Ian White is Moustachulent, Blake Wheeler Should Be Suspended, and Hockey Night in Canada Hates Us
by PPP on Dec 8, 2009 9:30 AM EST
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17. Bill McCreary apologized to Ian White for missing Blake Wheeler’s push from behind that sent White hard into boards. White said after the game, "I was lucky." Obviously, you’d love McCreary to see it and call it live, but good on him for manning up.
How long r we going to treat refs like they're above the law, above being questioned by the media? It's an outdated concept that needs 2 die
Those two tweets, the latter re-tweeted by yours truly, were enough to sitr me from my blogging slumber. As usual, my muse Godd Till, was on gchat immediately to kick-start the creative process:
Till: AH YES, BECAUSE THE STANDARD OF OFFICIATING WOULD CERTAINLY BE IMPROVED BY SUSTAINED, INTELLIGENT CRITICISM BY THE HOWARD BERGERS OF THE WORLD
PPP: Not from the dumbasses of the world but the refs should have to answer for why they screwed up like with that White hit.
Till: UH HUH. 'REPLAYS SHOW THAT I WAS BLOCKED OUT ON THE PLAY' Remember that? Can't wait for more of that standard of ass-covering. This should be great.
Obviously, the fact that Bill McCreary missed the hit is mind-blowing. I won't beat around the bush, Ian White is bang on: he is very lucky. If he had been hit a half a stride or so sooner he could have woken up Sunday with a halo and paralysed from the waist or neck down. Blake Wheeler laid an absolutely filthy hit and the fact that he isn't suspended and that there was no call on the ice highlights the massive trouble the league faces in trying to cut dirty play out of the game.
The more upsetting part was that Blake Wheeler didn't stand up to Colton Orr when it came time to pay the piper. Normally, non-fighters obviously don't have to fight enforcers but 'The Code' is supposed to keep players from making those kinds of hits because they'll have to fight the Colton Orrs of the world. Instead, we saw Wheeler pull his best Claude Lemieux impression while the Bruins were rewarded with a powerplay. Of course, I don't want Orr to pull a Carcillo but is it to much to ask that Blake Wheeler man up? And if he won't, would it kill the league to dish out some punishment? I guess so.
There was obviously a lot of ugly things in a broadcast that features the Leafs losing 7-2 in Phil Kessel's first trip back to Boston but one we could both agree on was that Mike Milbury's presence was the straw that broke the camel's back. How bad was it? Godd Till actually wrote a post about how it made him realise Pierre McGuire's genius. Put aside the fact that the very idea of having him present his opinions on anything related to the NHL is laughable.
Till: And what the fuck was with having Mike Milbury in the booth? That POS defended Wheeler on that play.
PPP: WASN'T THAT PAINFUL?
Till: Fuck, Hughson and Simpson are bad enough but that addition was so fucking bad.
PPP: Yeah, it was disgusting.
Till: Hmm, let's put a grating loudmouth Bruins homer in the booth.
PPP: Yeah, this is genius. Ok, next we're going to put a West Coaster with an inferiority complex about Toronto.
Till: Check!
PPP: And some twit that didn't want to play in Toronto because he was a pussy.
Till: GREATTTTT IDEA!
PPP: This is going to be awesome
/scribbles HNiC script
Till: THE TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS ARE PROUD TO SELECT, FROM SASKATOON OF THE WHL, D WENDEL CLARK! FUCK YOU SIMPSON!
PPP: THEN FUCKING BENEDICT CHERRY WEARS A FUCKING BROOONS TIE!
Thanks to a quirk in the schedule the Maple Leafs are back in Boston on Thursday night for a rematch. This is probably a great thing for Phil Kessel in terms of facing a pressure-packed environment. It also lets the Leafs work on the things that killed them on Saturday night: their lack of attention to detail, their lack of offensive desire, and their lack of passion. The one advantage they have is that the Bruins won't be getting shellacked by the Habs Wednesday night because anyone that watched Friday's 100th anniversary game knew what was going to happen:
The Bruins are going to be flying tomorrow night. Freaking bums
God, I hate it when randoms on Twitter are right.
