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It's time to come clean and own up to your sins - what is your hockey confession? We promise not to tell...
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I once tried to talk to Ziggy Palffy:
Me: You’re Ziggy Palffy.
Palffy: Yes.
Me: This is neat. I’ve never been this close to a hockey player before.
Palffy: Glad to hear it. Can you wait until I am done peeing?
Me: Sure thing. I’m done so I’ll wait for you outside bathroom.
This is the same bar I got to drink from the Stanley Cup in after NYR won in ’94. I refer to it as my “lucky hockey bar.”
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by 5ive Hole on Aug 11, 2010 2:38 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
Mario Lemieux is one of my favorite players.
or
I pulled a Steve Smith in the championship game in peewee.
Not sure which is worse.
Pulled a Steve Smith?
I like Laich, but I <3 Green
by RockinRed4Life on Aug 11, 2010 2:48 PM EDT up reply actions
I actually like the vast majority of Flyers fans.
"You ever use smelling salts, every time you type a bad blog?" Brooks Laich
Then you need a photo of some Wings fans.
"You ever use smelling salts, every time you type a bad blog?" Brooks Laich
Speaking (briefly) of ICP, the new infomercial for the 2010 “Gathering” is up.
It’s 17 minutes of what I really am not able to describe in words.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 11, 2010 2:57 PM EDT up reply actions
It’s okay, I was dating a flyers fan.
I like Laich, but I <3 Green
by RockinRed4Life on Aug 11, 2010 2:49 PM EDT up reply actions
Haha, that is awesome.
I like Laich, but I <3 Green
by RockinRed4Life on Aug 11, 2010 3:54 PM EDT up reply actions
I don’t mind most of them. They’re not bad in their own habitat – I actually had fun smack talking with them the one time I went to Wachovia Center. There’s always a few, though.
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
I think you can get away with it if you’re a girl. If you’re a guy, they just choke you out while other people cheer.
Why wouldn't you play Perreault? He's a really talented young player.
Didn’t they yell at Toews’ mom during the Finals? Not so sure females are immune…
I will say that outside of their building I find them to be kind of hilarious – they talk trash but are also fully capable of making fun of themselves. They’re so over the top that they don’t bother me as much anymore.
I’ve actually had some pretty hilarious encounters with Flyers fans at VC in the past few years. My favorite was a group of guys who went and bought Ovie jerseys at intermission because they loved him. They then swore if he scored they’d put them on over their Flyers apparel – I don’t think I’ve ever heard a section cheer as loudly for an Ovechkin goal as my section did that game. They didn’t put them on but encouraged the heckling for the rest of the night, it was great.
They also tend to be a knowledgeable bunch. Most of them know their hockey and can talk about their team – if you know a little bit about the Flyers they’ll fill in the holes, and you’ll learn a lot.
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
They also tend to be a knowledgeable bunch.
This is why I like them. I can talk hockey with them. I’ve met Flyers fans at odd times and in odd places, but almost always I wound up having a good conversation with them. The same cannot be said for my experiences with other hockey and/or sports fanbases
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I’ve had one exception. I had once to explain to a Flyers fan why a hockey stop is not a distinct kicking motion. The real problem was that he’d never been on skates and doesn’t know what happens if you try to pick one foot up to kick a puck while stopping.
(For those who don’t skate, you’ll end up on your ass if you’re lucky, and very possibly your face.)
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Kinda like this?
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I had an Edmonton Oilers jersey first — Gretzy era with NNOB. I don’t know why, I’ve also loved that logo, and when I first learned about the game was when the Oilers were in the midst of their 80’s dynasty days, so naturally I was fan, being too young to know any better.
Still have the sweater, but haven’t put it on in a LONG time.
"I am ready for his provocations"
by PaintDrinkingPete on Aug 11, 2010 2:46 PM EDT up reply actions
I own a Kris Beech Calgary Hitmen jersey.
But I’ve got one that’ll top that item (and is actually related): I got a new cell phone (and provider) the day after the Jagr trade, so the last four digits of my number, to this day, are 5247… JAGR.
So how does the two relate? In between when I ordered the Beech jersey and when it arrived at my house, he was dealt in the Jagr trade.
FML.
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Wow…just wow.
"I am ready for his provocations"
by PaintDrinkingPete on Aug 11, 2010 2:53 PM EDT up reply actions
There are no words for that...
"If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400." - Ted Williams
When the Capitals traded for Jagr, I was upset my brother wasn’t nearly as excited as me. I told him I was going to save the front page of the Post’s sports section and shove it in his face when the Caps won the Stanley Cup.
You still can one day (I hope), but it will make a lot less sense.
"I am ready for his provocations"
by PaintDrinkingPete on Aug 11, 2010 2:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Not really embarrassing but funny
I bought Jaromir Jagr a condom once.
I was in a sports bar in Pittsburgh after a Caps/Pens game – he strolled in with a couple babes in tow and he was soon mobbed by the crowd. He’s a pretty cool, down to earth, likeable person. After a time, I visited the men’s room and lo and behold, our boy was struggling with extracting a prophylactic from the pleasure dispenser. I was starting to walk out and he said “Hey”, pointing at the machine, “How work?” Turns out that he couldnt make change too well (unless you were talking poker chips).
After deducting my currency exchange fee, he was in business. I suggested he might need more and but I dont think he understood.
We never spoke again.
Back then, he was just a kid who had one two Cups and was on top of the world, with nary a care about anything.
That is a funny story, Shaggy.
I heard a lot of wild stories about a bunch of those Czech players going wild in Pittsburgh back in the day. They were pretty freaky off the ice from what I’ve heard.
"Game's the same. Just got more fierce."
Nothing too salacious or out of the ordinary - just some young men that like to pick up chicks at bars, like a lot of guys do. The Czech crew (notoriously Jiri Slegr) were active on the town - a back in the day Mike Green/Brooks Laich if you will - but with that funky European twist.
I did hear that Robert Lang like to star in and produce his own movies (if you get my drift), but that’s nothing I’ve ever wanted to confirm.
"Game's the same. Just got more fierce."
Oh. That’s not as exciting I was hoping (with the exception of the Lang tidbit, which…I’m with you, I’m okay leaving that area unknown). Damn you for making me interested in the private lives of Penguins! ;)
Not that I’ve stopped. I definitely spent far too long looking at pics of your team doing karaoke at a bar right after the playoffs…this is the thread for confessions, right?
This past season? I don’t know if I’ve even seen those. Obviously seen a ton of them in bars after last summer, including a couple of hilarious Hal Gill pictures. Don’t know how much it takes to get a guy that big so drunk, but he got there.
"Game's the same. Just got more fierce."
I’ll have to find the link, one of my Pens fan friends told me about them. Nothing too scandalous but still kind of funny. I think there’s even one of Sid on stage singing – it’s pretty far away, though I’m not convinced it’s him. Too much personality needed for that ;)
as long as the infamous nipple twisting picture doesn’t get posted….
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Cool thanks.
Getting too OT so I’ll stop, but it’s scary how many people find my blog googling “penguin poop” (and they’re not talking about the blog you linked to). There’s some twisted people out there.
"Game's the same. Just got more fierce."
Here, I’ll keep it OT by confessing that Craig Adams has very pretty arms.
All the better to shove someone from behind with, I guess. :D
Someone needs to take that photo of Talbot and write you know what on it.
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I don’t comment and haven’t gone for a while, but it’s still interesting.
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When i first glanced at this i thought it said “I bought a Jaromir Jagr condom once”
and thought, “that cocky mother fucker. he had his own line of condoms?”
by Brainumbc on Aug 11, 2010 3:33 PM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
same here
Watching the O’s try to use strategy is like watching Mike Green trying to figure out the difference between "your" and "you’re"--Terpgrrl
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is the prefix 385 (FUK)?
Just trying to capture the spirit of the thing...
by dcsportsfan1 on Aug 11, 2010 4:12 PM EDT up reply actions
I still let my daughter wear an old Jagr Caps jersey.
I try not to look at the back as much as possbile.
I saw a very young boy wearing an old Jagr jersey at a Caps game last season. He didn’t look old enough to know any better, but his parents should have.
I realize that jerseys aren’t cheap (even the child sized ones), but don’t let your kids pay for your mistakes!
"I am ready for his provocations"
by PaintDrinkingPete on Aug 11, 2010 2:50 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm not a puck bunny, but...
I want to photograph a “beefcake” hockey calendar and sell it for charity.
