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Cliff Ronning and the Art of Self Defense

March 30, 2020, 1:19 PM ET [9 Comments]
James Tanner
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Coming in at #43 on the all-time list of best Coyotes players of all-time, is all-time Coyotes great, and half-time NHL great Cliff "the Ron" Ronning.

You may remember Cliff Ronning from such hockey cards 1991 Pro Set, or such teams as the Vancouver Canucks.

What you may not remember is that he once played for the Arizona Coyotes.

His special move was kindness, and his sigil is my old neighbor Ron painted standing over the edge of a cliff. (Note that Cliff Ronning is a literalist).

Ronning scored 113 over 156 games with the Coyotes for three years in the late 1990s, when he was huge into Massive Attack, raves and Fat Bastard impressions (one assumes).

Ronning played over 1000 NHL games, scored almost 900 points and was a solid 50-60 point player for years. He still scored at nearly a 50 point pace at age 38 in his last season, then retired after the lockout of 2004 cost the NHL a full season due to the excessive greed of a bunch of idiots.

Cool fact: Ronning's son Ty was drafted by the Rangers in 2016, and if Don Maloney was still in charge of the Coyotes, he'd probably be on the current roster.



Here is the list so far of the 50 Greatest Films of All-Time

50: Limitless
49: Oh Brother Where Art Though?
48: Role Models
47: the Rock
46: Mission Impossible Franchise
45: Nicholas Cage Man Tetrology
44:Heat


The Art of Self Defense

I am pretty sure that this is the most recent film on this list. It stars Jessie Eisenberg and is about how he is a huge loser who learns the lost art of karate in order to feel better about himself.

This is a great satire, and one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.

It is rarely seen, but worth finding just for the scene where Eisenberg's sensei forces him to listen to heavy metal.

The sensei, Allesandro Nivola, is one of the single greatest characters in film history, and I'm not just saying that because he once did us the honor of playing Nick Cage's brother in Face/Off.

This movie is sort of like Fight Club, if Fight Club was a funnier, better movie.

I feel like it's one of those movies that most people would hate, but people who like it think it's a masterpiece.

Anyways, it inspired me to learn Karate, and now that I've almost replicated the Steven Seagal pony-tail, I definitely do not recommend getting into a fight with me. I mean, you will probably win the fight, but I will look cool as hell.

My sensei's name is Sensei Gus, and he doing hellacool e-training during the quarantine for only $6.99 in bitcoin per lesson.

I get a referral fee, so let me know if you wanna sign up! Shaun T called Sensei Gus "literally the best E-sensei in the world," so you know he's good!

And watch this movie, I highly doubt you've got anything better to do (and if you do, seriously, let me know).
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