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	<description>Hockey. Habs. Sometimes both.</description>
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		<title>Habcocked &#8211; the saddest Montreal Canadiens game I have ever been to</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ken Hitchcock is a very good NHL coach, and Jaroslav Halak is a very good NHL goaltender. But with all due respect to both, the Habs did not get Hitchcocked or Halaked last night. They Hitchcocked and Halaked themselves. Not that these Habs are good enough to beat those Blues but they didn&#8217;t even do a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theactivestick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9265660&amp;post=1649&amp;subd=theactivestick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>theactivestick Christmas Wishlist 2011 Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A short list this year.  All I want for Christmas is: A new fanbase Happy holidays! &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theactivestick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9265660&amp;post=1643&amp;subd=theactivestick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A few survival tips for Habs fans, from the experts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you need help coping with the unbearable sadness of cheering for an awful team, who you gonna call? LEAFS BLOGGERS&#8212; Pension Plan Puppets (@mlse) December 09, 2011 Howdy, fellow Canadiens fans. Are the Habs killing your will to live? You&#8217;re not alone. The entire fanbase is so depressed we can&#8217;t even muster up the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theactivestick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9265660&amp;post=1632&amp;subd=theactivestick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to know if you’re cheering for a bubble team</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 04:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of the year when we forget that less than a quarter of the games in the NHL season have been played and decide to form our opinions on how the season is going to turn out, which means the term &#8220;bubble team&#8221; is being thrown around a lot. So how do you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theactivestick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9265660&amp;post=1623&amp;subd=theactivestick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The madness that made me this way</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 04:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve wondered where I’ve been since the last blog post, the answer is&#8230; hopelessly lost inside my own head. I think they call it ‘writer’s block.’ They should find a better name for it, like ‘slow painful evil agonizing horrible awful death.’ I’ve been working on my novel, you see. Well, I’ve been staring [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theactivestick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9265660&amp;post=1619&amp;subd=theactivestick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Balls&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://theactivestick.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/balls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theactivestick.wordpress.com/?p=1612</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Alright, let&#8217;s get the confession out of the way: I haven&#8217;t watched a single preseason hockey game. I&#8217;ve half-heartedly glanced at a few minutes of some. In total, I&#8217;ve probably watched about 30 minutes of preseason Canadiens and about 15 minutes of preseason Leafs and/or Sens. I haven&#8217;t stopped loving hockey all of a sudden. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theactivestick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9265660&amp;post=1612&amp;subd=theactivestick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reacting&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 04:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When shocking news like this breaks, our first instinct is to&#8230; well I don’t know what our first instinct is. It’s different for all of us. Some of us cry. Some of us get angry. Some of us become obsessed with the morbid details of what happened. Some of us speculate on the causes. Often, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theactivestick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9265660&amp;post=1606&amp;subd=theactivestick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Your guide to dating a hockey fan</title>
		<link>http://theactivestick.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/your-guide-to-dating-a-hockey-fan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, you&#8217;ve met and begun crushing on a hockey fan. You&#8217;re in for an exciting world of nonstop hockey talk, broken TV remotes, and a new Twitter meme for every day. Congratulations! So, how do you go about dating your new crush? First, you find out what team they cheer for. Then you use this handy guide I&#8217;ve put [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theactivestick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9265660&amp;post=1601&amp;subd=theactivestick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from a year in the Merde</title>
		<link>http://theactivestick.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/notes-from-a-year-in-the-merde/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theactivestick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I turned 28 on Monday. It was a good day. Then it was the day after my birthday. It was not a good day. At the obscenely grown-up age of 28, I ended my evening by crying my eyes out to my mommy. I cried for all the things I thought I would have accomplished [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theactivestick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9265660&amp;post=1598&amp;subd=theactivestick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is It October Yet Chapter 43: Search terms</title>
		<link>http://theactivestick.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/is-it-october-yet-chapter-43-search-terms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an effort to come up with something to write about other than how bitter I am about the Boston Bruins (seriously, when will it stop hurting in my heart?) I decided to look back on some of my old posts last night and see if there were any tired hockey jokes I hadn’t recycled [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theactivestick.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9265660&amp;post=1591&amp;subd=theactivestick&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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