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what the hell is going on here
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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 8, 2009 9:45 AM EST up reply actions
Mad Mike had it wrong. It’s people like him who may be responsible for the “pansification” of hockey. I don’t understand why he stood up for Wheeler, but hey. This is the same guy who beat up a Rangers fan at MSG with his own penny loafers thirty years ago.
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by Rock Outta SoCal on Dec 8, 2009 9:54 AM EST reply actions
He saved the Vancouver Canucks in a roundabout way.
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hockey people everywhere need to look down at someone and think “I have to NOT be like this man”
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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 8, 2009 10:05 AM EST up reply actions
I liked how on the Hotstove last Saturday he was ripping into Shanahan for getting that NHL job so quickly, saying “there are so many out-of-work GMs that would have been perfect for the position”
Then someone called him out (can’t remember who) saying:
1. That he was jealous because he didn’t get the job
2. There’s a reason why those GMs don’t have jobs
Milbury gets under my skin, but it’s nice to see the guys stick it too him every 2nd intermission
by WendelMadeMe on Dec 8, 2009 10:13 AM EST up reply actions
haha, yeah, that was gold
if he wasnt so stupid and spaced out he wouldnt have a job in broadcasting. because idiocy brings in numbers
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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 8, 2009 10:16 AM EST up reply actions
He gave the SNES Wade Redden? Does that count?
Space Weed Says Telling it like it is without a care about the mainstream's feelings
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by Kevin Sellathamby on Dec 8, 2009 10:02 AM EST up reply actions
He beat up one patron at Madison Square Garden. I’d say that was a plus.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 8, 2009 10:29 AM EST up reply actions
One down, 19,000 to go
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Dec 8, 2009 4:18 PM EST up reply actions
Hey PPP and/or Chemmy
I found a video of the Blake Wheeler incident if you guys want to embed it:
by Belligerent Burkie on Dec 8, 2009 10:13 AM EST reply actions
Just don’t read the comments that come with it.
by WendelMadeMe on Dec 8, 2009 10:16 AM EST up reply actions
The code! The code! Hooray for hockey justice!
by theothervatican on Dec 8, 2009 1:38 PM EST up reply actions
What's up with Grabovski?
I’ve been watching the highlights from the Boston and Atlanta games and in both Grabo got himself a breakaway, and both times he missed wide left (either that or the goalie got the tiniest piece of the puck and sent it wide left).
So does Grabo have no moves (or only 1 move)? Or is he completely snake-bitten right now?
by Belligerent Burkie on Dec 8, 2009 10:17 AM EST reply actions
So Grabbo is 0 for 2 on recent breakaways. Lots of talented guys have worse numbers in the shootout. I’d imagine by the end of the year he’ll have cashed in a couple of breakaways and it will even out.
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against atlanta, the puck hopped and rolled a bit at the end and he put it (just) wide, but the move worked and he had the whole top of the net to put it in
i dont remember the one against boston, but grabbo has never stood out as a break away talent, i dont think he has ever been thrown in the shoot out, there is probably a reason behind that
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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 8, 2009 10:20 AM EST up reply actions
Playing devil's advocate
Lost in all this outrage is the blatant high stick Komisarek gave Chara.
An inch or so higher, and the big Z could be wearing an eye patch and out of hockey.
It’s a fast game, things get missed. It was a scary situation with White. I didn’t think Wheeler “hit” him so much as nudged him. Where the play was, made that decision a very, very bad one. Blake is fortunate things didn’t turn out worse. Even more fortunate is White.
The point of the two refs was to minimize instances of missed calls. Has it worked? I have no idea. That said, it is incredibly rare that a missed call is owned up to by an official, and I give McCreary full marks for taking responsibility for it. I’d say that’s a pretty classy guy.
