Some jackwagon who commented on a Stanley Cup of Chowder post about the tradability of Tim Thomas has started a petition to trade the three time All Star Game winner, Conn Smyth winner, two-time Vezina trophy winner, and Stanley Cup champion.



Oh noes! All of two signatures. Pretty sure Fluto and KPD signed this. Felger will be next. Also, goal of 100 signatures? Way to set the bar high, fellas.

You can tell the people running this thing are assclowns since they used a Tim Thomas jersey image with a captain's C patch. Also, I don't think the BPHA would get involved in this at all. It's not really what they do. Jokes.

We're hoping this is actually a ploy to find all the idiots out there who want to trade Timmy and then go visit them a la Jay & Silent Bob style.
 
To wash your brain of the dumb you should go read this other post we did.

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For us, the most memorable moment of last night's draft was this.





My girlfriend after the pick: "Y'know, some people say hockey is about violence; it's really about man love."

Truer statement has never been uttered. Hockey's for lovers, bitches.

More after the jump....
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When Brendan Shanahan took over as NHL Senior VP of Player Safety and Hockey Operations, many saw him as a white knight. He was the Harvey Dent of the NHL, the man in charge of changing everything that is wrong on the ice. Almost immediately I had an issue with naming a guy like Shanahan to such a position. Many applauded his career, his highlights and the awards in his trophy case but he wasn't the cleanest player in the NHL. I remember the days where Detroit would play Colorado and Shanahan was clotheslining people. He would routinely fight. Shit, he even mocked fans while in the penalty box. 


Did that bitch deserve it? Probably. That's not to say it's right. If that happened in the NHL these days, the player would probably get fined a certain amount of money and/or based on reputation (or if he played on Boston) suspended a game. When Shanahan took over, he immediately set the record straight and suspended anything in the pre-season that could have been considered a dirty hit (or even a questionable hit). When the regular season started, did Shanahan continue this iron fist style of ruling? Not even close. 

I'm certain there are a ton of things that I have missed when writing this post, but I am going to look back at the last two weeks or so, starting with the Brad Marchand hit on Sami Salo.

Brad Marchand


On January 7, 2011 Brad Marchand executed a low-bridge hit on Sami Salo that many in the NHL considered dirty. Once the hit happened, people of all fan bases started foaming at the mouth, saying how dirty Brad Marchand is as a player. Let's look at Marchand's prior suspension history: 

- March 2011: Suspended 2 games for an elbow to the head of RJ Umburger.


That's it. He's been suspended once. How about fines? Well, we can go down that route too:

- December 12, 2011: Fined $2,500 for a slewfoot on Matt Niskanen. 
 
That's him complete "criminal" background in the NHL. Yes, I realize I'm omitting things from the Stanley Cup Finals but that's because there was no fine nor suspension. So Marchand pulls off this low-bridge hit on Salo and suddenly gets 5 games for it? I realize that it's a hit the NHL wants out of the game, but 5 games is steep for someone who doesn't have a dirty reputation (in the league's eyes, in the eyes of fans he's the dirtiest player on the ice). 

Don't worry though, it gets much better!...
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"You either die the hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villian."
This pretty much sums up Thomas and the Boston media this week. Click the image for full size version.

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No Backstrom. No Ovechkin. No Green. No problem, right? 

Wrong.


The Bruins blew it last night. Lets call it like it is. The Bruins had a great chance to grab two points with Washington missing some key players and they couldn't do it. Their defense didn't step up it's game, their offense was a little malaise and it seemed that the team couldn't get their act together. It also didn't help that Washington played like a team with nothing to lose. They skated hard, they played physical hockey and they also caught some breaks. Not reviewing that second goal? I don't get that at all. 

Boston played 7 games in 11 days and last night they looked like it. The two back-to-back games really took their toll on the club and it was obvious. They played a hard fought game against the Rangers in Boston, then they traveled to Philadelphia and went toe-to-toe with the Flyers. It wasn't pretty. Yes, the Bruins came away with a 5-3 victory in Philly, but they also left with an injured Nathan Horton, a Scott Hartnell hat trick and a bruised ego. 

Enter: Washington Capitals.

This was supposed to be a cakewalk. Think about it this way: If the Bruins didn't have Krejci, Lucic and Seidenberg would it be considered an easy victory? Almost definitely. 

This isn't going to be a super long recap. Last night's game was pretty disheartening because the Bruins didn't play well and they should have beaten Washington. Oh well.

After the jump, pathetic Bruins were pathetic last night... 
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Hey, remember when this bruiser got spiderman'd in the eye by the Tampa Bay Thunderbug? And then chased the fucker up the steps and pushed him down?


Well, it appears that this incident got the mascot canned. Per Larry Brown Sports:

After the fan became enraged and tackled the mascot, Lightning security removed him from his seat and had a chat with him.  We’re not sure exactly what was said during the discussion, but we do know the person who plays Thunderbug at the games has since been fired.

According to WTSP in Tampa, a Lightning spokesman said the altercation with a Bruins fan played a role in the decision to let the person go but was not the only factor.  Was he late for work a few times or something?  I can’t imagine the mascot would be looking for a job right now if he had kept that can of silly string by his side.

Lightning fans have started a lame ass Facebook group to try to get the guy's job reinstated. LBS says it current has a little over 200 "likes" which sounds like the entire Lightning fanbase that are young enough to use a computer. Woo!