The charity would make a mint.
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by IRockTheRed on Aug 11, 2010 2:47 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I own a Jaromir Jagr-signed Czech team jersey that I bought at his old sports bar in Prague, and I still think it’s one of the cooler pieces of hockey crap I own.
Also, I love Brooks Laich.
…that was new info, right?
I will always think BL21 is a better player than he is because he is: a) a certifiably awesome human, and b) sinfully good looking.
by funkyceili79 on Aug 11, 2010 3:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Brooks Laich recently appeared to me in a dream. Not like that — it was a hockey-related dream. I dream about hockey.
"I wake up in the middle night frustrated because we lost out in the first round and I want to see our players hoist the Stanley Cup." -Brooks Laich
by CapitalCentre on Aug 11, 2010 3:21 PM EDT up reply actions
I have had some very weird hockey-related dreams in my day, don’t worry. And almost all of them have been G-rated.
My wife had one where Alex Ovechkin kept singing “Alexander’s Ragtime Band”, and he got so tired of singing it he finally got mad and yelled “I’M NEVER PLAYING HOCKEY FOR YOU PEOPLE EVER AGAIN!”
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 11, 2010 3:25 PM EDT up reply actions
The only hockey dream I’ve had so far, the university of maryland had a women’s hockey team (no I’ve never gone there, but it’s in Maryland so I guess that’s why it showed up in the dream), and I was the goalie.
In my dream, we were headed to the final game of the playoffs and I was suiting up…all of us were…in Caps reds and being bused to the Verizon Center for the game. Which we won. It was one of the most badass dreams I’ve EVER had.
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That’s awesome.
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by CapitalCentre on Aug 11, 2010 3:28 PM EDT up reply actions
I married a Wings fan. WTF was I thinking?!
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by MikeL-Pivonka on Aug 11, 2010 3:56 PM EDT up reply actions
My father and the gal I am seeing are die-hard Leafs fans. Oh wait, I live in Toronto—no big surprise.
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by Rather Bengt on Aug 11, 2010 7:08 PM EDT up reply actions
I’m still not exactly clear on what “offsides” is.
But I can solemnly nod my head in agreement and/or boo with the best of ’em.
Oh and ref you suck.
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Haha. A team is said to be “offside” (not “offsides”) when the puck is not the first thing on the attacking team to cross the offensive blue line. If the player backs in with the puck, they’re offside (I believe). if the puck carrier isn’t the first one across with the puck, they’re offside.
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
You can back in with the puck so long as you are completely in control of the puck, unless that has changed recently.
Why wouldn't you play Perreault? He's a really talented young player.
Okay. Saw it called once.
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
It seems to be subjective to the ref. I’ve seen it called and not called.
by DrinkingPartner on Aug 11, 2010 2:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Player in possession of the puck must be across the opponent’s blue line first, is all.
by DrinkingPartner on Aug 11, 2010 2:55 PM EDT up reply actions
My dad used to say to his mite teams PGIF: Puck Goes In First.
Why wouldn't you play Perreault? He's a really talented young player.
That’s how my son learned it as a mite. Or at least that’s how he explained it to me sans initials. Now whenever he’s with his hockey bud watching a game they debate (in ten-year-old fashion) whether the ref called it correctly or not.
"I’m very happy to hear the news," Ovechkin said when he heard about Backstrom's longterm contract--"because he’s one of the top centers in the world, one of my best friends and we want to play together for a long time. He’s a guy who wants to stay in one place and be comfortable and win, just like me. We talk all the time about playing together, and we talked after the playoffs about how we can win in Washington."
by capsyoungguns on Aug 11, 2010 3:48 PM EDT up reply actions
I think she was snarking, and getting a shot in at the cled types that yell “offsides!!!1”.
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
No snark, brother. The Rink Confessional is a sacred place.
Heh.
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Well then in the spirit of PGIF I admit that I have had the desire to yell “shoot” even though I know better. But I promise I have never said it out loud. Unfortunately “ref you suck” has passed my lips a few times, despite the fact that I won’t let my son say it. Do as I say and all that….!
"I’m very happy to hear the news," Ovechkin said when he heard about Backstrom's longterm contract--"because he’s one of the top centers in the world, one of my best friends and we want to play together for a long time. He’s a guy who wants to stay in one place and be comfortable and win, just like me. We talk all the time about playing together, and we talked after the playoffs about how we can win in Washington."
by capsyoungguns on Aug 11, 2010 3:55 PM EDT up reply actions
You know he can’t hear you if you yell anything, right?
When I coached, I usually asked the parents to just swallow everything.
Every bursted bubble has a glory! Each abysmal failure makes a point! Every glowing path that goes astray,shows you how to find a better way. So every time you stumble never grumble. Next time you'll bumble even less!
Agh—Not at my son’s games—never, no. I just cheer the team on.
I mean at the Caps games I can get very intense and I sometimes have gotten caught up in the ref chant. But my son always gives me the “look” and I shut up—he’s at a very black/white understanding of the rules stage in his life and clearly I’ve taught him well even if I’ve failed the test.
BTW I have loved all of his hockey coaches. They are all about understanding the game and having fun and being a good teammate. They want them to love playing hockey.
"I’m very happy to hear the news," Ovechkin said when he heard about Backstrom's longterm contract--"because he’s one of the top centers in the world, one of my best friends and we want to play together for a long time. He’s a guy who wants to stay in one place and be comfortable and win, just like me. We talk all the time about playing together, and we talked after the playoffs about how we can win in Washington."
by capsyoungguns on Aug 11, 2010 4:19 PM EDT up reply actions
That’s awesome – about the coaches. That has always been my perspective. Teach love of the game and having fun. Winning is great, but secondary.
Every bursted bubble has a glory! Each abysmal failure makes a point! Every glowing path that goes astray,shows you how to find a better way. So every time you stumble never grumble. Next time you'll bumble even less!
Up to a certain point, definitely. It’s hard to be a “love the game” coach at higher levels of competition.
by DrinkingPartner on Aug 11, 2010 4:22 PM EDT up reply actions
My son is NOT that good. So this will never be a problem for us.
But he loves his hockey, both as a player and as a fan.
"I’m very happy to hear the news," Ovechkin said when he heard about Backstrom's longterm contract--"because he’s one of the top centers in the world, one of my best friends and we want to play together for a long time. He’s a guy who wants to stay in one place and be comfortable and win, just like me. We talk all the time about playing together, and we talked after the playoffs about how we can win in Washington."
by capsyoungguns on Aug 11, 2010 4:24 PM EDT up reply actions
I have used birthday cake wishes on the Caps.
Why wouldn't you play Perreault? He's a really talented young player.
But now that you’ve written that, the wishes won’t come true! Thanks for ruining the season before it even started, jerk.
by Kerry Fraser's Hairspray on Aug 11, 2010 3:12 PM EDT up reply actions
You are an inspiring figure. I wish I had used my 20th on the Caps
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i’ve never been able to for the Canucks. doesn’t work so well when my birthday is June 1st, and they’ve only played hockey past that date twice…..
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I have two:
(1) I’d never watched a hockey game, live or on TV, until I got dragged to a game by a friend. As it happened, it was the game where Backis scored into his own net against the Pens. I thought it was pretty neat though I didn’t have a clue what was going on, so I kept coming back,and gradually I got the idea as I studied up over the summer.
(2) I have a thing for the Bruins. It got started because I first heard the name David Krejci and thought “What a cool name! Gotta see him play.” Turned out the guy was as cool as his name, so I started watching the Bruins. I still like the Bruins dammit.
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Holy cow I was at that game.
One of the worst experiences of my life. We were literally SURROUNDED by Pens fans in the upper rows. The fuckers came down to that game in BUSES.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 11, 2010 2:58 PM EDT up reply actions
I was at Bugsy’s, which was very VERY split.
Why wouldn't you play Perreault? He's a really talented young player.
I’ve never felt all the air come out of me at a sporting event as completely as when the Pens got that goal late. I didn’t even realize at the time Backstrom had put it in the Caps net.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 11, 2010 3:02 PM EDT up reply actions
I got really sick two days before the game and had to watch from home while my roommate and my sister went to the game without me. I remember I was so upset when it happened – and so sick that everything seemed worse – that I cried. I cried when it happened, I cried at the replay, and I cried the hardest when they played stupid Crosby with his stupid mic doing that stupid cackle.
broke my foot that morning, came home from the ER to watch the game, my mom calls to tell me my grandfather died and there’s Sidney Crosby’s face on my TV, pointing at Nick and laughing. I hate that game.
