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NEVER was. European hockey has a lot of cheap shots. After the whistle shenanigans. A lot of chirping. A lot of bullshyte trash talking. Kinda what you see today in the NHL. You NEVER saw that in the NHL as your words had to back it up with your physical play back in the day. But if you like that, all that nonsense between the whistles...yeah...good on you.

Well...European hockey, there are a lot of CHEAP shots too. Id say MORE than in the NHL. And in European hockey, there is also a lot of faking and embellishing going on to get the ref to call a phantom penalty... Kinda like in soccer. And...oh yeah...there is fighting in European hockey... Its in the nature of the game. I talked about what the North American players DO to intimidate one another and they of course injure themselves doing it. But...its a CONTACT sport. Its a FAST sport. Fights will happen. And its necessary. To let the steam and heat dissipate. In order continue to play the game. In baseball and in football, much much slower sports and fighting happens there too. PS: Fighting in the NHL is also PROHIBITTED. Since the beginning. But the league TOLERATES it in order for the aforementioned heat to dissipate. If you saw though, yesterday's game with 1 minute left and the Jets player took a liberty to hit the Habs player, on a questionable high hit to the head...when it wasnt necessary to hit that player. The Jets player did not go for the puck, but CHARGED the Habs player to prevent him from scoring in the open net, but it was too late for him to prevent that goal... Well...the refs did not ALLOW ANY fights to break out. They ejected the Jets player IMMEDIATELY. If the league is smart and WANTS player safety. They will suspend that Jets player from the rest of that series. If not, the league is kinda making it so that there WILL be a fight or two the next game... But Montreal really does not have any enforcers on their team... THIS is the disconnect. No fights and dirty hits? GREAT! SUSPEND the culprits. Get that SHYTE out of the game for good! If not! Then allow the teams to police themselves. You dont want that? Get the dirty, unnecessary shyte out of the game. Hard, clean hits is not the problem. Fighting is not the problem. Its part of the game. The dirty, unnecessary shyte is the problem.

It was hardy ever about technique, skill and speed. It was always about intimidation (elbowing and slashing) and slowing the game down with either brutal (but clean-ish hits) or hooking. Old time hockey which was referenced in the 1970s movie Slap Shot where the Hanson Brothers talked about it and right after also mentioned Boston Bruins great defenseman Eddie Shore in reality was one tough, mean S.O.B. And therein lies the joke. Paul Newman's character turned the Charlestown Chiefs into a contender by chirping shyte to get the opponents mad, and got his players riled up to back up those intimidation tactics. The owner got the 3 Hanson Brothers to start and finish shyte on the ice. So when pretty boy got disgusted by all that and refused to fight and all that, that is when the Hanson Bros started saying yeah, lets go back to old time hockey. Like Eddie Shore. Well, old time hockey was NEVER clean hockey. Eddie Shore nearly killed a man. Eddie Shore's ear was nearly amputed in the beginning of his career. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Shore I got an anecdote of my own. Before the NHL was started and there was the Montreal Maroons (the English Montreal hockey club) and the Canadiens (The French Montreal hockey club) (and there were others before them but I digress) these two teams HATED each other. One day, after a snowstorm, there was a game between these two, but unlike today, there was no logistics and hundreds of pucks and hockey sticks available so on game time, the guy in charge of the hockey pucks was late, due to the clogged up roads because of the snowstorm. Well one Montreal Maroon hockey player was heard talking to the ref: "Hey Ref!, when are we going to start the game?" "We got no pucks, we have to wait for the pucks to arrive." "To hell with the pucks, we dont need pucks, lets start the hockey game!!!" My dad told me this story. True or not...that was the way things were back then. In the 1970s, fighting and brawling came to a peak. hence the movie Slap Shot. Hence the Flyers being called the Broad Street Bullies and the Bruins being called the Big Bad Bruins. Bobby Orr's knees were finished because opponents kept on slashing his knees. In the 1980s, all that continued but iot started to settle down. Bettman came in in the late '80s or early '90s and started doing away with all those shenanigans. However, in the 1990s, hooking and grabbing was all the fashion because speed and skill was what made the goals happen, but that was how teams defended. And the occasional blistering hit. Blind side or otherwise. Which was legal then, but not so much by today's standard's because the head was ALWAYS the target. And then the 2000s (2004 I think) after that lockout happened when skill and speed was the name of the game by changing up the way the game was to be played offensively by eliminating the center line etc... and the late hits and hits to the head was forbitten and stuff The game today is soooooo different from the 1980s and 1990s. Its faster. Its cleaner. Way waaaaaaaaaay less fights. No line brawls. In the 1980s and 1990s their was a line brawl or two EVERY week. Literally every week. Im all for policing fighters and brawlers on each team so when a player decides to hit dirty, then an enforcer does his job to police the ice. Especially when the refs wont do their jobs properly. But THAT is not what today's hockey is all about. The dirty, unnecessary hard hits need to be gone from the game. But the refs and NHL player safety need to do their job to deter THAT kind of INTIMIDATATION tactics. But they flub that all the time! Hence my signature of what the New York Rangers declared after what Tom Wilson did and the league did nothing. And hence why in these 2021 playoffs, the unnecessary late hits and questionable high hits that have injured players have happened. Yet once more last night!

