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At the 18:55 mark of any period you do not have to yell out, "How much time is left?’ It is tired, it is old, it is stale, it is not really funny and you are not at all clever.
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Wearing a jersey to the game is ok with me, but for gosh golly geez sake’s do not put the number 69 on the back of it, unless you are, like, 16 years old.
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No matter how much the Red Wings suck (and beleive me it is a lot), there is not reason to shout it to the whole crowd during the National Anthem. As much as everyone loves to hear your voice I think for the three minutes we would prefer to hear the singer’s.
Tretiak,
I agree with you…but I’m a loyal Red Wings fan…so back off!
Yes, the all the beer drinking could possibly be the culprit.:rolleyes:
But what would NHL hockey be without beer? :eek:
This one went right over my head - what is being alluded to here? I would like to know so that I can shout it out at the appropriate moment at hockey games 
Each time a period gets down to one minute left, the PA announcer will say, “One minute left in the Xth period” where X is the period number.
ah yes, of course Thanks Ray.
Here’s my latest beef: the nets above the glass. They have to come down. Now.
I don’t care what bullshiat Herr Bettman keeps spreading about how great they are working out. The Dallas Stars just spent a pretty good amount of money reworking their netting system so they could reduce the height from 68 feet to the minimum of 14.5 feet. They wouldn’t just do this to see if they could, folks.
I saw a game at Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh, where they have probably the worst netting in hockey because of the unique structure of their building. Not only was my otherwise excellent view blocked by the nets, but the big black tube at the top of them as well.
I cannot believe (then again, maybe I can) that the NHL would allow such a knee-jerk reaction to one tragic accident. I would bet any amount of money that if a 13-year-old sitting in the front row at Yankee Stadium got killed by a line drive, Major League Baseball wouldn’t install huge nets over the dugouts.
I have only one jersey with numbers on it: my Canadiens jersey with #29 on the back.
My pet peeve is, I think, uniquely Calgarian: the audiences at Flames games get pissed off if you make too much noise in the stands. I have been asked to quiet down my cheering before and I have a friend who was actually warned to knock it off by an usher who threatened to eject them if they didn’t stop it. When exactly did the Flames start attracting the opera crowds?!? It’s a fucking hockey game, with hitting and fights and spectacular goals and big saves, for God’s sake! (And, no, by loud cheering I’m not talking about screaming foul language or throwing things or getting belligerent, just good ol’ fashioned cheering)
Tretiak… good to see you. You forgot to mention the score so I will.
Oilers 5 - Detroit 4 (OT)
That’s what all this is really about isn’t it?
My turn…
What in the holy name of fuck were my Habs doing when they played the Canes on Saturday? The Rocket must be spinning in his grave.
Jimbo… you have to be kidding me. You would think that with the way Calgary has been sucking ass lately they would appreciate fans who have a little life in them.
I dunno…those pucks can go pretty damn hard and fast, and aren’t todays sticks a bit more flexible, allowing a puck to be thrown off the paddle faster and maybe higher in the case of a wrist shot? Even if the sticks’ flexibility didn’t change (as might be the case), I think the time for protective netting has come. I think its right for equipment to evolve as needed (such examples are the introduction of the goalie mask, the controlling of the “banana blade”, the revision of said goalie mask to a much safer “birdcage” model, etc.), and it’s past time that they started protecting the spectators with much more than a disclaimer. Though, I agree that the netting could be installed a little more responsibly, with respect to angles of vision and such.
As a fan of the Atlanta Thrashers, I just have to ask
Uwe Krupp! UWE FREAKING KRUPP!!! Good lord, we already wasted countless millions on goalies that either ate too many doughnuts or played like they were shaped like a donut. Was it really important to spend $500,000 on a player that has been a wasteland of injuries for 2 years? Good grief, if there has been one thing holding the Thrashers back, it has been defense. By all means, lets get crummy goalies and over the hill defenders to stack the back line.
Maybe this Byron Dafoe thing will work out but it is about time to stop a few pucks and give a strengthening offense a chane to just play rather than having to know that it will take 4 or 5 goals just to be in a game.
Geeze In Toronto it gets so Quiet you can hear a pin drop. But lets face it, the Damned tickets cost so much these days you might as well be at an opera.
The Air Canada Centre has made the front rows a “Corporate Tools only” area and most of them are too afraid of their bosses or clients reaction to any enthusiasm for the game to have a good time. The rest of us Plebes have to sell a child to get a crappy seat! Who was Hockey for anyway?
Oh Well the way Toronto is doing this year I guess silence is better than the puking sounds from disgusted fans.
