2012 NHL Offseason Thread: ROCK OUT WITH YOUR LOCKOUT

**Thoronas** · 2012-09-29 11:00

Originally Posted by Callisto

holy shit lol

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-pu...3103--nhl.html

I've seen Lambert troll Wings fans before, but this is shots fired on all of Canada lol

I love Lambert, he's my favorite twitter hockey troll.

**Brill Weave** · 2012-09-29 11:10

90% of Lambert's articles are garbage. He's probably my least favorite writer on Yahoo.

**Wulfgang** · 2012-09-29 12:12

Originally Posted by NynJa

The NHL pros who got taken 8 games by the "amateur" soviets, get referenced as shitty players instead of "hey, the russians are probably good at hockey which is why they dominated the olympics", and canadians are fags for making reference to the win in the series. Then the americans win 1 game over shitty russian coaching and its a miracle and should be made reference to over and over and over.

I stand by my previous claim, le butthurt.

Haha dude the Miracle on Ice was about 500x more amazing for exactly the reason Sepukku mentioned. You guys were supposed to smoke the Russians, underperformed terribly, then came back and barely won what everyone had expected you were going to win easily in the first place.

**BadKarma** · 2012-09-29 12:39

Originally Posted by Selamis

And just like that, Rick Nash, has injured his shoulder in the Swiss league.

He's day to day, MRI showed nothing wrong. He probably felt something pop and was like fuck better not push it.

**Richybear** · 2012-09-29 14:13

Daryl Katz apologized to the Oilers fans about his trip to Seattle and veiled threat of moving the team.
I think he realized there'd be thousands of crazy rednecks going Jew hunting if he did it

**NynJa** · 2012-09-29 15:11

Originally Posted by Wulfgang

Haha dude the Miracle on Ice was about 500x more amazing for exactly the reason Sepukku mentioned. You guys were supposed to smoke the Russians, underperformed terribly, then came back and barely won what everyone had expected you were going to win easily in the first place.

Canada "under performs" against "amateur russians" with no baseline to compare talent against, and its "choke artistry". (and for what its worth, a mix n match team of 20 pros lacks the team chemistry a team of 20 "amateurs" who are accustomed to playing together)
Russia "under performs" against the amateur americans, and its "miracle on ice".

Trying to put down the summit games win to make the miracle on ice look so much more amazing really reeks of jealousy. If that wasnt a 1 game series, the miracle on ice would have been "its a miracle we werent shut out"

**Richybear** · 2012-09-29 15:40

Plus it's funny, it's not as if the Russian team was a buncha scrubs in the 72 series. Yes team Canada was all-star laden, but it's not as if Tretiak, Kharlamov etc were bums who didn't even know how to spell the word Puck.

I did get a kick out of the boxed set of that series on DVD. How much the Canadians underestimated things, and treated it like a party. Their "training" consisted of doing reps of beer can from table to mouth.

Which on a side note, I get a kick out of how 40 years later, how much training has changed over time. It's no longer "Here's our potential #1 pick, let's buy him steak and take him out to dinner.", now it's "Let's make him ride a bike as fast as he can with tubes in his mouth til he barfs everywhere."

**Wulfgang** · 2012-09-29 16:07

Originally Posted by NynJa

Canada "under performs" against "amateur russians" with no baseline to compare talent against, and its "choke artistry". (and for what its worth, a mix n match team of 20 pros lacks the team chemistry a team of 20 "amateurs" who are accustomed to playing together)
Russia "under performs" against the amateur americans, and its "miracle on ice".

Trying to put down the summit games win to make the miracle on ice look so much more amazing really reeks of jealousy. If that wasnt a 1 game series, the miracle on ice would have been "its a miracle we werent shut out"

Poll a bunch of people and ask which scenario is more awesome:

A) A team of amateurs gets together and beats the best team in the world in a world championship

or

B) The best team in the world, comprised entirely of professionals, gets behind in an exhibition series against a pretty good team and then comes back and wins in the end

Don't mention the sport, and if you think I'm being unfair on how I wrote scenario B, go ahead and rewrite it a bit, but it's pretty accurate. If you actually went out and asked people that question, I would be shocked if 70%+ didn't say A. I'm not putting down the Summit Series, but the Miracle on Ice is better.

**Sepukku** · 2012-09-29 16:48

Let me put this in perspective: the Miracle on Ice team was composed of a bunch of amateur NCAA college USA hockey players in 1980.

Hockeys grown increasingly popular for 30+ years in America and the talent level of NCAA American hockey is STILL ass compared to CHL/AHL. I'd take any Memorial Cup qualifying OHL/QMJHL/WHL winner over any NCAA team in a best of 7 even though the NCAA players are 2-5 years older. Much less a World Junior Championship squad from Canada or Russia. Much less a World Championship squad from Russia that wasn't, by age, juniors.

**NynJa** · 2012-09-29 18:10

Originally Posted by NynJa

Trying to put down the summit games win to make the miracle on ice look so much more amazing really reeks of jealousy. If that wasnt a 1 game series, the miracle on ice would have been "its a miracle we werent shut out"

Not in the mood to repeat myself :/

Originally Posted by Wulfgang

I'm not putting down the Summit Series, but the Miracle on Ice is better.

And youre not shitting all over the summit games like that article did in your statement.

