WEs McCauley is awesome
WEs McCauley is awesome
DemonGeminiX (01-12-2019), Teh One Who Knocks (01-14-2019)
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Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it.
The NHL All Star Game jerseys this year are just everyone wearing their own team jersey except they've been washed out black and white
Oh well. The ASG isn't really for fans of the sport I don't think. Big ol' PR exhibit. 3 on 3 and the cash prize helps a tad but it's still just background noise I barely watch.
The All-Star game in every sport sucks
It's a definite PR stunt that they have women compete in the NHL All Star Skills Competition. Like, there's nothing stopping them from being in the NHL except that they're not good enough. And not only are they not good enough to crack an NHL line up, this is a competition of the best players in the National Hockey League. There are some incredible hockey players who didn't get invited.
With that being said... Brianna Decker beat Draisaitl’s time in the passing comp by 3 seconds (NBC didn't air it I don't think) and her skating is pro level without a doubt. If she wasn't 5'2" who knows how far she could go in pro hockey.
WTF is up with the Avalanche. On Dec 7th they were tied for most points in the Western Conference, and since then they are 5-15-4 and out of the playoffs
DemonGeminiX (02-18-2019), Godfather (02-22-2019)
That's the kind of move that a lot of kids can pull off in street hockey but then they all get flattened when they try it in a game. To pull it off in the NHL is ridiculous.
Chaos breaks out at Flyers game as security desperately attempts to chase down fat streaker
DemonGeminiX (02-24-2019)
I don't see anything
DemonGeminiX (03-01-2019), Godfather (03-02-2019)
What a good dude. Proud he's a BC boy.
DemonGeminiX (03-02-2019), Teh One Who Knocks (03-02-2019)
Leaf's fans had an APPRECIATION night for John Tavares last night, gave him a standing-o.
Why? Not because he won a cup, hit a milestone or came back from a bad injury. It was because Islanders fans boo'd him so hard at his first game back there last week because he left their team in the off-season after saying he wanted to be an isle for life... and that really hurt Toronto fans' feelingsLeafs fans are the worst. Soft ass, four ply babies.
Teh One Who Knocks (03-04-2019)
Here's a story about the whole thing from the Montreal Gazette. Was there ever any doubt that hockey players are the best when it comes to pro athletes?Originally Posted by Godfather
Stu Cowan: Canadiens' Carey Price helps mend a boy's broken heart
Stu Cowan, Montreal Gazette
NEW YORK — When Tammy Whitehead posted a video on Facebook of her nephew getting a hug from Carey Price, she never expected it to go viral.
Boy, did it ever.
As of Friday afternoon, Whitehead’s video had been viewed more than 5 million times and the people who watched it probably shed at least ten times that many tears.
Anderson Whitehead, 11, is a huge Carey Price fan and his bedroom in Brantford, Ont., is covered in bleu-blanc-rouge and posters of the Canadiens goalie. Anderson’s mother, Laura McKay, always wanted her son to meet Price, but wasn’t able to arrange it before she passed last November at age 44 from cancer. After her death, the family decided to do everything they could to find a way for Anderson to meet Price.
Tammy’s husband has a physiotherapist who used to work for the Toronto Maple Leafs and through him they were able to get in touch with Graham Rynbend, the Canadiens’ head athletic therapist. Rynbend arranged for Anderson and family members to attend the team’s morning skate on Feb. 23 at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena. The family already had tickets to the game that night between the Canadiens and Maple Leafs.
Rynbend briefed Price about Anderson’s story and when the goalie left the ice after the morning skate he stopped to talk with the boy. When Anderson started sobbing with tears running down his cheeks, Price took off his goalie mask and gloves and reached up into the stands to give the boy a warm hug that lasted about 15 seconds. Price then autographed Anderson’s Canadiens jersey with No. 31 and Price on the back and gave the boy two of his sticks that the goalie also autographed, along with a mini stick Anderson had brought with him.
“Thank you so much,” Anderson told Price through his tears.
Anderson’s aunt captured it all on video.
“Anderson made a joke when I asked him if I could post the video. He said: ‘Yeah, maybe it will go viral,’ ” Tammy said over the phone Friday from her home in Oakville, Ont. “But he was just joking. He had no idea.
“I just wanted to share it really with my friends and family, and I tagged Carey Price in hopes that he or somebody would see it and know how much it meant to Anderson to actually have that experience,” the aunt added. “I never in a million years thought that it would blow up like that. It was very emotional and moving for us as a family to see Anderson have this experience. Having the video explode has just been unbelievable and Anderson is absolutely over the moon. He’s doing the happy dance all the time.”
Anderson and his father, Kevin Whitehead, were reached by phone Friday in Cancun, Mexico, where they are on vacation.
“It was very cool,” Anderson said about meeting Price. “It’s the happiest I’ve ever been in my life. I always hoped it was going to happen, my mom always said it could happen.”
It did happen.
“There are no words to describe it,” Anderson’s father said about watching his son meet Price. “To watch his dream come true … I thought he might just get a high-five or something from Price, but for him to get embraced like that was absolutely incredible.
“When Carey gave him the hug and said: ‘Things will get better, bud,’ Anderson said everything in his body just left him,” the father added. “The weight and the anger that he’s been carrying around, all that stuff. There are no words to say thank you (to Price). We’re talking about writing him a letter when we come back from holidays to thank him for taking time out of his day to make a kid’s dream come true. There are no words I could ever say to thank him. I think the way Anderson showed his emotions to Carey, that would be thank you enough for that man. He’s just an incredible guy.”
Anderson’s aunt said it was the hug that really got to her.
“Everyone was bawling,” Tammy said. “My husband was bawling, my 14-year-old was bawling. Everyone was crying. And to get that hug was just … oh, it just gives me chills that he got that hug. It was so amazing. (Price) could have just signed the stick and said have fun at the game, but he gave him a big hug and that was just so amazing.”
What would the aunt want to say to Price now?
“Oh my goodness,” Tammy said. “I would just say as much as the video shows, no one can possibly have any clue how much this has impacted Anderson. I’d just like to thank him from the bottom of our hearts — all of us. Because it was an experience for him that he will never forget. As hard as it is to lose a parent when you’re that young, to have something like this that he can sort of cling to …
“I think it really is life-changing for him.”
Not NHL but holy shit this kid is cute
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