caroljane Posted April 28, 2018 Share Posted April 28, 2018 I like Nashville, I love Jets. at least they're not the NJ Nets or the new-minted New York Mets, so broken-hearted in Toronto, I must live, though I don't want to, therefore must I place my bet (if I don't ask I'll never get) and pin my heart upon PK but my scant money on Laine. O hockey gods, whom there's no pleasing, when will you cease divinely teasing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 Helle and high water ...Helle won. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted April 30, 2018 Author Share Posted April 30, 2018 A shootout, I may not survive, if I don't , give the 1990 signed Canada Cup poster to cousin Donald. NO RELATION!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted May 11, 2018 Author Share Posted May 11, 2018 I said (I thought it was here, but obviously not) that I can't find any pleasure in the anguish of the defeated, and watching Pekka Rinne bearing that anguish so manfully, brought tears to my eyes. And the stoicism of the handshake. It is an enforced hypocrisy, I suppose. Inside just wild beasts who would rather die or kill than be constrained to shake hands with those who defeated them, or tried to defeat them. Outside, true men to admire, and support. It is a discipline which the practitioners of supposedly higher pursuits, like politics, have gleefully abandoned, to their degradation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted May 12, 2018 Author Share Posted May 12, 2018 "Breathes there the man with soul so dead, who never to himself has said--- this is my own, my native game! Can't watch the Winnipeg joy or the Vegas justified pride, there is a limit to how much I can cry before the series even starts. Cannot think of a player on either team I do not admire with all my might. Games started in antiquity as honour to the gods, and they continue tonight in then-unimagined North America, wreathed already in glory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Posted May 14, 2018 Share Posted May 14, 2018 Carol Jane quoted: "Breathes there the man with soul so dead, who never to himself has said--- this is my own, my native game! Born Free (1967) - ANDY WILLIAMS Born free, as free as the wind blows As free as the grass grows Born free to follow your heart Live free and beauty surrounds you The world still astounds you Each time you look at a star Stay free, where no walls divide you You're free as the roaring tide So there's no need to hide Born free, and life is worth living But only worth living 'Cause you're born free . . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted June 6, 2018 Author Share Posted June 6, 2018 Thorough as always, President Trump has reportedly been monitoring the behaviour of NHL players during the National Anthem in the final Cup round. He fulminates that players disrespect the flag by "shuffling around", nudging each other and heinously , spitti'ng on the ice, and demands that the League fire the offenders, and in the case of non-American players (that would be the majority of them) deport them first and ask questions later. Well, that's what a lot of people are saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted June 8, 2018 Author Share Posted June 8, 2018 Really no losers at the final for fans at least, with Ovie getting his long-deserved cup and the gallant Knights fighting to the very end of a season that will require some new English sports word to describe it. The Marlies are still in the Calder Cup final but Texas made it even last night, 2-2. One of the stars of the final, who scored the tying goal, has previously said that if Washington won and was invited to the White House he would not go. Premier-Elect Ford had already called Pres Trump and offered to deport the guy back to the US to be punished for his traitorous attitudes,when he was told the guy was from Scarborough, Ontario. That did not faze Ford, he said that those details won't be so important once he gets his Red Tape Bonfires going. We're doomed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted June 8, 2018 Author Share Posted June 8, 2018 Interesting. Trump is already hedging his bets, saying "if they want to be here" he will invite the Stanley Cup winners, effectively passing the puck to team owner Ted Leonsis, who is no Ed Snider but equally impressive in this way. It's sad for the players who really want to meet him to have dissension about being honoured by America's highest official. I hope there are not too many of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caroljane Posted June 12, 2018 Author Share Posted June 12, 2018 Attention, attention! I am going to commend President Trump for something! He has encouraged federal employees to take 2 hours off work for the Capitals' victory parade tomorrow and has congratulated them warmly. Showing that he has proper respect for at least one vital component of North American life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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