"Be Excellent to Each Other!" (in Keanu Reeves voice)
by mikefive on Feb 4, 2012 10:32 PM EST
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Editor's Note #2: Mikefive wrote this FanPost over two years ago; but today's game threads emphasized the fact that we're in the same situation again. Things have been getting a little rough around here lately, and we each need to take a step back to remember that we're all here to enjoy the conversation. - DG
Editor's Note: Since the season has begun, we've seen an influx in members, opinions, comments, and discussion. With that comes a lot of great things, but on the flip side, Ben, Geoff, and myself feel that the level of civility around the site has gone down. It makes us less attractive to new readers, opposing fans, and everybody in between. So, starting today, we're going to be cleaning up the nonsense. There are community guidelines that you should have read when you first signed up here at Broad Street Hockey, and they will be enforced strongly.
If you break one of the guidelines, you will be warned and your content may be deleted. If you continue to break the guidelines, you may be banned temporarily or on a permanent basis. This isn't to be a dick, of course -- it's to protect every member's opinion.
Below is a fanpost written by mikefive back in August. It explains in ways better than I ever could exactly what we're talking about here. Read it, learn it, and live it. - Travis
Hi everyone,
I realize that this post is not Flyer-related per se, and I'm somewhat hesitant to post this since I'm not BSH staff or anything, but here goes...
When I first found BSH, I was thrilled to pieces. While I had come across good Flyers sites before (like The Flyer Frequent), here was one where I could openly and regularly discuss my favorite team with other fans. Perhaps more importantly, I did not have to put up with the idiocy that came from readers of Puck Daddy.* Everyone here respected the Flyers' history while realizing that the current edition of the team is not a dirty one. Furthermore, all of the posters respected one another.
Methinks that civility has gone down a bit here. Maybe it's the August heat; maybe we're impatient and want the puck to drop tomorrow; I don't know. It seems like the population is growing here, which is great. Travis and his crew have done a great job and deserve all of the recognition and readership they get. However, with more people come more personalities, which unfortunately is leading to less civility. Instead of having agreeable disagreements, we are getting name-calling, and quite frankly it's reminding me of why I left Puck Daddy in the first place.
I don't mean to sound like a first-grade teacher, but can we please keep ourselves in check? This is a great site with plenty of room for healthy discussion. Let's keep it that way.
* For what it's worth, I'm not trying to disparage Puck Daddy as a blog. Greg Wyshynski had a good idea in mind when he created it. However, it's a lousy forum for discussion. Everyone is dismissive of everyone else because everyone hates everyone else's teams, so no real discussion happens or can happen. Let's please do our best to make sure that BSH does not go down a similar path.
Thanks.
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CircleK Etiquette?
I’ll do my best to not disparage, but it is hard when someone starts shooting off at the keyboard with only a passing understanding of hockey and grammar. Makes for tough reading.
Can we get by with light Flyeresque sarcasm? “Your post reminds me of when Therien would try and stick handle. I cringe and have to look away.” You know, something like that, tastefully done.
Sarcasm
This.
Sarcasm is good and keeps the mood light. Making derogatory comments and putting down posters in the process doesn’t make it fun for anyone. Plus, a lot of people, myself included, come to blogs like this to learn more about hockey—because face it, we don’t know all there is to know.
Indeed
There is a line between “I disagree, here’s why you’re wrong” and “Shut up, you’re an idiot.”
Let’s all try to stick to the former, even if thoughts of the latter creep into our minds.
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by Ben Rothenberg on Aug 17, 2009 5:48 PM EDT up reply actions
OMG BEN YOUR BACK! where were you, you see what happens when you leave. we (i) go crazy….plz stay
Beets,Bears,Battlestar Galactica.
MICHAEL!
Political Correctness - the belief that one can pick up a turd by the clean end.
"I got a crosscheck to the face and lost a bunch of teeth. You battle through it. That’s the way hockey players are made." - Claude Giroux
That comment’s from Aug 17 2009…
Simon Gagne AND Mike Richards may move between towns, wear new jerseys and call different arenas home but, at the end of the day, they will both always be Philadelphia Flyers.
One day Sean Couturier will win the Conn Smythe. You heard it here first.
by PursuitOfLappyness on Feb 4, 2012 11:26 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
It's nice to see self-policing.
I feel pretty confident that all of BSH will be very happy to see this. Thank you Mike.
