NHL Podium Watch 2012
All the hockey hipster nerds on Twitter are just going bananas because the NHL podium has been set up and taken down multiple times tonight at the hotel where the NHL negotiations are going down. All excited that there might be an announcement that the lockout is over. Should just permanently leave this podium up somewhere so each and every year when there’s inevitably another lockout or a strike, dorks like Osgood don’t have to go on this roller coaster of emotions. I mean at this point the NHL should just cut to the chase and schedule each year’s lockout. Next year’s lockout starts September 17th, 2013. Just leave the podium up till then.
Zzz zzz zzz Can hockey just go away for good and take the NBA and WNBA with it?
go watch some monkeys throw a ball around you ignorant prick
I find it amusing that you wear a badge of honor of being a Mets and Jets fan, but mock NHL fans. If anything, being a hardcore NHL fan is way way worse than liking two shitty franchises. Bettman sucks, Shanahan sucks Donald Fehr is worthless, and NHL owners make other ownership groups look like Soviet sympathizers during the McCarthy era.
I laugh at your trolling of the NHL when you follow the Jets…them and rex ryan is a bigger joke than bettman and the NHL is.
When the National Hockey League disappears for good, which will be in no time, we can finally form the Neil Hating League. PS i’m a die hard rangers fan, but I have lost all faith in the NHL
@kramerica. i dont get it.. so he is a fan of a baseball and football team and isnt a fan of hockey. Based on you seem to dislike hockey too… I think that was his overall point.
I’m a huge hockey fan, love the game, love college hockey, but the structure of the league is so terrible that is almost impossible to not be frustrated at this point. Liking two shitty teams is a lot easier than watching a shitty company squander away all the potential earnings that they have made since the last lockout
Wait the NHL is in a lockout? Since when??
What’s the NHL?
Hockey fans have completely lost it at this point. We’re discussing Steve Fehr eating pizza in real time. This is lunatic behavior but I cant look away from twitter.
NFL lockout – people were legit scared
NBA lockout – not as much as the NFL, but people cared enough to want it back
NHL lockout – NHL is locked out?
I love how you call hockey fans hipster nerds just because Ranger fans are just dumbass pink hat shitbag hockey fans. Kind of like when you become a Giants fan when the Jets miss the playoffs 9 out of every 10 years.
NHL>NBA
NHL>NFL
NHL>MLB
NHL>PGA
NHL>MLS
Fact.
Both the league and players need to get their shit together. Both are just pissing away money and realistically, the players have little chance of winning this battle
Didn’t you just live tweet an early December Knicks game? You shouldn’t be going around calling anyone a dork, although Osgood is a clown
@ tickle hahahahhahahahhahahahahaha your fucking delusional pal
Nope, you just don’t get it or probably never played hockey. Hockey is the best and most highly-skilled sport, unlike the other mamby-pamby pussy leagues. It’s passion on ice. You got a beef with a dude? Drop the mitts and sit for 5, not play tough guy and wait for the refs to break it up and yap yap yap the whole time. Negro handball league? Foul. What’s that? Foul. Huh? Foul. Fuck that faggot shit, plus the refs have too much say in it and don’t just let the boys play. Other sports are good, just not as good as hockey, that’s all I’m saying.
Hahahaha hey buddy are you mad nhl players are half the size of nfl players and have half the talent? Nhl fucking sucks, nice season theyre having this year.
you’ve played magic the gathering. don’t think you can call people dorks
Well, yeah, there’s no need for 300 lb. banana-eating machines in hockey. I’ve been to a million NFL and NHL games and NHL games are so much more entertaining its not even close. I read some shit last month (couldn’t find the link to the article, but could if I really tried to) where the NFL has somewhere in the neighborhood of 9 minutes of actual game-played action, the rest is commercials and commentary.
Certainly not the case in hockey, you can ba-leeee dat! (as the naggers say)
@mikepage you are absolutely retarded if you think NHL players have half the talent as NFL players. You obviously have never played ice hockey so you have no clue but coming from someone who has played both competitively, hockey definitely takes a lot more skill. Take a lap bro
That stage looks like a Neil autograph signing at a Holiday Inn.
Give me hockey!!
@mikepaige all 16 games and 3 playoffs game those NFL players play… So tough, I ld rather be lined up and leveled by Ray Lewis 10 times then have Chara hit me once in open ice.
Alright people, lets be fucking rational here. Yes, hockey is better than watching a bunch of niggers flap their gums and dunk a basketball 40 times a game (the most overrated maneuver in sports).
It’s not better than football. The NFL is head and shoulders above every other sport.