**BadKarma** · 2012-09-29 19:05

Oh Nynja just shut up. You're wrong. Also French

**Richybear** · 2012-09-29 19:15

But who'd win in a game between... oh right, no hockey

**bluefan** · 2012-09-29 20:55

You guys are still on about that?!

/turns towards NHL and NHLPA

/sighs

It's like watching the siblings go at each other while the parents are ignoring them and just screaming at each other.

http://www.newbornbabyzone.com/wp-co...babies-cry.jpg

THINK OF THE CHILDREN! (well, drunk hockey fans actually)

**Palin** · 2012-09-30 00:48

Krys "I shouldn't be in the NHL" Barch goes off on Twitter.

"I sit here from Gand Bend, Ontario putting a pen to my heart and writing on paper what bleeds out. My name is Krys Barch. I have played approximately 5 1/2 years in the NHL and have worked for every second of it. I haven't been a 1st round pick, bonus baby or a son of a hall of famer. I have made it through sweating, bleeding, cut Achilles, broken hands, concussions, broken orbital bones, 8 teeth knocked out, etc, etc, etc.

"I sit in front of a fire, 8 OV deep and starting a bottle of Porte that will assist in the translations of my emotions to words! No different than a truck driver, farmer or line worker, I have a shot and a beer. Not to deal with the days ahead but to ease the nerves from what my body has endured the days before.

"I sit here with both my boys sleeping and my wife due with our 3rd. My thoughts racing on what I can conquer tomorrow to get our family ahead. Sometimes, wondering if I should have existed when a word and a gun solidified and solved all problems. I feel the Wild West would more simplified than the world we live in now when an employer who makes billions of dollars and a league with record revenues can tell me that I can't do the things that my heart tells my me to do!

"All what my heart tells me to do far surpasses what my body has endured. As I write this I dive deeper and deeper into my bottle of Porte giving wider views to the depths of my heart. As my pen warms from the fire, Neil Young and a fall Canadian night, I wonder how this work stoppage effects the owners?

"I wonder if the owners of Boston, New York, Washington, etc, etc, have endured any of the injuries that I or any other player in the NHL have endured. Still they probably sit their smoking the same brand of cigar, sipping the same cognac, and going on vacation. To one of five houses they own. While we sit here knowing they want to take 20% of our paychecks. One half to 3/4 of my peers will have to work for the next 50 years of their lives.

"Congratulations to the lucky select few that I have played with who have made salaries that they can choose to do whatever they want when they are done. But I have played most who do not!

"If the NHL wants to teams in the south or struggling markets than the players along with the financially well to do teams need to start working together. Or they need to start to move teams to the North where they will make money. The system allows the owners to continually take money from the players contract after contract where eventually over 40 some years the owners will have 80% of revenue. The only way to stop the work stoppages long into the future is fix the root cause of the problems.

"The lockout is a procedure to take from the players to pay for the NHL mistakes. Let not allow the NHL to make any more mistakes.

"Let the league and the players to come together to fix the mistakes that have been made and make sure non are made in the future. Let's get a deal where the owners, players, and fans benefit from. We're we can be sitting around in beautiful Canadian falls around a fire playing and watching the game we love.

"Here's to the truth and our next conversation. As always speaking from my heart! Goodnight! Like me or hate me I speak what comes from my heart!"

It's amazing these players don't realize how entitled and spoiled they sound. "Sit here drinking my Porte and lament that I have to work the next 40 years after my hockey career." WAHHHHH. I'm sure the rest of us average fans who also have to GASP! WORK for a living will feel really sorry for you. Krys you make in one year what a very lucky person will make in 10. You make in a year what the majority of this country takes 20 years to make. Go cry me a fucking river about having to work after you are done playing hockey.

Yes you get punched in the face for a living, and that sucks. I respect that. But you get paid more than anyone can dream about to play a game. Go fuck yourself, and fuck you too NHLPA for letting your idiot players out on Twitter.

**Sepukku** · 2012-09-30 02:01

I really enjoyed the part where he insinuated that this problem would better be solved with guns hahahahahahahahahaha

**Sepukku** · 2012-09-30 02:04

Tickets to baseball game tomorrow... Pittsburgh-Cincinnatti...Pirates lose and they extend their north american sporting record to 20 straight losing seasons... got my paper bag ready incase the Reds pull away mid-game

**Brill Weave** · 2012-09-30 10:56

LOL go for it Sep. This collapse was even more fantastic than last season's collapse.

**Sepukku** · 2012-09-30 11:04

Leaving in 15... game might be canceled due to rain, looking pretty shitty and drizzly out right now but I'm hoping cause Reds + Washington Nationals are in a tight race and its the last week of the season they force the game through to not make the Reds come back after the final scheduled game this week.

But I do have a paper bag on me, just 1, so if they show on Sportscenter a dude with a paper bag on his head but his GF not wearing one as opposed to the whole group wearing paper bags, thats me. I've got a speech ready to go if Root Sports interviews me, too.

**Brill Weave** · 2012-10-01 12:07

At least you got to use your bag Sep! For those of you that don't follow baseball with yesterday's loss the Pirates have been assured of a 20th consecutive losing season. Two decades of sub .500 baseball. That in itself is impressive.

**NynJa** · 2012-10-01 14:25

Werent the pirates actually doing good at one point?

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