To Scotty: I have definitely been known to make little stabs, but I try not to ever make it personal. That’s pretty much the guideline: Be respectful, and keep it away from personal attacks. Besides, if it’s funny enough – Such as picturing Chris Therien stick-handle – it should make even the insulted laugh and diffuse the situation.
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Makin' it look mean since 1967.
by Geoff Detweiler on Aug 17, 2009 3:44 PM EDT reply actions
Yeah.
I think even Chris Therien would laugh if you said that to him. I’d laugh if you said that to me.
Just don’t ever compare me to Dale Kushner!
Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?
Deal. Especially since I didn’t become a Flyers fan until the year after his last NHL game and I didn’t know who he was.
Broad Street Hockey -
Makin' it look mean since 1967.
by Geoff Detweiler on Aug 17, 2009 6:13 PM EDT up reply actions
You didn’t miss much. Come to think of it, you didn’t miss much at all when Kushner had his “career year.”
It’s hard to believe that the 1990-91 team was firmly in 2nd place of the Patrick Division at the trade deadline. Up to that point I had been disappointed by the Flyers, but never flat-out heartbroken like I was in March of 1991. Even the 1989-90 team, who profoundly disappointed me, were easier to stomach. At least THEIR slide took place over the entire second half of the season, and not during the last month.
Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?
So it was actually worse before 92-93?
Wow, glad I was too young to know what hockey was then. I thought those early to mid-90s teams were bad. The first bad player I got acquainted with was Tommy Soderstrom. Though at least Soderstrom brought back Ron Hextall and Dmitri Tertyshny.
Broad Street Hockey -
Makin' it look mean since 1967.
by Geoff Detweiler on Aug 17, 2009 7:52 PM EDT up reply actions
I'll break it down
Here’s what happened after the Flyers lost in the 1989 Semifinals / Conference Finals.
1989-90: Started out poorly. Hextall held out for a new contract, then kept getting hurt; he only played 7 games that year. The team rebounded from early struggles and was first in the division by Christmas, but then injuries and overall suckiness began to mount. The team finished 9 games under .500 and 5th in the division. It was the first time since 1972 that they missed the playoffs. While it sucked, we all knew it was inevitable. (It was kind of like a less-talented and more injured version of the 1994 team who collapsed down the stretch.) Bob Clarke was fired as GM and Russ Farwell came on board.
1990-91: Started out well actually. In November, Pete Peeters went on a tear in net and the Flyers beat everyone. Then reality set in; aside from Tocchet, they had no pure scorers and couldn’t get one. The team was mediocre, but looked set for a post-season spot until March, where they went 2-10-1 down the stretch and missed out on the playoffs again.
1991-92: The Flyers got rid of a bunch of people in an effort to rebuild. Gone were familiar faces like Ron Sutter and Murray Craven; in were guys like Rod Brind’Amour and Kevin Dineen. This team sucked; I was at Holmgren’s last game as a coach, a 9-3 home loss to Pittsburgh the day after Thanksgiving. (The whole Spectrum was chanting, “PAUL MUST GO!”) In came Bill Dineen and the team actually posted a “winning” record (one game over .500) the rest of the way, as more skilled players like Garry Galley and Mark Recchi were added, but the team still fell short of a playoff spot. Even so, they really came together at the end of the year. With Mike Ricci taking on more of a leadership role, Rod Brind’Amour, Kevin Dineen, Mark Recchi, and Steve Duchesne providing skill, Dominic Roussel impressing in the nets, and Peter Forsberg waiting in the wings, I thought that the team had finally turned a corner and would become competitive again.
Then the Lindros deal happened and Ricci, Duchesne, Forsberg, Hextall, Kerry Huffman, and Chris Simon were gone. While it was exciting to get a player of Lindros’ caliber, it also meant that we had to start over again.
Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?
Great
I obviously don’t remember that, but I remember watching everybody you mentioned that came on in the 91-92 season breakdown play. I definitely remember actually liking Garry Galley a lot for awhile, until his play declined anyway. Didn’t Duchesne come back and play for the Senators afterwards? Two more questions from my vague memories: Roussel got a raw deal in net much the way Boucher did, no? He was playing well, got the job, then this guy (Cechmanek) comes in from Europe, and suddenly there’s a controversy. New guy shows flashes, but flames out quickly, old guy has long since been given up on. Least that’s how I remember it. Lastly, Kevin Dineen was widely criticized as the Captain since Bill was his dad, so nobody thought he deserved the C. Again, correct me if I’m wrong, I could be way off since I was still getting naps at school.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Aug 18, 2009 2:04 PM EDT up reply actions
Answers
We did reacquire Steve Duchesne at the 1999 trade deadline, but he was a rental. I guess he went to the Sens afterwards but I’m too lazy to look it up right now.
