An Unforseeable End to an Unexpected Cup Run

Susan s-k Lee — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:04:19 +0000

Enjoy the moment, Danny...

Stood before the Flyers motto “You play for the CREST on the front, Not the name on the back”, his right eye still orange and puffy with Frankenstein stitches standing out, Danny Briere gave us a truly honest post game interview. It wasn’t overladen with praise for his teammates or “we’ll win it next year” platitudes. He expressed the weird, sort of let-down feeling pretty much everyone watching had.

Danny said he couldn’t believe the Cup could be won like this – with so much confusion. “That can’t be it,” he said in a quietly bewildered voice just after the game. “You can’t win a Stanley Cup and not even be sure if you really won it or not. I couldn’t believe they could win a Stanley Cup this way, but that doesn’t change how much that hurts.”

We all know I’m no Flyers fan, but after seeing that, I wanted to give Danny a hug and a steak.

In all honesty, I do have to say I was impressed at how respectfully the Flyers comported themselves (as opposed to their fans) at the conclusion of the game. Even Pronger and Hartnell weren’t complete jerks.

But that’s not why we’re here. The second most popular post I wrote (just behind “I Have To Kill My Boyfriend”) was all about the silly things the commentators say. So, without further ado, here are some of the comments I found amusing during the game and I hope you do too!

…here we have Duncan Teeth…

Hjalmarsson, without a stick, turns himself into a human Zamboni in front of Niemi

Shillelaghed back out by Byfuglien

Kane able to motor ahead, slams on the brakes, looks over his options…

[There are] many good surgical schools located in the Philadelphia area

van Riemsdyk gets caught in no-man’s land

Three players actually overskated that…too preoccupied with themselves perhaps

No word on the arrival of the Stanley Cup. It’s usually fashionably late.

Drilled angrily around by Briere

Byfuglien trying to dance loose off the halfboard

…and the puck’s rouletted around behind the net

Are there too many live legs on the Chicago bench?

When Pronger roughed Hossa (holding, blindside hit, roughing, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference): “That’s a WHOLE lot of penalty right there.”

On another Pronger penalty replay: “The guilty party? You wanna see?”

When an icing call was waved off: “About 10,000 of the Linesmen had a problem with that.”

With regard to Hossa’s BS goaltender interference penalty: “That’s a soft, soft call.”

{Visual} Marian Hossa crossing himself Hanson-style just before flipping his hair out of his face and donning his lid.

As I think we all expected, Duncan Keith has the last laugh. His response when asked how he felt about getting most of his face replaced this summer: “Oh, I don’t care. I’d knock out all my teeth for this!”

After the game the lads were whisked back home where they were greeted with the closest thing to a 21-gun salute the airport could muster, water cannoning the plane!

When one player was asked about the state of the aircraft he sort of snickered and advised the reporter not to go on board. The thing must’ve looked like a frat bus after a week-long road trip (only smelling worse).

This Here Be A No “FLY” Zone

Susan s-k Lee — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:06:49 +0000

If you didn’t spend at least a little bit of time laughing your head off during Game Two, then you have my condolences for being a Philadelphia fan.

The Flyers couldn’t even get a little thing like a mid-ice sandwich right! Dan Carcillo was hell-bent on slamming the Blackhawks Tomas Kopecky between himself and teammate Jeff Carter, but Kopy just leaned backward out of the way and Carcillo flattened Carter Keystone Kops style.

Goaltender Leighton sounded like he was comparing Ben Eager to Alexander Ovechkin during a postgame interview. Folks, that’s BEN EAGER he was talking about, not Johnny T.

And finally, Romper Stomper pouting Chris Pronger let his true colours fly and let us know why everyone – including Ducks fans – are fully justified in reviling him even more than Bertuzzi.

At the end of the game, Pronger managed to collect a misconduct penalty when he picked up the puck and apparently Eager took exception. Prior to Pronger’s interview, Eager said, “He’s been picking up pucks after the game and I just told him he can keep it.” Here’s the transcript from CSNPhilly.com and the Delco Times with Pronger:

Reporter: What happened?

Pronger: I couldn’t hear [Eager], I don’t speak gibberish.

Reporter: Where’s the puck?

Pronger: It’s in the garbage,where it belongs.

Reporter: You shot a towel at Eager when he complained?

Pronger: So what?

Reporter: You’re collecting pucks now?

Pronger: Why not? What’s wrong? It’s sitting there. What else is gonna happen to it? … You got a problem with that?

Reporter: Are you gonna sell it on eBay?

Pronger: I don’t know. Apparently, it got [Eager] upset. So I guess it worked, didn’t it? It’s too bad. I guess little things amuse little minds.

What a douche! Almost makes me miss Arthukyn.

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An Unforseeable End to an Unexpected Cup Run

This Here Be A No “FLY” Zone