Here's a brand new conspiracy theory I made up last night.

Allegations about a gambling ring run by Rick Tocchet of the Phoenix Coyotes is entirely fabricated and is only designed to distract Wayne Gretzky and the Canadian Olympic hockey team so they won't win the gold medal during the upcoming tournament.

This is clearly so obvious that anyone disagreeing is clearly in on the scam.

I think Nasa is behind this, with the help of the British Royal family


WHat dya think??

Pete

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There's so much I don't know about astrophysics. I wish I had read that book by that wheelchair guy.

Clearly the british royal family, being lizard people, have a dislike of ice. They must be trying to destroy the sport of hockey. I predict they go after curling next.

fools, you've exposed yourselves.

In all honesty, I think it's more appropriate in BABBling than CT.

Moved.

Is ice-hockey the only wintersport North-Americans care about?

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I don't presume to speak for the remainder of the continent, but it is indeed the only one I care about.

Go Leafs! Go Team Canada!

I try to follow downhill, slalom, GS, moguls, freestyle skiing (bring back ski ballet!), figure skating, some curling, luge, bobsled, skeleton (when I happen to catch these events). With the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympics going in under an hour's time, a smorgasbord of events will be on the air, for the next couple of weeks!

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I think hockey is to winter sports what football is to fall and baseball is to spring/summer.

A religion.

Whenever we're away
People always say
That hockey is the sport to which we flock.
But if you actually play (Participate),
then Curling wins the day (It's really great).
In Canada, more people curl than hock!

- Bowser and Blue, "The Curling Song"

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"your going to regret that one. You are now a colonoscope...
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Curling looks a lot saver.

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You think? The "pucks" are 40lbs each.

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- Moose's one-line review.

"your going to regret that one. You are now a colonoscope...
- Chrissy, corrupting PraedSt's wish.

Great, you may have just cursed Team Canada by having the Leafs mentioned in the same line.

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Traditionally, it is THE winter sport for the northern bit of the Eastern Seaboard and the Great Lakes area. Testing my memory here, but I believe the original 6 teams were Boston, New York, Detroit, Montreal, Chicago, and Toronto. (Or was it another place instead of Toronto - maybe Philly or Minnesota?). I only remember those days vaguely.

I definitely remember my dad & uncles being aghast when hockey franchises started popping up in places like Florida and California. It was like someone was blasphemizing their religion.

In Wisconsin and Minnesota, especially the northern hinterlands - it is a formal religion.

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Hockey is only worthwhile if it is Olympic hockey. Everything else is just barbaric spectacle.

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I usually only ever watched the highlights looking for a good brawl. Interestingly, it appears the NHL is the only professional sport in the US where felony assault charges have been filed for playing the game in the spirit it seems to be intended.

Yup, it was Toronto, we haven't won a Stanley Cup since expansion.

*cough* World Jrs *cough*

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I heard it on the news just the other day
There's this new stuff called dark energy
We can't measure and we can't see..." - from Jimmy Buffett's What if the hokey pokey is all it really is about?

Never watched 'em. Might be worth it. But then I haven't watched TV at all since the election. And not since September before that.

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The Quebec Major-Junior League and Women's Olympic are about the only hockey worth watching in my mind. I don't really bother with the Million-Dollar-Crybabies anymore. I've been more-or-less fed up since the first strike.

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- Moose's one-line review.

"your going to regret that one. You are now a colonoscope...
- Chrissy, corrupting PraedSt's wish.

Yup,Go Leafs! Go Team Canada! Ill add a Go Devils! too (for my local team).

Its true that at some games you go to a fight and a hockey game nearly breaks out but a good game of hockey in the NHL or many other national/regional leagues can have it all. Speed, power, channelled (and sometimes not so channelled) aggression,skill...the lot basically.

Those are the original six teams though curiously they werent the first 6 NHL teams despite the title. There werent even 6 teams to begin with there were only 5. The Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas though the Bulldogs fell apart financially before the season started and the wanderers arena burnt down forcing an end to their season. So the first NHL season finished with only 3 teams only two of whom are in 'the original six'

The current Senators are a fairly recent team. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't count them as being part of your "original 5" or the more conventionally known "original 6".

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In Fallout 3, 'happiness' is a warm junkyard dog and a loaded gun. It's mostly the loaded gun.
- Moose's one-line review.

"your going to regret that one. You are now a colonoscope...
- Chrissy, corrupting PraedSt's wish.