TSN and Avalanche Fans Know: It's Not Over
by Joe Dunman on Oct 20, 2009 8:45 AM MDT
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PrintHow would we here at Mile High Hockey react if a Tampa Bay Lightning blog started bad-mouthing the Avalanche organization and relentlessly criticizing Colorado players? We'd ignore them, because who cares? The last thing we'd do is waste our time arguing with the fans of a team we don't care about. There's no rivalry between the Lightning and the Avalanche, and you can't just make one up out of thin air.
Just as you can't create rivalries out of nothing, you can't just decide that an old, bitter rivalry is dead. And you definitely can't claim that it's dead when you purposely act to keep that rivalry alive by going out of your way to engage the rival fans on their home territory.
I bring this up again because the Avalanche play the Red Wings again on Saturday. And, I'd like to bring something else up, from TSN:
This rivalry will never die, even if I have to give it daily mouth-to-mouth.
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Oh god… hangover from several long playoff runs?? The poor guys…
More like a hangover from several long homosexual love affairs and off season orgy injuries… rhetorically speaking, of course.
There is basically a cumulative Niagra Falls of shit happening right now.
by Pinchy The Lobster on Oct 20, 2009 8:58 AM MDT reply actions
Of course. You’re not encouraging off season orgy injuries, you’re just recognizing that they exist. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
The Avs may (or may not) suck now, but they've still won a Cup more recently than 75% of the NHL.
Haha! Yes.. I would ever want any Red Wing to be injured during something as special as a team orgy… I’m mean, but not THAT mean.
There is basically a cumulative Niagra Falls of shit happening right now.
by Pinchy The Lobster on Oct 20, 2009 9:08 AM MDT up reply actions
See what happens when I get up early? I mess up my posts…
There is basically a cumulative Niagra Falls of shit happening right now.
by Pinchy The Lobster on Oct 20, 2009 9:10 AM MDT up reply actions
I wonder if any Wings blogs will try to use this:
The Avs may (or may not) suck now, but they've still won a Cup more recently than 75% of the NHL.
What idiots… “brianiacs” should be capitalized!
There is basically a cumulative Niagra Falls of shit happening right now.
by Pinchy The Lobster on Oct 20, 2009 9:24 AM MDT up reply actions
what moran wrote that?
Hyphens cause writers more trouble than any other form of punctuation, except perhaps commas.
by David Driscoll-Carignan on Oct 20, 2009 10:23 AM MDT up reply actions
Who are all these “morans”?
I was looking for a bunch on “morons”
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by Americanario on Oct 20, 2009 1:13 PM MDT up reply actions
Hey, I resent the not caring about the Tampa Bay Lightning! I care about the Avs! :oÞ
Cassie
Raw Charge, an SBN Tampa Bay Lightning Blog. Calling shotgun in the clown car.
by Cassie McClellan on Oct 20, 2009 9:15 AM MDT reply actions
Oh, well, you know what I mean. Not care enough to hate you!
The Avs may (or may not) suck now, but they've still won a Cup more recently than 75% of the NHL.
The one thing I will always remember about the Lightning is when Hejduk potted the over-time penalty shot…2003? I think I still have that game (ESPN 2) on video cassette somewhere. I always remember getting a chuckle because Tim Taylor scored on us…and since my parents were big “Home Improvement” fans, and I was less mature…OK, I’ll stop
Wasn’t Tim Taylor a Wings fan? Oh wait, that was Joey from Full House.
The Avs may (or may not) suck now, but they've still won a Cup more recently than 75% of the NHL.
yeah
he’s from Detroit. There was even an episode where he went to a Wings game, but had to sell the tix and got busted for scalping. hilarious hi jinks ensued.
Don’t know why I remember that
The New Improved Avalanche. Now with Real Coaches!
Jibblescribbits: C'mon over and waste some time
by Jibblescribbits on Oct 20, 2009 9:36 AM MDT up reply actions
OK ESPN and TSN
We get it already! The Wings are gay. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Hey Peter McNab, I'm starting to see sunshine and rainbows here.
There is basically a cumulative Niagra Falls of shit happening right now.
by Pinchy The Lobster on Oct 20, 2009 10:17 AM MDT up reply actions
You just made me crack up at work. Damn.
Hey Peter McNab, I'm starting to see sunshine and rainbows here.
by Bob in Boulder on Oct 20, 2009 10:20 AM MDT up reply actions
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. I admire his courage in coming out so publicly.
The Avs may (or may not) suck now, but they've still won a Cup more recently than 75% of the NHL.
I'm calling a major foul here!
Did you just use the word “courage” to describe Kirk “slash then run and hide behind my shield” Maltby, possibly the most gutless puke to ever put on an NHL uniform?
Hey Peter McNab, I'm starting to see sunshine and rainbows here.
by Bob in Boulder on Oct 20, 2009 10:41 AM MDT up reply actions
There is basically a cumulative Niagra Falls of shit happening right now.
by Pinchy The Lobster on Oct 20, 2009 1:39 PM MDT up reply actions
Please don't stop!
Hey Peter McNab, I'm starting to see sunshine and rainbows here.
by Bob in Boulder on Oct 20, 2009 1:56 PM MDT up reply actions
I just absolutely don't understand how anyone
in their right mind, not mentioning any names, could call themselves a true Av fan and not hate the Wings …. or even, Roy forbid, openly admire them. Such a freak, again not mentioning any names, might even start to make up rules excluding present douchery wearing the winged wheel for “being on their last legs” or because “they are there only for one year, max.”
Hey Peter McNab, I'm starting to see sunshine and rainbows here.
Oh, and speaking of power rankings, ESPN has Colorado in third place. Red Wings are overvalued at 16th.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/powerranking
The Avs may (or may not) suck now, but they've still won a Cup more recently than 75% of the NHL.
You guys are wrong. The avs/wings rivalry is dead. I couldn’t care less about the wings. Yep, I couldn’t care less about those cheap, douchy, a-holes a bit.
This team will make the playoffs and upset the Sharks in the first round...it's our turn.
by An Unmitigated Disaster on Oct 20, 2009 11:45 AM MDT reply actions
fail
Really? If the Avs played Columbus or Detroit, and (Roy forbid) gave up a point or two, you wouldn’t care about one game more than the other?
My two favorite teams are the Avs and whoever the Red Wings are playing…
Mr. Anderson. Welcome back, we've missed you!
Hmm
I think you’re missing the sarcasm there
The New Improved Avalanche. Now with Real Coaches!
Jibblescribbits: C'mon over and waste some time
by Jibblescribbits on Oct 20, 2009 12:25 PM MDT up reply actions
Thanks. Re-read the last sentence.
This team will make the playoffs and upset the Sharks in the first round...it's our turn.
by An Unmitigated Disaster on Oct 20, 2009 1:05 PM MDT up reply actions
nobody said I was very quick.
Mr. Anderson. Welcome back, we've missed you!
by tele-mon on Oct 20, 2009 12:38 PM MDT reply actions 4 recs
There was never a more perfect Jibbled comment.
The Avs may (or may not) suck now, but they've still won a Cup more recently than 75% of the NHL.
Rec’d
The New Improved Avalanche. Now with Real Coaches!
Jibblescribbits: C'mon over and waste some time
by Jibblescribbits on Oct 20, 2009 1:14 PM MDT up reply actions
beautiful
Hyphens cause writers more trouble than any other form of punctuation, except perhaps commas.
by David Driscoll-Carignan on Oct 20, 2009 1:29 PM MDT up reply actions
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