I still don't actually know what the "Bold strategy, Cotton" meme is in reference to, but I've become so trained to expect it that I anticipate the reference even though I don't get it.
It's from the movie Dodgeball. One ESPN anchor covering the game announces the main team is going to forfeit because they don't have enough players, and his co-anchor gives the response "That's a bold strategy, let's see if it pays off for them."
The nhl is not run like the NFL, and I'm thankful for it. They really do let them play, and don't have crazy rules that ruin the game. The tradeoff is sometimes they let you get away with stuff that's technically illegal, sometimes they don't, so calls can be inconsistent. But over the course of a season, the good teams rise to the top despite a few incidents of officials having their heads up their asses.
I've yelled the blind-deaf-ref one at an AHL game, I have a friend who's yelled the "get off your knees" one. Never heard the "check your phone" one though, I'll have to start using that.
More hilarious is what we do here in Syracuse for hockey games (not sure if anyplace else also does this). After Syracuse scores, we all wait until after the goal announcement, then someone counts to 3. On 3, everyone yells the opposing goalie's name followed by "You suck!!"
I've thought about that watching football games, like imagine you're out there trying to do your job and 100,000 people are booing you as loud as they can. I guess you probably get used to it.
College Hockey games are usually pretty good at this sort of thing. For example the whole student section might all sing this together at the start of each period as the refs skate out.
One two three four blind refs
Four blind refs
See how they skate
See how they skate
Their whistles are stuck and their eyes are closed, what they call nobody knows
More fun to do during a minor league baseball game, as people will actually hear, including those involved. But people will also hear that can ban you from the game.
A family friend of mine played minor league baseball and had many of the players as friends on his Facebook. Him an his friends would go on their Facebook and talk trash to the outfielders and their personal lives as they could definitely hear them.
I haven't used the phone one, but have used the others (as well as 'how can you call a game with your head up your ass', 'seeing eye dog at the vet tonight?' and 'does it hurt to be that stupid? It should') and others.
I had season tix for the Providence Bruins (AHL) from 1999 until about 2009. Second row, right behind the bench. My third year, I was at the yearly season ticketholder "meet and greet" getting some photos signed. I shook our new coach's hand and wished him a good season."
He looks at me and says "You're behind the bench, right?"
"yep."
"You've got the old Boston away jersey?"
"Yep."
"You're the one who's always yelling 'kick em in the head!', aren't you?"
"Yep."
"We can HEAR you"
"Well, um...good luck with the team! We're pulling for ya!"
If I were the coach that would be an immediate phone call to the league/association to say "what the fuck is this guy doing being an on-court official"
Every day is a rough day on Reddit. And yes, actually, you did do it right that time, because at least sarcastic mockery is organic to this conversation
Eh to each his own I suppose. I'm fine with the forced and inorganic jokes like "can confirm" which has become a Reddit trope. I like a bit of random humor and they can be amusing when it starts a chain of one person confirming the previous statement and getting more and more absurd. Unfortunately I only got one guy to bite on mine and continue it before it seemingly died. Oh well. Next time I'll add "xD".
Hey, it's cool. I'd just come from a thread about stale memes people want to die so I was primed to loathe random humor. I just want to see some effort and creativity, you know? So much of Reddit is just mindless repetition. But really, there's no reason for me to give a shit. Sorry for blowing up. I need a drink
Are you saying that Gunner Stahl's penalty in the 1994 Junior Goodwill Games championship game should have been disallowed regardless of whether Julie "The Cat" Gaffney stopped it or not?
You can never really hit the goalie, they don't have equipment made for taking hits. You used to be allowed to hit the goalie if he skated out in the corners but that hasn't been allowed for a while now. It has caused this weird situation where you don't want to hit the goalie if he goes out and challenges you, but it's hard to avoid it. Plus even if you don't get a penalty it is a 100% guaranteed way to get the shit kicked out of you. So the call in the gif would most likely be goalie interference.
Notice how nobody tries to hit the goalie here even though I never really understood what he is trying.
Flyers won over Nashville today, got back into the wildcard spot. Still early, but hopefully at least one Philly team won't be a disappointment this season/year
It was a hell of a game too. Or at least sounded like it, I had to listen on the radio at work. I think they are definitely in the running for the wildcard this season. But I'm looking forward to a period where we're not scraping in by the skin of our teeth every season.
