The reason hockey will always be #1 in my eyes, proud to be a life long Black Hawks fan, and of the NHL, impeach Bettman PLEASE!


In the middle of a grueling six game road trip where a very young hockey team is away from home, the third game of the trip ends late on a cold Canadian Saturday night. This is the only break on the trip and the three days between games allow them the only break to get back home in their own beds for a couple of days before going back on the road. A scheduled commercial flight waits for them at Toronto 's International Airport for the short flight home; they could be home by midnight. This plane departs on schedule, but without a single member of the hockey team.

Back in the locker room a vote is taken after the game was complete, and a unanimous decision is made by this young team to skip this flight and stay one more day. They make arrangements to check back in the hotel and on a frozen Sunday morning charter two buses that have no heat and begin a journey two hours straight north into a sparsely inhabited Canada, but where hockey is its passion. They arrive at their destination to the surprise of the teams general manager who is there attending his fathers wake.

After a few emotional hours, this team boards the buses and head back for a two-hour trip back to Toronto . On the way they ask the drivers to stop in a tiny Canadian town because they are hungry. To the shock of the patrons and workers at this small hockey town McDonald's, a professional team walks out of two rickety buses and into the restaurant, which just happens to have pictures of two members of this team on its wall. The patrons know every single one of these players by sight being fanatic fans of hockey in these parts. One can only imagine their amazement of the locals seeing and entire professional hockey team sit down and have a meal in their tiny little town in the middle of a hockey season. After a while they board the buses and catch their same flight 24 hours later, giving one day to their general manager.

Have I made this up, is this an excerpt from some fictional book? No this a true story of the Blackhawks last Saturday night and they decided to attend Dale Tallon's fathers funeral. Its amazing that such a good story can be found nowhere on the internet, and not even mentioned in the Chicago papers. Had one of the Blackhawks got into a fight and punched some drunken loser in a Toronto bar it would be plastered all over papers and the television. This being said, its hard to imagine any professional football, basketball or baseball team doing this, but the members of the Blackhawks claim any "hockey" team would have done this.


http://blackhawks.nhl.tv/team/console.jsp?catid=690&id=27938

Great story 1480. Only in hockey. :rock::rock: You are dead on about the press.
The only news is bad news. :down: Good for the Black Hawks, one of my favorite
teams. Right behind my San Jose Sharks. They are doing good this year. :rock:

Magic452
A west coast Black Hawks fan.

That's quite the story.

Hockey comes with the territory here. I have three boys, two play hockey. The other cannot because he has Cerebral Palsy, but loves the game all the same. I coach the two who do play and although it is a lot of work, I would not want it any other way. It's great to be on the ice with them.

There is nothing like going to the rink on a Saturday morning in the midst of a cold Canadian Winter.

Go Leafs :yep::up:


RDP

Congrats to Rick for winning the torpedo bowl I. subsim FF.:up:

Yay, Raiders! :rock:

GO RAVENS. One more game with Jacksonville=win=playoff berth:rock:

Cool thread. HUGE hockey fan here. I follow the Nashville Predators and make it down to the United Center for a couple Preds/Hawks games annually.

Past that, I'm a Packers nut. This MNF game vs. the Bears is meaningless ... but next week, should we lose to the Lions, well ...

You will not lose to the Lions. Why would they want to bust up that wonderful record they have with a win? :rotfl:

A win is a win, specially with the season we have had, go Pack :up:


RDP

Welcome to the thread.

Cheez-heads vs Bears! I say Blago buys off the refs... Da bears by 20.

so how was the steelers game? didn't you go to that?

OK, somebody pinch me, I have to be dreaming. Team Satan loses, Tamba Bay loses, Minnesota fumbles the game away to us and the Falcons are definitely in the playoffs. And, to boot, Carolina loses to the Giants in OT so, if we can beat 2-13 St Louis and N'awlins can beat the Panthers we go from worst to first in the NFC South.

Whatever I'm smoking, I want some more of it :rotfl:

Yes I went. My kids pics are few posts back. Great game, we lost though:shifty: The ref call that will live in infamy :down:

Yes sir! You are not dreaming! The Falcons pulled it off and are having a great season. I have been following them since you been posting. Congrats.

And congrats to you for helping part of all of that come true by beating Dallas. See you in the Super Bowl maybe:up:

The Dallas game was great! Sorry to see the old Dallas stadium not have the festive party after the game as it was the stadiums last game...but hey...it is friggin war out there:yep:

I see the Ravens winning next weekend and securing the play off position but much beyond that is a mystery. However, Cinderella had her day so why not the Ravens or even the Falcons for that matter? Imagine that, Falcons and Ravens in the Superbowl. Now both of us will be wondering what were smoking if that happens. :rotfl:

As our "fearless leader" Mike Smith said "Why not us?"

Exactly. It is a whole new ball game now! Good Luck! I will be watching:yep:

Actually the game tonight has partial playoff implications for us. DT thanks for your guys beating the Queens (yes McBee) and keeping the playoff tease alive for the second city. Kickoff temps: 4 degrees, with a wind chill of 20-30 below zero, just the way a Pack/Bear game should be! :rock:

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