Watching the O’s try to use strategy is like watching Mike Green trying to figure out the difference between "your" and "you’re"--Terpgrrl
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I was at that game too… damn did that one hurt…
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by MikeL-Pivonka on Aug 11, 2010 4:00 PM EDT up reply actions
I owe my hockey fandom to La Sooz’s tickets for Cereal/Hamburger Helper.
We had an entire room full of cereal.
I dig the wave
When I played street hockey in high school and scored, I’d yell “Biscuits and Gravy!”
I think Hossa’s “dirty” hit wasn’t anywhere near as bad as ovechkin’s on Campbell
Also when the mites on ice play in between periods, I’m the one in the 400’s yelling “CHECK HIS ASS INTO THE BOARDS!”
mmmm.. steel reserve on tap.
mmmm.. steel reserve on tap.That + getting shut out against the rangers… What could possibly go wrong?
Having steel reserve on tap?
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 11, 2010 3:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Really? I can get a six of Mickey’s for $3.45.
Why wouldn't you play Perreault? He's a really talented young player.
Places that serve it to you, I mean.
by DrinkingPartner on Aug 11, 2010 3:05 PM EDT up reply actions
I got interested in hockey because of The MIghty Ducks.
by DrinkingPartner on Aug 11, 2010 2:56 PM EDT reply actions
Nothing wrong with that...
"If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400." - Ted Williams
Exactly...
Any kid that had a stick and puck thought “the knuckle puck” was the best shot to score a goal… and we all tried it…
"If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400." - Ted Williams
One of my earliest hockey memories is some dumb kid on my team telling me his skates went 90 mph because they were Bauer 90’s.
Why wouldn't you play Perreault? He's a really talented young player.
You guys remember back in the mid 90’s when espn2 would broadcast that inline hockey league during the summer?
I sure do. I think Glen Metropolit was in that league.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 11, 2010 3:03 PM EDT up reply actions
Yup. And Francis Boullion
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 11, 2010 3:04 PM EDT up reply actions
I’m a leaner.
Please love me…
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Why wouldn't you play Perreault? He's a really talented young player.
Well unfortunately for me I couldn't afford my season tickets this year so I won't be there as often...
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by winterion on Aug 11, 2010 6:01 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I like Sid.
I also would buy Tampa Bay Lightning merchandise if given the chance even though I hate the team.
I also once got into a snowball fight with Neil Sheehy as a young lad.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 11, 2010 3:01 PM EDT reply actions
I hope Stevie Y turns the org. around so that the Admirals will be interesting to watch.
Why wouldn't you play Perreault? He's a really talented young player.
I may take that trip to Norfolk some day. For now I would like to see the Bears in Wilkes-Barre for my next hockey road trip.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 11, 2010 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions
It’s weird to go to Norfolk when the Bears aren’t there. I guess I kinda root for the Admirals, but I talk about how the Bears will crush them always.
Why wouldn't you play Perreault? He's a really talented young player.
My father and brothers always made me play goalie, which I didn’t like because it hurt, so I put all the goalie sticks through the wood chipper one day, then told my dad they got stolen at Wheaton Ice Rink.
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
LOL…Oh Wheaton. I was a goalie when I played my youth hockey and we had a game at 5 a.m. in about negative ten degree weather. My feet literally froze and I had to skate to the bench because I could barely stand anymore.
We were mites at the time so one of our forwards played took over for me in net. We still won like 5-4, but I’ll never forget that day.
I remember playing in similar weather there and ended up with a 2 week bout of the flu. The outdoor rink was brutal in January.
by DrinkingPartner on Aug 11, 2010 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions
Worst one for me was Chevy Chase.
Why wouldn't you play Perreault? He's a really talented young player.
Oooh yeah, I do remember one night there where the thermal headband I was wearing under my helmet fell over my eyes while I was out on a shift. I managed it back to the bench, somehow, and pulled it down around my neck. In 15 minutes, it was frozen solid around my neck. I had to wait for it to melt off of my skin when I got back to the locker room.
by DrinkingPartner on Aug 11, 2010 3:12 PM EDT up reply actions
We had a game here in the 314 just last year at an outdoor rink when it was below zero. The water did freeze on the bench. I wore three hats to keep warm, but the kids hung in there and we won.
Every bursted bubble has a glory! Each abysmal failure makes a point! Every glowing path that goes astray,shows you how to find a better way. So every time you stumble never grumble. Next time you'll bumble even less!
About six years ago. My first (and only) head coaching gig with a group of squirts, including my son. Very first practice. Three teams together (about 45 kids).
In honor of the event, I finally invest in new skates so my son can shed the embarrassment of my circa-1984 Bauers. Bought the ones with the heat forming inside, etc.
Kids are skating circles to warm up. I skate to center ice, about to blow the whistle for all to stop, slow down and do a backwards snow-plow stop. I looked very cool.
I catch an edge on the skates. Topple over forward like a domino and crack my chin on the ice. Blood everywhere. After trying to bandage, I end up having to pull my son off and drive to the hospital, where I got about six stitches.
FYI – I never wore the skates again.
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I once played roller hockey in a league, but we didn’t have enough people to form two leagues on age groups, so our league was 7-17. I was 17, and tripped over my coaches son (I’d coached his son the year before, actually) who was 8, and I chin planted and had to get stitches. That was fun.
"Don't mind WM...he's an all-around jerk."
I’m a diehard caps fan living in Nashville I can’t bring myself to support the predators in any way since their entrance into the league( amoung other teams) brought about the demise of the patrick division and the introduction of the southeast. I know its silly, but it just bugs the hell out of me. sorry burton.
I loathed the Ducks when they got brought into the league for one simple reason. That god awful logo. Weren’t they owned by Disney back in the day? Didn’t that explain it.
They were indeed owned by Disney.
Every bursted bubble has a glory! Each abysmal failure makes a point! Every glowing path that goes astray,shows you how to find a better way. So every time you stumble never grumble. Next time you'll bumble even less!
Yea. Nothing made me lose respect for the NHL more than having a team named and logo designed after a children’s movie. I liked the mighty ducks movie at the time and even I knew it was the lamest thing ever to have that logo on a professional sports team.
Well.. almost nothing … (cough cough fox puck tracker cough cough)
...
Eesh
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 11, 2010 3:15 PM EDT up reply actions
The day that jersey was unveiled was a sad, sad day for the NHL indeed. I don’t know what’s worse.
That or the really ugly ass canucks brown/gold/yellow V shaped jreseys from 30 years ago.
Would you rather look like you were in a crappy 80’s workout video? Or a league made for preschoolers
I actually like those, especially the yellow ones
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 11, 2010 3:19 PM EDT up reply actions
All he needs are orange wings and he’d look like a minion for the Monarch on the Venture Brothers cartoon.
There's always more to learn about Hockey.
Harold Snepsts Moustache + that jersey = Win.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 11, 2010 3:21 PM EDT up reply actions
Yayyyyyyyyyyyyy more Snepsts! It’s a good day at the Rink
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by Rather Bengt on Aug 11, 2010 7:11 PM EDT up reply actions
Two Postings with Harold Snepsts in one day… the mind boggles.
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by MikeL-Pivonka on Aug 11, 2010 4:03 PM EDT up reply actions
I either had to go with him or Stan Smyl. Those are the only two I know of from that era off the top of my head.
That and King Richard Brodeur
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 11, 2010 5:31 PM EDT up reply actions
so, basically the 1982 Canucks cinderella team? can’t go wrong with that.
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You don’t remember their other goalie at the time… some guy named Glen Hanlon? ;-)
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by MikeL-Pivonka on Aug 12, 2010 10:43 AM EDT up reply actions
Yes, they were owned by Disney, and that’s actually half the reason that I’ve considered the Ducks my second team since their founding.
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by CapitalCentre on Aug 11, 2010 3:14 PM EDT up reply actions
1982 All-Star Game at Capital Centre. My dad gets four tickets and lets me invite a friend along with mom & dad. I invite a girl I want to impress and I proceed to explain the Wales Conference and the Campbell Conference to her and how the Caps were in the Wales Conference, so that’s who we should root for.
First goal of the game (no memory of who scored, was by the Campbell Conference. I immediately jumped up to cheer. She says “I thought we weren’t supposed to root for them.” Embarrassed, I cover and say something about it being an all-star game and being ok to root for both teams.
