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Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Washington, DC - Hockeytown South?
Ah, yes, as April dawns, the NHL season comes to a close, and the energy builds in the capital . . .
. . . except that this time it's my capital - Washington DC - that is all abuzz as the Caps try to resurrect their season and make it to the playoffs (Washington Post):
Ovechkin and his comrades continued the run, jumping out early and keeping the pressure on the Carolina Hurricanes in a 4-1 victory before a loud, sellout mob of 18,277, most of whom wore red cotton and hollered passionately, as if they were in Bloomington, Ind.; Columbus, Ohio; Lincoln, Neb.; or some other nook or cranny of the country whose self-esteem is tethered to the local college team.
That's what the Russian kid has done. That's what his rumpled Canadian coach and this young, fast and potent team have accomplished. They've turned an ambivalent hockey town, which has almost no memory of a Stanley Cup finals sweep by Detroit a decade ago, into a virtual puckhead convention.
Who would have thought Canada's national pastime could break through all the way down here.
Posted by D.J. McGuire on April 2, 2008 in International Affairs | Permalink
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Good Luck to your team!!!
Some jokes about the Toronto Maple Leafs who should be baseball's NYY equivalent in hockey:
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hat do the Leafs and the Titanic have in common?
They both look good until they hit the ice.
One day, this guy was sitting in a bar having a drink. All of a sudden he's startled by three Toronto Maple Leafs hockey players cheering, "Fifteen! Fifteen!" He ignores them and continues to drink.
About 5 minutes later, the hockey players again cheer, "Fifteen! Fifteen!"
At this, the guy then walks over and asks them why they keep cheering, "Fifteen! Fifteen!"
The hockey players respond, "Well, we went to Walmart and bought this jigsaw puzzle, which we put together in 15 weeks! Considering that the side of the box said 3-5 years."
"He's great on the rink" a sportswriter said of a young Toronto Maple Leafs player in a interview with his coach.
"But's how's his scholastic work?"
"Why, he makes straight A's," replied the coach.
"Wonderful!" said the sportswriter.
"Yes," agreed the coach, "but his B's are a little crooked."
Q: What do you call a Toronto Maple Leafs player with half a brain?
A: Gifted!
Q: How do Toronto Maple Leafs hockey players braincells die?
A: Alone.
Q: Why is it good to have a Toronto Maple Leafs player as a passenger?
A: You can park in the handicap zone.
Q: How do you make a Toronto Maple Leafs player eyes light up?
A: Shine a flashlight in his ear.
Q: How can you tell if a Toronto Maple Leafs hockey player has been using the computer?
A: There's white-out on the screen.
Q: How can you tell if another Toronto Maple Leafs hockey player been using the computer?
A: There's writing on the white-out.
Q: What did the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey player think of the new computer?
A: He didn't like it because he couldn't get channel 9.
Q:Why do Toronto Maple Leafs hockey players drive BMWs?
A: Because they can spell it.
Q: Why do Toronto Maple Leafs players have TGIF on their skates?
A: Toes Go In First.
Q: If a Toronto Maple Leafs player and a Ottawa Senators player are tossed off a building, who hits the ground first?
A: The Ottawa Senators player. The Toronto Maple Leafs player has to stop to ask for directions.
Q: What happens when a Toronto Maple Leafs player gets Alzheimers disease?
A: His IQ goes up!
Q: Why did the Toronto Maple Leafs player scale the glass partition?
A: To see what was on the other side.
Q: What do you call 10 Toronto Maple Leafs players standing ear to ear?
A: A wind tunnel.
Q: What did the Leafs player say to the buxom waitress (reading her nametag)
A: "'Debbie'...that's cute. What did you name the other one ?"
Q: What does a Leafs player say when you blow in his ear?
A: "Thanks for the refill!"
Q: What is it called when a Toronto Maple Leafs player blows in another Leafs players ear?
A: Data transfer.
Q: What do you call a fly buzzing inside a Leafs players head?
A: A Space Invader.
Q: What's a Toronto Maple Leafs players favourite rock group?
A: Air Supply.
Q: What do you see when you look into a Toronto Maple Leafs players eyes?
A: The back of his head.
Q: Why do Leafs players drive VW's?
A: Because they can't spell PORSCHE!
Q: How do you make a Maple Leafs player laugh on Monday morning?
A: Tell them a joke on Friday night!
Q: How did the Toronto Maple Leafs player break his leg raking leaves?
A: He fell out of the tree.
Q: Why did the Toronto Maple Leafs player try to steal a police car?
A: He saw "911" and thought it was a Porsche.
Q: What do you call a Toronto Maple Leafs players in an institution of higher learning?
A: A visitor.
Posted by: Bocanut | 2008-04-02 12:03:26 PM
>"They've turned an ambivalent hockey town, which has almost no memory of a Stanley Cup finals sweep by Detroit a decade ago, into a virtual puckhead convention."
D.J. McGuire on April 2, 2008
You hockey puck!
~channeling Don Rickles
Posted by: Speller | 2008-04-02 12:09:50 PM
...any bets they make it to the finals? Good PR for hockey in the US of A.
Posted by: tomax7 | 2008-04-02 10:30:52 PM
Bocanut, here's another (old) one for the Leafs.
"The goalie (insert name) couldn't make a save if his life depended on it. In desperation, after another bad night, he jumped in front of the team bus, only to have it slip between his legs..."
Posted by: Nothing New Under the Sun | 2008-04-03 4:20:50 AM
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