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The media in TO is definitely brutal, they definitely make it harder on the team. I remember when Reimer was talking about how is wife was getting hateful tweets from fans. Just horrible. Are you seriously criticizing people in Montreal for speaking french? Do you think that french Canadian players shouldn't play in Detroit because they have to speak English? Have you ever been to Montreal? You can get by speaking English.

Still clinging to that dream of them missing the playoffs eh?

I absolutely love Patrick Kane. What's not to like about a mulleted smartass who skates like a cheetah, drinks like a Russian, scores goals and wins Stanley Cups? It's as if Joe Dirt were REALLY good at hockey.

We'll have you seen Canada's girlfriend? She's hot.

More passive aggressive hyperbole? I expected nothing less. If you want to exaggerate my point to make your whole "He sounds like a drunk" spiel seem less completely off-base, go right ahead. I think most members here can see through that sort of thing, as much as they can see that Mickey is an enthusiastic color guy, not a guy who sounds drunk.

I actually have real reasons from my own observations that result in my favorable opinion of Mickey Redmond. A few of them are precisely the reasons you dislike him. You and I simply have different perspectives and want different experiences I totally agree that it's like watching a game with him in a bar and I very much enjoy that aspect of his persona. It's genuine, down home, as if you are sitting watching a game like he's your uncle that actually skated in the nhl. I like the way he comments on penalties, especially compared to other teams color guys. Mickey will often point out that our opponent "Gets two minutes for playing hockey, but we'll take it", whereas other guys take the Homer road and make it sound like it was the most egregious penalty ever as they watch a replay that shows a ghost infraction. I always feel insulted as a viewer when Panger or anyone does that. Mickey is still sharp as a tack when it comes to pointing out things at game speed that I have missed. One example: Countless times he points out a deflection on the goal that I missed, then sure enough you see it on the replay. However, when I watch other teams play I'm dumbfounded at how often they credit the point shot with the goal when the deflection was plain as day and the camera is on the deflector getting congratulated, not the shooter. Then they show the replay and they're surprised as can be at the obvious: "OH!!! It was DEFLECTED". Sigh. Roll eyes. And Mickey tends to point out things that only an nhl player knows, where other "more professional" guys tend to point out things that are obvious to the hockey fan, as if their broadcast is geared toward a least common denominator viewer demographic or something. I enjoy his anecdotal ramblings. For example, Abby being a Muskegon boy. His father Joe Abdelkader always paces back and forth in the living room when the game is on. " You can sit down now, Joe, Justin scored a goal." Believe me, I could go on about how he greatly enhances my Red Wings viewing experience.

Florida

At least we could all be pleasantly surprised

Unlike Toronto we are Actually capable of making the playoffs every year. Jimmy went down and we were 9-1, so I guess we would be fine either way. There is absolutely no chance the wings choke.

Hmm I like Kane as a player, but don't care for him either way as a person. But that smirk does also make me a little angry after he scores. Its just too cocky, not that he doesn't deserve to be, It just makes me enjoy when he fails because of it.

I think the next time Kane does it Jimmy should just come out of the net and wipe him out. Let them award the goal. It would simultaneously give Kane pause the next time he faces Jimmy AND reignite a great rivalry.

They could also just skate bertuzzi speed along the boards and cut across the front of the net in slow motion

Why does anyone have a problem when any player uses the slow approach method? The league implemented a stupid way of settling games. People shouldn't be upset when players take what is given to them. Does everyone really think a shooter should skate it in fast, thereby letting the goalie use the shooter's momentum against him?

America doesn't have a girlfriend. We only know Freedom.

It's pretty obvious to me that frank's favorite NHL team is Canada.

f*** YEAH!!!!! HELM. SUCK IT HATERS!

"Guy?!" That, my friend, is the one and only Ken Kal! I rode in the elevator with him at the alumni game at Comerica. *puts on shades*

Those are your words, not mine. But I must say, you have a knack for exaggeration. So complaining about the refs and broken sticks, chuckling when the wings don't get called, using a catch phrase, and talking about past hockey? I'm starting to think you don't know what a drunk is, or at least what one sounds like.

Ken Daniels has a lot of cheesy tropes ("his number [blank] counterpart," etc.), but I don't know if any announcer has better goal calls.

Mickey is a legendary color man. Those who speak ill of him shall receive no butt pats. Can mickey drink? I thought he had bad stomach/intestinal problems?

Grandson? Who trades away their grandson for a draft pick? Awful grandparents if you ask me. At least the leafs got this guy There are literally endless jokinen gifs on Google.

Haha Most of these states don't surprise me

Nah bro. You're wrong. Holland's lost his drive. Plain and simple. He doesn't give a crap about winning anymore. Not like he used to. That's why he won't trade Larkin or Mantha or Tatar or Jurco or Nyquist. He doesn't have the drive to trade those guys he personally drafted for a rental. He's getting soft.

edit: Been meaning to post a picture like this in this thread for a while.

If you stop freedom of speech at what offends people then you no longer have freedom of speech. Offense is taken, not given. People don't have a right to not be offended. Mohammad was a pedophile who raped a 9 year old girl But he's oh so sacred that he can't be depicted. You can't force someone else to to follow the rules of a religion they aren't a part of.