FTB - Who Else Has Sore Thumbs From NHL 09?

by Chemmy on Sep 11, 2008 9:22 AM EDT

My thumbs are dying, but Be A Pro mode is actually pretty awesome. I've got 3G 1A in 3GP with the Marlies, playing alongside Mitchell and Earl. The game is surprisingly realistic, for example two weeks into the season the Leafs signed Dan Cloutier to a four year contract and waived Justin Pogge. Nice.

MF37 wonders how this season will compare to the Leafs in 79-80. Looking at HockeyDB, I'd say they're probably on track, although Harold Ballard won't be running a child prostitution ring in the arena.
Look, Cox Bloc wrote a post and I linked to it. Take that Godd Till and Kim Jorn.
Down Goes Brown has been replaced with an impostor.
The General wants to know why Toronto signed every unclaimed d-man in the world.
Jared(of/from)London has some line pairings for the season, and is also in need of a pocket dictionary.
Steve@Hockeyanalysis investigates the farm system, and how the Marlies are developing players. Two words: Justin Pogge.
Loser Domi needs some more losers for her loser league to see who can lose the most games. Ladies and gentlemen your 2008 Toronto Maple Leafs!
Calling all trivia fans: 1967ers 5th installment still has unanswered questions.

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For Till Bits:

Good God! That’s Till’s Music!

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by PPP on Sep 11, 2008 9:53 AM EDT 0 recs

Excellent alternative title. I might have gone with “Good Godd”, but really, any reference to good ol’ JR is good by me. That is a lot of “goods” in one sentence.

Also, I’d like to point out again that Godd was whining about Brownscombe not linking to us, not the crew at PPP.

Anyway, I am off to the birthplace of our Lord and Saviour this morning, and probably won’t be able to stop by until I’m safely back in Ontario. Have a good week everyone. I’m starting to get the impression that BarilkoCon08 may include a trip to the Caribbean and large amounts of Coedine. Fear and Loathing in the Barilkosphere…

by Kim Jorn on Sep 11, 2008 10:30 AM EDT up 0 recs

hahaha yeah, have we started a letter writing campaign to Alec yet?

Fear and Loathing in the Barilkosphere

And there’s the title.

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by PPP on Sep 11, 2008 10:32 AM EDT up 0 recs

That actually is a pretty good phrase to describe the world of hardcore Leafs fans.

by Kim Jorn on Sep 11, 2008 10:33 AM EDT up 0 recs

You wanted links? You’re gonna get ’em.

Like this one: Ottawa Senators superfans. Or this: We don’t think Wendel Clark was particularly manly.

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by Chemmy on Sep 11, 2008 10:39 AM EDT up 0 recs

Thanks

Now Cox Bloc is going to be flooded with eight-year-olds and mouth-breathers.

by Kim Jorn on Sep 11, 2008 10:48 AM EDT up 0 recs

For 1967ers

The blue maple leaf is still there at Erindale Station but it’s not below the hockey stick where it was in my youth. It’s at the bottom of the marquee about 30 feet below the sign.

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by PPP on Sep 11, 2008 10:22 AM EDT 0 recs

Whoa secret conversations.

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by Chemmy on Sep 11, 2008 10:24 AM EDT up 0 recs

From the trivia thread. I thought they had taken off the logo but they moved it. Very sneaky.

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by PPP on Sep 11, 2008 10:29 AM EDT up 0 recs

OK – because I was past there within the last month or so and didn’t notice it missing.

by 1967ers on Sep 11, 2008 11:56 AM EDT up 0 recs

Since it's just us two this morning...

Sup PPP? How you doin?

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by Chemmy on Sep 11, 2008 10:24 AM EDT 0 recs

For some reason the provincial government decided to change a perfectly good off-ramp and now it is an asbolute clusterf*ck and adds 15 minutes to my commute. I am not happy.

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by PPP on Sep 11, 2008 10:26 AM EDT up 0 recs

Which off-ramp?

by Kim Jorn on Sep 11, 2008 10:31 AM EDT up 0 recs

Hurontario from the QEW. It used to split into north and south via a long loop over the bridge and now it is one ramp that splits into three lanes far too late.

The result: Traffic backs up in the left lane of the highway through both the conscientious drivers and the douchebags that try to sneak in at the front which in turn slows down traffic across all three lanes all the way back to the Cawthra exit.

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by PPP on Sep 11, 2008 10:33 AM EDT up 0 recs

the douchebags that try to sneak in at the front

The worst. People who use the on-ramp to butt ahead of 4 or 5 cars are among the lowest form of human geings. They would steal from their neighbor if they thought they could get away with it, which is essentially what they’re doing.

by general borschevsky on Sep 11, 2008 11:47 AM EDT up 0 recs

I am with you man. They, along with the bastards that go on the on ramp from the highway to sneak up 3 spots or run ahead on a two lane on-ramp, have a special place reserved for them in the fiery pits of hell.

Also, I block those SOBs out which drives them insane.

