I listen to a lot of sports talk radio. It is usually interesting when the local teams are losing. At the beginning of the hockey season, you could not find any hockey talk on the radio. After all, there were the Bears, Bulls, White Sox & Cubs talk to talk about.
But now all you can hear is the Blackhawks' players or experts talking about the Hockey season. For those of you who do not follow sports, the (hated) Blackhawks are in the Stanley Cup Final with a 2-0 games lead.
Those of us who are Redwing fans, it is very boring talk. Last year when the Redwings & PIT were in the finals there was little talk about it, after the BH's lost. My son is a big BH fan, whereas, my son-in-law is a RW fan. Unfortunately, for us the BH have a very good young team who will probably be good for a long time. But we RW fans' hope is that we will raise again!
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.- Tiger Woods
I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out. - Rodney Dangerfield
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.- Gordie Howe
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. - Wayne Gretzky
Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept. - Doug Larson
Hockey players wear numbers because you can’t always identify the body with dental records
”A fast body--contact game played by men with clubs in their hands and knives laced to their feet.” - Paul Gallico
Goaltending is a normal job, sure. How would you like it in your job if every time you made a small mistake, a red light went on over your desk and 15,000 people stood up and yelled at you.” - Jacques Plante
”It takes brains. It's not like a forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense. On defense you have to be thinking.” - Chris Chelios
”My former wife made me a millionaire. I used to have three million dollars.”- Bobby Hull
ice hockey (n) a fast contact sport played on an ice rink between two teams of six skaters, who attempt to drive a small rubber disk (the puck) into the opposing goal with hooked or angled sticks. It developed in Canada in the 19th century
I do not understand how anyone could call living in the town (or at least it suburbs) that is 2 games away from winning the Stanley Cup is "boring"... especially when that team has not won the cup in 49 years. For a fan-base that calls themselves "Hockey Town" Red Wing fans are notoriously absent if their team is not in it.
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