Cechmanek got the job because Boucher had a lousy start to 2000-01. As for Roussel, he played fairly well in 1991-92 and 1992-93. Tommy Soderstrom came along in 1992-93 and impressed everyone. Soderstrom was horrible in 1993-94, and Roussel wasn’t much better. The two of them didn’t get along, either. We ditched Soderstrom for Ron Hextall version 2.0. Roussel was our backup for a little while but the writing was on the wall for him once we acquired Garth Snow.
Neither Roussel nor Soderstrom really amounted to anything, though Dominic stuck around in the NHL longer. Plus, he’s still involved in hockey.
Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?
That whole string started two years after I started watching. Ugly way to become a fan
G, the second coming of Foppa.
Embrace the Jagr.*
by JerseyDriver on Feb 4, 2012 11:44 PM EST up reply actions
Totally Agree.
Whenever I travel to other SB Nation blogs there is so much personal bashing and childish name calling that eventually ends up spiraling down to unintelligent cursing and back and forth tit-for-tat.
I have always loved how we just don’t have that here at BSH! It is refreshing (and ironic considering we are so passionate about a team that is considered, by most, to be goons wearing ice skates and the fact that we are Philadelphia fans. We aren’t helping out the stereotype are we? haha)
Disagreeing is good, especially when the arguments are supported with evidence, stats, and well thought out responses, but not when it becomes back and forth personal insulting. I love when someone disagrees with me and shows me a new way to think about the topic of discussion with stats and evidence.
Total props to Mike for doing this. We don’t want to let things get out of control. Everyone deserves to be respected, despite how “dumb” or “idiotic” they seem. If anything, we can help each other learn and continue to make BSH an intelligent site for discussion and conversation, all the while, being patient and graceful with one another.
by Mitchell Green on Aug 18, 2009 12:26 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
GREAT POINTS!
I see nothing but bashing and incoherent babble from others on so many other forums. I don’t even read comments after Yahoo sports articles anymore. Let’s rise about the garbage out there and show them class.
Totally Agree
…and I’ve been around less as a result, unfortunately.
Early last season we started a thread where a lot of users had a chance to introduce themselves to a degree that they were comfortable with. Maybe we should do that again. If we can all find some kind of common ground that reminds us we’re all just Flyers fans rooting for our team and a fantastic sport, maybe some people would be less prone to trash talk.
Great post Mikefive. Bill Preston Esquire, Ted Theodore Logan and Rufus would most totally agree.
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by n1ck34 on Oct 11, 2009 12:27 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I’d like to take this opportunity to apologise to Geoff, Don, and all the other regulars I’ve ticked off over the last week. Bygones, bygones, start afresh and all that yo.
Simon Gagne AND Mike Richards may move between towns, wear new jerseys and call different arenas home but, at the end of the day, they will both always be Philadelphia Flyers.
One day Sean Couturier will win the Conn Smythe. You heard it here first.
by PursuitOfLappyness on Feb 4, 2012 10:49 PM EST reply actions
I haven’t been reading/participating in comment threads much this year so I just have to ask:
Has FlyerRob been making appearances around here?
Girrrr00000000000000000000000
Or follow me on Twitter: @mpbless022
FlyerRob has not been allowed here for a while.
But as I’ve seen, ex post facto (since I wasn’t actually around when the game was on), it started with one comment and then the crazy combination of the Devils being up 6-0 and the refs making some questionable calls and players making questionable moves on all fronts just spiraled out of control.
Madly in love with Jaromir Jagr's brilliant smile and epic goal salute.
Sean Couturier and Matt Read for joint Calder Trophy winners!
Ian Laperriere (EE-an luh-PAIR-ee-YAIR), proper noun. Definition: Bad-assery on skates
Yeah I remember when he got banned…I was just joking =)
I don’t really participate in the game threads much anyway because things get out of hand and I’m way too ADD to be able to follow the conversation and the game and get 100% out of both. So I just choose to watch the game.
But I’ve always liked how everyone is nice here…even when two people completely disagree and are arguing about something. So I hope that we aren’t losing that…
Girrrr00000000000000000000000
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What did I miss while I was at work?! We lost the game but the 3rd Period, the players playing it out for Lavi, it was great to watch, exciting, and helped restore my faith in this team. They got smacked around by the refs and disrespected and they fought back anyway.
