Lucky Pucker

7 minutes ago, Wonder35 said:

Married 50 years. Getting lucky or showering with a bunch of old, fat, stinky guys. C'mon, hockey comes second these days.

Are you saying it gets better… in about 35 years?

My father-in-law in Montreal called me in a panic the other day with this beauty of a rumour:

Carey Price going to Boston.

Here is the back-story to that nonsense:

https://www.hockeypatrol.com/Carey-Price-wife-partners-with-the-Boston-Bruins-138233
 

I remember when growing up in Montreal, the French newspapers “only” had about 20 pages of Habs coverage in the summers. And even at that, it didn’t have anything like the crap you can find on social media nowadays.

Having just referenced newspapers, and then lamenting with a disdainful “nowadays”, I think the only way to end this is with a resounding “GET OFF MY LAWN!!!”

1 hour ago, Chenner29 said:

Fkin great question.

Together for 16 years, married for 9.  Have two kids

It's always at the rink

I’ll see your two kids, and raise you 4 years of marriage. 
Call: 

See you at the rink!

That said, she came home from playing soccer the other night, showered, came down to watch TV, and was like “So…you wanna?”

Never know when that blue moon is gonna show up.

So for those of you who have been with their partner for >10 years (I’m at 21 years myself): when you get asked to sub on a random weeknight, do you ever ask yourself where you have a better chance of scoring: at the rink or at home…?

2 hours ago, chile57 said:

For reference - something akin to this classic stylistically would be the bees knees...

TIM CHEVELDAE!!!!

He was one of my favourite goalies in the early 90s, and I loved this mask of his!

Finally out of the outage here, so catching up after watching Round 1 on Thursday (happy with the Habs’ 1st pick!)

Here are the top goalies that went in the subsequent rounds (full list on NHL.com)

21 hours ago, coopaloop1234 said:

That explains why you're getting rid of em

As I recall, recent nuptials implicitly preclude your active participation in the business of getting ladies, n’ est-ce pas?

For the record, I am not interested in buying. But I could not abide this oversight any longer…

Beautiful set that we all know and love, masterfully paired with a beautifully painted mask. This set - and the detailed post - are so moving that I think my brother  @seagoal managed to talk himself out of selling the set by the time he was finished, and could not bring himself to INCLUDE A PRICE!

LOL!

I always loved this set- GLWS, buddy!

6 hours ago, johncho said:

It's been an increase of about 20~30$ a month of driving everyday.

Interesting- and relevant to me, as I’m also in Ottawa! What model are we talking about again…?

Related question: did you have a 220 charger installed?

4 minutes ago, Scythe said:

Looks more like “Sports pics that don’t show enough”.

In this age of “computers in our hands”, why anyone would dick around (pun intended) with soft porn is beyond me

6 hours ago, coopaloop1234 said:

I'm excited to see Edmonton fail once again. 

I'm really wanting to watch Toronto fail once again

That's literally all I have in this playoff race lol 

This. Especially the Toronto part.

in other news, Habs got the first pick overall. At first I was happy, but  being the savvy Habs fan that I am (yes, possibly an oxymoron; I’m aware), I soon realized that there is a very strong chance that they can even fuck this up. (Holds breath until draft…)

PSA: don’t forget that today is Mother’s Day, you bunch of degenerates!

the kids and I trick-wrapped my wife’s gift, by putting it inside the box from a cheap vacuum. Her real gift hidden inside is a pretty expensive vacuum. 

THIS goalie is gonna score tonight!

5 minutes ago, seagoal said:

New twigs came in today.  My V1s were pretty beat up and noodley so it was time.  A good gear refresh in between seasons right now.  Sticks were the only thing I needed to update so I'll be set for a while. I'm pretty excited about the shiny silver bits, looks sharp.  I opted away from the red ones.  I like more neutral stick colors and definitely did not need more red in my setup, haha. 

pretty sweet - AND those would match my team sweater. I should show my daughter! Lol!
I see you tape it heel-to-toe. I do mine toe-to-heel… though I can’t remember why I decided I preferred that. What’s your thinking on this?

33 minutes ago, Thinline_slim said:

Absolutely!

 

Faaaawk!

That set would actually match perfectly with my team’s sweater. Sick set up, dude!

4 minutes ago, Thinline_slim said:

I thought I would update this as I now have a full set of Brian's Gnetik V pads and got some ice time today.

The glove and blocker are regular palm sizing as that's what the store had in stock. I had a chance to play around with both at the store just to get the feel of the regular palm size and decided to go for it.

They are quite snug for sure, which is a big difference between the Vaughns I'm coming from. Luckily the cuff on the blocker doesn't ride quite as high as other Brian's I'd tried on, so the fit is pretty dang good. The extra padding on the index finger of the blocker hand kind of threw me off at first as the Vaughn doesn't have it. It takes some of the "give" out of the finger but I don't feel like my hand is jammed against the tips, which works.

Really happy with them.

Ooooh! Can we see some pic of your set?

Signed

Brian’s Fanboy

22 minutes ago, coopaloop1234 said:

Oh stop, you know you don't need to butter me up. I'm a cheap date. 

You WERE a cheap date, when you were over qualified, and making some weak-sauce coin. Now with the new salary, you probably wouldn’t give me a sideways glance 

…unless I pulled up in a brand new Mustang Mach-E! 

10 minutes ago, coopaloop1234 said:

You're going to have the coolest mid life crisis. 

My mid life crisis was becoming a goalie, buying a bunch of cool gear that cost more than my first 2 cars did (combined!) and hanging out online with degenerates like you!

Put a deposit on a 2022 Mustang Mach-E earlier this week. We’ve wanted to go electric eventually, and compared to the issues my buddies have had with their Teslas, the MME seems pretty good overall. Anyone have one? 

My wife sent me this fun little video of Shesterkin doing that favourite of minor league goalies everywhere: the mirror drill. But because he’s such a pro, he does it with himself, on two different days

https://m.facebook.com/MSGNetworks/videos/goalies-/3194442470836455/

4 hours ago, coopaloop1234 said:

Last day of the job I've been at for nearly 9 years. 

 

Wow - 9 years! That’s a long time. Not as long as your tenure as a smart ass, of course. But still something!

I’m sure there’s a lot of mixed emotions for ya, but I’m equally sure from what you’ve said that this is the right move. Best of luck, laddie!

9 hours ago, ThatCarGuy said:

I failed to get a picture with him while I was at the game but my former goalie coach Tom Hodges filled in as an Anaheim goalie tonight! Anaheim seemed to be giving every goalie they had a chance tonight even though there were no injuries since they had a different goalie in every period. Huge class act by Anaheim to give him a whole period to himself to experience NHL hockey.

For those wondering he’s about 5’9” and those are size small leg pads. 
 

EDIT: A couple news articles said Gibson and Stolarz had injuries but being at the game both looked fine.

Kinda love that his gear is pretty much Dallas colours

Well that worked out rather better than I expected:

31 minutes ago, SaveByRichter35 said:

At least you got to benefit from Price's international accolades.  

Yes, that for sure! Great times there 

13 minutes ago, SaveByRichter35 said:

Sad indeed

I’m just praying that we don’t fuck up Suzuki and Caufield

Funny side story: on the sign my daughter made, she drew goalie sticks - and wrote “warrior” on them. I asked her why (I have Sherwood), and she said “isn’t that what you have…?” She was devastated, but - in front of my wife - I told her “Daddy has a Sherwood stick… but he WANTS a Warrior. Maybe I shouldn’t get one. Right? Right!” So I have to get one now because: my daughter.