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mastershakeman posted:Hmery, mine's 5 years old now and I'm finally starting to like Kane more than Toews this year for no real reason other than enjoying brash/evil guys like Mayweather. If you can get a goon to design you something I'll buy it. Hail satan
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HookShot posted:Not necessarily boring in terms of watching them play (good God not at all), but boring in terms of narrative.
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May 23, 2015 21:00
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I think there's a loving fantastic narrative as long as it "the Rangers win the Stanley Cup!"
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May 23, 2015 21:08
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Someone design a Kane water elemental avatar where he melts the ice behind his flaming mullet
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May 23, 2015 21:48
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INSPECTAH DECK posted:Ok, but why do you think they're boring in terms of narrative? Hawks: won a lot recently, boring because it sucks when the same teams are always in the CF or SCF (unless it's my team, then it is always awesome) Ducks: I literally cannot think of a single interesting thing about this team. Like at all. Tampa: No one cares about the south, even when Steve Stamkos is as amazing as he is. They don't even have the "we've never won a cup!!" stuff to fall back on. Rangers: At least last year they could be all "Oh 20 years it's meant to be". "Hank is cool and good" is basically the closest thing to a narrative that the Rangers have.
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May 23, 2015 21:59
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Now explain all the compelling edge-of-ones-seat narratives behind Minnesota and Detroit and Calgary and Pittsburgh.
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May 23, 2015 22:04
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All of them are garbage so if they won it would be a literal miracle and the first time in NHL history that a GM would be canonized by the Pope.
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runoverbobby posted:Now explain all the compelling edge-of-ones-seat narratives behind Minnesota and Detroit and Calgary and Pittsburgh. Minnesota: never won a cup, miracle run, Devan Dubnyk. Calgary: magically not poo poo this year for once, a whole bunch of young fun guys, Giordano is awesome and would have come back in the SCF to lead them to victory Detroit and Pittsburgh aren't that interesting, narrative-wise. Maybe the fact that MAF didn't actually MAF, assuming he would have played well through the next few series.
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May 23, 2015 22:09
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If only the Vancouver Canucks were still in the hunt then that rich tapestry of a well spun narrative story would be unleashed upon us. but alas we get the Rangers/Hawks that we deserve.
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May 23, 2015 22:13
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Wonderllama posted:If only the Vancouver Canucks were still in the hunt then that rich tapestry of a well spun narrative story would be unleashed upon us. but alas we get the Rangers/Hawks that we deserve. If would test my conjecture that the closer Luca Sbisa gets to a championship the chances of the universe suddenly ending without warning rapidly approaches 100%.
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May 23, 2015 22:22
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ThinkTank posted:If would test my conjecture that the closer Luca Sbisa gets to a championship the chances of the universe suddenly ending without warning rapidly approaches 100%. Just think, if he was still on the Ducks the Canucks would probably have been in the WCF right now! (Because the Canucks would have likely beaten Calgary, and the Ducks would have been taken out in round 1 because Sbisa is good hockey kryptonite)
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May 23, 2015 22:25
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Levitate posted:I think there's a loving fantastic narrative as long as it "the Rangers win the Stanley Cup!" Nah I don't want to hear about the Rangers' 2015 Cup victory in 2040.
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May 23, 2015 22:26
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Wonderllama posted:If only the Vancouver Canucks were still in the hunt then that rich tapestry of a well spun narrative story would be unleashed upon us. but alas we get the Rangers/Hawks that we deserve. Also it would have resulted in a goalie controversy that would have probably rivalled Luongo/Schneider.
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May 23, 2015 22:27
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HookShot posted:Just think, if he was still on the Ducks the Canucks would probably have been in the WCF right now! Sbisa wasn't regularly getting minutes when he got moved and he sure as hell wouldn't be now that Wizniewski and Despres are on the team.
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May 23, 2015 22:27
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Again, those are things you could say every year. Stuff like championship droughts are cared about when it's the Red Sox, but then if the White Sox win the very next year to get rid of a bigger drought it's a non-story because they don't have a massive sprawling fan base. No one gave any special attention to the Lightning/Canes/Ducks winning their first Cups, but Vancouver would be a different story. HookShot posted:Minnesota: never won a cup, miracle run, Devan Dubnyk. Narratives can be made out of nothing and people would care a billion times more about the Pittsburgh one than others, since they have players and a team that people care about.
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INSPECTAH DECK posted:Again, those are things you could say every year. Stuff like championship droughts are cared about when it's the Red Sox, but then if the White Sox win the very next year to get rid of a bigger drought it's a non-story because they don't have a massive sprawling fan base. No one gave any special attention to the Lightning/Canes/Ducks winning their first Cups, but Vancouver would be a different story. Who would give a poo poo about Vancouver winning aside from Vancouver? I guess there'd be a smattering of stupidity from the media talking about how the cup was brought "home" but nobody else would care.
