Let's talk hockey...

It's more of a personal thing for me. Nothing against the state but it seems like everytime i go there bad things happen to me. After they happen they make for hilarious stories but it's not always fun having experienced them first. Just bad luck for me. I won't fly through there ever. My luck the plane would crash. I'm not taking that chance.

 

Like what?

 

awesome goal to say the least.:2thumbsup:

I'm not a "gotta watch every game" kind of fan like some of my friends are, but I do enjoy watching it when I do.

Kings fans here.

 

Went to a music festival one year. Drove up and back in the same day. about 4 hours each way. There was a huge storm. Torrential downpour, lightning, tornado. Canceled the show halfway through and took us almost 7 hours to get back home. Didn't get home until after 3 am and it stormed on us all the way home.

I went up for another concert. Our hotel was about a 5 block walk from the venue. When we left it was storming again. I think someone died in a tornado that night. Anyway, we stepped into this doorway to see if the rain would let up and some guy thought we were prostitutes and made us an offer. WHAT??? We were in jeans and tshirts. I've never seen a hooker wearing jeans and tshirts. Wrong place, wrong time.

Went to another concert up there (catching a theme here) and had to drive home that night. My friend had a funeral to go to the next day. I hit a huge raccoon on the way home that did $2300 damage to my car. Pushed the radiator up into the engine. Left us stranded 84 miles away from home at a closed truck stop with a bunch of truckers at 2:30 am. There is a lot more details to that one but that is the short version.

Like I said, its not really Minnesota's fault but that is where it happened. Those were the last 3 times I went so I stopped going after that. I figured I'd take the hint.

 

That must have been a pretty big fucking raccoon.

 

haha, It was. Every time I talk about it, it seems to get bigger. I think its up to the size of a water buffalo now. But for real, it was huge. I saw it run across the interstate in front of me so I slowed down and as I got up to where it was it ran right back out in front of me. I couldn't miss it. We called a sheriff because we wanted someone to know we were stranded with a bunch of truckers while we waited almost 2 hours for my husband to get there to pick us up. The sheriff came out, looked at my car and cracked up laughing. He asked if I was sure it wasn't a deer. I told him there is no way it survived and it would be in the road a few miles up the interstate. I was laughing about it at that point. What else could I do? It was seriously the biggest raccoon I've ever seen. I'm not a "car" person. I prefer SUV's or something a little bigger so I hated my car but it wasn't even a year old yet. I had just gotten rid of my jeep wrangler and regretted it the second I signed papers. My dad had to rub it in and say "You know if you still had your jeep you wouldn't have even hit it. It would have just ran right under it". Fuckin raccoon. That Christmas all my friends bought me raccoon related items. My friends are assholes.

 

When i was a kid my mom recked her cammaro hitting a raccoon. Same exact thing happened.

 

Devil fan since Marty was a pup

 

You didnt follow hockey before that?

 

Raccoons are satans spawn and can do a surprising amount of damage.

 

Lol i was thinking that exact same thing...What the fuck dude...how big was this raccoon?? Those are some hilarious stories...

 

Bigger than a breadbox

Maybe they have a good center of gravity so they dont go flying like a cat would

 

How bout that Pens game tonight? I'm still afraid that their defense isn't up to par...seems like they got outplayed by Columbus but still ended up winning the game...the story of their life...they can't rely on their offense when it comes to the playoffs though

 

Yes, bigger than a bread box. haha. They are solid little fuckers. It busted up the entire front bumper, knocked the grill off and smashed the radiator. When I tell people the entire story when it comes to my Minneapolis excursions they just laugh. I've had people tell me I should write a book of all the stupid shit that happens to me. I seriously couldn't make it up if I tried. That raccoon story, the whole story not the abbreviated version I put here, will probably be told at my funeral. There was an old man, a tiny dog, a K-9 unit and a big white kidnapper van involved. We actually called the sheriff back after he left and told him we thought we were going to be kidnapped and thrown in a well like Baby Jessica. One of the most ridiculous nights of my life.

 

I want to add that I was 100% sober the whole time. I was just on a punk rock show high at the time.

 

I was going to mention earlier about the game but raccoons took over the conversation.
The one thing i thought worth noting was how well fleurry has been playing. He always got the wins but his gaa and sv% are a bit better than i remember him ever having before. If he can play like that in the playoffs and the team is healthy i would put us with anyone. The one thing that can throw a wrench in anyones season is the olympics. It will be like a completely new season after the break.

 

Your'e so right. The olympics could change things. I agree with you though, Fleury does look solid. And that takes guts considering that he really took a ton of heat last summer. I really want him to succeed. I think he's a good human being, but I also think he's one of the most naturally-talented goalies in the league. He's got quick reflexes and a flexibility rivaled only by Jonathan Quick. It's just that he's in his head all the time, and his positioning can be awful sometimes. If the defense gets it together and Fleury stays strong in the playoffs, I think they've got as good a shot as anybody.

 

Yeah- was a Ranger fan- -back in the old days- - then Jersey got a team- - Im a turncoat

 

we used to say that jersey has no real fans. its not like colorado suddenly getting a team. any hockey fans in your area were already fans of the rangers or islanders...or fliers if you go i bit south. i guess enough time passed though that people 30 and under grew up with the team.

 

big win for Zatkoff after going 0-2 and watching Fluerry go 10-2 he needed to know that he can play with the big team.