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Around the NHL: Part XIV - Hand Pass Edition

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Boris Zubov said:
Why is Gloria the Blues victory song?
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On January 3rd the Blues were in last place in the NHL. They beat the Capitals that night and when they got back to the hotel, Gloria was playing and some of them jammed out to it. That night is when their meteoric rise began and their PR team must have gotten a hold of the story and that's how it all started.
 
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Mull this over if you will. If you are a 28-29 year old normal kid born around 1990, your probably working your first "real job". You've grown up and lived anywhere in the New England region your whole life. You've probably played sports your whole life and you obviously love your Celtics, Bruins, Red Sox and Patriots. So let's say you if your like me for example, your first real memories and true understanding of sports are when your around 9-10 years old.

Do you realize that this same kid has had 12...count them an incredible 12 parades he could have attended in his 18 or so years that he started to truly understand what winning a championship is all about.

Now you take a 55 year old born and raised New Yorker such as myself born in 1963 who is a Knicks,Jets,Mets and Rangers fan. I didn't truly start to understand sports around till around 1973 when the Mets made it to the WS which they lost to the Reggie Jackson led A's.

So yes that means I was too young to truly appreciate the titles won by the Miracle Mets of '69, the 17 point underdog Jets Super Bowl III win or the Knicks NBA championships of 1969 and e2ven 1972.

So in my lifetime, I've only been to 2...yes count them...2 stinken parades in my lifetime('86 Mets and obviously the '94 Rangers). And yet some lucky ass New England kid 1/2 my age has already been to 12 parades. That to me is both startling one hand and just bad friggen luck that my Dad wasn't a Yankee or NY football Giant fan otherwise I would have had 4 Giant parades and 6 Yankee parades to go too.

Needless to say I want nothing to do with the city of Boston winning another f***ing championship. And so it's all about the Blues to end their 52 year drought for me.

If I sound salty or frustrated maybe a bit bitter and yes probably a bit envious that another Boston team is on the cusp of winning another damn championship, you'd be 1000% correct....lol

Thanks for reading my woe is me rant...:)

GO BLUES!!!
 
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Maximus said:
Mull this over if you will. If you are a 28-29 year old normal kid born around 1990, your probably working your first "real job". You've grown up and lived anywhere in the New England region your whole life. You've probably played sports your whole life and you obviously love your Celtics, Bruins, Red Sox and Patriots. So let's say you if your like me for example, your first real memories and true understanding of sports are when your around 9-10 years old.

Do you realize that this same kid has had 12...count them an incredible 12 parades he could have attended in his 18 or so years that he started to truly understand what winning a championship is all about.

Now you take a 55 year old born and raised New Yorker such as myself born in 1963 who is a Knicks,Jets,Mets and Rangers fan. I didn't truly start to understand sports around till around 1973 when the Mets made it to the WS which they lost to the Reggie Jackson led A's.

So yes that means I was too young to truly appreciate the titles won by the Miracle Mets of '69, the 17 point underdog Jets Super Bowl III win or the Knicks NBA championships of 1969 and e2ven 1972.

So in my lifetime, I've only been to 2...yes count them...2 stinken parades in my lifetime('86 Mets and obviously the '94 Rangers). And yet some lucky ass New England kid 1/2 my age has already been to 12 parades. That to me is both startling one hand and just bad friggen luck that my Dad wasn't a Yankee or NY football Giant fan otherwise I would have had 4 Giant parades and 6 Yankee parades to go too.

Needless to say I want nothing to do with the city of Boston winning another ****ing championship. And so it's all about the Blues to end their 52 year drought for me.

If I sound salty or frustrated maybe a bit bitter and yes probably a bit envious that another Boston team is on the cusp of winning another damn championship, you'd be 1000% correct....lol

Thanks for reading my woe is me rant...:)

GO BLUES!!!
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or, you could be from new haven, surrounded by New England sports fans through your whole childhood while your family comes from upstate New York and cheers exclusively for New York teams.

nothing I hate more than a Bruins fan lol go Blues!
 
