Electrophile

That's right. They have a big meeting before every game and decide to lose the game based on whether Babs beats Nick in Rock, Paper, Scissors.

The Red Wings almost play like they're hibernating bears. Active for a while, then comatose the rest of the way.

I hope Sidney Crosby wins 6 straight Stanley Cups and gets the Conn Smythe in all of them. The collective head explosions of the rabid Crosby haters here would be entertainment on a level that was never thought to exist before then. I literally would laugh myself until I puked watching some of you fall over yourselves.

Why did Steve have to retire? *sigh*

Ah, now that baseball season is officially over, I can finally start concentrating on my other team. I want a big win tonight....something like 6-0.

If you have to ask, you already know the answer.

Crosby, Crosby, Crosby. It's like a 14 year old girl with a crush on the boy who sits behind her in Chemistry.

I accept your congrats most happily. I also want to thank the Yankee Haters here for putting a smile on my face. God damn do I love you people. There is almost nothing better than seeing people so filled with rage over a baseball team, it eclipses their love for their own team. EVEN better than that are people who don't even like baseball, they just hate the Yankees because it's what everyone else is doing. Seriously. LOVE. YOU.

Supposed insider? You know what that means? "I'm lying through my asscheeks." Don't spread that crap around here. Glad to see we won, let's keep this train rolling.

Nothing.

If it wasn't for bad luck, we'd have no luck at all. The season started out crappy and it's gotten progressively more so. What next.....a foreign-born player getting deported?

How awesome would it be, that if any thread that had his name in it anywhere would automatically get vaporized? Pretty damn awesome, I'd say.

Thank you for demonstrating that you know how to underline, bold and italicize text AND post an image. Good for you.

And this was mature in what way, exactly? Put him on ignore if you can't stand him and then you can post in whatever thread you want.

Apparently Mr. Viking Erection cares a great deal.

My baseball team won, my hockey team won.....a great sports night for me! Not to mention, all the candy we bought didn't get passed out so there's still some left - Reese's Peanut Butter Cups for everyone!

You mean the people who hate Bertuzzi? I'm right here. Just because I don't like him doesn't mean I hope he negatively impacts the team. How is that going to do us any good, especially right now? I hope he scores 100 goals or something. Just like SF Giants fans who booed the s*** out of Barry Bonds but didn't want him costing them any games.

I think Doc summed up what I was going to say but as an addendum, we don't know what goes in their locker room before, after and during games. Nick is a captain very much the way Steve was; quiet and leading by example. He is not a brash, in-your-face person but that doesn't mean he doesn't give a damn either. For all we know, they could be scared of him or something. Again I ask though, what is it people think he should be doing that he is not doing? Publicly calling people out? Getting in their faces on the ice, with cameras present? I mean, do we want someone who handles adversity with some tact or do we want an unrepentant *******?

And what would you like a 39 year old grown man to say to other grown men? I'm not exactly sure what it is you think Nick should do, short of smacking people around with his hockey stick and turning into Bobby Knight. He could walk up to each of them and say "you're special, we love you, play with heart" or he could say "$%^@ you, you stupid mother#$@$ers, play like your $%^@$ are on fire" and unless they want to......they won't. Doesn't matter what he says.

Yet you're posting here anyway. Hmmm.

What an insult to weasels.

How about we not embarrass ourselves this time? Sounds good. Win or win.

This is my thinking as well. I can understand the impetus to shake things up but how is firing him going to fix our problems? You see this all the time in baseball - the team has a poor season or something and they fire the manager, as if he was responsible for what the players on the field are NOT doing. These are grown adult men who've been playing this sport for a long time. When they step out on the ice, they should already know what to do and how to do it and if they aren't doing it, that's on THEM, not McCrimmon. Firing him is like putting duct tape over a hole in a leaking boat. It'll buy you a minimal amount of time, but you aren't getting back to shore bone dry.

I'd still watch. Why wouldn't I? How lame would it be to be following a team and then suddenly ditch them when the dry years come?