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by blurr1974 on Dec 8, 2009 10:26 AM EST reply actions
the highstick was faaaaaaaaaaaaaar less easy to catch than the hit from behind, not to mention how having your stick deflect up another stick into a player is a lot more forgiving a mistake than even nudging a speeding player from behind into the endboards
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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 8, 2009 10:30 AM EST up reply actions
yes
but it was missed and the potential for a career ending injury existed. of course, the flip side is the visor argument.
my point being that calls get missed a lot. Has implementing two refs on the ice helped stem that?
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by blurr1974 on Dec 8, 2009 10:33 AM EST up reply actions
No, it clearly hasn’t. If you ask me, they just seem to get in the way of the play more frequently.
The thing that confounds me is how, with two refs and two linesmen on the ice, and only two players in one end of the rink, CHASING THE PUCK, all four of the little blind mice could possibly miss Wheeler’s hit from behind. You’re correct to point out the missed call on Komi, but plays like that – bang bang at the line, in the middle of the hurly burly – can and do get missed. I am at a loss, though, to know what all four officials could possibly have been watching in the case of the Wheeler/White incident that would have distracted them from observing that foul.
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"But if someone so eager to engage into fist talk, we can always meet after season end in Minsk." (Mikhail Grabovski and a well-meaning but not particularly skillful translator)
One doesn’t preclude getting upset about the other though.
Just because it wasn’t a bodycheck doesn’t mean it wasn’t dirty. When Al McInnis got wishboned on an icing and broke tonnes of things he wasn’t bodychecked either. He just got speared in the back.
Missing a high stick on a play that had already moved on is different than missing Wheeler’s hit which was where the refs’ attention should have been focused for at least a 3 count.
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by David Danforth on Dec 8, 2009 10:42 AM EST up reply actions
ummmmm
where did I say it wasn’t dirty?
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by blurr1974 on Dec 8, 2009 10:49 AM EST up reply actions
Ah
I didn’t think Wheeler "hit" him so much as nudged him.
That part confused me. Also, you didn’t call for blood. >:(
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by David Danforth on Dec 8, 2009 11:29 AM EST up reply actions
maybe “shoved” could be used in place of “nudge” but either way it wasn’t a “hit” into the end boards.
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by blurr1974 on Dec 8, 2009 11:31 AM EST up reply actions
It's semantics
There’s no nudging from behind penalty and that word, in my mind, underplays the intent of what he did as you can tell by the outstretched arms on the push. Nudge sounds accidental.
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by David Danforth on Dec 8, 2009 11:58 AM EST up reply actions
BENEDICT CHERRY
I mean, it’s not like he played for boston, and coached for boston, and wore that suit before, or explained during the segment that his teams go
- - Bruins
- - Leafs
Mainly because the Bruins are awesome. 
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 8, 2009 10:28 AM EST reply actions
Duh
But he also calls the Leafs ‘we’ and it’s Hockey Night in Canada not Hockey Night in Massholia :P
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by David Danforth on Dec 8, 2009 10:42 AM EST up reply actions
IMPOSTER!
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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 8, 2009 10:42 AM EST up reply actions
I call the Wild “we” but I’d still root for the bruins over them.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 8, 2009 10:45 AM EST up reply actions
TRAITOR!
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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 8, 2009 10:45 AM EST up reply actions
oh no I have a connection to two places in different conferences. Maybe I just love hockey too much for one team?
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 8, 2009 11:02 AM EST up reply actions
no, your problem is you have chosen 2 teams not worthy of so much love so you have to divide it
we leaf fans have no such quandary
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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 8, 2009 11:03 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
INCORRECT
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 8, 2009 11:04 AM EST up reply actions
search your feelings, you know it to be true
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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 8, 2009 11:08 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
You just got owned.