How did that inspiring period create chaos on here? Or am I alone in my viewpoint
It's in his wheelhouse!!
Carlos Ruiz, My Nickname is Chooch.
My understanding is that shit went crazy in the 2nd period, not the third.
Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?
Remember when BSH was down for the whole game a few nights ago? Maybe we need that.
It's in his wheelhouse!!
Carlos Ruiz, My Nickname is Chooch.
Are you proposing that we just lock the game threads if things get too bad? Because that might be extreme.
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by DragonGirl0583 on Feb 4, 2012 11:08 PM EST up reply actions
I’d really rather not rehash what happened today again, we can do that in the recap or the third period thread.
This post is about a fresh start again, let’s not bring it here.
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by DragonGirl0583 on Feb 4, 2012 11:09 PM EST up reply actions
That bad? Jeez.
"Because wives and girlfriends aren’t on the road."
by BannedStreetBully on Feb 4, 2012 11:19 PM EST up reply actions
A note
In case I wasn’t clear enough above, leave the events of today’s game out of this thread and keep it confined to the threads from today. Any specific mentions of today’s events will be hidden (in this thread only) from here on out. This is not intended to be an abuse of power, but rather an effort to ensure that those discussions do not undermine the purpose of bringing back this post.
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yeah sorry i didnt read the comments b4 i made the post…done i promise
Beets,Bears,Battlestar Galactica.
MICHAEL!
Political Correctness - the belief that one can pick up a turd by the clean end.
"I got a crosscheck to the face and lost a bunch of teeth. You battle through it. That’s the way hockey players are made." - Claude Giroux
I had a baaaaad feeling about this game. Glad I didn’t watch it live and feel compelled to follow the game thread.
I’m a long time reader of BSH and only recently started to participate in discussion threads. I love the community here, the wild tangents, and my growing knowledge of the game from Travis and the contributors. Unlike other Philly-based sports blogs or Puck Daddy, BSH has an identity beyond terrific sports reporting – the dedicated fans that keep it going. I hope we all remember that BSH would not be what it is today without one another. Let’s get back to hockey, the orange and black, and hating the RAGS!
Bob > Bryz
I love how, knowingly or not-knowingly, people are replying to comments over two years old.
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We should front-page threads from two years ago more often.
Simon Gagne AND Mike Richards may move between towns, wear new jerseys and call different arenas home but, at the end of the day, they will both always be Philadelphia Flyers.
One day Sean Couturier will win the Conn Smythe. You heard it here first.
by PursuitOfLappyness on Feb 4, 2012 11:53 PM EST up reply actions
Except there will be zero common players between the teams!! heyyyyyyyyy-oooooooooooo
It's in his wheelhouse!!
Carlos Ruiz, My Nickname is Chooch.
At least between the two Flyers teams, you mean?
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by DragonGirl0583 on Feb 4, 2012 11:56 PM EST up reply actions
Two years ago today:
Ilya Kovalchuk traded to Devils
and
Dan Morency gave a Phantoms update. Remember him?
Man-crushin' on Boucher since 1999 and Matt Calvert since May 2010
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by Geoff Detweiler on Feb 4, 2012 11:58 PM EST up reply actions
Yes. I do. Our Adirondack correspondent who never corresponded. Is it public business to know how Morency even ended up with a gig he cared little about? (/looks at number of posts he made at The Brotherly Game in the past year; //whistles)
That was also Morency’s final BSH post. Never forget.
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It was? Weird.
He resurfaced on another Flyers blog recently, though he seems to have disappeared from there too.
Man-crushin' on Boucher since 1999 and Matt Calvert since May 2010
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by Geoff Detweiler on Feb 5, 2012 12:10 AM EST up reply actions
Yep. I just checked out his profile.
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Dan Morency: enigma.
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The Nikolai Zherdev of BSH? High expectations, accused of not caring enough about the job, ends up not contributing to the team as much as we would like.
Simon Gagne AND Mike Richards may move between towns, wear new jerseys and call different arenas home but, at the end of the day, they will both always be Philadelphia Flyers.
One day Sean Couturier will win the Conn Smythe. You heard it here first.
by PursuitOfLappyness on Feb 5, 2012 12:14 AM EST up reply actions
I think he could have given more, just never got the playing time. But we’ve all been over this lol
G, the second coming of Foppa.
Embrace the Jagr.*
by JerseyDriver on Feb 5, 2012 12:17 AM EST up reply actions
I think I remember three articles. Like one introducing himself, one at the beginning of the season, and a random one in February after I thought he had already disappeared.
