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13 hours ago, Ferdinand Cesarano said:

If Perez's magic can topple D.C. in the championship game, it will rank up there with Namath beating the Colts, and will go down as one of the greatest sports stories of our time.

... what? 

10 hours ago, Carolingian Steamroller said:

Secondly, a lot of teams have a shift from helmet finish to jersey.

That's not a trend so much as it's Nike's aversion to dazzle fabric. 

18 hours ago, JustABallCoach said:

Ah there it is. Glad you at least said it out loud. 

I get what you're aiming for, but it's missing, sorry.

It's like when the Clippers unveiled their Compton look. It's just insincere. THIS team is gonna claim it has inner city cred? REALLY? 

31 minutes ago, The Giant Pacific Octopus said:

Some tragic news.

The SS Avalanche sank off the coast of Seattle.

The early reports was that it struck an iceberg and sank.

The "official" report is that it struck a pod of whales and went down.

But the local fishermen tell a different story.

They say it was sunk by something else.

They say it was a monstrous creature living deep below the surface.

A creature few men dare talk about.

An octopus the size of a mountain.

Now everyone chalks it up to the fishermen drinking too much alcohol.

They say its just superstition and myth.

Childish fairy tales.

The locals know better.

 

11 minutes ago, Unocal said:

Not all the time, but once in a blue moon. Last Stanley Cup Final with the two best regular season teams was 2001. That's a LONG time ago.

If the Bruins wanted to fulfil their G-d given right to represent the East in the SCF they could have finished off the Panthers when they were up 3-1. Or 3-2. Or when they had the lead with a minute to go in game seven. 

You're acting indignant because the hockey gods aren't giving you an EC#1 vs WC#1 matchup but... pssst... the hockey gods aren't real. That matchup not happening is on the Bruins not getting it done and no one else. 

1 minute ago, Unocal said:

 

Too much chaos is too much of a good thing.

 

We haven't had a chalk Cup Final since 2001. God forbid ONE year we don't get chaos overload.

Shut up SabresRule 

The Bruins get eliminated 

The Avs get eliminated 

6 minutes ago, Sport said:

This is the kind of dumb guy thing people say when a city wins too much and they lose all perspective. It’s a first round hockey exit, dumbass. I went to work the day after my team narrowly lost the Super Bowl and it was eye-opening what percentage of the office actually cared to the point that it affected their work performance. It wasn’t many. I think we forget sometimes that most people aren’t living and dying with sports results like we are. 

Ah so now we know @AustinFromBoston's Twitter 

Just now, infrared41 said:

Which part of "No Politics" is tripping up some of you?

Some people can't help themselves 

Just now, JerseyJimmy said:

 

you know, maybe it isn't political. maybe the fact that New York teams conveniently stopped winning championships the moment I started to seriously care about sports, the Islanders have been eliminated by either Tampa or Carolina in four of the past five years, the Mets have to share a division with The Greatest Franchise In All Of Baseball that wouldn't be able to get their white-flight fans to stop tomahawk chopping if they held them at gunpoint, the Astros have sat on the entire American League (read: the Yankees) for over half a decade, the Knicks are probably about to be shltcanned by an 8-seeded Miami team, etc. etc. isn't political at all. maybe it's just a straight-up personal insult.

I'm a Toronto sports fan. Up until 2019 and the Raptors upsetting the Warriors our last "Big Four" title was the Blue Jays in 1993. 

Sometimes things just suck. Sometimes they suck for a long ass time. I'm celebrating my team winning their first playoff series in nineteen years. 

Politics has nothing to do with it. You'll be happier over all once you figure that out. 

4 minutes ago, the admiral said:

I don't even remember the Bolts in 2019. Where was I? What was going on at the time?

It was funny because they kept the "LETS GO BOLTS" banners up downtown for like a month after they got swept. 

Just now, JerseyJimmy said:

 

yeah man, I'm sure they spend every night crying about it into the two cups they won immediately after.

Look man I'm a left leaning guy but that's got zero to do with it. I hate the Bruins and they got eliminated by a team I always assumed was a money laundering operation. It ain't that deep. 

1 minute ago, Glover said:

This is kinda his schtick. There was a similar tantrum after Carolina beat the Islanders. It has run its course, but at least he is sticking with it. 

I think @JerseyJimmy is wrong to make this political (not everything is ffs) but he is a pretty dedicated Isles fan so you can't blame him for being upset his team lost. 

7 minutes ago, the admiral said:

I don't hate the Bruins as many do. Maaaaaan, that one stings. That's two historic chokejobs in the Bergeron era. Wow. You really get the highs and the lows with that team, huh.