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by David Danforth on Dec 8, 2009 11:29 AM EST up reply actions
DISAGREE
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 8, 2009 11:39 AM EST up reply actions
I am the only one who finds it totally embarrassing a douche like Cherry cheerleads for us? The Bruins are welcome to him.
Edwards, Milbury, Cherry… yes please!
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 8, 2009 12:07 PM EST up reply actions
DON CHERRY IS A SAINT
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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 8, 2009 12:08 PM EST up reply actions
i maintain that the rock em sock em series is a major factor in Canada’s dominance in youth hockey.. this translate upwards to our dominance at the NHL level, the long winter and abundance of ice are coincidental factors :)
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Do with the rest what you will, give them to the -coyotes- poor
by AkiSchennberg on Dec 8, 2009 1:06 PM EST up reply actions
Don Cherry knows his stuff. He is pretty much correct every time he opens his mouth to talk about a hockey issue. Kind of like the post on Zambonic Youth about Pierre McGuire: the delivery is not pretty, but he knows his stuff.
by Leaf in Habland on Dec 8, 2009 4:08 PM EST up reply actions
Aside from his insane ramblings, semi transparent racist remarks, mispronouncing (horribly) any player’s name who doesn’t sound Irish and going off on wild tangents – you can find a gem now and again.
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Dec 8, 2009 4:22 PM EST up reply actions
Thoughts from Atlanta game
Toskala was very good in the 1st, great in the 2nd and pedestrian in the 3rd. Toskala did everything he needed to do to keep Atlanta at bay those first 2 periods. I will give PPP this though; had the Leafs not scored 5(!) goals in the second, he may have cost them the game. But the Leafs scored 5 in the second and he didn’t cost them the game.
If the Leafs can play half as well in every period as they did in the the second, it will lead to PLAYOFFS!!!!1
It was great to see the Leafs score so many goals off of rebounds. That tells me that more and more players are shooting away from the chest of the goalie (ahem blake) and towards the corners and off of the goalie’s pads when on a bad angle, creating more rebound opportunities and more chances to shoot with the goalie out of the net.
Now, let’s just hope they can do that against Boston and not have another 7-2 beatdown (unless it’s 7-2 us of course).
by Belligerent Burkie on Dec 8, 2009 10:29 AM EST reply actions
OK, pedestrian may be a bit of a stretch for the 3rd.
by Belligerent Burkie on Dec 8, 2009 10:29 AM EST up reply actions
ill let the little goal slide because that was a pretty good pump fake and toskala had to decide in a split second if he needed to move to cover the far side. great move by little to get vesa moving
the second goal though….ugh
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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 8, 2009 10:31 AM EST up reply actions
Atlanta’s down two posts :P
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by David Danforth on Dec 8, 2009 10:42 AM EST up reply actions
I'm still bitter
over that Saturday game. Hopefully the Leafs feel the same way and make the Bruins pay for blowing them out on Saturday.
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Till: GREATTTTT IDEA!
Did anyone else hear Jim Hughson say this in their head when reading it?
No?
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by Karina on Dec 8, 2009 11:37 AM EST reply actions
GRRRRRRRRRRRREAT CATCH KARINA!
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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 8, 2009 11:39 AM EST up reply actions
GRRRRRREEEEEEAAAAAAATTTTTTT Save Luongo!
by Belligerent Burkie on Dec 8, 2009 11:40 AM EST up reply actions
Goals can be reviewed
I’ve never understood why penalties couldn’t be. Here’s a simple proposal.
Coaches get one penalty challenge a period, which can be used to dispute a called penalty or dispute a non-call. If it turn out the coach was right the penalty is overturned/called. If the coach is wrong there’s some sort of penalty i.e. minor becomes a double minor or a major, or the team goes down two men.
Seeing as it seems way easier for the cameras to catch penalties as opposed to a questionable goal, you can put a time limit of two minutes on a review or something to make sure the game doesn’t slow down too much.
