The Puck Poise comment came from a clown named "KL". Had an absolute crush for Skoula and eventually talked about his puck poise, likening him to Lidstrom. It immediately became a classic. The whole thing was bizarely explained by him. You had to be there to see the numerous backtracks.
KL was an extremely loud, opinionated, and hockey-challenged individual. He is missed for those times when you need a laugh. But he has been replaced!
The Dustin Rose incident comes from far back in time. HF wasn't even using this particular software for their message board. It was in 1999, I think. It came from a nuisance going by the name Big Red Machine. You could spot that he was full of it easily but many people actually fell for it.
He began talking about a player he had seen up north. A giant native kid. Each report was extremely detailed and full of savory (read: Pejorative Slured) anecdotes. Like how he went to dinner at Rose's house and ate raw meat. The kid was described as a bigger and most offensive Eric Lindros.
I would say, and I am not bull****ing you here, that something like 50% of HF posters swallowed all of his words. Everyone that pointed out that the story made absolutely no sense was dismissed as a party pooper and asked to leave the threads by others who wanted that vital "information". One poster from the area challenged Big Red Machine, asking for more details on where the games were played, where all this was taking place. Again, he was shut down for a while until the administration got on the case.
Eventually, after several weeks (maybe 2-3 months, maybe more) Big Red Machine admitted this was all an invention.
The prank was really not well done, but illustrate how gullible some people can be. The thing had a cult status the whole time, so it went into HF lore as a joke.
Today, such an incident has very little chance of happening. The new generation of pranksters are those who make much less bombastic claims and provide scouting reports they read left and right or make up.
