News and Notes XVI: RF's Vision Quest

[bleedgreen]

Carry on Louden Swain.

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[bleedgreen]

I wish they showed it here, but he wears garbage bags while he's running to make weight. In the book anyways. I haven't watched the movie in years.

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

My dad wrestled in high school.

 

[drganon]

I watched some wcw and wwf back in the 90s.

 

[DaveG]

Seriously, that movie's absolutely legendary. Must watch.

 

[geehaad]

Ok, I'll embrace the off-topic...I wrestled through 9th grade. Through 5th, I got pretty good at soccer until I moved 10 miles outside of the city, where they didn't offer soccer, and all of the "popular" boys wrestled. Looking back, I've always resented that about the rural school system. At the end of my freshman year, I moved to a city in a different state where it was decidedly unpopular to wrestle, and because I sucked anyway, I stopped. My experience has always caused me to think of it as a very rural sport, therefore it's best days are well behind it, but gotta give respect to guys who are good at it.

When's the draft start, again...? ;-)

 

[DaveG]

Way too long from now.

T-minus 10 days to get Foegele, Wesley, and Jenkins under contract.

 

[geehaad]

I'm excited about Foegele. No idea about his skill, but love his speed and aggressiveness.

 

[bleedgreen]

Tweaked the title to make it closer to "on topic". Here's to hoping RF finds some good peyote and conjures up a way to find a goalie.

Don't like it when they wait till the end to get it done. Foegele should've been done already.

 

[DaveG]

Yep, Foegele should have been done within a couple days of Kingston getting eliminated IMHO. Not sure why the wait or the holdup.

 

[CandyCanes]

Per Luke Decock - Joni Pitkanen is joining the Hurricanes as a scout.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

Play for the hurricanes - get a job for life.

 

[Joe McGrath]

Probably just as cost effective to have Joni watch Saarela and the Finnish junior league than to fly someone out there a bunch of times a season. Though whoever found Aho certainly was doing a good enough job.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Very possible that Joni was involved in finding Aho, since he's a Karpat guy.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

voyageur is my new favorite poster

 

[drganon]

voyageur is my new favorite poster

Hes a slightly more intelligent version of tackla.

 

[DaveG]

Well, he knows (to a point) when it's time to say "enough" for a bit, so he's definitely got that going for him over our other friend there.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

Aho just got a diving penalty. He's gonna fit in just fine here.

 

[DougieSmash]

bilpeto is good

 

[Sens1Canes2]

Team Canada, champions of the world.

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

While I was at work last nite, some guy at my bar I was talking to told me that Selänne, while very good, was not a great player because, after his 76 goal rookie season, he never came close to 70 again, even though he played 21 seasons...

Still trying to wrap my head around how stupid that is.

 

[tarheelhockey]

T-minus 10 days to get Foegele, Wesley, and Jenkins under contract.

Think we'll sign Wesley?

 

[Finnish Jerk Train]

Not sure if this belongs here or in the Aho thread, but this is quite possibly Luke's most chipper piece about the Canes in years:

http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/luke-decock/article79181892.html

 

[The Faulker 27]

Not sure if this belongs here or in the Aho thread, but this is quite possibly Luke's most chipper piece about the Canes in years:

http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/luke-decock/article79181892.html

Oh you mean DeCock.