NHL 2011 PLAYOFFS

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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    haffajappa wrote:
    Thoughts_Arrive wrote:
    Why were the fans booing when that guy was presenting the trophies?
    The boos were not as loud after he stopped talking.
    gary bettman.
    ...lol i dont know where to start.
    NO ONE likes him.


    I just wikipedia'd him lol.
    The head honchos of any league are not popular, even here in Australia :lol:

    On a side note, that beard growing things with the NHL is cool lol.
    I wish we got hockey on free to air TV here.
    There is a high interest in the sport here, one of my friends is mad on it.
    I had to watch the game on net stream.
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  • Gary Carter
    Gary Carter Posts: 14,077
    basically people hate bettman for 2 reasons

    1. moving teams from canada to the southern us
    2. having not 1 but 2 lockouts and thusly killing the sport

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Bettm ... mmissioner

    the above link will give you an idea as to why hockey purist hate bettman
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  • BLACK35
    BLACK35 Hanover, Ontario Posts: 22,971
    Congrats to the Bruins on their Cup win (even though I wanted them to lose) Damm Kaberle wins a cup, boooo :twisted:
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    metsfan wrote:
    basically people hate bettman for 2 reasons

    1. moving teams from canada to the southern us
    2. having not 1 but 2 lockouts and thusly killing the sport

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Bettm ... mmissioner

    the above link will give you an idea as to why hockey purist hate bettman

    Does not seem right to me that there are only 6 Canadian teams when it is a Canadian sport.
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  • lukin2006
    lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    Tough pill for Vancouver to swallow congrats to both teams and their fans, but not to the NHL, I think your championship series should be a way to try to hook the casual fan, imo, I doubt this championship series would have hooked the casual fan. The way I see it Vancouver didn't change once the playoffs started, but the league and the way the games were officiated did. Whatever happen to the league that said post lock out the games are going to be called the same way in the regular season and the playoffs.

    Unfortunately Vancouver your stuck with LU for 10 more years...send him to the AHL.
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,305
    That was AWESOME when Gary Bettman got booed! I loved how the Vancouver crowd made it quite clear they were not booing Thomas or Boston ... man was he pissed!

    I had a few friends that are casual fans and didn't understand what was going on at first. My one buddy said it reminded him of a WWF heal from the late 90's working the crowd up in a Wrestlemania event ... I was waiting for Jeremy Roenick to come out from the tunnel and cold-cock Bettman with a folding chair and then announce to the crowd that he was the new NHL commissioner while White Snake blared in the background. :mrgreen:

    Suck it, Bettman!
    Be Excellent To Each Other
    Party On, Dudes!
  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    BLACK35 wrote:
    Congrats to the Bruins on their Cup win (even though I wanted them to lose) Damm Kaberle wins a cup, boooo :twisted:

    i'm happy for kaberle ... not like he asked to be traded ... we got a nice pick from that trade ...
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,332
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfPg5LjGYz8

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    :D:D:D
  • blackredyellow
    blackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    Congrats Boston... the Bruins played great at the right time of the season, and Tim Thomas is a god. Brad Marchand is going to thorn in the side of teams for many years to come. Kid is annoying, but he's a player.

    I'm a Pens fan and still have a soft spot for Mark Recchi... man, what a career for a guy who was once though of as "too small" to play in the NHL... he had that rush coming down the right wing and he was skating like a 19 year old. You'll be missed Recchin' Ball...

    I'm embarrassed for the "normal" people in Vancouver and rational thinking Canuck fans. Starting with the idiots throwing crap on the ice during the trophy presentations/celebrations, and then obviously the rioting crap. Some classless assholes in the bunch.

    Oh, and someone needs to hurt Jannik Hansen... what a gutless punk...

    I know Luongo will get most of the blame in the media, but they should put pictures of the Sedins on milk cartoons... Someone should start looking for the invisible Swedes.
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  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    blackredyellow wrote:
    I'm embarrassed for the "normal" people in Vancouver and rational thinking Canuck fans. Starting with the idiots throwing crap on the ice during the trophy presentations/celebrations, and then obviously the rioting crap. Some classless assholes in the bunch.
    yeah, everyone is embarassed this morning.
    as for things thrown on the ice... not cool, but i'm pretty sure they werethrowing it at bettman.
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  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    demetrios wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfPg5LjGYz8

    dance2.gif

    :D:D:D
    congrats D
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  • blackredyellow
    blackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    Jason P wrote:
    That was AWESOME when Gary Bettman got booed! I loved how the Vancouver crowd made it quite clear they were not booing Thomas or Boston ... man was he pissed!

