NHL hockey is just around the corner. I love this picture! Time to stoke the rivalry flames.
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Yeah yeah, CBJ has been thinking they're taking the reins for a couple years now, still waiting!
Btw I see you're in Dublin, I played Tartan Fields a couple weeks ago, beautiful course.
I'm guessing this is the year that Torts officially outstays his welcome with the club.
If the Pens can pull off a 3-Peat in todays NHL, it will be an amazing feat. They've probably played an extra 50 games over the last two years (I didn't look it up). At some point, it might hit them.... or an injury to the wrong guy.
I don't follow the NHL at all. Can someone explain to me why Penguins fans are so infatuated with what Flyers fans may think? In fact, the same question can be asked about other pros sports regarding Pittsburgh/Philadelphia. I can't recall Philadelphia fans making posts to the effect of, "Hey, Pittsburgh. Look what we did!!" It's weird......
It's just a fun Pittsburgh/Philly rivalry thing! When I was a senior during the '79-'80 school year, the Steelers played the Eagles, and lost. Philly fans in my University Terrace apartment complex mocked Steelers fans, by waving white towels. Also, during one of my 2 years at University Park (went to Beaver campus first 2 years), someone wrote an article in the Collegian about how funny students from Pittsburgh talked, and the words we use, like yinz. It goes both ways.
Tartan is a nice course. Spacious fairways, but still tricky enough to be challenging.
You have obviously not been reading much on Torts. Vancouver was a bad fit for him, as the Vancouver media is over the top. Columbus is a perfect fit for him, as the franchise needed someone to change the mindset of the locker room (check) and keep raising the bar. He doesn't have to deal with obnoxious media on a daily basis and focus on coaching. Torts has shown humility, admitting mistakes and will be a here a few more years.
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As I recall, the last team to do that was the early 1980 Isles-with a lot less teams in the league. Not even The Great One was able to win 3 in a row (though 4 in 5 years and 5 in 7 is pretty darn amazing).
More of a relic of past generations where regional rivalries were much more common and heated. Western PA vs. Eastern PA, Pitt vs Philly. Remember up until the latest generation, most people were born, grew up, and lived their lives in the same general area so were very attached. Only really in the last 20-30 years that moving away from where you grew up once you got a job was the norm, not the unique.
Also I would add that the Pens and Flyers are divisional rivals and have been for quite some time. It'd be like the Steelers and Eagles both being in the AFC North.
The fairways may be spacious, but I still had a fair share of troubles. I'm playing the Golf Club at Dublin here in a couple weeks as well.
Good luck to your Jackets, I always rooted for them in the West, was disappointed when they came to the East (though it makes sense for them). I work in the Arena District, so I'm going to try to catch a few games other than just when the Pens come to town.
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Speaking of Flames - looks like Calgary ownership is trying to fleece it's citizens for a new publicly funded stadium.
The Calgary Flames announced today that they’re done trying to bilk hundreds of millions of dollars from the city to pay for a new arena, again suggesting that they’re ready and willing to relocate if that’s what it takes to get a new stadium that they don’t have to fund themselves—unless, that is, citizens speak up and voice their despair and anguish over the city’s unwillingness to gift the team’s billionaire owners a stadium. Commissioner Gary Bettman suggested that right now—six weeks from a mayoral election with the potential to oust two-term-incumbent Naheed Nenshi, who has consistently shot down the Flames’ attempts to grab public money—would be a good time for the people to speak up:
Flames CEO and president Ken King stood beside Bettman at the announcement today, saying that the team’s owners would no longer be working with the city to secure a new arena in Calgary. This comes three months after president of hockey operations Brian Burke claimed that the team would be ready to relocate if they didn’t get their way, and more than a year after a city analysis of the stadium proposal revealed that the project could cost up to $1.8 billion, with taxpayers expected to provide two-thirds of that.
King and Bettman were far less explicit with the threat of relocation today than Burke was earlier this summer—with King maintaining that they’renot actively shopping around for a new home—but the two certainly didn’t rule it out:
A reminder: Flames co-owner N. Murray Edwards has a net worth estimated at $2.2 billion and is the 14th-richest Canadian.
The Calgary Flames announced today that they’re done trying to bilk hundreds of millions of dollars from the city to pay for a new arena, again suggesting that they’re ready and willing to relocate if that’s what it takes to get a new stadium that they don’t have to fund themselves—unless, that is, citizens speak up and voice their despair and anguish over the city’s unwillingness to gift the team’s billionaire owners a stadium. Commissioner Gary Bettman suggested that right now—six weeks from a mayoral election with the potential to oust two-term-incumbent Naheed Nenshi, who has consistently shot down the Flames’ attempts to grab public money—would be a good time for the people to speak up:
Flames CEO and president Ken King stood beside Bettman at the announcement today, saying that the team’s owners would no longer be working with the city to secure a new arena in Calgary. This comes three months after president of hockey operations Brian Burke claimed that the team would be ready to relocate if they didn’t get their way, and more than a year after a city analysis of the stadium proposal revealed that the project could cost up to $1.8 billion, with taxpayers expected to provide two-thirds of that.
King and Bettman were far less explicit with the threat of relocation today than Burke was earlier this summer—with King maintaining that they’renot actively shopping around for a new home—but the two certainly didn’t rule it out:
A reminder: Flames co-owner N. Murray Edwards has a net worth estimated at $2.2 billion and is the 14th-richest Canadian.
Golf Club of Dublin is nice. The front nine is much easier than the back.
I just moved to the Arena District (Go to Half Pint, next to Rbar, just opened). The Metro div games are a great atmosphere.
Wink approved sir!
Enjoy the upcoming season.
But, tell me sir, do you have an Pledge?
These darn silver things need cleaned often.
Not to be left out: Hey N.Y. Ranger fans and your 'upper-deck' piss poor BLUE Seats at the GAAAA-Den!
Well, we don't have the big one, yet, but we did have a haul of trophies last season....Wink approved sir!
Enjoy the upcoming season.
But, tell me sir, do you have an Pledge?
These darn silver things need cleaned often.
http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/rest-nhl-aims-prevent-penguins-stanley-cup-peat-49909093Well, we don't have the big one, yet, but we did have a haul of trophies last season....
wb, please check the posted article on CBJ and respond sir.
As always, discussion is good food.
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