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Ouch.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 11, 2010 3:18 PM EDT up reply actions
I once dressed up as a girl and went on a date with this guy and his dad to the 1982 all-star game at the Capital Centre..
Why wouldn't you play Perreault? He's a really talented young player.
by jordanDC on Aug 11, 2010 3:18 PM EDT reply actions 5 recs
The guy didn’t even know what team he was rooting for.
Why wouldn't you play Perreault? He's a really talented young player.
Good thing you dumped his ass. Can’t date stupid people like that.
There's always more to learn about Hockey.
what jordan isn’t telling you is that he dressed up like a girl for the game because he used to be a girl
It was some kind of surgery that let you restart life 5 years afterwards.
by DrinkingPartner on Aug 11, 2010 3:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Thanks for doing the math.
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Teensy bit sensitive about one’s age, is someone?
by DrinkingPartner on Aug 11, 2010 3:29 PM EDT up reply actions
Not true youngster. Very please with where I am in life.
I am honored that you would choose to go back in time to cross dress to accompany me to a game as a pimply 10th grader. It warms my heart.
Every bursted bubble has a glory! Each abysmal failure makes a point! Every glowing path that goes astray,shows you how to find a better way. So every time you stumble never grumble. Next time you'll bumble even less!
Maybe it was more of a Quantum Leap thing. Scott Bakula once cropped into the body of a pregnant woman.
Every bursted bubble has a glory! Each abysmal failure makes a point! Every glowing path that goes astray,shows you how to find a better way. So every time you stumble never grumble. Next time you'll bumble even less!
Did you remember to cheer for the Wales Conference?
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 11, 2010 3:20 PM EDT up reply actions
Now they drop money for some odd reason.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 11, 2010 3:21 PM EDT up reply actions
Do they still have one at Verizon? We’ve got a DTV one here in the STL.
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They have one in Hershey.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 11, 2010 3:22 PM EDT up reply actions
There’s one at the Giant Center but I’ve never seen one at VC.
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
I’ve always cheered for Montreal.
Before Verizon got hopping I just loved watching Habs games on TV to hear the roar of the crowd. That Montreal fanbase is always selling out games so I’ve always had a soft spot.
"If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400." - Ted Williams
Glad to know I'm not alone...
:-)
"If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400." - Ted Williams
My first hockey memory is sitting in my mom’s kitchen for what was likely the 1990 all star game when it was Campbell vs. Wales conference all stars and as a 3 year old I decided I liked the Wales “team” and even though it was only one game a year they played they were my favorite “team.” I also got them confused with the Whalers. Glad I am smarter now.
"Have you ever played?" "Yes, I was a goalie"
I think it’s the part of me that is nostalgic for my childhood days with my little brother, when he would irritate the crap out of me until I snapped, chased him around the house, and tried to beat the crap out of him… And he would try to get me to hit him within earshot/sight of our parents, so I would end up getting in trouble. I usually ended up taking a penalty.
This was easily my favorite moment from last season: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X8i3TuINyM
You had me at no problem.
Saw Caps-Kings New Years Day (’89?) and was on the home end over the glass. Me, my brother and Dad shifted over for a better view of the game, when Gretz hit a slapshot which went out of play and bounced off the seat I would have sat in. Another kid grabbed it, I was SOL.
Dunno if that’s more regret than confession, but there you go.
It takes...something? Anything?!?
We never ended the game in the seats we started with at the Caps Centre.
Why wouldn't you play Perreault? He's a really talented young player.
On the plus side, behind the bench at the Panthers game last year was a seat-switcher that was nice.
It takes...something? Anything?!?
by Bald Pollack on Aug 11, 2010 3:34 PM EDT up reply actions
At least it was Gretzky and not Espen Knutsen
/too soon?
by Kerry Fraser's Hairspray on Aug 11, 2010 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Not too soon, but that’s definitely what I was thinking, too.
by DrinkingPartner on Aug 11, 2010 4:15 PM EDT up reply actions
Horrible minds think alike…
by Kerry Fraser's Hairspray on Aug 11, 2010 4:20 PM EDT up reply actions
I was on the post-1998-Red-Wings-Cup-Win Bandagon for a reaaallly long time.
Sometimes, you really just want to hit a b**ch.
I’ve never liked the Red Wigns.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 11, 2010 3:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Or the Red Wings.
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 11, 2010 3:25 PM EDT up reply actions
I’ll throw in one more bizarre story.
2001 – Verizon Center upper bowl. I head out during play to hit the head or grab something to eat. As I turn to enter the concourse, one of those kids that throws t-shirts is standing there with a bunch of shirts, all by herself.
Of course, I say “I’ll take one of those.” She says “Jump up and down or something.” So, I jump up and down and wave my hands all alone in the entry-way and she throws me t-shirt with the old blue diving eagle. I ended up wearing that until it fell apart.
Every bursted bubble has a glory! Each abysmal failure makes a point! Every glowing path that goes astray,shows you how to find a better way. So every time you stumble never grumble. Next time you'll bumble even less!
I want to trade Semin for Zach
" I don't have a certain type, only the heart can tell. If the heart responds, then it is my type."
by TheFuryUnleashed on Aug 11, 2010 3:27 PM EDT reply actions
I want to trade Semin so that every single game isn’t a referendum on Semin’s value to the Capitals.
by David Getz on Aug 11, 2010 3:30 PM EDT up reply actions 9 recs
Comment of the week.
It takes...something? Anything?!?
by Bald Pollack on Aug 11, 2010 3:39 PM EDT up reply actions
I think the semin hate comes more from the untimely penalties.
Flash at least doesn’t suffer chronically from that issue
You’ve seen Semin OR Flash playing both ways?
After reading the above, please remember that I am pretending to know anything about hockey.
by Laich Button on Aug 12, 2010 4:11 AM EDT up reply actions
Flash suffering from taking untimely penalties.
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by Whiter Mage on Aug 12, 2010 10:46 PM EDT up reply actions
I’m done with my own dirty secrets but I’d like to know this dirty secret
Which one of you jerks were the ones at game 7 vs philly that started throwing water bottles and other garbage onto the ice after they scored against Huet?
own up to it suckers!
I taped the 2002 Western Conference Finals game 7 for Mr. B. We had just moved in together. I then proceeded to spoil the outcome 2 minutes into watching the game. I still don’t think he’s entirely forgiven me.
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What did you say? “Don’t worry honey, they win.”
Every bursted bubble has a glory! Each abysmal failure makes a point! Every glowing path that goes astray,shows you how to find a better way. So every time you stumble never grumble. Next time you'll bumble even less!
no, I asked who had home ice for finals, Detroit or Carolina! (bah, five minutes into the game it was pretty clear Detroit was going to win, since they were up something insane like 3-0)
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I did something like that to my son during the basketball final four in ’09. Except that his team lost.
"It's always good to have vikings."
Proud member of the Oxford dictionary police.
I think getting him Winter Classic tickets will more than make it up to him!
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I thought Al Iafrate’s name was Alliah Fratey.
The story is that I was in Germany in the early 90s and after I came back from relative hockey exile, I wasnt able to watch the caps on TV but I listened on the radio. After a few years over the pond, I had no idea who was on the team (and I was 8 or 9 years old and no internet back then), so over the radio, I never quite picked up that ‘Al’ was the first name. I thought he had such a strange name, then I read it in the paper and it was a forehead slapping moment.
↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → b a (select) start
I was a new hockey fan in 1993...
And I tried to convince my middle school classmates that Alexandre Daigle was my boyfriend.
I got into hockey because of Blades of Steel, and then again years later because of NHL 94 on the Genesis.
"Why don't you smegging well smeg off, you annoying little smeggy smegging smegger!"
I played Blades for hours on end even though I sucked horribly
"Why don't you smegging well smeg off, you annoying little smeggy smegging smegger!"
but 94 on the Genesis…… wow is all I can say
"Why don't you smegging well smeg off, you annoying little smeggy smegging smegger!"
MAKE THE PASS
MAKE THE PASS
MAKE MAKE MAKE MAKE THE PASS
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by YvonLabresMoustache on Aug 11, 2010 5:32 PM EDT up reply actions
I read Japers RInk everyday .. And I still want to punch Sid Crosby in the face.
have any of you people even seen a chicken?
we have a support group for that. we meet every other Tuesday. We stick pins in our Sidney Crosby voodoo dolls. Hank sure seems to think its fun.
