NHL December |OT| The Team You Cheer For is Not Good Compared To Our Team

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Heretic said:
Ducks-age + Sharks-age... where the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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Regular season defeats and vengeful first round exits were a long time ago. I can't actually remember the last time I despised the Shorks. Our last regular season matchup just felt like we were playing any other team. It's all about hate for the Queens now.

And yessss, 24/7 is actually on at 8pm tonight on Australian (cable) TV. Can't wait. Not gonna be as good as last years, but should still be fun.
 
TemplaerDude said:
It's called "knocking some sense into him", not a concussion.
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No, he tried to ram his head into the glass on a hit with his forearm when he came back in the playoffs. Truly one of the most gutless acts in recent hockey history. Funny thing is hamhuis has had concussion problems recently too.
 
Wendel Clark said:
No, he tried to ram his head into the glass on a hit with his forearm when he came back in the playoffs. Truly one of the most gutless acts in recent hockey history. Funny thing is hamhuis has had concussion problems recently too.
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Ramming someones head into the glass is an age long accepted way of teaching someone to stop being stupid. The "concussion" is a bonus.
 
PITB sums up the Bolland call pretty well:

My reaction to this is twofold. First, as a source of regular fan outrage, it’s really pretty tame. It’s not as though we didn’t already know that Bolland disliked the twins, and furthermore, nothing Bolland said has even a shred of originality. From the false bravado of refusing the Sedins as hypothetical teammates to the insinuation that they’re man-boys that sleep in bunkbeds to the oh-so clever swapping of “Brothers” for “Sisters”, Bolland may as well have been reading from a script a decade old.

And this was drivel when it started back in the aughts.

Furthermore, if it wasn’t already apparent from the somewhat leading wording of the question, he was doing a fluff radio gig. It was recorded before a live studio audience. He was trying to be funny and he was playing to the crowd, who had been being fed “Sedins are Sisters” lines for a half-hour at that point by host Dave Kaplan.

The last thing Bolland was going to do was be a buzzkill and dryly admit the twins were one-of-a-kind, superstar hockey players that, while he dislikes for tribal reasons, he’d love to have on his team. Frankly, I don’t think anybody involved in this conversation was capable of this sort of postmodern thinking. More than likely, it just would have been misconstrued as sympathy for the devil.

Suffice it to say, all things considered, these comments are very easy to shrug off.
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Then nails it even further...

I’ve spoken about the sexism and idiocy of calling the Sedins “Sisters” in the past, and I’ll gladly explain my issue with this jab again: let’s imagine, for a moment, that the Sedins were indeed women.

Nevermind that their two Art Ross trophies and two league MVP awards would be downright legendary — would it be acceptable to mock them for their gender? Is there something wrong with women playing hockey?

Of course not. The notion that it’s appropriate to insult male athletes by declaring them women is so unbelievably ignorant and backwards that anyone who perpetrates it simply outs him (or her) self as a loathsome half-wit.

That it could possibly be construed as acceptable, in 2011, to compare someone to a minority group for the purposes of disparaging their worth is mind-blowing.

Didn’t we just recently endure a controversy in which one player allegedly called another a “f*ggot”? Did we not collectively determine that this garbage was not okay? And, if I recall, it wasn’t just that it’s not okay to use an offensive, derogatory term such as that one — it’s also not okay to insinuate that there’s something wrong with being a homosexual in the NHL, no?

Now, unless we’ve decided that homosexuals are an especial minority (which seems decidedly counterintuitive), isn’t the underlying insinuation that it’s not okay to be a woman in the NHL just as bad?

Of course it is. And we need to stop condoning it, especially when it comes from the mouth of the players. “Cindy” Crosby is just as bad. “Lauren” Pronger is just as bad. Are there others? They’re just as bad.
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That's right Manics, "Cindy" Crosby calls are actually incredibly sexist :P Should probably ease up on them if we're blessed enough to see him play again.
 
