Dude, where'd you get your license?

Tampa Bay rookies Doug Janik and Nick Tarnasky left practice in Janik’s Dodge Magnum. As Janik, a defenseman, was pulling out of his parking spot, he ran over an orange safety cone.

Realizing his "accident," Janik stopped the car, got out and replaced the cone.

"Hey," I yelled across the lot. "You just failed your driving test."

Janik got his payback moments later, when I asked him to sign the three cards above.

"I’m not gonna sign for you," he said, smiling. "You yelled at me."

I gave him my best pout. "Aw, c’mon," I said. "I was just kidding."

"Me, too," he said.

Editor's note: This the 100th post of the season.

With friends like this . . .

Speaking of Nick Tarnsasky, he was one the receiving end of a barb from Doug Janik.

Tarnsasky, who signed this card from last season’s Springfield Falcons set, is shown wearing the "A" of an alternate, not assistant, captain. Janik quickly took note.

"You were an alternate?" Janik asked Tarnasky, a center known more for his fighting than scoring.

"Musta been preseason," Tarnasky replied.

"Yeah, musta been," Janik said. "You’re not captain material."