GDT: HFBoards 3/17/2025 | At least it's St Patricks' Day.
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Oh wait Rangers and Ducks are not playing today.., N/M. lol
Toronto...... you have one freaking job to do today and it ain't borking yourselves. 
Toronto...... you have one freaking job to do today and it ain't borking yourselves.
Feels awful wanting Toronto to win... but here we are.
Yeah... we got dark-mode back.
Halfway there....
Halfway there....
...can't EVER want Toronto to win...I'd hope for the Red Army first...
I would say that it’s more like that I want Calgary to lose in regulation. They just so happen to be playing Toronto tonight. I’m a vacuum, I don’t want Toronto to win, ever.
When you first said Red Army, I immediately thought CSKA Moscow, since while I don’t remember the Russian, “CSKA” stands for “Central Sport Club of the Army” in English.
I believe that is the old Red Army team.
CSKA Moscow’s hockey team back in the Soviet days were made up of commissioned officers with the hockey team “officially” being an after-hours club for the employees (CSKA wasn’t the only “club” like this). In practice their “job” was a no-show job and they trained in their sport full time. CSKA in particular was so dominant (and provided so many players for the national team) is that with military service being compulsory (I think), if you were among the best at your sport you were promoted to being a commissioned officer (on paper) in order to play that sport for CSKA.
That’s also how Soviet teams got around the “amateurism” rules for the Olympics of the time.
Yes, that is why 1980 was a “Miracle”.
It’s always “fun” when you run into situations where everyone knows something because of how obvious it is, but you can’t prove it on paper so can’t do anything about it. Then we beat them anyway. Too bad I wasn’t even alive back in 1980.
I’m at that fun age and combination of online communities I frequent where if I go on HF I feel young, but if I go on Discord I feel old.
I remember reading this year’s Super Bowl halftime show being universally hated here while it was going on, then I made a negative comment about it on Discord and all the kids ganged up on me for saying it.
...lol...I'm at the age where a few of my old military buddies that live in the area all meet up for breakfast at Tim Horton's or A&W once a week and complain about the damp weather and various Old Man problems...
...lol...I'm at the age where a few of my old military buddies that live in the area all meet up for breakfast at Tim Horton's or A&W once a week and complain about the damp weather and various Old Man problems...
Didn’t know there were still any living veterans of WW1.
I was only a young hockey nut, recently exiled to no-hockey-yet FL. it was incredible to watch on ABC and then to see the whole country going crazy for hockey. Many may not have known much about hockey, but the one thing they did know was the US “didn’t have a chance” against the Soviet Red Army professional amateur team.
Like a nationwide Stanley Cup parade. But, of course the reasons for the euphoria went far beyond hockey.
Additionally; the game wasn’t even shown live on TV. Here’s the intro as legendary Jim McKay opens the night’s show.
I never saw this before. The celebrating crowd behind him is a sign that the game may have went well,lol. He deftly tries to alleviate that clue by noting how there have been crowds on the streets of Lake Placid all day long, even while someone is holding up a “Go for the gold” banner behind him.
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I quit hockey in Bantam because i was tired of the hectic schedule...............A couple months later our team played in a big tournament in Lake Placid on the Olympic ice surface.........I always regretted not playing in Lake Placid.................Should of just finished the year and played in that tournament.........Young and stupid i was.......