Also, the Bruins fan was back in his seat with a couple of brewskis shortly after this incident.

Suck it, Tampa. bWo!

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Bruins fans are quickly learning there are certain downsides to a team's success. For so long we were used to the Bruins either flaming out in the playoffs or making ridiculous trades or just finding some reason to disappoint us. But we all stuck it out and over the past few years we have been rewarded, with everything culminating in a June 15, 2011 Stanley Cup clinching win.

Then the Bruins abused everyone in the league from November to December and there wasn't much to talk about. Sure there was a slump here or an injury there but for the most part things were boring. You could see the dogs salivating, waiting for a worthwhile story to break. On Monday Tim Thomas fed those dogs so much they won't need to eat for years.

As is customary for the team that wins the Stanley Cup, the Bruins head to D.C. to meet president Obama. Chances are that Thomas isn't the only one on the team who disagrees with Obama's politics. That is just how the world works. We're sure there's guys on the team who love Obama, guys who hate Obama and guys who just don't give a crap because they're from Canada.

After a flurry of wild guesses and unfounded assumptions presented as fact, Thomas released a statement on his Facebook about why he chose not to attend:

After the jump..... more stupidity than we can cram into one post.....
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It's Tuesday morning and no news on if Tom Sestito is going to have to answer for giving Nathan Horton a mild concussion for his blindside headshot on Sunday.  We asked Haggs if he heard anything:




Remember when Shanahan actually took his job seriously and was suspended guys for headshots? Remember when the Boston Bruins had Colin Campbell in their back pocket? Good times. Apparently Shanny only suspends guys in Bruins sweaters now. If that was Lucic or Marchand throwing that hit the entire league would've been shitting their pants over it. But Bruins don't make a big deal about it and, of course, nothing happens. Looks like Shanny bends toward the mob's demands. Sad, really. Ference got three games for no injury hit and Sestito is getting nothing for his Rule 48 headshot.

Open season against the Bruins, we guess. Ruff is probably stoked. Hopefully the Bs have been practicing their best exorcism impression. 

Really not sure how that doesn't at least get a phone call, let alone a suspension.

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I'm glad I was home yesterday and not on Twitter because I'm already sick of the 'Tim Thomas didn't go to the White House for political reasons' bullshit. I don't care that he didn't go to the White House if we're being completely honest. I don't care that he played for Team USA in the Olympics and bypassed meeting Obama. I don't care about any of it. How about we talk about things that are more substantial, like the team's second leading goal scorer out with his second concussion in 7 months, the person who laid the headshot on Horton didn't even receive a hearing or that the Bruins are currently tied for first place in the Eastern Conference with the New York Rangers at 64 points each. But no, none of that matters because all people want to talk about is Tim fucking Thomas and his refusal to hang out at the White House.  

Want to hear another revelation?!

The Bruins have a game tonight! Shocking right? You'd never know based on the Tim Thomas stuff. The Bruins played two games in two days over the weekend, a tough back-to-back stretch that saw a loss against the Rangers and a tough, gritty, sloppy win against the Flyers.  Check the recaps on the games. I'll admit, I didn't watch the game against the Flyers because I was at my in-laws and they all wanted to watch the Patriots for some awful reason. 

The good thing about tonight's game: No Alexander Ovechkin.  

Ovechkin was suspended for an illegal hit that he did Sunday to the Pens' Zbynek Michalek. 

 
What a douchebag. I fucking hate Ovechkin. Anyone who has followed Days of Y'Orr for awhile knows how I feel about him. I think he's an overrated hockey player that only cares about putting up stats and less about winning games. He's lazy and that was made evident when Bruce Boudreau sat him in overtime and the only thing Ovechkin could do was call him a fat fuck. 

 
It's very telling as to why a head coach doesn't want their star player in a crunch time. It's like the Miami Heat sitting Dwayne Wade in the final two minutes of a game or the Red Sox pinch hitting for Adrian Gonzales with some AAA scrub in the 9th inning with the bases loaded. So Ovechkin, who made some lazy plays in that game if my mind serves me correctly, doesn't take it to heart but instead ridicules his coach. He's a pompous mother fucker and I hate his guts. If he ever signed with Boston, I would rip on him every single day. I hate that caveman looking mother fucker with the passion of a thousand burning suns. 


Ovechkin isn't the only Capital out. Niklas Backstrom won't play either as he is on IR. Don't care enough about Backstrom to talk about it though. Fuck you Ovechkin.  

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Getting lost in the circus that is Tim Thomas's announcing his candidacy for President of the United States it that Peter Chiarelli gave an update today on Nathan Horton. And it's not good.

“I don’t have an official update other than I think it’s a mild concussion from what I heard and what I saw last night,” Chiarelli said. “I talked to him again today and these things are day-to-day. It may not be, there’s that gray area between when you take your impact tests and you see how it is the next day, the following day and then you make that determination. He’s in that gray area.” 

Shit. And right when he was heating up, too. Fuck you, Tostito Chip. Video of the hit is here.

Tom Sestito tweeted this morning he was getting his teeth fixed. 

It's 4pm on Monday after the hit and still no word on if Sestito is going to get a call from Shanahan. No idea if Shanny suspendeds non-Bruins anymore. no comments