NHL Open Thread
I got yelled at for forgetting a Stanley Cup thread the other day, so here ya go.
May 31, 2010 8:18 pm
Posted in: Sports
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38 Responses
dmsilev - May 31, 2010 | 8:21 pm · Link
Not really a hockey fan but living in Chicago, I believe I am legally required to at least feign interest.
So.
“Go Blackhawks!”
That should cover my obligations for the year.
dms
Kathy - May 31, 2010 | 8:27 pm · Link
Since my Red Wings got booted out, I am shamelessly rooting for my current hometown team the Flyers. Hope Bouche has better luck than Leighton. West Div teams are unreal.
Poopyman - May 31, 2010 | 8:31 pm · Link
NHL? Who gives two shits? It’s Memorial Day and it was 92 degrees at 3 o’clock.
Hockey season’s over.
Kristine - May 31, 2010 | 8:32 pm · Link
Hawks
Back to the game…
TR - May 31, 2010 | 8:44 pm · Link
Stanley Who Now?
I kid, I kid. It’s so long until football comes back.
PeakVT - May 31, 2010 | 8:47 pm · Link
It’s hard to care about hockey when the sunset looks like this.
Off Topic - May 31, 2010 | 9:01 pm · Link
An amazing interactive website CNN has put together on US casualties in the wars.
Mike E - May 31, 2010 | 9:01 pm · Link
Let’s go Flyers!
MikeJ - May 31, 2010 | 9:04 pm · Link
I’m an anti-hockite.
jibeaux - May 31, 2010 | 9:05 pm · Link
Can I talk about something non-hockey open-thready? Are one of you guys like a really, really, really kick-ass person? Because I talked up a certain good cause, and that same night, someone anonymously donated ten THOUSAND dollars. Now, statistically speaking, that’s probably not likely to have come from my little second hand plea and more likely someone who knew the family. But the magical thing is, it’s at least possible that it was someone in the B-J family, and that just makes me want to hug all of you. Whoever gave it, it just makes me very happy.
Now I’ll let you go back to your pucking.
PaulW - May 31, 2010 | 9:05 pm · Link
I’m too distraught by my Rays getting on a losing streak. GAAAAAHH NOOOOOOOOOOOO
PaulW - May 31, 2010 | 9:07 pm · Link
@jibeaux:
Sorry jibeaux it wasn’t me. I don’t have two nickels to donate much less 10k o dead presidents. But gratz on getting the donation… what cause was it for again?
Punchy - May 31, 2010 | 9:10 pm · Link
My Blackhawks in 5, bitches!
ajr22 - May 31, 2010 | 9:15 pm · Link
The Hawks are the shit. I watched game one at the bar in chi, and have never heard a place so loud during a sporting event. Screaming through the entire national anthem, got to love it.
TenguPhule - May 31, 2010 | 9:16 pm · Link
Hockey is not a sport. It’s a drinking game. /snark
BruinKid - May 31, 2010 | 9:21 pm · Link
Argh, there’s a nasty Flutie for Congress ad right below the first post on this site. For those that don’t know, Flutie is the teabagger running against my Congressman, Henry Waxman (D, CA-30).
jibeaux - May 31, 2010 | 9:23 pm · Link
@PaulW:
A teacher who is trying to adopt a toddler with Down’s syndrome from Eastern Europe. The little girl is in an orphanage, and at age four they are transferred to mental institutions, where they reportedly spend the majority of their day tied to beds, and they frequently die. It’s completely heartbreaking. The family needs at least $24k for the expenses of the adoption.
There are some things that just stick in my head and don’t give me much peace until I feel like I’ve done something, even if I’m really pretty helpless. The oil leak is one of them. Trying to picture all the oil just flowing ceaselessly for the past 40 days and continuing on for months literally keeps me from sleeping. And knowing what becomes of those kids is another one. So thanks to all of you for listening.
MikeJ - May 31, 2010 | 9:28 pm · Link
@BruinKid: The last time he was opposed, Waxman got over 70% of the vote. Be happy the teabagger’s money is buying tuna for Tunch.
demo woman - May 31, 2010 | 9:33 pm · Link
President Obama gave his memorial day speech this evening at Andrews Air Force Base. Unfortunately the event in IL was rained out because the speech was good. Here’s the link.
Now back to the game.
JenJen - May 31, 2010 | 9:42 pm · Link
“Yelled” at? C’mon now. ;-)
Helluva game, by the way.
ETA: Sure are a lotta hockey haters in this thread. Oy. Ya know, we’re running a wee tad late this season because of this little thing called the Olympics. And with my Habs out, I don’t much care for either punk team left in the final, either, but hockey is hockey, and it just doesn’t get any better than the Stanley Cup slog from start to finish. So nyahh.
