Congratulations Canada, you barely beat America at the game you invented. No, I kid. I saw that on the site, Texts from Last Night. Go there for hilarity. For hockey hilarity, you stay here. Now then, Canada won gold last Sunday in a game I saw maybe 20 seconds of due to a prior engagement. I will say I enjoyed the tournament, as the hockey was up and down in every game, and who will forget Pavol Demitra hitting the cross bar with about 22 seconds left against Canada Friday night? That goes in, and it easily could have been USA and Slovakia for gold in Vancouver.
Naturally, after a game like the gold medal game, the talk turns to will this help the NHL, or not? From my seat in the stands, I prefer NHL hockey over International play because a lot of the cheap shit that went on in the Olympics has to be answered for. I don’t care how inspirational Saku Koivu’s story is, he’s a dirty little fucker and the stick work he deployed during the Olympics would have been dealt with in the NHL. Same with Alexander Semin’s late hit on Dan Boyle. Shifty Euros get smaller and less brave with their sticks in the NHL, and that’s the game I like. Will the tournament help the NHL? Maybe short term. Long term reality of the situation is this. You are either a hockey fan or you aren’t. One exciting game, gold medal or otherwise, will not turn the tide of a niche sport.
Tonight should feature why I love the NHL so much, as the Battle of Ontario rivalry between Toronto, and Ottawa is on again. When we last left our heroes, Goonblog favorite, Matt Carkner, had been beaten soundly by another Goonblog favorite, Colton Orr. Look for these two to get after it again early in tonight’s contest.
I had the privilege of watching Orr soundly beat Boston’s Milan Lucic in person this week. Everyone in the building, including Don Cherry, was on Milan for giving up on the fight. Well, what we didn’t know was Orr had broken the big Serbians nose early in the fight, and when they got separated Lucic wanted no more part of sticking the already formidable beak back in there. I can’t say I blame him, as it is my opinion Colton Orr is the best in the business right now. Damn I wish he was still in the black and gold! Glad the NHL is back boys!
wow could you be anymore of an ignorant person on bashing lucic? about his nose calling a beak, and when did he quit, you,cherry and the ignorance are the only ones who say it. the cherry groupies. if look lucic was the one waiving his hands to orr. yeah he probably didn’t want anymore but would have. i didn’t see orr going at him. when did orr beat him down. it was good fight and a close fight, orr tooking it at the end but it was definetly not a beat down. lucic hung in there well and no body gives him credit at all. hung in there better then carkner has, seeing he has been dropped by orr twice as many others have. lucic never gave up even when he was hit. give the kid credit, keep this in mind he is still battling that high ankle sparain and his calf and quad is tapped up. if thats not balls nothing is. you and others need to stop bashing on him as he did well and didn’t get his ass handed to him. he did better than 95% of the legit heavies!!
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Off topic (sorry guys) if this ling works, check it out. Bruins history part 1.
Tony,
Thanks so much for stopping by and commenting. I should clarify a bit. I wasn’t saying Lucic gave up, I was simply commenting on the vibe of the building. From my seat, there was a lot of Lucic bashing. I give him all the credit in the world for fighting Orr. He’s the best in the business right now, and he lost. Lucic that is. He lost the fight. Kid is tough as nails, and I am a huge fan of his work, but I call them like I see them, and he lost. Thanks again Tony. If you e-mail me your address and shirt size, I could send you a Goonblog T Shirt to wear proudly, and tell all your friends about us!