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I aways wonder if the players think the fans are lame for always doing the “unleash the fury” or “dance cam”: things at games
Karl Alzner thinks the Unleash the Fury thing is scary and loud but cool. They asked him about it after his first game with the Caps. I forget which article it was.
There's always more to learn about Hockey.
“I heard rumors that it was really good and I saw in the playoffs that it was good, but I didn’t think it was gonna be as loud as it is,” Karl Alzner said. “Especially when fans do the Unleash The Fury thing at the end? There’s been times where I’ve [turned] to guys on the bench and asked them if their head’s hurting, because seriously, it’s so loud….I don’t think I’ve ever played in a louder building.”
Link.
Was that the one?
Karl Alzner is adorable. and I mean that in the nicest way, he really just seems to embrace all of the goofiness that comes with being a pro athlete.
Steinberg asked him about it during the Pens playoff series:
Alzner, who had never been to an NHL playoff game, switched viewing locations throughout the night, from gym to training room to family lounge to zamboni tunnel, where he went late in the third “just to see how loud it actually was.” How loud was it?
“Very,” he reported. “Incredibly loud. That Unleash the Fury, I timed it perfectly so I could come out and see that, and it was good. Yeah, it hurts, it hurts.”
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I sure hope they don’t. They should know that their job is, in part, as entertainers.
"I wake up in the middle night frustrated because we lost out in the first round and I want to see our players hoist the Stanley Cup." -Brooks Laich
by CapitalCentre on Aug 11, 2010 3:43 PM EDT up reply actions
My Confession...
My wife and I hired Slapshot to entertain at our wedding… and we had him start up the Chicken Dance…and he made us participate!
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that would be me. And we still have the little figurines from the top of the Cup portion.
Yes, there is something complicated about 10 inch hose clamp pliers.
I don’t know about celebrity…but I will proudly claim the title of fanatical geek.
25 tables at the reception…all had centerpieces with NHL team banners. five teams left out…guess which ones we burned…
Yes, there is something complicated about 10 inch hose clamp pliers.
our former Patrick Division “friends”?
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among others…Pens, Flyers, Wings, Lightning, and Canes all found the white hot end of a zippo.
Yes, there is something complicated about 10 inch hose clamp pliers.
it must have been beautiful
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Nope, this was in 2002.
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by MikeL-Pivonka on Aug 11, 2010 4:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Seriously?
I stole Mike Green’s playoff mojo
"Tikkanen's miss was not as dramatic as the penalty shot Joe Juneau missed in Washington's quadruple-overtime playoff loss to Pittsburgh two years [previous]." - Washington Post game recap 6/12/98
Seriously. In 2002, you could hire Slapshot for 2 hours of an event for $250 as long as you provided food for the guy in the costume. Considering it was a wedding with a buffet, there was plenty of food for him.
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by MikeL-Pivonka on Aug 11, 2010 4:08 PM EDT up reply actions
My daughter’s initials are C.A.P. and my son’s name is Hunter.
Yes, there is something complicated about 10 inch hose clamp pliers.
he’s only four weeks old, so, yes.
Yes, there is something complicated about 10 inch hose clamp pliers.
Hunter’s a good name in general. My best friend’s older brother named his son Nicholas back in like 1988. Middle name: Fury
"Tikkanen's miss was not as dramatic as the penalty shot Joe Juneau missed in Washington's quadruple-overtime playoff loss to Pittsburgh two years [previous]." - Washington Post game recap 6/12/98
My daughter’s initials are C.A.P. and my son’s name is Hunter.
Sorry, this is “confessions.” “Acts of Awesomeness” is tomorrow.
It takes...something? Anything?!?
by Bald Pollack on Aug 11, 2010 4:02 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
It’s ok, the ladies love Cetera
It's The Wait for Red October. Except rather than Sean Connery, Alex Baldwin, and Sam Neill, it's George McPhee, Bruce Boudreau, and Alex Ovechkin.
Not Tom Clancy, but Gary Bettman. Not the Soviet Kremlin, but. . .well. . . .yeah, the Soviet Kremlin
by kingzman264 on Aug 11, 2010 4:00 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Thumbs up or Thumbs down?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2igzBg-hcQ
u need to watch this
It's The Wait for Red October. Except rather than Sean Connery, Alex Baldwin, and Sam Neill, it's George McPhee, Bruce Boudreau, and Alex Ovechkin.
Not Tom Clancy, but Gary Bettman. Not the Soviet Kremlin, but. . .well. . . .yeah, the Soviet Kremlin
i actually cheered for Calgary in the SCF’s in 2004….
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"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve" (Bilbo)
So did I. I didn’t want a Caps rival to win the Cup before the Caps did….
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by MikeL-Pivonka on Aug 11, 2010 4:09 PM EDT up reply actions
i was 14 at the time, and didn’t start paying closer attention to the canucks until after the lockout.
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"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve" (Bilbo)
Oof. I did, too, but I’m guessing that’s a pretty big confession for a Canucks fan! I swear I won’t tell your friends.
For the right price.
:D
read my comment above.
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"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve" (Bilbo)
I hit a goalie in the face with my stick while trying to Michigan a goal. I’m not sure if that counts.
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Keith Ballard, is that you?
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i know that when the caps win the cup, i will cry like a baby.
i didnt cry when my grandfather died or when my kids were born, but i will cry when ov raises that cup…i know it.
Just trying to capture the spirit of the thing...
No question that when the Caps win the Cup, I will have head in hands in tears.
I have told my family that I will be at a potential clincher no matter where or at what cost.
Every bursted bubble has a glory! Each abysmal failure makes a point! Every glowing path that goes astray,shows you how to find a better way. So every time you stumble never grumble. Next time you'll bumble even less!
Me too. The going to the game that is, not the crying.
by Kerry Fraser's Hairspray on Aug 11, 2010 4:18 PM EDT up reply actions
I originally became a Capitals fan way back for one reason only: Olaf Kolzig’s Godzilla goalie mask. Fortunately, I moved to Virginia a few years later.
I also played roller hockey wayyy before i ever got onto the ice. . .and i think i enjoy playing roller more than ice.
I saw Anze Kopitar in west hollywood once and was too nervous to say hey to the guy
in high school, i convinced my family to name one of our dogs, the smallest one no less, Lars. I told them it was funny because he is a small dog and it is a burly name. . .but it was actually because of Backstrom
It's The Wait for Red October. Except rather than Sean Connery, Alex Baldwin, and Sam Neill, it's George McPhee, Bruce Boudreau, and Alex Ovechkin.
Not Tom Clancy, but Gary Bettman. Not the Soviet Kremlin, but. . .well. . . .yeah, the Soviet Kremlin
I’ve got quite a few.
I wasn’t a Caps fan until I moved to DC in the fall of 2005. Upon deciding to adopt the Caps as my team, I went through a pretty exhaustive research project trying to learn about the history of the team. I went on a pretty massive self-education campaign about the history of a lot of hockey teams during law school.
I went to a pretty hockey-mad college. Unfortunately, I only went to two college hockey games my entire time there.
Related: I really wanted to play hockey after watching a lot of hockey in high school. However, I lived in Albuquerque, NM, so there wasn’t much of an opportunity to play hockey. Then, I went to a college where I could have played pond hockey for P.E. credit if I’d wanted to. I took cross-country skiing instead.
I learned the rules of hockey from (and, really, became a hockey fan as a result of) NHL96, for the most part. I had no idea about hockey strategies, though, until I started watching Caps games a couple of years ago.
did you go to college in New England or Minnesota? Damn, pond hockey for credit?
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I went to school in Massachusetts. I had a classmate from Nebraska who learned lacrosse on his own and practiced against his garage. He never had played on a team, and he started all four years.
Every bursted bubble has a glory! Each abysmal failure makes a point! Every glowing path that goes astray,shows you how to find a better way. So every time you stumble never grumble. Next time you'll bumble even less!
As a kid in the mid 70’s, I always wanted a Leafs jersey. Never got one. My mom had bought a Canucks t shirt from Sears for me for christmas one year. It was the ugly rink/stick logo,but I wore it with pride because it was still a hockey shirt.
Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and your dog.
It’s a bit off, but I definitely plan on naming my kids after hockey players.
Also I don’t think I could date someone who isn’t a hockey fan.
Twitter!!!1
Reppin' Team Tyler yo.
You just have to convert them.
Why wouldn't you play Perreault? He's a really talented young player.
Agreed. I’ve told the story here about how I knew I was going to marry Mrs. Spidey when she took “The NHL Guide to Rules” out from the library after our third date or so.
