The Swamp

rass wrote: ↑Thu Dec 06, 2018 9:06 am There are plenty of pervs like you out there, so it's possible to make a guesstimate from google IS. I don't know man.

I met Scott Stevens years ago, just after he retired. He was wearing cargo shorts, so I didn't get to check out dem thighs, but his calves were awe inspiring. He was like, my eyes are up here buddy.

mister d wrote: ↑Thu Dec 06, 2018 9:38 am Except Pat Falloon.

Sabo wrote: ↑Thu Dec 06, 2018 9:46 am But yeah, I'm pretty convinced hockey players are the most fit professional athletes around. You have to be seriously strong and have the lungs of a horse to play at a top level.

Adrian Dater, SI wrote:When Mike Keenan arrived to coach the Blackhawks in 1988, he noticed something disturbing in his team's dressing room at Chicago Stadium: ashtrays. Not just the squiggly-squared, amber-colored glass trays that populated most public places, but tall, regal-looking stands. Finished butts, dozens of them, had been given proper state funerals, or so it looked.

Keenan, no saint but never a smoker, was shocked.

"I had just come from Philadelphia, where there really weren't a lot of guys who smoked," he says. "But I walk in and see those ashtrays everywhere, and the first thing I told the guys was: 'OK, no more smoking in the dressing room. If you gotta smoke, do it out in the hallway.' So I'm coaching my first exhibition game and I go into the dressing room after the first period to talk, and there's no one in there. I'm wondering what in hell is going on, and take a walk out to the other side of the hallway and the whole team is out there, smoking cigarettes."

Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Thu Dec 06, 2018 2:51 pm That's fucking bizarre. And let's not act like smoking was cool back in 88. I mean, it was certainly more prevalent than it is now, and I had a number of friends in high school that were casual (drinking) smokers. But there was a pretty dark stigma attached to it.

I guess those guys would've been born in the 60s, which was the absolute peak of smoking culture in the US. But I find it really crazy that professional athletes... and entire NHL team... would be smoking like that.

sancarlos wrote: ↑Fri Dec 07, 2018 7:40 pm Instigating in the last couple minutes is an automatic suspension, so no question on Lomberg.

Koivu was injured and is missing his next game, so that likely caused the suspension wheel o' justice to spin against Giordano. It was a surprising dirty play, but if no injury, probably no suspension.

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Tue Dec 11, 2018 8:55 pm I still have no clue how the Panthers aren't a bigger candidate to move.

degenerasian wrote: ↑Tue Dec 11, 2018 11:07 pm

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Tue Dec 11, 2018 8:55 pm I still have no clue how the Panthers aren't a bigger candidate to move.

There is no place geographically to move them.

And dont say Quebec, that's suicide.

brian wrote: ↑Wed Dec 12, 2018 12:13 am

degenerasian wrote: ↑Tue Dec 11, 2018 11:07 pm

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Tue Dec 11, 2018 8:55 pm I still have no clue how the Panthers aren't a bigger candidate to move.

There is no place geographically to move them.

And dont say Quebec, that's suicide.

If Ottawa doesn’t get its shit together they could be moving to Quebec. Ottawa is the Canadian Arizona. Not in terms of weather.

degenerasian wrote: ↑Wed Dec 12, 2018 8:56 am

brian wrote: ↑Wed Dec 12, 2018 12:13 am

degenerasian wrote: ↑Tue Dec 11, 2018 11:07 pm

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Tue Dec 11, 2018 8:55 pm I still have no clue how the Panthers aren't a bigger candidate to move.

There is no place geographically to move them.

And dont say Quebec, that's suicide.

If Ottawa doesn’t get its shit together they could be moving to Quebec. Ottawa is the Canadian Arizona. Not in terms of weather.

Ottawa is still a much better market than Quebec. The problem there is Melnyk.

brian wrote: ↑Wed Dec 12, 2018 10:16 am

degenerasian wrote: ↑Wed Dec 12, 2018 8:56 am

brian wrote: ↑Wed Dec 12, 2018 12:13 am

degenerasian wrote: ↑Tue Dec 11, 2018 11:07 pm

govmentchedda wrote: ↑Tue Dec 11, 2018 8:55 pm I still have no clue how the Panthers aren't a bigger candidate to move.

There is no place geographically to move them.

And dont say Quebec, that's suicide.

If Ottawa doesn’t get its shit together they could be moving to Quebec. Ottawa is the Canadian Arizona. Not in terms of weather.

Ottawa is still a much better market than Quebec. The problem there is Melnyk.

Sure, but the point stands. Phoenix isn't a bad a market as people think. First of all, it's something like the 6th or 7th biggest city in America. They just have bad/revolving door ownership and an arena in a shitty location. Sound familiar?

brian wrote: ↑Wed Dec 12, 2018 11:26 am That's fair, but I'm not convinced Phoenix to Houston is much of a change all things considered. I think Houston will probably support the team fine, but Phoenix would be salvageable with some decent/consistent ownership and a downtown arena. Just like Ottawa would as well. As it stands, it's more embarrassing to have a team in a Canadian market drawing crowds of 70 percent of capacity than it is to have Arizona drowning.

brian wrote: ↑Fri Dec 14, 2018 7:50 pm Pacific Division starting to look a lot better lately. Except LA and Arizona of course.

degenerasian wrote: ↑Sat Dec 15, 2018 12:35 am Ovechkin with another hat-trick to get to 635 in his career.

With the NHL game opening up, could he get to Gretzky's record of 894?

degenerasian wrote: ↑Sat Dec 15, 2018 10:05 am Are you counting this year? He could get 40 more.

wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 19, 2018 10:47 pmand Crosby is a puss (he and Ovi jawing at each other).