Barber wasn't much better.
Ironically, Schultz appears to have kept all his choppers.
I don't know if "Mo" is supposed to be toothless in this scene, but this gets an Honorable Mention.
Posted on 11/05/2019 9:53:23 AM PST by Daffynition
WHEN THE PUCK finally came to rest, it was almost entirely inside Craig MacDonald's mouth. It was Dec. 21, 2007, and with 1:51 left to play, the Tampa Bay Lightning winger, working in his own zone, stepped in front of an errant, elevated slap shot that instantly cleaved a grisly, bloody and impossibly wide swath of carnage through MacDonald's lips, gums and tongue before reducing nine of his teeth to dust. [snip]
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LOL!
Claude’s son Brendan is currently with the NY Rangers. A smaller, equally gritty but less dirty version of his dad. Last night he engaged in a good fight with the much bigger goon Borowiecki of Ottawa.
I see where NY is proposing to ban youth tackle football in the state [like Cali].
Should hockey be next?
Barber wasn't much better.
Ironically, Schultz appears to have kept all his choppers.
I don't know if "Mo" is supposed to be toothless in this scene, but this gets an Honorable Mention.
Nope, they are tough...I see the occasional bumper sticker: Give Blood-Play Hockey!
I miss the...fan hate!
Heh, we LOVED getting together and watching hockey. There were four or five of us and during the Seventies and Eighties we used to obsessively watch hockey, we were all Bruins fans and would sometimes watch three or four hockey games a week, rotating host duties.
I loved the rivalries, knowing there was real dislike in those rivalries, it wasn’t just for show, both between players and fans. Heh, we used to have these foam bricks that we threw at the television, and we would write things on them like “Red Light!” or “bâton élevé”
Loved the games against the Quebec Nordiques who had the Stastny Brothers. Boy, did we hate them, but damn, were they good.
That was a lot of fun. We enjoyed playing hockey, and enjoyed being hockey fans! I do miss it, but...you gotta be young and free to do that...:)
Thanks for reminding me. The Hawks play at 9 local.
I’ll sleep when I’m dead.
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Between the bat flying around and the game with the fog, it was (somewhat )a memorable series. Although my fondest memory of that era was watching Shoenfeld put Cashman through the zamboni boards, and then start fighting there, off ice. I gave up my season tickets in 2002, but still go to a few games, catch the rest on tv.
I remember going up to the Winter Carnival in Quebec City in 1987, and they had the traveling NHL Hall of Fame there.
Four of us rented a camper to drive up, and it was one of the coldest snaps up there ever. It was brutal. The bathroom in the camper froze solid, the one thing the guy told us not to let happen, but it did, even though we put the antifreeze in it just like he told us.
But it froze.
My neck was killing me by the time we got home. Three out of four of us were named “Bob” and every time someone said “Bob” you turned your head!
Our heater didn’t work right, and I woke up with my sleeping back and hair frozen into an inch of ice on one of the windows.
Anyway, the day we went to the NHL Hall of Fame, it was bitter, BITTER cold. We were dressed appropriately, but it did no good, it was that cold. I had a knee length down filled coat, big boots and a russian fur hat, and it wasn’t enough. As we stood in line, it was so cold that you had to move. It wasn’t optional. You had to almost dance around in place, jumping up and down, flapping your arms.
As I was doing this, I became aware that EVERY person in this huge line was doing the same thing-it was unreal, and I remember thinking that if some alien came to Earth and saw this behavior, they would assume it was some kind of primitive ritual dance.
Everyone, bulked out in clothes and hats, jumping and moving ponderously while the plumes of frozen vapor issuing from our mouths and noses made us all look like odd prehistoric beasts!
When we got inside, the first table we came to had Gump Worsley at it, signing autographs...being a goalie, I was a big fan of his.
He regarded us, and said “Did you people stand in line outside in that cold to get in here?” Shaking his head, he said “You guys are crazy.”
That sounded completely incredible and funny, coming from a man who played hockey as he did, with no mask for so many years.
Enjoy!!!
Kane and Toews play golf at the place my wife used to work. I’ve never met them but she has more than once. Says they’re both genuinely nice people.
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They say of all the professional athletes, hockey players are the most down to earth.
I could believe that.
I still root for Buffalo. They’re a good franchise. It WAS a memorable series. Fog, bats...nowadays they’d call the game.
FWIW, the RCMP, against protestations from PETA, decided to keep their muskrat hats .
**When the RCMP decided to stop using real muskrat fur in their hats, they switched to a synthetic material to appease PETA-like animal activists. However, the police ran into a problem with the material. Namely, it doesn’t keep them warm.
Deutsche Welle reported that after field tests, the RCMP found that “artificial fur did not stand up to exposure to the elements (particularly rain), or provide the same level of warmth in extreme winter conditions.”
In other words, the fake fur doesn’t work in real-life environments.** https://www.westernjournal.com/mounties-wardrobe-change-peta/
It was memorable, you won the cup though, so it’s a lot sweeter.
It would be interesting to see what they would do in today’s environment
don’t think they would play in the fog, and the peta environment today, probably wouldn’t want Craig Ramsey skating around whacking at it with his stick. ( think it was Ramsey, don’t remember that was a long time ago)
Our new(er) arena is obviously a lot nicer, but I’m old skool, and I really miss going to the Aud.
I never knew!
They don't make them like that any more. But I'll always root for Buffalo unless they're playing the Flyers.
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