Every bursted bubble has a glory! Each abysmal failure makes a point! Every glowing path that goes astray,shows you how to find a better way. So every time you stumble never grumble. Next time you'll bumble even less!
goodness gracious, i assume you put a ring on it during date #4?
It's The Wait for Red October. Except rather than Sean Connery, Alex Baldwin, and Sam Neill, it's George McPhee, Bruce Boudreau, and Alex Ovechkin.
Not Tom Clancy, but Gary Bettman. Not the Soviet Kremlin, but. . .well. . . .yeah, the Soviet Kremlin
That would have been presumptuous, but it was all smooth sailing from there, at least from my perspective.
She doesn’t go to a lot of games, but she is incredibly accommodating.
“Kids – Dad has the TV tonight for hockey. Dont’ disturb him.”
“Do you want to watch the game during dinner? Ok – sit over here.”
“Honey, is the game over? I don’t want to distubt you.”
Every bursted bubble has a glory! Each abysmal failure makes a point! Every glowing path that goes astray,shows you how to find a better way. So every time you stumble never grumble. Next time you'll bumble even less!
haha, maybe a little presumptuous. But in my 2 years at USC, i still havent found a girl who really enjoys sitting down and watching the Caps or Kings play.
It seems like you have a keeper there spidey
It's The Wait for Red October. Except rather than Sean Connery, Alex Baldwin, and Sam Neill, it's George McPhee, Bruce Boudreau, and Alex Ovechkin.
Not Tom Clancy, but Gary Bettman. Not the Soviet Kremlin, but. . .well. . . .yeah, the Soviet Kremlin
18 years and 2 months.
Every bursted bubble has a glory! Each abysmal failure makes a point! Every glowing path that goes astray,shows you how to find a better way. So every time you stumble never grumble. Next time you'll bumble even less!
I could probably marry a non-Jew but I’m pretty sure I could never marry a Penguins fan. And I’m 100% sure my parents don’t approve of this ordering of priorities (although I think my dad would be more understanding than my stepmother…and he’s kind of a member of the clergy).
by Becca H on Aug 11, 2010 4:17 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
any God that doesn’t understand those priorities isn’t a God I want running the universe.
although me and the hockey gods are on not so good terms. I mean, really, haven’t we suffered enough?!
Watching the O’s try to use strategy is like watching Mike Green trying to figure out the difference between "your" and "you’re"--Terpgrrl
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Our Rabbi is Canadian, from Winnipeg. At my son’s Bar Mitzvah, I gave a short talk (part of the whole deal) about Jewish connections to hockey. I remember that Hart, as in Hart Trophy, was Jewish. And there were a few other facts.
That much said, I’m not sure he would sacrifice marrying a Jew marry another Blues or Caps fan or whatever.
Every bursted bubble has a glory! Each abysmal failure makes a point! Every glowing path that goes astray,shows you how to find a better way. So every time you stumble never grumble. Next time you'll bumble even less!
Meh. I did and I survived.
"You ever use smelling salts, every time you type a bad blog?" Brooks Laich
Yup. I thought that was old news as well as how we met.
"You ever use smelling salts, every time you type a bad blog?" Brooks Laich
…no! I somehow missed this entire revelation, that’s crazy.
(Not that you married a Pens fan, btw – that I missed the whole thing.)
Yeah. I didn’t put it as a confession because I thought it was ‘already confessed’ material. I’ll rehash it if you want me to.
"You ever use smelling salts, every time you type a bad blog?" Brooks Laich
Only if you want :) I don’t want to make you go through it again if you’ve told the story before, but I’m always interested in how that happens.
…full disclosure, I might be a little full of it because I’ve had crushes on two different Pens fans in my life (including one fairly current one).
OK, maybe I only mentioned it in a GDT. Here is the story.
We met because she bought a 1997 Ducks vs Yotes game 6 playoff ticket off my roommate at the time. I had the other seat. To this day, it is probably best not mention the name Paul Kariya in our presence. We went on our first date 6 days later.
I found out she was a Pens fan early on. She explained that she started watching hockey when she got Hodgkins disease. This was because of Mario also had Hodgkins. Not like I could really argue with her reason.
Over the years she has slowly become worn down by my Caps fandom. Plus, with Mario no longer playing her tie to the team has become weaker. This past season she admitted that she’s now pretty much a Caps fan. It’s been a combination of living with me combined with the Pens drafting Sid.
"You ever use smelling salts, every time you type a bad blog?" Brooks Laich
I’ve learned this lesson with two girlfriends.
by DrinkingPartner on Aug 11, 2010 4:16 PM EDT up reply actions
They were both willing to “give it a shot,” but they never cared for it, themselves.
by DrinkingPartner on Aug 11, 2010 4:24 PM EDT up reply actions
Becky is great because she totally jumped right into the team. She’s been complaining about how she wishes there were games to watch lately.
Why wouldn't you play Perreault? He's a really talented young player.
She has also said that you need to find somebody cool so we can do double dates, lulz
Why wouldn't you play Perreault? He's a really talented young player.
That might be the problem. :) As Reba MacIntyre put it:
Somebody in the next car
Somebody on the morning train
Somebody in the coffee shop
That you walk right by every day
Somebody that you look at
But never really see
Somewhere out there is somebody
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Here name is Fancy I believe.
"You ever use smelling salts, every time you type a bad blog?" Brooks Laich
The song’s actually called “Somebody” – or are you making a funny?
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
I’m making a Reba McEntire joke. I thought you’d get it since you brought up one her songs.
"You ever use smelling salts, every time you type a bad blog?" Brooks Laich
Why? I listen to plenty of country.
"You ever use smelling salts, every time you type a bad blog?" Brooks Laich
No, just a music snob. I listen to all kinds of different stuff. This is trending way OT. I’ll explain more in OT thread.
"You ever use smelling salts, every time you type a bad blog?" Brooks Laich
CP – Replied to you in OT with a possible music recommendation,
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory
by Rather Bengt on Aug 11, 2010 8:48 PM EDT up reply actions
Cover of a Bobbie Gentry tune.
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory
by Rather Bengt on Aug 11, 2010 7:26 PM EDT up reply actions
I could date someone who didn’t like sports as long as she wasn’t self-righteous about it. I think we all know the type. Now a Penguins fan on the other hand…
by Kerry Fraser's Hairspray on Aug 11, 2010 4:30 PM EDT up reply actions
I’d be just fine with a Pens fan if she can take it as much as she gives it.
by DrinkingPartner on Aug 11, 2010 4:32 PM EDT up reply actions
haha, I love the intentional setups.
Why wouldn't you play Perreault? He's a really talented young player.
I don’t know if I could handle it. During a party, I once kicked a girl out of my house because she was a Duke fan. She was also a stuck-up bitch, though (but I guess those 2 things go hand in hand. Zing!)
by Kerry Fraser's Hairspray on Aug 11, 2010 4:34 PM EDT up reply actions
She would just have to be cool about it and you guys would just have to agree to never talk about who the best player is.
Why wouldn't you play Perreault? He's a really talented young player.
We’d have to agree to a “no poster” rule, either, because I doubt she’d be able to stand AO’s mug on the wall any more than I’d be able to take Crosby’s.
by DrinkingPartner on Aug 11, 2010 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions
The wall would burst into flames.
Why wouldn't you play Perreault? He's a really talented young player.
Red would dominate the wall. I don’t think she’d be able to take it.
by DrinkingPartner on Aug 11, 2010 4:45 PM EDT up reply actions
I really don’t like your hypothetical girlfriend, dude.
Why wouldn't you play Perreault? He's a really talented young player.
by jordanDC on Aug 11, 2010 4:47 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
I even fail at imaginary relationships.
by DrinkingPartner on Aug 11, 2010 4:53 PM EDT up reply actions
Truth.
"I wake up in the middle night frustrated because we lost out in the first round and I want to see our players hoist the Stanley Cup." -Brooks Laich
by CapitalCentre on Aug 11, 2010 4:19 PM EDT up reply actions
While we’re on the mea culpa front, I figure, with interest, I probably owe beta and Ovechwin a dozen root beer floats.
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speaking of, where has beta been?!
Watching the O’s try to use strategy is like watching Mike Green trying to figure out the difference between "your" and "you’re"--Terpgrrl
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I guess you get ‘em all, then? I’m not leaving a debt unpaid. I’ve heard rumors the dude upstairs is fickle.
