Dear Habs...
by Becca H on Apr 12, 2010 8:37 PM EDT
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First of all I just want to say that you're great. Really. You're smart, funny, talented, exotic - any girl would consider herself lucky to be your fan.
Unfortunately that girl is no longer me. This is where our journey together must end.
Sure, we've had some good times. I was there when Jose Theodore broke into the NHL; you introduced me to him and for that I will be forever grateful. I was there when Saku Koivu, Captain Courageous, made his triumphant return from cancer. I was there when you clawed your way back to defeat the Bruins in '04, and I was there in the spontaneous parade that erupted on Ste Catherine Street right after. I was even there as you sent my favorite players away, fired my coach and sank into mediocrity. I'm a fan; it's what we do.
But at the end of the day, you're just not the one I want. Not now.
We both knew this day would come, didn't we? You know I didn't go to Montreal looking for another team - you found me, caught me far from home, from the team I loved. I was hockey-sick, vulnerable. The scrappy underdog aura you had back then drew me in; the history, the legend, the lore kept me there.
So for ten years we've carried on, always tempting fate, knowing that soon enough the hockey gods would frown upon our love and force me to choose. And while I meant the things I said about you and will always have a special place in my heart for you...you're just not the Caps. It's not you, it's them. They will always be my first love.
Maybe someday, after this crazy world settles down, we can be friends again. You know, as long as none of your players attempt to kill mine, none of your goalies throw their blockers at my stars, none of your fans treat my guys with disrespect and none of your media bashes them...perhaps someday we'll find each other once more. Like in July.
For now, though, I must bid you farewell.
Adieu, mon tricolore. Au revoir, mes Habitants. And may you hold your head up high after we kick your French Canadian butts all over this continent.
Regards,
Becca
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Bravo :)
I can stop yelling at you for being a traitor now I guess :P
Follow me on Twitter!! I even say some relevant stuff sometimes
I wish I could quit you, Tyler Sloan! - Co-founder of the Tyler Sloan Fan Club
She’s still a traitor but she’s taking a hiatus from betraying all of you real fans :P
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No, he’s just jealous of anyone who ISN’T a Leafs fan.
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Enabler
Looks like J.P. needs to cull the herd
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Offer still stands – I’ll burn my Canadiens jersey for a free Leafs Kolzig sweater.
Whoop Whoop Caps
Noted
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Ok Benedict H, whatever soothes your guilty conscience!
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by PPP on Apr 12, 2010 8:43 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I can’t wait to have this dilemma, personally.
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I wish I could quit you, Tyler Sloan! - Co-founder of the Tyler Sloan Fan Club
I already explained that it’s not a dilemma with the Leafs.
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It would be. I know who I’d pick though, sorry!
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I wish I could quit you, Tyler Sloan! - Co-founder of the Tyler Sloan Fan Club
The Leafs, right?
On the Forecheck/Twitter/CLS
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by Chris Burton on Apr 12, 2010 9:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Nope.
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I wish I could quit you, Tyler Sloan! - Co-founder of the Tyler Sloan Fan Club
When the Habs are playing, you never cheer for them. You always cheer for the other team
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by Kevin Sellathamby on Apr 12, 2010 9:16 PM EDT up reply actions
none of your fans treat my guys with disrespect and none of your media bashes them
Ha! Good luck!
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Exactly. See? Not putting anything on hold – there are rules in place for a return and there’s no way they get followed. :D
We'll see
Colour me skeptical
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You know what you are, sir? You’re a rabble-rouser. You’re a pot-stirrer. You’re a shit-disturber. That’s right, you rouse rabble, you stir pots, you disturb…shit. You’re lucky that you are funny, that’s all I have to say…
But in all seriousness, there are very few teams we’ve played in the playoffs that I haven’t ended up hating, at least for a few years. So…yeah, not looking good for my Habs-love. Sad.
Luckily my Leaf-hate will probably remain fully in tact ;)
Hey! I resemble that comment!
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Colour
What?
"He was the patron saint of quality footwear."
by Laich It Or Lump It on Apr 13, 2010 8:03 AM EDT up reply actions
Leafs fans using the Queen’s English confuses you?
Whoop Whoop Caps
by Whiter Mage on Apr 13, 2010 12:25 PM EDT up reply actions
GROW HABS GROW!
