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Even The Losers Get Unlucky Sometimes

SonofSpurrier — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:04:35 EDT

nashville is shitting the bed

SonofSpurrier

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dirty foreigner — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:50:35 EDT

@Wyshynski: If I remember correctly, the Leafs eventually placed Sully on waivers to make room for... Dimitri Khristich... awful,

dirty foreigner

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Walker Told Me I Have AIDS — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:42:46 EDT

If they did the Bruins vs Rangers thing for the winter classic, ESPN would definitely buy the rights to the game and make the players wear Yankees and Sox uniforms.

Walker Told Me I Have AIDS

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Afino — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:39:20 EDT

It's gotten so bad with defenseman injuries in Buffalo that our leading scorer (Pominville) is next in line to play D!

I can't wait for the last 11 games!

Afino

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Canadian Impostor — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:13:53 EDT

@Dany Heatley Speedwagon: Ahhh Joe Nieuwendyk and Patrick Lalime, back when the world made sense.

Canadian Impostor

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kayceebk — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:07:02 EDT

@Wyshynski: What are you talking about? Randy McKay became a goal-scoring opti. . . oh.

kayceebk

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Wyshynski — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:59:36 EDT

@kayceebk: I do miss Sully. I hated putting him that trade, but at the same time was super stoked that Gilmour was coming to the Devils. (Dave Traffic Cone, not so much).

That was before Jacques Lemaire choked the offensive life out of Dougie and his teammates.

Wyshynski

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Wyshynski — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:58:14 EDT

@Dany Heatley Speedwagon: In fairness, Lalime has been ConkBlock West this season for Chicago while Khabi's been out.

Oh, and Jeff Friesen says hi.

Wyshynski

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kayceebk — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:51:47 EDT

And as a Devs fan, tell me you don't miss Sully. That little guy was awesome.

kayceebk

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Patchy Drizzle — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:35:28 EDT

@Al Czerviks Ride on the WMU Bronco Bandwagon: Pain don't hurt.

Patchy Drizzle

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Dany Heatley Speedwagon — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:34:49 EDT

@Dany Heatley Speedwagon: *I think we all know

/fuck douchnozzle

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Boz — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:28:20 EDT

@Wyshynski: Reminds me of the old joke about the guy who appears in front of a judge, petitioning the court for a name change. The judge asks "So what's your name?" The man replies "Zigmundzolipapanko, your honour." "Whew," says the judge. "I can see why you want to change it. What would you like to change it to then?" "Ziggyzolipapanko," says the man.

Boz

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the sieve — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:27:32 EDT

@the sieve: Yeesh, lay off the "submit comment" button until you're finished, buddy.

Also: Iain MacIntyre is awesome.

the sieve

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Dany Heatley Speedwagon — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:25:44 EDT

That picture is an obvious photoshop. I think we all that isn't a beachball behind Dan Cloutier... it's supposed to be a beachball behind Patrick Lalime.

/Fuck Joe Nieuwendyk

Dany Heatley Speedwagon

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the sieve — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:23:42 EDT

Cloutier had to go back to El Segundo to get his wallet.

If he'd had it, he wouldn't have been stuck flying economy to Colorado and staying in the Super 8. (Ouch.)

the sieve

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War Penguin — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:16:31 EDT

@Wyshynski: I figured. And hey, you can't make an omelet without making a few eggs. But I decided I might as well take the opportunity pimp EN. (No, I'm not associated with it in any way; I just read it.)

@The Curse of Harold Ballard's Bunker: Ouch. Now that's just twisting the knife.

War Penguin

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blastitbiggs — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:16:02 EDT

EA NHL '98 scoring summary:

"It started with a pass ..."

(various players mentioned in this space)

"and ends in the back of the net "

blastitbiggs

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Wyshynski — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:14:42 EDT

@The Curse of Harold Ballard's Bunker: The worst was actually a review of my book that referred to me as "Bob Wyshinski," thus spelling my last name wrong and calling me by my father's first name.

