You're the one that's been lied to. Once you stop for a while and look back at all the other blazers, you'll realize what a waste and jackass you've been. You do not attain enlightenment from being stoned -- you attain stupidity. I regret every puff I've ever taken because there were an infinite amount of better things I could have been doing. Nobody thinks you're cool except other blazers -- NOBODY. That's what you need to get into your head. And if that is the extent of your social circle then you really need a wake-up call. Not to mention, that as someone who's had cancer three times in his late 20s, radiation, chemotherapy, and three surgeries, two of which ended up with half a lung removed, you do NOT want to put that crap in your body. Mine was not related to smoking (different form entirely) but the treatments were largely the same. You can not even begin to imagine what it is like. Try waking up in the middle of the night all alone in ICU with your hands tied to the bedposts so you don't pull the respirator out of your mouth, staring at the clock, watching the second hand move tick by tick, never knowing when you'll be taken off the machine -- minutes, hours, days. Put the joint down. Go for a walk. Go meet someone new that's going somewhere in life. Read 'The Snow Leopard' by Peter Mathiessen. Go for an outdoor skate or just a walk in the snow. Who cares if your fellow blazers will make fun of you -- you don't need them. Tell that to yourself 100 times. Rise above that crap. In the ten years since I recovered from my first round of cancer, I've learned to play hockey, whitewater kayaked the Lower Yough near Pittsburgh and the Ottawa River, whitewater rafted a class 5 river in West Virginia, learned to rock climb, traveled to Ecuador and the Galapagos, went scuba diving in Panama, Honduras, Belize and Dominica, hiked for 2 weeks in Banff and spent 2 months traveling through China. And got my Master's degree while working. Oh yeah, also took up photography and exhibited my work in public in DC.

I guarantee none of that would have happened if I sat around with a joint thinking I was on top of the world. So take my advice or leave it. We're all responsible for our own decisions. It's your life to live or waste as you see fit.

- PredsFan95

Who wrote this gem?

Who wrote this gem?
- Shutdown

FlyguyHI
Philadelphia Flyers

Location: Honolulu, HI
Joined: 07.06.2006


There is some pretty good posts in Eks 2nd to last blog when he broke the news about the Cbus/Caps trade. The epic rant was just one of the few good ones in the blog

Pardon my philosophical approach.....But here are my thoughts.

I think "fire the coach" is the lazy fan's way of dealing with adversity. Sure, you can find many instances where it works, but probably just as many where it doesn't. Murray seems satisfied that Carlyle is 'his man', and that's good enough for me. He has proven himself over more than one season, so I don't see how he suddenly got stupid, as some suggest.

As for wholesale changes, I don't see that coming anytime soon. Nobody is trading right NOW, so any moves you make under duress are pretty much guaranteed to be a step down in value. (It's another story later in the season....but we ain't there yet). Add that Selanne, and Niedermayer will stay Ducks unless they ask to be moved....that's been stated before by the team/GM, and is out of respect for them.

So, what's the problem, and how do you fix it? The problem is the players themselves. Basically, I just don't think they are as good as we THOUGHT they were. At least they aren't playing like it. Specifically, our bottom 6 are unproductive, (possibly bottom 9), and our defense has holes. Lupul/Koivu have not jelled with Selanne as a cohesive unit, and Whitney has NOT panned out as hoped. Lesser named players have their own issues....

They can, however, certainly play better. Half of Defense is simply being in the right spot more times than not. They aren't looking good by that measure.

A good portion of offense is just working hard. We don't look particularly good there, either.

And worst of all, poor results breed poor habits and poor attitude. They're getting down on themselves. Second guessing themselves and their line-mates. More poor results come. Rinse, lather, repeat.

It might just come down to team leadership. I can't name a single motivational, get in your face, "Come On, Think Out There!!" kind of guy on the entire team! It's an introverted group, for the most part. In short, they aren't a team. Just a collection of players.


