On the eve of Game 7, a painful anniversary
by nucksandpucks on Jun 14, 2011 11:24 AM PDT
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It is a painful anniversary: 17 years to the day that the Canucks lost Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final to the New York Rangers. It is sore topic for me to discuss, and I have never revisited details or highlights of that game beyond what is mentioned in conversation or shown in NHL commercials. My memory of the game is foggy, given that I was 10 at the time and that so many years have passed since then, but I remember the emotion of that game all too well. It was crushing and devastating for so many fans who invested so much - emotionally, socially, and financially - into the Canucks.
Tomorrow's Game 7 I will remember for the rest of my life. I am hoping against hope that these 2011 Canucks can do what the underdog 1994 squad could not do. And in the process, take some of the sting off of that painful loss 17 years ago. I already have one painful Cup Final memory. Fans older than me may have two, given the 1982 squad's sweep by the New York Islanders. I don't know how much more our collective psyche can take. But all that can be put aside with one more win to cap this amazing season.
15/16. We are almost there.
GO CANUCKS GO.
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Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!
GO CANUCKS GO!!! http://youtu.be/PGIPCGyihxw
by Kurtk on Jun 14, 2011 11:33 AM PDT reply actions 4 recs
umm....
Didn’t the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor??
by canuckgirl on Jun 14, 2011 11:45 AM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
I think that's a reference
to the video from animal house
by Canuckelhead on Jun 14, 2011 11:51 AM PDT up reply actions
It's my favorite reference ever
cuz usually at least one comments corrects it… which is correct, yet so effin funny.
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by Twitchy2010 on Jun 14, 2011 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Sorry
This was the best laugh I’ve had all day
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by Yankee Canuck on Jun 14, 2011 5:45 PM PDT up reply actions
Always a classic “rally the troops” clip!
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by nucksandpucks on Jun 14, 2011 11:52 AM PDT up reply actions
awesome reference! anytime animal house is called into play, you get rec’d
Obama said he would cut taxes for 95% of America.... 45% of people don't pay taxes.... is he going to make them pay taxes then cut them?
by Creeping Death on Jun 14, 2011 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Thank you for helping us to look forward
Eyes on the prize.
Daniel Sedin on Mike Milbury: "He made a bad comment about us, calling us women. I don’t know how he looks at women. I would be pretty mad if I was a woman."
by Tink for Nucks on Jun 14, 2011 11:36 AM PDT reply actions
Thanks. And I like your signature quotation, by the way :)
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by nucksandpucks on Jun 14, 2011 11:45 AM PDT up reply actions
Is it Wednesday night yet?
How bout now? Now?
I can’t focus on anything else. I’m still infuriated about last game – the officiating, the injuries, the awful first period. But above all I’m the most nervous I’ve ever been for Game 7. I think we can win but nonetheless this is the entire season on the line in 60 minutes of hockey. Just let that sink in for a moment.
Waiting for Wednesday night is just torturous.
by Canuckk on Jun 14, 2011 12:18 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
This isn't 1994
We’re the favorites to win.
We’re playing for the cup at home.
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FIFTEEN down, ONE, that's fucking ONE to go!
Agreed
I’m not trying to compare the 2011/1994 squads in any kind of way. And the only aspect of the situation that I am comparing is the fact that they are Game 7s with the potential for huge amounts of heartbreak. You’re 100% right that the situation in 2011 and 1994 is very different on the ice and in the standings. But from a fan’s perspective, at least from mine, it is a similarly harrowing experience (though different in many ways) when compared with 1994.
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by nucksandpucks on Jun 14, 2011 12:46 PM PDT up reply actions
SCF game #7 history
Since 1971 the home team is 6-1.
"I'm a lover, not a biter" - Alex Burrows
FIFTEEN down, ONE, that's fucking ONE to go!
That only loss
Was 2009. When the home team won every game except for the last one.
Also worth noting: The last time a home team won every game was 2003. Also that year? The last time the losing goalie won the Conn Smythe.
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
"You can't come in my kitchen, kick my dog, and take a box full of ballpoints! Your ass must be crazy!"