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by DragonGirl0583 on Feb 5, 2012 12:19 AM EST up reply actions
Saw this in the comments:
I really hope the Devils lose in the first round. Not even because Im a Flyers fan, just because the irony would be hillarious.
Glad that worked out!
Simon Gagne AND Mike Richards may move between towns, wear new jerseys and call different arenas home but, at the end of the day, they will both always be Philadelphia Flyers.
One day Sean Couturier will win the Conn Smythe. You heard it here first.
by PursuitOfLappyness on Feb 5, 2012 12:13 AM EST up reply actions
And no, I don’t remember Dan Morency unfortunately…
Simon Gagne AND Mike Richards may move between towns, wear new jerseys and call different arenas home but, at the end of the day, they will both always be Philadelphia Flyers.
One day Sean Couturier will win the Conn Smythe. You heard it here first.
by PursuitOfLappyness on Feb 5, 2012 12:13 AM EST up reply actions
Heh, two years ago Saturday:
Chris Lanci:
In my opinion there are only 5 "solid" goalies in the league worthy of that kind of money. Lunquist, Brodeur, Miller, Loungo, Nabokov they are not going anywhere. The others are hot and cool and not worth the major 4-5 million cap hit compared to the talent drop off for the 1 – 2 million guys.
Man-crushin' on Boucher since 1999 and Matt Calvert since May 2010
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by Geoff Detweiler on Feb 5, 2012 12:02 AM EST up reply actions
Buy that means you can no longer be the champion of the ‘we overpaid Bryz’ brigade! Chris gets to be the hipster that says “I knew Bryz wouldn’t be worth much more than Vokoun back in Feb 2010 guys”.
Interesting that Nabokov and Brodeur aren’t worth it anymore though.
Simon Gagne AND Mike Richards may move between towns, wear new jerseys and call different arenas home but, at the end of the day, they will both always be Philadelphia Flyers.
One day Sean Couturier will win the Conn Smythe. You heard it here first.
by PursuitOfLappyness on Feb 5, 2012 12:16 AM EST up reply actions
If only Nabby would’ve taken the 2M we offered him that summer….
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by DragonGirl0583 on Feb 5, 2012 12:21 AM EST up reply actions
You mean to say this is all Evgeni Nabokov's fault?
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I blame Ray Emery.
Simon Gagne AND Mike Richards may move between towns, wear new jerseys and call different arenas home but, at the end of the day, they will both always be Philadelphia Flyers.
One day Sean Couturier will win the Conn Smythe. You heard it here first.
by PursuitOfLappyness on Feb 5, 2012 12:24 AM EST up reply actions
You can’t possibly disagree with my notion that he’d be happier here making 2M a year than getting miserable and quitting in russia and now making 570K with the Isles, can you?
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by DragonGirl0583 on Feb 5, 2012 12:31 AM EST up reply actions
I do not disagree. I was making a joke in regards to the overpaying Bryzgalov situation.
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So both us and Nabby would be happier.
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by DragonGirl0583 on Feb 5, 2012 12:37 AM EST up reply actions
This was before my time, so reading through it is interesting, just like a new thread to me.
G, the second coming of Foppa.
Embrace the Jagr.*
by JerseyDriver on Feb 4, 2012 11:58 PM EST up reply actions
I’m just amused by it, even people who may be doing it knowingly.
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Reading through those old threads are depressing.
I remember how awful the Flyers were playing two years ago around this time. My God.
Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?
The 2009-2010 season was dreadful and embarrassing until it wasn’t anymore.
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That’s about the best succint description of that season that I have ever read.
Simon Gagne AND Mike Richards may move between towns, wear new jerseys and call different arenas home but, at the end of the day, they will both always be Philadelphia Flyers.
One day Sean Couturier will win the Conn Smythe. You heard it here first.
by PursuitOfLappyness on Feb 5, 2012 12:22 AM EST up reply actions
I will never forget how I almost passed out during that shootout. Shaun( or M or maybe BannedStreetBully) can probably attest that I was shaking so hard I thought I was going to drop the beer in my hand and I was standing there in the bar unable to breathe for the whole thing. I was probably white as a sheet.
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by DragonGirl0583 on Feb 5, 2012 12:34 AM EST up reply actions
Sort of like my experience (and I’m sure others) in the Boston comeback Game 7. Seriously was not breathing between commercials after they went ahead.
G, the second coming of Foppa.
