Has the losing goalie in a series (assuming the Kings win) ever been the Series MVP? Because Lundqvist is making a case tonight.
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Has the losing goalie in a series (assuming the Kings win) ever been the Series MVP? Because Lundqvist is making a case tonight.
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ArlingtonRob
Ron Hextall comes to mind. 1987 Flyers lost to the Oilers in 7 games and Hextall was awarded the Conn Smythe.
His post game presser was one sad affair.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
Since the ‘Hawks are out, I sort of lost interest.
OTOH, for some reason I have been on an Alabama 3 kick lately. They have been described as Hank Williams meets Happy Mondays.
Ain’t Going to Goa.
Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlife.
RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual
Ron Hextall in 1987 for Philadelphia.
JS Giguere for Anaheim in 2003.
RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual
Hextall went on to get his name on the Cup as part of the Kings’ 2012 front office group.
The Dangerman
Friday the 13th and a Full Moon (won’t happen again until 2049); at least two shots hitting post/crossbar in the OT. Hope this ends on something that isn’t a mistake by either side…
ArlingtonRob
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):
Hey Omni…I’m in the Chicago area and a Hawks fan from wayyy back. Agreed, after that dramatic exit watching this years cup has been a bit tough.
bmoak
Unfortunately, I think the game is going to end when the bad ice leads to a bouncing puck misplay or a defender blowing a tire.
Hal
Ugh. Something I ate today did not agree with me, and that disagreement reached a crescendo while driving to work. Nothing infantilizes you quicker than being a grown man/woman who needs a bathroom asap. This night shift should be fun.
ronin122
Apparently 5 guys from losing teams won the Conn Smythe. I’d agree that Lundqvist has been the guy keeping the Rangers in the series this whole time, and is at least a candidate.
Gin & Tonic
@The Dangerman: The 2049 thing is not actually true.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@ArlingtonRob: My view, articulated before: “Hawks; Original Six (except Detroit, because fuck Detroit); cold weather cities (except Minneapolis) ; just about everyone else; and if it is Detroit – Minnesota, I would need to consider meteor strike vs. Detroit as my preferred outcome.
Violet
@Hal: I had the same thing happen to me today. Had to cancel an appointment because I was so ill. Could not be too far from a bathroom. Fortunately it seems to be over. Definitely whatever I ate for breakfast. I hope you feel better soon too. Wiped me out, though. I’m heading to bed soon.
MikeBoyScout
All hail Emperor Chaz!
Coach Noll passed away tonight at his home in Pittsburgh.
Sad night in Steeper Country.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
Okay, it looks to be a quiet night on the blog front. It turns out that I was too tired to go out but not tired enough to get some sleep. I’ll need to look for alternative entertainment.
Linnaeus
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):
As I like to put it, a Blackhawks loss is a victory for humanity.
Violet
Remember Shanesha Taylor, the Arizona mother who left her kids in the car when she went for an interview? She was granted visitation with her kids for the first time since March. I didn’t know she was a veteran–she served in the Air Force for several years and was honorably discharged. She’s still got felony charges hanging over her head.
ranchandsyrup
Rip chuck Noll.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Linnaeus: I always knew there was something wrong with you. I just couldn’t put my finger on it until now.
Linnaeus
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):
It’s mutual. :)
Corner Stone
Heck who knows?
max
Noll was a great coach. RIP.
max
[‘Go Rangers!’]
eldorado
my friend used to carry around a newspaper clipping from pa, where some unfortunate bar patron got stomped to death for criticizing coach noll.
rip
eemom
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):
I think Omnes should show.
/just trying to help
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Linnaeus: Oh dear, my flaws have been so open for so long that I am shocked that it took until now for you to despise me. (Excuse me – I can’t type now, I am listening to “Tim” and Bastards of Young just started.
pseudonymous in nc
And it’s over.
Have to feel for Lundqvist, and yeah, the CBC commentators want him to get the Conn Smythe too.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@eemom: I already tried that..
handy
A five game series that felt like it went 80. Holy cow.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Corner Stone: I am a military brat. Never served myself but I will take every bit of credit that I think I can for things that someone other than me did.
ETA: I know you are just being sarcastic, but that shit just actually pisses me off.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Roger Crozier- of Omnes Omnibus’ beloved Detroit Red Wings- did it in 1966. No player- goalie, defenseman or forward- had done it previously.
M. Bouffant
“Assuming?”
