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Warm Up the Zamboni

Alas, my long-suffering wife gets a bit of bad news. Yet, while the end of the NHL lockout will somehow factor into the dilemma of the previous post, I can't bring myself to get all worked up about it right now.

Is it because lately it's been too hot to sleep, let alone bother with thinking about Canadians wearing multiple layers skating around on a sheet of ice? Maybe I'm too wrapped up in the Tour de France? I'm actually more excited about Robocup 2005 than the Stanley Cup 2006.

Hey, that's it! The solution to future NHL strikes: replace the players with robots! Sure, they'll stink at first, but it's got to be just as good as watching a dozen Sony Aibos play soccer. Plus, as Kottke says, robots make anything cooler.

I wouldn't even miss the players all that much. As long as the robots get to keep the wicked cool names: Radek Bonk, Keith Tkachuk (gesundheit), Jerome Iginla, Chris Pronger, Nikolai Khabibulin, Zdeno Chara. And someone at ESPN has a sense of humor with that there url for Miroslav Satan.