It’s the good old hockey game, it’s the best game in the land…
~Stompin Tom Connors
Playing on the radio lately…
Parking off Wayne Gretzky Drive: $5.00
Gold Club Seats: $138.00
Having George Laraque check Mike Modano so hard the glass breaks and building shakes so hard you shit your pants: Priceless.
Once again we’ve gone to war with those souless, morally bereft spawn of Satan known as the Dallas Stars. Sure, they’re up one but the war is just getting started. It’s David vs. Goliath and we’ve got a big sack full of stones. It has already gotten bloody and the carnage will continue.
And for what? Lord Stanley’s Cup. The wife doesn’t understand my passion for the greatest game on earth (I don’t get her obsession with Survivor). Sure, there was ten continuous hours of coverage on Saturday but I almost finished the renovations to the basement as I watched the Oilers grease the Stars in game two. I can see it on Ken Hitchcock’s face and the faces of his players, they don’t want to be playing this team again because they know even if they win they will come out of this series with the shit beaten out of them. The Oilers have kicked it up a few notches and he and the fucking Stars are lucky to be up one when they could just as easily be down 3-0.
The look on Modano’s face when the Oilers scored two in 55 seconds last night: Fucking Priceless.
It’s not just hockey, it’s time to return The Holy Grail back to land of ice and snow. I don’t really care who does it whether it’s The Oilers, Canucks, Senators, or even (gasp) the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Odieman and I would like to see a Ottawa - Edmonton final. I’m sure our friendship could handle that.
What are you predictions? Even if you’re a fan of those souless fuckers from Dallas let us know…
Need somewhere to vent when your team loses? This would be the place.
Can we get a hockey smiley? Perhaps a little guy with missing front teeth?
What about Chelios’ hit on Robataille on Saturday? $1000.00 fine? Chelios deserves to get his sorry ass booted for a few games. Careless use of his stick? I think fucking not.
:mad:
Wolverine - I was just kidding when I said souless fuckers were welcome here.
I could always start ranting about the above mentioned souless, morally bereft spawn of Satan known as the Dallas Stars, but I find I have this problem – when I start ranting about them, I start moaning “No goal! No goal! No goal!” over and over again, and then I fall off my chair, foaming at the mouth. It’s about as pretty as the Clint Malarchuk footage.
Sweet Heavenly Angels, I was wondering where all of the Oiler fans were.
Go EDMONTON! WOO HOO!
They’re my team after the Blackhawks and it’s nice to finally be able to see Hockey on television since they get the royal Lord Stanley’s Fist when it isn’t playoff time.
Last night’s game WAS INCREDIBLE…the reaction of the crowd at the goal to send them to overtime gave me goosebumps. Shitty ending to it all, though…
And, of course, let’s not forget, and feel free to tell him:
I’d give my right arm to have Doug Weight’s baby.
Oilers
Oilers
Oilers!
YAY!
jarbaby
p.s. Wolverine, I used to love you so…but a Stars fan? What the hell. :: shaking head ::
[sub]Note to self: in order to raise Feynn’s ire mention the Dallas Stars or something bad about the Oilers.[/sub]
Hey, I’m a Wings fan. I’d love to see the Oilers upset the Stars. That means the Wings play the Blues or the Sharks and Colorado gets to struggle with Edmonton. A hot Oilers teams is the last thing Detroit wants to face in the playoffs.
my allegiance is to the Wings. Detroit does not like Dallas or Colorado. I was merely
1. Trying to note when this thread would become Pit worthy.
2. Instigating Feynn to make it Pit worthy.
3. Hi Opal!
4. Not thinking properly after staying up to late last night. The game didn't start until 11:30pm.
[getting on my knees]
I apologize, jarbabyj for losing your respect. Is there anything I can do for you to regain it?
[still on knees with eyes filled with tears]
::Dang, I got to learn to grovel better. That was only half-assed.::
Only as my default pro team. My real love is the Michigan Wolverines and all their teams. Unfortunately they lost in the Frozen Four to Boston College. I would have loved another NCAA Hockey championship.
