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Habs/Pens Open Thread

by John Cole|  November 26, 20117:23 pm| 81 Comments

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  1. 1.

    henqiguai

    November 26, 2011 at 7:25 pm

    What’s a Habs or a Pens?

  2. 2.

    CB

    November 26, 2011 at 7:26 pm

    id say i cant believe how great crosby looks after 11 months off, but i absolutely can. the guy is a freaking monster. easily the best player in the world.

  3. 3.

    The Dangerman

    November 26, 2011 at 7:26 pm

    Habs/Pens? Which one is going to save us from an LSU/Bama rematch?

    /grumbling

  4. 4.

    khead

    November 26, 2011 at 7:26 pm

    Open thread?

    Needs some kitteh.

  5. 5.

    JenJen

    November 26, 2011 at 7:29 pm

    Damn. All tied up before two minutes had ticked off.

    Welcome back, Sid, but GO HABS GO

    By the way, if your TV provider airs NHL Network, this is the national game tonight, so tune in!

    ETA: Canadiens lead 2-1!!

  6. 6.

    Chris

    November 26, 2011 at 7:34 pm

    I assume this is sports related, though I don’t know either side.

    All I gotta say about sports is, go Gators. Or possibly Noles. I don’t know, it gets a little confusing with my folks: no matter who wins, part of this family’s going to be ecstatic and another part’s going to be tearing all the hair out of their scalps.

  7. 7.

    Comrade Mary

    November 26, 2011 at 7:35 pm

    GO HABS!!

  8. 8.

    JenJen

    November 26, 2011 at 7:37 pm

    @henqiguai:

    What’s a Habs or a Pens?

    A Pen is a Pittsburgh Penguin. Sidney Crosby is one of those Pens. A Hab is a Montreal Canadien, aka “Les Habitants,” loosely translated to “hometown boys.”

    Hockey!!

    GO HABS GO!

  9. 9.

    BD of MN

    November 26, 2011 at 7:43 pm

    @khead: I’ll see your kitteh and raise you a puppeh

  10. 10.

    Punchy

    November 26, 2011 at 7:45 pm

    Habs are waaaaaaaaayyy underrated. Cammalleri is fucking GOOD. Their goalie is stones and the team doesnt get near enough props b/c they win 1-0 and 2-1 instead of putting 5 or 6 in the twine every nite.

    That said, everyone focuses on Crosby but Malkin and Staal are the pistons that drive that engine for the Pens.

  11. 11.

    NobodySpecial

    November 26, 2011 at 7:45 pm

    Speaking solely about the TV commentary again, I’d love not to hear a single word about Sidney Crosby three games into his return. The fellatio gets old.

  12. 12.

    Paddy

    November 26, 2011 at 7:48 pm

    Copied from last night’s OT-

    Hey guys- I’m doing our Holiday referral post tonight and wanted to give ya’ll the opportunity to get more eyes on stuff you like, whether it’s your work or someone elses, a charity or neat thing. You can send it here ‘cause I will be updating for a couple weeks. We need to support each other on the intertubeythingamajigs.

  13. 13.

    JenJen

    November 26, 2011 at 7:48 pm

    @Punchy: Word. Carey Price is indeed stones and when Cammalleri is on, he’s unstoppable.

    Loved the story that Crosby told in last year’s HBO 24/7 about Malkin. Crosby was captain and almost universally recognized as the greatest player of his generation. Malkin was lingering behind him right before the first game of the 2009-2010 season. Crosby said, “I skate last, you know.” Malkin said, “You, three years NHL. Me, four years Super League. I skate last.”

    And that was that.

  14. 14.

    Raven

    November 26, 2011 at 7:48 pm

    @Chris: Neither do they. Great college football rivalries and they want to talk about white-boy sports!

  15. 15.

    Violet

    November 26, 2011 at 7:50 pm

    Since it’s a sports thread, I heard on the radio that the NBA folks have come to some agreement. Season starts on Christmas day or something. How is this not a major front on the War on Christmas?

