2008/09 NHL Thread

I'm confused.
Is Pierre LeBrun your new boyfriend?

 

Yes, dear.
Rick DiPietro.

 

Rick DiPietro's a goalie? Haven't seen much of him this season.

 

It's OK. You've got a few more years of him.

 

Thirteen, to be exact.

It's going to be funny in a sad way when Rick DiPietro breaks all of Billy Smith's records. Save for, you know, Stanley Cups and opposing forwards' broken ankles.

 

DiPietro will be stopping shots long after that wonderful edifice in Uniondale is crumbling around him. Fitting, eh, Mr. Wang?

 

With only two games tonight, is there going to be coverage of the Orr number retirement in Oshawa during On The Fly when I get home?

 

Well, here's the story on the OHL site

http://www.ontariohockeyleague.com/generals-honour-bobby-orr-p127033

Orr was signed to play for the Generals by long time OHL executive Wren Blair, who was most recently a special advisor to the Saginaw Spirit. Blair, who won the Allan Cup and a World Championship with the Whitby Dunlops Senior team, convinced Orr’s parents to let him travel back and forth from their home in Parry Sound to play for the Generals in 1962.

“Wren is a good talker and he spent many days in Parry Sound talking to my parents and trying to convince them to allow me to play at a very young age,” Orr said. “It was a nervous time to be playing at 14 against older guys. I was lucky I could skate a little bit so I dodged the big boys. Coming up at 14, the guys looked after me. Going to Boston at 18, again the same thing happened. A lot was written about this player coming both here in Oshawa and in Boston and it wasn’t easy for the guys. It would have been easy for them to turn on me but they didn’t. They supported me.”

I'll always remember seeing him play as a 14 year old when they showed the Marlies games on TV.

He dominated every game

 

The Star on Orr's Oshawa sweater retirement:

http://www.thestar.com/Sports/article/545157

Good for my old pal Colleen Corner to persuade Orr to do it. One of the great, great people in the OHL.

 

Cox puts the Burke hiring into perspective in today's blog:

http://thestar.blogs.com/thespin/

And this is pretty funny:

You heard it here first - Burke will wear a red tie for his coronation tomorrow. Will it be the same red tie he wore when Anaheim won the Cup? Should he be wearing a red tie? Was Lou Lamoriello the first to get him to wear a red tie? How will Ron Wilson feel about the red tie?

All this is vital stuff, of course. Unless he goes with the blue tie.

Still, it's been fun, better than that summer that Ken Dryden went searching for a Leaf GM and came up with himself.

Can't wait to hear that doofus Al Strachan on Satellite Hot Stove. If CBC had a sense of humour, they'd put Burke on the show.

 

I wish I could have been there to see the tribute. Hopefully they mentioned the late Bep Guidolin during the ceremony.

I didn't realize that, although it hadn't been retired, No. 2 had been out of circulation in Oshawa since 1966. That's cool.

 

David Frost is acquitted of sexual exploitation. The parents of Mike Danton Jefferson, I'm sure, are weeping.

Frost, like the uber-classy guy he is, tells a woman to go fuck herself as he walks out of the courtroom.

http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/545395

Just as well he was acquitted, since he probably would have gotten a slap on the wrist had he been found guilty. He wouldn't have served any jail time. I believe there are far more fitting punishments for this sack of shit, this bottom-feeding lowlife, to be found outside of the judicial system. Hopefully he is called upon to pay the piper sooner rather than later.