Capitals Claim Chris Bourque off Waivers from the Penguins, and Assign Him to Hershey
Welcome back, Chris.
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Wecome back, CBo! We, uh, cleaned out your room. JP got your hockey cards, and we’re not sure what happened to the rest. But hey, it’s Teddy Bear Toss Night at the Giant Center.
So that’s something.
Go Bears!
FЯEE ALEX
Teddy Bear Toss Night?! okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.
Actually, sounds like a great way to get people to donate teddy bears to children, love it. Just hope Hershey scores…..
Not sorry to see him go, from a Pens fan perspective. He doesn’t fit in the long-term plans with guys like Caputi, Jeffrey, and Tangradi at WBS.
I tried defending Bourque for the few weeks he was here, but it just proved too difficult. He’s an AHL player, and probably won’t be more than a call-up fill-in at the NHL level for the rest of his career.
Good luck, Chris. Well, not really =]
Ovechkin: “Welcome back, Chris. What news do you bring?”
Bourque: “I learned much about Crosby in my time with the Penguins. Look for the hollow of the left breast as he turns in front of you”
* * *
Crosby swooped once, and as he turned his jersey rippled over his pads — but not in one place. The Russian’s great thighs pumped. His shoulder sped straight to the hollow by the left breast where Crosby’s arm was flung wide. Ovechkin smote him and drove him into the air, so fierce was his flight. In a shriek that deafened men, cracked ice and shattered glass, Crosby shot spouting into the air, turned over and crashed down from on high in ruin.
Full on the center ice he fell. His last throes splintered the rink to shards. The arena groaned. A vast steam leaped up, white in the sudden dark under the jumbotron. There was a hiss, a gushing whirl, and then silence. And that was the end of Crosby and Mellon Arena, but not of Ovechkin.
Atta dinnin stick a who!
by Gould Old Days on Dec 5, 2009 2:34 PM EST reply actions 9 recs
Green: "And what more can you tell us, Son Of Hall Of Famer?
Laich: “Yes, what more tidings do you bring?”
Bourque: “When Fleury was born, his mother had intended to make him inpenetrable by dipping him into the Lake of Erie, but she was careless and did not see to it that the water covered the part of the foot by which she was holding him. Aim low on the ankle of his left leg, where the tendon meets the foot, for there he may be beaten”
* * *
And in overtime, Green did launch a shot at Fleury, and Laich redicrected it so that it struck Fleury’s foot in the one spot where he could be beaten, his heel. Thence did it trickle across the goal line, and thus were the Penguins vanquished.
Atta dinnin stick a who!
by Gould Old Days on Dec 5, 2009 3:12 PM EST up reply actions 8 recs
Green-ed. That Achilles reference is full of win too
by red army line on Dec 5, 2009 5:44 PM EST up reply actions
Why isn’t this green? Just for the poetry.
"The Caps fan doesn't say, 'is the glass half full' or 'is the glass half empty'. He wonders when the glass is going to spill."
Give Tolkein your rec. St. Louis Briere The Hobbit is often forgotten, but it’s also fantastic
Atta dinnin stick a who!
by Gould Old Days on Dec 5, 2009 4:33 PM EST up reply actions
Really? Since when is Greek mythology creditable to Tolkein? And I hated trying to read the Hobbit.
"The Caps fan doesn't say, 'is the glass half full' or 'is the glass half empty'. He wonders when the glass is going to spill."
Your original comment is a reply to the death of Smaug from The Hobbit. I thought that’s the poetry you were referring to. The death of Achilles is the Edith Hamilton version.
Atta dinnin stick a who!
by Gould Old Days on Dec 5, 2009 5:19 PM EST up reply actions
Sorry, you are correct. Got lost in the comment stream. How far into the book is it?
"The Caps fan doesn't say, 'is the glass half full' or 'is the glass half empty'. He wonders when the glass is going to spill."
Death of Smaug? Near the end (sorry about the spoilers everyone)
Atta dinnin stick a who!
by Gould Old Days on Dec 5, 2009 7:49 PM EST up reply actions
Not a stunt so much as it was giving a shot to a 23 year old guy who never got an earnest chance to stick in the NHL to see if he’s a decent scoring option.
He’s not.
Have fun with him in the minors, that’s his ceiling
You come at the king, you best not miss.
Right. It was low risk, high reward for the Pens. Now it’s low risk, low reward for the Caps. This isn’t going to shake the power structure of the NHL, or AHL.
Listen to Ol' Hank Murphy and eat your damn onions.
But the power structure of the ECHL has been radically altered.
"We’re still working on some things over in Europe, and we’ve been close in the last week or so. Some things get in the way, but we’re just trying to work that out, and hopefully it can be worked out soon."
I’m still not sure why folks are convinced that Bourque is purely an AHL player. The kid is 23, he’s put up good stats in the AHL and improved every year he’s been down there. He’s been unimpressive in his brief NHL stints, but there are plenty of players who’ve had less than impressive NHL debuts and have managed to put together decent careers (Flash is but one local example).
Chris might end up being the next Jason Krog, but while I don’t think he’ll be the next Jason Pominville, he could certainly be the another Max Talbot or Rich Peverley.
"We’re still working on some things over in Europe, and we’ve been close in the last week or so. Some things get in the way, but we’re just trying to work that out, and hopefully it can be worked out soon."
There will be much celebration in the halls of Winterion Game Studios tonight.
Winterion Game Studios
Visit us online at : http://winterion.com
What games have you made? (Your website isn’t exactly spilling with information)
ONE GAME ЯEMAINING NOW
I’m redoing the whole thing with a CMS, but haven’t had time.. full-time job elsewhere, plus school. Right now, we’ve got two almost-finished and two halfway-finished supplements for the Alpha Chronicles system (tabletop RPG), but I’m working in XNA to develop an Alpha Chronicles system set of methods for XBox+PC development.
We’ve been open for a few months, and currently, the “halls of WGS” equals the space between my office and the living room. =) Gotta start somewhere, though.
Winterion Game Studios
Visit us online at : http://winterion.com
haha, now i can wear my bourque hershey shirt again. thought i was going to have to retire it!
"No Brooks Laich, no win. Know Brooks Laich, know win."
Today has overall been an awesome day, Bourque’s return performance makes it that much sweeter.
"And next year it will be ours."
Won’t he have to go through re-entry waivers if we want to call him up, though?
Familiar Rapports: Bald Pollack, F&B, Gould Old Days.
Lobbies: Osala, Perreault, Erskine, Pothier, Neuvirth, Flash.
Fan of: Mean Lars Backstrom, Line Mashing, Cake.
If he got all the way up to us, one would assume so. Aren’t we second-last in the waiver order?
"And next year it will be ours."
not sure exactly where the Caps are on the waiver wire order, other than “towards the end”
Not sure if I read it here or elsewhere, but GMGM himself called Chris as soon as it was confirmed that the Caps had him back.
1,000+ comments when he was picked up by the Pens and not even 50 when he’s reclaimed by the Caps. Where’s his lobby? No over-the-top giddy-ness?
Fool me once…
"Camaraderie, that's what the Washington Capitals are all about."
by CapitalCentre on Dec 7, 2009 10:50 AM EST up reply actions
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