know that Pronger left town over the affair and I know that Comrie slept with Salo's wife and Smyth taught him a painful lesson. That incident was just before Salo suddenly sucked hardcore and Comrie refused to sign in Edmonton. You won't find those on the internet anywhere either. I find it endlessly amusing how much time is spent debating this hockey club when I know we're all missing huge pieces of the puzzle.

After walking away from that motorcycle accident I also second the notion about letting people know how I really feel before it is too late.

My condolences to Alan's family and friends.