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That Dustin Byfuglien interview comment is still one of the most awkward things I've ever seen on a sports broadcast

https://i.ibb.co/GchPJBG/tumblr-lkaq...j816o1-500.png


where to find a 8x10 for this photo?

Petey is Finnish apparently?

Petey is Swedish as he was born and raised in Sweden. His grandfather is Finnish.

Good guys Finnish last..............

sorry

just had to

wAnder how many New Town Bakery folks are at the game..............

Apple blossoms/tarts, ftmfw! at least used to be............

i remember watching game 7 v hawks by myself in my condo and had so much built up angst during that game / OT that when he scored i went on my balcony and just started screaming / swearing out of pure joy.

by far the best moment of my sports fandom life.. followed by a close second being up 2-0 in the SCF and having Rome -TKO- big bad Horton to the point his arm was raised stiff on a 45.. that was the absolute pinnacle of being a Canucks fan for me.. all downhill since then..

He did the octave thang........... we gonna win!

he sped up towards the end. Anyway, always good to hear him sing. Not a Richard Loney by a long shot, but good enough for a, "Team like that."

BTW, Loney passed away in 2015. Awesome, awesome guy.

holy hell that was a great first period! nothing but goosebumps watching that tribute to Burr.

MOOOOOONSTERRRRRR

I have the images somewhere, but it's on Photobucket. Those fucking vultures................


Anyway, better than nothing, I guess.

http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...740414-1_1.jpg

http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...onsterqj_1.jpg

There is a way of removing the watermark, but too lazy........... other RS members have the images.

BAM
https://i.imgur.com/4bmyMMk.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/5dodTxY.jpg

To give credit where credit is due, those two images were done by Arminderesh.......... aka Armind.

I was given permission to use it, lol.


Is armind still around?

great job on that replay review to kill the sens' momentum. they did a better job playing with a lead tonight but still shaky and casual at times. work in progress!

the more you hear about babcock, the more clear it becomes that he just doesn't care about how he treats people. i don't believe for a second that he didn't believe his actions would have a negative impact on the people he treated like shit. franzen even mentions babcock treating cleaning staff like shit in his comments.

basically everything commodore has been saying for years now is finally being confirmed by multiple, legitimate sources. I have to say, I love that it's happening. Coaches (and anyone really) who treat others like shit need to be called out. it's not okay to just let it go when you're a person in a position of power like this.

Petey, Miller, Brock, Bo, and Hughes are top 50 in points.

Hughes has as many points as Evander Kane, Tomas Hertl, Shea Weber, Victor Hedman, Ryan Strome.

Harold Druken has also come out to confirm what Brent Sopel said about Mark Crawford.
He said he wouldn't let Crawford coach his dog, and that Crawford was the worse human being he's ever met.

Some of the stuff he did is definitely a no go in today's NHL. Some of the verbal abuse included calling Druken a Newfie and sending him back to Newfie on a boat.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/spor...ow-a-writeoff/

This is a good article about Babcock's reputation going down the toilet. :thumbsup:

Unfortunately, our beloved Canucks team was not immune to having coaches with bad reputations behind the bench.

Remember Mike Keenan? Iron Mike treated Linden like shit because he wanted his good buddy Messier to become the team captain.

That piece of shit berated Linden in front of the team.


-interesting story about Keenan's time with the St. Louis Blues:

In one instance while the Blues were playing the Buffalo Sabres at The Aud, Dale Hawerchuk's dying grandmother, who lived in nearby Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada, came to see him play one last time while she was alive. Keenan deliberately benched Hawerchuk for the game, and an unhappy captain Brett Hull screamed at Keenan, who then responded by stripping Hull's captaincy."

^ what a piece of human garbage if that’s true.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs...078-story.html

Article from 1995. Seems like it's inline with what was mentioned.

I feel the same as Cory. I look back at that team am still have such fond memories of it all. It brought such happiness to my dull evening shift life back then haha.

For anybody with the Athletic, this is a good read. Of all coaches that you'd think would have skeletons, Torta comes out mostly unscathed with interviews from former players: https://theathletic.com/1431313/2019...shared-article

Goes to show you can be tough but not abusive

It was pretty well established that Keenan was a piece of shit well before he was hired by the Canucks and that was almost 25 years ago.