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by PPP on Sep 11, 2008 11:49 AM EDT up 0 recs

10-4 that

I do the same. Keep it up.

by general borschevsky on Sep 11, 2008 11:50 AM EDT up 0 recs

The angry honks and the flashing high beams are like manna.

And imagine their surprise when they find a single digit waiting for them.

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by PPP on Sep 11, 2008 11:52 AM EDT up 0 recs

For a second there, I thought you were saying that people would steal their neighbor if they thought they could get away with it. Which made me laugh.

But then I thought. Hmmm… That’s not a bad idea…

by bobrouse! on Sep 11, 2008 8:31 PM EDT up 0 recs

As much as I want to hate those people, it’s actually the fault of passive drivers who let them in. People cutting to the front of the line are normally aggressive drivers who don’t slow up the line behind them. Game theory actually proves that they help more traffic get through congestion, the real problem is slow pokes who let them in and also just clog shit up by being indecisive.

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by Chemmy on Sep 11, 2008 11:52 AM EDT up 0 recs

I usually block them out. Living in Vancouver, the worst part is seeing assholes do it at the border – zooming past an hours worth of customs traffic and then being all like ‘oh, a merge! well, one of these friendly people will let me cut in.’

by Godd Till on Sep 11, 2008 11:56 AM EDT up 0 recs

I hate the passive drivers too. If everyone merges in when there is an opening then flow continues without stops. When aggressive drivers jump to the front they not only stop the one car in the lane they are trying to jump into but all of the lanes behind them.

During rush hour, if all of the weaving idiots stayed in their lane then we wouldn’t have the freaking far left lane being a parking lot.

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by PPP on Sep 11, 2008 11:59 AM EDT up 0 recs

That is one of the worst ramps on the face of the earth.

Well, there’s one in Calgary that is crossed by a train track and has a light on it…..

by 1967ers on Sep 11, 2008 11:57 AM EDT up 0 recs

oh hai, i makes you a link but i eated it

hey guys!

PPP, at least you didn’t have to deal with Quebec immigration at all…now THAT will test anyone’s patience.

Basically this summer I had to send them in a whole mess of stuff proving I didn’t need welfare while in Quebec, which makes sense, even though for a FOUR year program of studies, I needed to renew it after THREE years. After some hoop jumping, attempting to read minds and sending in yet more shit, I still have to go to the border for the study permit needed for the government of Canada (at least that one’s easier to do—three documents: paper from QC government, letter from the school and processing fee)

Strangely enough I’m not enjoying it.

Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing

by loser domi on Sep 11, 2008 11:36 AM EDT 0 recs

Yup, that’s Quebec.

Meanwhile, in Denmark, I never picked up my student visa and got free healthcare after 3 months.

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by PPP on Sep 11, 2008 11:42 AM EDT up 0 recs

Your life is just one long string of not seeing hospital bills.

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by Chemmy on Sep 11, 2008 11:44 AM EDT up 0 recs

Basically.

The other day I woke up with a crippling pain in my foot. I went to the hospital, got it checked out, got given two prescriptions.

Total cost: $35 because I have no insurance.

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by PPP on Sep 11, 2008 11:48 AM EDT up 0 recs

I would have just sucked it up and saved the $1,000.

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by Chemmy on Sep 11, 2008 11:52 AM EDT up 0 recs

U-S-A! U-S-A!

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by Chemmy on Sep 11, 2008 11:53 AM EDT up 0 recs

Your new nickname

Since we’re on the subject…

PPP and Chemmy:

The Can-Am Connection!

by Godd Till on Sep 11, 2008 11:58 AM EDT up 0 recs

Perfect

Nice find although I am not sure if either one is good looking enough to stand in for us.

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by PPP on Sep 11, 2008 12:01 PM EDT up 0 recs

I live about five miles from the WWE headquarters.

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by Chemmy on Sep 11, 2008 12:03 PM EDT up 0 recs

Hey wait a minute asshole

Thomas Erwin Zenk got his first taste of wrestling stardom when he went to the World Wrestling Federation with Richard Vigneault, better known as the wrestler Rick Martel as the “Can-Am Connection” in late 1986, many wrestlers from the era have claimed that he and Martel were having a sexual relationship at this time.

PPP and I haven’t had sex in months.

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by Chemmy on Sep 11, 2008 12:06 PM EDT up 0 recs

PPP and I haven’t had sex in months.

Hey, we have something in common!

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by loser domi on Sep 11, 2008 12:13 PM EDT up 0 recs

Yeah

None of us have had sex with LD in months.

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by PPP on Sep 11, 2008 12:14 PM EDT up 0 recs

LOLZERS! ONE!

I did not know that.

by Godd Till on Sep 11, 2008 12:38 PM EDT up 0 recs

The Zenk-Martel thing, I mean.

by Godd Till on Sep 11, 2008 12:38 PM EDT up 0 recs

can-am connection

can-am connection> Montreal Screwjob

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by loser domi on Sep 11, 2008 12:12 PM EDT up 0 recs

There was a valid reason to riot and Montrealers sat on their hands because it happened to a Westerner. For shame.

