Spec
05.20.11 | Holy shit. |
Athom
05.20.11 | nice |
wabbit
05.20.11 | in before weakerthans reference |
AngelofDeath
05.20.11 | Are you fucking serious? We have no hockey team anymore?
Fuck Canada. |
omnipanzer
05.20.11 | But it's Canada. |
pizzamachine
05.20.11 | OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH CAAAAAAAAANNNNNNAAAAAAAAADDDDDAAAAAAAAAAA!!! |
bloc
05.20.11 | I love my fucking Canada but God damn it Manitoba is like the most forgettable province |
Spec
05.20.11 | Which is why they need something to do, like go to hockey games. |
bloc
05.20.11 | Yeah true. This may be a good thing... |
mallen-
05.20.11 | http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=6568200
this was at 10:45 (for us on the east coast) |
Spec
05.20.11 | Think about it, they would sell out every game. |
Satellite
05.20.11 | it's not a done deal...
http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=6568200
it sounds like it's a formality at this point, though. |
Spec
05.20.11 | Yeah I heard all that shit, i'm being optimistic. Atlanta doesn't need a team anyways. |
Satellite
05.20.11 | oh damnit mike |
Spec
05.20.11 | Hey Satty 1 is a pretty good listen although their band page is a mess. You should check it out. |
Satellite
05.20.11 | i'm guessing the jets join the northwest, the wild move to the central, and the preds switch conferences and end up replacing the thrashers in the southeast. that's would make the most sense from a regional standpoint. |
mallen-
05.20.11 | i think one of the proposals was to move the blue jackets or wings to the east |
Satellite
05.20.11 | yeah, i tried lining it up that way. as much as i'd like to see the wings play in the east, it doesn't really work out. |
mallen-
05.20.11 | i would nottt like to see that haha
my rangers have enough trouble with just the atlantic |
Spec
05.20.11 | Wings should probably be in the East. |
Satellite
05.20.11 | http://oi52.tinypic.com/24d2bue.jpg
i don't think there's any way they could make a better alignment than that. having the wild play in the northwest is retarded anyway. |
omnipanzer
05.20.11 | "I love my fucking Canada but God damn it Manitoba is like the most forgettable province"
Quebec would be if they let you. |
Spec
05.20.11 | hahaha |
bloc
05.20.11 | Quebec pretends they don't need us |
IndolentIdealist
05.20.11 | Nah, they should keep the Wild in the NW. Move Nashville to the Southeast, Dallas in the Central,
Colorado to the Pacific, and Winnipeg to the Northwest. I feel that makes the most sense.
And my condolences go out to all Thrasher fans. I was once a Whalers fan myself. This is horrible
news. Au revoir Atlanta. |
MalleusMaleficarum
05.20.11 | taking Dallas out of the southeast is retarded in terms of travel |
MalleusMaleficarum
05.20.11 | yeah i said southeast but u know what i meant |
Satellite
05.20.11 | look at the image i posted, indolent. it makes infinitely more sense than your proposal. |
MalleusMaleficarum
05.20.11 | this story is the tits ! |
Aids
05.20.11 | except they probably won't be called the Jets, which is beyond retarded. I mean, the Winnipeg Trashers? Pass.
Thrashing is not something to be proud of. It's something that you do when you're down and out and have no option left but to wildly flail your limbs in random directions. They might as well just name the team the Winnipeg Epileptics. |
MalleusMaleficarum
05.20.11 | Winnipeg Bedroomoshers |
Aids
05.20.11 | "Manitoba is like the most forgettable province"
Saskatchewan. So forgettable that you didn't even think about it when deciding what the most forgettable province is.
Late afternoon, another day is nearly done.
A darker gray is breaking through a lighter one. |
Spec
05.20.11 | Sounds like life over here. |
Satellite
05.20.11 | aids: a thrasher is a raptor (bird of prey) prominent in georgia. hence the name.
what makes you think they won't be called the jets? |
Spec
05.20.11 | The fans wouldn't allow that. Didn't the Cleveland Browns do the same thing? |
Satellite
05.20.11 | yeah. in the mid-nineties the browns moved to baltimore and became the ravens. cleveland got an expansion team a few years later and named them the browns. |
Satellite
05.20.11 | also the current ottawa senators are the second incarnation of that nickname. |
Spec
05.20.11 | Even though that's the shittiest name ever, props to the fans for staying with tradition. |
Spec
05.20.11 | And the Leafs right?? It's not like they went that long without winning a cup!