Meanwhile I'm here like 

6 hours ago, the admiral said:

Those crowds downtown should silence the "actually Toronto is a basketball town now, hockey is just for cishet white men" talk that was being vomited out of Toronto the last few years

The Raptors have done a good job building a fanbase in the city but anyone who seriously thought basketball surpassed hockey, and anyone surpassed the Leafs, was talking out of their

36 minutes ago, TrueYankee26 said:

Btw congrats on breaking the curse  

Thanks! 

1 minute ago, TrueYankee26 said:

12 and 31 for me

16 and 35 for me.

On 4/24/2023 at 10:43 PM, Cujo said:

 

They'll blow 3-1 like they usually do.

It's ok to admit you were wrong.

THEY DID IT THEY ING DID IT!!

GO LEAFS GO!!!!!!!! 

I was in high school last time this happened. Now I teach it! 

SERENITY NOW!

On 4/28/2023 at 1:52 PM, CDCLT said:

This is why I wanted a pronoun field, btw.

My apologies.

On 4/28/2023 at 1:52 PM, CDCLT said:

And I apologize, I should've worded by post better. I totally get how it could come across as that so no problem. What I meant was that yeah - Sun Belt teams have been the focus for 30 years but they shouldn't be the only focus. So when expansion comes around (because it will) the NHL should be looking everywhere, including the Sun Belt. Because ignoring the Sun Belt entirely would be a bad idea but ignoring everything but the Sun Belt is also a bad idea.

My personal opinion is that we're kind of at the limit for viable NHL markets regardless of where we're talking about. Arizona is a failure and should be replaced by Quebec City. Hartford's probably always going to be there and could be viable with a new arena, and Florida and Carolina are both on shaky ground, and Houston's a dream some people are insistent upon. But it's not like there's an six new markets the league could expand into tomorrow or anything.

6 hours ago, SailorOfSilence102 said:

and you should recognize that the southern expansion hasn't been a complete fail

I've never once said it was. I've even mentioned the southern teams that have been successes. 

If you're going to get on my case for my response to another poster maybe actually read my takes on the subject before you start assuming what my positions are. 

20 minutes ago, SailorOfSilence102 said:

I agree with most of what you said, but I feel like CDCLT didn't really say anything you didn't say, so I don't really get the tone of this post, they seem to agree with all of what you said. 

 

 

My main point of contention is that his take "to ignore the Sunbelt would be shortsighted" is kinda tone deaf. The Sunbelt's been the focus for thirty years. 

43 minutes ago, GDAWG said:

 

The Dallas Stars have been highly successful in the community and there has been proof of that.  Dallas has 8 StarCenters all over DFW for youth hockey and ice skating.  There's also a high school hockey league with local high schools from all over DFW, that has been around since 1997:

 

Home - AT&T Metroplex High School Hockey League (atthighschoolhockeyleague.com)

 

There's also the Allen Americans of the ECHL.  

 

So Dallas has been a massive success as a hockey market, not just with the Stars.  

I think you misread my post 

2 hours ago, CDCLT said:

All that to say that the NHL would be better served by relocating one of their weak Sun Belt franchises to Quebec City. I think that market (like all Canadian markets) punches way above its weight when it comes to hockey. I also think that keeping Sun Belt teams is a good idea and the idea that the league shouldn't be looking there I think is a little short-sighted.

Here's the problem. The league HAS been looking at the sunbelt, almost exclusively, since the mid 90s. This "if you don't look at the Sunbelt you're short sighted gotta grow the game!" mentality has been the SOP for thirty years now.

So you gotta stop acting like a victim when the long term fans of the game say "enough is enough, how about you focus on the people who actually spend money on your product?" 

I know @spartacat_12 would have you believe that everyone here wants to move Dallas and Tampa to Saskatoon and Yellowknife, but we ing don't. We want to move the Coyotes, a team that's been an abject failure in their current market for thirty years, to Quebec City. A market that has a NHL caliber arena and a loyal fanbase. 

That's hardly spiting the sunbelt ffs. 

2 hours ago, CDCLT said:

Also Atlanta does not deserve another team, especially if it's in that proposed suburban nightmare.

We had people here- former mods even- who mocked anyone who wanted the Jets back because "Winnipeg lost their team the market failed."

Meanwhile Atlanta may get a third crack at it?  that. Gary Bettman threatened to move the Jets 2.0 at their introductory press conference and won't even give Quebec City the time of day but sure. The Coyotes can play in a rec centre and Atlanta can get another try. 

And you wonder why northern hockey fans are fed up?