MafiaMan

gfhockey lives!

If people want to cherry-pick NHL teams based on where certain UND players wind up, why is it such a travesty to root against NHL teams based on where certain Minnesota players wind up? I'm a Red Wings fan. Had Steve Yzerman been traded to Boston in 1996, I wouldn't have instantly become a Bruins fan. On the flip side, I can't stand Sidney Crosby, but if he were traded to Detroit tomorrow, I'd cheer for him. I wouldn't buy a #87 Red Wings jersey, but I'd cheer for him. To each his own. Cheer for whoever you want. Just don't be a hypocrite and b*tch about Kyle Rau today and then buy his jersey in 2022 when he wins a Conn Smythe for the Stanley Cup champion Wild.

And I'm not sure if this rule applies to teams when playing out-of-state, but if this were in MN, the coaching staff would be suspended immediately pending a hearing in front of their district board. I believe the "player safety" issue was a flash-bang grenade lobbed out there in order to cover up being sore losers.

Looks like you're getting skewered over this post, IHTINB, but I totally see your point. While I think Scorpio has good intel in this matter and have no reason to doubt it, this whole board would have a much different opinion if the news "reporter" was Mariucci or DrunkHockeyGuy. FWIW, my keen insight usually only pertains to obscure 1980's music and hair bands.

Fighting Sioux-like, LOL.

I coached a 9-10 year old city semi-final baseball game back in 2011 where, with the bases loaded and my team in the field, a kid hits a pop-up about 10 feet in the air that lands 3 feet to the right of home plate in fair territory (untouched) and bounces into foul territory and then rolls toward the dugout. 15 year old umpire calls it "fair ball" - two runs score and the batter winds up on 2nd base. I protested (not to the point of being an a**, but was obviously not happy with the call) to no avail. The other coaches snickered and said "the ump made the call...gotta go with that" when I challenged them to not let such an egregious error stand. We wound up losing by 1 run. Some fellow coaches told me later they would have walked the kids off the field. Some of the parents wanted to lynch this kid. We show up for our loser-out game the next day and the same kid is doing our game - along with his more experienced umpire dad. In a private moment in the dugout before the first pitch, this poor kid broke down and cried - he literally sobbed while apologizing to me for making such a bad call. His dad was almost in tears as well. I told him to look me in the eyes directly, dry his tears, and forget about the day before, because I had a game that I wanted to win TODAY. We won that game that morning and won the 3rd place game later that day. Now, could I have marched the kids off the field in protest? Sure, I suppose I could have...I could have scarred that kid for life, too, so that he'd never ump again. Instead, I challenged all 12 of those kids who were balling their eyes out on Friday night to suck it up and go win a 3rd place trophy on Saturday afternoon. And I don't regret doing it. Friday night's game, BTW, was our only loss of the season. Now, I'd like to think that this coach would have pulled his team off the ice with them AHEAD 6-1 if he indeed was concerned about the kids' safety, but something tells me he'd have told 'em to just suck it up and be careful out there.

Here's something from 2012, siouxjoy...great new tune. http://youtube.com/watch?v=xds5X7SpyvM Probably not what you had in mind though.

When did EGF ditch the red from their jerseys?

Several Honeymoon Suite songs on there, Sic...Feel It Again is a good one too.

Not sure how Aerosmith has made it this far without being mentioned...

Of course! JUST KIDDING! That's NOT on there.

Saw these guys in 1989 at the Hyslop (with White Lion)...great show.