Another thing I have noticed are the seemingly escalating incidents of broken glass on the dashers. Perhaps it’s just me, but it seems that twice as much glass is broken than say, 5 years ago. If I might tag a quick question here, does anyone know if there are penalties to be suffered by either players or fans guilty of “purposefully” breaking the glass?
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People still do this? Where are you? As a season ticket holder to the NY Rangers (up in the blues), I am thankful I don’t have to hear people make such an old and unfunny comment as “How much time is left”. I just wish they would stop the Potvin Sucks chant. Or at least use it only when the llanders (spelling intended) play us. It was good while it lasted but lets move on. I bet half of them don’t know who Ulf Nilsson is.
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People do this too? Its embarrasing seeing people walk around with their #94 jerseys that say “Stanley” on them though.
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We mostly hold back our profanitites until the anthem is over but there have been exceptions (not an excuse).
Has any seen the new Orange Islander jersey? They make the Fishstick jerseys look lilke a good idea. And don’t mention the score from Saturday.
I think the quiet fans in Calgary are art of the reason the Phlegms have been so bad in recent years. I would think it’s pretty hard to get up for a game when your home crowd doesn’t seem to care one way or the other.
As in Toronto, most of the good seats are held by corporations, so this explains some of the lack of enthusiasm. However, the people in the nosebleeds–the people who are actually fans–rarely, if ever, raise a ruckus either. It’s just sad. The last time I was at a game where it really got loud was game one of the '89 Stanley Cup Final. That’s going back a loooong time.
NYR407, don’t get me started on alternate jerseys, which are nothing but a marketing ploy for extra dollars. Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad if any one of them was attractive. What about the Flames’ black “Flaming Horse Snot” jersey? Or that day-glo yellow Bruins abomination? Gaaaack.
I remember reading in National Geographic (old issue, from 1975, it showed the CN tower being built) that Toronto hockey fans are rather sober and use applause rather than so much cheering. I can appreciate that to a point, but it’s a friggin’ HOCKEY game, for crissakes!
Dead Pirate Jimbo, I just realised I ripped off your phrase in an earlier post in this thread. Sorry about that!
Yeah, the NHL should have waited until at least 4 people were killed before even beginning to think about safety.:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :wally :wally :wally :wally
Hell, just get rid of the plexiglass, 'cause it distorts my view of the game.:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Baseball does have nets up behind home plate to protect the fans from foul balls and wild pitches.
I often sit in the 100 levels behind the goalie, about 14 rows up from the ice level. That places me right at the net level with most of glass/net seam being around mid-ice… and I don’t mind it one bit. It was annoying at first, but you learn to see through it and not notice it at all. Kind of like letterbox movies…
I’d like to ask the poor kid who caught a puck right above the eye last week if he wished the net went all the way around. This was during the Ottawa vs Columbus game, and a Columbus player (in front of his bench and facing the penalty box) hauled off and sent a slapshot right into the crowd. Poor kid got nailed solid and bled quite a bit. Also, earlier that night an older lady in the same area got hit in the cheek with a bouncing puck. She never returned to her seat…
The net does interfere with celebrating a Hat Trick though. Hossa only got a few hats as a lot of people could not get theirs onto the ice.
HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!! Prior to 2001, he was the Wings biggest FA signing. At the games during warm ups, ask him if he’s been dog sledding lately.
I hate when my team wins the Stanley Cup all the time. It gets kind of boring. I’m running out of room on my wall for Stanley Cup banners.
Seriously, on the stanley cup thing. Any fan over the age of 12 who makes a stanley cup and either wears it on his head, drinks from it, or raises it above his head as if he won, is a complete and utter moron who should be banned from viewing NHL hockey.
Mario Lemieux should take his whiney pansy ass back into retirement. Hockey is so boring to watch now. The refs have no idea what they are doing out there. They don’t know what to call or when to call it. All they know, God bless them, is that they have to start calling more penalties for something, or else they get in trouble.
WSLer: you and your smilies can get bent.
The plexiglass, and the netting behind home plate at baseball games, are exactly what is called for. Removing them as you propose in jest is stupid, as is overprotecting.
The girl who died was the result of such a random tragic accident that the NHL terribly overreacted to. It’s not like she was struck with the full force of a puck and died in her seat. The puck deflected off a stick and another fan. She walked out of the arena. Some doctors even say with different medical treatment, she would have survived.
What if some at center ice gets hit with a deflected puck? Are we going to put a plastic bubble over the rink?
You can’t make the entire world safe. If you go to a sporting event, you assume a risk. Do the nets above the goals make people safer? Sure. But have you ever heard of something called the law of diminishing returns?