NFL Weekly Predictions Contest: Week 7

[milani]

Yeah...Ok, that too.

The return of Jonathan Toews.

 

[milani]

During the 1962-63 NHL season, which I don't remember, as I was born just before it started, 97.6% of the players were Canadian. That would have been only 3 non-Canadians and about 123 Canadian players. Now there are more international fights, but the Canadians fare pretty well when the gloves are dropped.

When I was 15 I played Bantam minor hockey. I played center. There really wasn't much fighting in that league. One night I was getting consistently harassed around the net by a big wide defenceman, and got sick of all of the interfering so I dropped my gloves ready for a fight. What I got in return was a surprisingly hard crosscheck to the chest which put me on my back. Meanwhile my linemate who liked to fight, started up a real fight with another player. Unfortunately he got pushed back slightly, and his skate blade caught my thumb when I was down. I bled a fair bit, but still had to serve a penalty. The two actual fighters were thrown out of the game per league rules.

I remember sitting in the penalty box with the guy who ran the clock and his very hot girlfriend who was in my grade 10 homeroom, while trying to staunch my bloody thumb. A little later that night I got 3 stitches at the hospital. I never took my gloves off on the ice again in the next 5-6 years I played hockey.

Hockey is still special. I caught some of the Saber-Canadien game last night and you could still see how special it was for those fans only 2 weeks into the season.

 

[Raptorman]

During the 1962-63 NHL season, which I don't remember, as I was born just before it started, 97.6% of the players were Canadian. That would have been only 3 non-Canadians and about 123 Canadian players. Now there are more international fights, but the Canadians fare pretty well when the gloves are dropped.

When I was 15 I played Bantam minor hockey. I played center. There really wasn't much fighting in that league. One night I was getting consistently harassed around the net by a big wide defenceman, and got sick of all of the interfering so I dropped my gloves ready for a fight. What I got in return was a surprisingly hard crosscheck to the chest which put me on my back. Meanwhile my linemate who liked to fight, started up a real fight with another player. Unfortunately he got pushed back slightly, and his skate blade caught my thumb when I was down. I bled a fair bit, but still had to serve a penalty. The two actual fighters were thrown out of the game per league rules.

I remember sitting in the penalty box with the guy who ran the clock and his very hot girlfriend who was in my grade 10 homeroom, while trying to staunch my bloody thumb. A little later that night I got 3 stitches at the hospital. I never took my gloves off on the ice again in the next 5-6 years I played hockey.

One thing people who are non-skaters don't think about is how sharp those blades really are.

 

[Canadian Cheddar]

One thing people who are non-skaters don't think about is how sharp those blades really are.

Yep. It's been a long time since, but I can still see part of the scar from one of the stitches.

 

[Canadian Cheddar]

Hockey is still special. I caught some of the Saber-Canadien game last night and you could still see how special it was for those fans only 2 weeks into the season.

Canadiens fans are some of the best out there. The passion of their fans is unmatched. I loved the old Forum. The Bell Centre is nice too. I saw the Sabres in Buffalo on a Saturday night, and the Bills on Sunday almost exactly 11 years ago.

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Bell Centre banners and numbers.

 

[milani]

Canadiens fans are some of the best out there. The passion of their fans is unmatched. I loved the old Forum. The Bell Centre is nice too. I saw the Sabres in Buffalo on a Saturday night, and the Bills on Sunday almost exactly 11 years ago.

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I believe Patrick Kane was from the Buffalo area.

 

[Voyageur]

Canadiens fans are some of the best out there. The passion of their fans is unmatched. I loved the old Forum. The Bell Centre is nice too. I saw the Sabres in Buffalo on a Saturday night, and the Bills on Sunday almost exactly 11 years ago.

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The Montreal Canadiens. The epitome of a franchise in sports that knows how to create winners. Twenty-four championships.

 

[Canadian Cheddar]

I believe Patrick Kane was from the Buffalo area.

Yes, and he's still playing for the Redwings now.

 

[El Guapo]

I like the movie Strange Brew and fishing for Canadian walleye

 

[Canadian Cheddar]

The Montreal Canadiens. The epitome of a franchise in sports that knows how to create winners. Twenty-four championships.

It's been a long dry spell. Just like the Blue Jays, their last Cup was in 1993 with Patrick Roy in goal. I was a Bobby Orr, Boston Bruins fan back in the day and didn't appreciate the Canadiens dominance. They won 7 Cups in the seventies, and 4 in the sixties.

 

[Canadian Cheddar]

I like the movie Strange Brew and fishing for Canadian walleye

Takeoff eh!

