A few nuggets    • The Lakers-Mavericks game is getting me
pumped up for what could be one of the greatest 1-2 punches in
years: the NHL playoffs and the NBA's Western Conference
playoffs. It's quite possible I might go as far as taking a
human life in order to acquire a DVR/TiVo for all these great
games I'll be missing at work.  It also brought up another
question. Is there an NHL player who is as unstoppable, but at
times unappreciated like Kobe Bryant?  At 36, Jaromir Jagr
cannot really physically dominate like he used to, but that's
the first name I could come up with. Both stars are generally
disliked, they both won championships early in their careers and
they both demanded a trade that would separate them from their
bigger-than-life running mates (for Kobe it was Shaq; for Jagr
it was Lemieux even if the Jagr situation probably had more to
do with his obese gambling debts).  I think the most shocking
similarity is that Jagr and Bryant have exactly one regular
season MVP trophy between the two of them