Embrace the Jagr.*
by JerseyDriver on Feb 5, 2012 12:37 AM EST up reply actions
I remember Giroux keeping the puck along the boards in the Boston zone for like 30 seconds in the waning minutes of that game. It was at that time that I confirmed to myself that we had something special in this Claude kid.
Here’s the video of that.
Simon Gagne AND Mike Richards may move between towns, wear new jerseys and call different arenas home but, at the end of the day, they will both always be Philadelphia Flyers.
One day Sean Couturier will win the Conn Smythe. You heard it here first.
by PursuitOfLappyness on Feb 5, 2012 12:40 AM EST up reply actions
I knew soon after seeing him get some decent minutes his first season. That was the first time I had the thought for my sig.
G, the second coming of Foppa.
Embrace the Jagr.*
by JerseyDriver on Feb 5, 2012 12:47 AM EST up reply actions
i thought the same thing as your sig when he did foppas move in the shootout against vancouver in his call up season
Beets,Bears,Battlestar Galactica.
MICHAEL!
Political Correctness - the belief that one can pick up a turd by the clean end.
"I got a crosscheck to the face and lost a bunch of teeth. You battle through it. That’s the way hockey players are made." - Claude Giroux
For me it’s was the way he plays, from handling the puck; to the ability to not only see someone through three guys but then be able to male the pass to get it there; to the way he uses his body, especially where he’ll throw a check in the corner preemptively and then skate away with the puck. All things Forsberg did so well.
G, the second coming of Foppa.
Embrace the Jagr.*
by JerseyDriver on Feb 5, 2012 11:04 AM EST up reply actions
Oh, Don or darkside can tell you for certain that I didn’t breathe between Gagne’s goal and the final buzzer. When we stood up and cheered, I had to hold on to the seat in front of me not to pass out.
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by DragonGirl0583 on Feb 5, 2012 12:40 AM EST up reply actions
I’ve re-watched that game more times than any person ever should. In fact, I have managed to acquire some sort of recorded copy of all four broadcasts (CSN, NESN, Versus, and TSN). I’ve seen them all. More than once.
But my best memory from that year was hugging my mother, both of us in tears, after Jeff Carter scored the empty net goal in Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Habs. We had been following the Flyers since as long as I can remember (my first vivid memories come from the mid-1990s and the peak of the Legion of Doom), so with 1997 far back in our minds (well mine anyway), that was special.
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I had mp3 files of the four radio calls of the goals, but lost them when I upgraded to Windows 7. I wish I could find those, and the video of the Wachovia party reactions to them.
Keeping alive the old Vaudeville joke, "I'd rather be dead than play Philadelphia."
I downloaded them to my iTunes and I still have them.
A smile always comes to my face when I hear Tim Saunders’s voice.
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“For the Philadelphia Flyers, a comeback they will always remember. And for the Boston Bruins, a collapse they will never be able to forget.” – Jack Edwards as time expired in Game 7.
It’s been over a year since I last watched the NESN Broadcast of that game. But that call’s still etched in my mind. Probably never to leave. 2011 does not begin to change that.
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It remains my favorite Flyers experience. It was the people, it was the day, it was the game.
Good times.
"Because wives and girlfriends aren’t on the road."
by BannedStreetBully on Feb 5, 2012 5:44 PM EST up reply actions
The most depressing threads would be the ones where we asked the question: should this Flyers team actually make the playoffs. If I recall correctly, the answer was predominantely no. We wanted us to miss the playoffs so that Homer would be removed/conduct a full rebuild. That’s depressing.
Simon Gagne AND Mike Richards may move between towns, wear new jerseys and call different arenas home but, at the end of the day, they will both always be Philadelphia Flyers.
One day Sean Couturier will win the Conn Smythe. You heard it here first.
by PursuitOfLappyness on Feb 5, 2012 12:24 AM EST up reply actions
The problem of course, is that Washington, Pittsburgh and New Jersey are all head and shoulders better constructed than we are at this moment.
The only thing I’m cheering for is that we get to play Buffalo in round 1 (assuming we make it). However, there is probably no chance in hell that we’re beating any of the teams above, unless they somehow manage to lose to the 7 or 8 seed.
Back to the drawing board Homer. Thanks for f’ing up another promising season by your inability to manage the cap, putting your eggs in the basket of career AHL’ers and cheaping out on your most valuable position, goaltending.
Simon Gagne AND Mike Richards may move between towns, wear new jerseys and call different arenas home but, at the end of the day, they will both always be Philadelphia Flyers.
