Comedy gold out of Edmonton

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90 minute ceremony to close down Rexall Place tonight prior to the Canucks - Oilers game. I won't be watching.

 

[esls79]

Hopefully at the end of the game instead of a jersey being tossed on the ice it will be an actual seat.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

90 minute ceremony to close down Rexall Place tonight prior to the Canucks - Oilers game. I won't be watching.

ahhh its a post game ceremony but there will also be some sort of pregame video thing ... start could be delayed ... not 45 mins but still ... short ceremony to begin and another 90 minute job at the end??? and sportsnet is televising the ending ceremony ???

/and Coiler "legend" Jussi Markkanen will be in attendance

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

Maybe we'll get lucky and it will end like this

 

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ahhh its a post game ceremony but there will also be some sort of pregame video thing ... start could be delayed ... not 45 mins but still ... short ceremony to begin and another 90 minute job at the end??? and sportsnet is televising the ending ceremony ???

/and Coiler "legend" Jussi Markkanen will be in attendance

My bad - Still, this combined with all the gushing over the 80's Oiler greats during the Hometown Hockey telecasts on Sundays during this season has just been too much.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Wow, just realizing my viewing options tonight are Vancouver-Edmonton or Columbus-Toronto.

Oh hey, there's a Philly-Detroit game that is literally for a playoff spot. Let's not bother putting that on though.

 

[sabresfaninthesouth]

Wow, just realizing my viewing options tonight are Vancouver-Edmonton or Columbus-Toronto.

Oh hey, there's a Philly-Detroit game that is literally for a playoff spot. Let's not bother putting that on though.

So I take it there's no option to access the NBCSN games north of the border?

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

So I take it there's no option to access the NBCSN games north of the border?

Not legally, no.

Then Rogers wonders why they're losing money on hockey. Let's show 4 of the 5 worst teams in the league instead of two that are battling for a playoff spot. Nevermind that they have 400 channels to put that game on...

 

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Not legally, no.

Then Rogers wonders why they're losing money on hockey. Let's show 4 of the 5 worst teams in the league instead of two that are battling for a playoff spot. Nevermind that they have 400 channels to put that game on...

I think the Philly - Detroit game would have been shown on Sportsnet One or 360, but with the MLB regular season starting, the Blue Jays take priority.

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

I think the Philly - Detroit game would have been shown on Sportsnet One or 360, but with the MLB regular season starting, the Blue Jays take priority.

SNE, SNW, SNW, SNP, SN1, SN360...

They couldn't fit it on one channel?

 

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SNE, SNW, SNW, SNP, SN1, SN360...

They couldn't fit it on one channel?

Canada's team, BBB

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Canada's team, BBB

Long may it live!

Except tonight. May it lose 4-0 tonight.

 

[KennyBanyeah]

My bad - Still, this combined with all the gushing over the 80's Oiler greats during the Hometown Hockey telecasts on Sundays during this season has just been too much.

Let the babies have their bottle dash. They have so little!!

I mean other than the repeated draft lottery wins.

 

[forty_three]

Long may it live!

Except tonight. May it lose 4-0 tonight.

YOU TAKE THAT BACK!

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

YOU TAKE THAT BACK!

Where Tabasco at?

/We sent back Rich Clune

 

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Man, I would love to see the Canucks shutout the Oil tonight.

 

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6-0 jstew - Hatties for Daniel and Henrik followed by a jersey toss - A fitting way to close out Rectal Place.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Man, I would love to see the Canucks shutout the Oil tonight.

I want to see Lars Lindgren play for the canucks and score on his own goal

 

[jstewismybastardson]

6-7 jstew - Hatties for Daniel and Henrik followed by Ryan Miller tossing his own jersey and announcing his retirement - A fitting way to close out Rectal Place.

fify

 

[jstewismybastardson]

I want to see Lars Lindgren play for the canucks and score on his own goal

it would be fitting

You left out probably the Canucks own goal classic of all time, Lars Lindgren, vs the Edmonton Oilers circa 1982 (I'm dating myself here). The Canucks were 10 seconds away from achieving one of the most difficult things in the 1980's, beating the Oilers (Gretzky et al...) in their own barn, by a 2-1 score. This was something the Canucks never did, routinely getting pounded by the Oilers (where do you think all Gretzky's scoring records come from, right, Vancouver).
Clean face-off win right to Lindgren who was standing on the goal line in the corner. All he had to do to cement the victory was rim the puck around the boards and down the ice. Inexplicably he instead fired the puck directly along the goal line, under the goalies skate and directly into the net, a shot he couldn't replicate again if he tried 100 times. It took me weeks to recover even though by then I had become somewhat immune to the routine calamities that struck the Canucks of that era. It would be great to find some video of that as I know that BCTV broadcast it as I watched that game.