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al-Qa'bong · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2012 4:00 pm Post subject: 2012 NHL Playoffs

Here's a place to discuss the exploits of others' teams.

I'm rooting for Philly this year, just 'cause Brayden Schenn's on the team. He was on the bench a couple of years ago for one of my kid's games, and said "Good shift" to him so, well, that's a bigger connexion than we have with any other team.

I like the way LA played last night, too. They seemed to be on the puck all the time, which was kind of refreshing to see after watching the Leafs all winter.
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"The purpose of government is to protect the weak from the powerful" Hammurabi

"We can't all be Sam the Sham; some of us have to be Pharoahs" Larry, brother of Darrel, and his other brother Daryl

al-Qa'bong · Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2012 5:56 pm Post subject:

Here's a list of some of the happiest players in the NHL right now:

Tyler Seguin
Ian White
Alex Steen
Carlo Coloaiacovo
John Mitchell
Anton Stralman
Jamal Mayers
Viktor Stalberg
Tukka Rask
Dominic Moore
Kris Versteeg
Pavel Kubina
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"The purpose of government is to protect the weak from the powerful" Hammurabi

"We can't all be Sam the Sham; some of us have to be Pharoahs" Larry, brother of Darrel, and his other brother Daryl

6079_Smith_W · Fulltime enMasse Member Joined: 15 Nov 2011 Posts: 571

Seen Rex Murphy's editorial this week?

http://www.cbc.ca/thenational/indepthanalysis/rexmurphy/story/2012/...

al-Qa'bong · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 3:38 am Post subject:

I heard that Murphy had something to say about the Leafs, but assumed he had nothing to say.

I was right.

Chester · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 5:05 pm Post subject:

al-Qa'bong · Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 11:02 pm Post subject:

Before the playoffs started, Glenn Healey said the Flyers weren't tough and that they risked being swept in four games.

Hmmm.

Today's game was a real barn-burner, and a lot of fun to watch. It's interesting to witness a favoured team face adversity and become unglued in the process. It's even more interesting to see this happening in front of Philadelphians.
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"The purpose of government is to protect the weak from the powerful" Hammurabi

"We can't all be Sam the Sham; some of us have to be Pharoahs" Larry, brother of Darrel, and his other brother Daryl

Caissa · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2012 6:36 pm Post subject:

I hate NYR, Boston and Philadelphia. If the trend keeps up I'll be watching a lot of baseball early this year.

al-Qa'bong · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:58 pm Post subject:

I've hated the Rangers since 1971, but have grown ambivalent about them lately. I'd like to see them and Ottawa stomp each other to a pulp, with the winner of the series moving on to be crushed in the next round.

I've disliked the Bruins since the late-60s, and since Washington has Laich from Wawota, Holtby from Marshall, and Mike Green, who used to be the Blades' captain, I'm rooting for them in that series.

I liked Asham until that stunt he pulled that mock-sleeping stunt after a fight earlier this year. Shucks, I even thought Sid-bit was a good kid, along with Letang, Ookpik and the rest of the flightless birds when they won the Cup. Now I like Philly.

There are times when I feel as if the Leafs should go ahead and trade Luke Schenn for another yanko such as van Riemsdyck, then I'll just cheer for the Flyers and say nuts to the Leafs.
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"The purpose of government is to protect the weak from the powerful" Hammurabi

"We can't all be Sam the Sham; some of us have to be Pharoahs" Larry, brother of Darrel, and his other brother Daryl

Slumberjack · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 11:42 am Post subject:

I can understand why people wouldn't like official Ottawa, but to dislike a team partially because it's geographical location happens to be in proximity to a place where much of the stupid politics of the day occurs...I'm scratching my head at that one. It's like saying I despise the Calgary and Edmonton teams because of Alberta politics. Does it have anything to do with residule Western angst about central Canada or something?...because I get a sense of how that might work from down east here in Atlantic Canada. People don't like Montreal because of the whole Quebec thing, or they only like Toronto when they're beating up on Montreal, but otherwise they'll normally side with Boston because it's the closest team and not many can take to Toronto the city anyway.
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al-Qa'bong · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 1:42 pm Post subject:

Slumberjack · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 4:01 pm Post subject:

al-Qa'bong · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2012 5:13 pm Post subject:

Sorry, I don't follow your meaning.
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"The purpose of government is to protect the weak from the powerful" Hammurabi

"We can't all be Sam the Sham; some of us have to be Pharoahs" Larry, brother of Darrel, and his other brother Daryl

Slumberjack · Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 2:28 pm Post subject:

al-Qa'bong · Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 3:30 pm Post subject:

Ah, I should dislike them because they're in the nation's capital?

No, I don't care, any more than I like the Leafs because they're in the centre of the universe. As far as hockey goes, these towns don't mean any more to me than what I see on TV, which is the inside of rinks.