Hal
@Violet: Thanks. I can’t tell if it’s getting better or worse. Maybe something’s going around, but I seem to be the only one in the house with any issues. Oh well. This should make the work night interesting.
burnspbesq
Ugh.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Dude? A Red Wings fan? Packer fandom makes up for it, because the other things are hobbies and the Pack is a way of life.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): Heck I’m sure it does.
max
@efgoldman: Kings in five, but wow!
Soon as I typed that, Alec Martinez scored. Gah. (I was actually pulling for the Kings, but I wanted the Rangers to take it to seven.)
Lundqvist stopped 48 of 51 vs. Quick stopping 28 of 30.
max
[‘That guy can write his own ticket.’]
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):
Dude! Paternal grandparents were Yoopers. I root for the Packers in the NFL, then everything else is Michigan.
How in the hell can you root for the team most responsible for keeping an NHL franchise from your state?
dance around in your bones
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5GBroq6dsM&list=PL6D6169C68462FA90
That’s prolly not nice, because I like Tommy the commenter. And you, Omnes. (Oh shit, I sound like Little Boots).
Maybe I’ll go back to Lurkistan. Been a tough time in the old life lately.
? Martin
Yeah, baby! SoCal showing y’all how to play hockey.
RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual
I’m disappointed that the Rangers couldn’t take it any further. They were outplayed by the Kings and I’m fine with that.
I too think Lundquvist should have won the Conn Smythe, but it wasn’t to be.
Now if only Glen Sather could be fired. Time to start over.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Corner Stone: Actually, it isn’t that far from my place to the St. Louis suburbs in IL. I could drive down.
SFAW
@RobertDSC-Power Mac G5 Dual:
“Outplayed by” implies they were there for all the games. Tough to prove that the Rangers were there for Games 3 and 4, and the the third period of one or two more.
And before someone tries to make a point by noting that the Rangers won Game 4: I saw the game. There were some skaters on the ice, but no NHL players there. At least, none wearing blue (except for Henk).
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@dance around in your bones: Well played.
Let me just say that I think that the commenter Tommy is disingenuous. I doubt that an Illinois suburb of St. Louis exists where every school levy passes and fiber optic cable is being introduced because people are that enlightened.
ETA: Stay with us. We like you and enjoy your stories.
Suffern ACE
Think of something. Think think think.
SFAW
@? Martin:
If by “SoCal,” you mean Canada and Milford, Connecticut, maybe so.
Any other meaning, and you’re – how do you say it politely? oh, yeah – full of merde.
Linnaeus
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
I raise a glass to your excellent taste in hockey fandom.
Corner Stone
@Suffern ACE: Hand blown glass sculptures in Italy!
Mnemosyne
@dance around in your bones:
Have pictures of some new Kaffe Fassett designs set to lovely music.
You’re welcome. :-)
(It’s not all Kaffe, but I see they chose designers with a similar aesthetic to appear in the same issue.)
dance around in your bones
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):
“And all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average,”
I still like Tommy and his comments about what might be possible with good ol’ socialist-type gummint. Hell, let’s try it here and there, what could it hurt?
eta: well, thanks for the encouragement. I have been so bloody burnt out with politics lately (and tgthe general mood of the culture) that I have just not felt like talking. Maybe that will change.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Linnaeus:
Back atchya. ;)
Funny thing about Hawks’ fans is that they don’t realize that we got stuck with them as rivals when Toronto was moved to the Eastern Conference. They don’t realize that during the Original 6 era, there was actually a special three-way rivalry between the Wings, Leafs and Canadiens.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):I went to college with a member of the Wirtz family (who was really cool and dated a friend.) and I was born in IL (of a WI family and we moved there) .
Corner Stone
@dance around in your bones: Probably better if any of it actually existed. As a model, I mean.
SFAW
@dance around in your bones:
I don’t know if having one leads to having a black president, or having a black president leads to socialism, but either way, it’ll be bad for the Jaahhb Creators, so I’m agin’ it.
Suffern ACE
@Corner Stone: I could think about that. It’s been awhile since we’ve had a discussion of decorative arts on this blog.
Helen
@dance around in your bones:
That’s “Heck” to you.
Violet
@dance around in your bones: Hey there! Good to see you around. Sorry things have been tough lately. Miss your take on things here.
dance around in your bones
@Mnemosyne:
Thank you! Kaffe is my man – he turned me on to what knitting could be back in the day.