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by Pamplemousse on Dec 8, 2009 12:42 PM EST reply actions
I can hear the people complaining about time wasting already but when you see Ian White get four minutes because a Hurricane high-sticked another Hurricane you start thinking that there must be a way to cut down on human error.
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by David Danforth on Dec 8, 2009 1:15 PM EST up reply actions
I think there would be a way to handle it efficiently, especially if there was a penalty for using a challenge and losing. Coaches would have to be really, really sure they’d win, because there’s no way they’d want to be the ones to put their team in a hole.
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by Pamplemousse on Dec 8, 2009 1:33 PM EST up reply actions
Mike BLEEPing Ribeiro – phantom high stick.
If you need to be 100% absolutely sure of a goal, then the same should be said for a penalty
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by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Dec 8, 2009 4:24 PM EST up reply actions
A Letter from Boston.
Here in Massholia we are proud of our Masshole status so it doesn’t really phase us when it’s used as an attempt to insult us. It just means we’ve succeeded in ticking you off. WIN! :P :D
Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way I’d like to say something about Saturdays game.
First I’m sorry for your loss but the Bruins needed to get the first game and hold Kessel pointless. Losing to the Habs so badly the night before fueled that fire too.
In Boston, we’re used to being infested by loud mouth Habs fans and we get our fair share of Rangers, Sabres and Flyers fans. (Sabres fans are the worst IMHO). Saturday we got a large flux of folks from your fair city and I must admit I was impressed. Every single one of you I met was cool. No one was obnoxious. I saw no fights. If you were there and any B’s fans treated you badly I apologize. Every city has it’s jerks. There was even a Leafs fan who was totally hammered who bought tons of Bruins gear and handed it out to the fans and children. Who does that?!?! So thank you for being cool. A lot of Bruins fans noticed and were impressed. Keep it up!
I find your kind words suspicious
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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 8, 2009 1:01 PM EST up reply actions
You're entitled.
I’m being sincere. You can find me on Boston.com saying something similar.
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as you dont know my general motif, i shall let you know, I am not being serious
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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 8, 2009 1:20 PM EST up reply actions
no you get’em right where you want’em jared. His guard will totally be down
There is no "I" in team, but there is an "M" and an "E"
WAY TO RUIN IT!
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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 8, 2009 1:26 PM EST up reply actions
ZOMG A GURL
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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 8, 2009 1:28 PM EST up reply actions
This site is considered a bit of a safe haven for leaf fans (at least for me it is), you dont get many retarded trade proposals or people just trolling here looking to stir up trouble. Some of the best hockey bloggers frequent here and it really is awesome to hear the insight they have and to read the blogs/articles they produce. Many of them well researched and with alot of time put into them. Id be willing to bet that they spend more time and effort on their blog posts here than the MSM do on their news columns.
There is no "I" in team, but there is an "M" and an "E"
and then there is me, the resident peanut gallery
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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 8, 2009 1:33 PM EST up reply actions
Thanks for the insight. I was looking for the best blog to offer my kudos to because all too often you see the nasty side. I’m glad I found this.
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be sure to check back on thursday then, we will require a severe beating of your bruins by our leafs as payback for saturday
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I shall!
Do you want to borrow one of our goaltenders for that game? Oh wait….. ;)
I KID! I KID!
Can we still have Kaberle? :D
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we’ll send you kaberle for chara, savard, rask and our first rounders back
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that was JFJ, he does not speak for the rest of us
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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 8, 2009 1:47 PM EST up reply actions
for rask straight up?
nah,
Rask and our first and second this year back i might consider
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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 8, 2009 1:54 PM EST up reply actions
still, when I go to the draft in LA this year i want to watch my team do something!
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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 8, 2009 2:10 PM EST up reply actions
I hear you.
You guys have been down for so long. It would be nice to see the Leafs contend again.
blerf did i just say that?
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Leafs are on the way up, mark my words!
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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 8, 2009 2:31 PM EST up reply actions
psht
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 8, 2009 2:08 PM EST up reply actions
See
Travelling Leafs fans are credits to the club.
