Who are these progressive fans that are trying to embarrass the league because they still have goons and play an ASG? I think that's way over thinking this. I agree with JORR...the fans were able to make a funny...the league kind of panik'd but all turned out just fine. Chicken salad was actually made from chicken shit.

McClure just used it as another opportunity to bash a few of his pet peeves: Goons, Kaner, 3on3...with a few other shots for good measure. Not sure how it came to this...but he has become one bitter, cowardly douchebag.

Anyone who has been following hockey for more than 15 seconds knows and understands that the NHL needs zero help to make themselves look stupid. Hell, they just signed their knuckle headed Commissioner for like another decade.

And this isn't the first time fan voting has been used to try and hijack the NHL's wishes and intentions. John Scott's "goonery" has virtually nothing to do with this. It's just a move by the league's fan base to make the idiots running the league look stupid. Again.

Judging by the way Bernsie talked about the matter I would say people like him are the progressive types.

Yeah...but Bernsie and Young Sam and McClure...they're virtually invisible to most NHL fans. Nobody really knows or cares what they say.

As much as people like to bash on Bettman...and he certainly deserves quite a bit of the boos...it's still a professional league for an expensive sport played mostly on club levels, by hardly any people south of Minnesota...It's been a terrible viewing experience on television up until only a few years ago, with the advent of HD. Could the league be run better? Absolutely...But it's doing pretty damn well in spite of itself.

The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.

Probably just taking his cues from a girlfriend/fiancee who in turn takes her cues from the internet third-waver hivemind. As with Julie, Baffoe, Rathunde, and the rest, all these people seem to have very few insights of their own and all attack in the same way.

Who are these progressive fans that are trying to embarrass the league because they still have goons and play an ASG?

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

What is the origin of the "________ is not your friend." thing?

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Puck Daddy, r/hockey, mostly. People who go on and on about possession metrics and rape culture. Think Jen LC.

Who the hell is McClure,

Our hotel smelled like dead hooker vagina (before you ask I had gotten a detailed description from beardown)

Ask Tim Baffoe, he stole it from Gawker like he steals every idea.

I would imagine that most sane people don't really think they're best friends with the performer.

The Blue Line was the fans' program during a very dark time in the franchise's history. It gave voice to fans' frustrations and made fun of the buffoons destroying their favorite team.

When Sam took over and changed the name to TCI, things changed quickly with the organization...the dark future turned bright...championships came...the Hawks became the best run organization in the NHL. It became more and more difficult to find fault with team...second guessing Bowman has mostly been a losing proposition...the original business model of TBL/TCI needed to be revamped.

McClure was apparently given most of the control of the blog. With the Kane story, McClure has gone completely off his rocker...Did he always have such thin skin? Thus we have had comments turned off for a while now...even though they were never very offensive to begin with. Their online presence is killing their print publication...who'dathunk that?

But of course, Varlamov is in court for a civil case related to charges of him viciously beating the shit out of his girlfriend, so it will apparently be Pickard tonight.

His world of assumptions just keeps falling apart around him...

In yesterday's game preview McClure highlights the Av's goalie Varlamov



The link he connected to this incriminating statement leads to this:



http://sports.yahoo.com/news/varlamov-e ... --nhl.html

Turns out the woman beat the shit out of him!

Will Stink acknowledge?