I like that
symmetry. Much like the Olympic stuff.
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
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by Section 312 on Jun 14, 2011 1:39 PM PDT up reply actions
If I say it enough
It will happen, right?
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
"You can't come in my kitchen, kick my dog, and take a box full of ballpoints! Your ass must be crazy!"
2003, Devils win
“Mike Rupp seemingly came out of nowhere to score the game-winning goal, which was also the first playoff tally of his career.”
Who is our unlikely guy to score the winner?
"I'm a lover, not a biter" - Alex Burrows
FIFTEEN down, ONE, that's fucking ONE to go!
TAMBELLINI
With a top cheese snipe
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
"You can't come in my kitchen, kick my dog, and take a box full of ballpoints! Your ass must be crazy!"
That would be so sweet
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
"You can't come in my kitchen, kick my dog, and take a box full of ballpoints! Your ass must be crazy!"
Fanner Glass
redemption baby!!!!
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
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by Section 312 on Jun 14, 2011 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Tanev!
Ok, maybe not.
"I'm a lover, not a biter" - Alex Burrows
FIFTEEN down, ONE, that's fucking ONE to go!
Lee Sweatt draws in, scores the winner, and gives the trademark “I score (cup-winning) goals All. The. Time.” look
FUCK YOU IM LEE SWEATT
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 14, 2011 3:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Let’s not get crazy here
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
"You can't come in my kitchen, kick my dog, and take a box full of ballpoints! Your ass must be crazy!"
MANNNYYYYYYYY!
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Manny has been
a bit of a disaster to be honest. Great story. But if he isn’t winning face offs and is getting scored on both 5 on 5 and on the PK he needs to get fewer minutes.
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by Section 312 on Jun 14, 2011 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions
yes
he was great in game 5 I thought, but stunk it up on the road.
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As long as it's someone wearing Blue and Green, I'm ok with it
Daniel Sedin on Mike Milbury: "He made a bad comment about us, calling us women. I don’t know how he looks at women. I would be pretty mad if I was a woman."
by Tink for Nucks on Jun 14, 2011 4:56 PM PDT up reply actions
Then Boston scores with 4 seconds left
And Luongo gets credited with the winning goal?
Sorry, I just took your perfect world and went all crystal meth on it.
"I'm a lover, not a biter" - Alex Burrows
FIFTEEN down, ONE, that's fucking ONE to go!
Money
Well at least I have 1995, 2000, and 2003. Those were fun.
by dees ees en drama on Jun 14, 2011 6:08 PM PDT up reply actions
one similarity...
…and a freakin’ annoying one:
The Canucks were not subject to a universal, frothing-at-the-mouth hate-on in 1994 (they were underdogs, after all, and maybe coverage was more sensible, or at least there was less of it), so that was different. But the other team’s dirty crap, then as now, was valorized and praised.
I’m thinking of Messier driving Linden’s head into the ice face-first, breaking his nose, at the end of Game 6, after a hit by someone else had felled the Canuck captain. Messier’s 1994 performance is praised as one of the all-time role model playoff performances (and in many aspects it was). If anyone talks about that blatantly vicious cheapshot at all, it’s only to say something along the lines of “that’s playoff hockey, you do what it takes to win.”
Just like the Bostonians who engage in dirty Cro-Magnonisms are praised as “warriors” out for “justice.”
End of embittered media-covereage rant. Who cares what nonsense people spew; here’s to a victory. Wipe out the bad feelings of forty years, and reduce those big bad smears of brown to tears.
"He'll play, you know he'll play. He'll play on crutches if he has to... and he'll play at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night! This game is over!"
One thing is certain.
We can’t expect sympathy or fairness from the refs. We have to be prepaired that the officiating will be just as brutal, and we will have to win it in spite of those assclowns. We all know that being fair is the least of the NHL’s concern….just as life ofen forgets about being fair. If they want to get this done, they will have to get it by brute force and determination.