Tying it back to the Stanley Cup playoffs. There are many Wolverines playing this year in the playoffs. I, however, am too lazy to look them up and list them here.
Down here in Dallas we are not thrilled that we have to play the Oilers yet again either. But face it, the Oilers have brought everything upon themselves. Their 7th game victory in 1997 is the thing that turned the Stars around. The fact that the Oilers beat the Avs in the first round the next year had people thinking that the Oilers were for real.
Since the upset in 1997 people have been picking the Oilers to beat the Stars, and the Oilers have said that they would rather play the Stars than the Wings or Avs. But guess what? Since the 1997 series the Oilers have won 3 games. Tommy Salo’s playoff record against the Stars? 2-10. His over all record against the Stars is something like 3-20.
In the last 3 years, every team that has “wanted” to play Dallas has ended up golfing. Assuming that the snow is off the ground in Edmonton, the Oilers can plan on another early start to golf season.
Anyway, this is once again the most entertaining series in the first round.
PS. A quick thanks to Sergei Zholtok for cough ups.
PPS. Have the cobwebs cleared out of Janne Niinimaa’s head?
PPPS. Scott Ferguson should have been penalized for his late hit on Nieuwendyk.
Speaking as an Avs fan, I’d much rather play Edmonton than eiter the Sharks or the Blues. Edmonton is tough, fast, and gritty (all those wonderful hockey adjectives), but IMHO, not all that good. I think the Avs would coast through them in 4 or 5 games, and I could see a Sharks-Avs series going 7.
I’m not really trying to cut up the Oilers, I like them, they just don’t scare me. If you must root for a Canadian team, I’d recommend jumping on the Toronto bandwagon while there is still room.
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Guess what, jarbabyj? In the it’s-a-small-world department, I’ve partied with Doug Weight. When he was a baby-faced freshman at Lake Superior State University, a one-time collegiate hockey power in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. My late best friend (as in no-longer-with-us, not as in tardy) went to school there, and the hockey players were regular vistors to the weekend parties I often attended.
I saw Weight hide his beer behind a door when he thought the cops were busting a party once, because he was underage.
first of all, am I thinking of a different college or did Lake Superior play my college team Bowling Green all the time? IS IT POSSIBLE THAT I’VE SEEN DOUG WEIGHT UP CLOSE?
that naughty…naughty boy…needs a spanking I think
Sure…if HE touched it or any other part of your body
I’d like to touch your sleeve for so many reasons Milossarian…this is just another on the list.
Hmmm, and just what does Eddie “don’t touch me - i’m famous” Belfour thinks he’s doing playing D? Granted, given the ridiculously aged Ledyard and Diduck (geez, couldn’t they get Craig Ludwig back?), I’m not surprised the Eagle tries to do a little too much. What with Matvichuk trying to draw penalties 'cuz Laraque is giving him dirty looks, and that dirty fuck Hatcher looking for other hapless schmucks half his size to cheap shot…(still, he busted Roenick’s jaw and that was priceless).
As happy as I’d be to see the Oil knock off the Stars, I just can’t stand watching the bullshit Toronto Maple Laffs ridng Cujo when the rest of 'em ain’t worth the paper their contracts are printed on. Who the FUCK told Tie Domi he was a hockey player?
Now, I’m not a fan, but come on people, can we agree that Ray Bourque deserves a ring? But I agree, manhattan I think it’s gonna be another Stanley Cup Tailgate.
As a Sharks fan I know your feelings all to well.
As much as I hate to say it, the Sharks will have trouble knocking of the Blues, and if they do, they may be too bloodied to do much more after that. I guess the revenge factor is just too much. But next season, it’s the Sharks all the way.
For the cup, I see the Pens and the Avs going all the way. While I like the Penguins and Super Mario can do just about anything, I want the Avs to win it if they can so Borque can retire happily.