For the record, I’ve also never had a problem with visiting fans in Toronto and I’ve been to a lot of contentious games. I think those kinds of things tend to get overblown.
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by David Danforth on Dec 8, 2009 1:16 PM EST up reply actions
True
One bad fan can ruin an experience for you. I can say that 4000 Habs fans were better behaved than a couple hundred Sabres fans in our building. Go figure.
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I’ve never had a problem with Sabres fans. Probably because the only time I saw a buffalo fan get kicked out I was actually having a pretty good conversation with his buddy.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 8, 2009 2:10 PM EST up reply actions
I was at the game decked out in my Leaf’s garb and my brain full of alcohol laced blood.
I’d say for the most part the Boston fans were really cool. There was a group behind us who were pretty malicious with their taunting. When I go to road arena’s, I cheer for my team. I don’t taunt the other. :)
I’d love to go back to Boston for another game. It was great.
Brad Stowe
Maple Leafs Hot Stove
by RepressedOptimism on Dec 8, 2009 1:50 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, some of the guys are really bad. We try to squash them or heckle when they get out of hand. You didn’t happen to be stuck in the section with the annoying U.S.A. chant did you? That is downright embarrassing.
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much better than Ole though
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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 8, 2009 1:58 PM EST up reply actions
we were in 325….
The group behind us had an unhealthy obsession with the words homo and gay.
Brad Stowe
Maple Leafs Hot Stove
by RepressedOptimism on Dec 8, 2009 2:16 PM EST up reply actions
We should’ve met up. Where did you guys end up going before the game?
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 8, 2009 2:21 PM EST up reply actions
I don’t remember the name of the place… it was near anna’s taqueria… hills tavern or something… I can’t remember. I was pretty much done when they went in. I just walked back to the hotel.
Brad Stowe
Maple Leafs Hot Stove
by RepressedOptimism on Dec 8, 2009 2:36 PM EST up reply actions
Just read this correctly…
Before the game we got pre-buzzed in our hotel. In the afternoon we did the fenway tour and ate lunch at Uno.
Brad Stowe
Maple Leafs Hot Stove
by RepressedOptimism on Dec 8, 2009 2:47 PM EST up reply actions
Ahhh....325...yeah.
I had a feeling it was the gay comments. They just don’t grasp the weight of using those terms.
323 chants USA.
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307 is a much more civilized section.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 8, 2009 2:26 PM EST up reply actions
We start the “let’s go bruins” after the anthem. I was sitting in the lower bowl on saturday, and could here it just up on that end. woof.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 8, 2009 2:27 PM EST up reply actions
A buddy of mine sits in 319 every game. It’s not so bad. I work the 50/50 Raffle so I don’t get to see much of the games but at least I’m in the building. When we break down I go sit up on 9 near Timmy.
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Sweet. I…generally ignore the 50/50 raffle. Sorry.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 8, 2009 2:52 PM EST up reply actions
No biggie :)
We have our regulars who play and when a Canadian team is in town the pot gets pretty big. Not winning can be a discouragement though. Someone from Toronto won the pot Saturday night so all was not lost for them. :)
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I try not to spend too much on gambling considering I buy arena beer.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 8, 2009 2:58 PM EST up reply actions
We sang both anthems at the top of our lungs.
My buddy was sitting a few seats over from me wearing a St. Pats jersey. It was pretty sweet.
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by RepressedOptimism on Dec 8, 2009 2:37 PM EST up reply actions
heh heh…the only thing that stops me is the cold. New England is cold enough for me. :)
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It’s not that much colder up in here Leafland.
Pretty similar weather to new england.
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by RepressedOptimism on Dec 8, 2009 2:54 PM EST up reply actions
No? I have to admit I’ve only been to Montreal but when I think of Canada I think of the years I lived in Alaska and imagine it’s cold like that. Clearly I am mistaken.
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Not even close. :)
alaska is way the f—- up there.
