Bits: Defining NHL Fighting with the Pulp Fiction Amsterdam Speech
by Dominik on Aug 17, 2011 6:30 AM EDT
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PrintWe'll get to the Pulp Fiction speech, which was lifted from comments yesterday, at the bottom of this post. But first enjoy some recent Islanders/hockey reading from the past few days:
Fully or Vaguely Islanders-Related
- More than I ever expected to read about whether Zenon Konopka is a fourth-liner.
- Travis Hamonic's road to the Coliseum. He just turned 21, so here's hoping his friends treated him well.
- If you like poker or physics or hockey, you might like this description of hockey "luck" in those terms.
- The Islanders training camp schedule is out, and we discussed it some here.
- Chris Botta and others on Puck Daddy Radio on manufactured controversies.
- Is Milbury's shoe beatdown really in the same category as Red Auerbach?
- Martin Biron's new mask is totally starry.
- The Hockey News is doing the one-prediction-a-day (technically two) drill. Tune in today for 13th place.
- 7th Woman is ready for the season. I'm ready for Islanders hockey, but the season brings with it other calendar events I'm not ready for. If only the league would allow us to gather to rewatch games...
- All the week's Hornick Islanders trivia in one bunch. Wyatt Smith, man.
- Stumpy vs. the Weasel: Steve Thomas vs Darcy Tucker - Pension Plan Puppets
We haven't talked the non-news with the non-arena for a few days, but in brief:
- Mangano criticizes 8 plans for Nassau Coliseum - NYPOST.com
- Nassau 'carefully' reviews Coliseum ideas [$5 please]
- Old hands on new ABLI task force [Likewise]
Hockey-Like Substances
- Did someone mention arenas? Quick Hits: On the Future of the Joe - Winging It In Motown
- Navel-gazing: Hey, Time calls SB Nation one of the 50 Best Websites! Of course they do it in slideshow form, which is the bane of all traffic-whoring websites. Plus, I heard the only criteria was "How good is your Islanders site?"
- Oh, did someone mention slideshows and traffic-whoring? Bleacher Report's honest new redesign.
- Corey Pronman, who rated the Islanders' system #2 (so he MUST know something...), really likes the Flyers top two prospects and pretty much no one else.
- A DGB joint: Down Goes Brown: Rejected ideas from the NHL's research and development camp
- This is kind of involved, but could be a nice tool to figure out who's helping whom and by how much: Red Wings Forwards & Shared Scoring Efficiency - Winging It In Motown
- This seems inevitable: Video: Jeremy Roenick reenacts iconic ‘Swingers’ hockey scene - Puck Daddy
- I don't actually find the Schenn/Doughty/Bogosian situations to be GM hardball, exactly, but it's a theory: Brophy on NHL: Blueline hardball - sportsnet.ca
- More experiments: League to test curved glass at player benches - 2011 NHL Research, Development and Orientation Camp
Fighting Described by Pulp Fiction
Okay, this is already my favorite LHH comment of the week, courtesy of 4PeatSake. How vividly I can hear Travolta and Jackson going back and forth here:
Fighting, Kinda Like Hash in Amsterdam
Jules: Okay, now, tell me about the
hash barsNHL.
Vincent: So what you want to know?
Jules: Well,hashfighting is legal there, right?
Vincent: Yeah, it’s legal, but it ain’t a hundred percent legal. I mean, you can’twalk into a restaurant, roll a joint, and start puffin’ awayrevel in it publicly. They want you tosmokeenjoy fighting in your home or certain designated places.
Jules: Those arehash barsarenas in Pittsburgh?
Vincent: Breaks down like this, okay: it’s legal tobuyengage in it, it’s legal toownencourage it, and if you’re the proprietor of ahash bara Pittsburgh hockey club, it’s legal tosellbuild your lineup around it. It’s illegal tocarrypartake in for lower ranking teams, but that doesn’t really matter ‘cause get a load of this, all right; if you get stopped by thecopsrefs inAmsterdamPittsburgh, it’sillegalfrowned upon for them tosearch youpenalize the home team. I mean, that’s a right thecopslowly players inAmsterdamUniondale don’t have.