  16. 16.

    JenJen

    November 26, 2011 at 7:54 pm

    @Violet:

    Since it’s a sport thread, I heard on the radio that the NBA folks have come to some agreement. Season starts on Christmas day or something. How is this not a major front on the War on Christmas?

    NBA always plays on Christmas. It would be a major front on the War on Christmas if the NBA remained locked out and didn’t play on Christmas.

    Still, not sure how many fucks I give about the NBA ending the lockout, other than to see Lebron lose again.

  17. 17.

    khead

    November 26, 2011 at 7:54 pm

    @BD of MN:

    That’s a handsome/pretty puppeh.

  18. 18.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    November 26, 2011 at 7:54 pm

    What channel is this game on? Man Don Cherry and his suits

  19. 19.

    Raven

    November 26, 2011 at 7:55 pm

    @Violet: The Christmas Day games have become quite a tradition over the last 30 years.

  20. 20.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    November 26, 2011 at 7:56 pm

    Aaaaa, my eyes! They burn!

  21. 21.

    JenJen

    November 26, 2011 at 7:57 pm

    @Mr Stagger Lee: It’s on NHL Network. First period intermission right now, Coach’s Corner has Don Cherry wearing a lemon yellow lame suitcoat, adorned with some sort of marijuana leaf-looking pattern. I shit you not.

  22. 22.

    Violet

    November 26, 2011 at 7:58 pm

    @JenJen:
    I don’t care about the NBA at all, but it’s about all I’ve got to contribute right now to a thread about sports.

    I secretly wish that all the professional sports teams would get bogged down in negotiations and there wouldn’t be a season of anything. What would people do?

  23. 23.

    Raven

    November 26, 2011 at 8:00 pm

    @Violet: Do what I’m doing, watch college ball.

  24. 24.

    Violet

    November 26, 2011 at 8:01 pm

    @Raven:
    Isn’t it a War on Christmas that professional basketball is played on Christmas Day? Have they no respect for the Baby Jebus? They should be sitting home in their best suits, reading the Christmas story from the Bible, not wearing skin-baring clothing and running around chasing a ball and getting paid for it. Blasphemy!

  25. 25.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    November 26, 2011 at 8:01 pm

    @JenJen: That jacket looks like gift wrap. Last week’s looked like someone’s carpet.

  26. 26.

    JenJen

    November 26, 2011 at 8:01 pm

    @Violet:

    I secretly wish that all the professional sports teams would get bogged down in negotiations and there wouldn’t be a season of anything. What would people do?

    I have no idea what we’d do, but it would suck, that’s for sure. I HEART SPORTS. They keep me sane.

  27. 27.

    Punchy

    November 26, 2011 at 8:02 pm

    @JenJen: It’s a complete no-win sitchy for Lebron. If he wins, it’s “nice 65-game abortion of a season….not valid”, and if he loses, its “look, Lebron lost again”.

    Pretty much anyone that wins aside from the Clips or SackTown will feel empty, and treated as such.

  28. 28.

    Raven

    November 26, 2011 at 8:02 pm

    Brantley has thrown 3 picks for the Gators already!

  29. 29.

    Violet

    November 26, 2011 at 8:03 pm

    @Raven:
    Unless more colleges and universities get undone by scandals like at Penn State.

  30. 30.

    MikeJ

    November 26, 2011 at 8:03 pm

    Someone sedate Yutsy, Wazzu[1] is losing in the Apple Cup.

    [1] Wazzou or Wazzu? Missouri is Mizzou but everything in Washington is weird on the wrong side of the mountains.

  31. 31.

    Raven

    November 26, 2011 at 8:04 pm

    @Violet: Yea, yea, we’re just a blink away from the whole thing falling apart.

  32. 32.

    JenJen

    November 26, 2011 at 8:04 pm

    @Punchy: Works for me!!