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May 23, 2015 22:42
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Austrian mook posted:Sbisa wasn't regularly getting minutes when he got moved and he sure as hell wouldn't be now that Wizniewski and Despres are on the team. Should probably be an asterisk next to Wizniewski.
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May 23, 2015 22:43
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Aphrodite posted:Should probably be an asterisk next to Wizniewski. Even if he isn't playing, he'd be higher up the depth chart
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May 23, 2015 22:45
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Ginette Reno posted:Who would give a poo poo about Vancouver winning aside from Vancouver? I guess there'd be a smattering of stupidity from the media talking about how the cup was brought "home" but nobody else would care.
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May 23, 2015 22:47
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But no one wants the Canucks to be the Canadian team that wins it
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May 23, 2015 22:54
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Levitate posted:But no one wants the Canucks to be the Canadian team that wins it Canadians bandwagon hard when there's even a faint rooting interest. Most hockey viewership in this country is actually very casual.
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May 23, 2015 22:57
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Koopa Kid posted:Canadians bandwagon hard when there's even a faint rooting interest. Most hockey viewership in this country is actually very casual. There were actually more Canadian Bruins fans in 2011 than Canucks fans. I don't think it's possible to underestimate how much the rest of Canada dislikes the city of Vancouver.
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*Citation needed
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May 23, 2015 23:20
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Vancouver, noun: 1) A garbage dump on the west coast. 2) A city in northwest Washington state.
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INSPECTAH DECK posted:Again, those are things you could say every year. Stuff like championship droughts are cared about when it's the Red Sox, but then if the White Sox win the very next year to get rid of a bigger drought it's a non-story because they don't have a massive sprawling fan base. No one gave any special attention to the Lightning/Canes/Ducks winning their first Cups, but Vancouver would be a different story. heh sorry people don't give a poo poo about your often successful team, it must suck Ps devan Dubnyk owns Top Hats Monthly fucked around with this message at 23:37 on May 23, 2015 |
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May 23, 2015 23:33
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narratives are almost always manufactured bullshit by the sports media and they mean stupid jack poo poo. I want to see hockey being played not listen to Pierre and Milbury talk about why I should care about some team or player.
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Top Hats Monthly posted:heh sorry people don't give a poo poo about your often successful team, it must suck
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RC Cola posted:Any hawks fans have a Kane elemental avatar you might want? We need earth wind and water IMO. I'll buy them for you I'll buy my own if someone makes one. I'm also going to game 5 Monday, anyone got ideas for signs? We're already probably making giant face ones.
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May 24, 2015 00:08
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Not elemental but I always figured this could be turned into an avatar somehow.
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xzzy posted:Not elemental but I always figured this could be turned into an avatar somehow. why does that have sharp on the bottom
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joeburz posted:why does that have sharp on the bottom Sharp cucks again Ginette Reno fucked around with this message at 01:06 on May 24, 2015 |
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May 24, 2015 01:00
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joeburz posted:why does that have sharp on the bottom If I remember right it came from a low budget local car dealer commercial, they're always poo poo at that stuff.
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May 24, 2015 01:01
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xzzy posted:If I remember right it came from a low budget local car dealer commercial, they're always poo poo at that stuff. Someone else make the gdt today. I'm bad luck. Also vermette and TT are in tonight. Thank god.
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i hope ducks/bolts beings ratings death to rogers gently caress rogers
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Mind_Taker posted:Nah I don't want to hear about the Rangers' 2015 Cup victory in 2040. I do. I want to hear about that
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Isn't Mind_Taker a Caps fan? I don't want to hear about no Caps Cup (because it never happened) 
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Any lightning fans interested in some dumb 2004 memorabilia? I unearthed these in the stuff I brought back from Florida and left in my parents' basement. Price of shipping from Toronto I guess? Or if you're in Toronto for some inexplicable reason you can pick them up free. Just PM me. I've also have some full page newspaper spreads from the SP-Times or T-Trib or whatever, basically a full page of Fedotenko celebrating. I left that in a box at my parents' place so I can't take a pic but you can have that too I guess. It's just going to go into the trash in a month or so. some kinda jackal fucked around with this message at 03:47 on May 24, 2015 |
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May 24, 2015 03:44
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Martytoof posted:Any lightning fans interested in some dumb 2004 memorabilia? Where does wonderlama live?
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Well he was posting form the TBL game so I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess Tampa.
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Martytoof posted:Well he was posting form the TBL game so I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess Tampa. That's probably a good guess
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