Tribute 10 years ago today: The Chara hit on Pacioretty

[FLHabs]

Can't believe I actually thought Aaron Palushaj was gonna be a good player for the Habs lmao

 

[Mrb1p]

Yup and he's on a team with two other pieces of pure garbage in wilson and ovechkin.the league is a fu@#$ing joke when it comes to stars like chara,ovechkin.

Why would you say Ovi is a piece of garbage lol? He's a legend and the definition of what hockey is.

 

[Mrb1p]

Can't believe I actually thought Aaron Palushaj was gonna be a good player for the Habs lmao

Big Oof

 

[FLHabs]

Big Oof

Lolll to my defense I was younger back then haha still should've known better though lol. I remember at some point my favorite prospect was Maxim Trunev just because of one highlight package of a game lolll

 

[Tabarouette]

Can't believe I actually thought Aaron Palushaj was gonna be a good player for the Habs lmao

I hope you got super mad at people for saying otherwise around here too, as we all do

 

[FLHabs]

I hope you got super mad at people for saying otherwise around here too, as we all do

Wasn't posting back then, just a lurker hehe I think I just thought his name sounded cool lol
looking back at it, I really don't know why I would pencil him in my fantasy lineups haha

 

[Mrb1p]

Lolll to my defense I was younger back then haha still should've known better though lol. I remember at some point my favorite prospect was Maxim Trunev just because of one highlight package of a game lolll

I remember making a post on those old RDS forum when I was like 14 saying that AK46 would score 40 one day.

Oof.

 

[FLHabs]

I remember making a post on those old RDS forum when I was like 14 saying that AK46 would score 40 one day.

Oof.

Loll fun times. Let's hope this new crop of players actually reach our lofty expectations this time

 

[Mrb1p]

Loll fun times. Let's hope this new crop of players actually reach our lofty expectations this time

To my defense, I also said that Pacioretty was going to score 30 and bought his jersey in 2009 and Ive argued with many people in 2011 that Subban was going to win a norris

 

[BigDaddyLurch]

I loved Steve Penney and thought he was the future of the Habs...my bad!

 

[Tabarouette]

man I was also pretty high on Kostistyn, that's why i'm the way I am now, i'm like an emo teenager who got his heart broken in high school

i'll never let KK break my heart, that bum

 

[Koivu11]

I'll never forget the sound of him hitting the stanchion and then the eerie silence that followed in the Bell Centre... just sickening. I genuinely thought he might have been killed for a few minutes.

Yup I remember feeling that way as well. I legit thought we witnessed a man get killed on the ice.

It was scary as shit.

 

[peate]

I thought I had seen my first live TV death.

I remember the live feed only showed Chara skating towards Patches and you just heard the sound shortly after. I thought he legit decapitated Patches.

Happened to me watching baseball when the ump started walking to the mound and collapsed, dead.

On April 1, 1996, the Cincinnati Reds and Montreal Expos were playing an Opening Day game, and McSherry was the home plate umpire. Seven pitches into the game, McSherry called a timeout, spoke briefly to Reds catcher Eddie Taubensee, and walked slowly towards the Reds' dugout. Moments after signaling for the second base umpire to come in and replace him, McSherry stumbled forward and collapsed. Resuscitative efforts were begun on McSherry and he was taken to University Hospital in Cincinnati, but was pronounced dead upon arrival. He was 51 years old.

 

[Skip Bayless]

Happened to me watching baseball when the ump started walking to the mound and collapsed, dead.

On April 1, 1996, the Cincinnati Reds and Montreal Expos were playing an Opening Day game, and McSherry was the home plate umpire. Seven pitches into the game, McSherry called a timeout, spoke briefly to Reds catcher Eddie Taubensee, and walked slowly towards the Reds' dugout. Moments after signaling for the second base umpire to come in and replace him, McSherry stumbled forward and collapsed. Resuscitative efforts were begun on McSherry and he was taken to University Hospital in Cincinnati, but was pronounced dead upon arrival. He was 51 years old.

That's wild.

 

[BigDaddyLurch]

Happened to me watching baseball when the ump started walking to the mound and collapsed, dead.

On April 1, 1996, the Cincinnati Reds and Montreal Expos were playing an Opening Day game, and McSherry was the home plate umpire. Seven pitches into the game, McSherry called a timeout, spoke briefly to Reds catcher Eddie Taubensee, and walked slowly towards the Reds' dugout. Moments after signaling for the second base umpire to come in and replace him, McSherry stumbled forward and collapsed. Resuscitative efforts were begun on McSherry and he was taken to University Hospital in Cincinnati, but was pronounced dead upon arrival. He was 51 years old.

I remember that game as well...McSherry was a HUGE man, likely 150lbs or so overweight; that was when MLB started really getting on the umps to be in shape...

 

[Mrb1p]

man I was also pretty high on Kostistyn, that's why i'm the way I am now, i'm like an emo teenager who got his heart broken in high school

i'll never let KK break my heart, that bum

Nah, you are an emo teenager.

 

[TT1]

ouf that roster, dark times

today:

 

[Runner77]

Best Recchi moment was when Sportsnet referred to him as "Dr. Recchi" in an on-screen graphic they used during a game. This is the actual screenshot from that game (I added the red oval):

Hilarious: Mark Recchi listed as ‘Dr. Mark Recchi’ on graphic during Canucks game (VIDEO)

 

[Runner77]

Recchi went from being one of my all time favorite players, to someone I hated to their inner core. Threw out anything I hate Recchi related. Jerseys, hockey cards a signed picture. Guy went from a class act to a disgusting piece of filth in one year.

I hated how the Habs honored him during a pre-game ceremony, which occurred after the Chara hit, if I recall correctly.

 

[vHAB]

I was driving on the 40 when this happened and listening to the game on the radio and the broadcast guys legit made it sound like he was dead. Imagine not having actually seen the incident and just hearing these guys just sounding completely stunned and just trying to describe it and saying max was just laying there motionless. I pulled over and called my friend to know wtf was going on, it was a surreal moment

 

[Habano]

I was at a concert in Toronto during this game. I had a look at what was going on in between the opening act and headliner. I saw that Max was hurt but didn't know what happened until I got back to the hotel room after the show.

In any case, f*** Chara. He should've been suspended for this. At least the NHL is more serious about holding players accountable now, right?

One of the tings that pissed me off the most in the aftermath was Dr. Mark Recchi insinuating that Paccioretty was faking the injury.

I wonder if Dr. Recchi thinks Carlo is also faking. I Would love to hear his expert opinion

 

[Le Tricolore]

One of the tings that pissed me off the most in the aftermath was Dr. Mark Recchi insinuating that Paccioretty was faking the injury.

I wonder if Dr. Recchi thinks Carlo is also faking. I Would love to hear his expert opinion

Recchi was my favourite player as a kid, but after he said that, I lost all respect I had for him.

 

[BigDaddyLurch]

One of the tings that pissed me off the most in the aftermath was Dr. Mark Recchi insinuating that Paccioretty was faking the injury.

I wonder if Dr. Recchi thinks Carlo is also faking. I Would love to hear his expert opinion

 

[hvac412]

Why would you say Ovi is a piece of garbage lol? He's a legend and the definition of what hockey is.

Anyone knowing very well they can get away with it because of their elite status who purposely goes out of his way to injure another player (Drouin) and ridicules the NHL as flawed as they may be for trying to punish an extremely dirty player (Wilson) is not my definition of what hockey should be.

 

[De Montreal]

yeah, Chara did this on purpose. Not premeditate but in a split second he saw an occasion to get revenge rise and he took it. very reckless