Why am I getting a “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” vibe in the first minute?
OMG – Court case!
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@dance around in your bones: I support social democratic solutions. I doubt that Tommy lives in that place. I may be wrong, but I am not often cynical on this site, right? I am cynical about this commenter. YMMV.
Corner Stone
@Helen: Some times I love you.
different-church-lady
JIGGY!
dance around in your bones
@Corner Stone: What, sociamalism? Or TommyTown?
@SFAW: Fuck the Jawb Creators. But you knew that.
@Helen: I’m sorry, Helen – that’s HELL to me :)
max
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): I doubt that an Illinois suburb of St. Louis exists where every school levy passes and fiber optic cable is being introduced because people are that enlightened.
One of the ones in Madison County, Illinois, just north of E. St. Louis. (According to the last couple of general election summaries, two school bond issues of some type seem to have passed.)
Dunno about the rest of it, haven’t paid attention.
max
[‘Just because such a place may exist does not mean someone is from there.’]
Mnemosyne
@dance around in your bones:
That’s sometimes the nice thing about knitting — it flies under the radar. ;-)
I just realized today that tomorrow is Worldwide Knit in Public Day, so I may need to rearrange my weekend plans slightly.
Mnemosyne
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):
You just don’t want to admit us Flatlanders are better than you.
/hasn’t lived in IL for over 20 years
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):
I get it.
Sometimes I’m questioned as to why I’m not a Bucks’ or Brewers’ fan, and I have to explain how those grandparents moved to Muskegon in the early ’40s, when neither the Bucks or Brewers existed (and more than a decade before the Braves moved to Milwaukee).
The maternal side of the family almost all roots for Michigan teams, with the exception of a few Red Sox fans. Grandfather was born in Boston in 1900, and his dad and older brothers remembered their Sox winning the first modern WS before they moved to Michigan in 1905. One of my aunts and one of my uncles (of gramps’ sixteen kids) and a few of their kids remain Sox loyalists, while the rest of us pull for the Tigers.
Corner Stone
@Suffern ACE: You’re probably not too familiar with Austin, TX but I was there recently looking for potential properties to buy. Either to one day live in, or as an investment.
Texas is going fucking crazy right now (last 18 months) as far as residential property prices. Both Houston and Austin are so hot it’s like Kate Upton is selling all the houses.
Anyway, think for a bit about me finding an affordable property in the Shoal Creek BLVD district.
Thanks
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
Okay: the commenter Tommy has come in for some abuse. Does Tommy have a response?
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Mnemosyne:
Oh. That’s what you FIPs are calling yourselves these days.
dance around in your bones
@Suffern ACE: I think this calls for an interpretive dance. You go first, I’ll follow*
*I wanted to say ‘wearing my fuck-you pumps’ but it sounded kinda harsh.
Corner Stone
@dance around in your bones: Anything Tommy has ever said. He’s a caricature someone is spoofing.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Mnemosyne:
And is freaked out by cold? Let’s not have a fight, okay?
Mnemosyne
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
I doubt most of the FIPs are actually from the city. More like the North Shore (and I can say that since I grew up on the North Shore).
It’s like the people who ask my best friend where she’s from, and when she says, “Detroit,” they say, “Oh, Grosse Pointe or Bloomfield Hills?” (The fun part is to watch their faces when she says, “No, Dee-troit. The city.”)
ETA: The giveaway in the Urban Dictionary entry is asking for the Tribune. Republican North Shore.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: With the exception of living in Seattle for grad school, I’ve lived within 50 miles of where I was born. Right now it’s about 5 miles.
ETA: I have no idea what a FIP is.
Mnemosyne
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):
Hey, if you like frostbite, it’s none of my business.
Suffern ACE
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Sydney Moncreif has been retired for twenty years. There’s no reason to hold out hope for the Bucks. Free yourself of that burden.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Mnemosyne:
Heehee. I’ve seen that look, many times. But I see that look on the face of some G.R. suburbanites, too, when I tell them that I am, indeed, a real Rapidian, one of those people who voted (in the majority) to decriminalize teh eebil eebil weed- and that I’m a product of the G.R. Public Schools.
Mnemosyne
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Can’t remember if I’ve told this story before, but:
My husband and I both grew up in the Chicago suburbs (Oak Park for him, North Shore for me).
We both came out here to go to USC.
We both went to film school at USC (different departments).
We had at least one class together (large lecture class).