One day Sean Couturier will win the Conn Smythe. You heard it here first.
by PursuitOfLappyness on Feb 5, 2012 12:27 AM EST up reply actions
The problem of course, is that Washington, Pittsburgh and New Jersey are all head and shoulders better constructed than we are at this moment.
I don’t know if this argument is advanced stats related or not, but I don’t doubt it was true.
The only thing I’m cheering for is that we get to play Buffalo in round 1 (assuming we make it). However, there is probably no chance in hell that we’re beating any of the teams above, unless they somehow manage to lose to the 7 or 8 seed.Heh. Heh heh. Heh.
Back to the drawing board Homer. Thanks for f’ing up another promising season by your inability to manage the cap, putting your eggs in the basket of career AHL’ers and cheaping out on your most valuable position, goaltending.OH GAWD!
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Yeah I thought that really was an amazing comment. It was by Hockey Outsiders (who hasn’t logged in since July 2010) and pretty much captures the unlikelihood of that run we had. Washington and Pittsburgh out to the #8 seed, New Jersey out to the #7 seed (us). Perfect.
Simon Gagne AND Mike Richards may move between towns, wear new jerseys and call different arenas home but, at the end of the day, they will both always be Philadelphia Flyers.
One day Sean Couturier will win the Conn Smythe. You heard it here first.
by PursuitOfLappyness on Feb 5, 2012 12:35 AM EST up reply actions
cheaping out on your most valuable position, goaltending.
i think he heard you
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MICHAEL!
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by JerseyDriver on Feb 5, 2012 12:32 AM EST up reply actions
What I learned today: In the two and half years sine this was originally posted, we’ve become even better at going off-topic in any given thread.
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I dunno, two and a half years ago you went from a random sarcastic remark about Chris Therien stick handling to an in depth discussion about the early 90s Flyers…
Simon Gagne AND Mike Richards may move between towns, wear new jerseys and call different arenas home but, at the end of the day, they will both always be Philadelphia Flyers.
One day Sean Couturier will win the Conn Smythe. You heard it here first.
by PursuitOfLappyness on Feb 5, 2012 12:38 AM EST up reply actions
But did we talk about the largest sports stadiums by seating capacity in the world? I don't thinks so!
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So I’m consistent?
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by DragonGirl0583 on Feb 5, 2012 12:46 AM EST up reply actions
Oh, I wasn’t talking about ‘you’ as in ‘you’ – DragonGirl – in particular. I more meant ‘you’ as in the BSH community (I was just a lurker back then – I spent about a year reading all the comments on this site without signing up – so I didn’t say ‘we’).
Simon Gagne AND Mike Richards may move between towns, wear new jerseys and call different arenas home but, at the end of the day, they will both always be Philadelphia Flyers.
One day Sean Couturier will win the Conn Smythe. You heard it here first.
by PursuitOfLappyness on Feb 5, 2012 12:51 AM EST up reply actions
Oh. Well it’s believable that I could’ve participated in that. I know I’ve started my fair share of tangents…
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by DragonGirl0583 on Feb 5, 2012 1:02 AM EST up reply actions
Also, it always seems like whenever BSH fights, the night ends with everyone going off-topic.
I love this place.
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I also think we need to all take heed of the wise words of Bryzgalov
And we have problems here on Earth that we worry about? Nuffing.
Don’t worry, be happy!
Simon Gagne AND Mike Richards may move between towns, wear new jerseys and call different arenas home but, at the end of the day, they will both always be Philadelphia Flyers.
One day Sean Couturier will win the Conn Smythe. You heard it here first.
by PursuitOfLappyness on Feb 5, 2012 12:59 AM EST reply actions
I guess the one thing I’d say about this is that if it goes to far we end up like ILWT. Those guys are actaully very good at covering the Devils, but I think their Naz- uh, very strict- way of running the blog’s comment realm kind of hurts their discussion a bit.
I mean in the 2nd period it would have been miserable to not be able to go off topic, because the topic of the thread(today’s absurdly terrible 1st 2 periods) was one of the worst damn topics we had had all season.
Formerly... "You don't have to be sweet, to be good"
I second this. I was having a great time laughing at the absurdity of the game and the comments today and then it turned really fast. A little common courtesy and self-policing means we get a lot more lawn to play in. And this way the bloglords get to focus on the important things, like lighting bottle rockets out their ass and stealing NHL legal documents and going on walkabouts in Australia.