Hockey fans are the most delusional Hardos on the planet. And tickle my balls NHL players don’t flop(Canadiens). An the refs never make bad game changing power play calls in the playoffs? Just shut up and go jack off to Tim Thomas eating out Sarah palin
let’s continue trying to compare apples and bananas (see what I did there?) and look past the fact that KFC just doesn’t like hockey because his lazy eye makes it nearly impossible to follow the puck at such high speed
hockey is probably 3,000,000 times better of a sport than baseball. baseball is for chicks and soft dudes that like to spout statistics at the to feel like a man. can’t beat a game where you’re allowed to put everything on hold and fight. the fact that hockey goes so uncared about in the US is proof positive that this country is pussified.
KFC calls out hockey fans for being hipster nerds. Then all the hipster nerds flip out, right on queue. Well done, hockey dorks.
Anyone who doesn’t realize hockey takes more skill to play than the NFL, NBA and NHL is fucking retarded. Half of the people making those comments can’t even stand on ice in a pair of skates, let alone skate against 5 other guys, get hit and stay up, or even fight while balancing on a pair of skates. The only people trashing hockey are the losers from high school and college who were jealous that they couldn’t get with puck sluts. Skillwise: NHL>NFL>MLB>NBA
prez wanted me to ask where body surfing falls on the spectrum of skills required in various sports
@namedtheman who gives a fuck about Being able to skate? Most pointless activity ever invented.
All hickey players wish they were figure skaters= fact
Fuckin fags
Namedthemman probably can’t dribble a basketball
Lockout ends today=FACT
Yeah ok, digitalmonster – except for the fact that your head would be used as a speedbag and if your Nancy ass ever tried to drop the mitts. If you came with that disrespect looking to get served then you’d get fed Thanksgiving dinner pal. Simple as that. Plus you only say that because I’d be willing to bet you tried but suck big, fat rhinoceros cock at not only hockey but skating in general
@ herbieversmells, I lol’ed at the lazy eye comment but you gotta think about it, I bet KFC could set all kinds of records and make a real case to surpass Jari Kurri or even the great one for all time assists b/c he can keep one eye on the puck and use the other to feed the open guy in front. a real game changer
tickle my balls at least admit NBA has better athletes than NHL, if not you can not be taken seriously
You can maybe argue endurance because the NBA players are running back and forth for longer periods of time, but hockey players go balls out and empty the tank for 30 – 1:30 intervals at a time and for how long depends on how good the player is and the game situation also. Other than that, I can’t think of anything and would say it’s a pretty big reach to say the NBA has better athletes than NHL. Everyone can walk and run on two feet but not everyone can learn to skate and skate ridiculously fast for that matter, stop, go and turn with precision and the quickness.
@wilburham- NBA probably has the least “athletic” athletes next to baseball. Pretty much if you are close to 7′ and have any hand eye coordination you can play ball. I would honestly say soccer has better true athletes than NBA. NHL, NFL, MLB, NBA then MLB in terms of true athleticism.
renee your an idiot, you know how many 6’8″ to 7’2″ people there are who dont play ball, you know how hard it is to run and jump when your that tall. tickle my balls your retarded these people grow up on skates, its as natural if not more natural than running, how does that make them more athletic than 250 lb dudes who can jump 45 inches off the ground? fucking retards
I was unaware the jumping solely defines athleticism. Based on your logic, high jumpers and hurdlers are at the pinnacle of athleticism. BTW, there are no NBA players @ 250 with 45″ vert. Average is 28″.
renee? ever heard of lebron, and to be able to run cut and jump the way they do is the defenition of athletic ability
You’ve got to love hockey fans. Incredible inferiority complex – I mean, the constant need to disparage other sports? Makes no sense; but considering the fact that Game 6 of the NBA Finals outdrew the totality of the Stanley Cup Finals last year, I get it. And the NBA absolutely has better athletes – not because of any inherent quality of the sport, but because of the fact that basketball’s a global game with millions of more participants (due to its accessibility … and therefore the law of averages dictates that the talent pool isn’t as finite as it is in hockey). Compare combine results between the NHL/NBA for similar things (e.g. – bench press or vertical jump), control for age, and shit becomes even clearer. And calling basketball “negro handball” is akin to calling hockey “Caucasian ice dance.”
Game 5 of the NBA Finals*. And honestly, hockey DOES take more skill: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/sportSkills. But the difference isn’t exponential.
Lebron dosent have a 45″ vert as you claimed. No facts to back up your claim. I would say Lebron IS an exceptional athlete, but he is more of an exception than the norm in basketball. I never claimed hockey was more popular, just takes more skill.
Nhl doesnt take more skill as you claimed no facts to back up your claim
NHL is so much more skill, it’s not even close you have be on skates and handle the playing object with a stick not your hands. If you don’t agree you probably can’t skate shoot or even know the rules of the game.
Facts are posted above, but I’ll post them again for you dipshit http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/sportSkills.
Inferiority complex? Lol. Call a foul on that. FUCK the NBA and the flapping and foul calling; bottom line is that shit is for pussies. You can try to make a case if you’d like, but at the end of the day you’re just a giant, gaping vagina.