I'm one who believes the difference between the BEST team in the league, and the worst, is not that significant. Sure, one has bigger names, and maybe more inherent talents. But the real difference maker is the little things. Do those right, and suddenly the team starts looking much better.

The 2006-2007 Ducks weren't the most talented team in the league. But they worked together better than pretty much every other team.

THAT is what's missing. Unfortunately, it might take another off season, a few swaps of pieces and parts, and some youth to make that come back. I'm hoping to be proven wrong, but the 2009-10 season may be something we just have to suffer through.

We wouldn't be the first team to do it....

-DuckNewbie

You're the one that's been lied to. Once you stop for a while and look back at all the other blazers, you'll realize what a waste and jackass you've been. You do not attain enlightenment from being stoned -- you attain stupidity. I regret every puff I've ever taken because there were an infinite amount of better things I could have been doing. Nobody thinks you're cool except other blazers -- NOBODY. That's what you need to get into your head. And if that is the extent of your social circle then you really need a wake-up call. Not to mention, that as someone who's had cancer three times in his late 20s, radiation, chemotherapy, and three surgeries, two of which ended up with half a lung removed, you do NOT want to put that crap in your body. Mine was not related to smoking (different form entirely) but the treatments were largely the same. You can not even begin to imagine what it is like. Try waking up in the middle of the night all alone in ICU with your hands tied to the bedposts so you don't pull the respirator out of your mouth, staring at the clock, watching the second hand move tick by tick, never knowing when you'll be taken off the machine -- minutes, hours, days. Put the joint down. Go for a walk. Go meet someone new that's going somewhere in life. Read 'The Snow Leopard' by Peter Mathiessen. Go for an outdoor skate or just a walk in the snow. Who cares if your fellow blazers will make fun of you -- you don't need them. Tell that to yourself 100 times. Rise above that crap. In the ten years since I recovered from my first round of cancer, I've learned to play hockey, whitewater kayaked the Lower Yough near Pittsburgh and the Ottawa River, whitewater rafted a class 5 river in West Virginia, learned to rock climb, traveled to Ecuador and the Galapagos, went scuba diving in Panama, Honduras, Belize and Dominica, hiked for 2 weeks in Banff and spent 2 months traveling through China. And got my Master's degree while working. Oh yeah, also took up photography and exhibited my work in public in DC.


I guarantee none of that would have happened if I sat around with a joint thinking I was on top of the world. So take my advice or leave it. We're all responsible for our own decisions. It's your life to live or waste as you see fit.


- PredsFan95

Yeah but have you ever tried that stuff......on WEED!

I'm lazy and don't feel like quoting it, but I pretty much busted a nut when Ek said "winds of change

Ek's 3 am booty call

May 31 @ 3:01 AM ET
great work Jules. see you in a bit.

- eklund

Ek's 3 am booty call

May 31 @ 3:01 AM ET
great work Jules. see you in a bit.

- eklund
- CatWoman

Wow, I guess Ek is the Tiger Woods of internet hockey bloggers.

Ek's 3 am booty call

May 31 @ 3:01 AM ET
great work Jules. see you in a bit.

- eklund
- CatWoman

catwoman, eh?

And on the happiness side, the club seats (Ice Bar and Fire Lounge) are excellent. Really good food, both catered type stuff and regular arena junk food. They make no attempt to limit your intake (some places make it hard to avail yourself of the all you can eat, not this place). I'd love to have their chicken fingers--hot, crispy, not dried out--instead of the pathetic cold, chewy abomination that is Chickie's and Pete's--at the Vault.

And I think I got some good shots of the boys. Although I'm not digital, so I won't know for sure until Tuesday.