Oh... |
Aids
05.20.11 | "what makes you think they won't be called the jets?"
I dunno, here-say I guess. When I think about it there isn't a good reason why they wouldn't, the guy at my work is just an idiot. He seriously talked for 30 minutes straight today about the Victoria Cougars (later became the Detroit Falcons, then the Red Wings). It was interesting for about 5 minutes then I just wanted to rape his face.
"a thrasher is a raptor (bird of prey) prominent in georgia. hence the name."
that makes it a bit better, but it's still a terrible name for a team. you wouldn't call a team The Boobies after the bird. Like, that's an extreme case obviously, but 99% of the world thinks of, well, thrashing when they hear "Thrashers," not a badass bird. |
Spec
05.20.11 | that makes it a bit better, but it's still a terrible name for a team. you wouldn't call a team The Boobies after the bird. Like, that's an extreme case obviously, but 99% of the world thinks of, well, thrashing when they hear "Thrashers," not a badass bird.
As hilarious as that comment was, I think the two are totally separate. |
mothercountry
05.20.11 | go canucks |
Aids
05.20.11 | go canucks [infinity]
Ben Eager is a sack of shit |
Satellite
05.20.11 | yeah, it's def a shitty name. along with the predators and wild. the blue jackets is a ballsy name at least. fuck their original wasp logo, though. that was so dumb. |
Satellite
05.20.11 | Ben Eager is a sack of shit [infinity +1] |
mothercountry
05.20.11 | eager can burn in hell. |
Spec
05.20.11 | YES! Sputnik approved a few of my Knucklehead edits! Now the page doesn't look like a steaming pile of shit. |
Aids
05.20.11 | Satellite did you watch Game 2 last night? I've never hated a hockey play more than I hate Ben Eager right now.
Well, maybe Jeremy Roenick. What a dumb motherfucker that guy was (is). |
Aids
05.20.11 | player* |
Satellite
05.20.11 | i feel so bad for thrashers fans. obviously atl isn't a hockey hotbed, but i can only imagine how crushed i'd be if i lost my team. |
Satellite
05.20.11 | yeah i did aids.
he was a sack of shit vs. the wings, too. |
mothercountry
05.20.11 | there are very few things worse in life than losing your local pro team. *still devastated sonics fan* |
Aids
05.20.11 | I feel really bad for ATL fans too. I would lose my shit if the Canucks moved. I mean, I don't really feel that bad, it's their own damn fault for never showing up to games, but it still sucks for the dedicated few they did have. |
Satellite
05.20.11 | hockey players i've hated over the years...
claude lemieux (obvious)
paul kariya
cindy
patrick roy
chris pronger
joe thornton
jordin tootoo
matt cooke
eric lindros
scott stevens |
Satellite
05.20.11 | especially now that the thunder (fucking dumb name) are one of the best teams in the nba |
Satellite
05.20.11 | it has more to do with the incompetent ownership than it does the fanbase. i mean, pittsburgh almost lost the pens not too long ago under similar circumstances. |
mothercountry
05.20.11 | it's usually the owners. one day i believe there will be an nba+nhl team in seattle. |
Spec
05.20.11 | Rather surprised there hasn't been one yet.
|
mothercountry
05.20.11 | yeah, kinda weird there's never been an nhl team in seattle. we do have a functioning arena as of right now. but real progress will be made when a new one is promised to be built-- |
Aids
05.20.11 | oooooooooooooooooooooooo my god I forgot about Chris Pronger
never mind Ben Eager is second, a distant distant distant second, to Chris Pronger. He's lucky he's at least Canadian or I would hunt down each member of his family and shit in their mouths and then piss in their eyes while he watched, gagged and tied to a chair. I would then curbstomp them all individually and angle their heads so that their brains explode onto Chris's face. I would then starve him to death, occasionally beating him to the threshold of death, but refusing to end his life.
Holy shit I need to stop watching Martyrs.
Best.
Movie.