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by Kevin Sellathamby on Apr 12, 2010 8:57 PM EDT reply actions
LOL…NO, DON’T! Brendan Morrison enjoys feeling so tall :)
by Becca H on Apr 12, 2010 9:05 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Gionta was small with the Devils. Now he must feel like a giant
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by Kevin Sellathamby on Apr 12, 2010 9:06 PM EDT up reply actions
They can. I’m pretty sure if you stood Gionta on Cammalleri’s shoulders, together they would come up to Schultz’s navel. The curve gets ruined by Hal Gill, though, he’s about 11 feet tall.
Holy crap, BMo is tiny.
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Sadly, the Gainey era is over. BMO would get paid to play in Montreal
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by Kevin Sellathamby on Apr 12, 2010 9:13 PM EDT up reply actions
Becca, how tall are you?
On the Forecheck/Twitter/CLS
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Great post, actually. But why is all of LeafsNation here? Must be some Canadian thing, I wouldn’t understand.
Now helping to keep an eye on all things Gr8 at Alex Ovetjkin.
I have one link for you my friend.
http://www.japersrink.com/2010/4/11/1415325/capitals-canadiens-by-the-numbers#34444221
I Laich the professor.
resident master jinxer
I’m still holding out for Ovechman instead of Leafs man.
"You ever use smelling salts, every time you type a bad blog?" Brooks Laich
Canada Man>Leafs Man>OVechman
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by Kevin Sellathamby on Apr 12, 2010 9:21 PM EDT up reply actions
Thanks, I am enlightened now. Greetings, LeafsNation, at Becca’s Moment of Truth.
But Becca, things have been headed this way for you and the Habs for some time. The handwriting on the wall, and all that. Just make sure the break is clean, no looking over your shoulder or late night “What Ifs”.
It’s really for the best, and besides, Brooks will be free of his cage before you know it.
Now helping to keep an eye on all things Gr8 at Alex Ovetjkin.
It has been coming for some time, hasn’t it? We’ve been fighting more, they’ve disappeared for days at a time…but yes, a clean break. That’s what I need.
I’ll also need the support of my Rink Rats and Rabbits for my inevitable moment of weakness – don’t let me pick up the phone and call them!
Stay strong, sister. Stay strong. Don’t be watching Jaroslav when he does that little “thing” when he’s making a save, don’t let Bald Pollack tempt you with his stories of hot dogs on buttered toast (really, Habs?), don’t allow a smartly striped sweater to turn you to mush. Adieu, fair Montréal!
And hello Caps hotties.Let’s go get us a Cup.
Now helping to keep an eye on all things Gr8 at Alex Ovetjkin.
Rawr. The shameless, shallow puckbunny that resides in the dark corner of my otherwise “normal” hockey brain can testify that the Caps are way hotter than the Habs. By a long shot.
as we’ve discussed before, you’d be hard-pressed to find a hotter team.
I vote that we scrap the playoffs and just award the Cup to the hottest team!
Kung-fu Rink Rabbit
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They need something to do because besides go over the Central Scouting reports for the 100th time since January.
"You ever use smelling salts, every time you type a bad blog?" Brooks Laich
I was going to say, they’d have to be masochists to do tha-…oh, wait. Leafs fans, they’re already masochists. Never mind!
As a Clippers fan I get them. It’s why its easy for me to mock them. You can’t truly mock what you don’t understand. Plus, they are good people and damn funny too.
"You ever use smelling salts, every time you type a bad blog?" Brooks Laich
This lifetime Dolphins fan nods in sad agreement.
Now helping to keep an eye on all things Gr8 at Alex Ovetjkin.
This may be news to fans of teams that just tank to get first rounders but there are seven rounds in the draft :D
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Well...
We like to call it “rebuilding”, not tanking…and you guys should try it some time, it’s fun!
Oh, and we know there are seven rounds in the draft. Meet Brooks Laich, drafted 193rd overall in 2001:
…by the Senators.
Only YOU can prevent idiots from commenting!
by Knee high to a duck on Apr 12, 2010 11:07 PM EDT up reply actions
I don’t think it’s possible to hate Brooks.
Kung-fu Rink Rabbit
Donate to the Rink Pledge Drive for SAVES FOR KIDS! Ain’t nothing [crappy] about giving $5 so a stranger’s premature baby can have the time on a respirator they need.~Gould Old Days
And who did you trade to the Sens for Laich?
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by Kevin Sellathamby on Apr 13, 2010 7:43 AM EDT up reply actions
18 games of Peter Bondra.
Only YOU can prevent idiots from commenting!
by Knee high to a duck on Apr 13, 2010 8:40 AM EDT up reply actions
Love Bonzai, but the Caps won that trade, no doubt. Plus, Bondra at Caps games all season, so, really, win-win!