This is why, when I was a kid, I wanted to change my name to the single-moniker "Xavier." Well, that and so people would call me "X."

Wyshynski

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kayceebk — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:14:08 EDT

@GreatOdensRaven: and we were singing:
Bye, bye Mr. "Royal We" Guy
Met with Sean Salisbury and he didn't say why
Them Closer boys are drinkin' Molson and Rye
Saying "This'll be the day the shootout dies."
"This'll be the day the shootout dies."

kayceebk

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Robert Barone’s Dog — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:10:31 EDT

@Wyshynski: It seems it has also conquered my ability to post youtube links.

Robert Barone’s Dog

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GreatOdensRaven — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:07:49 EDT

@Wyshynski: I was a lonely teenage bouncin' puck
With an old Jets jersey of Keith Tkachuk,
But I knew Dan Cloutier could still suck
The Day The NHL Closer Conquered the Deadspin Front Page.

GreatOdensRaven

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Boz — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:07:01 EDT

@Wyshynski: Greggg Westerbrookskee?

Boz

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Robert Barone’s Dog — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:06:48 EDT

@Robert Barone's Dog: Huh! I guess I officially suck today.

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Robert Barone’s Dog — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:05:41 EDT

@Robert Barone's Dog:

Not sure what happened. It should've been a youtube link.

Robert Barone’s Dog

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Wyshynski — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:03:45 EDT

@Wyshynski: I'd like to add that getting the name of a blog wrong hurts me, because it reminds me of all those times my self-Googling failed because someone praised the writing of Gregg Wyshansky.

Wyshynski

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Wyshynski — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:02:09 EDT

@War Penguin: Oops, sorry about that. I read'em both, actually. Seth does a great job on Empty Netters.

I am teh suck. But I suppose a snafu like this is expected The Day The NHL Closer Conquered the Deadspin Front Page.

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Robert Barone’s Dog — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:57:04 EDT

So let's look at the bright side of life:

I'm going to leave if you make me whistle.

Robert Barone’s Dog

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Boz — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:56:08 EDT

Makes up for lack of originality with loud repetition.

Story of my life.

Boz

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Lanny's Mustache Rides — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:49:03 EDT

@Lanny's Mustache Rides: 'as' not 'what'. Behold, I'm writing at a Sean Avery level here people.

Lanny's Mustache Rides

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War Penguin — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:48:36 EDT

@Wyshynski: The blog you linked to is The Empty Netter. Empty Netters is here. Just sayin'.

War Penguin

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Summer-of-George — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:48:18 EDT

@Al Czerviks Ride on the WMU Bronco Bandwagon:

True, but it's split more like 6,000 Avs fans, 6,000 Detriot fans, 6,000 who don't know anything about hockey but it's Avs-Detriot so what the hell....and 7 monkeys.

Summer-of-George

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Lanny's Mustache Rides — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:44:43 EDT

@Wyshynski: Cloutier is to goaltending, what the Arizona Cardinals are to football.

Lanny's Mustache Rides

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Wyshynski — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:42:19 EDT

@Rob Iracane: I see myself as more of a John Kennedy Toole, only less talented and more breathing.

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Al Czerviks Ride — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:41:45 EDT

@Summer-of-George: And with the Wings in town, 8,000 are Wings fans, but point made...

Al Czerviks Ride

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GreatOdensRaven — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:38:49 EDT

@Wyshynski: Leitch enjoys Dan Cloutier as much as he enjoys hockey in general.

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Summer-of-George — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:38:32 EDT

@Al Czerviks Ride on the WMU Bronco Bandwagon:

Ha, only holds 18,007...but I would be willing to be hit if I got to keep the puck.

Summer-of-George

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McCroskey — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:36:07 EDT

@crazyjoedavola: If a tree falls in the woods and doesn't somehow involve, no matter how nebulous, the Yankees and Red Sox, does it really happen?