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by PPP on Sep 11, 2008 12:15 PM EDT up 0 recs

Bret screwed Bret.

And I’ve been in Montreal for WWF events. They still love to shit all over Vince for that.

by Godd Till on Sep 11, 2008 12:51 PM EDT up 0 recs

Until gangrene develops…

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by PPP on Sep 11, 2008 12:00 PM EDT up 0 recs

Trivia hints are up.

by 1967ers on Sep 11, 2008 11:57 AM EDT 0 recs

Nice

We need them :(

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by PPP on Sep 11, 2008 11:57 AM EDT up 0 recs

Anyone Know

A good fantasy hockey site (I don’t mean Eklund).
I have a draft Monday I want to read up for.

by Godd Till on Sep 11, 2008 12:55 PM EDT 0 recs

48 comments and NOT ONE ABOUT NHL 09? Be a Pro kicks ASS!!! 5 games in and I’m making Mitchell wipe my ass from now on…Second line baby!!!!! Too bad I can’t get the long shifts thing down though.

by Kobra29 on Sep 11, 2008 1:23 PM EDT 0 recs

I am still undecided if I will support the detested EA with a purchase. That, and I’m busy crashing castles! woo green knight ftw!

by LeafFanInVan on Sep 11, 2008 1:33 PM EDT up 0 recs

How does Be a Pro work? You just play a whole game/season as one guy?

by Godd Till on Sep 11, 2008 1:33 PM EDT 0 recs

Yeah you even get to sit on the bench.

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by Chemmy on Sep 11, 2008 1:35 PM EDT up 0 recs

WHAT?

That is awesome. I heard them saying that you can be a goalie and you just sit there the entire time until the play comes down to you. Awesome.

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by PPP on Sep 11, 2008 2:16 PM EDT up 0 recs

Hopefully it has a wide selection of fully customizable hairstyles (despite the helmet) so I can make a blue-mohawked defenseman..

by LeafFanInVan on Sep 11, 2008 1:35 PM EDT up 0 recs

No mohawk. Bryan McCabe’s moustache is in there though.

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by Chemmy on Sep 11, 2008 1:35 PM EDT up 0 recs

How about Lanny Macdonald’s? Or the Parros Pornstache..

by LeafFanInVan on Sep 11, 2008 1:39 PM EDT up 0 recs

Ian White’s lumberjack beard?

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by loser domi on Sep 11, 2008 1:48 PM EDT up 0 recs

Sid the kid’s wispy “my first playoff beard”?

by LeafFanInVan on Sep 11, 2008 2:11 PM EDT up 0 recs

Georges Laraques’ cornrows?

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by loser domi on Sep 11, 2008 2:17 PM EDT up 0 recs

Sean Avery’s pink skirt?

by LeafFanInVan on Sep 11, 2008 2:38 PM EDT up 0 recs

Mike Foligno’s nose?

by general borschevsky on Sep 11, 2008 3:10 PM EDT up 0 recs

Mike Ricci’s missing teeth?

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by PPP on Sep 11, 2008 4:37 PM EDT up 0 recs

Alex Ovechkin’s Ringo Starr Haircut?

Making stuff up since real Leafs news is far too depressing

by loser domi on Sep 11, 2008 5:14 PM EDT up 0 recs

I've been told...

that Be A Pro is reason enough to buy the game even if you hate hockey.

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by PPP on Sep 11, 2008 2:16 PM EDT up 0 recs

i bought it last night. got one game in. pretty good. there’s a new “stick lift” feature. it’s difficult, because you get stripped way more often, but it is more realistic defensively speaking.

the be a pro mode is pretty intense. the fact that you can use it online is crazy.

and sundin’s still on the leafs. chea.

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by eyebleaf on Sep 11, 2008 4:33 PM EDT up 0 recs

I saw that! ha!!! Sundin still there, although I updated the rosters when I went online, and havn’t seen if he’s still there or not.

by Kobra29 on Sep 11, 2008 4:54 PM EDT up 0 recs

So what do you do? Cut him? Take control and make him retire?

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by PPP on Sep 11, 2008 4:57 PM EDT up 0 recs

Trade for Hossa/kovalchuk!

by LeafFanInVan on Sep 11, 2008 5:05 PM EDT up 0 recs

don’t forget the draft picks!

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by loser domi on Sep 11, 2008 5:08 PM EDT up 0 recs

Demote to the Marlies. He can still retire in Toronto ;)

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by PPP on Sep 11, 2008 5:16 PM EDT up 0 recs

nono….scratch him, therefore really doing NOTHINGfor you….NOW it’s like real life!….or try him on Defence!

by Kobra29 on Sep 11, 2008 5:58 PM EDT up 0 recs

Considering Tiger Woods customizable bodies, I’m dissappointed in NHL’s lack of variarity, but being able to tuen your equipment a bit to better your player is awesome!

by Kobra29 on Sep 11, 2008 1:43 PM EDT 0 recs