18 and Dead.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

Just don't schuss all over yourself.

No more schussing for me. The SO doesn't go in for that kinky stuff...

[JJIII]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Yup, a Kings game long ago. I've even tried to skate with hockey skates. It weren't pretty until I figgered out that stopping involved schussing.

Like most everything else, live is so much better than TV. There were some very good games during the playoffs this year, but TV just can't cover the whole rink. There is so much going on that you have to be able to see all the ice, all the time.

[JJIII]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

I know you're asking Bob...but yes, quite a few. Mostly in the old barn when I was a pup. I don't like the new place much. It's not a hockey game (or a Who concert) unless you're ears are ringing so bad when you leave that you're not hearing right for a day or so. When I was a kid, my organ teacher was an old guy named Al Melgard. Probably a smidge younger than I am now. Anyway, the organ was set up on the east side of the building, and hung right over the east goal when the place was set up for hockey. So we'd get standing room tickets and head over to Al's set-up. He had 8 or 10 folding chairs along the rail for friends, family, students, etc. It was a spectacular spot to watch a game.



It's a lousy picture but it's the only one I could find.

Sounds like good memories.

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by JJIII

Like most everything else, live is so much better than TV. There were some very good games during the playoffs this year, but TV just can't cover the whole rink. There is so much going on that you have to be able to see all the ice, all the time.

It's tough to see the puck on TV. Most of the passing is pretty easy to track, but when they take a shot, it just moves so fast it's impossible to see it...or when there's a scramble in front of the net, you just can't see what's going on at all. And you pretty much never see the puck go in, and don't know it until the play by play guy starts hollering. Although if you're at one end of the building and up in the nosebleed seats, it can be pretty difficult to track the puck as well.

But I love it. Although that 7th game of the conference final against LA really hurt. Go all that way and it's over on some cheezy deflection.

I'm enjoying this so much more than bickering about coppers and miscreants.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

I'm enjoying this so much more than bickering about coppers and miscreants.

That's what occurs when everyone deals only from within their element.

I, of course, know nothing of hockey so am intelligent enough to not make proclamations.

[djv8ga]

Most epic thread ever.

[Ike Bana]

Reckon if the above smiley face means me and Zeke are friends again. Because if I though Zeke wasn't my friend, I just don't think I could bear it.

[Tom Joad]

It will be interesting to see how the usual suspects spin this.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/10/us/fer...Top+Stories%29

From Randi Kaye, CNN
updated 8:28 AM EDT, Thu September 11, 2014

(CNN) -- Two men, shocked at what they saw, describe an unarmed teenager with his hands up in the air as he's gunned down by a police officer.

They were contractors doing construction work in Ferguson, Missouri, on the day Michael Brown was killed.

And the men, who asked not to be identified after CNN contacted them, said they were about 50 feet away from Officer Darren Wilson when he opened fire.

An exclusive cell phone video captures their reactions during the moments just after the shooting.

"He had his f**n hands up," one of the men says in the video.

The man told CNN he heard one gunshot, then another shot about 30 seconds later.

"The cop didn't say get on the ground. He just kept shooting," the man said.

That same witness described the gruesome scene, saying he saw Brown's "brains come out of his head," again stating, "his hands were up."

The video shows the man raising his arms in the air -- just as, he says, Brown was doing when he was shot.

The other contractor told CNN he saw Brown running away from a police car.

Brown "put his hands up," the construction worker said, and "the officer was chasing him."

The contractor says he saw Wilson fire a shot at Brown while his back was turned.

The men said they didn't seen how the confrontation started.

For more click here.

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

Reckon if the above smiley face means me and Zeke are friends again. Because if I though Zeke wasn't my friend, I just don't think I could bear it.

Zeke is wilfully admitting that you are the better man, but only as far as hockey that's played on ice goes, or maybe just pertaining to the Blackhawks.

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

It will be interesting to see how the usual suspects spin this.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/10/us/fer...Top+Stories%29

From Randi Kaye, CNN
updated 8:28 AM EDT, Thu September 11, 2014



For more click here.

Wonder why it took over a month for it to surface. If true, very serious indeed.