Ever. |
mothercountry
05.20.11 | i really hope i see eager get his shit kicked in before this series is over. |
Satellite
05.20.11 | abdelkader fought him in the last round. it wasn't a very good fight, though. |
ShadowRemains
05.20.11 | if eager goes out and hurts someone in the next game, i'm gonna lose it....satty might know a guy named claude
lemieux |
Satellite
05.20.11 | kill him immediately and we'll find out if it's the right guy later |
ShadowRemains
05.20.11 | also, dale hunter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xte-Vtxg-m8
perhaps the most vicious elbow i've ever seen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vyhbdz14U8 |
Satellite
05.20.11 | hunter for sure.
somehow i forgot ulf sammuelsson. motherfucker ended neely's career. |
ShadowRemains
05.20.11 | chelios...sorry satty, but that hit on propp was one of the cheapest things i've ever seen
kudos to hextall for laying the can of whoop-ass on him |
Satellite
05.20.11 | haha.
cheli is hated by all non-wings fans. it's funny because he used to be the most hated player among wings fans before being traded to detroit. |
ShadowRemains
05.20.11 | bryan marchment was pretty bad, as is matt cooke |
IndolentIdealist
05.21.11 | Actually MalleusMaleficarum, moving Dallas to the Central would be good for them in terms of travel.
Know your divisions. They're in the Pacific Division currently.
The reason the new team probably won't be called the Jets is because the Coyotes still hold the rights
to that name.
Oh and Thrashers aren't even a bird of prey. They're a songbird. |
Satellite
05.21.11 | http://oi52.tinypic.com/24d2bue.jpg
it'd be about the same. this would make way more sense than moving the stars to the central. |
Jash
05.21.11 | one of the guys who is a part owner of the thrashers is also a part owner of the globe & mail so that's probly why the story ran, but it's not a done deal yet. i think it would be great for winnipeg, theres more Jets fans there now then when they actually had a team. also "Are you fucking serious? We have no hockey team anymore?
Fuck Canada."
dude if it werent for Canada you wouldnt have hockey so suck it up |
Satellite
05.21.11 | if not for america you wouldn't have electricity or democracy or pornography or designer drugs |
Jash
05.21.11 | i grow all the drugs i need in my back yard, dont need none of that designer shietttttt |
Aids
05.21.11 | "or democracy"
lol, yeah, democracy never would have happened without 'merica. I love you Satellite but you yanks PISS ME OFF
jk go Red Wings
jk jk go Canucks |
Satellite
05.21.11 | SHARKS IN 4 |
Aids
05.21.11 | dude I can't believe we took 10 minor penalties today. I couldn't watch the game cause I was working but some of those calls HAD to have been bullshit. Also, Erhoff might be done and Rome definitely is.
Fuck
My
Life
BUT WE SHALL PREVAILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
CAUSE THAT'S WHAT CHAMPIONS DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoo |
Satellite
05.21.11 | the sharks are a different team at home. i think the canucks will definitely take the series in 6 or 7, though.
niemi hasn't impressed me at all through 3 games.
we coulda used that shit about a week ago. |
IndolentIdealist
05.21.11 | The Shark Tank is a crazy arena to play in, no doubt. Absolutely insane atmosphere. Ah, and my fault
for being bitter in my last post. Supposedly, Winnipeg will be staying in the SE next season. |
Satellite
05.21.11 | where are you hearing that? that would make no sense whatsoever. |
IndolentIdealist
05.22.11 | The NHL doesn't have enough time to restructure the divisions and make a schedule. Saw it on TSN a while ago. They'll change divisions around the year after next. |
Satellite
05.22.11 | i can see the scheduling conflict being an issue. seems like something they could make work, though. |
IndolentIdealist
05.22.11 | I know, you'd think that lol, but it's a lot of work. The deal selling Atlanta to Winnipeg won't be official until the NHL Board approves it. Then they'll have to talk about division realignments and making a new schedule. Plus, a lot of arenas around the league are shared with other sports teams. The Bank Atlantic Center here in Florida belongs solely to the Panthers, but they host a variety of concerts and events all the time.
All of this coming so late in the year doesn't leave them with enough time to sort things out. It'd be easier to just leave Winnipeg in the SE for a year. Though it is around 1600 miles away from Atlanta. Traveling is going to suck next year. |
mothercountry
05.22.11 | Canucks are rippin it up. |
ShadowRemains
05.23.11 | 3 straight two man adv goals, i don't think i have ever seen that... |