Kung-fu Rink Rabbit
Donate to the Rink Pledge Drive for SAVES FOR KIDS! Ain’t nothing [crappy] about giving $5 so a stranger’s premature baby can have the time on a respirator they need.~Gould Old Days
In that case I approve of Laich.
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I’d like to meet Brooks Laich!
oh, wait, you didn’t mean in person. Damn.
Kung-fu Rink Rabbit
Donate to the Rink Pledge Drive for SAVES FOR KIDS! Ain’t nothing [crappy] about giving $5 so a stranger’s premature baby can have the time on a respirator they need.~Gould Old Days
they’ve been shameless Caps playoff fans for 3 season now, and we love them for it. They’ve embraced their in Capitals fans and are eager to buy a red #8 and shout “Let’s Go Caps!” PPP even summed up the whole thing a couple years ago:
I think we can just be the Canadian arm of the Capitals fanbase. Sort of like a commonwealth country. We keep our customs but our head of state is Ovechkin now.
Kung-fu Rink Rabbit
Donate to the Rink Pledge Drive for SAVES FOR KIDS! Ain’t nothing [crappy] about giving $5 so a stranger’s premature baby can have the time on a respirator they need.~Gould Old Days
Check out some of the Leafs fan’s comments on PPP’s "On Playoff Bangwagoning" post. There are some Caps fans there but not too many. In fact most of them are rooting for a West Conference team which is fine. They have the right to root for whichever team they like but, in fact, some of the commenters there don’t even like the Caps very much. Maybe they did at one point but that’s no longer the case. These ones, in particular, caught my eye.
caps bandwagoning is soooo last season
by JaredFromLondon on Apr 13, 2010 10:17 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
No one in particular. But I like watching that Hawks team play hockey.
Canucks they can suck it. I like Luongo but can’t stand the rest of those weed smoking hippies – Kessler in particular.
Sens-pfft
MTL -pfft
Pitts – Crosby needs a break from winning
NJ-why would I?
Philly-suck me sideways beautiful
WSH-Euro trash
BUF-Leafs can’t beat ’em, they can suck it too.
Wendel Killer Joseph
by MapleLeafMole on Apr 13, 2010 9:45 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
euro trash is rather awesome
by sleza on Apr 13, 2010 10:06 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Euro Trash is awesome. Just can’t get behind their hockey team
Wendel Killer Joseph
by MapleLeafMole on Apr 13, 2010 10:09 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Anyway, I just wanted to point that out.
Lobbies: Green, Carlson, Orlov
by CapsFan2020 on Apr 14, 2010 11:17 AM EDT up reply actions
I’d bet those comments against the Caps are jokes, for the most part.
Though it’s true many of us are bandwagoning on a Western team… mostly Phoenix. I mean really, how cool a story are they?
One thing is for sure, we’ll enjoy you blitzing the dirty Habs in four straight!
leaf fan stuck in ottawa, a localized black hole that will suck everything in that area to oblivion.
It had to be ...
Great post. We all new you come come to your senses. A lifelong love vs a ten year fling? Was there ever a doubt? Just needed that lifelong love to finally get its act together. Now, time to show the ten year fling to the door, and slam the door shut for good.
ah-VEECH-kin
There can be only one ...
ah-VEECH-kin
by renhoak on Apr 12, 2010 9:38 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
=]
This post should have been mandatory before becoming a sister in arms. Welcome aboard anyway, and as the Red Hot Chili Peppers said:
It’s better late than never to set-uh-set it straight
You know the lie is dead
So give yourself a break
Get it through your head
And get it off your chest
Get it out your arm
Because it’s time to start fresh
You want to stop dying
The life you could be livin’
I’m here to tell a story
But I’m also here to listen
No I’m not your preacher
And I’m not your physician
I’m just trying to reach you
I’m a rebel with a mission
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
by zephyr on Apr 12, 2010 11:40 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
It had to be, Becca. Don’t cry because it’s over; smile because it happened… or something.
"He was the patron saint of quality footwear."
by Laich It Or Lump It on Apr 13, 2010 8:03 AM EDT reply actions
I didn’t realize you lost a bet also, Becca. What was the bet? This must have hurt even more than me praising the Staals.
A pretty girl is like a violent crime.
Ha…ha. It was time for a clean break, my friend, what can I say? I’m thinking of gathering all my Habs stuff up in a box and throwing it out (or at least putting it away…breakups aren’t easy, you know).
Of course, I’m keeping some things. My hatred for the Leafs, for one.
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