Bits: Ole ole, baby
by Dominik on May 19, 2010 7:01 AM EDT
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PrintI can't really stomach any of the four remaining teams winning the Cup, so June will bring me pain: The semis include three teams I don't like plus Dan(n)y Heatley. I cannot win. But one wonderful thing about the Flyers winning the first two games? Their fans singing the "Ole" song that Canadiens fans have adopted in recent years.
It's great because: 1) The lyrics are elementary enough that Flyers fans can actually remember -- perhaps even spell -- them; and 2) It's a famous serenade that has been in soccer for decades, yet I keep running across Habs fans who think it is theirs and theirs alone -- ones who even get offended when someone else sings "their" song ... which happens to be about soccer. Such is the risk when you don't have a song particular to your team: It might be one multiple teams use, it might get thrown back in your face (particularly if your traveling fans make a habit of singing it in other people's faces on the road) ... you might even be stuck listening to "Rock and Roll, Part II."
I'd encourage you to keep discussing Trent Hunter's report card if you haven't already, but here are some links on topics from Matt Martin to Queens to Florida to salary cap management:
Islanders-ish
- Mentioned in comments yesterday, this was an outstanding Q&A with Matt Martin on his first NHL experience. Boy, you gotta hope his abilities match how much fans want to like him.
- Another day, another Queens Chamber of Commerce expression of interest in the Islanders [Queens Courier]
- Botta will have a chat at 11:30. [Islanders Point Blank] He also ran a bit on the latest Town of Hempstead propaganda.
- In the Memorial Cup, Travis Hamonic's Wheat Kings get another shot at Calgary, the team that knocked them out of the WHL playoffs. Have you noticed how much they turn to Hamonic for quotes? By the way, Tambellini the Elder is not concerned that Taylor Hall plays a game that might make him prone to receiving boom-goes-the-dynamite hits like the one Hamonic gave him.
World Championships
- Canada lost again. To the Czechs (woo, fatherland!). Meaning Canada faces Russia in the quarters. The game got messy in the end (blame Corey Perry), but check out the 1:18 mark of this video to see what, uh, well, how a lot of my distant relatives dress. Copper & Blue had a fun write-up of the game.
- Host Germany also made it to the quarterfinals, where they draw the Swiss. The U.S. survived their relegation scare, thanks to a shootout win over Italy in which T.J. Oshie shot a billion times.
- John Tavares is still the tourney's goal leader, with six, but Brandon Dubinsky is tops in points, with 10. [no link, it's all pdf's over there]
Hockey for Hockey's Sake
- Bunch of great coverage on the Panthers' Dale Tallon hiring at the Sun Sentinel: Ol' Bowtie Bill's part in the hiring (as well as the fate of Sexton, and more); Blackhawks react to Tallon landing on his feet; Hawks ex-colleague (now Thrashers GM) Rick Dudley on the hire; the initial Q&A with Tallon. (I confess, I find GM hires lots of fun, and they're much rarer than coaching changes.) USA Today's Kevin Allen calls it a huge move, even if Tallon has some mistakes on his record.
- Speaking of Tallon, Derek Zona had a really good reminder that despite Tallon's success (which included Kane and Toews falling into his lap), his cap-killer deals nearly
Tambellini'dKevin Lowe'd the Hawks. - Former NHLer Scott Arniel, a candidate for the Blue Jackets job, will also be interviewed by the Thrashers.
- Peter Worrell is gonna be a coach! (h/t Michael Fornabaio)
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Habs fans making mistakes?
This is one of my all time favorite Montreal Fans Moments.
The Islanders went from Marty McInnis and a 2nd Overall pick to Jesse Joensuu.
Instant classic
That one was so beautiful. Just glorious.
It cracked me up the first time I heard Habs fans singing “Ole,” because a common version I remember from the ’80s included, “We are the champ(ion)s, we are the champ(ion)s.”
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Then there’s also the Bouncing Souls version of the song. And really, you should never sing the Na na na na goodbye song unless you’re up by multiple goals and assured there is no way the other team can tie/win the game.
And as footy songs go, Ole while overplayed isn’t all that annoying. Easily worse is that stupid English “”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2TY-hN8x0s" target="new">Football’s Coming Home," of Three Lions, what ever. It made the summer of ’06 when I was working in Cyprus unbearable. Thank you drunk English tourists. Although when the Bayern supporters were singing it to the Man U ones after beating them at Old Trafford this year, that was priceless.
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by David Hanssen on May 19, 2010 10:53 AM EDT up reply actions
Oh-ho that Football’s Coming Home, I can see where that would have driven you nuts. When England brings out Elton John or some such to do a football song every two-four years, it always makes me cringe. Even New Order, who I love, couldn’t quite pull it off.
I actually love the “Ole” chant itself — nice and multipurpose, sounds great when a big crowd is in unison. It’s when Habs fans started to claim it as “theirs” and sing it in other buildings and get dickhead about it that I’d had enough. I mean, I remember singing it in a Czech soccer stadium long ago, before the Habs’ last Cup win (which, wow, now that I think of it, is closer to the Isles’ last win than it is to the present).