/ESPN memo

McCroskey

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strong like bull smart like tractor — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:34:53 EDT

+1 for the Spud reference. Midway through the 3rd, I was convinced that Cloutier would come away with the shutout. If that had happened, the Canucks should just have disbanded out of shame.

strong like bull smart like tractor

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Wyshynski — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:31:49 EDT

The Closer disappeared for me for about 20 minutes. I was really worried Leitch was a closet Dan Cloutier fan there for a second.

Wyshynski

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GreatOdensRaven — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:18:50 EDT

@crazyjoedavola: Yeah, if it isn't the Isles, Devils, or Flyers against the Rangers - it's just another NHL game.

Or they could just bring in Pittsburgh and fellate Crosby some more.

GreatOdensRaven

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Rob Iracane — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:13:37 EDT

@Wyshynski: Don't blame the kerning, James Joyce.

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Doyle McPoyle — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:12:12 EDT

When I was little, there was a rumor that if you shattered the glass in NHL '94 when that annoying punkass kid put his face up to it every now and then, they gave him an injury report with "Kid - Out For Season (face)". I tried for hours on end to pull that off, but alas, I don't think that's legit.

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crazyjoedavola — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:10:46 EDT

The Rangers and Bruins havent been rivals since Phil Epsosito and Brad Park. Isles-Rangers would fill up that dump in the Bronx, and there would be some real edge to the game. For the 50,000 lunatics who prefer to freeze their ass off watching a hockey game outdoors in January. No sir!

crazyjoedavola

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Al Czerviks Ride — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:10:23 EDT

Now if we could just get that to happen to the other 19,999 Avalanche fans at those games, we would be set.

Al Czerviks Ride

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kayceebk — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:10:22 EDT

Phaneuf is the only guy on that "current players" list with any discernible hockey skill.

At least when the Devs have pests, they can play. See: Claude the Fraud

kayceebk

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Big Jim Slade — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:07:06 EDT

To be fair to Andre Roy, smelling salts do make people a little cranky.

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Tuffy — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:06:50 EDT

I ordered the tangy medallion at Ponderosa last week and it wasn't tangy at all. Or meat.

Does Andre Roy not own any cufflinks or did he deposit them in Martin Biron's colon?

Tuffy

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Stev D — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:06:08 EDT

Hockey is a metaphor for life. Specifically, the part of life where you skate around on ice trying to get the puck past a goalie.

Stev D

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ghostsoftheSCupcountry — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:05:35 EDT

It's not a good thing when the hyperlinks are longer than the actual addresses.

Wot, no jump?

ghostsoftheSCupcountry

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Rock You Like An Iracane — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:04:34 EDT

So they wrote 4,382,972 words and got to the 'Ning, but no Brett Favre? Shame.

/consistently, like, four news cycles behind
/who is this Eliot Spitzer fellow?

Rock You Like An Iracane

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tater — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:04:04 EDT

Tucker Carlson is like a cockroach...you can cancel him, but he will come back with a show the next day.

tater

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UkraineNotWeak aka Praying for a Bullpen — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:04:02 EDT

@Weed Against Speed:

No more Lust for Puck.

UkraineNotWeak aka Praying for a Bullpen

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LeNoceur — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:03:56 EDT

I am so jealous. I have always wanted to throw a puck and hit Martin Rucinsky in the nose.

LeNoceur

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cardboardbelt — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:02:37 EDT

After the jump, the collected works of Proust.

cardboardbelt

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Wyshynski — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:02:24 EDT

Fuck, did they increase the font size in the Deadspin re-design? Because upon further review, and with the graphics, this thing seems to run longer than a Tolstoy rewrite of the Old Testament.

Wyshynski

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Bob Loblaw — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:01:16 EDT

Hockey post sans jump. The Versus network doesn't give the NHL this much play.

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Weed Against Speed — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:59:23 EDT

Iggy Pots career has gone steadily downhill since he fronted The Stooges.

Weed Against Speed

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Muzzo — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:59:19 EDT

No more after the jump?

Muzzo

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twoeightnine — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:56:45 EDT

You will read about hockey and you will like it.

twoeightnine