Question for the Canadians

“So when you guys play hockey, do you say I'm sorry every time you have to beat someone with a hockey stick?”

“No, I think the term is "Eat lumber!"”

“well it is if yous a Flyer”

“No, sometimes you just have to sit in the corner for two minutes and think about what you've done.”

“I don't think you're actually supposed to hit people with your stick -- that's what constitutes most of the fouls (slashing, tripping, hooking, cross-checking, high-sticking, etc...)”

“Well, you could ask one of the better players down there, since he's probably Canadian..... hehehe
;-)”

“true dat


or russian”

“Don't forget Spearing...”

“My definition of hockey: Golf with fighting”

“No you don't say you're sorry....you say, "Your IT"....then WHAMMMO. Btw, you get more satisfaction if you elbow someone in the head. j/k”

“Actually fighting in hockey in my opinion is poor sportsmanship...there should be zero tolerance for it.”

“I'm more tolerant of fighting. It's the cheep shots that I don't like. But, I’d rather see a good clean check over both.”

“Hockey is the only team sport I enjoy watching, and it's because of the fighting.”

“There are other team sports you can watch?”

“There is nothing more beautiful in sports than a good passing hockey team. The flow and speed is just incredible.”

“You have obviously not watched enough female beach volleyball.


Or curling.”

“Is it that Canadians are polite - or is it that Americans are........”

“Less polite?????
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““No, I think the term is "Eat lumber!"”
Geobeet
5:43:03 PM
8/18/05
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“well it is if yous a Flyer”
Hog On Ice
6:03:11 PM
8/18/05
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You ever hear of Tai Domi?”

“You ever hear of Tai Domi?”
Geobeet
12:59:54 PM
8/19/05
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That guy is a goon. It's people like him that give hockey a bad rep.”

“There have been goons in hockey since I started watching back in '65. I used to go to Baltimore Clippers AHL games, and they had a guy named Keke Mortson. We called him CooCoo Mortson. He was a 30-some year old defenseman in the twilight of an unillustrious career, and they picked him up just to be an enforcer. He would get in fights with guys twice his size and get the crap beaten out of him. CooCoo winning a fight was bigger news than the Clippers winning a game.”

“So I take it his real name was pronounced "kee-kee" not "keek"?”

“You got it. Of course, if it had been keek, we'd have named him kook.

He got in a fight one night - went after a guy and lit into him. The guy was bigger (CooCoo was not that big) and there was about a pint of CooCoo's blood on the ice. They couldn't even scrape it off.

The final upshot was CooCoo got a game misconduct besides getting the stuffing knocked out of him.”

“You ever hear of Tai Domi?”
Geobeet
11:59:54 AM
8/19/05

can't say as that I have - I was referring to the golden era of the Broadstreet Bullies back in the late 60s and early 70s”

“Oh, back in the Wayne Cashman, Derrick Sanderson, Keith Magnuson, Gordie Howe, and John Ferguson?”

“i was told last week that hockey actually comes from the iroquois word for "OUCH!"”

“You have obviously not watched enough female beach volleyball.
Or curling.”
bitpusher


Is that Female Beach Curling? Or just regular curling?”

“one of the funnier quotes to come out of that era:

Bobby Clarke quote - prior to the exhibition game between the Central Red Army team and the reigning Stanley Cup champion Flyers (Philadelphia won the game 4-1), Clarke claimed "(the Soviets) complain about the ice, the practice time. They show up late, they don't like our gifts. They're always trying to play with our minds. But that won't work with our club. We've got 20 guys with no brains."”

“Is it true each hockey team has a team dentist on staff?”

“Oh, back in the Wayne Cashman, Derrick Sanderson, Keith Magnuson, Gordie Howe, and John Ferguson?”
Geobeet

Howe played hockey?!

http://www.attheplate.com/wcbl/1951_1j.htm

Scroll down to the "Saskatoon 55s" roster - there are a couple of names you might recognize. BTW, the 2nd name is my dad.”

“It was in the first period of a game between the Red Wings and Black Hawks that Magnuson tripped Gordie Howe. He went off for two in the bin.

Early in the third period, Howe and Magnuson got caught behind the play, so Gordie took Keith into the boards and stuck his elbow into Keith's ear.

Magnuson crumpled like a wet dish rag, and Howe skated up the ice. Magnuson was lying there screaming to the ref, and Gordie looked like he was out for a Sunday morning skate on the ol' farm pond, the picture of innocence. The ref, like Sgt. Schultz in Hogan's Heroes, saw nuthink!

That still is my funniest hockey memory.”