--bodiva88
- watsonnostaw

i remember that

LISTEN IM AM SO SICK AND FUKING TIRED OF SITTING HERE AND READING ABOUT YOU FUKING CANADIANS FUKIN BAD MOUTHIN OUR BILLS!!!!!! BELIEVE ME THEY DONT WANNA GO TO FUKING CANADA( FOR THT MATTER IDT ANYONE WOULD WANNA GO)... STOP YOUR FUKING COMPLAINING CUZ UR PRECIOUS JUNIOR HOCKEY TEAM LOST TO OUR BELOVED USA JUNIOR HOCKEY TEAM...THE BILLS HAVE THEE BEST FAN BASE IN THE NFL, IDC WHT ANYONE HAS TO SAY ABOUT IT... WHT OTHER TEAM WOULD BRING THERE FUKING KIDS OUT IN SUBZERO WEATHER IN BLIZZARD CONDITION????? I SURE THE HELL NO THT IF THEY MOVED TO FUKING TORONTO THEY WOULDNT.... AND STOP BASHING THE RALPH.. THT STADIUM IS HOME TO SOME OF US.., INCLUDING ME.. I AM A 10 YEAR SEASON TICKET HOLDER AND DONT PLAN ON STOPPING.. ILL BUY SEASON TICKETS TILL THE DAY I DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU CAN BLOW ME IF THTS A PROBLEM,,, GO BILLS AND FUK TORONTO!!!!!!!!!!!!

LISTEN IM AM SO SICK AND FUKING TIRED OF SITTING HERE AND READING ABOUT YOU FUKING CANADIANS FUKIN BAD MOUTHIN OUR BILLS!!!!!! BELIEVE ME THEY DONT WANNA GO TO FUKING CANADA( FOR THT MATTER IDT ANYONE WOULD WANNA GO)... STOP YOUR FUKING COMPLAINING CUZ UR PRECIOUS JUNIOR HOCKEY TEAM LOST TO OUR BELOVED USA JUNIOR HOCKEY TEAM...THE BILLS HAVE THEE BEST FAN BASE IN THE NFL, IDC WHT ANYONE HAS TO SAY ABOUT IT... WHT OTHER TEAM WOULD BRING THERE FUKING KIDS OUT IN SUBZERO WEATHER IN BLIZZARD CONDITION????? I SURE THE HELL NO THT IF THEY MOVED TO FUKING TORONTO THEY WOULDNT.... AND STOP BASHING THE RALPH.. THT STADIUM IS HOME TO SOME OF US.., INCLUDING ME.. I AM A 10 YEAR SEASON TICKET HOLDER AND DONT PLAN ON STOPPING.. ILL BUY SEASON TICKETS TILL THE DAY I DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU CAN BLOW ME IF THTS A PROBLEM,,, GO BILLS AND FUK TORONTO!!!!!!!!!!!!
- S Kaspar Rollins

Bills to Toronto (e5)

take your caps lock off and make paragraphs

Tonight the Hockey Gods handed us all a gift.
A truly spectacular performance by two incredible teams with the stakes never higher.
There are few words that can touch this game.
It truly had everything you could want.
Both America and Canada would not be denied tonight.
If we played this game 100 times each team would win 50.
Canada had the superior talent.
America had the superior team.

Here are a few thoughts for our Canadian friends...

I am proud to be an American Hockey fan tonight, and I ask you in Canada to allow that.
This is your sport.
It always will be.
I am forever in your debt for that.
I spent many a Canada Cup and Olympics cheering for your bright red leaf, and as much as you may not know it, so did those American boys who took the gold tonight.
There have been countless moments when Canada was crowned the hockey capital of the world, yet you don't need to win gold for that to remain the case.
This will always be your domain.
We are here to play your game as best we can and are honored to be given a chance to defeat you.
Understand that it is only because of your passion that we fell in love with hockey.
So, should on the rarest of occasion we defeat our mentor remember there are many down here who will always remember you for what you are:
Our neighbor up north who not only gave us hockey, but like any strong mentor, you taught us how to love hockey.
It is that love and that passion that may at times cause us to defeat you like we did tonight...
Do you wish we didn't love it? Do you wish we didn't come to play?
So thanks Canada and let's do this again next month.
Shall we?