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Want to come play pickup at Kettler @ 9, tonight?
by DrinkingPartner on Aug 11, 2010 4:25 PM EDT up reply actions
Ooooo. I’m sick.. but yes, yes I do. How much does it cost, and when does it start?
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Yeah, I’ll have to go doubly embarrass myself. I probably have 30 seconds of lung capacity right now. =)
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It’ll be awesome, dude. I’m still struggling with my wind, too.
by DrinkingPartner on Aug 11, 2010 4:56 PM EDT up reply actions
You sick, too? We could be a line.. Plague Patrol.
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I feel like I’m regressing as a skater, so we’ll be a fun trio.
Why wouldn't you play Perreault? He's a really talented young player.
It will be!
I’m out, see you guys, there.
by DrinkingPartner on Aug 11, 2010 4:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Here’s one. I knew the Caps were going to lose Game 7 last season. I mean, I knew. I mean there was 0 doubt in my mind. I am a former Whaler fan and I have never been more confident that a team I was cheering for would lose. I was so blitzed by the second period that I could barely walk down the bleechers to get another drink. I was trying to dull the pain. After the game, I drunk tweeted for almost an hour.
Right there with you on that one. Got offered tickets to the game and refused them (at first). That’s a game I will always wish I hadn’t gone to.
Same here. I had a horrible, horrible feeling that day. I still bothered to be late to a review session for an exam I was taking the next week to watch the game. I showed up late and was pissed off the whole time. The teacher eventually asked me light-heartedly what was wrong and I had to explain in front of the whole class. The two people in the room who watched hockey laughed at me.
The teacher was a Sharks fan, though, so he was nice about it.
After reading the above, please remember that I am pretending to know anything about hockey.
by Laich Button on Aug 12, 2010 4:47 AM EDT up reply actions
I still have pictures I printer out on my door. They’re from 07-08, but I still like looking at em.
AKA hockey players are pretty, leave me alone!
Twitter!!!1
Reppin' Team Tyler yo.
Last year (year before Presidents’ Trophy), Peter Bondra was sitting in the row in front of me, (I believe it was the Canadiens game when Ovie scored the off the boards goal). Between periods, I went up and told him I was a big fan and loved watching him growing up and asked for his autograph. He had put his iPhone on the seat next to him and I put my hand on the top of his seat to kneel down.
Now, up until this year, there was a crack between the seats in the lower level between the seats on the ends behind the goals. I wouldn’t be surprised if this story directly led to the change haha. His iPhone slid down the seat and fell through the crack what I assume to be 40ish feet. I apologized profusely and asked if I could do anything. He said it was no problem and said he shouldn’t have put it there and left to get it. Returned 5 minutes later and everything was working fine. I thought, “oh Thank GOD” and apologized again and made sure it was working alright. He was incredibly understanding and said it was all fine. I nearly broke my childhood hockey hero’s iPhone. Bondra is a class act. I, am somewhat of an idiot.
I love lamp.
by All is Fehr on Aug 11, 2010 4:25 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
During one of my high school art classes, I had a brief obsession with the Flames’ logo. It resulted in a painting of center ice at the Saddledome, as well as a clay sculpture of Rick Tabaracci that I think is still sitting around my parents’ house somewhere.
by Kerry Fraser's Hairspray on Aug 11, 2010 4:27 PM EDT reply actions
I was going to confess that I’ve played hockey in a penguins jersey before but while looking for that picture I remembered that I had an action figure of me from when I was on team mission. I think that’s more embarrassing then anything.
/shame
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
by zephyr on Aug 11, 2010 4:52 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
That’s pretty beast.
And, you know, I could always bring a Pens practice jersey for you on Sunday if you want to take another picture.
"Game's the same. Just got more fierce."
That is an excellent confession.
"I wake up in the middle night frustrated because we lost out in the first round and I want to see our players hoist the Stanley Cup." -Brooks Laich
by CapitalCentre on Aug 11, 2010 5:28 PM EDT up reply actions
So many hockey neuroses to confess… I originally got into hockey because it was played by lots of guys with fun-to-say last names and ridiculous hair. And Theo Fleury, who was compellingly foreign to me (like a tiny, toothless, French-Canadian terrier fighting a larger dog). Basically, I was being a contrary hipster in the very early 90s,
I had no idea I’d get so invested.
Oh, and I totally feel like I’m cheating on the Hurricanes by spending my online-hockey time and hockey TV time on the Caps.
The last mosquito that bit me had to check into the Betty Ford Clinic.
So what happened?
A Capital Wasteland - art & hockey from Washington, D.C.
by Jake Shapiro on Aug 11, 2010 9:37 PM EDT up reply actions
Wasn’t really that into hockey, moved to DC for law school, got into hockey, began rooting for Caps.
For shorter version, see kingzman264.
"Hockey is my life, wine is my passion." -- Igor Larionov
by Scott in Shaw on Aug 16, 2010 4:59 PM EDT up reply actions
I can’t skate. I’ve tried a few handfuls of times. My cousins played hockey growing up, but I was stuck with soccer and baseball.
Eat, drink, and be merry! And then drink some more.
I’ve purchased Penguin season tickets for the past 12 years, including this one.
OK, it’s the WBS Penguins, and it’s a gift for my father, who lives in Wilkes-Barre, but still…
If you've read this far...seek help.
We always /knew/ there was something fishy about you…’twas secondhand penguin funk.
:: shudder ::
/that being said, I wanna be away fans @wilkes-barre sometime this season
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on the same topic
Chelsea Dagger is actually pretty catchy.
Nucks Misconduct writer, Twitter talker.
"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve" (Bilbo)
Gotta say, I hate the Caps siren. I prefer the more foghorn-type goal “signal”.
by Cluster on Aug 11, 2010 8:23 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
True story
When we lost Game 7 to the Canadiens, I wandered off into the woods of rural Ohio (where I was in school) by myself with a bottle of Whiskey. I sat down and called my buddy, Josh, and we were on the phone for 45 minutes. No real communication. Just sighs and incomplete words. I got up after, not feeling too lucid, and walked back to my apartment. I saw the back of my shorts in the mirror, and there was dogshit all over them. Like, really universe?
So I went to the shower with the rest of my whiskey, sat cross-legged, and wept.
I am what I am…
by Alex Reed on Aug 11, 2010 6:36 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
I still have my first hockey stick—a red wooden beauty Titan Junior Pro with “Structural Fiberglass” and a straight blade—and now my oldest son is playing with it, with me.
"Those things happen in sport," McPhee said. "It's not like it's anything chronic."
I don’t have many confessions as I don’t really believe in carrying regret, guilt or shame but I will admit the following two things:
1/ If he didn’t play for the Caps, I probably wouldn’t be much of a Mike Green fan. He’s probably one of my least favourite players on the team. I see his worth for the team and I support him and what he brings to the Caps. But were he on the Ducks for instance, I probably wouldn’t be a fan.
2/ As much as they are jerks with the media, I loves me and will watch any press conferences, media scrums or one on ones with John Tortorella, Chris Pronger, Ron Wilson, and to a lesser degree (more of a hard-ass than a jerk) Brian Burke.
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory
So much shame
Sometimes in GDTs when I say I’m not wearing pants, I’m actually wearing shorts.
John Carlson - Glory follows him.
It’s over.
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory
by Rather Bengt on Aug 11, 2010 7:19 PM EDT up reply actions
Whip it. Whip it good.
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory
by Rather Bengt on Aug 11, 2010 7:21 PM EDT up reply actions
Self-flagella-tion?
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by Jake Shapiro on Aug 11, 2010 7:25 PM EDT up reply actions
O, the humanity!
But my shame is greater still:
1. I lived here for a decade before my allegiance moved to Caps from MTL. Most of the 30 or so trips I made to Landover, I made to see the Habs. Lose.
2.I gave my tix to G7 of Caps-Pens to a good and loyal friend. He’s been really good about the whole thing, but still.
3. On the basis of one quick sidestep followed by a crisp outlet pass, I called my brother and bragged about (I’m trusting you, people) Nolan Yonkman.
There's no 'i' in "team". But there's a 'nap' in "champion".
I played roller hockey all my life and never made the transition to ice. Something I will always regret, though I can skate. And am still fairly young. Meh.
I love lamp.
i kinda like to play roller hockey more lol.