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Adam Morrison and JJ Reddick made the NBA, real bad ass sport!
Great, you live in a world of black and white, where your opinion is obviously right, your logic is infallible and people can’t appreciate “non-contact” sports. It’s a matter of opinion man. I enjoy the game of basketball and how it lends itself to analysis. When I want to watch something more physical, I watch the NFL/MMA. And a lot of talentless hockey players made it into the NHL to serve as goons and what not, so I don’t understand how the Adam Morrison comment’s valid.
nba you have to run and cut while dribbling, jump and contort your body through the air while trying to avoid shotblockers, as well as shoot a ball from distance into a hoop that is esentially double the ball size
ya rely on an old shitty study from espn’s page 2 so factual
The goons that make the NHL would be danglers and goal scorers in the AHL, everyone has job to do. Point is I respect NBA players but its for pussies, no beef. They are just athletic Africans who couldn’t make it in a real sport and the track team was full
Its more fact than what you posted about 250pd guys jumping 45″. And the survey wasn’t conducted by an ESPN panel.
Have you ever been on skates? Ever been to an NHL game? I’ve been to NBA and played b-ball. They dont compare watching and playing.
I will agree to disagree.
I respect the nhl, but there just trashy white people who were two slow for the football team and lacked hand eye for the baseball team. see id bang brady i can do it too
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See that? I just called a foul on wilburnham and klklnlknl. Yawn. Oops! Another foul. What’s that? The last minute of the game took 24 minutes in real time? Oh wow. Sounds fun. Sign me up.
renne its well documented that lebron has around a 44 inch vertical, and hes around 260 lbs
tickle my balls, hockey skate in circle for 30 seconds, pass, pass, dump puck, change lines, skate behind own goal, pass, pass, dump puck, change lines. games boring everyone drop gloves, and pretend to fight
Where is is documented? Everywhere I’ve seen says around 40″. Only 3 players have over 44″ and LJ anint one. http://www.squidoo.com/NBA-Verticals
You gotta love the “pretends to fight” comments. Yah fake blood, fake missing teeth from 99% of players mouths. Fake is flopping in b-ball and soccer.
@id bang brady on: There’s no such thing as a “real sport.” Unless you want ACTUAL street thugs who play in the parks to infiltrate the league (by legislating fighting back into the game), the NBA will always pale in comparison to the NHL in the toughness department. And, obviously, that’s not a viable business model because it’d scare off a significant faction of the white fanbase (who actually attend the games), and the league would suffer long-term.
That was a hurt my feelings foul, wilburnham. Look for me; I’ll be the guy shooting two free-throws at the line. While I’m at it, one of the only cool things about the NBA is when they play the coin sound from Mario bros. when a guy sinks a free throw
again great source rennee, he says this list may not be perfect, blake griffin isnt even on it
Where is your source? Nate Robinson wasnt on it either.
And renee, I’d suggest that “flopping” will soon become less prevalent in the NBA due to these punitive anti-flopping rules they’ve implemented. I’d assume that was the motivation behind the “diving” penalty in the NHL as well.
Yeah, but the difference being this: if a dude is a diver in the NHL, he’ll get his ass beat and teeth knocked in. In the NBA, it’s so flagrant and the flopping has become so rampant that there’s no control on it. I remember laughing, shaking my head and thinking, “silly naggers” when I first discovered the league implementation of fines associated for habitual floppers. Give me a break. In the NHL, where the players DON’T poop their big boy pants, the players police themselves and target a known diver so thy won’t continue to do it.
Verdict: NHL> NBA. 8 days a week and twice on Sundays. Thank you, thank you. I’ll be here all week. Please tip your servers and bartenders.
Now if we could get a fucking season already!!!!
@tickle my balls: Obviously embellishment’s less prevalent in the NHL because of subcultural norms, but diving penalties – like NBA anti-flop rules – serve as deterrents (it’s more about publicly stigmatizing or shaming a player), and should improve the flow of the game. I’d also argue that the frequency of “flops” are overstated; they’re simply salient because of how laughably blatant they are at times. But really, the problem’s rooted in the fact that coaches are teaching their players to undercut their opponents and take charges instead of going up and contesting shots (so they ought to move the restricted area back if anything). I have no problem with hockey, and I want to see it come back soon. I don’t get why people treat these sports like their political affiliations though.
Basketball=Black people=Democrat
Hockey=White people=Republican
So how dont you get why people treat these sports like their political affiliations?
Sorry, should have been clearer. I get WHY that dichotomy exists. But I don’t understand why it HAS to be treated in the same way. I mean, the NBA’s 75-78% black while the NFL’s 66% black. Everybody still loves the latter (maybe that’s because the most important position’s been historically white, who knows).
Naggers be naggers!