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Yes. Yes. That is EXACTLY me also!!! You said and feel as I want to say and how I feel!

You Italian, Me Greek. We both have a similarity here. Being concise and efficient with our words and a lack thereof. Both Italians and Greeks speak with their hands. Coincidence? I thinks its because Italians and Greeks have soooooo much to say, like ALL the time, with passion of course, that sometimes concise words escape us and with the help of our hands, we get our points across.

Is it me, or are NHL players taking more liberties with each other in these 2021 playoffs? I find it appalling and disgusting with how players are hitting each other. At the end of the Jets/Canadiens game with 1 minute left or so...another shytty, blatant, useless act... And I blame NHL's player safety when they only fined Tom Wilson 5000 bucks instead of suspending him 20 phoquing games (and more) earlier in the season before the playoffs started...

^^^ I always loved the way Pontiac shaped their hoods and front ends into the design to incorporate their arrowhead. Everything comes to a peak and a point. And the center of it all is that arrowhead that is the center piece of that middle point in the hood. And on the front end, that famous Pontiac beak nose would be front and center. And sometimes that beak nose would house that famous Pontiac arrowhead instead of the hood. LOVE IT!!!

For lack of a better word, I used mimic. Ironically, I wanted to shorten my response by trying to use one word instead of a whole paragraph. Me...of all people...wanting to shorten a response with less words used.

I missed, like I literally forgot, that the '68-'69 Skylark also mimicked the Chevy versions of the same years. From the two, year for year, I do prefer the Buick. From the 4, the Chevy versions of any year will always be in 4rth place for me.

Some Winnipeg and Canada love I see! (I wanted to find a fist bump gif to use to fist bump with you, but I came across this one and I saw that this one is funny...and its also hockey!!!) And Montreal just scored a goal to lead the Jets 1-0!!! I guess Im happy...

I hear ya. It looks like it will be Tampa Bay and Colorado in the finals. I do want it to be Montreal versus Boston tho. For several reasons. 1. Boston is my team. 2. If Montreal wins, Ill scream in AGONY! I HATE the HABS! But... its MY city! 3. Just imagine what the games would be like. PURE hatred for one another. Pro sports most longest, heated rivalry and its for THE Stanley Cup. LAST time this happened was in the '50s when Boston played Montreal in the finals FOR the Cup.

>>Oh; and how does one “drive a vehicle online”??<< This would be an answer of some sort, I guess... Add some accessories Maybe a VR set to make things a tad more 'realistic' And looksie here, he could even test drive the very 'first' automobile he so thinks it is...

@A Horse With No Name Here is another one. Remember...the fairytale made for Disney storyline from an NHL game that a 42 year old Zamboni driver suited up because of injuries to both goalies and played and won the game? Well...here it is This was last year...and low and behold...the Blue Jackets actually won AGAINST Toronto last year in the Covid shortened year when the league started up again in that pre-qualifying playoff round...] Yes...the Blue Jackets BEAT the Maple Leafs This is from 2013. And the actual game highlights PS: Im not only showing you how it aint that bad being a Blue Jackets fan, it could be worse...Im actually having FUN SHYTTING ON TORONTO at the same time!!!

@A Horse With No Name This rant is shorter, and from Game 6, yet you feel the pain MORE...

