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Re: NHL 2011/12

#41 Post by thoreau » Wed May 23, 2012 5:01 am

kv wrote:kings are rolling tonight...one game from playing for the cup wow
I imagine Eric did a happy dance. :nod:

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Re: NHL 2011/12

#42 Post by Juana » Wed May 30, 2012 8:20 pm

3 more and I can celebrate my bandwagon title!

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#43 Post by kv » Wed May 30, 2012 10:50 pm

wow the bandwagon is huge heard roars echo throughout my neighborhood when kopitar scored in ot

:aoa:


3 more then the lakers get some company on the banner wall :drink:

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Re: NHL 2011/12

#44 Post by Juana » Wed May 30, 2012 11:04 pm

Yeah I was yelling, I mean I remember in '93 too but I did like the Devils too from when they Swept DET always hated DET. But now its okay to see Marty not get his name on there again if the Kings bring it back!

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#45 Post by kv » Wed May 30, 2012 11:10 pm

yeah i liked patrik elias when he was the young gun and when they beat the ducks in game 7 to win it like a year or 2 before the lockout...people were saying it might be better for the kings to face jersey because of the aging brodeur...was def hoping the rangers would win....great game you can tell these two teams are well matched but damn jersey looks soo much bigger then us

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#46 Post by Juana » Wed May 30, 2012 11:24 pm

Yeah I was rooting for NJ over Dallas, and obviously over the Ducks... but tonight was awesome. I think it was more of the fact that no one expected them to be there... its... :aoa: :drink: and yes I opened some Midleton this evening.

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#47 Post by kv » Sat Jun 02, 2012 4:38 pm

see if we can steal 2 on the road :aoa:

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Re: NHL 2011/12

#48 Post by creep » Sat Jun 02, 2012 5:04 pm

kv wrote: we
:lolol: :bandwagon:

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#49 Post by Juana » Sat Jun 02, 2012 5:29 pm

Yeah fully on the bandwagon. 1-0 hopefully they can steal this game too!

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#50 Post by Juana » Sat Jun 02, 2012 8:58 pm

took both on the road to start the series! :banana:

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#51 Post by kv » Sun Jun 03, 2012 4:50 am

creep wrote:
kv wrote: we
:lolol: :bandwagon:
guilty as charged

though i have never been a fan of another team and i did have kings season tickets for years...it's more of the hockey bandwagon then anything else

i did hop on early though lol first game of the playoffs of the 8 seed...and i did go to a game last year so at least i have seen all these guys for the most part

fuck it! i don't care
go kings go!

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Re: NHL 2011/12

#52 Post by Pure Method » Mon Jun 04, 2012 8:08 am

Pure Method wrote:
kv wrote:i hav zero clue who mike richards is thanks lockout!

He was philly's captain for the past few years. Good ol' gritty, talented Canadian boy that can do it all. FFS READ UP ON YOUR TEAM. ANZE KOPITAR is THE SLOVENIAN DEMON
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by Pure Method » Tue Oct 04, 2011 11:45 pm

kv wrote:
not my team anymore


change that.
just wanted to point out i told you to hop on the bandwagon in october

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Re: NHL 2011/12

#53 Post by kv » Mon Jun 04, 2012 4:17 pm

:lolol:

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#54 Post by Artemis » Mon Jun 04, 2012 4:27 pm

I'd like to get one of these toasters. :lol:

It's the strangest fan merchandise I have ever seen.

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#55 Post by Hype » Mon Jun 04, 2012 4:55 pm

Artemis wrote:I'd like to get one of these toasters. :lol:

It's the strangest fan merchandise I have ever seen.

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It makes you the king of toast so you can toast to the kings while you make a king out of your toast. :confused:

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#56 Post by SR » Mon Jun 04, 2012 5:31 pm

TV-NBCSN

:confused:

:waits:

I don't even have it.

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Re: NHL 2011/12

#57 Post by Juana » Mon Jun 04, 2012 7:48 pm

ONE MORE! and blanked them 4-0! Game 4 is going to be a lot tougher though, I think Marty still has one of those games in him where he is a brick wall, but now just have to win 1 out of 4 :aoa:

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Re: NHL 2011/12

#58 Post by creep » Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:49 pm

attention los angeles. please delay the riots for a couple more days.

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Re: NHL 2011/12

#59 Post by kv » Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:51 pm

they won't riot for the kings

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#60 Post by Juana » Wed Jun 06, 2012 9:18 pm

No they will not

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Re: NHL 2011/12

#61 Post by kv » Wed Jun 06, 2012 9:35 pm

http://espn.go.com/blog/playbook/sounds ... ote]Around the time that Guns N’ Roses was getting our thing going in mid-'80s Los Angeles, there was one other band that was the perfect angry counterpart to what we were doing: Jane’s Addiction.