Sincerley
1 American Hockey Fan

Tonight the Hockey Gods handed us all a gift.
A truly spectacular performance by two incredible teams with the stakes never higher.
There are few words that can touch this game.
It truly had everything you could want.
Both America and Canada would not be denied tonight.
If we played this game 100 times each team would win 50.
Canada had the superior talent.
America had the superior team.

Here are a few thoughts for our Canadian friends...

I am proud to be an American Hockey fan tonight, and I ask you in Canada to allow that.
This is your sport.
It always will be.
I am forever in your debt for that.
I spent many a Canada Cup and Olympics cheering for your bright red leaf, and as much as you may not know it, so did those American boys who took the gold tonight.
There have been countless moments when Canada was crowned the hockey capital of the world, yet you don't need to win gold for that to remain the case.
This will always be your domain.
We are here to play your game as best we can and are honored to be given a chance to defeat you.
Understand that it is only because of your passion that we fell in love with hockey.
So, should on the rarest of occasion we defeat our mentor remember there are many down here who will always remember you for what you are:
Our neighbor up north who not only gave us hockey, but like any strong mentor, you taught us how to love hockey.
It is that love and that passion that may at times cause us to defeat you like we did tonight...
Do you wish we didn't love it? Do you wish we didn't come to play?
So thanks Canada and let's do this again next month.
Shall we?

Sincerley
1 American Hockey Fan
- bcallaway

whats with every blues fan and preds fan writing the longest posts ever?

whats with every blues fan and preds fan writing the longest posts ever?
- sourceplease

This was written by an unknown Flyers fan that wishes he were Canadian every other day of the year.......

whats with every blues fan and preds fan writing the longest posts ever?
- sourceplease

This does drive me nuts, but bcallaway was quoting the masked man running this site.

Hawks fans are longwinded too. Go into any of JJ's threads and there are novel long posts in there.

LISTEN IM AM SO SICK AND FUKING TIRED OF SITTING HERE AND READING ABOUT YOU FUKING CANADIANS FUKIN BAD MOUTHIN OUR BILLS!!!!!! BELIEVE ME THEY DONT WANNA GO TO FUKING CANADA( FOR THT MATTER IDT ANYONE WOULD WANNA GO)... STOP YOUR FUKING COMPLAINING CUZ UR PRECIOUS JUNIOR HOCKEY TEAM LOST TO OUR BELOVED USA JUNIOR HOCKEY TEAM...THE BILLS HAVE THEE BEST FAN BASE IN THE NFL, IDC WHT ANYONE HAS TO SAY ABOUT IT... WHT OTHER TEAM WOULD BRING THERE FUKING KIDS OUT IN SUBZERO WEATHER IN BLIZZARD CONDITION????? I SURE THE HELL NO THT IF THEY MOVED TO FUKING TORONTO THEY WOULDNT.... AND STOP BASHING THE RALPH.. THT STADIUM IS HOME TO SOME OF US.., INCLUDING ME.. I AM A 10 YEAR SEASON TICKET HOLDER AND DONT PLAN ON STOPPING.. ILL BUY SEASON TICKETS TILL THE DAY I DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU CAN BLOW ME IF THTS A PROBLEM,,, GO BILLS AND FUK TORONTO!!!!!!!!!!!!
- S Kaspar Rollins

It sounds like an epic text message. I particularily liked "you can blow me if thts a problem."

Oh well, I must now address the Alex Burrows situation that has been so gripping and taken the league by storm. A situation so dire, so incredibly awful, so close to tearing a hole in the very fiber of the game that almost everyone in hockey has spent the last 24 hours polarized and questioning their very existence.
- Eklund

Incredible.

Incredible.
- awesomerino

Incredible.
- awesomerino

Incredible.
- awesomerino

Incredible.
- awesomerino

Did he actually write that?

Did he actually write that?
- Prax

It's in his blog right now.

It's in his blog right now.
- awesomerino

I have a three letter word for this whole media/fan passion play: "Ugh"


The HB Smiley face isn't enough for this one

Did he actually write that?
- Prax

well to be fair, eklund is a boob.