Yup. You just knew the fans would be ready to explode. 1st game back with full attendance. 1st game round 2 especially the way the Bruins disposed of Ovi and the Caps. All it took is their sniper to snipe a hat trick and any song would have done it in my opinion. It sucks that the Blues went down the way they did, but honestly, the Avs this year look like they will win it all. And yeah, hockey playoffs are THE most exciting of all the North American pro sports leagues.

Of course Im gonna be the one to disagree about which A-Body is the looker of the four... OBVIOUSLY its the Oldsmobile Cutlass!!! You see, the Cutlass has a rounded pillarless C pillar And in 1970, had a slight hump over the rear wheels. Something the others did not have. The Pontiac's treatment was a mix of what Chevy and Buick done with their C pillar. While the Chevy and Buick really look like twins The front ends of the Chevelle, Skylark and Cutlass from 1970 on are really really similar as where Pontiac's front end is unique. But in 1969, the Malibu/Chevelle's C Pillar is most unique from all of them. Anyway, the GM A -Body 1968-1972 is such a beautiful car. In convertible and coupe form. Especially the fastback coupes!

Not to take ANYTHING away from your pain being a Blue Jackets fan but... Just listen to this guy's rant. If you have watched the NHL only since 2004, you'd realize that Leafs fans have it worse. But if have have been an NHL hockey fan for ever, you'd realize that the Leafs hadnt won a Stanley Cup since 1967. Which would be the absolute worse drought of ANY North American pro league. The Red Sox beat their curse. The Cubbies have beat their curse. Hell, the Bruins have found a way to beat their arch rival who ALWAYS lost to the Canadiens have won 1 Stanley Cup while beating the Habs on way for that Stanley Cup... The Blue Jackets are still a new franchise per se. But even they have had MORE play off success than the Maple Leafs... EDIT: I just saw this video. THIS dude pisses on EVERY North American sports LEague teams. THIS guy is GREAT! I havent watched the video yet so I have NO idea what he said about these shytty Leafs, but Im sure if we both watch it, we will BOTH agree that The Jackets are alright compared to the the Leafs. Poor Torontonians. The RAPTORS have a chance to win another championship and still be better than thee Maple Leafs. The BLUE JAYS are steaming hot this year and they too, could win another championship. Yet the Leafs, are still at the bottom of the play off barrel.

Ive seen the Exorcist 3-4 times. All before I was 30 years old. Scared the living daylights out of me every single time. The last time, I was 24 or 25 years old (around 1997-98) or even 26. Now, this last time, I wasnt really scared of the movie, just the circumstances around my surroundings. At this point in my life, I didnt believe in ghosts or witches or goblins. I was in peak form physically and mentally and most of all, I was an adult. A young, handsome fella. Lets be real, the only thing I was afraid of was my very Greek mother. Ok...back to the Exorcist that I saw when I was in my mid-20s for the last time. I rented the movie. It wasnt the special, never-before-seen special edition version. It was the regular version. Well, this particular summer night happened to be a very windy night. No air-con in my parent's house so my bedroom window was open to let the cool air breeze flow. Like a cliche, there was a tree outside my window. And it rattled on the house when there was a strong enough breeze. Let me repeat, I wasnt afraid of a possessed Linda Blair, swearing and vomiting on movie actor Priests. But by Golly every time that stupid tree rubbed against the house I opened my eyes real wide. I didnt sleep well that particular night. The next night I slept like I hadnt slept for 2 days and nights. But I havent seen this movie again... I dont really have the appetite to see the deleted scenes either as of now... My 48 year old ass wont be able to handle my ego being bruised if it happens to be another breezy night...

I heard this song for the first time in years after David Pastrnak got a hat trick last night and the Gahden's DJ played this song while 18 000 Bruins fans were ecstatic and were singing along. So...I got inspired to post this today

I like certain aspects and details of this design. Certain angles of it are sublime.

^^^ That lady...she is impressive!

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At that point...you shouldnt give two shytes about what anybody else thinks. If you feel like talking to him, well talk to him. He'll be listening! And if anybody judges you for it, to heck with all of 'em!

Ah yeah! This is the one that seems to want to pay homage to the Hyundai Pony, huh? Yeah...I think Ill pass on it. I LOVE the 1980s, but I dont want to reminisce about what shyte Hyundai gave us in those 1980s thank-you very much...