  33. 33.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    November 26, 2011 at 8:05 pm

    I am watching him on CBN it looks gold but I will take your word. Unfortunately I am blessed Colorado-Edmondton

  34. 34.

    Violet

    November 26, 2011 at 8:09 pm

    @JenJen:
    I think the massive amount of money in professional sports leaves me a bit jaded about the whole thing. I resent that stadiums get built on the backs of residents of and visitors to (hotel, rental car taxes) cities, but sit largely unused most of the time. It seems like a bad use of money that could be better spent elsewhere. So many of the owners are greedy bastards and the players make insane amounts of money, mostly for very short periods of their lives as they’re chewed up and spit out. The whole system seems crazy and filled with money that could be used to do so much good.

    I sound like a complete curmudgeon about professional sports, but I do get caught up in various sports from time to time. I’m the very definition of a fair-weather fan, though. If my local team in any sport is doing well, I’m interested. If someone offers me a free ticket to a game, I’ll go and have a good time. Otherwise, I hardly pay attention.

  35. 35.

    Violet

    November 26, 2011 at 8:12 pm

    @Punchy:
    Do people in Cleveland still hate Lebron?

  36. 36.

    JenJen

    November 26, 2011 at 8:13 pm

    @Violet: I can’t disagree with any of that, but none of it changes the fact that I HEART SPORTS.

    Do people in Cleveland still hate Lebron?

    Just to chime in, I hate Lebron as an Ohioan, just on principle. Can’t speak for the city of Cleveland.

  37. 37.

    Villago Delenda Est

    November 26, 2011 at 8:16 pm

    @MikeJ:

    It’s Wazzu.

  38. 38.

    jeffreyw

    November 26, 2011 at 8:21 pm

    Thread needs moar sammich.

  39. 39.

    Raven

    November 26, 2011 at 8:22 pm

    @JenJen: Why, do you think he was owned by the state?

  40. 40.

    JenJen

    November 26, 2011 at 8:24 pm

    Not wild about the Gionta line for the Habs. But Max Pacioretty and Erik Cole are having a damned good hockey game.

    @Raven: I certainly don’t. But he didn’t need to kick his home state on the way out the door, either. It stung. It would be easier not to care anymore, but…

  41. 41.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    November 26, 2011 at 8:25 pm

    Just read that the great Soviet weightlifter Vasili Aleeev has just died.

  42. 42.

    RossInDetroit

    November 26, 2011 at 8:25 pm

    Not watching sporting matches today. Doing homework (AKA fooling around) and listening to Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto. Damn I love this so much. I can forgive Europe for just about anything, just because of this 40 minute piece of music.

  43. 43.

    Yutsano

    November 26, 2011 at 8:27 pm

    @MikeJ: I stopped watching. They’re unfocused and unprepared. Hopefully the end result here is a new head coach. I’m taking Mom out to dinner instead.

  44. 44.

    henqiguai

    November 26, 2011 at 8:28 pm

    @JenJen (#8):

    Hockey!!

    Ah. Thanks. The delay – just got back from watching the premier episode of FX’s American Horror Story. Why did I have to wait ’til my daughter came home from school for Turkey Day to find out about this show?

  45. 45.

    Violet

    November 26, 2011 at 8:28 pm

    @JenJen: @Raven:
    He kind of acted like a dick. If he’d just left and moved to Miami it would be one thing. But dragging it out to the point where he even had a TV special announcing his decision was ridiculous. Especially since he teased everyone in Cleveland that he might stay and talked about how much he loved his hometown. The whole thing was stupid and he acted like a selfish child. I’d hate him too if I were a Cleveland fan.

  46. 46.

    Violet

    November 26, 2011 at 8:30 pm

    Completely OT – has anyone seem the new Muppet movie? I kind of want to see it, but not if it’s dumb and only worth seeing if you’re trying to keep a kid entertained for a few hours.

  47. 47.

