Short of Coach Q saying he'd rather have Anaheim, there's nothing intelligent or rational behind anyone else's idea that Anaheim would be the preferable opponent.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
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Sometimes the on-air fawning and preening of his offspring - while of course understandable to a certain degree as it is with most parents - is as distracting and I dare say embarassing as Dusty Baker (et al) having his kid on his lap during postgame interviews.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Nice call DT aka "The baby barrier"

because as lame as it is to hear him talk about his kids knowledge. He isnt even talking about his kids skill! Most arent going to rip on it.....YET!

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“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Kings up 1-0 early on a Justin Williams power-play goal. Add another Game 7 tally to his list.

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Carter and Richards add goals, 3-0 Kings with a few minutes left in the first. Hawks staying put for a few days.

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Did you see that Quick poke check? Ballsy. And this game is becoming a laffer.

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http://soundcloud.com/darkside124 HOF 2013, MM Champion 2014

Let's hope not. I want the Ducks to throw everything they've got at the Kings. I still want them to lose, of course, but I don't want them to go down easy. Fortunately, they have a bevy of dipshits on their team. Go on, Corey Perry, be the dipshit we know you can be.

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How do you play the remaining period and a half knowing you are completely fucked??

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

Pride

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Elections have consequences.

One of my favorite players will be done after tonight. Dude was a prolific scorer and and fantastic skater.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
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This game is kinda why I wanted to see the Ducks instead. Rookie goalies tend to shit the bed, I don't think you'll see Quick do the same thing next round.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

We got him pulled from a game last year.

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Elections have consequences.

Possibly the greatest rookie season in the history of the league:

1992-93 Winnipeg Jets
Goals: 76
Assists: 56
Points: 132

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Doesn't have to shit the bed, just has to give up more than our guy does, which tends to happen.

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Minute to minute, hoping it's over much sooner than it probably will be .... pretty much how I live my life actually.

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Good Kid Bruce Boudreau is now 1-5 in elimination games.
Q is 12-2.

The NHL would be better if the following teams disappeared tomorrow:

Anaheim
Carolina
Columbus
Dallas
Florida
Nashville
Phoenix
Tampa Bay

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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

4 of those teams have won a Cup in the last...........15 years??? Maybe less?



You're opening sentence has absolutely nothing to do with your concluding list of teams. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised by that, do you actually think about what you type? Are your sports-related posts supposed to actually make sense? Because this one......does not.

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Yes. Anaheim was a sham of an expansion, engineered by the former owner of the Los Angeles Kings as a ploy to claim territorial infringement fees. There's no reason why Los Angeles can't serve the entire Southern California market. In fact, the Kings probably could have done well to move to Anaheim and focus on Orange County.


YES. The Hartford-New Haven-Springfield corridor gives you the same population and same white-collar sector that Raleigh does, with the added benefit of GIVING A FUCK ABOUT HOCKEY.


Yes. No one cares about Columbus.


No. It would be foolish not to make inroads somewhere in Texas. It should never have come at the expense of the North Stars, but there should be a team there.


Eh. If they had stayed in downtown Miami, it could have been a worthy pursuit, but decamping to an outlet mall in buttfucking nowhere has been trouble for them.


Yes. Small, not terribly wealthy outside of Brentwood, basically subsists on Red Wings fans whose assembly-line jobs were moved to a labor-hostile state.


Yes more than anything. I wouldn't have been averse to a Phoenix team under the right conditions, but these have never been the right conditions. Again, like Dallas, it should have been a planned expansion. It was worse in Phoenix because they were hustled off from Minneapolis (failed Jets relocation) to an arena that couldn't fit a hockey rink, then also moved out to an outlet mall in buttfucking nowhere, and now exist as a taxpayer-funded toy for some dudes from Calgary who talk about themselves as owning "one-thirtieth of the NHL."


No. Tampa has always done respectably with the exception of the year or two that the Saw guy owned them, which was an era akin to a dog eating its puke while humping a couch. Even the years that they were owned by the Japanese mafia were okay. I think they were setting record crowds at the Trop.

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Yea...rather than start a new thread, I consolidated. 2 posts in 1.
I could care less if 4 of those 8 teams have won a cup. The league would be better off without them. Fans don't give a shit about Hockey in those cities. How would the NHL survive without the legacies that have been left by the Ducks, Hurricanes, Blue Jackets, Stars, Panthers, Predators, Coyotes, & Lightning? If I must keep any off them, I would keep the Stars.
People in the South don't give a shit about Hockey.

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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

Did we still think the Kings are the better option here, or was that 3rd qtr just a fluke?

As I havent really watched the Kings play this year, was that 3rd period them playing like they usually do, above their helmets or the Hawks playing bad?

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“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

The Ducks very well could have scored six goals in both games.

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I thought the Hawks played really well the first 2 periods. After the goofy penalties and the Kings scored late in the second the Hawks changed. It just kinda went downhill. I think they can beat the kings in a 7 game series, in 6 games.