Hockey Talk..

FragFailure · Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:34 am Post subject:

I'm not disputing Darcy Tucker's grit. I am disputing that the Leafs wingers overall are a strength. They are weak on the wings. We'll see about Paul Maurice as a coach. I don't think he is an elite coach. He did get Carolina to the finals back a few years ago. Unfortunately they were fodder for the stacked Red Wings team. I would be shocked if the Leafs got to the conference finals next year.
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yipster · Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 7:26 am Post subject:

Leaf fans eh? Well the Canucks lost Bertuzzi and got Luongo, and signed him to a 4 year deal yesterday. And the no trade clause kicks after the first year. Now all we need is some crazy ass center or winger to compliment Nassy and Mo and were set.

loka · Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 7:49 am Post subject:

Richter- · Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:21 am Post subject:

Best Hockey Movie EVER

NOT
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Ricen · Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:47 am Post subject:

I have been to NFL, MLB, and NHL games. The NHL is by far the best to attend. The comfort factor, bang for your buck, and over all crowd excitement are just a few of the reasons why. If you have never been to one .....go. Take the kids, it's fun for all.

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Richter- · Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:55 am Post subject:

Like Ricen I have been to see every sport you can. NFL, MLB, NHL, NCAA Hockey and Bundesliga Soccer. The soccer (in Europe) and the hockey games are the best to watch in person.

And I will have to admit that I have only jersey in my closet that I have ever bought and yes it's a Minnesota Wild one...

OH THE HUMANITY!!!!
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LJ · Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 11:52 am Post subject:

SwEeTLuScIouSGaNjA · Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 12:46 pm Post subject:

ahaha..just a thought...it's funny how people jump on band wagons when a team is winning..even if they don't watch the sport or never did...loka if your bruins were winning you'd watch em

P.S....I'd rather watch golf then baseball

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loka · Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:02 pm Post subject:

See it's funny that people think I'd like the Bruins if they won, but sadly just because I named a percentile of their HOFamers doesn't mean squat to me. Point is I don't like hockey. Never have never will.
That doesn't mean that I wash my hands of those tremendous players which I've actually had the chance to meet. Boston is a baseball city pure and simple.

Even when I went to Devils games it bored the hell out of me so no I don't think if I was a fan or "bandwagoning" a good team I'd have fun.

Seriously though welcome to sports where it takes winners to have a fanbase. It's the flavor of the year to wear crap from the winning teams. I bet you no one in Chicago even cared about the White Sox until they won the world series.

And seeing a baseball game in Canada doesn't count. Go see a game in New York or Boston.
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LJ · Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 1:21 pm Post subject:

I didn't know San Francisco was in canada

Richter- · Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:10 pm Post subject:

SwEeTLuScIouSGaNjA · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 1:00 pm Post subject:

YES!! just got confirmation..the maple leafs have signed Hal Gill and Pavel Kubina.. to multiple year contracts which means the leafs top four d men stand as... Mccabe Kaberle Kubina Gill..aww soo excited..with raycroft in the pipes

-GaNjA
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StrontiumDog · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 1:14 pm Post subject:

Maybe...just maybe, the Leafs will get to the playoffs this year. *on knees praying*
Tired of living in Canucksland and listening to people telling me how much the Leafs suck... And Canucks fans will be unbearable this year now they have a better keeper...
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Cake · Ville Supporter Joined: 20 Aug 2005 Posts: 117

I've tried over the years to analyze why it is exactly that I don't like hockey or golf. Here's one of the best ways I've come up with to explain it. Hockey and golf are not sports, they are hobbies. They do require skill, but not athleticism. They are like billiards or darts or bowling.

Having the ability to do one thing very well is a skill. It requires practice and determination. But it does not require athleticism.

Baseball is a sport because it requires athetlicism. You have to be able to run, throw, and hit a baseball. There is also a huge amount of strategy, such as base running situations, hit-and-run plays, pitching changes, pinch hitters, positioning of outfielders and infielders on a hitter by hitter basis, and so on.

For these same reasons, basketball is a sport.

American football and rest-of-the-world football (AKA soccer) are also sports, but to a slightly lesser degree than these first two examples.

In a game like hockey you throw some guys out there and they skate back and forth over and over again. They maneuver a little bit, but mostly they are either skating around in a big oval, or they are skating back and forth in a straight line. They flick that puck around and even the very best players rarely know where the heck it's going to end up, or if they do know where it's going to end up, at least half of the time the other team ends up with it.

That's a not a sport, that's a hobby. A lot of people find it interesting to watch but the vast majority of people find it tedious.

Now I'm not trying to slam hockey. If I were, I would say what I do when I'm intentionally trying to rile friends of mine who are hockey fans, such as "It's just figure skating for men," or "It's not a sport if you have to recreate specific natural weather conditions to play it. That's called a hobby, like flying a kite."

I would honestly love to hear some replies to these thoughts
Sorry to throw your thread off target some more Ganja but this is interesting

loka · Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2006 2:29 pm Post subject:

I agree with everything you said Cake.

Someone I used to know said any sport that can be played by a woman is not a sport. Well that kind of foiled his argument because he soon realized girls can also play Baseball.

My thing with hockey despite the fact that it's deathly tedious like soccer is that the game isn't approached logically. It does not take skill to shoot a puck unless you want to gloat your new puck handling skills to the next hockey aficionado. It doesn't take years and years to skate and slamming people against walls. If you consider that a sport I suggest watching figure skating as well cause that must turn you on.

Simply stated figure skating for men I've called the sport, and I've had hockey fans get mad about it and not have jack to say because it's true.

I got hit with a baseball last year on my arm. Bruised for 3 weeks. It hurt like a mother, and these soccer players that whine on the field crying to get a call are dispicable.
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