Today In Colorado Avalanche History
by David Driscoll-Carignan on Mar 26, 2009 12:00 PM MDT
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March 26, 1997 - In Claude Lemieux's first game back in Detroit since his vicious hit from behind on Kris Draper, Darren McCarty decides that the best way to punish douchebaggery is with more douchebaggery. After Igor Larionov and Peter Forsberg get into a scrap along the boards, McCarty sucker punches Lemieux. Lemieux famously turtles. Roy skates in to defend Lemiux. Roy and Shanahan collide. Roy and Vernon fight. It's that simple. Or something.
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Yep, 12 years today. Hard to believe I saw this happen when I was 18 years old. Seems like a whole different era.
Go Avs! Let's get some goals!
I still hate Darren McCarty. Met him at a party in 1997, and he was a complete waste of air…and in the words of DDC, complete all around “douchebaggery”
Well
good to know that I hate a guy who is worth hating. I hate that guy, what a cheap-shot punk.
by Jibblescribbits on Mar 26, 2009 12:45 PM MDT up reply actions
totally a giant douchenozzle
but at least flaming hypocrisy is fun to watch as a spectator, right?
I just want Drury back...
Watched
the Monster play Detroit’s affiliate last weekend and there was the Douchebag himself…and he tried to take out Matt Hendricks.
MHH: Like the Avs organization, we’ve now officially lost our minds.
I'm The Canary - but I'm not cute nor cuddly, and I don't sing.
by Americanario on Mar 26, 2009 2:02 PM MDT up reply actions
I'm still not sure he turtled?
Some time as I watch that I wonder how much he was aware of after the initial hit. I’m not sure if he wasn’t semi conscious after the sucker punch?
MHH: Like the Avs organization, we’ve now officially lost our minds.
I'm The Canary - but I'm not cute nor cuddly, and I don't sing.
Darren McCarty
Douche-slurping, felch-gargling, sphincter-licking, underwear-wetting, colon-bean of a hypocrite. What makes me sick is everyone is so doe-eyed over his recovery from “alcoholism”. As if you could catch it from anywhere other than an open bottle that YOU ordered. He’s a stinking drunk, a mean one, and he gives all that is good about alcohol a bad name. I know many alcoholics, 99% of them are functional. Without the benefit of millions per year. So… If I ever meet him I’m going to tell him I think claude lemieux is more of a man than him and I have pictures of the kris draper hit as every screen saver, on every screen I own. If he says anything back, which he will, cuz he’s a bitch, I will remind him of the McSorley fight, and how it suspiciously looked like his own turtle maneuver, minus his own bitch ass cheap shot. Geez, I think I hate him more than Dan Winkler hates the Hobbit….
Get rid of the loser point
08-09 Avs- can we decline the penalty?
by TheRed on Mar 26, 2009 2:13 PM MDT reply actions 5 recs
I’m having a shitty afternoon…that cheered me up a bit.
Hyphens cause writers more trouble than any other form of punctuation, except perhaps commas.
by David Driscoll-Carignan on Mar 26, 2009 2:16 PM MDT up reply actions
Your welcome-
Sorry I forgot hairy-ball-sack-of-a-goat as an adjective
Get rid of the loser point
08-09 Avs- can we decline the penalty?
by TheRed on Mar 26, 2009 2:28 PM MDT up reply actions 1 recs
That sir
is an insult to goat sacks everywhere.
MHH: Like the Avs organization, we’ve now officially lost our minds.
I'm The Canary - but I'm not cute nor cuddly, and I don't sing.
by Americanario on Mar 26, 2009 5:57 PM MDT up reply actions
And it's not even close
Sir, you absolutely hate McCarty more than I hate the Hobbit because I hate McCarty more than I hate the Hobbit, and it’s not even in the same stratosphere.
I couldn’t believe my eyes that night when the refs let McCarty mug Claude and then let him stay in the game (and fucking score the winner). Shanahan cheap-shotted Roy. Forsberg got hurt in a scrap with Larionov and left late in the first period. Martin Fucking Lapointe scored 2 goals. Aaron Ward shit his pants when Brent Severyn challenged him. Colorado blew a couple of 2-goal leads. The fact that Detroit won the game made that one of my top 3 shittiest sports memories of all time.
Here’s the only good thing Brad May ever did in an Avs sweater.
This makes me really happy.
Oh, and by the way, Kris Draper is a cheap-shotting little bitch who should know better (since he was the victim, and all) but seems to get dirtier and dirtier over the years.
by Dan Winkler on Mar 26, 2009 5:59 PM MDT up reply actions
Wow
I had never seen the Laraque-McCarty fight.
Laraque may be my new favorite non-Av of all time, just for that. That made my evening.
by Jibblescribbits on Mar 26, 2009 10:37 PM MDT up reply actions
I still like Brooks Orpik. His shift in the playoffs last year sticks in my mind every time I think of how someone should play the Wings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXsk_qZTvLo
Get rid of the loser point
08-09 Avs- can we decline the penalty?
Thanks for the fight posts. I love seeing that shitstain get his ass kicked. Even if it is by May. In Dater’s “Blood Feud” book he brings up the fact that the ref later regretted that decision, and even said he should have ejected McCarty. What makes it an even worse decision is that the linesman even told him, “you gotta throw him out”. All the Wings mentioned that as the turning point that won them the cup. Before that they had a serious inferiority complex about us. Good book, even if it is a little too complimentary towards the wings for my taste.
Get rid of the loser point
08-09 Avs- can we decline the penalty?
I was in Ann Arbor for a short class during the summer of 1997 and was listening to a sports radio station there. Fresh off of the heals of the Wings’ first SC in 42 years, you would think the station would still be talking about that? Nope. Still talking about the McAsshole attack on Claude. Even replaying it over and over again.
MHH: Shagging Dater one contributor at a time.
by Bob in Boulder on Mar 27, 2009 1:22 PM MDT up reply actions
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