Antti_Laxative

Ha! Chucky always underachieved for the Bleu, Blanc et Rouge...maybe this will work?

I did have a few beers with his dad one night at Reids. Seemed like a hale fellow, well met.

It's the most wonderful day of the year:  CBC is in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories for this - the 20th annual - Hockey Day in Canada!
Ron MacLean will host the festivities live from Yellowknife throughout the day-long national broadcast, featuring all seven Canadian NHL teams in action. Festivities began in Yellowknife on Wednesday, with grassroots hockey events featuring NHL alumni and the Stanley Cup, and an outdoor hockey festival - all culminating in today's Hockey Day. 

CBC coverage from the Northwest Territories begins at 11 a.m. with the feature game: Habs vs Buds at 6 p.m. ... Geaux Habs Geaux!

Thanks for nothing Wilds

2 hours ago, IllaZilla said:

 I’m partial to the old black/orange all star uni’s. 
 

I've made that point a million times in here....I have a few of the ASG sweaters from the days of using the classic league colours of black and orange. Infinitely superiour to the lameass neon, glorified moto-cross jerseys they wear now.

1 hour ago, IllaZilla said:

I just hope they don’t get cute with the jerseys. Nashville’s looked like it was designed with a Word clip art program. Brush script was the best they could come up with?

Not sure what Dallas was doing either. That franchise isn’t that old to be hearkening back to the tan breezers and gloves. 
I’d love to see a variation on the 1967 uniforms for both teams. 

 

And yet they BOTH were better than the grade schoolish sweaters the Kings and Avs rolled out for their Stadium Series tilt

LOL at Staal's shootout attempt. I guess we know why he wasn't in the fastest skater competition

Edit

LOL two pathetic attempts

This is like when they awarded Kuba an All-Star slot based purely on the fact the game was in Minny. #unworthy

2 hours ago, IllaZilla said:

I want to know how the octopi got into Xcel. I can’t get in there with more than my phone and wallet and yet two raw octopi make it onto the ice...

Excuse me sir - is that octopus slime oozing down your pantleg or are you just happy to see me.

NB - when you open the article - that awesome large photo you see is mainly Tony Esposito of the Blackhawks and Brad Park (then of the Rangers) but that #21 you see in the dark (blue) sweater of the Western Conference is Bill Goldsworthy of the NorthStars.  He wore #21 instead of his usual #8 which was worn by Barclay Plager of the Blues - the home team got preference apparently.

So I did a search to see if there was a thread on this before starting this so and came up empty. so anyway, Dave Stubbs wrote a fun piece for NHL.com today and I wanted to share it.

It is about the 1970 game - also in St. Louis. I remember that late-night game as it was my 12th birthday and I watched BOTH the NBA and NHL All-Star games to extend my personal celebration...although admittedly I knew nothing of the spat over the organist! LOL! check out the story!

I sure wish coaches and players cared that much these days about winning and "unfair advantages" in the ASG  Things changed somewhere along the line  

https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-all-star-game-started-on-sour-note-on-first-trip-to-st-louis-in-1970/c-314181662?tid=280751088

7 minutes ago, CreaseAndAssist said:

 

The MILFoils...clever!  

Foil up boys! (or gils in their case)

3 minutes ago, CreaseAndAssist said:

 

Honestly, go to it.  Its a fun atmosphere.  I think @Antti_Laxative has been to a few of them if memory serves me correctly.  

Yup - Hermantown, Lake Minnetonka and Grand Rapids.  I wish I had gone to the one at your home rink in Elk River - looked like a cool place (I remember great background shots on TV of kids sliding down a hill to the rink)

9 minutes ago, CreaseAndAssist said:

 

Did Mark Parrish play for them?  I know that he's involved with that company somehow.  Was Sorem there with his group of ex-college player studs?  How many classes are there?  

Im not sure? Isn't he still getting paid by the Wild 

Six classes overall:

https://pondhockeylakeminnetonka.com/2020-tournament/

On 1/20/2020 at 7:34 AM, CreaseAndAssist said:

Who won it all?

Northland Vodka won the open class

JagrBombs in action

11 hours ago, wildstars95 said:

got the conman mcgregor vs cowboy cerrone fight streaming now 

Hope you didn't blink

13 minutes ago, CreaseAndAssist said:

 

That is a damn good Jagr mullet.  Just about perfect.  The shoulder patch is epic!  

Isn't it!  They were good guys too. Won 1 and lost 2 though...but by far they got the most double-takes.

This was in the beer/warming tent between games. I spent a lot of time in there yesterday (Sat.) Holy crap it was cold with that wind whipping across the lake.

It's still plenty cold today, but thankfully not as windy

These guys were my favourites today

"Jagrbombs"

Check out that shoulder patch

At Maynard's now, swilling Surly Furious ...

All checked in, got my assignments and waiting for the music to begin.

Best team names I've seen so far at check-in:

"Loud and Plowed" ... "No Regretzkys" ... and my personal favourite: "Hattrick Swayze"

12 hours ago, bbgarnett said:

 

Game is on NBCSN if that matters anything

Yup -these public lashings on National TV *really* drum up the potential viewership numbers for the Winter Classic eh?

37 minutes ago, CreaseAndAssist said:

 

Nice!  Do you get paid for that gig or is that strictly volunteer with free beers or something like that?  

 

Volunteer.....love doing it.

They do throw in some swag and a few beers after

Reffing again this year....starts Thursday...come on out!

https://pondhockeylakeminnetonka.com/

My new favourite lid...

Actually the Bluenotes WERE early rivals of the NorthStars...they actually had multiple playoff meetings...the only way to actually have a rivalry. I believe we played them four series and each won twice...none lasting less than six games. But that doesn't mean a Wild vs Blues WC will garner even a glance from NHL watchers outside of those two fan bases

2 minutes ago, CreaseAndAssist said:

 

Russia sat back...and found a way to lose.  Give credit to Hayton for gutting it out and sort of swinging the momentum back to Canada's favor.  The non-delay of game call was comical.  It clearly hit the camera and how the crew on the ice can't review that is another embarrassment for the IIHF.  Delay of game is a pretty black & white rule.  Khovanov still had a respectable tournament and he was the only reason I paid any attention to the WJC's at all.  

Others of us have paid close attention for many years now. It's a splendid tourney...the future of the NHL in all its' glory

I love it...it never lets me down

1 hour ago, Antti_Laxative said:

Man, what a great Gold Medal game! The "overrated" Canadians avenge the earlier inexplicable defeat, and win gold.

 

As always, great IIHF World Junior Tourney

...trailing 3-1 in the third stanza mind you.

Oh how the uninformed must be steaming