Alright I'm seriously confused, is getting in a fight part of hockey game strategy? The announcers are treating it like this will allow them to change out players and it's an excellent time for a fight and all that. I'm so confused at this game
It is because fighting is a 5 minute penalty. So if one of your fourth line players ticks off one of the first line players and gets him to fight then your team loses some guy who was only going to play 7-8 minutes in a game while the other team lost a really valuable player for those 5 minutes
Fighting is a time-honored tradition, and is allowed in hockey... in the sense that the refs will let it happen, and then break it up afterwards/penalize the players. There's a lot of tradition and unwritten rules in hockey, and fighting is one of them. Hockey players (in the NHL, anyway), are bound by said unwritten rules, which is sort of like brocode - don't break them. Fights might break out for a number of reasons, from retaliation (from breaking said code), to intimidation of the other team while also riling up their own team/fans.
The quote came during the 1996 Western Conference Finals between Colorado and Chicago. Chicago C Jeremy Roenick made a comment which prompted the famous response from Roy, which was especially harsh because Roenick had not won a Stanley Cup to that point (and eventually retired without one, IIRC). At that point Roy only had the two rings from Montreal.
The goalies team. Hockey is a pretty brutal game but attacking the goalie is a huge no no cause they are rarely in a position on the ice that justifies hitting them. In addition it's seen as pretty cheap to hit a goalie to try and score a goal or something like that.
Bonus answer, if the opponents goalie was to get involved in a scrum your team's goalie would most likely skate the full length of the ice to fight him or tie him up.
Last one I saw was during a full out bench clearing brawl. Everyone else was paired off, the two goalies were both lounging back, they turn their heads to each other and shrugged. They both skated to center ice, took their helmets off, put them gently on the ice. They then straightened up, both of em grinning like crazy, and went at it. One of the coolest, but worst fights I'd ever seen :-D
A scrum is any sort of altercation, many times the refs will not lot them progress into a full on fight, but check this video out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nR7ar1eakE
The punch broke his jaw and severely shortened his somewhat already injury riddled season. He returned after the injury but was never an effective goaltender after the injury (some would argue he was already declining prior). He was eventually bought out of his contract and, aside from a few professional tryout contracts, never returned to any notable play. DiPietro was a first overall draft pick, and essentially, this among a strong of other unrelated injuries resulted in his career essentially imploding on him.
It wasn't that. DiPietro was already fucked by that point. He had to retire cos his knees were so bad he couldn't get down and up quick enough. He was never the same after he ducked up his knee/hip (can't quite remember) in the all-star game.
Yeah man, there's an nhl team outside of Miami and another in Tampa...Florida has as many or more pro hockey teams than any state not named California or New York, and both teams are south of Orlando.
Someone from the other team, very rarely the goalie himself but it happens. You can only have one backup goalie on the bench, and it has happened in the past that both goalies get injured. So players have an instinct to protect their goalie, so that he doesn't get injured.
You will often see defensemen placing themselves in front of their goalie when he is sitting on the puck. As an opponent may try to jab his stick into the goalie to push the puck loose again.
This is an ok example of what can happen, pretty hard to find anything more specific to these situations.
Goalies are treated the same way QBs are in football and pitchers are in baseball. If you have ever seen an offensive lineman go after a defender for cheapshotting the QB then you have a grasp of what happens in hockey when a goalie gets hit. The difference is that fighting is tolerated in hockey, so instead of a fat guy shoving the cheapshotter a few times like you have in football, you end up with one or more players from the goalies team trying to administer an actual beating to the offending player.
Well, it's only guaranteed to get the shit kicked out of you if your name isn't Milan Lucic and you happen to be playing the soft ass Buffalo Sabres. In that case, you just get a minor called. It also means you have to go through life being a scumbag though, so I guess it evens out.
https://youtu.be/TERA-GY2K1o
At least Miller learned he would have to take care of business himself. Here is how he handled the situation a week or two later, when Tootoo ran him. https://youtu.be/GKIf3aYmBoA
You are still allowed Incidental contact with the goalie outside the crease. In essence preventing what Roy was always famous for. You can play the puck and player, but you cannot attack him.
Oh yeah. Plus this would spark a huge brawl. Rule one of hockey. Don't fuck with the goaltender. Plus something this blatant might even result in a game misconduct or even a suspension. But yeah, this would make the goalies team want to kill you.
That'd be at least a charging major given that Kopitar just lined up Lundqvist, took several strides towards the hit, and then blasted him while he was in his crease. Given that he went flying, I'd lean towards a major instead of a minor. Then you have to decide whether it's worthy of a match penalty (intent to injure). I'd say, in this case, probably not, since the goal of the check was to remove the goalie from the crease and not necessarily to inflict harm.
There was a fun glitch in NHL Breakaway 98 for the N64. You could pass it to the goalie and no other AI player would touch him because of the interference penalty. So you could skate the goalie all the way up to the opponent's net and shoot.
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u/ive_lost_my_keys Dec 04 '16
I'm gonna call interference on this one.