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Imagine this.

You and your significant other are selected to participate in an on-ice intermission contest. The game is ‘Deal or No Deal’. You are given two options: a bag, or whatever is behind the question mark on the big screen.

Hmm, that’s a toughie. You gaze at your significant other, then at the bag and then back up to the big screen. A few moments pass and the announcer gives you a hint, “It has wheels.”

You quickly turn to your significant other for a cue, help, anything! At first glance, he is not there so you look back up.

He has something else in mind.

You say, “YES!”.

No big deal.

I rounded out 2009 the same way I rang it in just 12 months prior – on a bus.

By the time the boys were done cleaning up the bus, it was 11:53 p.m. My initial calculations had us arriving at the Civic Auditorium at 12:02 a.m. We must’ve caught a tail wind.

Synonyms for ‘blocked shot’ — at least in my world.

The good.

The bad.

Both.