OT: Funniest Posts of 2018

[Runner77]

We're never short of hyperbole, hot takes and the recency effect on this forum.

Some samples:

From Nov. 15th:

If we can beat Vancouver will win the cup

From Nov. 13th:

Domi will do 360's around McDavid.

From Nov. 10th:

Tatar? I wouldn't even trade that 2nd we got in the deal for Patches.

From Nov. 9th:

I've played goaltender myself when I was Novice B and I was way better than Price.

All of them qualified for the House of Hot Takes meme:

As OC noted on Nov. 9th:

We are all experts in everything, do we need another thread to prove this?

 

[Runner77]

I laughed on Nov. 9th, at how one of our posters recently referred to a shoddy performance by a Hab who gets his share of criticism on this forum:

Drouin is a regular guy, left at least 4 steaming coils on the ice tonite

Steaming coils.

 

[Runner77]

How could I forget the epic post by CoopersFalls during the GDT of Nov. 5th. Gainesvillain made sure to flag it in the PGT:

Imma just leave this here....

I didn’t say every team down 3-1 after the first is done. I’m saying this game tonight, is game over. Bookmark this post for when the game is over and see who is the one with a lack of understanding of the game of hockey.

The result: Habs won the game 4-3 vs. the Isles.

This is another candidate for Post of the Year.

The best part -- when you look at the list of posters who voted a like for the post, CoopersFalls himself is liking it.

This is pure HF braggadoccio -- doubling down to prove a point and being proven wrong, is all par for the course.

The last time I saw a post with such epic fallout, was the following from August 1st, 2014:

IF you traded Subban for Weber you'd be a moron

Subban Contract Talk VI

And 76ftw took a lot of flak for subsequently endorsing Weber over Subban and to his credit, he staved off quite a few snide comments about this post, over the years.

 

[Runner77]

This one is from a Drouin thread, in the middle of October when he was struggling mightily and was handling the puck like a grenade.

It prompted a poster to jump in to make an unusual plea ...

How many days do you have to wait until you could change your username?

Player Discussion - Jonathan Drouin (Mod Post#768)

 

[Habs]

I have to find the one by 'opticmax' who changed his name to 'TinderFamer', then to something else.. after we busted him for saying he knows JJ Daignaeult personally, and he and Bergy didn't know each other as kids. He went on some rampage telling us not to say smack about his personal friend JJD. When we pointed out the article saying Marc and JJD were close friends as kids, he changed his username a few times.

You shouldn't be able to change your username. Take the good with the bad around here. We've all eaten crow

 

[peate]

You shouldn't be able to change your username. Take the good with the bad around here. We've all eaten crow

On the old site, if you hovered the pointer over a username, it would show any previous aliases they had.

 

[ZUKI]

This one is from a Drouin thread, in the middle of October when he was struggling mightily and was handling the puck like a grenade.

It prompted a poster to jump in a make an unusual plea ...



Player Discussion - Jonathan Drouin (Mod Post#768)

 

[Runner77]

Alzner dressed as Santa doing Snow Angels in the crease

 

[Runner77]

Roy Munson's legendary GIF of the "fan experience" PC

This?

 

[Runner77]

The Romanian GF thread? Has to be that.

It came from a GDT, as I recall. And then it came up in several threads.

The post that started it all:

 

[Spearmint Rhino]

Awesome, tried to find it but couldn't remember the thread

Apparently Santa left himself under the tree as a present to us all...

 

[McGuires Corndog]

It came from a GDT, as I recall. And then it came up in several threads.

The post that started it all:

Jaffy27: International man of mystery

 

[Runner77]

Tshirt guy (the guy with the funny tshirts at an away game in Florida?)
...

Some of his t-shirts from a Dec. 2017 Panthers game, where he first came to our attention:

And then he was on everyone's radar, with the March 8, 2018 game, with TSN featuring him prominently in their game highlights, even adding a special boost effect on his creations:

And what the crowd looked like on that March 8th game vs. the Panthers. No kidding t-shirt guy was able to get those tickets behind Julien, so easily:

 

[Runner77]

During the Panthers game on March 8th, there was also an unexpected twitter spat between the t-shirt guy and Jack Todd, where we found out that Todd had been a guest at t-shirt guy's wedding and the whole thing turned nasty in real time:





The t-shirt guy countered with this response, which we couldn't print here as a tweet, given its foul language, so here is his edited response:

"I'd love to spend one round in the ring with you. Just one. To pummel your ass. You suck as a writer and as a friend like the way you turned on Russ Anber years ago. You were at my wedding I wanted to throw you the **** out but spared my family "@jacktodd46
5:30 PM - 8 Mar 2018

 

[Runner77]

...
Kotka-wut-not-zadina lady
Panties-less lady at the draft...

Not to be outdone, the guy on the what-lady's left, a real shit-disturber in his own right:

The what-lady's performance was so extravagant, that it outshone this other Hab fan in the stands that day, who was equally dejected by the Habs selecting Kotkaniemi:

And even this:

Which spawned several memes:

The above inspired TGS to change his avatar:

Changed my avatar once again! Priceless

While Buffalo and Carolina celebrated their picks made just ahead of the Habs, we had to live through this ...

 

[Runner77]

This gem post from the Kotkaniemi draft thread:

I was 100 % certain until yesterday that Aki Berg drafted at #3 was the most insane Finnish pick ever. Montreal however proved me wrong, Kotkaniemi won’t ever score 30 points in the NHL, if he even ever gets there. Sorry, but Canadiens made a horrible decision by getting him on their team !

B O O K M A R K E D

 

[Runner77]

This made the rounds quite a bit earlier in the year:

 

[Runner77]

...

AHLzner though

Here's the post that introduced Lolzner's new nickname. It was from Nov. 26th, when Lolzner had just been demoted:

AHLzner

Which prompted the update of a familiar meme ...

Waivers? What kind of waivers?!?

 

[Runner77]

The Alzner demotion prompted revisionist posting ...

On Nov. 26th, 2018:

Alzner's signing was puzzling from Day One.

On July 5th, 2017:

Alzner-Petry will be a very good second D-unit.

Confirmed with Link: - [MTL] Karl Alzner (5 years, $4.625M AAV)

 

[HabsWhiteKnightLOL]

The Alzner demotion prompted revisionist posting ...

On Nov. 26th, 2018:



On July 5th, 2017:




Confirmed with Link: - [MTL] Karl Alzner (5 years, $4.625M AAV)

LOL

 

[ZUKI]

The Alzner demotion prompted revisionist posting ...

On Nov. 26th, 2018:



On July 5th, 2017:




Confirmed with Link: - [MTL] Karl Alzner (5 years, $4.625M AAV)

It's bad to be that nasty with a friend

 

[Runner77]

AHLzner is the gift that keeps on giving ...

 

[Runner77]

It's bad to be that nasty with a friend

Not meant to be nasty. Could happen to anyone.

 

[ZUKI]

Not meant to be nasty. Happens to everyone.

We should explore the 2018 draft thread ; We will find " hall of fames posts" ( i love the ones about Tkachuk )

 

[Runner77]

We should explore the 2018 draft thread ; We will find " hall of fames posts" ( i love the ones about Tkachuk )

I've spent all my afternoon until now, digging up stuff.

Maybe someone else can take over for me.