GDT: Around The League 2023-24: Post Season of Misery and What-Ifs :(
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TheNumber4
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This why Bissonette is the enemy. And a f***in moron apparently as well.
TheNumber4
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The Russian Patty Roy had on the Remparts also allegedly lied about his age. How does a player go from a vaunted 1st overall Jr scoring machine to a total washout and the worst 1st overall pick in history overnight? Either way I don’t believe for a second now that he was the age he claimed to be but it’s all moot now. Water so far under the bridge.
Tim Peel isn’t reliable?
TheNumber4
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Sus for sure. And yeh, water under the bridge, but personally I like to know exactly how incompetent past Oilers management may or may not have been. So I appreciate that it was brought up lol.
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I remember there being rumors about Grigorenko from that same draft and a lot of people used to question the validity of various Russian players birth certificates.
TheNumber4
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I remember the Grigorenko one and have heard it’s a concern with other Russians. Just never with Yakupov.
Mcnofool6110
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Rest in peace. Unbelievable tragedy.
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NO KOOL AID PLEASE!!
Absolutely terrible
RIP
Johnny and Matthew were to be groomsmen at their sisters wedding today
Prayers to the family
Unimaginable
RIP
Johnny and Matthew were to be groomsmen at their sisters wedding today
Prayers to the family
Unimaginable
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NHL player Johnny Gaudreau, brother killed after being struck by suspected drunk driver in NJ
The fatal crash happened the day before Gaudreau's sister's wedding was to be held in Philadelphia.
6abc.com
Some actual details starting to come out. Driver suspected to be under the influence, tried to pass a pair of vehicles.
TB12
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Need everyone to remember this asshole when playoffs roll around and this turdnugget is back on the bandwagon hanging off of Edmonton's nuts. Would love to see him get booed at games and around town when he's back here "building the brand". f*** me, I absolutely hate that guy.
Biz has and always will absolutely suck.
GhostfaceWu
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This is actually crazy that person is gonna get the max it's gonna be extremely high profile. f***ing idiots getting behind the wheel drunk is just the highest degree of idiocy.
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Heavy day in the hockey world today. I’ve posted my thoughts to the mains. RIP Johnny and Matthew. Condolences to the entire Gaudreau family.
Posting this article below as a slight diversion from that heavy news. But c’mon his family donated the most famous trophy in sports and he has to buy his own souvenir jersey when he comes to view it? Booo NHL aand HHOF.
Edit - if he likes pickups and hockey he should come to the homeland some time. He’d love Edmonton and Alberta.
Toronto Sun
Aug 30, 2024
Lord Stanley takes a liking to Canada — and the Maple Leafs
No one wants to see the longsuffering Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup — or any other Canadian team for that matter — worse than the man whose family name is on the trophy.
Perhaps Lord Edward Stanley's purchase of a Leafs sweater during his first ever visit this month to see the trophy donated by his great-greatgreat grandfather might break the local side's 57-year curse — the longest in NHL history.
“I thought it was important to ask for a Toronto jersey while I was there,” Stanley told the Sun, joking he got the Hall's staff discount because the Cup is its centrepiece attraction. “I wouldn't say I support the Leafs more than any other. Given the way the connection has come about for our family, I feel a natural affinity for Canadian teams to win it and, being British, (cheering for the) underdogs.
“Toronto is now the team I have the most affinity for, though sadly, they haven't won in a while.”
The 26-year-old noted no Canadian team has raised it in his lifetime, the most recent being the Montreal Canadiens in 1993. But knowing he'd be travelling here in August made watching the seven-game comeback of Edmonton in the June championship versus Florida quite riveting.
“I liked the Oilers being in the final. For their first three games I was a little depressed, but amazed to see it go on so long. I don't really follow hockey that closely, which is now one of my ambitions, hence me wanting to come here.”
Stanley was surprised to learn none of his ancestors, including Lord Stanley of Preston when he was Governor General, ever witnessed an NHL playoff match in person.
“That's on my bucket list, to see the final game,” he vowed.
Asked if he'd like to present the trophy to the winners some day, Edward diplomatically deferred.
“It would be cool, though from what I'm told, the same people present it every year. But I'd love to watch it.”
