A Bit of Squid (October 4th)

“eat the clam before the storm… of red tide” ?

yes, thank you

Section is going to flame you now.

I thought you were hinting that you knew about some new waiver/trade that would put us under without using the LTIR….

My firm is one of the 10 largest in the world… we cover almost all practice areas, certainly all the large ones. The stuff I do is corporate transactional work, and in particular I largely have done large-scale loan financing agreement (but as a very junior associate, I do whatever work comes my way).

I like what Glass brings to the team, but he would need to take some huge leaps in the power forward department before he was Captain material for the Canucks.

The pressure is on, Glass!

miniTuzzi out there…

I thought he would be more of a composed guy, from what I saw in the playoffs.

You have to laugh at some things. If not the act of hitting the button, then laugh at the guy giving the opposing team ammunition to hate him!

start again.

nothing classless about hitting the “easy” button after scoring a goal, nothing at all.

You’re sermonizing. Why are these things bad? “Because it’s not how things used to be” is always a canard. It suggests somehow that things used to be wonderful (which typically is not true)… but even if true, it’s still fallacious to say that what is new must be bad because it’s not what used to be. The value-neutral term for that is ‘different’, not ‘wrong’. Hockey used to be far more violent and far dirtier. By trying to push all that shit out of the game, are w dishonoring history? This is like arguing that nudity and naughty words on tv is corrupting our culture (but segregation 50 years ago… no biggy, right?)

I generally don’t have a problem with from people for are still youths. In my opinion you might be taking the integrity and history of the sport too seriously maybe? This kind of celebration has been going on for decades at the junior level and the game is just fine. It’s just kids having fun. To be honest I have an idea of what is said out on the ice at that level of hockey and this celebration is pretty harmless overall comparatively speaking.

And this is an argument I have with fans of the NFL all the time. I fun, enjoyable celebration isn’t necessarily disrespecting your opponent. I don’t think the celebration here was in anyway supposed to suggest that the goal was actually easy. And I doubt the player himself feels it was easy.

it makes a mockery of the sport

= subjective moralizing

sideshow crap like that

= subjective moralizing

dishonour the history and integrity of the game

= subjective moralizing

going out of their way to disrespect their opponents

No they’re not, they’re going out of their way to do a routine where they push this big fake button held up on the glass and then all the fans go wild. You’re choosing to interpret that as being disrespectful. I choose to interpret that as fun. You don’t like it. I do. It really is as simple as that.

It just depends on the person..how easily offended they can get. If I’m that goalie I don’t like getting scored on being rubbed in my face to that extent. Others shake it off. But like somebody said above, that would fuel me to perform even better and silence that runt and his team. That and I’d slash his ankles. haha
Perfect example is the 1996 Stanley Cup Finals where the Panthers fans were throwing toy rats on the ice and at Patrick Roy. I’m sure there was a moment where he wanted to murder every last one of them but what does he do?

1 He didn’t hide in his goal like the other goalies did when rats were thrown in the previous series’. He stood there and took it.
2. He said that he wasn’t going to give those fuckers any more excuses to throw any more rats and shut them out in Game 4 to win the Stanley Cup, on their ice. Suck it, losers. You just motivated the best goalie in the world to shut your asses down. And he did.

So while it may entertain many of you it’s not harmless. In fact it’s best not to give the opposing team any ammo.