TemplaerDude said:
Ramming someones head into the glass is an age long accepted way of teaching someone to stop being stupid. The "concussion" is a bonus.
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:lol

wow...glad I won't be playing hockey with you.

and yea, basically the host of the radio show was setting him up the whole time for that stuff. It's not like Bolland was being asked what his favorite ice cream flavor was and just decided to bash the sedins.
 
While I don't think this whole Bolland thing is a big deal at all, I will honestly mourn the death of the Canucks/Blackhawks rivalry when the conference format switches.

Here's to meeting in the conference finals, or the cup finals one of these years. Would be a hell of a series. As much as I hate the Hawks, I love that both the Canucks and Hawks play an exciting brand of hockey. When the fuel of 30+ meetings over the past couple years is added, it makes for some of the best examples of NHL hockey you'll find.
 
CCF23 said:
While I don't think this whole Bolland thing is a big deal at all, I will honestly mourn the death of the Canucks/Blackhawks rivalry when the conference format switches.

Here's to meeting in the conference finals, or the cup finals one of these years. Would be a hell of a series. As much as I hate the Hawks, I love that both the Canucks and Hawks play an exciting brand of hockey. When the fuel of 30+ meetings over the past couple years is added, it makes for some of the best examples of NHL hockey you'll find.
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CCF23 you're doing it right. Who knows, maybe we'll get one last hurrah this year.
 
CCF23 said:
While I don't think this whole Bolland thing is a big deal at all, I will honestly mourn the death of the Canucks/Blackhawks rivalry when the conference format switches.

Here's to meeting in the conference finals, or the cup finals one of these years. Would be a hell of a series. As much as I hate the Hawks, I love that both the Canucks and Hawks play an exciting brand of hockey. When the fuel of 30+ meetings over the past couple years is added, it makes for some of the best examples of NHL hockey you'll find.
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This! I can only hope that it doesn't take long for new rivalries to begin with the new format and I'm sure it won't. Maybe the Hawks will manage to hold their position to get into the playoffs again this year and we'll have a chance to meet again.
 
TemplaerDude said:
Ramming someones head into the glass is an age long accepted way of teaching someone to stop being stupid. The "concussion" is a bonus.
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Obviously your parents didn't ram your head into the glass nearly enough when you were child.
Revenant said:
:lol

wow...glad I won't be playing hockey with you.
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Why not? Our 4th line would make short work of a scrub like him.
CCF23 said:
While I don't think this whole Bolland thing is a big deal at all, I will honestly mourn the death of the Canucks/Blackhawks rivalry when the conference format switches.

Here's to meeting in the conference finals, or the cup finals one of these years. Would be a hell of a series. As much as I hate the Hawks, I love that both the Canucks and Hawks play an exciting brand of hockey. When the fuel of 30+ meetings over the past couple years is added, it makes for some of the best examples of NHL hockey you'll find.
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At least someone has some sense in this thread.
 
Glad to see Beaulieau made the team, I had a good feeling after his performance last night, can't wait for the WJC some of the best hockey of the year.
 
Marvie_3 said:
Obviously your parents didn't ram your head into the glass nearly enough when you were child.

Why not? Our 4th line would make short work of a scrub like him.


At least someone has some sense in this thread.
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tag team bro

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Great battle between Lucic and Carkner
 
Sanjuro Tsubaki said:
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You deserve a lengthy Shanaban for that cheap shot.

[quote="CrazedArabMan, post: 33471902"]According to espn on their main page (I know hockey on their front page and about the Wild of all teams), the Wild aren't boring anymore.[/QUOTE]

To be fair, they're not as boring as they used to be. They've moved from "watching paint dry" levels of boring to "reading soccerges posts" boring.
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should probably just lay in my bed for the second period. In fact any time I'm having trouble sleeping I should just have a few recorded wild games on hand....


here we go.
 
Marvie_3 said:
To be fair, they're not as boring as they used to be. They've moved from "watching paint dry" levels of boring to "reading soccerges posts" boring.
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:lol where do people expect wild to end up in the standings by April? This seasons been so random.
 
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