At 1/21/08 07:07 PM, hongkongexpress wrote:
Raj, first of all. You missed the entire point of my rant. I mentioned the Flames are old, sucky, and that I've jumped onto the bandwagon in 04.
Yes, I was also pointing that out to discredit your complete lack of knowledge
But they play with HEART. That's what I miss from the "Good ol hockey game"
What in the fuck are you talking about? Play with heart? Is the entire league a team full of Kovalchuk's and Samsanov's to you? How do you even GAUGE whether or not a team plays with heart?
(you have to be Canadian, to appreciate these things).
We live and breathe hockey here in Minnesota far more than the prairie-farming cousin-fuckers in Alberta.
Hockey used to be played with passion,
Do you often fall bait to the news media stating hockey isn't played with passion anymore? It's more passionate than it ever was, not that you'd know, you only started watching in 04
with Mavrickness.
Thaaaat is not a word
Example the Oilers, were a team owned by an entreprenure, Peter Pocklington, who didn't have the money to pay them the 150 Million like say Ovechikin had. Yet, they managed to win 5 Stanley cups. Because they played with heart. With Excitement.
Most team owners are entrepreneurs, that's why they're team owners. You know, they own franchises? And of course they didn't have that kind of money back then, because hockey salaries weren't shit in the 80's. They didn't win because they played with heart, they won five cups because they had by far the most ridiculously over-talented squad in the entire decade. Far outpowering even the early Islanders.
They make a game animated. how else can I explain this to you? The Flames are the only team that's not bazilllion dollars rich.
The Flames are actually in the middle ground when it comes to franchise wealth, no where NEAR the bottom. And no teams are a bazillion dollars rich with profit sharing anyways.
Calgary is a very small city. But people just go crazy and fall in love with the players.
???
What the fuck are you talking about? Calgary, by area, is larger than Toronto, and by population is the third largest city in your entire country with well over 1,000,000 residents.
The team is full of PEOPLE. Falliable, fragile (as seen with Dion's constant cuts, or Iglina's wrinkled for head, or Lanny McDonald's frail body). But it's the blood, the warm human blood that flows through them. As they desperately try to win. And look through struggles they have climbed up.
.... did you get this from some shitty inspirational sports movie? Because this sounds absolutely nothing like any hockey team I know, nevermind the Flames.
It's sort of like how Hitler was obsessed with the Triump of the Will, but instead of making a society of workaholic industrialists, he decided to turn them into psycopathic murderers.
aaaand you just lovingly compared the Flamers with Hitler. Gotcha.
This is hockey, and...... our commentators have been around for ever. And use old hockey terms. like Dandies...
Roger Millions is one of the worst commentators in the entire league, and has in no way "been around forever".
I don't know how else to get through to you son! The reason why I like the Flames. Besides my rabid hatred for Edmonton, is that Calgary doesnt' have the Ovechkins, or the Federovs... but they're like Chelleos . They play for the love of the game. the ability to get up from getting their hips knocked in a funny angle, and the ability of randomness of Kiprusof,
Riggght
about English being my second language. you're a racist mother fucker. a low life unintelligent person if you have to play the race card. You can play the HK Express is a crazy fucker card, but no you have to pull out the race card. Do you also go to Clan rallies? do you hate blacks as well? The Oilers had a Black Goalie. Iglina is black... Chelleos is Greek. do you have problems with their ethinicity?
I honestly have no idea what ethnicity you are, at all, but I figured since you speak like a moron you might actually have some sort of valid excuse, instead of actually just being retarded.
Or you might be both.
Fuck yourself son. I come here, looking to play mind games with fellow hockey fans, because THAT'S what we do. and you have to come in playing the race card.
You know, at first I thought you were just some slightly delusional fanboy. But judging by everything you just wrote, I realized that you are completely, utterly, full of shit. You know absolutely nothing about hockey nor the lifestyle that surrounds it, and every single fact you try to cite is either completely wrong or completely asinine. You talk about the "good old days", when you've only been watching for less than four years.
If you're going to spout useless facts and nonsense, you might want to make sure that it's even remotely true. All you've done is proven how little you know.
Go watch something simple like soccer. You might be able to actually grasp what goes on.