    Evolving Deep Southerner (tense changed for accuracy)

    November 26, 2011 at 8:31 pm

    @Raven: He sure has. Brantley has gotten all “wild thing” with his passing, and the reffing in this thing has been grievously one-sided in this thing. I was just WAITING for those fuckers to say something about the pass interference call in Florida’s favor after watching egregious examples of interference FSU’s been doing all night. And then Burton goes nuts and runs backwards to lose HOW many yards on a fourth-down play?

    And now I see Brantley sandwiched as I typed this. Penalty? Needs to be.

  48. 48.

    JenJen

    November 26, 2011 at 8:32 pm

    Pacioretty and Cole! ET LE BUUUUUUUT! Habs score!! 3-1 over Pens in the 2nd.

  49. 49.

    Evolving Deep Southerner (tense changed for accuracy)

    November 26, 2011 at 8:32 pm

    Brantley’s fucked for this season and, effectively, for good. He got his bell rung there, brother.

  50. 50.

    Raven

    November 26, 2011 at 8:39 pm

    @Evolving Deep Southerner (tense changed for accuracy): I had a run in with his old man when I ran intramural sports programs. That and him being a Gator makes me not give a shit.

  51. 51.

    Hewer of Wood, Drawer of Water

    November 26, 2011 at 8:44 pm

    GO HABS GO! The only version of O Canada that should be played is by Roger Doucet

  52. 52.

    JenJen

    November 26, 2011 at 8:45 pm

    Pascal Dupuis scores for Pens. 3-2 Habs now. Also, Malkin is a beast.

  53. 53.

    Evolving Deep Southerner (tense changed for accuracy)

    November 26, 2011 at 8:46 pm

    Mrs. Deep Southerner is a Gator, and I’d cheer for the SEC in something like this anyway. Just as I’m cheering for USCe over Clemson, my paycheck.

    That and a story my Pop shares often, any time FSU comes up in the news or conversation. Back in ’56, Pop was a student there, and they had one player who was worth a damn, this running back. And in a game against FSU, he broke his leg, and the FSU fans cheered. He’s never gotten over it. And I guess I’ve internalized that old grievance.

  54. 54.

    gogol's wife

    November 26, 2011 at 8:47 pm

    OT — (although it’s an open thread but I don’t know from Habs or Pens) — James Wolcott’s oldest ocicat Jasper passed away. He writes very movingly about it. And he also writes the following, which is one of the things I love him for: “The mere mention of ‘dog bludgeoning’ in Tom’s review guarantees that I won’t see Tyrannosaur, a film that begins in grim despair and goes downhill from there, according to one commentator I heard on BBC Radio 4. Cruelty to animals as arthouse frisson fodder is where I get off the bus.” He’s always very strong on this point, which I completely agree with.

  55. 55.

    Evolving Deep Southerner (tense changed for accuracy)

    November 26, 2011 at 8:51 pm

    Raven, you really owe it to yourself to go over to the Tech fan [sic] blog here and check that out. I didn’t realize how many of the Tech fans want to just drop the damn game from the schedule completely! They just say it’s a farce of unequals. And that’s before you get into the staunch Paul Johnson attackers and defenders. It is a damn hoot.

    And GO WILDCATS! while we’re at it.

  56. 56.

    Raven

    November 26, 2011 at 8:52 pm

    @Evolving Deep Southerner (tense changed for accuracy): When the J-ville cops beat the shit out of a bunch of Georgia kids going after the goal posts I internalized my hate for everything Gator.

  57. 57.

    Raven

    November 26, 2011 at 8:57 pm

    @Evolving Deep Southerner (tense changed for accuracy): Ugh, I couldn’t handle that for long. I bet half those people are dawgs.

  58. 58.

    schrodinger's cat

    November 26, 2011 at 9:05 pm

    @khead: You has pretteh kittehs!
    I got a lot of cooking done this evening, even the mushroom risotto I made for the very first time came out quite well. I also made mango chutney with mint, chicken curry, quick chicken and cheese tamales, black beans with peppers, roasted potatoes in garlic and some broccoli.