We graduated in the same graduation ceremony.
And we met through an ad on the internet seven years after graduation.
ETA: FIP = Fucking Illinois People. People in surrounding states like the Fucking Illinois People about as much as people in Oregon and Washington like Californians.
Steeplejack
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
What’s a FIP?
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Suffern ACE:
I never did. Pistons’ fan, but not much a fan of the NBA for a few years.
dance around in your bones
@Violet: Nice to be remembered!
Ok, here’s a story – you guys will think it’s gross, no doubt…but! I saw Led Zeppelin when I was on acid back in the ummmm….70’s? and I kept thinking I was imagining like, bleeding in my seat until the end of the show? and then I got up and saw the seat soaked with blood (no, I hadn’t killed anybody) and I trailed my way out of the stadium and saw/thought I saw/did see blood splots on the floor all the way out…..and in the car after there were no drug stores open to buy the necessary item so I bought a bag of tube socks and used those to, you know, stop the splots.
There ya go! One of my stories! Wanna hear an opium story next?
BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: Folk in the dorm at Washington took a dislike of me when I told them I was from Southern California; they liked me much better when I told them I went to UCLA not USC.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Steeplejack:
Fucking Illinois Person
It’s more of a small town Wisconsin thing, but you’ll here it from time to time in Southwest Michigan. It describes those Chicagoans- or, as Mnemosyne pointed out, Chicago suburbanites- who travel to these small towns, find their shops, bars and supper clubs charming, then buy those businesses and watch the charm run out.
BillinGlendaleCA
@dance around in your bones: Nice to see you delurk, been wondering where you’ve been keeping yourself.
BillinGlendaleCA
@dance around in your bones: Nice to see you delurk, been wondering where you’ve been keeping yourself.
ETA: Double post, really? FYWP!!!
max
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): the commenter Tommy has come in for some abuse. Does Tommy have a response?
In case you thought you were on to the scent I think you think you are on, you are barking up the wrong tree.
One doubts Tommy is around tonight, whomever might be running the sock. (To be clear, not moi.)
My interest lies in the fact that when my dog starts point and growling I become curious and tend to investigate.
max
[‘I become very curious when the thing I was thinking of investigating says it’s related to the author of a special kind of book from a certain kind of college. I did not find the book in question. So.’]
Mnemosyne
@dance around in your bones:
Well, if we’re trading menstruation stories, I know that science currently claims that menstrual synchrony doesn’t exist, but it actually happened to me one time — I went on a weekend trip to the Bay Area and met up with my best friend to hang out. I wasn’t due for another week and was quite surprised when Aunt Flo showed up since I’m usually like clockwork. Sure enough, J was on the rag. Very weird.
Mnemosyne
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Oddly, most of the a-hole college students with Beemers that I knew went to UCLA. Maybe I was hanging around with the
wrongright people at USC.Corner Stone
@dance around in your bones:
Ummm…hmmm…mmmm…
Corner Stone
@max:
I become very curious enough to ask what this codicil means.
Thanks
Violet
@Mnemosyne: One of my high school friends was the alpha in sychronizing cycles. No matter who she lived with, their cycle always synched with hers. Happened all through college and law school with various roommates. At some point she figured out they were always synching with her. Hers never changed.
Mnemosyne
@Violet:
I think most women have a story like that. And yet there apparently is no scientific evidence, or at least they haven’t been able to figure out how to replicate the effect.
Suffern ACE
The listicle of potential future forms of government Has me thinking that Corner need not move to Austin or Houston. Just declare yourself subject to its laws and you’re as good as already there.
dance around in your bones
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Thanks, BillinGDCA. ATM I am still listening to the NINE part Tommy opera as well as watching The Wire. Whew, I am overwhelmed. But I have been monitoring us Juicers all this while……ain’t no place I’d rather be.
Well, maybe in my friend’s personal opium den in Kabul back when there was still a King and the Taliban hadn’t been created by the Paki ISI. It was a beautiful place then and I love it still and I wish ,,,,aw, fuck. If wishes were horses and etc….still love the poppy, not that I’ve had any in many a year.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: They were called frat boys, every college has em.
ETA: I was a dorm resident my first two years, apt the next two years.
Steeplejack
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
Ah, akin to Masshole.