Jules: [laughing] Oh, man. I’m going, that’s all there is to it. I’m [Cooke]ing going.
Many thanks to 4PeatSake for the laugh.
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Hey Dom
At what point will people start calling you instead of Botta? We need a voice out there that’s not so…..oh I don’t know……bitter?
And bravo on the Pulp Fiction rant. That’s gold Jerry.
"It don't make you a bad person" - Ron Bennington
by Pauly C on Aug 17, 2011 6:50 AM EDT reply actions 6 recs
BRAVO indeed!
We are all Islanders, even if we’re from Jersey!
by Russel Ginart on Aug 17, 2011 1:11 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
That rant
is GOLD JERRY!! As is Pauly C’s mention of “Gold, Jerry!”, for which it has been rec’d.
Someone write up something about how Trevor gave Sidney a foot massage, and how a foot massage is more intimate then sex…..
Proud to root for the Jets, Mets, and Islanders!!!
Foot Massage
so who gets to jump out of a window? (and who does the coercing?
by Katzenhammer on Aug 17, 2011 10:24 AM EDT up reply actions
Looking at the lineup of related links on the side
I like Jasonustin Bourne.
That is all.
STOP effin' messin' with my FnGO!!
by Nova Scotia Isles Fan on Aug 17, 2011 8:03 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
What's up with that NY Post article?
Last sentence: “Still, privately financing the project isn’t dead.”
Did the guys computer die mid story? Is he promising a sequel?
by DP'sknee(andhipandflubugandotherknee) on Aug 17, 2011 10:43 AM EDT reply actions
LOL
Wondered that myself. Opening a link to the Post is like a box of chocolates…
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
Chris Botta and others on Puck Daddy Radio on manufactured controversies.
The ironing is delicious.
Official choice of Lighthouse Dog #1.
The look of childlike Glee
on Gillies face is hilarious
"Since when did The Onion start doing hockey stories?" - Random Puck Daddy Comment
Contributor to Lighthouse Hockey not sure if I'm the Sniper or the Enforcer.
I'm projecting
But DJ King is a pretty imposing enforcer, and he does not look to be enjoying that moment.
Lighthouse Hockey: A flute with no holes is not a flute. A Dane with no holes is Frans Nielsen.
by Dominik on Aug 17, 2011 1:06 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Hey, DJ ...
do I have anything in my teeth?
Bleeding orange & blue since '72.
by IslanderDoug on Aug 17, 2011 2:46 PM EDT up reply actions
The Hockey News
Or as some of us call them “The house magazine of the Maple Leafs” they have now passed #13 and no mention of the hated Islanders Can it be they will rate us a playoff team or horrors ahead of the Leafs?
Oh rates I just woke up ):
I read on HFBoards they rated the Isles #12 in the east with a whopping 102 points!
Can’t find anything on THN’s site though.
Projected wins: Rick DiPietro 17; Al Montoya 24; Nabokov 10. That adds up to 51 wins or 102 points.
How does 102 points=12th place??
by DP'sknee(andhipandflubugandotherknee) on Aug 17, 2011 3:11 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Maybe they expect 51 OT wins?
More seriously, it’s an irritating lack of consistency. From what I understand, they projected goalie wins in a different article.
Never mind I get it
Islanders amass 102 points, grabner scores 58 goals but the NHL “looks into” grabner’s speed and determines that he exceeded the speed limit and penalizes the team by deducting 30 points from their total, requiring grabner to skate backwards only and all hockey blogs to consistently refer to the Islanders’ owner as “Wanger.”
by DP'sknee(andhipandflubugandotherknee) on Aug 17, 2011 3:29 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
…but the NHL "looks into" grabner’s speed and determines that he exceeded the speed limit and penalizes the team by deducting 30 points from their total, requiring grabner to skate backwards…
LOL!!!!! 
Let Us Go, Islanders! (Ever notice how strange that sounds without the contraction?)
by TheMetalChick on Aug 17, 2011 4:41 PM EDT up reply actions
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