The time is out of joint...

[jhetley]

Am I the only one disturbed by the Stanley Cup residing in cities where "ice" is something you put in drinks?

(Yeah, the Ducks won in convincing fashion, and they have some Maine connections.  But still.  Southern California?)

Comments

[guruwench.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm biased as I live in Ottawa (thus was cheering for the Sens), but consider this - a huge number of the Duck players are Canadian boys.....

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

The large majority of our local college hockey team carry Canadian passports.

[pernishus.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain, dear monsieur Hetley -- no doubt because there isn't any ice around to numb myself with...

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Not at all. I do not cheer for teams south of the Mason-Dixon line. Also some fairly significant parts of my hockey fantasy stories deal with the great evil that comes of such things. (The whole mess starts in the first place because the Green Man Norm Green moved the North Stars. You can't just mess with mythology like that. It has consequences.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Correction: I do not cheer for teams south of the Mason-Dixon line unless they are playing:
1) Vancouver
2) Detroit
3) Anaheim
4) any other team that employs Todd Bertuzzi in the future
(Jury is still out on other teams that employ Brad May and Shawn Thornton.)

I am not against fighting in hockey, but lines must be drawn.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Since my involvement with the Red Wings dates back to Abel/Lindsey/Howe, I can't swallow (2) above. Tradition, you know.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Oh, sure, if my boys or the Leafs hired one of those jackasses, I would gripe and moan and eventually bring myself around to dealing with it. But I was distinctly not a Red Wings fan before they hired That Bastard Bertuzzi.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Well, it _is_ a good idea to remember which sport one is playing. "I went to the fights and a hockey game broke out..."

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It's because I'm for fighting in hockey, not against it, that I think some boundaries need to be firmer than they are in the NHL at the moment. I think it's valuable, in a slick-fast-physical game like hockey, to sometimes be able to draw the line for your teammates, to say, firmly, "That's too much; lay off." This does not include: 1) ganging up on people; 2) hitting people when they're down; 3) skating up behind people and hitting them in the back of the head. We can, in fact, draw lines in the middle and say, "This behavior is acceptable violence, and this other behavior is not." It's why nobody even thinks of the possibility that hockey players would bring knives on the ice to settle things: because hockey fights, like the rest of hockey, are part of a game with rules.

[michaelmcpherso.livejournal.com]

Normally I would deplore the Cup being that far south, but since my uncle is a trainer for Anaheim, I can't really complain.

[edschweppe.livejournal.com]

Worse, though, in my not terribly humble opinion, is the idea of the Stanley Cup champion being named after a fictional team from a Disney flick.

[wolfette]

I get a mental disconnect when I hear "Stanley Park" used for places in the New World - the Stanley Park I know is in Blackpool.

Likewise Carnegie Hall - it's in Dunfermline!

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I accept no responsibility for naming Lord Stanley's Cup.