One spring a few years ago I passed through Pearson International Aeroport on my way home from somewhere else. I was initially surprised to see so much Leafs gear in the shops there. I'm used to seeing Oilers and Flames stuff dominating stores in my region. Then l realised that this was the town the Leafs play in. The "Toronto" part of "Toronto Maple Leafs" is such an abstraction to me that to be in the actual geographical setting of the team was somewhat surrealistic.
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"The purpose of government is to protect the weak from the powerful" Hammurabi

"We can't all be Sam the Sham; some of us have to be Pharoahs" Larry, brother of Darrel, and his other brother Daryl

Cartman · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 2:55 am Post subject:

Burn Vancouver to the ground! Hockey is over for those sacks. Ha ha!

al-Qa'bong · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 3:59 pm Post subject:

At least we won't have to listen to Jim Hughson slobbering over his Canucks for a while.
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"The purpose of government is to protect the weak from the powerful" Hammurabi

"We can't all be Sam the Sham; some of us have to be Pharoahs" Larry, brother of Darrel, and his other brother Daryl

Sibjyn · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 5:50 pm Post subject:

The Canucks are out? I must have missed the riot.

Cartman · Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2012 8:24 pm Post subject:

al-Qa'bong · Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 5:42 am Post subject:

Brayden Schenn, Scott Hartnell and Braydon Coburn's team is in trouble, although they have a history of fighting back.

Holtby, Green and Laich's team shoulda won tonight. If Philly and The Caps are eliminated, there won't be any team I really give a hoot about left in the playoffs. I suppose I could get behind Jarret Stoll's Kings, but not very enthusiastically.
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"The purpose of government is to protect the weak from the powerful" Hammurabi

"We can't all be Sam the Sham; some of us have to be Pharoahs" Larry, brother of Darrel, and his other brother Daryl

al-Qa'bong · Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 11:02 pm Post subject:

Wouldn't it be weird if the Coyotes won the cup during the same season the Jets rose from the ashes of Winnipeg?

Remember how the Nordiques won the year after they left Quebec?
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"The purpose of government is to protect the weak from the powerful" Hammurabi

"We can't all be Sam the Sham; some of us have to be Pharoahs" Larry, brother of Darrel, and his other brother Daryl

al-Qa'bong · Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 4:43 am Post subject:

The ghost of Kerry Fraser lives.
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"The purpose of government is to protect the weak from the powerful" Hammurabi

"We can't all be Sam the Sham; some of us have to be Pharoahs" Larry, brother of Darrel, and his other brother Daryl

al-Qa'bong · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2012 8:04 pm Post subject:

I wasn't expecting the content of this article...

Devils Get Some Bounce
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"The purpose of government is to protect the weak from the powerful" Hammurabi

"We can't all be Sam the Sham; some of us have to be Pharoahs" Larry, brother of Darrel, and his other brother Daryl

Fidel · Fulltime enMasse Member Joined: 04 May 2006 Posts: 812

I think a lot of people still think winning first place in the reg season should translate to a cup final and, ultimately, the cup. And that's not the way it works anymore. Brand new season means eighth placers have just as good a chance as the let's go golfing, we've done our bit Vancouver Canucks. Rangers are a different story with Gaborik's injury, but I wonder if even a healthy Gabby could have made a difference.
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al-Qa'bong · Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 3:29 am Post subject:

Deep down I really don't care who wins the cup, but I had been cheering for the Kings, only because they have guys from Melville and Meadow Lake on the team.

I've since found myself rooting for the Devils. I suppose I don't like coronations.
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"The purpose of government is to protect the weak from the powerful" Hammurabi

"We can't all be Sam the Sham; some of us have to be Pharoahs" Larry, brother of Darrel, and his other brother Daryl

Fidel · Fulltime enMasse Member Joined: 04 May 2006 Posts: 812

I'm liking LA since I learnt that some of my family went there from Quebec to run an art school sometime last century. And I'm not artistic so am pretty impressed and proud of that. Was five hour's drive from LA about ten years ago. Being a small town northern Ontarian I thought LA is a big scary city and so decided to visit some smaller towns near San Jose instead. I'll likely never get back there now. Go LA!
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Democracy should more appropriately be referred to as Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power. - George Washington

al-Qa'bong · Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 5:01 am Post subject:

But L.A.'s where they filmed the Apollo moon landings and 9/11.

You're either part of the problem or part of the solution.
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"The purpose of government is to protect the weak from the powerful" Hammurabi

"We can't all be Sam the Sham; some of us have to be Pharoahs" Larry, brother of Darrel, and his other brother Daryl

Fidel · Fulltime enMasse Member Joined: 04 May 2006 Posts: 812

The planning, engineering, and launches of Apollo moon shots and lunar missions in general produced all kinds of film footage, and ultraviolet photographs of the moon and celestial objects for perspective for all the world to observe. There were eye witnesses to the spectacular liftoffs. They brought back rocks and other physical evidence. Unlike the faked photos and dubbed film footage of Elvis bin Laden threatening the free world with destruction over the years, moon rocks and UV photos are pretty difficult things to fake. There was third party scrutinizing of evidence including their cold war nemeses, the Russians.

