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Tsunami Red
Title: Maniacal Tactician
Joined: Jul 06 2008
Location: Metro Toronto
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Any hockey nuts here on this forum? (Canadians, I'm eyeing you)
I'll throw out some topics:
- Burke vs. Lowe - a bunch of whiner boys
- NYR - Sather still overspending on overrated, washed-up players...guy just doesn't learn
- Leafs - just hired an assistant to the GM...a guy who could take faceoffs better than any other player currently on the roster
So...anyone?
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Ross Rifle
Title: Rock N Roll God
Joined: Oct 29 2006
Location: Chilliwack, BC
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Just because I'm Canadian doesn't mean...yeah, I love hockey. And yes, I am a Canucks fan. 
Fuck the Rangers, and fuck Anaheim, they took our boys...
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S. McCracken
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Title: Enforcer
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: Massachusetts
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Kubo
Joined: Aug 24 2005
Location: Mount Holly, NJ
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I'm not Canadian, but I have played with and against several Canadians, and I do love the game.
Played goal in high school and college. Still play every once in a while, but I really miss *real* competition. Men's league is weak.
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Thou, because I am wroth, be not dismayed, for I shall win the strife, whoever circle round within for the defence. This their insolence is not new, for of old they used it at a less secret gate, which still is found without a bolt. Above it thou didst see the dead inscription; and already on this side of it
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Adrenaline
Title: Local Canadian!
Joined: Jun 18 2007
Location: Nova Scotia, Canadiana
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 but Im also from Nova Scotia, so we dont have a NHL team  So Ive been a Leafs fan my whole life. 
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SSNintendo
Title: Likes to Blow Sh*t Up
Joined: Oct 14 2006
Location: Virginia
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Full time Caps fan; part time Avalanche fan.
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Ross Rifle
Title: Rock N Roll God
Joined: Oct 29 2006
Location: Chilliwack, BC
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The Capitals have fans??? 
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SSNintendo
Title: Likes to Blow Sh*t Up
Joined: Oct 14 2006
Location: Virginia
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Some of them are probably bandwagon fans, but yes they do have fans.
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Tsunami Red
Title: Maniacal Tactician
Joined: Jul 06 2008
Location: Metro Toronto
Posts: 171
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I'm not Canadian, but I have played with and against several Canadians, and I do love the game.
Played goal in high school and college. Still play every once in a while, but I really miss *real* competition. Men's league is weak. |
Really? Where I live, there are always those few players in my lower division who really belong in a higher one....racking up points like no tomorrow.
I'll probably play during the fall season...
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| but Im also from Nova Scotia, so we dont have a NHL team So Ive been a Leafs fan my whole life. |
I can tell you, there are plenty of Leaf haters, even in Toronto.
Such a dysfunctional organization, I really hope they tank this upcoming season and get the number one draft pick, haha.
My money's still on Pittsburgh.
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| Some of them are probably bandwagon fans, but yes they do have fans. |
More likely to come across them than a Preds fan. 
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Ross Rifle
Title: Rock N Roll God
Joined: Oct 29 2006
Location: Chilliwack, BC
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Good point, who the fuck watches hockey in Nashville??
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Knyte
2010 SLF Tag Champ*
Title: Curator Of The VGM
Joined: Nov 01 2006
Location: Here I am.
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I've been to a few WHL games. We have the Portland Winterhawks who use to be an awesome team back in the late 90s. Now they kinda suck,
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Kubo
Joined: Aug 24 2005
Location: Mount Holly, NJ
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| Tsunami Red wrote: |
Really? Where I live, there are always those few players in my lower division who really belong in a higher one....racking up points like no tomorrow. |
Yeah... don't get me wrong, hockey is hockey- but men's league just seems a little less important than what I was playing for in high school and college. I guess I felt a little more pride with my school on my sweater as opposed to some made up semi-clever name. As for the men's leaguers who rack up points in lower level leagues then they should be in... yeah, they're everywhere, and are pains in the asses. I try to play in the highest level men's league on a regular roster (around here, it's called B+ league), but since I'm a goaltender, I'll often fill in for goalies in the lower level leagues. People don't seem to care about that as much as forwards that score 125 goals a season by playing in a league they're too good for.
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Thou, because I am wroth, be not dismayed, for I shall win the strife, whoever circle round within for the defence. This their insolence is not new, for of old they used it at a less secret gate, which still is found without a bolt. Above it thou didst see the dead inscription; and already on this side of it
descends the steep, passing without escort through the circles,
One such that by him the city shall be opened to us. |
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Tsunami Red
Title: Maniacal Tactician
Joined: Jul 06 2008
Location: Metro Toronto
Posts: 171
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| Kubo wrote: |
| Tsunami Red wrote: |
Really? Where I live, there are always those few players in my lower division who really belong in a higher one....racking up points like no tomorrow. |
Yeah... don't get me wrong, hockey is hockey- but men's league just seems a little less important than what I was playing for in high school and college. I guess I felt a little more pride with my school on my sweater as opposed to some made up semi-clever name. As for the men's leaguers who rack up points in lower level leagues then they should be in... yeah, they're everywhere, and are pains in the asses. I try to play in the highest level men's league on a regular roster (around here, it's called B+ league), but since I'm a goaltender, I'll often fill in for goalies in the lower level leagues. People don't seem to care about that as much as forwards that score 125 goals a season by playing in a league they're too good for. |
In the league I play for, some of the team names are obviously tongue-in-cheek humour, like "Metro Sexuals", "Dingle Berries", "Blue Balls", "Big Tings", "WTF", and so on.
That's one advantage to playing goal - having the chance to sub for other games. More games for the same pay. And in my league, equipment is provided for the goalies.
Another thing that's annoying? Excessively physical players in non-contact leagues. Fuck 'em.
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