Comments | chaptal: wow, just wow

chaptal

wow, just wow

Jun 23, 2007 00:26

i have never seen so many people in the downtown area before, and they were all having a great time ( Read more... )

columbus, comfest, poetry, slam, tout est hockey, writers block

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dlkereluk June 23 2007, 04:33:55 UTC

bettman got booed
That fucking prick bettman should be kicked square in the nuts.

chaptal June 23 2007, 04:35:18 UTC

security would not let us near him.

dlkereluk June 23 2007, 04:46:56 UTC

Any person that operates a mom or pop store in Queen's could do a better job of running the NHL than that moron.

Frankly, if I was put in charge of the operation (no, Ed, I'm not going manic or anything, I'm just stating reality as I see it) would be to change my title to the President of the National Hockey League (Commissioner is to f-ing hokey to be taken seriously), change the name of the conferences back to the Clarence Campbell (Norris and Smythe Divisions) and Prince of Wales (Adams and Patrick Divisions) and to name one shithouse in every stadium hosting an NHL franchise "The Gary Bettman House of Shit."

Drawing people to the game is much more than creating stupid titles and names for conferences as Crapman has done.

chaptal June 23 2007, 05:35:13 UTC

I saw all those trophies tonight. Having never seen them before, it was cool to see them all in the same place. Bettman is a dickweed.

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sharkbait June 23 2007, 04:46:11 UTC

Sounds like a great evening with only that one exception.

So... who did we draft eh? Did we do good?

chaptal June 23 2007, 05:36:22 UTC

They picked some winger out of Halifax that I'd never heard. I wanted them to take Ellerby.

But it wasn't a goalie, so that's ok for now.

kat_chan June 23 2007, 19:48:44 UTC

Jakub Voracek. TSN was saying that he can run the point on the power play, so that may be the reason they snapped him up. I don't think they were expecting him to be around. But they didn't pick but one defenceman, and then that was an 18-year old who's probably going to be in college for a couple of years before he comes to town. Five wings, a defenceman and a goalie, all tolled. Howson is not impressing me. At least there's noone from PEI.

They'd better lay out some money for defence at free agency, or they'll be in the lottery again for 2008.

chaptal June 23 2007, 20:22:40 UTC

a late round goalie, whatever. one of the defensemen is 6'4" and just graduated high school. that's a big kid.

with the last pick they selected a kid from dublin.

neblue June 23 2007, 04:48:22 UTC

"cam neely got applause from my ex wife, who i saw working on the floor from out seats in the rafters."

If I didn't know any better, I'd think that was an invitation for me to make a snide comment...:p

chaptal June 23 2007, 05:37:04 UTC

if i see her tomorrow should i tell her you said hi?

dlkereluk June 23 2007, 04:51:20 UTC

gretsky got a standing ovation.
That prick deserves only to be kicked square in the nuts, while his wife deserves only to be kicked square in the box for the 2006 Winter Gambling Olympics debacle.

neblue June 23 2007, 05:00:05 UTC

Leave it to someone who stopped with the NHL completely after the last lockout, but my aren't we on a roll tonight. :p

dlkereluk June 23 2007, 05:04:40 UTC

To borrow a phrase from the only Irishman on the planet that I don't like, Michael "The Mouth" O'Leary of Ryanair, the NHL could succeed as a dynamic and more viable enterprise, except for the fact that it's run by a bunch of numbnuts. :)

chaptal June 23 2007, 05:37:53 UTC

i think janet was playing the ponies at scioto downs.

scottwoods June 23 2007, 12:29:19 UTC

Wait, who were we missing to make it perfect?!! I want perfection! I am the Ike Turner of Slam!

(Hey, I asked you.) ;-)

chaptal June 23 2007, 12:38:04 UTC

Not really slam related but a certain person who flew 4,000 miles to see me read at Arts Fest.

The slam was awesome. The Woodstock of slams! And you were the Wavy Gravy of slam!