    I had a few friends that are casual fans and didn't understand what was going on at first. My one buddy said it reminded him of a WWF heal from the late 90's working the crowd up in a Wrestlemania event ... I was waiting for Jeremy Roenick to come out from the tunnel and cold-cock Bettman with a folding chair and then announce to the crowd that he was the new NHL commissioner while White Snake blared in the background. :mrgreen:

    Suck it, Bettman!

    This might be opening up a can of worms here, but I do think that Bettman gets a bad rap. The League is as financially stable as it has been in long time, and the lockout is ending up being the best thing to happen to the league. The salary cap and new rules have done wonders for the sport.

    Some of the relocation/expansion has been bad, but most of it has been more successful than not (on the ice and off).

    I know the Canadians are pissed because he didn't fight to keep Quebec City & Winnipeg, but he didn't fight to keep Minnesota & Hartford either... in those days it was purely a dollars and cents thing, with big money lining up to take teams that were struggling or had ownership problems.

    I do wish he would let go of the Phoenix dream though... That franchise could have made it, they started out with some success and some marquee named players, but the terrible move to Glendale, the lockout and the ownership mess killed anything they had going right.
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  • jimed14
    jimed14 Posts: 9,488
    Yeah, I was raised in a hockey family ... the e-mail that greeted me this morning ...
    jimed's Mom wrote:
    THEY DID IT--DO YOU BELIEVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THOSE LITTLE SHITS DID IT!!!!!! THE BRUINS JUST GOT HOME AND IT WAS FUN TO WATCH. NOT SURE WHEN THE PARADE IS BUT SOON. TAKE CARE AND WILL WRITE SOON--LOVE YEH KIDDO--
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  • Drowned Out
    Drowned Out Posts: 6,056
    8-)8-);)

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  • FenwayFaithful
    FenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    jimed14 wrote:
    Yeah, I was raised in a hockey family ... the e-mail that greeted me this morning ...
    jimed's Mom wrote:
    THEY DID IT--DO YOU BELIEVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THOSE LITTLE SHITS DID IT!!!!!! THE BRUINS JUST GOT HOME AND IT WAS FUN TO WATCH. NOT SURE WHEN THE PARADE IS BUT SOON. TAKE CARE AND WILL WRITE SOON--LOVE YEH KIDDO--
    :lol: Cheers buddy!
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  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    Drowned Out wrote:
    8-)8-);)

    loyalty2-1.jpg
    lol!
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  • Dru_Cortez
    Dru_Cortez Posts: 953
    Let's go Oilers!
    Please see above.
    Approximately 126 sleeps
    'til a new season begins!
    Cheers.
    'Cause you don't give blood and take it back again.
  • haffajappa
    haffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    Dru_Cortez wrote:
    Let's go Oilers!
    Please see above.
    Approximately 126 sleeps
    'til a new season begins!
    Cheers.
    i'll need a lot more sleeps than that to recover from this playoff run!
    GO CANUCKS! :D
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  • fox_mulderX
    fox_mulderX Posts: 1,134
    polaris_x wrote:
    BLACK35 wrote:
    Congrats to the Bruins on their Cup win (even though I wanted them to lose) Damm Kaberle wins a cup, boooo :twisted:

    i'm happy for kaberle ... not like he asked to be traded ... we got a nice pick from that trade ...


    same here. as a leafs fan, i was happy to see him win the cup. kaberle was one of my favourite players on the leafs and no one deserved that win more than him.

    congrats boston and congrats kaberle
  • Pats54
    Pats54 Posts: 276
    blackredyellow wrote:
    Congrats Boston... the Bruins played great at the right time of the season, and Tim Thomas is a god. Brad Marchand is going to thorn in the side of teams for many years to come. Kid is annoying, but he's a player.

    I'm a Pens fan and still have a soft spot for Mark Recchi... man, what a career for a guy who was once though of as "too small" to play in the NHL... he had that rush coming down the right wing and he was skating like a 19 year old. You'll be missed Recchin' Ball...

    I'm embarrassed for the "normal" people in Vancouver and rational thinking Canuck fans. Starting with the idiots throwing crap on the ice during the trophy presentations/celebrations, and then obviously the rioting crap. Some classless assholes in the bunch.

    Oh, and someone needs to hurt Jannik Hansen... what a gutless punk...

    I know Luongo will get most of the blame in the media, but they should put pictures of the Sedins on milk cartoons... Someone should start looking for the invisible Swedes.

    Rex is a class act and it is a shame he is leaving. Nice way to leave though going out on top. That rush he had was great too bad he was unable to finish that would have been something

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