It gets crazy hot in the summer, 90+ with bad humidity, and crazy cold in the winter, -30 at the worst times. But neither of those last for more than a month or so.
It’s pretty great weather all said and done.
Plus, I can jump in front a SUV going 70 and not have to worry about medical bills. It’s a good luxury to have since our beer is so much better.
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by RepressedOptimism on Dec 8, 2009 3:24 PM EST up reply actions
our beer is so much better.
It’s not my fault you preferred to pick up a 15 dollar bottle of liquor instead of sampling some actual good beer.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 8, 2009 3:28 PM EST up reply actions
I actually enjoyed the Sam Adams I had. It was pretty good.
I got the rum because I much prefer getting drunk on liquor rather than beer. and it was way cheaper than drinking arena beer en masse.
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by RepressedOptimism on Dec 8, 2009 3:39 PM EST up reply actions
True enough. Sam Adams is our good-enough mass-produced beer. If you have microbrewery beer it’s even better, though.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 8, 2009 3:41 PM EST up reply actions
We went to the Beer works near fenway, and I had a Hub light. The 7 of us all tried to order something different.
It was pretty good too. Tasted a lot like our version of Coors light.
The stuff the other guys got, not so good.
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by RepressedOptimism on Dec 8, 2009 3:45 PM EST up reply actions
Huh. I enjoy the beer works by the garden. Then again I like my IPAs and darker beers.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 8, 2009 3:46 PM EST up reply actions
Could just be me. I’m far from what you would call a beer connoisseur.
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by RepressedOptimism on Dec 8, 2009 3:48 PM EST up reply actions
Rolling Rock is uber-awesome. I miss.
Grabo's virtual linemate.
by Sergei Puckizin on Dec 8, 2009 4:02 PM EST up reply actions
Chemmy says the same thing
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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 8, 2009 2:54 PM EST up reply actions
It was pretty bad. A few of the guys in our group were real close to starting something. It’s a good thing they are very calm and reserved people. If they had any sort of temper, I’m sure there would have been a fight. Those bruin fans were being very very belligerent with the taunts. Besides that small group, I have no complaints.
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by RepressedOptimism on Dec 8, 2009 2:39 PM EST up reply actions
I, personally, was buzzing enough that I completely ignore them and concentrated on heckling my own team.
It must have pissed them off swearing at the back of my jersey for 2.5 hours without getting any response from me.
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by RepressedOptimism on Dec 8, 2009 2:40 PM EST up reply actions
That’s amazing. I wish I thought of that.
I kept rambling on about mustaches.
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by RepressedOptimism on Dec 8, 2009 2:55 PM EST up reply actions
MUSTACHE POWER!!!
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by RepressedOptimism on Dec 8, 2009 2:57 PM EST up reply actions
ANOTHER! I AM NOT ALONE! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 8, 2009 2:10 PM EST up reply actions
dear god….they are multiplying
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by JaredFromLondon on Dec 8, 2009 2:11 PM EST up reply actions
p.s. krispy you should check out stanley cup of chowder sometime
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 8, 2009 2:11 PM EST up reply actions
I"ve been there once or twice. I tend to stick with the Bruins blog at the Globe though. :) Maybe I’ll venture out a little more.
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the bruins blog at the globe will have news as it happens but I prefer the comments at the sbnation site.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Dec 8, 2009 2:21 PM EST up reply actions
I didn’t get to see that Carolina game…but wow…what a nice hit. And Erik Cole absolutely embarrassed himself, first by wanting to fight after a legal hip check, and then by not even landing a punch and getting his ass beat down.
“indeed, thats one reason why Ian White rocks our world”
fixed.
Grabo's virtual linemate.
by Sergei Puckizin on Dec 8, 2009 4:07 PM EST up reply actions
The Moustache code
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
Albert Einstein
by Say *plan the parade one more time*... on Dec 8, 2009 4:30 PM EST up reply actions
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