Looking at photo archives in pivotal moments of sporting events can be quite a bit of fun and sometimes you discover some interesting things. Here is a visual breakdown of people in Phoenix reacting to an LA Kings Western Conference Final win. Read the rest of this entry »
Tuesday’s game between the Kings and Coyotes went distinctly off the rails in overtime. It’s a byproduct of the high stakes and intensity and speed. Guys lose their tempers and it boils over after the whistle. We see scrums and jabs and slashes all the time and think much of it, but occasionally there’s a full speed hockey play that raises eyebrows.
In overtime, one whistle before Dustin Penner’s game winning goal, Dustin Brown caught Michal Rozsival coming across the blueline and made knee-on-knee contact. There was no penalty on the play despite the hit coming after an offside whistle being blown and Rozsival being carried off the ice.
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Killer flow, bro.
Competition tends to bring out the most extreme emotions we have, and those tend to be very, very volatile. Few things in said competition tend to make us go over the top than officiating we disagree with, be it hockey, basketball, football, baseball, soccer, we LOATHE a call that we disagree with and it makes us mad. This holds for players, coaches and fans and it is a rule — a law of nature. Being a referee is a job nobody should want.
We baseball fans saw a player go bonkers after a horrendous call or two when Brett Lawrie earned himself a four game seat in the stands for flipping out on Bill Miller.
From our friends at DJF
Not to be outdone, fellow youth and Toronto Blue Jays fan Drew Doughty showed off some of his “burning passion” for the game when he snapped after earning himself an interference penalty. An engineer would typically call Doughty’s enthusiasm for smashing his stick “stress testing.”
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Boom. Roasted.
Droughts are nasty business and in sports they are cringeworthy and sad. When droughts run in to one another, they just become a cruel, cruel joke.
Toronto fans are all too accustomed to the droughts upon droughts as their 43 season long Stanley Cup drought has run into their seven season long playoff drought which both fall under the umbrella of their four decades of sadness manifesto which doesn’t appear to be ending any time soon.
And, according to our friends at Reddit Hockey — specifically whatever lucky soul has the username “lattesandlibraries” — this popped up in an abnormal psychology textbook.
Surely there are good “abnormal psychology” jokes to be made about Leafs Nation but I digress.
Toronto aside, which fanbase needs to chill out and have a beer the most?
Wave it, Alice
The above picture will surely do no favors to those who like to make retirement community cracks at the expense of Phoenix, Glendale and the Arizona population at-large. Even ME, the most understanding, compassionate person you’ve ever read made fun of Phoenix IN MY MIND when I saw this. What specifically?
“Wow, Phoenix, even your token celebrity hockey fans are retired.”
I’m sorry Arizona, I thought I was better than that. Guess not.
To make it up to everyone, I’ve compiled a list of Alice Cooper album and song titles which I think could be chapter names if we turned the 2012 playoffs into a book.
Love It to Death
Killer
Billion Dollar Babies
Welcome to My Nightmare
Raise Your Fist and Yell
Hey Stoopid
Brutally Live
No More Mr. Nice Guy
I’m Eighteen
I Never Cry
You Want It, You Got It
Talk Talk
If you were to put the 2012 playoffs to music, what song would you choose?
This happened last time
We all have our weird idiosyncrasies. You may not see yours as weird, but they exist and they probably make you a little bit off in the eyes of many. Growing up as a child with a brain completely engulfed in sports, mine was naturally sports related. Given that I’m now just a much taller child capable of growing facial hair, the connection has stayed strong and grown into a much nicer, more refined oddity.
There’s the old story that Wayne Gretzky used to sit in front of his TV with a pen and pad of paper in his hand to track where the puck went — it worked out for him. Mickey Mantle used to play baseball with his buddies in a farmyard and pretend he was the entire St. Louis Cardinals lineup — it’s one of the ways he learned to be a switch hitter. Everybody has their little thing which makes them love a game more. You do too, even if you don’t realize it. I guarantee it.
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It's raining hats.
Variety is the spice of life, and point form notes have gotten tougher and tougher to write without being stale and repetitive, so here’s you spice. Hope you like it.
It has been an interesting year for Jeff Carter – an indirect route to his exact location after a game two win in Phoenix. Here was a player after a year of trades, character assassination and punchlines taking questions on being the hat-trick hero in a conference final game.
It was a tiresome meme in the online world. Carter gets robbed of a glorious chance right there on his usual doorstep and we all rush to our twitter accounts to see who could write “2009 Jeff Carter would have scored there” first. All you need is that bounce. He got that and then some. The confidence of a goal scorer is fragile and just one was the bubble wrap he has been looking for all this time. Read the rest of this entry »
Rob Pizzo, Jo Innes, Ryan Lambert, Daniel Wagner, Cam Charron, Ms. Conduct, Chris Lund, Ellen Etchingham
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