JenJen - May 31, 2010 | 9:52 pm · Link
@ajr22:
I absolutely adore the Chicago-style anthem, never heard anything like it before, and it’s been emotional the last two nights. I imagine it’s only a matter of time before the Malkin-Beck Wing start complaining about “the Chicago-style desecration of our beloved anthem.”
Let’s go Blackhawks! (ETA: Woooohoooo goal! ETA2: Wooooohoooo another goal! Gotta love the wrister!)
BruinKid - May 31, 2010 | 9:59 pm · Link
@MikeJ: Heh, I know. It’s still a bit annoying, but hey, if they want to give their ad money to John or Markos, I’m OK with that. :-)
But seeing his face was a bit nauseating, when he’s palling around with bigots like Tea Party Express leader Mark Williams, who referred to Muslims as worshipping a “monkey-god”.
Litlebritdifrnt - May 31, 2010 | 10:16 pm · Link
@PeakVT:
Wow that is glorious, I has a jealous.
SIA - May 31, 2010 | 10:25 pm · Link
Open thread even for non-sports? For the first time in my life I’m thinking about joining (whatever) Twitter, so I can emulate John Cole and tell off famous people who are driving me crazy. JC’s tweets are hilarious.
And my personal favorite:
burnspbesq - May 31, 2010 | 10:25 pm · Link
@TR:
It’s unfortunate that football ever comes back. Futbol is another story.
PeakVT - May 31, 2010 | 10:40 pm · Link
@Litlebritdifrnt: Thanks. Here’s another calmer pic. The great color is courtesy of some forest fires in Quebec. Look how bad it was at 3. (See a clear day at the bottom.)
ETA: Argh, too many links again. Hopefully John will see this soon.
Mornington Crescent - May 31, 2010 | 10:58 pm · Link
Good luck beating a superior Blackhawks team 4 times in 5 games.
jerry 101 - May 31, 2010 | 11:16 pm · Link
Go Blackhawks
!
Flyers suck!!
John O - May 31, 2010 | 11:51 pm · Link
A certain age and orientation of Chicagoans is very excited about this.
They’re a fun, good team, and it sure has been a long time.
fucen tarmal - May 31, 2010 | 11:54 pm · Link
the flyers down 2-0 me happy.
hossa winning a cup, meh, after he was on the ice when we won last year, he was dead to me, so i shouldn’t care, right?
i mean dead is dead, active application of philosophy has me rooting for the blackhawks….we will always have 92.
Mornington Crescent - June 1, 2010 | 12:10 am · Link
Hit of the game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQc1_V3M4G4
robertdsc - June 1, 2010 | 12:20 am · Link
I would not mind either team winning. Just glad the Penguins aren’t in it.
trollhattan - June 1, 2010 | 1:02 am · Link
Stanley schmanley, check out this pupeh:
http://forums.dpreview.com/for.....d=35459508
Someone’s got their hands full, methinks. (Man, do I ever want that lens.)
Yutsano - June 1, 2010 | 2:14 am · Link
@trollhattan: OMG, ME WANT!! I’ve been seriously knocking around the idea of getting a great Dane, although that is not the coloring I would get. Beautiful puppehs though.
Oh and not paying attention to hockey any more.
jackmac - June 1, 2010 | 9:44 am · Link
I don’t know how the anthem comes across on TV, but to be there in person at the United Center when it’s performed is absolutely spine-tingling.
After nearly 50 years since the Blackhawks last won the Cup, I really hope the Flyers can salvage one win at home this week so we can see Lord Stanley’s Cup hoisted next Sunday in Chicago!
Ash Can - June 1, 2010 | 10:25 am · Link
Hey, whaddya know, there’s an NHL thread here in JC’s joint. Didn’t have a chance to post here last night because I was too busy watching the game here with a house full of relatives, and hollering and whistling out the front door back and forth with the house full of neighbors across the street.
After enduring years of NHL exile under the previous management, the Hawks are on the verge of making up for 1971 and 1973. I’ve been on the lookout all season long for a team that could beat these guys. Now there’s only one other team still playing, and I’m still looking. Wowza.
@jackmac: I’m with you; I’d like to see the series wrap up at home next weekend too. My across-the-street friend is already planning her game-watching party. Except for the fact that we rowdy grade-school moms all have to be up and functional enough the following morning to get the kids to school, it’d be the perfect scenario.
Byfuglien (pronounced Bufflin) - June 1, 2010 | 10:57 am · Link
HAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWKKKKKKKSSSSSSSSSSS!
canuckistani - June 1, 2010 | 12:40 pm · Link
If it can’t be Toronto or Montreal, Chicago is a good choice.