Violet
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): @max: Tommy’s business website’s About section and other stuff matches up with pretty much everything he’s posted here–bio, resume, location, etc.
eemom
I’m a little puzzled by the Tommy-hate on this thread. Haven’t been around as much lately as I used to, but I recollected him being a sincere well meaning sort of fellow. What did I miss?
tsquared2001
@Mnemosyne: Science can kiss my ass. I got way more than one story where cycles were in sync.
dance around in your bones
@eemom: Like I said, I like Tommy. No hate here!
I just recognized Omnes’ ref, that’s all.
Violet
@eemom: Not really sure. Something to do with the military maybe. Seems like a well meaning guy to me. Likes to tell his stories. Maybe some people don’t like those?
tsquared2001
@BillinGlendaleCA: I actually picked my college since they had neither frats or sorietys or even a band. Gotta love the liberal arts
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Steeplejack:
Heehee. Yes.
If you go to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan there are Yoopers (natives) and trolls (who live “under” the Mackinac Bridge). If you’re around Mackinac Island (or St. Ignace, or Mackinaw City) trolls are also known as fudgies- tourists who are going to the Island, where, inevitably, they will eat some of its famed fudge.
The mother of my child has lived in St. Ignace and in Northampton, MA, and she worked in the food and beverage service sector in both. I think she could write an encyclopedia consisting of every different nickname- naughty, nice and in-between- for tourists that’s used in the USA.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@eemom:
Paranoia runs deep…
BillinGlendaleCA
Full Moon over Glendale
dance around in your bones
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Into your life it will creep…
tsquared2001
@BillinGlendaleCA: Sweet
NotMax
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
So they whisper whenever they get close enough…
Corner Stone
@NotMax: Like the careless whisper of a good friend?
dance around in your bones
@Corner Stone: No, it starts when you’re always afraid. Step outa line, the man come and take you away.
Ok, I’m an old. George Michael? WTF, over.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Corner Stone: No, cause you’re making feel like I’ve never been born.
Corner Stone
@dance around in your bones: To the heart and mind. Ignorance is kind. There’s no comfort in the truth. Pain is all you’ll find.
Corner Stone
@dance around in your bones: I always enjoyed the CS&N version, myself.
tsquared2001
Since it is a open thread
Here are some my favorite lines from romance novels
I would like to tell you what that felt like-what you did to me. But I don’t have any words: Gaffney To have and To Hold
This was who she was, quick and gleaming and intricate. She’d known that already. Now someone else knew: Grant A Gentleman Undone
And for the kicker. Only the greatest ever – Laura Kinsale For My Lady’s Heart
I depend on thee for truth. There is but one person on the earth I trust and that is thee.
dance around in your bones
@Corner Stone: Though it’s easy to pretend, I know you’re not a fool.
Life is suffering.
dance around in your bones
@Corner Stone: Maybe you mean Buffalo Springfield. Ok, CSN&Y were good, too.
See, we agree!
tsquared2001
Look. If you gonna do that; do it right
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EwViQxSJJQ
NotMax
@Corner Stone
Genius is Pain
(Whomsoever posted it cut off the very end: “The dream is over.”)
David Koch
The
NYNeo-Con Times is really pounding their war drums. They have 5 stories on the front page of their web site and 3 stories on the front page of the print edition.Check out this gem:
Damn those “Democratic skeptics”. Iraq would be a Jeffersonian paradise but they thwarted Cheney and Kristol.
And of course, they want to use this as excuse to bomb Syria.
The biggest crime is the Times will always be labeled as liberal, when they’re nothing more than warmongering Likudniks.
tsquared2001
I have a theory that women of certain age know certain songs simply by the opening bar. To The Left To The Left would be one.{Beyonce} Doc Chana Na Na would be another {Destiny Child} or Activate for TLC.
tsquared2001
@David Koch: Vietnam – how the fuck does it work?
dance around in your bones
@tsquared2001:
Darlin’, what ‘certain age’ would that be? I couldn’t recognize the opening bars of those songs if I was on “So You Think You Can Recognize Opening Bars” for a million bucks.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
tsquared2001
@dance around in your bones: It might be a black thing. And 50. These were all serious feminist songs with a beat you could dance to
tsquared2001
The theory might need work,
tsquared2001
This is the Doc Chana Na http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQgd6MccwZc
srv
@David Koch: You’ll still label Obama as a liberal when the courtesy bombs fall.
Thanks god he’s not.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@NotMax:
So bummed that you weren’t referencing this. So, so bummed.
NotMax
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Heh. Not a program I watched a single minute of, ever.