 

[Canadian Cheddar]

Yep. It's been a long time since, but I can still see part of the scar from one of the stitches.

Very faint it is.

 

[milani]

The Montreal Canadiens. The epitome of a franchise in sports that knows how to create winners. Twenty-four championships.

My favorite from that team was always the late Jean Beliveau. Truly, a gentleman, a class act, and a model for all of us.

 

[milani]

Yes, and he's still playing for the Redwings now.

NBC once showed a photo of Patrick with his dad in the 90s at a Sabres game looking at the play in the near boards. The closeup clip came from the side of the players on the ice.

 

[Canadian Cheddar]

My favorite from that team was always the late Jean Beliveau. Truly, a gentleman, a class act, and a model for all of us.

He was. He was also smart enough to decline a potential Senate appointment from the Conservative government, and for Governor General by the Liberals in the 1990's.

 

[Calebs Revenge]

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Haven't watched much football tonight. There was a Canada moment about 40 minutes ago.

If I'm 100% honest, I'm glad I didn't have to watch the Dodgers crush my Cubs in the NLCS and I think it should be a good World Series but Ohtani is looking tough and may the best team win CC!!!!
Continue with your Canadian moment.

 

[Calebs Revenge]

One thing people who are non-skaters don't think about is how sharp those blades really are.

If I'm not mistaken, guy got killed by an accidental throat slash couple years back.....it's no joke.....they're sharp as....well you know.

 

[Voyageur]

I think it was 1970, I saw Jacque Plante at a game in Chicago when the Habs were playing the Blackhawks. His face looked like a map of streets in a city with all the scars.

 

[Raptorman]

It's been a long dry spell. Just like the Blue Jays, their last Cup was in 1993 with Patrick Roy in goal. I was a Bobby Orr, Boston Bruins fan back in the day and didn't appreciate the Canadiens dominance. They won 7 Cups in the seventies, and 4 in the sixties.

Having nothing to do with the post. But, the company my wife flies for currently has a contract to fly 6 NHL teams. The Islanders, Bruins, Blue Jackets, Blues, Devils, and Hurricanes. I know she flew the Bruins the other day and yesterday the Devils.

 

[milani]

I think it was 1970, I saw Jacque Plante at a game in Chicago when the Habs were playing the Blackhawks. His face looked like a map of streets in a city with all the scars.

It was. I remember Jacques before the masks. Another couple faces you won't forget from then were Terry Sawchuk and Gump Worsely.

 

[Calebs Revenge]

I always will love JR and Eagle Eyes.
Still hate Patrick Roy.
Still hate that Chelli was traded to the Russians......I mean Redwings.......

 

[Canadian Cheddar]

Plante was the first goalie to regularly wear a mask starting in November, 1959 when he was with the Canadiens. He had played about six years in the NHL before donning the mask, after getting hit in the face during a game. Plante had an NHL career of 21 seasons, then retired and played another season with Edmonton of the WHA. I remember seeing a lot of his latter career NHL games.

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November 1959 and 1971. This is a Canadian mini story about the mask.

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[Canadian Cheddar]

I always will love JR and Eagle Eyes.
Still hate Patrick Roy.
Still hate that Chelli was traded to the Russians......I mean Redwings.......

Dominik Hasek, imo, was the best NHL goaltender among many standouts.

 

[Canadian Cheddar]

If I'm not mistaken, guy got killed by an accidental throat slash couple years back.....it's no joke.....they're sharp as....well you know.

That was Adam Johnson a former NHL Penguins player for a pro team in England in 2023 at age 29. I was lucky that my thumb was only slightly nicked.

In 1989 Clint Malarchuk was playing goal for the Sabres when he got a gruesome throat cut to his jugular. He was saved by the quick actions of the team trainer, and received over 300 stitches.. He was haunted by PTSD for years after the incident, and even survived shooting himself years later. I had watched Malarchuk about 1981-1984 when the Quebec Nordiques had a Fredericton, New Brunswick AHL farm team.

 

[Canadian Cheddar]

That was Adam Johnson a former NHL Penguins player for a pro team in England in 2023 at age 29. I was lucky that my thumb was only slightly nicked.

In 1989 Clint Malarchuk was playing goal for the Sabres when he got a gruesome skate cut to his jugular. He was saved by the quick work of the team trainer, and recieved over 300 stitches. He was haunted by PTSD for years after the incident, and even survived shooting himself years later. I had watched Malarchuk for a few years when the Quebec Nordiques had a Fredericton, New Brunswick AHL farm team in the early eighties.