This is the last battle, and the Sedins, and Kesler, and Burrows, and the rest of them will have to sacrifice everything they have, if they want to be remembered forever. If they finish the game on crutches, and have to crawl off the ice at the end, so be it. They will have the home crowd behind them, so they can do it.
If they hoist the Cup, they can suck most of next season, and some more, and we will still be happy. Just do it, and we will be thankful forever.
Los Angeles, CA
Game 7
I’m sick of the portrayal of the Bruins as the working-class, blue collar man’s team and the Vancouver Canucks as the “pretenders” . All that was missing are firemen, cops, and 9-11 homages. This is a joke.
I can’t wait for the Nucks to win game 7 and send this band-wagon icon for the vulgar masses packing. Go back to your recession, guns, domestic violence and stop trying to shape the narratives of what these teams represent other just hockey.
Canucks take it 3-1 in Game 7. (one empty goal)
Totally agree.
This series has been a crash course in two highly irritating things:
1. the way the MSM (and also boggers and the like, but maybe less so) have to construct “the story.”
2. at least it’s understandable that they do #1, since we prefer reading stories to stat sheets. But the really irritating thing is how then they have to stick to the story. And those latecomers and non-hockey writers who jump aboard because their editors need more Cup coverage or their columns’ readership is sagging—these idiots buy into the story and peddle it too. Sickening, when you happen to think the story’s a complete crock, and unjust to boot.
Oh well. Trying to enjoy the hockey and ignore all this idiocy that surrounds it.
"He'll play, you know he'll play. He'll play on crutches if he has to... and he'll play at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night! This game is over!"
Actually, they did trot out the firemen last night.
"I'm a lover, not a biter" - Alex Burrows
FIFTEEN down, ONE, that's fucking ONE to go!
Don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
by sunshine and lollipops on Jun 14, 2011 4:01 PM PDT up reply actions
well, we have mounties, they should able to trot out uniformed dudes with a shiny axe
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by dallascanuck on Jun 14, 2011 4:02 PM PDT up reply actions
It’s only fair.
Granted, Rene Rancourt is an unfair advantage in our favor.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Jun 14, 2011 4:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Well then
It’s a good thing game 7 is in Van where his powers do not reach
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"You can't come in my kitchen, kick my dog, and take a box full of ballpoints! Your ass must be crazy!"
lol I suppose he does a good job on the American anthem but he sings the Canadian one too slow lol. But then I have heard complaints that we do the American one too fast so I guess it evens out :)
Did you get that guy from the fine print part of radio ads?
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Jun 14, 2011 5:04 PM PDT up reply actions
IMO, the American anthem is technically harder to sing well than the Canadian anthem. I actually think Rene Rancourt sings the Canadian one okay, but totally butchers the American one. And of course, his showboating doesn’t help his cause.
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by dallascanuck on Jun 14, 2011 5:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Watch the video on this page: http://www.nesn.com/2011/05/rene-rancourt-pumped-up-for-bruins-lightning-game-7-inspired-by-bruins-fans.html (the text is about game 7 vs. Tampa)
Rene’s showboating also owns.
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by Cornelius Hardenbergh on Jun 14, 2011 5:25 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm afraid all anthem singers
Including Rene and our own, Richard Loney and the would be opera singer whose name I can’t remember, leave me cold. Its the histrionics I can’t stand. The crowd singing, that I like.
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by Tink for Nucks on Jun 14, 2011 7:09 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
That guy in chicago
much as I usually hate that ‘Russian Olympics’ style of singing, every time he sings the US anthem I get shivers… He does it right. Nobody sings the Star Spangled Banner like him, nobody. And for Oh Canada, I’m sorry but our guy does that best…
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Exactly
Why do Boston teams always get this portrayal? It drives me batty and I am American. I hope our American-born superstar Kesler takes over tomorrow night and shows them what real hard work can do rather than just following the same rhetoric of the dumbest Fox news pundits and pointing fingers.
I heart Kesler. Luu is my hero, and no just G-d would let the world end before the Canucks get the ultimate prize!
by radepalma on Jun 14, 2011 5:05 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I doesn't fucking matter if we get a million calls against us
Good teams rise above shitty officiating.
