ANYHOW. LOOK. Unless you’re a commie pinko left-wing latte-suckin’ Star-readin’ visor-wearin’ Ovechkin-lovin’ Stalinist FRENCHMAN, you know that I’m Donald S. Cherry, NHL COACH OF THE YEAR 1976!, Bobby Orr, BOSTON Bruins, old-time hockey, boy, I tell ya I remember Stan Mikita once he says to me, he says – but look, alright.
How’re we doing for [...]
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PART FIVE: I believe in the power of old white guys talking for a long time
And as John Ferguson takes to the mic, honestly, all I have to say: “WELL, YOU ASKED FOR MORE FUCKING FRENCH, YOU GOT IT!” It seems cruel to rip this guy more since everyone on the continent [...]
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Before I begin my discussion of what on Earth just happened in Vancouver that 3 billion innocent people were allegedly exposed to, I’d first like to explain the term “troll”. In an online context, a troll is someone who gains pleasure from the displeasure of others. They often put painstaking hours towards creating long, elaborate [...]
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Our roundup of stories not important enough to merit their own post:
> CROSBY CROSBY HOCKEY HOCKEY SWITZERLAND GOAL WIN SHOOTOUT CANADA CROSBY CROSBY 87 CROSBY. This is what most Canadians are currently discussing – most of them very drunk – so we’ll stick with that theme for every other bullet point.
> Both are also carbon-based, [...]
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Well, we already did this stupid, horrible thing for the Scotties, it would be unpatriotic if we didn’t do it for Canada’s Greatest Olympics(tm), right? [Editor's note: "He did", not "we did", as always I have nothing to do with this - Your Female Editor]
As always, attractiveness will be judged using the terminology of skip’s [...]
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First, for those of you who aren’t big hockey fans (e.g. Un-Canadian traitors) let’s try to explain the essence of Georges Laraque using a single video:
Georges Laraque is a man born with such God-given badassery that he says “Good luck, man” before casually deciding to enter into a bare-knuckle face-punching contest with a loose acquaintance.
He’s [...]
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Ahaha. What the hell did I just watch?
HIGHLIGHTS:
> Wolverine from Hell tearing a fiddle apart: In what I guess was a tribute to the East Coast, a horrifying mixture of Newfies, the cast of Stomp, Seattle fashion circa 1993, and Irish goths on acid fused to stomp their feet, fiddle up a storm under the [...]
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