/s, more often than not
by flyersfaninchicago on Feb 5, 2012 2:59 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
And just so we’re clear, I agree with this step. That said, let’s not lose our minds. We sucked ass(Banned! Profanity!) today, and people were testy.
I look at it like one bad game from the Flyers. It’s just one game( in this sense a comment thread). It happens to every team in the NHL. If it starts happening all the time then we become the Islanders.
Nobody wants to be the Islanders.
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I missed all of yesterdays festivities. Fortunately the game but unfortunately the games threads. It must have gotten crazy over there yesterday. A little bit of losing brings out the worst in everybody.
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BSH - It's about time.
BSH – It’s about time, this site, especially the comments and game threads, are going downhill in terms of quality and civility and over all hockey illumination.
BSH.com needs to clean up the useless profanity also.
This site should be G rated, 4rth graders should be safe to be on the site, there is absolutely no reason to use profane language, as there are plenty of web sites for that elsewhere. The people who type in profanity don’t convey their arguments any stronger, they only convey their lack of composure writing skills.
Typo – change “composure writing skills” to “composure and writing skills”
by NickFotiu4HOF on Feb 5, 2012 11:19 AM EST up reply actions
G rated
So Katy Perry is still allowed, right? She was on Sesame Street, after all.
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by hintzy64 on Feb 5, 2012 12:43 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
I disagree vehemently. We’re all adults here. I see no reason to completely censor language here. An occasional well placed curse word is not only called for, but oftentimes hilarious.
"I wouldn’t run if there was a fire. I wouldn’t run anywhere. I hate running." - O. Munn
I think the language from the guidelines it what applies here though; well placed curse words are fine, overly excessive use is what has to be toned down. And that’s more applicable to the daytime threads and discussions, the game threads are far more reactionary.
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by DragonGirl0583 on Feb 5, 2012 2:53 PM EST up reply actions
Well, you almost never see over excessive use in daytime threads unless someone flames someone, which is rare.
"I wouldn’t run if there was a fire. I wouldn’t run anywhere. I hate running." - O. Munn
Yep. It’s not like we’re trying to stifle everything, just nudge things back in the right direction, ya know.
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by DragonGirl0583 on Feb 5, 2012 3:23 PM EST up reply actions
Right, we are all adults, and adults know how to express themselves with out ridiculous profanity.
Dragon Girl is 100% right, she understands my point, you can disagree all you want Double H, this isn’t censorship, it’s sensibility and maturity (and better penmanship).
An occasional word is fine, but every time one writes profanity it just goes to prove the author doesn’t know how to express himself, it doesn’t convey a stronger meaning to the message.
Secondly, how do you know we are all adults here? Katy Perry is invited to this web site, so are all the kids on Sesame Street, there is no age restriction.
by NickFotiu4HOF on Feb 5, 2012 3:17 PM EST up reply actions
All I actually did was quote the Community Guidelines, which Travis linked in the first editor’s note.
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by DragonGirl0583 on Feb 5, 2012 3:28 PM EST up reply actions
An occasional word is fine, but every time one writes profanity it just goes to prove the author doesn’t know how to express himself, it doesn’t convey a stronger meaning to the message.
We are free to disagree on this point. To you, the use of profanity shows the author doesn’t know how to express themselves. To me, the use of profanity is the author expressing themselves.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Feb 5, 2012 3:57 PM EST up reply actions
I agree with this completely. It’s part of language, to be used well or mismanaged by the writer like everything else available. Sometimes it is the best choice. Often it’s just as good as another.
If the mission is to present a g-rated site then I’ll make that adjustment. But that makes the site different, not better.
/s, more often than not
by flyersfaninchicago on Feb 5, 2012 4:05 PM EST up reply actions
I’ll admit, I haven’t seen the use of profanity increase around here, nor have I seen it becoming a problem.
But that may simply be due to my liberal use of profanity in every day life.
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by Geoff Detweiler on Feb 5, 2012 4:33 PM EST up reply actions
Yep, there’s so much misunderstanding surrounding what really constitutes profanity IMO, but that’s an entirely different argument that I won’t get into; I’ve already said my peace here many times on the matter that I think it’s all pretty arbitrary the words we choose to give power to over others.
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If we aren’t all adults here, we most likely should be. I wouldn’t let my son on any forum if he wasn’t at least 16 or 17, and in that instance, he should be able to handle occasional profanity.
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Fuckin right man!
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by MJDII on Feb 5, 2012 2:50 PM EST via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
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