We have a chance to win the Cup tomorrow. Lets grab that chance by the balls and fucking win the Stanley Cup.
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 14, 2011 3:48 PM PDT reply actions
Refs will put the whistles away tomorrow
Our guys just need to play possessed, out-of-their minds hockey and the outcome will be good.
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FIFTEEN down, ONE, that's fucking ONE to go!
Fuck
I hope you’re right.
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 14, 2011 4:58 PM PDT up reply actions
Some links:
compendium of articles on b.s. re: Mayray’s hit (at least some stuff is out there about the crap the Nucks have taken at the hands of the Refs / Bruins)
http://www.faceoff.com/hockey/teams/vancouver-canucks/Refs+ignored+Boychuk+slam+Raymond+Internet/4946037/story.html
moronic nbc-cum-blackhawks blog on how “hated” Nucks are (you might want to skip this if you have high blood pressure from this series!)
http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/madhouse-enforcer/Were-We-This-Hated-123830704.html
OK Boys
No guarantees on what next season will bring… this season, right now, you have 1 GAME to say fuck you to all the haters and bullshit media-spinners, and acheive something you have been working your entire career towards.
Leave it on the ice, every tiny bit of energy and effort.
Fuck the diving, expect no quarter from anyone (including these addled refs) and give no quarter…
AND JUST FUCKING WIN IT !!!
P.S. 4-2 for the Nucks, Hank FTW and an empty netter.
I was less than 1 when this happened
I don’t want to experience what people my age and older did that day.
We have home ice and we can win this thing. Just don’t whiff when the net is staring at you.
GO CANUCKS GO!
Canucks Cup Countdown: 1
In-Progress: Operation Bruins in Ruins
A question for the locals
I’m flying over from the Island tomorrow at 3:30 (only flight I could get). Can anybody recommend a place that may have a couple of seats and a decent TV left by this time…or a decent spot for standing room?
You should be able to get standing room at a couple places in Gastown, but that’s cutting it pretty tight. Lamplighter had standing room yesterday at around 3:15, and plenty of it.
by sunshine and lollipops on Jun 14, 2011 3:58 PM PDT up reply actions
That's pretty late
To get downtown and get a seat somewhere for a SCF game 7.
You might be better off trying the Flying Beaver pub near the airport.
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FIFTEEN down, ONE, that's fucking ONE to go!
I'm on the seaplane...landing in the Harbour.
by Mica Van Isle on Jun 14, 2011 4:20 PM PDT up reply actions
I see, in that case the Mill is right there when you get off the plane.
http://www.millbistro.ca/The_Mill/Welcome.html
"I'm a lover, not a biter" - Alex Burrows
FIFTEEN down, ONE, that's fucking ONE to go!
Good question. Email them if you’re actually planning to make it your first stop.
info@millbistro.ca
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FIFTEEN down, ONE, that's fucking ONE to go!
Railway Club might be good
Went there on Friday, and it didn’t fill up until about 4pm. It’s not a sports bar, but they have a big screen an cheap beer, and the place was rammed with Canucks fans. Not tons of seating, but there’s also standing room available. It’s only about a 5 minute walk from Waterfront Station.
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by nucksandpucks on Jun 14, 2011 4:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Try Commercial Dtive
St. Augustines or some other place along there.
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 14, 2011 4:06 PM PDT up reply actions
I felt so. much. fucking. pain. 17 years ago. I was so depressed I couldn’t watch hockey in the same way for a couple of years. Blame it on teenage emotions or just plain old hurt.
I don’t ever want to feel that way again. These guys have to just forget everything except the one thing they are playing for – The Stanley Cup. Forget the media, forget the bitchiness from the Bruins. Just feel the energy from the crowd, and rock the Bruins out of OUR arena, OUR city.
This really is what we live for. We breathe hockey. We live it. Tomorrow, we’ll enjoy it like we never have before.
GO CANUCKS, FUCKING GO!!!
by sunshine and lollipops on Jun 14, 2011 3:57 PM PDT reply actions
GO CANUCKS GO!