The transition from roller hockey to ice was fairly easy though. hockey stops are similar to powerslides but different enough to need a bit of practice
It's The Wait for Red October. Except rather than Sean Connery, Alex Baldwin, and Sam Neill, it's George McPhee, Bruce Boudreau, and Alex Ovechkin.
Not Tom Clancy, but Gary Bettman. Not the Soviet Kremlin, but. . .well. . . .yeah, the Soviet Kremlin
I have never seen “Miracle” and I think that “Youngblood” is better movie then “Slap Shot”.
Pft why play a small French guy when you have a Svensk viking.
I also have not seen “Miracle” but BOOOOOOOOOOOOO to that second part.
Release the Mackan!
by Killer_Carlson on Aug 11, 2010 10:57 PM EDT up reply actions
I support you; Slap Shot does nothing for me. I think Miracle is the one good hockey movie ever made by a Hollywood studio, and The Mighty Ducks is fun, but not good.
"I wake up in the middle night frustrated because we lost out in the first round and I want to see our players hoist the Stanley Cup." -Brooks Laich
by CapitalCentre on Aug 12, 2010 12:08 PM EDT up reply actions
I was a bandwagon fan until some time in the early 2000s.
KC and F&B set me straight.
The guy is Peter Schumpmaker. Lord knows what a schump is, but you can bet your bippy his ancestors made them. What he's doing is far worse than crafting fine schumps.
by Steckel Me Elmo on Aug 11, 2010 7:19 PM EDT reply actions
If I weren’t a Caps fan, I’d probably hate Ovie and call him a dirty player. But I am, so I love him and think he brings a youthful joy too rare in hockey.
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I have incriminating photos of Bruce Boudreau and I use them to get Flash more playing time.
by Stormblue on Aug 11, 2010 7:23 PM EDT reply actions 4 recs
I once got caught checking out Mike Green’s ass in a bar.
To be fair, though, I was mostly doing it because I could have sworn I saw something sparkle on the seat of his jeans and I really wanted to know if he actually owned rhinestone encrusted black jeans.
Turns out it was a wallet chain.
by Videre on Aug 11, 2010 7:25 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Probably looks like this
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory
by Rather Bengt on Aug 11, 2010 7:30 PM EDT up reply actions
he would have had weagles, of course.
Watching the O’s try to use strategy is like watching Mike Green trying to figure out the difference between "your" and "you’re"--Terpgrrl
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but would you have been surprised if he really did own rhinestone encrusted black jeans?
Watching the O’s try to use strategy is like watching Mike Green trying to figure out the difference between "your" and "you’re"--Terpgrrl
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Confession: I'm spending too much time in the search engines
How do I know this? I know this because now I’m finding these:
That would be Dmitri Kugryshev, clubbing it up in Moscow with OV and Kulikov.
Here we find him wearing AO’s modded-out Caps hat, flawlessly tailored EuroCaps shorts, and Alex’s umfriend Maria Grigorieva.
Looking forward to those rookie camp Herbies!
The fellow in the red shoes is also part of the posse, I’ve seen him around most of the summer, but I don’t know who he is.
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I thought Kugryshev was supposed to be in Arlington, re-dedicating himself to hockey?
Watching the O’s try to use strategy is like watching Mike Green trying to figure out the difference between "your" and "you’re"--Terpgrrl
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I hadn’t heard that. I only heard that Varly was back.
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Lucky for you I don’t think he is blogging anymore otherwise he would call you out for sure.
Pft why play a small French guy when you have a Svensk viking.
a couple of “Hail Ovie”s should do the trick
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Confession?
I’ve lived in this town for over thirty years, but I’ve only been a hockey fan for maybe about ten. Which means I have absolutely zero recollection of the 1998 Cup run. I feel shame.
"It's always good to have vikings."
Proud member of the Oxford dictionary police.
I don’t think you live near a Metro stop, so that’s okay.
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Sure he does, it’s just not on the red, blue, orange, yellow or green lines. (Actually, I have no idea if there’s a subway system where he lives.)
"It's always good to have vikings."
Proud member of the Oxford dictionary police.
You should really try to do something about that. Visit during the season.
"I wake up in the middle night frustrated because we lost out in the first round and I want to see our players hoist the Stanley Cup." -Brooks Laich
by CapitalCentre on Aug 11, 2010 9:17 PM EDT up reply actions
I just placed an order for a Hartford Whalers Nylander jersey.
Suck one. Winner is me.
"Don't mind WM...he's an all-around jerk."
Does it come with his Whalers-era hair?
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory
by Rather Bengt on Aug 11, 2010 8:32 PM EDT up reply actions
Your hockey card picture collection is both impressive and scary.
"You ever use smelling salts, every time you type a bad blog?" Brooks Laich
Another confession: Not really from my collection. Just using Google image search.
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory
by Rather Bengt on Aug 11, 2010 8:35 PM EDT up reply actions
Before finding the Rink, I was convinced Schultz sucked because he never hit anybody and I shared this piercing insight from my seat at the VC more times than I care to remember.
It's the Caps . . . First team to 4, wins.
Oh god, that is a whole new question of the day
What misconceptions did you have about Caps players or hockey in general, that were corrected after finding the Rink
It's The Wait for Red October. Except rather than Sean Connery, Alex Baldwin, and Sam Neill, it's George McPhee, Bruce Boudreau, and Alex Ovechkin.
Not Tom Clancy, but Gary Bettman. Not the Soviet Kremlin, but. . .well. . . .yeah, the Soviet Kremlin
My list would be way too long, let’s NOT make that QOTD
After reading the above, please remember that I am pretending to know anything about hockey.
by Laich Button on Aug 12, 2010 5:00 AM EDT up reply actions
I watched Slap Shot for the first time a month or two ago and didn’t like it that much. I didn’t think it was very funny, I actually thought it was kinda depressing.
My fiancee was shocked when she watched it. “That movie actually had a plot? Holy shit.”
"Don't mind WM...he's an all-around jerk."
by Whiter Mage on Aug 11, 2010 10:09 PM EDT up reply actions
I just dont really get the figure skating part at the end
It's The Wait for Red October. Except rather than Sean Connery, Alex Baldwin, and Sam Neill, it's George McPhee, Bruce Boudreau, and Alex Ovechkin.
Not Tom Clancy, but Gary Bettman. Not the Soviet Kremlin, but. . .well. . . .yeah, the Soviet Kremlin
by kingzman264 on Aug 11, 2010 10:37 PM EDT up reply actions
It didn’t make a lot of sense, but I suddenly understood this youtube video that I saw before I watching the movie.
by vtcapsfan99 on Aug 11, 2010 11:26 PM EDT up reply actions
when i was playing around age 12 i tripped somebody….and got away with it.
I've often thought of becoming a golf club
That definitely happened to me. I tripped a guy who was on a blatant breakaway at the red line, and got away with it. I was shocked.
"Don't mind WM...he's an all-around jerk."
by Whiter Mage on Aug 11, 2010 11:11 PM EDT up reply actions
For a while in the mid-90s I was a big Florida Panthers fan. As a goalie I loved how Vanbiesbrouck came in and single handedly made an expansion team respectable, and to this day he is still my favorite player from the ’90s.
Release the Mackan!
by Killer_Carlson on Aug 11, 2010 11:02 PM EDT reply actions
Capital Centre
When I was a teenager I frequently attended Caps games and sat in the nosebleeds. One peculiarity about the Capital Centre nosebleeds is that the fans could touch the overhang of the sky suites which essentially functioned as a roof to the spectators in the nosebleeds. One night the Caps were playing the Flyers and were up a goal with less than a minute to play. Just when it looked like the Caps were going to come away with a win the Flyers scored a last second goal. In my anger I thrusted my fist skyward and it ended up going right through the drywall creating a sizable hole while spraying me with drywall dust. I immediately made a hasted and frantic exit. During my next visit to the Cap Centre I noticed that they did not repair the hole and my visit after that still no repair. This continued until they closed the doors for good. That hole was there for over a decade.
It was a Penguins fan, originally from Pittsburgh, that I met in high school who first turned me on to hockey, and then led me to become a Caps fan.
by Stephen Pepper on Aug 11, 2010 11:40 PM EDT reply actions
Took me a long time to think something up… should have thought of this sooner. After the lockout, I stopped watching the NHL until the middle of the 2007-8 season. The fact that the players wouldn’t do what was obviously needed and lost a season (although it wasn’t just on them) pissed me off so much that I swore I wouldn’t watch hockey again. That lasted until my little brother took me to a Caps game for a birthday present.
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