JA was weird, edgy, dark and wrote the most spectacular riffs of any band since. Bass player Eric Avery, I came to find out, was a huge part of the songwriting for Jane’s, and perhaps singularly informed that band of which direction to go in those early formative years.

Eric Avery is also a long-suffering Los Angeles Kings fan. And perhaps today or this week, those years of pain will come to an end. The Kings just appear to be too dominant to do anything but win the Stanley Cup.

The L.A. Kings fan community is an odd bunch. From what I have observed being in L.A. so much myself, Kings fans aren’t necessarily the typical three- or four-sport year-round spectator of all of the other L.A. teams. This is also true of Avery. He doesn’t follow the Lakers, really. Nor the Dodgers or Angels.

I had noticed throughout the season that Eric was tweeting more and more about the Kings, as they just scraped by into the playoffs and as they became the first No. 8 seed in NHL history to beat the top three seeded teams. It’s weird to see a guy like him being so animated about sports. He tends to come more from an art side, than the sport side of life. This speaks for the Kings and their fans. They are an odd bunch who have taken it on the nose for quite some time.

Avery has been on the road with the reinstated Garbage, and has had to resort to getting updated scores from the monitor guy on the side of the stage (“The right hand is for the Kings, the left hand for whoever they are playing,” Avery told me). His enthusiasm for the Kings is now infused with confidence that his team will win it all. He was so confident on the phone Tuesday morning that he didn’t even have a fear of jinxing his team.

He is in fact such a cool dude, that it inspires a non-hockey fan such as myself to try to find a way in to the sport (or, until Seattle gets an NHL team?).

• • •


ESPN’s Colin Cowherd just seems to be one of those guys who knows a little bit about a lot of stuff. You can, of course, agree or disagree with his takes on different sports issues; but it’d be hard to argue that the guy is not on top of his game information-wise.

I couldn’t help but notice the passion in Cowherd’s voice on Monday, when he brought up the topic of Justin Blackmon getting popped with another DUI (Blackmon’s second). The situation was made more serious, as now Blackmon must face the daunting proving ground of being a troubled draft pick without yet having signed his contract. This DUI could be an exorbitant financial blow.

But above and beyond the money part, Cowherd threw the "possible alcoholic" tag on Blackmon, and voiced his concern that perhaps the newly drafted wide receiver should look for some help before the "disease" got out of control. This is an area I know something about. Cowherd does too.

In my case, I’ve done my time with caustic substances. The alcohol. The drugs. I’ve been clear of it all for quite some time now, but it is a disease that will come back worse than before. I’ve tried it. It wasn’t cool.

Cowherd came back from a commercial break, to reveal that people were jumping all over him via email and Twitter, that he didn’t know what he was talking about, and some others were presumably joking about Blackmon and alcoholism (Cowherd went on the explain that his late father was an alcoholic and that he himself had grown up going to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, and had read a lot about the disease).

The point here is not if people agree about whether Blackmon is an alcoholic; but rather, that people who have no experience with addiction can be so cavalier and judgmental. Cowherd was taken aback. Me? I’ve seen that movie. Been on the wrong end of those opinions too many times.

We should come to the aid of our sports heroes. It’s easy for us to sit on the sidelines and joke or make fun of someone for a misstep. Remember, these guys and gals are just human, going through the same stuff we all go through, but in a much more public arena. Chill out, and give a break where needed. In Blackmon’s case, he is only 22 years old.

In anyone else’s case? No one wants to be a junkie or an alcoholic.[/quote]

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Re: NHL 2011/12

#62 Post by kv » Sat Jun 09, 2012 5:10 pm

come on...

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Re: NHL 2011/12

#63 Post by creep » Sat Jun 09, 2012 5:12 pm

pretty brilliant of the nhl to schedule the last two games up against the nba playoffs. if you are trying to get new fans you might want to play on their off days or before.

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#64 Post by Juana » Sat Jun 09, 2012 5:12 pm

GO KINGS GO!

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Re: NHL 2011/12

#65 Post by kv » Sun Jun 10, 2012 1:58 am

keep in mine the nba schedule changed not the nhl's...sucked both goals were our fault...i hate when the goalie won't stay in the fucking crease...and 2 goals have gone off our players...and it was the same guy both times...sucks...but those are the breaks got two more shots at it

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