  59. 59.

    JenJen

    November 26, 2011 at 9:08 pm

    @gogol’s wife: Poor Jasper. Gorgeous eulogy. Just buried my 18 year-old Joey Jo-Jo Junior Shabadoo a few weeks ago, and I miss my little lion in every possible way.

    Walking through the apartment I still feel the absence of his presence, or perhaps I should say the presence of his absence

    Exactly.

  60. 60.

    khead

    November 26, 2011 at 9:10 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    Thx. We are pretty shocked that SweetPea just lays there with Bella. SP has been pretty chilled about the whole “new kitteh” thing so far.

  61. 61.

    Evolving Deep Southerner (tense changed for accuracy)

    November 26, 2011 at 9:23 pm

    This Florida-FSU game is poorly, poorly officiated. As in just fucked up poor.

  62. 62.

    JenJen

    November 26, 2011 at 9:24 pm

    How can you be a hockey fan and not wish you were in Montreal on a Saturday night?? Just sayin’ is all. Wow. Best crowd in the league (unless you’re a Bruins fan)

    Also, Digiorno frozen pizza is called Deliscio in Canada. It’s not delivery, it’s Deliscio! Fun.

  63. 63.

    General Stuck

    November 26, 2011 at 9:36 pm

    The Mustache of Moronic provides a dispatch from the Ivory Tower

    Time to Embrace Simpson-Bowles

    “My gut says that if the president lays out such a plan — one that begins with him taking all the political risks on himself and then demanding the G.O.P. and his own party follow — he will be both defining himself and the future in a way that would earn him so much centrist support and respect that it would leave every possible Republican opponent in the dust, no matter how obstructionist they are or want to be.”

    No doubt the dumbest fucking thing I’ve read today, if not the new century.

  64. 64.

    MikeJ

    November 26, 2011 at 9:38 pm

    @henqiguai: I suffered through the first ep and thought it pretty lame, but had decided I’d give it another chance. Every time it came on I was doing something more important like counting ceiling tiles.

    I wanted to like it, but the shock seemed to be thrown in just to shock and didn’t come naturally from the situation. Contrived, gratuitous, and not really enough fun to make up for it. FX seems to wish it were HBO so they could have the swear density of Deadwood or The Sopranos, and always telegraph their naughtiness (linguistic or boobies) which rarely has anything to do with any plot line or character development.

    D minus.

  65. 65.

    JenJen

    November 26, 2011 at 9:38 pm

    Tabarnak!! Pens tie it up, 3 apiece.

    Also, lots of bloody chunky yuk from Letang on the ice. Ewwwww.

  66. 66.

    cathyx

    November 26, 2011 at 9:43 pm

    My dad always got season tickets to the penguin games. That was back in the day when they were blue and white and terrible. We still loved them anyway.

  67. 67.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    November 26, 2011 at 9:44 pm

    Speaking of things gator and gross, this is not bad.

  68. 68.

    Gin & Tonic

    November 26, 2011 at 9:44 pm

    @Mr Stagger Lee: Vasiliy Alexeev was a man who had things figured out. He knew, of course, precisely how much he could lift, but he would nudge his world records up bit by bit, always the lowest increment that weightlifting standards of the time allowed over his previous record, because the Soviet sports federation paid him cash bonuses for every world record. He set something like 80 world records — it helped, of course, that he was so much better than anyone else, but his control was remarkable.

  69. 69.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    November 26, 2011 at 9:49 pm

    @JenJen: Now that the Sabres have won I can watch this game. Love me some overtime!

  70. 70.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    November 26, 2011 at 9:53 pm

    Eat it Habs. ; )

  71. 71.

    andy

    November 26, 2011 at 9:55 pm

    Cracked open a beer after a longish spell- an August Schell Burton Ale– tasty tasty stuff. Thus under the influence, I hammered out a kohlrabi rémoulade and pork shoulder.

