2011-12 Flyers Season Thread: Now With Less Alcohol!

[ice grillin you]

is their rooskie goalie good enough though

is their rooskie goalie good enough though

js giguere
annti neimi
chris osgood
tim thomas
marc andre fluery


have all won cups in the near past......nhl has mirrored the nfl in that you dont need a great goalie to lead you on the ice and you dont need a great qb to lead you on the field anymore....these are things of the past

look i dont know about you but i dont trust russians. or germans. but germans dont do anything useful. so if you want to trust some 500 shadow rip jean wearing slime ball rooskie to win 16 playoff games by all means go for it. but i wouldnt count on it.

yeah you have a point....its not like any russian goalies have won the cup in recent memory

[Rome]

Now it's on CBS's website.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31751_162-20119831-10391697.html

Gotta love how the national media runs with it before checking all the facts.

Idiots.

[ice grillin you]

holy shtein theres 3700 comments on the yahoo article

[MDS]

yeah you have a point....its not like any russian goalies have won the cup in recent memory

is this a joke? i have no clue where goalies who win the cup are from. but im willing to guess most arent from the moscow club scene.

[Hawk]

The NHL is retarded for opening the PSA with Crosby... of course people are going to start booing, even before they hear a word he says.  Maybe if they used localized jumobtrons messages and played to the homecrowd, and kept Sidney for the actual ad campaign.

The national media is a joke.  Once again, the Philadelphia fans booing has trumped every sports' fan story of the year.  The shootings/brawls at the San Fran/Oakland preseason game got about 1/10th of this coverage. 

[ice grillin you]

yeah you have a point....its not like any russian goalies have won the cup in recent memory

is this a joke? i have no clue where goalies who win the cup are from. but im willing to guess most arent from the moscow club scene.

nikolai khabibulan won a cup not long ago......dominek hasek was from czechoslovakia which is the euro trash club scene capital of the world

[MDS]

so its possible but not likely

[rjs246]

Why are people still writing articles about Philly fans booing something?

Oh right, because 'sports journalism' isn't a profession that should even exist, let alone one that calls for round-the-clock generation of new stories.

[Hawk]

Has anyone tried reading the comments on the yahoo article?  It's absolutely hilarious. 

"Would anyone really care if MLB, the NFL, the NHL, and the NBA just dropped the Philly franchises altogether? Professional sports would do just fine without that city's ignorant, classless fans."

There's a novel idea!

My favorte fake story... Jean Claude Van Damme leg sweeps an Eagles fan.

"Let's face facts, Philly sports fans in general, are idiots. Now, I'm in no way saying ALL of them are, but for the most part they are and I speak from experience.
Aside from numerous occasions of seeing their classless acts on TV, I've seen them in person.
While I've never been to their hockey games, I've seen them in action at a Phillies game but the worst was when my son and I had to endure these idiots at Super Bowl 39.
The stands were about 75% Eagle fans, 25% Patriots fans.....outside prior to the game it wasn't as bad but the Eagle fans were the most classless. My son at the time was 12 and grown Eagle fans were verbally and physically badgering him over his Patriots Jersey.
Now, I can understand some decent trash talk, but the vulgarity aimed at a 12 yr old? Come on dude.
It all came to a head when an Eagles fan touched my son and tried to take away his Patriot's #1 foam finger. My temper blew and I unleashed on this guy who was literally a foot taller if not more. The main advantage I had is he had been drinking. I popped his cup of beer up and into his face and swept out his legs. He went down hard. Luckily teh cops were right there, cuffed us both and thanks to a few by-standers telling the cops what took place, they let me go.

"

[ice grillin you]

so its possible but not likely

as likely as any other goalie winning it this year

[Sgt PSN]

Has anyone tried reading the comments on the yahoo article?  It's absolutely hilarious. 

No.  This board and it's 8 regular posters offers about as much stupidity as I can stomach.  The last thing I really need is to read the opinions of half of the internet.  I try and stay away from the comments section of any article, sports or otherwise unless I've done something wrong and need to punish myself. 

[Don Ho]

Who is that clown?  Is he the Canucks beat writer for CBS Sports?  farg him.  Go write a story on your classy ass fans that tried to burn your city down.  Oh of course those weren't Vancouver citizens those were hooligans that flew in just to burn pallets, tip over cars and smash in retail store display windows.  God forbid we make any generalization of a city's fan base.

[smeags]

haaaaa, i love this shtein anymore, hey philly booed so OMG lets stop the presses and run with this huge story.

[Munson]

With basketball, it's just the sheer athleticism on display that's exciting to watch.  Watching D Rose cross someone over or Kevin Durant splitting a double team or Griffin jumping out of the gym.  As long as the refs aren't calling a game too tight, the action rarely stops (much like hockey) but there is so much more going on in say a 5 minute span of basketball than there would be in hockey. 

Now obviously, hockey nuts will find all sorts or exciting things that happen in a scoreless 5 minute stretch, but you have to know what you're looking for.  With basketball, you don't need to know anything about the game but if you see Blake Griffin rattle the rim, you don't really need anyone to explain the awesomeness to you.

See, to me, a 6'8 dude who could probably stand under the net, reach up, and touch the net...seeing a guy like that dunk a ball isn't really that "awesome" to me. It's something they should be able to do if they're athletic enough to play in the NBA.

And the things like Durant splitting a double team would be a little more impressive if anyone played defense in the NBA anymore. I'd say the most enjoyment I get out of NBA games anymore is watching someone like Dwight Howard jump up and pack the shtein out of someone.

[Sgt PSN]

A straight dunk is boring....feed Shaq 3 ft in front of the hoop, watch Shaq dunk is not entertaining. 

Watching a fast break dunk or watching someone go over 1 or 2 defenders and posterize them is awesome. Alley Oops still get me amped. 

I've also softened up on the "NBA doesn't play defense" stance over the last few years too.  There is a great, young group of players in the league who are excellent defenders.  Hell, D-Wade is off the charts good and dude blocks shots like a 7 footer.