Puck Daddy: Swedish Dives and Bites

I can't believe that I forgot to mention that Thomas Hickey got freaking bitten by a Swede last night! No one else mentioned it other than Jennifer Hedger on last night's SportsDesk.

Also, see Della Rovere alter his course to hit Markstrom. Although, on further review, that second collision with Espositio was a dive.

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Bite

yeah I forgot about the bite, too. That was dirty. I expected the diving from players who hero-worship Forsberg, but biting???

by Karina on Jan 6, 2009 12:25 PM EST reply actions

I thought initially that he had been cut by a skate. Then they showed the replay that made the bite clear and Maguire was silent!

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by PPP on Jan 6, 2009 12:27 PM EST up reply actions

maguire...silent..?

like speechless silent?

i don’t remember this at all, of course i missed most of the third buying new fish for my kiddo…

"You do dat, you go to da box, you know, uh, two minutes by yourself, and you feel shame, you know, and then you get free."
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by blurr1974 on Jan 6, 2009 12:28 PM EST up reply actions

what I remember

is that McGuire was pretty much in shock… he was like… look at Hickey in the crease… silence… Did he get bitten?!?

by Karina on Jan 6, 2009 12:32 PM EST up reply actions

This is how zombie wars happen.

Five for biting.

by Ando Rich on Jan 6, 2009 1:18 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs

best comment ever...

recd

"You do dat, you go to da box, you know, uh, two minutes by yourself, and you feel shame, you know, and then you get free."
The Left Coast Lock

by blurr1974 on Jan 6, 2009 1:32 PM EST up reply actions

I stayed up until the wee small hours so I could finish World War Z. I shouldn’t have enjoyed that book as much as I did.

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by mf37 on Jan 6, 2009 3:21 PM EST up reply actions

Is that good? I want to read that series but I need someone to have read it.

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by PPP on Jan 6, 2009 3:25 PM EST up reply actions

The format is what makes it work. It owes a huge debt to Studs Terkel (and if you haven’t you really need to read Working).

It’s essentially Q&A style unedited interviews with various survivors of the zombie plague – everyone from trailer park inhabitants to MOSSAD agents.

There’s some really nice wrinkles along the way and some awfully creepy stuff – the interview with the soldier who was assigned to purge the Parisian sewers of zombies is pretty intense as is the use of refugee camps as bait to attract the zombie hordes so more important folks could be evacuated.

I very rarely read any fiction (this is the first one in 3+ years) but I dig zombies and the book was well done.

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by mf37 on Jan 6, 2009 3:34 PM EST up reply actions

Oh man

Yeah, so awesome.

I pretty much read it under the exact same circumstances – i don’t do fiction often but I am a huge Romero zombie lover.

Like mf37 said as did The Onion, its “far more affecting than anything involving zombies really has any right to be”, which is fair because its so well written.

The section about the survivors “goin up north” to Canada is so damned depressing – basically we up here are fucked and can expect a fair bit of gypsy living and cannibalism.

Also for better or worse, she’s coming to a theatre near you :

World War Z movie

Also thanks for the love blurr, I like being green!

by Ando Rich on Jan 6, 2009 5:23 PM EST up reply actions

Mike Tyson

be proud

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by Winkle on Jan 6, 2009 12:34 PM EST reply actions

Mikka Tysven!

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by JaredFromLondon on Jan 6, 2009 12:36 PM EST up reply actions

also...

those were dives.

the flop on the esposito hit was more embarrassing than the one on DR, but DR definitely readied himself for a hit and followed through…still Markstrom sold that one.

"You do dat, you go to da box, you know, uh, two minutes by yourself, and you feel shame, you know, and then you get free."
The Left Coast Lock

by blurr1974 on Jan 6, 2009 12:38 PM EST reply actions