"There ought to be limits to freedom." Dubya Bush





El Kabong a écrit:Le seul espoir pour le CH est de finir dernier de la ligue...
Fans leave no cars unturned
Bruce Arthur, National Post · Friday, Sept. 24, 2010
I’m not saying that we as a nation have pretty much completely lost our collective minds when it comes to hockey. I’m not saying we are this close to becoming howling mobs of lunatics in loincloths and werewolf costumes and official NHL replica jerseys and helmets, slavering through our streets, shattering storefronts with slapshots, yelling “CAR!” before overturning cars. I’m not saying Don Cherry is this country’s hockey version of Glenn Beck.
No, I’m not saying all of these things, because I feel if I do then the howling slavering mobs will come, brandishing their sticks and their torches and their great oversized foam fingers, and overturn me. And I am afraid.
I am afraid for our nation, actually, and for those poor unfortunate professional hockey players who inhabit it, like Carey Price.
Carey Price is a taciturn young fellow who plays goal for the Montreal Canadiens, which may be the least pleasant job this country provides, unless you’re really, really good at it.
And maybe one day Price will be very good at it again, but he was not on Wednesday, and so naturally it took until the 2:17 mark of the second period of Montreal’s very first exhibition game for him to be booed.
Let’s repeat that. In the first exhibition game (a game that does not count, and will not be remembered unless somebody is seriously injured or killed) in the pre-season (not the regular season, and even the regular season is 82 games long for god’s sake, and cannot be decided by any one bad performance) Carey Price was booed within 23 minutes of the puck being dropped.
Madness.
And the metaphorical police cars are not just being torched in la belle ville, either. In Toronto, the Maple Leafs were lustily booed in their first exhibition game. In Vancouver, they have been chattering about Roberto Luongo giving up his captaincy for about two solid months, when they weren’t obsessing over the status of Cody Hodgson, who by the way has yet to play in an NHL game. In Edmonton, Sheldon Souray is a local emergency, and the Oil’s No. 1 pick, Taylor Hall, has already had his first few pre-season shifts dissected by TSN as if they were the Zapruder film.
In Ottawa, the marriage of third-liner Mike Fisher to country star Carrie Underwood is being treated like the union of Wayne and Janet; in Calgary, Olli Jokinen caught the occasional boo after taking a couple slashing penalties in a game against a team wearing Vancouver jerseys. The everyday Canucks who actually dressed for that game included Keith Ballard and, uh, Keith Ballard. That is all.
We in the media are hardly blameless, since we both feed the beast, and are a beast unto ourselves. Across the country, hockey writers are sending out Twitter play-by-play of practice scrimmages. Practice scrimmages. We are approximately one step away from offering Twitter updates of off-season workouts.
@Habsreporter: BREAKING: Hal Gill just lifted a barbell. Just eased it down. Up. Down. And you’re not going to believe this: Back up. What a warrior.
We are a nation in which Jose Bautista becomes the first Blue Jay in history to hit 50 home runs, and he does it in a 1-0 win against pretty much the best pitcher in baseball, and TSN opens SportsCentre with pre-season hockey highlights.
We are a nation in which Leafs coach Ron Wilson says draft pick Nazem Kadri will be a superstar, and the Leafs hang a large picture of Kadri in the media centre, and then the Leafs complain about the sense of entitlement that players get when playing for the Toronto Maple Leafs. We are a nation that puts Darryl Sutter in charge of a multi-million dollar budget, and keeps him there. We are a nation that boos exhibitions games, trying to ascribe meaning to the meaningless.
“We care,” you say. “It’s our game,” you shout. “WHERE IS YOUR CAR SO WE CAN TURN IT OVER AND SET IT AFIRE,” you howl, rapping your sharpened hockey stick off your NHL official replica helmet.
Look, the New York Yankees play under the kind of volcanic pressure that produces some of your more impressive mountain ranges, but if you go to watch the New York Yankees in spring training, you will immediately notice two things. One, Alex Rodriguez looks like some sort of orange-skinned robot man, and two, NOBODY BOOS.
Now, Carey Price may yet be a disaster in Montreal. He is replacing a guy who was so good in the playoffs that the local papers depicted him as Jesus, and the local fans made up stop signs with the word 'Halak’ on them. Naturally, the Canadiens then sagely traded Halak away, and threw Price to the fevered mob.
“I know expectations are raised, but is he Superman?” defenceman Josh Gorges told reporters. “Is he supposed to save everything? Breakaways, backdoor two-on-ones, shots that he can’t see.”
Evidently, yes.
“That’s just the way it is here,” Price told reporters. “It hasn’t changed in the last 50 years so I don’t see why it’s going to change in the next 50 days. It’s part of the game here. There’s nothing we can do about it but win games and make it stop.”
But you aren’t winning games yet! Win games now!
“Relax, chill out,” Price added. “We’ve got lots of time. We’re not winning the Stanley Cup in the first exhibition game.”
You’re not? WHY NOT?
Already on the verge of insanity, we are tipping over the edge. Maybe there is a reason that so many veteran players prefer U.S. markets. Maybe there is a reason no Canadian team has won a Stanley Cup since 1993. Maybe we are loving our teams to death. Maybe we should all take a step back, take a deep breath, relegate the world junior championship to local-access cable.
But we won’t. Board up your windows, while there is still time.
National Post
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Karl Charron a écrit:El Kabong a écrit:Le seul espoir pour le CH est de finir dernier de la ligue...
Bonne idée, on termine la saison dernier et on repêche Sean Couturier.
J'embarque.

Ceto a écrit:Karl Charron a écrit:El Kabong a écrit:Le seul espoir pour le CH est de finir dernier de la ligue...
Bonne idée, on termine la saison dernier et on repêche Sean Couturier.
J'embarque.
Sean Couturier ? Il y en a qui vont faire des boutons ici. Un autre américain avec le CH ? Snit va faire des boutons.
Et en plus, un qui n'arrête pas de se plaindre de son soi-disant mauvais traitement par ceux qui sont les meilleurs experts en développement de hockey, j'ai bien dit Hockey Québec, futur gestionnaire d'une équipe du Québec internationale.
Ouin. Drôle d'idée.


uobbuob a écrit:bon me vla rendu avec le prob que bb nous signalait dans son post sur une nouvelle version forum. je peux plus éditer mes msg!


"There ought to be limits to freedom." Dubya Bush

FL2094 a écrit:On sait ce qui va arriver.
Carey prive va avoir des hauts et des bas. Il va gagner un macth avec 40-45 arrêt et les fefans bipolaires vont l,adorer



El Kabong a écrit:Sondage???
Comment voter quand presque toutes les fonctions sont kapoutes?
-Incapacité à se connecter comme du monde.
-Incapacité d'éditer mes messages.
-Incapacité d'utiliser le forum comme un membre régulier.
Ce forum est de plus en plus une rigolade...

-=Cigaro=- a écrit:(...)
Tu fais la sourde oreille, El Kabong ?
T'as juste à cliquer sur "Me connecter automatiquement à chaque visite" et ça va régler tes problèmes existentiels.

Le CH va encore se battre pour la 8ième place. Immaginez si les Blues font les séries et le CH les faits pas. Quand les jorunaliste de RDS vont le lâcher ca va faire dur.
Si le CH a le malheur de ne pas faire les séries la faute va incomber à price(quand ce sera pas tout de sa faute)
(FL)




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