2013 NHL Off-Season Thread: Bluefan's Own Personal Crying Game!

[Callisto]

I can't stop watching the Crawford speech lol

[NynJa]

Probably late again

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Thats chicago? Looks nothing like a rundown city i keep hearing about.

[vagus]

Well american's, congrats on getting jay & Dan for fox sports. There contract wiE tsn ends this weekend. Expect lots of brobobskiiiiii scenes. TSN officially sucks, well except for cabbie. Even the female reporters aren't enough, I guess milf quality.

Who is going to make the first splash at the draft? Colorado trading down for Seth jones? Lol.

[KoalaTrap]

Regarding Rangers contracts I read somewhere that they're close with Zuccarello for about what BK said. I would be really sad to see him not back (he's one of my fav players now) and they would be dumb not to want him back.

Side note: Got my Lundqvist winter classic jersey today. Beautiful and not bad for 90~ on ebay. Shit is addictive though.. Saw a Cally home jersey for around 90 and had to just X out of the browser.



Nice to actually have some current Rags jerseys again. Thanks for the motivation hackey thread.

[Selamis]

Pictures:

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This happened at 7:30 am shortly after we arrived.

The following set of three is a dead ringer look-a-like of Lil Jon, however my friends called him simply Boombox Guy, and he apparently was there in 2010 too and they stood right by him.









This is our view down Jackson shortly after we arrived to the entrance to Grant Park




And this is our view, waiting to get past the police barricade into the park



Buckingham Fountain



Walking towards the stage:







How close we were





Various Skyline shots:









Dude had a mad afro, got a sweet round of applause too because some older dude collapse from what I guess was heat stroke, and this dude just picked him up, gave him some water and then carried him out through the people to go get help.



End of the parade, after Crawford's speech



Suckers trying to get back to Union Station. Was a sea of people, and just mass gridlock.

Videos: (Also putting NSFW just in case...there's no nudity but there are chicks in bras, and sorry about the volume, it's a bit loud...lol) (This is how the crowd passed the time before the parade started lol)

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[Judai]

Well american's, congrats on getting jay & Dan for fox sports. There contract wiE tsn ends this weekend. Expect lots of brobobskiiiiii scenes. TSN officially sucks, well except for cabbie. Even the female reporters aren't enough, I guess milf quality.

Nobody will see them on FS1 and prolly not going to talk about Hockey at all either cause Sports channels are shit here when it comes to hockey coverage.

[Cail]

Page 17 and no Bregs Caps post yet. Son, I am disappoint.

[Ishido]

Kindl signed for 4 years, 9.6m by the Wings. 2.4m cap hit, not horrible. Clearly a contract for him to grow into, he looks like he will be worth it as a solid 3rd pairing/2nd PP guy. Could have done much worse.

[Callisto]

Thats chicago? Looks nothing like a rundown city i keep hearing about.

It's the same as any big city, portions are dilapidated, generally the ones near manufacturing jobs that don't exist anymore and such

[Cutriss]

Thats chicago? Looks nothing like a rundown city i keep hearing about.

Think you're confusing it with Detroit.

[Callisto]

There definitely some parts on the southern and eastern sides that could be confused with Detroit. The Downtown area proper though, rivals most major cities.

[Wulfgang]

Chitown is nice. Definitely confusing with DET. DET can't afford silver legumes:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...om_east%27.jpg

It's no Nashville though; prolly why 5 trillion Hawks fans come down for games.

[Ishido]

Detroit has nice areas just like other cities, just the bad areas are a bit larger and are more akin to 3rd world countries.

[Arvin]

detroits nice, eastern market and around comerica are great.

[Obsidian]

Well american's, congrats on getting jay & Dan for fox sports. There contract wiE tsn ends this weekend. Expect lots of brobobskiiiiii scenes. TSN officially sucks, well except for cabbie. Even the female reporters aren't enough, I guess milf quality.

Who is going to make the first splash at the draft? Colorado trading down for Seth jones? Lol.

Gurdeep, the guy who worked with Gurdeep during the World Hockey Championship (they both danced to that goofy techno music), and Kate are all pretty good, I think. Dutchy is a total bro.

Definitely won't be the same, but they'll still be way better off than Sportsnet.

Edit: Nabil is his name. I knew I would get it right after I posted.

[Ishido]

detroits nice, eastern market and around comerica are great.

Yeah but the burnt out houses in other areas are not as nice.

The new arena area should help though

[Richybear]

Gurdeep, the guy who worked with Gurdeep during the World Hockey Championship (they both danced to that goofy techno music), and Kate are all pretty good, I think. Dutchy is a total bro.

Definitely won't be the same, but they'll still be way better off than Sportsnet.

Edit: Nabil is his name. I knew I would get it right after I posted.

He'll forever be known as Gurdeep whenever he's on now.
Obligatory "YA BLEW IT!!!" on the name though

[Mythe_Seraph]

Chicago has some fucking beat to shit areas, some of the worst areas I have ever been through, and I've lived in Montana and Michigan. Michigan is the shit hole of the U.S. though, fuck the whole state.

[Bregor]

Page 17 and no Bregs Caps post yet. Son, I am disappoint.

Gotta let the draft and free agent bonanza begin first! Pretty sure they're set on D-men and goaltenders but I could see GMGM adding a top six forward, which could drastically affect my assessment of him and the team in general. Also he gets 11/10 if he trades Schultz.

[Mazmaz]

This is so unfair. How do teams that already have all these super stars like pens and hawks have so much cap space, and we have like $47k with all these players that need re-signing.