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In ‘06 there was this English guy on the crew I was working with. Would play that friggin song incessantly. Way more than any grown man should. When England lost to Portugal the rest of us celebrated as if we were Portuguese because we wouldn’t have to deal with him anymore. I actually went out and got a Figo shirt to celebrate the occasion.
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by David Hanssen on May 19, 2010 11:27 AM EDT up reply actions
1:18 huh… thanks dom, fat shirtless men… what a way to start the morning…
who knew that when the court takes your license away, they ACTUALLY take you license away??? (now how am i supposed to provide proof of ID???)
Patriotic fat, shirtless men though!
(Actually, sorry … that was poor judgment on my part.)
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it’s hard enough looking at my fatness in the morning, to add to that is just cruel and unusual punishment :-)
who knew that when the court takes your license away, they ACTUALLY take you license away??? (now how am i supposed to provide proof of ID???)
There’s just something about many Czechs though. A general, “Yeah, so what? I was hot, I took my shirt off. Like I care what you think” demeanor.
Alternatively: “Yes, we were having sex 20 feet from the park’s walking path. So what? We were horny.”
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Pulling for the Hawks
come on, a lot of talk that the Islanders ware building the same way with a lot of high draft picks.
Is it wrong?
for me to hope for a natural dissaster? I mean Philly in the finals makes me feel ill. Some of those rinks are kinda old, it’s not totally impossible that one could collapse is it?
I would not have agreed with you before the sweep but it does look like a possibility. Can someone just rattle Leighton a little?
Joe Thornton should be drug tested or checked to see if an imposter has taken over his jersey.
by metalcoconut on May 19, 2010 5:14 PM EDT up reply actions
I would not have agreed with me either
I didn’t even think they would make the playoffs…but they might just win it all.
Please promise not to say that again
Even if it is true, it still hurts.
Joe Thornton should be drug tested or checked to see if an imposter has taken over his jersey.
by metalcoconut on May 19, 2010 5:37 PM EDT up reply actions
Thank you. :) I know you don’t mean it but it is easier to deal with.
Joe Thornton should be drug tested or checked to see if an imposter has taken over his jersey.
by metalcoconut on May 20, 2010 12:52 AM EDT up reply actions
they might just beat the Hawks.
Yeah, who’d have thunk it? Going into the season I was pretty high on them because of their lineup plus Pronger, but I figured their goaltending would sink them because it always does, and I didn’t trust Emery.
I still don’t trust Leighton against the Hawks shooters, but strange things are happening in 2010.
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I wouldn't rule anything out
although I would prefer the Habs to win, it would be interesting to see the contest between Buff and Pronger.
I really like the action shot in that photo
With the emblem of whatever that company is in the background it makes the Hab look like he is illustrated to be in motion. That is funny.
Joe Thornton should be drug tested or checked to see if an imposter has taken over his jersey.
Ha, it does! Its like a cartoon lol
Let Us Go, Islanders! (Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)
by TheMetalChick on May 19, 2010 8:14 PM EDT up reply actions
I noticed that too
That’s why I had to use it, even though it’s from an April game and not the series of voodoo going on right now.
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May 24, 1980: Tonelli to Nystrom. At long last, the steady build of the New York Islanders from expansion doormat to surprise semifinalist to annual contender reaches the promised land: Buoyed by a late season trade for Butch Goring that gave the team the depth up the middle GM Bill Torrey had been seeking, the Islanders knock off the Philadelphia Flyers in six games.
The victory justified the faith in coach Al Arbour who guided them from their second season to their first Stanley Cup seven seasons later. The Islanders would not be the first expansion team to win the Stanley Cup, but they would be the only one capable of a dynasty.
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May 21, 1981: This time it was much easier. After falling to "only" 91 points in the 1979-80 season, the Islanders returned to their division title tradition, piling up 110 points -- a whole 13 points over second-place Philadelphia.
Between the quarterfinals (where they beat the upstart Oilers in six games) and the finals, the Islanders reeled off eight consecutive wins -- with a four-game sweep of archrival Rangers in between. As they defeated the Minnesota North Stars in five games for their second Cup, their goal difference in the final was a combined +10.
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May 16, 1982: Another year, another landslide title. The Islanders won the Patrick Division by a whopping 26 points over the second-place Rangers, and were seven points clear of their nearest competition for the President's Trophy, the still-not-quite-ripe Edmonton Oilers.
A first-round scare against the Pittsburgh Penguins turned in the Isles' favor thanks to John Tonelli's heroics, and a true dynasty was on its way: Past the Rangers in six games, then an eight-game sweep of the Quebec Nordiques and Vancouver Canucks to run away with the Stanley Cup.
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May 17, 1983: Not so fast, whipper-snappers. The Edmonton Oilers' steadily rising challenge for league supremacy took them all the way to the finals for the first time, where the New York Islanders summarily dispatched them in a four-game sweep. For the Islanders, the Dynasty was secured. For the Oilers, it was a powerful lesson in where talent ends and the demands of playoff hockey begin.
Four years, four Cups, 16 consecutive playoff series wins (a record that would grow to 19 until the rematch with the Oilers the following year). Mike Bossy scored 60 goals yet again, and Wayne Gretzky became acquainted with Billy Smith's crease.
