Silver lining? Trying to find entertainment value in the debacle of a loss to the Ducks

by nucksandpucks on Oct 30, 2009 9:48 PM PDT Comment 25 comments

Well, the Ducks whooped us. Nothing fun about that. Always the optimist, however, I have attempted to pull some good, or at least entertainment value, from the game. And if you're wondering why this followed so quickly on the heels of the game, well, there wasn't much else for me to do during that abysmal last 2/3rds of the game. Here are some reasons that tonight's game was, at worst, not a total waste of the last three hours of my life:

The Canucks iced a forward line of Rypien-Bliznak-Schneider. Is that not the most outlandish line combination you can imagine? Mario Bliznak making his NHL debut on the same line as the guy they used to clone the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, who just happens to be a defenseman playing forward for some reason. Throw in Rick Rypien, who makes any situation more exciting (I'm sure that if you need to spice things up with the wife, the Ripper would be happy to oblige) and it was the most bizarre/ridiculous/hilarious line I can remember the Canucks icing. C'est l'Halloween!

Is that the first time in NHL history that two guys named Schneider have played in the same game for the same team? Come to think of it, did Cory Schneider even play or did Alain Vigneault just have some fun by throwing defenseman-turned-winger Mathieu between the pipes?

I put the count of John Garrett saying that Tanner Glass "couldn't get it up" at three. I assume he was referring to Glass' near miss in the first period, not some insider information that he has gleaned in the course of his dressing room reportage.

Give John Shorthouse the call of the year so far, for this witticism on Cory Perry's tap in goal in the second period: "Katy Perry coulda scored that one!" Presumably he was talking about the goal, not that girl who was dressed up like George Parros.

Speaking of Parros, did you know that he graduated from Stanford? No word if he majored in moustache grooming.

That's all I've got folks. That was a terrible, terrible game. Let's never speak of it again.

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Ya, the highlight of the game for me was the Katy Perry comment.

by marcness52 on Oct 30, 2009 9:57 PM PDT reply actions

Holy balls, glad I didn’t watch

AKA: Linix129

by sw12 on Oct 30, 2009 10:28 PM PDT reply actions

me too!

by kiyotok on Oct 30, 2009 11:10 PM PDT up reply actions

I thought that game against Calgary was the worst bed-shitting I’d see the Canucks do this year, but they proved me wrong. Ugh. It was mighty awesine of the team to try for minutes 0-5 and again from minutes 50-55, but it sure would have been nice to see them give a shit for the other 50 as well.

by GAHHHHH! on Oct 30, 2009 11:37 PM PDT reply actions

er…awesine? I meant awesome…

by GAHHHHH! on Oct 30, 2009 11:37 PM PDT up reply actions

Combining an emotion (awe) and a mathematical symbol (sine)? Well done. Awesine is totally the new hatepi.

by nucksandpucks on Oct 30, 2009 11:46 PM PDT up reply actions

The first thing I thought of was awesomely asinine.

I've seen enough to know that I've seen too much.

by Smoboy41 on Nov 1, 2009 12:33 AM PDT up reply actions

Heh hatepi is way cooler than pythagorage

by GAHHHHH! on Oct 30, 2009 11:59 PM PDT reply actions

parros graduated from princeton

george parros grew up on the east coast, and played college hockey for princeton, not stanford. he graduated with an economics degree, i believe.

tom larscheid referred to him as “the toughest guy to ever graduate from princeton” about 50 times during the radio broadcast. that said, he gave a really kind-sounding interview on th radio and the radio guys couldn’t stop talking about how great a guy he (apparently) is.

larscheid asked him what he wanted to do after his career, and after earnestly thanking tom for the question, parros said, “i think i’d like to stay involved in the game.” not exactly a shocker, but he sounds like a good kid.

by dr stupid on Oct 31, 2009 12:16 AM PDT reply actions

My bad

I meant Princeton… apparently a few beers and a lousy hockey game jumbled my knowledge of well-regarded US higher education institutions.

by nucksandpucks on Oct 31, 2009 9:48 AM PDT up reply actions

From all accounts Parros really is a good human being. I’ve heard that he grows his hair during the season, then cuts it off and donates it to a foundation that makes wigs out of it for cancer survivors.

He’s got a job to do on the ice—being a prick—and he does it well. That’s why I hate him as a hockey player, but admire him as a human being. Now, Sean Avery, on the other hand, I hate both as a hockey player and as a human being.

by east_van_joe on Oct 31, 2009 12:40 AM PDT reply actions

Agreed on both points. I wouldn’t mind strangling Mike Ribeiro either.

by JP Nikota on Oct 31, 2009 5:32 AM PDT up reply actions

Agreed

Parros sounds like a great guy, and I’ve got nothing against him. He’s a guy I’d love to have on my team. Come to think of it, I think the guys with moustaches are the solid team guys that you want – Parros, Ian White, etc.

by nucksandpucks on Oct 31, 2009 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions

Uh it must grow awful fast

considering it’s only October…

by yoata on Oct 31, 2009 11:54 AM PDT up reply actions

Really fast!

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by Sean Zandberg on Oct 31, 2009 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions

It'll be like this by March..

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by Sean Zandberg on Oct 31, 2009 12:04 PM PDT up reply actions

Well played, nucksandpucks! I can’t be bothered thinking about this game either. I’m also not overly surprised by the outcome. I watched the Ducks lose to the Leafs last game and they were PISSED.
No fights tonight though. That surprised me. Not much emotion from the Canucks, who looked like their minds were already on the plane out of California.

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by Sean Zandberg on Oct 31, 2009 1:42 AM PDT reply actions

Hooray for alternate plans! My sanity was saved just a smidge by not watching an abortion of a game.

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by Yankee Canuck on Oct 31, 2009 5:02 AM PDT reply actions

I’m with you Yank!

Had to work the last two nights. So the only damage incurred for me was a liitle bleeding from the years.

I turned it off 5 minutes into the third. So at least I invested more time in the game than the Canucks did.

by kesrows on Oct 31, 2009 7:01 AM PDT up reply actions

“By the end of the second period, Andrew Raycroft was pulled and Aaron Rome was leading all forwards in ice time. Just one problem, he’s a defenceman.”

Holy shit.

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by Yankee Canuck on Oct 31, 2009 6:57 AM PDT reply actions

Gary Valk questioned the wisdom of putting Schneider into the game. He felt that putting him into a losing situation and having him give up 3 goals could serve to impact on his confidence. He felt he should have been given his own start next game as opposed to relieving in this one. What’s with this trend of taking your goalie out of a pretty hopeless game, anyway? Must AV do that every time the team decides it can’t compete with the other team?

by Bobby Canuck on Oct 31, 2009 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions

That’s a common practice.
-why shellshock Raycroft any further?
-Schneider wants an NHL job. If his confidence is that fragile he doesn’t even belong on an NHL bench
-Raycroft wasn’t playing sharp anyway, he gets yanked
-The score was 4-2. The team probably gave the impression that they were going to make a comeback and then shit the bed even more than they already had.
-This sort of applies: The greatest goalie of our time Patrick Roy was left in goal during a Habs blowout in Montreal once and look what happened there. Of course, that was at home and this wasn’t, but still.

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by Sean Zandberg on Oct 31, 2009 12:00 PM PDT up reply actions