Stanley and partner Victoria Jooris were moved on their Hall tour when curator Kevin Shea showed them the original bowl and the present Cup and explained how many Canadian kids play the game with a dream of winning his trophy.
They also saw the Isobel Cup, named for Lord Stanley's daughter, who played with other pioneering women in Ottawa while the family was here. Until the PWHL'S creation, that Cup went to the Canadian playoff champions.
“I was really happy to see that in the female section as I'd heard she was a big driver in Frederick giving the Stanley Cup,” Edward said.
While in the Hall neighbourhood, Edward and Victoria sampled peameal bacon sandwiches at St. Lawrence Market and dined high atop the city at Canoe in the Toronto Dominion Centre.
“A great view ... there's something very peaceful about having a city right on the waterfront.
“I spend a lot of time in London
and every direction you look, there's another tall building.
“Seeing the Cup was the main reason I came, but we really enjoyed Toronto. We drove around to Niagara Falls, in a big American-style pickup truck to fulfil another part of my dream. I was amazed to see so many vineyards on the way. Lake Ontario is very beautiful, I didn't realize how large it was.”
Posting this article below as a slight diversion from that heavy news. But c’mon his family donated the most famous trophy in sports and he has to buy his own souvenir jersey when he comes to view it? Booo NHL aand HHOF.
Edit - if he likes pickups and hockey he should come to the homeland some time. He’d love Edmonton and Alberta.
Toronto Sun
Aug 30, 2024
Lord Stanley takes a liking to Canada — and the Maple Leafs
No one wants to see the longsuffering Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup — or any other Canadian team for that matter — worse than the man whose family name is on the trophy.
Perhaps Lord Edward Stanley's purchase of a Leafs sweater during his first ever visit this month to see the trophy donated by his great-greatgreat grandfather might break the local side's 57-year curse — the longest in NHL history.
“I thought it was important to ask for a Toronto jersey while I was there,” Stanley told the Sun, joking he got the Hall's staff discount because the Cup is its centrepiece attraction. “I wouldn't say I support the Leafs more than any other. Given the way the connection has come about for our family, I feel a natural affinity for Canadian teams to win it and, being British, (cheering for the) underdogs.
“Toronto is now the team I have the most affinity for, though sadly, they haven't won in a while.”
The 26-year-old noted no Canadian team has raised it in his lifetime, the most recent being the Montreal Canadiens in 1993. But knowing he'd be travelling here in August made watching the seven-game comeback of Edmonton in the June championship versus Florida quite riveting.
“I liked the Oilers being in the final. For their first three games I was a little depressed, but amazed to see it go on so long. I don't really follow hockey that closely, which is now one of my ambitions, hence me wanting to come here.”
Stanley was surprised to learn none of his ancestors, including Lord Stanley of Preston when he was Governor General, ever witnessed an NHL playoff match in person.
“That's on my bucket list, to see the final game,” he vowed.
Asked if he'd like to present the trophy to the winners some day, Edward diplomatically deferred.
“It would be cool, though from what I'm told, the same people present it every year. But I'd love to watch it.”
Stanley and partner Victoria Jooris were moved on their Hall tour when curator Kevin Shea showed them the original bowl and the present Cup and explained how many Canadian kids play the game with a dream of winning his trophy.
They also saw the Isobel Cup, named for Lord Stanley's daughter, who played with other pioneering women in Ottawa while the family was here. Until the PWHL'S creation, that Cup went to the Canadian playoff champions.
“I was really happy to see that in the female section as I'd heard she was a big driver in Frederick giving the Stanley Cup,” Edward said.
While in the Hall neighbourhood, Edward and Victoria sampled peameal bacon sandwiches at St. Lawrence Market and dined high atop the city at Canoe in the Toronto Dominion Centre.
“A great view ... there's something very peaceful about having a city right on the waterfront.
“I spend a lot of time in London
and every direction you look, there's another tall building.
“Seeing the Cup was the main reason I came, but we really enjoyed Toronto. We drove around to Niagara Falls, in a big American-style pickup truck to fulfil another part of my dream. I was amazed to see so many vineyards on the way. Lake Ontario is very beautiful, I didn't realize how large it was.”
Somebody texted me about Gaudreau's passing and I almost couldn't believe it. I felt a pit in my stomach the moment I saw it confirmed. RIP Johnny and thoughts are with his family. Damn
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