Tell us a team's entire history in the form of a Haiku

[VanIslander]

Inspired by a similar thread about a team's recent past, I thought a hockey HISTORY version would be apt.

Just a simple story of a team's entire history, in only three lines.

How to haiku:

The poem is three lines long.
The first line is 5 syllables.
The second line is 7 syllables.
The third line is 5 syllables.
Does not need to rhyme.

Go.

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[VanIslander]

Forum built for them
Old Poison Harts and two cups
Hooley! Baldy!... bye.

 

[VanIslander]

Burch, Dutton, Schriner
Worters 'n Anderson Hart
No cup forever

 

[VanIslander]

King! towels to twins
cap'n Kirk, Smyl, Linden, Naslund,
Lu! 3 cupless runs

 

[VanIslander]

Trotz Smash D competes
Legwand to Laviolette
Erat Scoresberg! ... Shea?!

 

[sr edler]

Bure and Odjick
What legends on ice and off
So good ice melted

 

[Johnny Engine]

Conn built the Gardens
After that, embarassment
There's always next year

And to re-post from the Devils thread:
The Robinson years
Were faster and fun to watch
But people forget

And something else I wanted to post in the Devils thread, but nobody seemed to appreciate my first attempt at poetry:
Mogilny scored goals
But sometimes he didn't care
Russian enigma

 

[Johnny Engine]

Howe to Yzerman
A classy and well-run team
Forget the Dead Wings

 

[Johnny Engine]

Pittsburgh:

Often very bad
Generational players
Nothing in between

 

[VanIslander]

Awful 'til Langway.
Then 27 playoffs,
Godzilla, OV!

 

[VanIslander]

Bill's Black Knights... golden?
McPhee signs Duke, Ship, prospects,
Picks Glass, Fleury, Neal

 

[sr edler]

So much pain, oh why
From French Connection to now
Hasek, foot in crease

 

[Johnny Engine]

A Mickey Mouse team
Said the best scorer ever
So we killed offense

 

[Johnny Engine]

Moose won us a cup
It's been high paid stars since then
Who is Frank Boucher?

 

[SealsFan]

This is fun!
COLORADO ROCKIES

Aptly named, this team
They made the playoffs once though
Shoot the puck, Barry

 

[SealsFan]

WHA DENVER SPURS/OTTAWA CIVICS

You blinked, you missed them
Another midseason bust
Oh, poor Ralph Backstrom

 

[SealsFan]

OAKLAND/CALIFORNIA GOLDEN SEALS

Early promise but
Finley's clown show derailed them
I miss you, my Seals

Rarely were golden
Often tarnished, with white skates
Meloche was great though

 

[threetimer*]

Habs always beat us
Igloo too cold for Eric
Shirt too thin for him

 

[quoipourquoi]

Quack Attack is back
No one likes jade and eggplant
Pronger was cool though

 

[SealsFan]

KANSAS CITY SCOUTS

Quickly forgotten
Bad, but not the worst new team
Played in Caps' shadow

 

[SealsFan]

NEW YORK RANGERS

A long wait for Cup
Mess let the fans die happy
Beat your wife, Potvin

 

[SealsFan]

WHA BIRMINGHAM BULLS

Fight and fight some more
Hanson, Beaton, Durbano
Bilodeau punched too

 

[SealsFan]

WHA HOUSTON AEROS

Gordie and his sons
A long way from Canada
Should have made the merge

 

[SealsFan]

WHA New Jersey Knights

Ski slope for a rink
Hotel room for dressing room
Head west, flee Jersey

 

[VanIslander]

WHA BIRMINGHAM BULLS

Fight and fight some more
Hanson, Beaton, Durbano
Bilodeau punched too

Forgot Henderson?
Napier 93 goals there!
Mahovlich, Ramage