The Matt Cooke Appreciation Thread

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Exactly. Personally I embrace the hate. I wish we had another Cup to add to '09 so I can go into full troll mode, but the hate mostly begins and ends with the irrational Sid hate, and everything else is just an added bonus for the mouth breathers.

I can name more than a dozen players who are just as bad as Cooke if not worse who are revered in hockey circles.

Exactly. And I can name a dozen captains around the NHL who whine to refs and walk the line of dirty play like Sid does as well.

Doesn't make a difference, though. Haters gon' hate.

 

[Ogrezilla]

 

[DegenX]

Won't miss the two minutes for being Matt Cooke penalties, but I will miss what he brought to the team. I hope he does well in Minny.

 

[Bennett Brauer]

Won't miss the two minutes for being Matt Cooke penalties, but I will miss what he brought to the team. I hope he does well in Minny.

This, for example that game misconduct in the ECF was a terrible call, but because it's Matt Cooke, it was given to him. Don't forget all the countless times Matt Cooke was shoved around and punched while not doing anything in retaliation and he got a penalty also.

This league

 

[Dragon Priest]

I know Staal has been gone for over a year and this might have already been said, but with Cooke's departure and Kennedy's a short time ago, so officially ends the tenures of the "best 3rd line in hockey" in Pittsburgh.

Cooke-Staal-Kennedy.

 

[Inklings]

"Matt Cooke gets blessing of Boogaards to wear 24;"

http://www.startribune.com/sports/blogs/214728011.html

 

[AquaticBirdman]

Too bad we couldn't land Clutterbuck, but considering the money that the Isles signed him for I gues that's not too bad a thing either.

 

[PensBandwagonerNo272*]

Gonna miss the constant dynamics our third line had with Cooke - Staal/Sutter - TK.

Thanks Cookie!

 

[Uemoda]

One of my favorite players on the Pens. We will miss him way more than people here realize.

He was such a punk and I loved it. Reminded me of me.


All the best to him in life. Now I need a new jersey-tee.

 

[Ogrezilla]

It always feels more real when they put on the other team's jersey.

So long sweet prince. Please don't murder Sid or Geno.