CLEAR EYES FULL HEARTS CAN’T LOSE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5Z5BzNAh6Y
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CLEAR EYES!
FULL HEARTS!
CAN’T LOSE!
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 14, 2011 4:07 PM PDT up reply actions
"We can't hang our heads now"
Better to cross everything and hope, nay pray (please god, are you there? it’s me, puckmummy. please let the canucks win.).
GO CANUCKS GO!
Safe and sound
I hope that our Canucks dominate tomorrow night, and win this series, win this cup. More than that I hope that we do not see any more injuries to these men who play their hearts out for us every night. I am hoping that Kesler wins the fight with his injury and shows the Bruins what Beast mode really is, 1 goal 2 assists and the Canucks take the cup.
Thank you for an amazing season gentlemen. Let’s finish on a high note.
Take care out there.
I heart Kesler. Luu is my hero, and no just G-d would let the world end before the Canucks get the ultimate prize!
#WinItForMason
Make it happen, Canucks. The ultimate revenge is being on the winning side when the final buzzer sounds.
We should all start a campaign
To clear the seawall until noon for roberto to take his walk without distraction and I’m serious
by Canuckelhead on Jun 14, 2011 6:30 PM PDT via mobile reply actions 1 recs
Honestly I can’t imagine that there won’t be a reporter or at least a retard with a camera hanging out around the seawall trying to get a quote or something because of his now well known routine.
It would be a cool thing
If the whole city gave him his space tho and we can all play our part
by Canuckelhead on Jun 14, 2011 8:19 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Stay Positive!
Throughout the NHL playoffs, I have learned something… we are all apart of the team we cheer for. Who cares what nationality the players are… if you cheer for the Canucks then you are a Canuck. The fans make a difference and it’s evident that home ice is one of the biggest factors. Vancouver Canuck fans are learning that they make a difference. Their confidence makes a difference. The energy transfers onto the players.
I have been interviewing the fans of Vancouver and what I discovered is that every time something like this happens, fans are born… real fans. The more fans that are born, the more energy potential for the city and the team. It doesn’t necessarily mean anything if we win or lose… the true fans will remain fans.
There are some complications… There are a lot of fans on the radio and tv that are negative… and I’m talking about the sportscasters, callers on the air, analysts. These people do not represent the millions of fans, but they can bring them down. They have their own agenda to be controversial so they can make money… or they are just negative fans who like to complain. These people are 1% of the real fans… but the more real fans we make, the less influence these people will make.
I was talking to many people yesterday before game 6 about how they got into hockey. Most of them said it was because of 1994… when we lost. It won’t matter if the Canucks win or lose tomorrow… millions of fans have been born because of the 2011 Canucks.
Thanks for the pditiv
Daniel Sedin on Mike Milbury: "He made a bad comment about us, calling us women. I don’t know how he looks at women. I would be pretty mad if I was a woman."
by Tink for Nucks on Jun 14, 2011 7:12 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
As I was saying
Thanks for the positive energy. It is hard not to get sucked into the negativity some times, at least for me.
Daniel Sedin on Mike Milbury: "He made a bad comment about us, calling us women. I don’t know how he looks at women. I would be pretty mad if I was a woman."
by Tink for Nucks on Jun 14, 2011 7:13 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Game 7 Winners !!!
And it is going to be a huge surprise for them Tomorrow night !
Let’s support them !
Bandwagoning
Hardcore and lifelong fans complain about bandwagoning, but I fear that Vancouver needs more fly by night fans. The Bettmanocracy desperately seeks to give praise and prize to teams with fly by night fanbases to ensure the profits of the franchise, if any, and just trust that teams with die-hard fanbases never need to be appeased because they will always sell out.
Vancouver needs to take a stand and tell the NHL “NO” if game 7 ends up another lopsided refs <3 Bruins fest.
I know I sound like a crazy maniac but a fan strike is in order.
I’m done playing nice, acting nice, and everything nice.
It’s time to do it.
