Around the League 3 - The Threequel Always Sucks

[Discipline Daddy]

This is one of two times in my life I've ever gotten too drunk to remember what happened.

No, seriously. I put away a six pack of high gravity craft beer on a completely empty stomach and all I remember is laying on my stomach and watching this game from under the coffee table while a game of beer pong took place on the table (it must have made sense at the time). I have only the slightest recollection of running around and screaming like a drunken idiot after this goal, but I didn't actually remember doing so until I watched the highlights the next day.

My roommates also said I was deliberately throwing beer on everyone, but I don't remember that any more than I remember being born.

This game was the ****. I was a senior in college. We were still not far from winning the cup that I thought this team could stay a contender for a while longer (boy was I wrong!). At NCSU I started an improv comedy troupe called CIA. That night was the night of our final show, the last show of my college career. We had an afterparty at my house. The game was playing in my living room and I had at least 20 people packed into that tiny space. When Jokinen scored the energy was amazing. The room went so crazy. I then kept shouting "There's no WAY that got off in time" and shouted again when I was wrong. One of the best single moments in my life.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

star bores is terrible and you should not watch it. it's srsly a 1960's western set in outer space. i see rite thru u georg lukas.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

the flames (borg) are doomed. look what i snuck into their mainframe while they weren't paying attention.

 

[TheOllieC]

http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=1890749

I would love to find the 2013 re-draft thread from about a year ago where a couple people had Mantha over Lindholm, while he was in the Q beating up on little kids and Elias was in the NHL.

 

[Novacane]

http://hfboards.mandatory.com/showthread.php?t=1890749

I would love to find the 2013 re-draft thread from about a year ago where a couple people had Mantha over Lindholm, while he was in the Q beating up on little kids and Elias was in the NHL.

Damn. Those are some pretty harsh words for a rookie skater.

 

[Sens1Canes2]

Selke Award finalists were announced. Toews, Kopitar, and Bergeron. Rumors of Semin just barely missing that top 3.

 

[gocanes88]

Why would anyone willingly throw themselves into one of the most intensely scrutinized coaching positions in hockey? Toronto/Montreal has the most psycho fans/media who are maniacally obsessed and completely unforgiving if you even lose like two games in a row. I would think he had it much better in Detroit... but apparenly not.

EDIT: Just read the terms and yeah $$$$$$$$$ but still.

 

[bleedgreen]

Leafs gotta leaf. Played well by babs. Get to work probably where he always wanted to on some level, get paid enough to never need to work again. Get fired in a couple of years and do whatever you want for life.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

The whole Babcock craze is really quite fascinating. Barely win one Cup almost a decade ago followed up by, disregarding one more Finals loss, which was also, almost a decade ago, year after year of mediocrity and early playoff exits. Statistically Hitchcock and McClellan have be far and away better than him the past 6 or so years, yet their somehow second rate.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Why would anyone willingly throw themselves into one of the most intensely scrutinized coaching positions in hockey? Toronto/Montreal has the most psycho fans/media who are maniacally obsessed and completely unforgiving if you even lose like two games in a row. I would think he had it much better in Detroit... but apparenly not.

EDIT: Just read the terms and yeah $$$$$$$$$ but still.

Babcock has coached Team Canada, it doesn't get worse than that. He's been in the spotlight so long that he's probably not worried about it getting any brighter. And considering where the Leafs are at the moment, he could be the guy to take full credit for an upswing from the basement into contention. Kind of like people said Brian Burke was going to do a few years back.

 

[Brock Anton]

8-yrs, $50M? For a coach? You do you Toronto.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

Oh Toronto, I look forward to basking in the misery of your fan base when this fails just like everything else you try.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

so the Stanley Cup final next year is going to be Edmonton and Toronto right? I mean it just has to be right?

 

[NotOpie]

Matrix is a classic case of a movie that should have stopped at 1. The 3rd installment was unwatchable. Diehard should have stopped at 2. IMO, the 2nd was close to as good as the first, and the first was one of my favorites. Terminator 2 was better than terminator 1, but again, should have stopped at 2.

I enjoyed all 3 Lord of the Rings equally, but that one really feels like 1 long, continuous movie. Also, Harry Potter series had some good ones beyond the 2nd so that breaks the mold for me.

Lord of the Rings was conceived and written as a trilogy as books, so it is no wonder the movies "worked".

My understanding is that there will only be one more "Finding Nemo".

Spoiler Alert:

#doryissushi
#nemoisafishstick

 

[Brock Anton]

so the Stanley Cup final next year is going to be Edmonton and Toronto right? I mean it just has to be right?

Canada still wouldn't win the Cup somehow.

 

[Finnish Jerk Train]

Babcock's level on the DGAF-about-the-media-ometer is on par with Belichick and Popovich. There are things that might get to him there, but it won't be the pressure.

 

[drganon]

Matrix is a classic case of a movie that should have stopped at 1. The 3rd installment was unwatchable. Diehard should have stopped at 2. IMO, the 2nd was close to as good as the first, and the first was one of my favorites. Terminator 2 was better than terminator 1, but again, should have stopped at 2.

I enjoyed all 3 Lord of the Rings equally, but that one really feels like 1 long, continuous movie. Also, Harry Potter series had some good ones beyond the 2nd so that breaks the mold for me.

Back to the Future 3- Not as good as the first two, but wraps up the trilogy nicely.
Alien 3- Sucks, but looks great in comparison to Resurrection, and the craptactular AVP movies.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

Babcock is the 45th highest paid player in the league

 

[Wolfpuck]

Brodeur is now the assistant GM for the Blues.

Things must have ended terribly between him and the Devils.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

Brodeur is now the assistant GM for the Blues.

Things must have ended terribly between him and the Devils.

either that or he realized that st. louis is a jaw dropping, amazing, first class city with great bbq, amazing blues music and mildly temperate weather.

and new jersey has.... trenton and hoboken. and also isn't even actually a state. half of it is a suburb of new york and the other half is a suburb of philadelphia. srsly, i drove through about 6 years ago and a state trooper in haboken at a gas station told me, upon seeing my non jersey plates, to watch out for manholes with the lids taken out. it's a grade a way to get ur car stuck and pillaged urban viking style.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

Watching TSN's "All Day" coverage of the Mike Babcock signing is giving me some insight on what it must be like to watch tv in Pyongyang.

 

[Unsustainable]

either that or he realized that st. louis is a jaw dropping, amazing, first class city with great bbq, amazing blues music and mildly temperate weather.

and new jersey has.... trenton and hoboken. and also isn't even actually a state. half of it is a suburb of new york and the other half is a suburb of philadelphia. srsly, i drove through about 6 years ago and a state trooper in haboken at a gas station told me, upon seeing my non jersey plates, to watch out for manholes with the lids taken out. it's a grade a way to get ur car stuck and pillaged urban viking style.

They even think it's dangerous for you to pump your own gas there,

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

it's literally amazing brodeur survived 24 years. like actually.

 

[nobuddy]

either that or he realized that st. louis is a jaw dropping, amazing, first class city with great bbq, amazing blues music and mildly temperate weather.

and new jersey has.... trenton and hoboken. and also isn't even actually a state. half of it is a suburb of new york and the other half is a suburb of philadelphia. srsly, i drove through about 6 years ago and a state trooper in haboken at a gas station told me, upon seeing my non jersey plates, to watch out for manholes with the lids taken out. it's a grade a way to get ur car stuck and pillaged urban viking style.

buddy log off of this web zone please

st louis is one of the worst cities in this country

what are you talking about

 

[Sens1Canes2]

It's like most cities in the US...the nice parts are quite nice, with lots of local culture.