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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    Well well, look who's in first place in the entire league. 
    Hugh Freaking Dillon is currently out of the office, returning sometime in the fall




  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 17,868
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Lose in OT, again.  Fuck.

    Worse, I flipped back on the Panthers broadcast....their announcers are easily in the bottom 2 or 3 in NHL.  So bad.  

    Dammit.  Always fun to be on a tear, never fun to be on a rip.
    What were you expecting?

    I was surprised how bad the Celtics broadcasters were actually.
    Must have been a road game. They have a new play by play guy (Drew something) for road games, he's like 14. So far he kind of sucks.

    Mike Gorman (been doing play by play sine the 80's) is retiring after this season and only doing home games this year. Gorman is excellent (was paired with Tommy Heinson for a lot of years), Brian Scalabrine on color is OK. Some nights he has some real good insight, other nights not so much. Definite homer though (not as big a homer as Heinson was, he was the ultimate homer).
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • iammine16
    iammine16 Vancouver, BC Posts: 856
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Well well, look who's in first place in the entire league. 
    As a Canucks fan, I am just fine with this. 
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  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    iammine16 said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Well well, look who's in first place in the entire league. 
    As a Canucks fan, I am just fine with this. 
    Agreed. Few injuries piling up but definitely a stingy team. Helluva heater! Watched a game in Winnipeg last season just before Christmas, they were playing the Preds and won in overtime. 80% of the fans had Jets jerseys on. 

    Completely off topic. shout out to the drivers of Winnipeg. The most courteous drivers of any city I’ve driven in North America. Really says a lot about the fine folks of Manitoba. 
  • Guy Dudebro
    Guy Dudebro Posts: 1,479
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Well well, look who's in first place in the entire league. 
    I actually don’t mind seeing this…for now. It’s nice to see somebody different doing well for a change. It bothers me a little bit because Gabe Vilardi was developed by the Kings and traded for what so far as I see as a bust in PL Dubois. We could have kept Vilardi for half of what PLD is costing us for the next  8 yrs. Best of luck to Iafallo and Kupari too. I enjoyed watching Kupari and Vilardi develop in Ontario in the A. I have had  a soft spot for the Jets since the me and my buddy were slamming beers in the Forum club with Teppo Numminen’s mom after the Kings blew a three goal lead in a 5-3 loss. Some things never change…
     
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,800
    Guy Dudebro said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Well well, look who's in first place in the entire league. 
    I actually don’t mind seeing this…for now. It’s nice to see somebody different doing well for a change. It bothers me a little bit because Gabe Vilardi was developed by the Kings and traded for what so far as I see as a bust in PL Dubois. We could have kept Vilardi for half of what PLD is costing us for the next  8 yrs. Best of luck to Iafallo and Kupari too. I enjoyed watching Kupari and Vilardi develop in Ontario in the A. I have had  a soft spot for the Jets since the me and my buddy were slamming beers in the Forum club with Teppo Numminen’s mom after the Kings blew a three goal lead in a 5-3 loss. Some things never change…
     
    Many slammed beers in the Forum Club back in the day.  The stories....the stories!!

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  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,879
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Well well, look who's in first place in the entire league. 
    If my team doesn't win it, I always root for a Canadian team.  I'd like to see Winnipeg get it together and make a serious run. 
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,800
    I also am rooting for a Canadian team to win Cup again, one day, if it can't be the team I root for.
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  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,352
    I only root for the Canucks if they wear the greatest sports jerseys of all time - the 1994 unis. Those blue & white things with the dumb C are trash.

    This Cutter Gauthier thing is a little too crazy. Let's move on - Drysdale looks like a stud. Go Flyers!!!
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,800
    Yeah I read a bit and couldn't understand why the kid just decided he didn't want to play for the team that drafted him.  Guessing you dodged a nutter.
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  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,352
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Yeah I read a bit and couldn't understand why the kid just decided he didn't want to play for the team that drafted him.  Guessing you dodged a nutter.
    He said he got "death threats" - if so they should be reported to law enforcement but let's not go taking him at his word, which doesn't seem worth much. Certainly seems better suited for the Anaheim "fanbase" than here.
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  • erebus
    erebus Posts: 610
    Flyers fan should really be quiet, they seem to have forgotten how Lindros came to them
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,800
    Lindros said it before the draft.
    I think that makes a pretty big difference.


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  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    I only root for the Canucks if they wear the greatest sports jerseys of all time - the 1994 unis. Those blue & white things with the dumb C are trash.

    This Cutter Gauthier thing is a little too crazy. Let's move on - Drysdale looks like a stud. Go Flyers!!!
    Agreed. Free the Skate!!!
  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    edited January 2024
    Nucks in a chippy one with their expansion cousins. The refs have done a decent job keeping a lid on this, it could have gotten out of hand. 
  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,352
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Lindros said it before the draft.
    I think that makes a pretty big difference.


    Uh huh. And the Nordiques were an objective joke of an organization. As evidenced by their GM trading Lindros to 2 different teams. 
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  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    edited January 2024
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Lindros said it before the draft.
    I think that makes a pretty big difference.


    Uh huh. And the Nordiques were an objective joke of an organization. As evidenced by their GM trading Lindros to 2 different teams. 
    Lindros didn’t want to play for the Nords because of the owner, Marcel Aubut. He knew of some things he didn’t like, but never spoke of it until later. Aubut was later accused of sexual harassment by a female colleague.  
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,800
    edited January 2024
    He did make this known before the draft, though.  (Only that he wouldn't play for them if picked.)

    This is like Eli Manning or John Elway.
    If the team drafts st that point it is on them
    If the player decides after that he won't play for the team,  it is on the player.

    F Cutter.
    *obviously death threats are unacceptable.   Can understand why the org would bash him, why the players would resent him,and why the fans would boo him
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  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    F Me In The Brain said:
    He did make this known before the draft, though.  (Only that he wouldn't play for them if picked.)

    This is like Eli Manning or John Elway.
    If the team drafts st that point it is on them
    If the player decides after that he won't play for the team,  it is on the player.

    F Cutter.
    *obviously death threats are unacceptable.   Can understand why the org would bash him, why the players would resent him,and why the fans would boo him
    He did, but all the reasons speculated (language, small market, etc.) were not factual, according to Lindros. 

    As far as Cutter goes, something has happened, and we probably won’t know the full (or partial) extent until far later, such as Lindros. 
    The Flyers organization was very classy in trying to protect the kid, imo. 

    People uttering death threats and shit, these are some people that need additional hobbies than watching professional sports. It’s adults playing a kids game, but some of these people treat their home team like some kind of gang-bullshit and these professional athletes are wearing their turf colours. 
  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,879
    1ThoughtKnown said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    He did make this known before the draft, though.  (Only that he wouldn't play for them if picked.)

    This is like Eli Manning or John Elway.
    If the team drafts st that point it is on them
    If the player decides after that he won't play for the team,  it is on the player.

    F Cutter.
    *obviously death threats are unacceptable.   Can understand why the org would bash him, why the players would resent him,and why the fans would boo him
    He did, but all the reasons speculated (language, small market, etc.) were not factual, according to Lindros. 

    As far as Cutter goes, something has happened, and we probably won’t know the full (or partial) extent until far later, such as Lindros. 
    The Flyers organization was very classy in trying to protect the kid, imo. 

    People uttering death threats and shit, these are some people that need additional hobbies than watching professional sports. It’s adults playing a kids game, but some of these people treat their home team like some kind of gang-bullshit and these professional athletes are wearing their turf colours. 
    As soon as he was traded,  management made several comments about him publicly.  That wasn't professional. 

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