TheDirtyH said:
or, you could be from new haven, surrounded by New England sports fans through your whole childhood while your family comes from upstate New York and cheers exclusively for New York teams.

nothing I hate more than a Bruins fan lol go Blues!
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Dang that's pretty rough. So what kind of fan are you other than a Rangers fan?
 
LeetchisGod said:
The East has been better since the Hawks and Kings declined.
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Miles and Miles better. If we were somehow in another universe where the Rangers were in the west last year, they would have been in the playoff race still much later and possibly or probably even in the playoffs out west that is how bad it was. The East was even always tough those years when the Hawks or Kings win bc they were the 2 powerhouses. You expected one of those 2 to come out of the west those years. The East was still tough then,IMO. The West is going to be wide open for the next few seasons potentially. Teams like Winnepeg and Nashville better figure it out quick and try to take advantage before the Avs look like the next true western powerhouse.
 
Machinehead said:
They haven't won it in 49 years, touch the ****ing thing!

Dumbest tradition is sports. If I were the winning captain, I would pump that **** up and down like the Premier League trophy.
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Amazing Kreiderman said:
Agreed. This childish superstition of not touching the trophy and **** is annoying.
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Whatever works, works right?

I would trust the captain of a team to have a good enough sense of the pulse in the locker room to know which option will energize the team more and put them into a good state of mind going into the finals.

Like when Philly won the ECF in 2010, not only did Mike Richards touch it - he did it in a blatantly defiant way as a middle finger to superstition and there was no other way he could've done it being who he was and the identity of that team. They didn't win the cup in the end, but they never really stood a chance against the Hawks and put up a great fight in the finals - better than most expected.

E: I bet the bunch of jerks in Carolina would've touched it.

E2: Just remembered that it was probably a middle finger to Toews as well who stood so clear of the trophy after the Hawks' WCF win that he might as well not have been on the ice.
 
Blue Blooded said:
Whatever works, works right?

I would trust the captain of a team to have a good enough sense of the pulse in the locker room to know which option will energize the team more and put them into a good state of mind going into the finals.

Like when Philly won the ECF in 2010, not only did Mike Richards touch it - he did it in a blatantly defiant way as a middle finger to superstition and there was no other way he could've done it being who he was and the identity of that team. They didn't win the cup in the end, but they never really stood a chance against the Hawks and put up a great fight in the finals - better than most expected.

E: I bet the bunch of jerks in Carolina would've touched it.

E2: Just remembered that it was probably a middle finger to Toews as well who stood so clear of the trophy after the Hawks' WCF win that he might as well not have been on the ice.
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The point is that Philly didn't lose because a player touched the Prince of Wales trophy.

I want them to just pick it up. Celebrate what they have accomplished. Honor the trophy and what it represents
 
Amazing Kreiderman said:
The point is that Philly didn't lose because a player touched the Prince of Wales trophy.

I want them to just pick it up. Celebrate what they have accomplished. Honor the trophy and what it represents
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I'm pretty confident that teams A) know how to celebrate what they've accomplished over the season and B) know what the trophies represent.

You are putting way too much energy/thinking into something that doesn't matter.
 
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Amazing Kreiderman said:
I just think superstition is for 5-year olds. I think it's childish.

Anyway, it's not going to change
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Ehh, I think superstitions are just more about fun. In some ways, I see it as them honoring tradition. Sports in itself is kind of childish. It's one of the things that keeps life from getting too serious and focuses our attention on a thing we've enjoyed since we were little.

The child parts of sports are what make it great in my opinion. It's those who focus too seriously on it that can make it miserable at times.
 
An expansion team followed by a team in last place on Jan 1st.

Western conference really bringing the heat the last couple years.
 
I don't care who wins, but I want a 7 game series with 7 multiple OT games.
 
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