Elvis bin Laden and an invisible army of darkness are a different matter altogether. It's more an article of faith than anything historical. There is probably just as much evidence for Sam the Sham. I suppose some of us are more skeptical than others. I have a lot more faith in the LA Kings hockey team than in the legend of Usama bin Laden and "Al-Qa'eda." If they played hockey, well that might lend them some credibility, but they don't even have a scrub team. I'm just not buying what the US Military and clandestine services is selling. Not today. Perhaps tomorrow or Tuesday.
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Democracy should more appropriately be referred to as Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power. - George Washington

al-Qa'bong · Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2012 4:19 pm Post subject:

Yeesh, next you're going to say that Bobby Orr can't fly.

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"The purpose of government is to protect the weak from the powerful" Hammurabi

"We can't all be Sam the Sham; some of us have to be Pharoahs" Larry, brother of Darrel, and his other brother Daryl

Fidel · Fulltime enMasse Member Joined: 04 May 2006 Posts: 812

To Live and Die in L.A. Monday night at 8 on TSN.
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Democracy should more appropriately be referred to as Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power. - George Washington

al-Qa'bong · Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:58 am Post subject:

Kid Brodeur

OK, it's not really about Martin Brodeur, but the guy's playing like a kid...and I've called him "Kid Brodeur" since I first heard this tune over 15 years ago.
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"The purpose of government is to protect the weak from the powerful" Hammurabi

"We can't all be Sam the Sham; some of us have to be Pharoahs" Larry, brother of Darrel, and his other brother Daryl

al-Qa'bong · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 4:23 am Post subject:

Yeah, well, the Spy Hill Kings were champions 35 years ago, so there.
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"The purpose of government is to protect the weak from the powerful" Hammurabi

"We can't all be Sam the Sham; some of us have to be Pharoahs" Larry, brother of Darrel, and his other brother Daryl

al-Qa'bong · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 4:45 am Post subject:

They just showed the Kings players saying where they're from and who their favourite players were when they were kids.

Jarrett Stoll said he is from Yorkton, which defies all previous reports that said he is from Melville, so I looked it up and found he's really from Neudorf, which is also where Brian Propp comes from.

My best buddy took a Brian Propp slapshot off the ankle in the Bantam provincials a couple of years before I joined the team in Midget. He still talks about how much that hurt. I remember our coach saying how Spy Hill was doing OK against Neudorf for two periods, when the Neudorf coach asked if it would be all right if another player joined their team. He was late because he was playing somewhere else. Our coach said "Sure, why not? What could go wrong?"

The player was Brian Propp, who went on to do something like score six goals in the third period and eliminate Spy Hill.
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"The purpose of government is to protect the weak from the powerful" Hammurabi

"We can't all be Sam the Sham; some of us have to be Pharoahs" Larry, brother of Darrel, and his other brother Daryl

Slumberjack · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:17 am Post subject:

This reminds me of the misfortune of finding LA Kings hockey cards in my O-Pee-Chee purchases during the 70s. I think the Canucks of that era were second runner up. I remember having to trade a bunch of each just to get a fourth line Habs or Bruins player.
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There is this old notion, Bolshevik, a little frigid for sure; the building of the Party. I think that our present war is about giving new content to this depopulated fiction.

al-Qa'bong · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:38 pm Post subject:

Hey, those old Ross Lonsberry and Poul Poupiel cards are now GOLD!
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"The purpose of government is to protect the weak from the powerful" Hammurabi

"We can't all be Sam the Sham; some of us have to be Pharoahs" Larry, brother of Darrel, and his other brother Daryl

Slumberjack · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:00 pm Post subject:

Yeah, kinda wish I'd kept those California Golden Seal cards too.
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There is this old notion, Bolshevik, a little frigid for sure; the building of the Party. I think that our present war is about giving new content to this depopulated fiction.

Caissa · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:14 pm Post subject:

I think I still have a few from the late 60s early 70s in the basement. I don't think they are in great shape.

al-Qa'bong · Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:19 pm Post subject:

Chester · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 2:47 pm Post subject:

al-Qa'bong · Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 5:37 pm Post subject:

My kid, who works at the YMCA, likes to sit in the sauna after his shifts. The other day he said a guy named Gary, who used to play with Philly was in there with him.

I showed him this card:

Well, not exactly this one - mine's in better shape, but isn't autographed.

Anyway, the kid said that's the guy.
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"The purpose of government is to protect the weak from the powerful" Hammurabi

"We can't all be Sam the Sham; some of us have to be Pharoahs" Larry, brother of Darrel, and his other brother Daryl