Oh yeah, and have any of you seen the NBC coverage? They blatantly want the Bruins to win. Literally. From their mouths.
by cinnamonbeard on Jun 14, 2011 6:55 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
I hope that Mason Raymond gets a TV to watch his teammates win while he is stuck in the hospital in Boston.
Poor Mason :'(
I am so sad for him. Stuck in Bruin territory, not able to play, not even able to come home and be here for the celebration.
Gillis' words on Mayray
Make me even more sad…
http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=565854
I like Gillis standing up to the League
On the lack of supplemental discipline.
One can only feel for Mason.
Daniel Sedin on Mike Milbury: "He made a bad comment about us, calling us women. I don’t know how he looks at women. I would be pretty mad if I was a woman."
by Tink for Nucks on Jun 14, 2011 7:18 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
these 2011 Canucks can do what the underdog 1994 squad could not do. And in the process, take some of the sting off of that painful loss 17 years ago.
Well said, nucksandpucks. I NEED a win tomorrow to ease that suffering. The ’94 series forever hurts and I want that pain to go away. I want the god damned pain of Nathan Lafayette shooting it off the post to go away!!
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Amazing how that post is still seared into my memory
I’ve forgotten half the names of the players involved but not that fucking right post.
1:36:00
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FIFTEEN down, ONE, that's fucking ONE to go!
now thats hockey
I just watched midway through the third until the end. Someone should show AV that so he can relay to the players how you should just keep on getting up when you get tripped cause the refs arent gonna call something. Get slashed? Keep fighting for the puck. Inspirational. The heart they show is why that team is so celebrated.
by Canuckelhead on Jun 15, 2011 12:04 AM PDT up reply actions
For what it is worth
I am taking the fam to Sea World in San Antonio tomorrow… I’ll see if I can have a quick chat with Shamu about tomorrow’s intensity level…
You believe. Or you don't belong here.
It’s Game 7 of the SCF. It is that simple.
by Nux4Ever on Jun 14, 2011 10:10 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
If I could rec via my phone this would receive one… I’m so sick of people showing a total lack of faith in the canucks (obviously not on this site) this is our year, don’t let anyone or anything tell you its not
by kiyotok on Jun 14, 2011 10:21 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Red rover, red rover, I call Sean over
Where’s your game preview Sean? I know everybody’s depressed and mad and everything, but maybe it would pick us up?
Daniel Sedin on Mike Milbury: "He made a bad comment about us, calling us women. I don’t know how he looks at women. I would be pretty mad if I was a woman."
by Tink for Nucks on Jun 14, 2011 10:23 PM PDT reply actions
From a Bruins fan
Now is not the time to be depressed and mad. Our teams are on the brink! Either way both of these teams have accomplished something very rare and special.
I really don’t understand the problem here with the refs and the league. If you look at the series in its entirety I think everything has balanced out. No suspension for Burrows, Burrows wins Game 2, Horton concussed, Rome suspended, and an awkward hit on Raymond with no suspension. None of us would want Raymond or Horton to be injured but neither was intentional. As far as no suspension for Boychuk, I have watched hockey for 25 years and have never seen a hit like that before – how could the league suspend someone for that play? Raymond’s head was in no danger – it is head shots the league has targeted. The hit was an unfortunate accident.
you don't get it
His head was not in danger but if he was paralyzed from the neck down, it’d all be good? Get some perspective dude. Again, go check out the Youtube video of Travis Roy of Boston U from 1995. The boards have no give.
I was a student at BU in 1995. Roy went in head first. You are right aboard the boards having no give. That being said there is no way to anticipate an injury to Raymond on that hit. How about pointing me to Youtube video of a similar hit to Boychuk/Raymond? I sincerely hope that Raymond is okay, he is one the players that I have most admired in this series, plus he has been on my fantasy teams the past couple of seasons.
The point that I was trying to make is that I don’t understand the feeling of discplinary persecution. It appears that both sides have gotten away with as much as the other side, that tonight we have a battle of the two best teams in NHL winner take all. The loser of game should be able to hold their head high, but will know that the best team will have won.
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