What's really said on the handshake line?

[I Hate Blake Coleman]

"F*ck you, f*ck you, f*ck you, you're cool..."

 

[David Bruce Banner]

G'game... g'game... g'game...

 

[The Great Mighty Poo]

"I gotta doodoo in my butt'.

 

[WhiskeyYerTheDevils]

Bennett is a beauty

 

[KnightofBoston]

These guys are like Vikings, gladiators, bikers etc

They’ll eat each others hearts on the ice while 5 year old children watch and cry

But after they have more respect for eachother than they do for anyone beside their own family because it’s a brotherhood, they know how hard it is to get there and part of getting and being there is being a nasty hardened SOB

 

[Number8]

“I guess Fatso forgot to shake my hand.”

There aren't many bigger trolls on the planet than Sean Avery. To say that he is unlikeable is an understatement.

 

[yianik]

There aren't many bigger trolls on the planet than Sean Avery. To say that he is unlikeable is an understatement.

In all sports, I think Bill Lambeer must stand alone as the most hated player.

 

[FerrisRox]

Some Leaf fans,
”I can’t believe they shook Bennett’s f***ing hand!!”


meanwhile the boys all know they’re just playing hockey,
”Good job, Benny, go get one, bud”

Well, a huge part of this is some Leaf fans - and let me stress some, because literally none of my buddies who are Leaf fans believe this - but some Leaf fans here are convinced that Sam Bennett is extremely dirty and intentionally tried to injure Matt Knies. I'm not joking, a fan even said in their post series thread "I wouldn't want to win playing the way the Panthers do" implying that the team won because of dirty play. Just a reminder that in the previous series - the only series the Leafs have won in twenty years - they had a player elbow one of the Lightning's top defensemen in the head, nowhere near the puck and knock him out of the series. But they don't want to win "playing the way the Panthers do."

What that contingent of the fanbase couldn't possibly understand is that the Maple Leaf players, who obviously know a helluva lot more about the game, don't look at that play and think it was "dirty" or an intent to injure at all.

The players hold no ill will to Bennett because they understand that he didn't do anything outside the rules on that play and, on the contrary, I suspect many of them have a lot of respect for Bennett's hard nosed style and relentless effort.

 

[DaGreatOne]

I never played organized hockey, but played pick up hockey for a year when I was 24 in 1992.
My biggest take away from a sport I didn't grow up playing was when I got mad and slashed a guy.
After the game I apologized. Guy told me, "what happens on the ice stays on the ice".
I don't know of many sports where this is the case.

 

[Windy River]

Sounds like exactly the things we say to each other in the handshake line after each and every beer league hockey game.

 

[drktmplr12]

*language warning*

 

[Number8]

In all sports, I think Bill Lambeer must stand alone as the most hated player.

He's another one who can go away!

 

[beedee]

Billy Smith famously never went through the handshake line. He hated it. I'll give him credit, he was pretty consistent with it.

There is a bitch-ass in our beer league that does the same thing, even after his team wins the game. He is always sitting on the bench, whining to the ref about something.

 

[Cup Or Bust]

The same thing Chevy Chase says in Christmas Vacation when his boss and co-workers pass him in the office to go into a meeting.

 

[Crosby2010]

There is a bitch-ass in our beer league that does the same thing, even after his team wins the game. He is always sitting on the bench, whining to the ref about something.

I think with Smith he just felt he battled with these guys all series and I suppose was pretty old school about it. Although even in the old days they shook hands.

 

[easton117]

Thought for sure this one would’ve had the Tim Thomas didn’t score on me video by now.

Disappointed.

 

[GOilers88]

Fandom is a very weird thing.

These guys are competitive but they have respect for one another, with very limited exception. Meanwhile, it seems like half of my own fanbase is calling another team “so dirty” or otherwise unworthy five minutes into any given game.

Not saying I don’t get emotional and reserve a type of “hatred” for rival teams. But especially as I get older, I am frequently confused as to why so many people have such a strong tendency to take a competitive environment and what results from it so personally. I love competition, both watching it and participating in it, but you owe your opponent respect.

That’s what makes it a sport and not literal warfare.

Would love to hear what was said between Draisaitl and Pietrangelo lol. Or Oilers in general with Pietrangelo.

Bet there's zero respect for that tomahawking fake tough guy.

Fitting these posts would run concurrently.

 

[Ratsreign]

“Ya think anyone in Canada was watching?”

“idk. Surely, I hope so!”

”Hey bud! Don’t call me Shirley.”

both laugh......and it’s on to the next in line

 

[Alexei Yashvalev]

For 90% of guys that don't know each other it's "good series"

 

[Pablo El Perro]

In all sports, I think Bill Lambeer must stand alone as the most hated player.

If you were a Pistons fan, he was the man.

 

[yianik]

If you were a Pistons fan, he was the man.

Probably so, but I read even IT didn't like him. But Lambeer well and truly wouldn't give a damn.

 

[Pablo El Perro]

Probably so, but I read even IT didn't like him. But Lambeer well and truly wouldn't give a damn.

Nah, pretty sure that, coming from different areas of Chicago area, they became friends. That's just smoke. I think Isaiah even bought his mom a house in the area Bill grew up in.

 

[yianik]

Nah, pretty sure that, coming from different areas of Chicago area, they became friends. That's just smoke. I think Isaiah even bought his mom a house in the area Bill grew up in.

Well, Lambeer was exceptional at what he did. We can certainly say that.

 

[Pablo El Perro]

Well, Lambeer was exceptional at what he did. We can certainly say that.

And for a guy without much of a skill set, he made the most of it. That trade from Cleveland began the turnaround for Isiah and the Pistons.

 

[Straight Fire]