History of Hockey Thread

[AwesomeInTheory]

When did everyone start watching hockey?

Yesterday. That Kings game was kinda boring. Don't understand why people love this sport so much.

 

[SopelFanThe3rd]

Yesterday. That Kings game was kinda boring. Don't understand why people love this sport so much.

I like watching you.

 

[PuckMunchkin]

Lumme was my favourite Canucks D until Hughes, his breakout coincided with the start of my fandom

Somehow I read that as freedom

 

[archangel2]

thread is a little misleading. I think the OP means What is YOUR history with hockey and not Hockey history. There is an ongoing battle on the history board about where the game was invented.

 

[iceburg]

When did everyone start watching hockey?

Cool idea for a thread.

I'm really going to show my age here. The players I remember most from my early days are guys like Lever, Gould, Blight, Kearns and Gary suitcase Smith. That means mid 70s. I never knew how completely consumed I was until that amazing feeling during the '82 run. I remember walking to and from school (uphill both ways) like I was floating on a cloud. It was such an amazing run.

 

[SopelFanThe3rd]

Cool idea for a thread.

I'm really going to show my age here. The players I remember most from my early days are guys like Lever, Gould, Blight, Kearns and Gary suitcase Smith. That means mid 70s. I never knew how completely consumed I was until that amazing feeling during the '82 run. I remember walking to and from school (uphill both ways) like I was floating on a cloud. It was such an amazing run.

Glad someone likes the thread.

Cool story too. That must have been fun.

 

[Kryten]

Somehow I read that as freedom

We all know being a Canucks fan isnt freedom

 

[gsharpe]

I find it quite fun to relate my Canuck joy to Mark Messier. I love how that pisses off long time Canuck fans. The truth of it is that he made the Canucks so bad my family could afford tickets. Screw you Naslund for making the team great again!

Also credit to Benning for allowing me to enjoy hockey again 20 years later.

 

[SopelFanThe3rd]

I find it quite fun to relate my Canuck joy to Mark Messier. I love how that pisses off long time Canuck fans. The truth of it is that he made the Canucks so bad my family could afford tickets. Screw you Naslund for making the team great again!

Also credit to Benning for allowing me to enjoy hockey again 20 years later.

I blame Brian Noonan.

 

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Somehow I read that as freedom

Read this as fandom

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

I find it quite fun to relate my Canuck joy to Mark Messier. I love how that pisses off long time Canuck fans. The truth of it is that he made the Canucks so bad my family could afford tickets. Screw you Naslund for making the team great again!

Also credit to Benning for allowing me to enjoy hockey again 20 years later.

I wish I still had my VPD poster of Mess and company with the dogs. I’m pretty sure my friend still has his. Was a cool poster.

 

[SopelFanThe3rd]

What are some annoying or interesting things certain players would do?

Ie. Bertuzzi always going a mile off side and then chastising the ref after.

Morrison taking a weak stick infraction every game and then complaining ever so mildly every time.

Read this as fandom

Read this as femdom.

I wish I still had my VPD poster of Mess and company with the dogs. I’m pretty sure my friend still has his. Was a cool poster.

Didn't the Canucks do a fire fighter group shot in the Bure years too?

 

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What are some annoying or interesting things certain players would do?

Ie. Bertuzzi always going a mile off side and then chastising the ref after.

Morrison taking a weak stick infraction every game and then complaining ever so mildly every time.


Read this as femdom.

Read this

 

[SopelFanThe3rd]

Never mind I was thinking of the steel workers or whatever

 

[SopelFanThe3rd]

Wow I just learned Tocchet has rhe most Gordie How Hat Tricks of all time with 18.

 

[kcunac]

the 1989 series with the flames.

 

[SopelFanThe3rd]

Let's discuss Bryan Helmer.

Also Scott Lachance. I really liked him.

Helmer looked like a 45 year old chain smoker who worked in a shop when he was like 29.

 

[SopelFanThe3rd]

I had no idea Lachance played over 800 games.

 

[RobertKron]

Let's discuss Bryan Helmer.

Also Scott Lachance. I really liked him.

Helmer looked like a 45 year old chain smoker who worked in a shop when he was like 29.

Bryan Helmer and Michael Chaput were teammates. Boone Jenner as well. Dude was an AHL legend. Not sure how many guys play to like 40 without ever staying out of the AHL for a full season.

I had no idea Lachance played over 800 games.

Dude had like a decade in the NHL by the time he was a Canuck.

 

[SopelFanThe3rd]

Bryan Helmer and Michael Chaput were teammates. Boone Jenner as well. Dude was an AHL legend. Not sure how many guys play to like 40 without ever staying out of the AHL for a full season.


Dude had like a decade in the NHL by the time he was a Canuck.

For some reason I thought the Isles drafted him or his career started in the mid 90s