
clammy
Feb 14, 2009 Jun 18, 2011 1 6
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What I learned by following the 2011 NHL playoffs
Please add your own in the comments (unless you're still off drowning your sorrows, or cleaning up downtown Vancouver).
- After being crosschecked in the back thousands of times, many while having an injured back, reacting to being crosschecked in the back by the strongest player in the league is a penalty.
- Reacting when challenged by a player bigger than you is cowardly.
- Not reacting when challenged (read: punched repeatedly, in front of a referee) by a player smaller than you is cowardly.
- If you drew attention to your getting punched by physically reacting, you would be called for diving.
- The Bruins don't dive.
- Going through last year's cup champion and this year's second-best regular season team, as well as a team with a Vezina finalist, is the easy way to get to the final.
- Following through on a clean, but late, check on somebody who forgot one of the first things they teach you in hockey (don't admire your pass! Especially when crossing the opponent's blueline!) means that you are a dirty headhunter.
- In fact, making any hit that would appear on any Rock 'em Sock 'em video from the 1990s means that you are a dirty headhunter.
- However, following through on an awkward check, with the opponent in a vulnerable position and the puck long gone, is a hockey play.
- Being a dirty little annoying sh!t disturber is okay, but only if you are wearing the correct colour of jersey and are a rookie or a "classy" veteran.
- Saying anything other than "we're just taking it one game at a time" is inviting controversy.
- Even if what you said was both accurate and meant in the spirit of fun, since you're known to have a sense of humour.
- You can take potshots about nothingness on your twitter account, then pretend you're still a neutral host who can open segments with the "Some say..." line.
- Playing through injuries is gutless and means you're obviously not cut out for the playoffs.
- If you ever do anything wrong, even in the course of scoring or preventing a goal, Craig Simpson will be there to explain to you in a patient, yet paternal, tone exactly what he thinks you should have done. Thanks Craig!
- If you make a save due to sound positioning, the puck just "hit you".
- This was not one of the prettiest goals of the playoffs.
- If you knowingly invite 150,000 guests to a small area, then provide them with no secondary entertainment or easy way to get home, you should also prepare for trouble. Especially when everybody expects trouble. Maybe you could have the Odds give a free concert, at the very least - I don't think they have had enough exposure yet.
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