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D.D.
Joined: 29 May 2008
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| What a game. Wow the save off Wellwood. |
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robot
Joined: 07 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Spike wrote: |
Now they have a superstar goalie -albeit shaky since the injury - and a questionable offense and VERY suspect defense.
Maybe next decade Canuckleheads.. maybe next decade... |
It's clear that you have no idea what you're talking about. |
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Johnysuth
Joined: 17 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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| lol @ sports fans who refer to their team in the first person, e.g. 'all WE need to do is get another player and WE'll be in'. unless you're ON the team or somehow manage the team, your favorite sports team has nothing to do with 'you'. |
Your right that is stupid. In fact the only thing stupider is people that use internet slang like LOL.
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D.D.
Joined: 29 May 2008
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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| 3-0 canucks after only one period against Ottawa . Go canucks |
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crusher_of_heads
Joined: 23 Feb 2007
Location: kimbop and kimchi for kimberly!!!!
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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| D.D. wrote: |
| 3-0 canucks after only one period against Ottawa . Go canucks |
No surprise-first game back for Ottawa after their 5-0-1 roadtrip. I would expect Ottawa to beat Montreal Saturday, and Vancouver to beat Toronto Saturday.
now 4-0
and yes, Canucks are making the playoffs. I picked the Ducks at the start of the year as the odd team out of the picture after game 82 |
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meangradin
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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| lol @ sports fans who refer to their team in the first person, e.g. 'all WE need to do is get another player and WE'll be in'. unless you're ON the team or somehow manage the team, your favorite sports team has nothing to do with 'you'. |
IMO, people who critisize the use of the collective first person subject pronoun are not really in to watching sports, and don't really understand the zeal and passion some fans display for their respective teams. However, the simple answer is time. Allow me to demonstrate:
I have been a Canuck fan since '82, around the time my family moved to Canada from New Zealand. The first thing that I identified with in Canada was hockey. I vividly remember going to my first BCJHL game and being blown away by the various dimensions of hockey; the speed, the grace, the raw savagery (remember, we are talking about the early 80's hockey here, so it was a gladiator like environment). Suffice to say, it was the start of a life long love affair.
Of course, I started to cheer for the local pro team, the Canucks. ( I have never understood how you can grow up in one market, but cheer for another team - it's like having a child, but loving another person's child more.) For the next 27 years, I avidly followed the Canucks; planning my activities around the games, watching every game on TV, listening to the radio if the game was not on TV, buying merchandise, reading and debating every issue related to the team, like draft history, trades, blah blah blah. After a certain amount of time, "they" simply became a "we" as I had invested so much time and energy in to the team, that the team felt like apart of me.
You may ask, why bother avidly supporting a team in any sport? My take on this is that life is rather dull for the most part, so we look for ways to add a little excitement. By picking a team, it's like you are placing a bet, year in and year out; the whole "hope springs eternal" thing. I used to love watching the "Jays," and when they finally won the World Series, it was so much sweeter for me as a long time fan.
But back to the OP's question, with the nice little run of 7-1, if the Canucks go 14-10, which seems likely, they should make the playoffs with 94 pts. |
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ernie
Joined: 05 Aug 2006
Location: asdfghjk
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| Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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don't get me wrong, i enjoy watching sports as much as the next guy. however, i reserve the use of 'we' for situations where i'm actually a part of said group.
i also fail to grasp the uniform fetish that infects so many hardcore sports fans. i guess having grown up in leaf land made me appreciate a good game regardless of who's playing. i was in a bar watching game 7 of the oilers/carolina series and couldn't believe how many people left immediately after the final buzzer! real hockey fans stick around for the cup ceremony. besides, rod brindamour is as canadian as you can get. |
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D.D.
Joined: 29 May 2008
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| Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2009 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes Canucks win and Dallas and Columbus lose. Way to go Sundin-thats got to hurt in TO |
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meangradin
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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| the Sundin ending to the leaf game just writes itself |
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robot
Joined: 07 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 4:30 am Post subject: |
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| the Sundin ending to the leaf game just writes itself |
In sorting through reportage from a variety of papers and mags on that game, that journalistic angle invariably popped up: "the ending wrote itself", "storybook ending", "as if scripted by the NHL", etc.
Hard to avoid such a cliched line when it's so true, I guess. A great game, at any rate. |
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meangradin
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 5:08 am Post subject: |
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meangradin
Joined: 10 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 5:33 am Post subject: |
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| in sorting through reportage from a variety of papers and mags on that game, that journalistic angle invariably popped up: "the ending wrote itself", "storybook ending", "as if scripted by the NHL", etc. |
Yeah, you got me there. After scanning a few different websites, they were all using the same hackneyed descriptions. Perhaps not surprising considering the endless cliches the players spout off . Does anyone else feel that most sports journalism has become rather prosaic . |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 7:24 am Post subject: |
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The Canuckleheads are looking good. 
They are the hottest team in the NHL right now I believe. |
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D.D.
Joined: 29 May 2008
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| Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Refs calls in this game? |
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blurgalurgalurga
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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| in sorting through reportage from a variety of papers and mags on that game, that journalistic angle invariably popped up: "the ending wrote itself", "storybook ending", "as if scripted by the NHL", etc. |
Yeah, you got me there. After scanning a few different websites, they were all using the same hackneyed descriptions. Perhaps not surprising considering the endless cliches the players spout off . Does anyone else feel that most sports journalism has become rather prosaic? |
I only read hockey sports journalism mostly, and yeah, it's pretty weak. But that may be mostly because the money isn't really there for people who cover that sport, and the best writers probably gravitate towards the bigger payouts they'd get in reportin basketball or baseball or football, or in the rest of the world, soccer; or, maybe it's that the most talented ones mostly get into tv jobs rather than print media these days. |
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