    Turned out pretty well. I just wish I got to cook for other humans once in a while.

  72. 72.

    JenJen

    November 26, 2011 at 9:55 pm

    @Old Dan and Little Ann: Right on. And I must say, I admired Paul Gaustad dropping gloves against Milan Lucic in Ryan Miller’s honor the other night, no matter the outcome.

    Sigh. Pens beat my beloved Habs in overtime. Letang!! Grrrr. BLOW THE F’N WHISTLE, REFS!!

  73. 73.

    JGabriel

    November 26, 2011 at 10:01 pm

    Possibly someone here has already posted this link, but just in case: Read This And You Might Save A Life

    It’s short, it’s about PCIP (Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan), part of the health care bill that not enough people are signing up for yet.

    .

  74. 74.

    2liberal

    November 26, 2011 at 10:13 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    re: Vasiliy Alexeev

    he was juiced up to his eyeballs with steroids. his eyes were bulging out and it was really obvious

  75. 75.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    November 26, 2011 at 10:19 pm

    @JGabriel: I am signed up for it in California. Excellent.

  76. 76.

    Hill Dweller

    November 26, 2011 at 10:29 pm

    I’m tired of the media referring to Simpson-Bowles as if there was a plan. Nothing garnered enough votes for passage, so Simpson and Bowles released their own ridiculous version of a plan.

    Just let the Bush tax cuts expire, pull the troops out of Afghanistan, cut defense spending, and work to reduce health care spending.

  77. 77.

    smintheus

    November 26, 2011 at 10:30 pm

    What a phenomenal month the Bruins have had. Their goal differential now is astounding.

  78. 78.

    techno

    November 26, 2011 at 10:33 pm

    @CB:
    There is no doubt that Crosby is a good player. But let’s not get carried away. He is not the greatest player of his generation—he is merely the greatest CANADIAN player of his generation—HUGE difference.

    For example, a couple of years back in the Stanley Cup Finals, Crosby was taken to school by Henrik Zetterberg. Z made him look like he still hadn’t learned the game. Proving once again that an 11th-round draft pick from Sweden is objectively more skilled than a first overall pick from Canada.

    Oh, some would argue, look who won the last Olympic Gold. Ah yes, the asterisk Olympics—played on narrow NHL ice. In Torino, Canada didn’t even make it to the medal round—they even lost to freaking Switzerland. I expect a similar outcome in Sochi—because face it, Crosby is the best Canadian player of his generation and he isn’t even the best player on the Pens. (Malkin in a walk).

    Oh yes, and because Crosby is such a cheap-shot artist as a hockey player, some nobody put him out of action for 11 months. The next guy (and Crosby has a LONG list of guys who think they owe him one) will knock him out of hockey. It’s pretty unlikely that Crosby even makes it to Sochi.

  79. 79.

    fubar

    November 26, 2011 at 11:05 pm

    techno
    You have a stunningly superficial understanding of hockey and hockey players. And it sounds like you have a hangup with Canucks.
    Also, ‘eat it Habs’.

  80. 80.

    Gotwolfy

    November 27, 2011 at 2:08 pm

    Please stop Calling The Canadian the “Habs”. You may not know but “Habs” is a diminutive of habitant. it is a insult given to french Canadian who were considered to be stupid and only good for manual labour. Since the Montreal team was full of French Canadian, some people resented that the team who was named after they’re country was full of french people. So they started calling the team habitant. The name was shortened to habs but we still remember the name and why it was given to the team.

    Imagine if a sport team was mostly made up of African-American and people started to call the team the “Nigs”
    I’m sure you would not be calling them that.

    I know habitant is not as bad has the “N” word but it is still bad.

  81. 81.

    Jamie

    November 27, 2011 at 3:55 pm

    I’m almost always just a lurker, but I had to post just to say that Gotwolfy and techno are spectacularly wrong.

    And yes, I know this thread is dead.

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