Canadian Broadcasters

Be sure to check out the last 2 minutes. Just an unreal breakdown. Totally bizarro.

I used to feel that way about the old Northland goalie stick I had…

Too bad they don’t make Northland sticks any more.

B.

“I love my stick I want to stroke it”

I LMFAO when I heard that.

plus… can I submit this for “you write the comedy?”
http://www.nhl.com/nhl/app?service=page&page=FrozenMoment

OMFG That was classic!!!!! EPIC!! Maybe this is why nobody watches hockey in the states, we don’t have Grapes

Grapes is the greatest. He’s dead on about the instigator penalty. Back in the day, if Sean Avery would have tried that with Espo or Dryden, he would have taken a goalie stick across the back of the legs (with the ref lookin’ right at him no less!!!).

Gettin’ off the subject a bit…where are you Scott Stevens? I miss the days of you clearing garbage such at Sean Avery out of the slot….can I get a “hell yeah”?

I had ment to put this link on here, in honor of Don Cherry and old time hockey!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS1lQvJarVA

Take your bed into your bedroom and love it…

lol

stick into your bedroom…

dammit.

I thought Avery was genius to do this. Totally brilliant. He is a shit head but he backs it up. His team mates cringe when he does shit like that. I have a team mate that acts that way too. I can see where the league made a smart move with the rule. If they didn’t every team would have some lunk head doing this the entire game. Designated Stick Waver.

The US NEEDS better braodcasting but in the bland ass PC Society it might hurt someone’s feelings. Bah……

Always take care of your sticks boys.

4:57 is actually my favorite part. what is that with the encroachment of the hand being called, and called hard, but a stick loving cherry?!?!

as for having this coverage in the states… where would you show it? oxygen or maybe the food network?. isnt like there is a lot of places to put things….

First of all, Don Cherry is the fucking greatest. Period.

I hate the reactionary rulemaking in the NHL – I’m a proponent of allowing the game to be regulated by its players and coaches when need be, and the league only stepping in to affect any extenuating situations when the players and coaches can’t do it themselves. You can’t tell me that Avery couldn’t have been neutralized there by a severe shit-kicking. What’s that? You don’t have an enforcer on your team? Well, it looks like teams are free to treat all of your players like total assholes, then.

Several of the NHL’s overarching problems lies within the rules themselves (inconsistency in calls, 1 billion gray areas, and the contrast between “regular season rules” and "playoff rules), and I think that those problems extend from reactionary micromanagement from the top. Why is it that any halfway versed NFL fan can clearly and universally determine holding/pass interference/late hit/encroachment/false start/etc., but every single NHL game is essentially a unique snowflake that is called differently based on the officiating crew, the teams involved, the alignment of the cosmos, and Oprah’s weight on a given day. I don’t know if anyone else is as frustrated as I am about this, or if anyone else even sees, it, but it’s crazy to me.

When I get back to my apartment, my goalie sticks are going into the bedroom.

Grapes is the Lemmy Killminster of Canada!

Adam Duke, you are a goalie? Shit, I’m not sure we can be friends any more. It was fun while it lasted. Sorry Dude. Best of luck.

If Adam didn’t already work for GT, I’d make him a sweet offer of no pay or benefits right now on the spot after that post.

Each NHL game is a unique snowflake because of inconsistent officiating? Genius.

And AM, from what I can surmise, Duke is a goalie who might give you fits if you tried to score on him.

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And AM, from what I can surmise, Duke is a goalie who might give you fits if you tried to score on him.

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Heh. Ask my brothers; I was Ron Hextall when Ron Hextall was sucking at Mama Hextall’s tit. I’m too old for that shit now, though…

B.

Avery was trying to distract Brodeur …. Ned Braden was not impressed

Yeah… I’m definately a goalie. I figured out somewhere between the ages of 3 and 4 that it was more worth my while to wear bad-ass equipment and make ladies moist with kick-saves than skate like the wind for 1 minute on the ice just to go sit on the bench for 3. I dunno… I’m as confused by forwards as you are by goalies, AM.

The grammar displayed in the former post is indicative of exactly how pissed I get about the officiating. I watch quite a bit of pro football on television and pro baseball in person, and I’ve never seen an officiating crew take over one of those games like an NHL crew can. It’s embarassing.

Billy Smith would have broken both Avery’s ankles. Hextall would have choked him unconscious with the goalie stick and let the puck in while he was doing it.

in the old days, you usually had at least 1 defenseman/forward who wouldn’t be afraid to clean somebody’s clock in front of the net, and referees who would have happily looked the other way. Of course, now we have two refs, ostensibly to make sure that none of the cheap, chippy shit behind the play goes unpunished. What the trail official y usually do is make cheap calls to show that they’re doing something out there, while the cheap, chippy shit still goes unpunished. And there’s no on-ice enforcement anymore because Bettman read a poll once that said fighting kept the hockey fans away, so he’s done his best to make sure that it doesn’t happen.

Finally, if your teammates hate you during playoff hockey, then you really are a dick.