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Columbus Blue Jackets (Official Thread)

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Brutus1;1420185; said:
For a second I thought he might have given a tap to Moens tool bag.
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He did something down in the pile afterward because he got a 5 game suspension.

You can see Moens legs start kicking real hard and the ref pry Otts left hand loose. I think he went all Robo Reynolds on the guy and applied some form of the Sorgi Death Grip.

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nevermind didn't see the follow ups that already covered this
 
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Steve Ott is a retarded Treasure Troll looking cheat shot artist. He always has been.

It's too bad too, becuase I was really hoping another cheap shot artist named Chris Pronger was going to get a hold of him.
 
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the cross check was cheap. but you cant have the goalie stepping of if you cant touch them back. then nieds takes a dive and goes "oh im a future hofer" then crap goes on. they cant let goalies take cheapshots. zero tolerance, zero. its bs. or let the skater put him in his damn place.

do you think this would have happened with the instigator? nope.
 
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this was posted on the dispatch

he Blue Jackets travel party landed safely at 4:06 a.m. Monday. Odd timing, as that's roughly the time when the computer system used by U.S. Customs agents at Port Columbus crashed. What followed in the next hour and 20 minutes was a maddening sequence of government red tape, bureaucratic blather and remarkable incompetency.
The Blue Jackets travel party numbers roughly 50, when you consider the players, coaching staff, training staff, equipment guys, traveling secretaries and media. As the group made it off the plane and wound its way toward an empty Customs area, the long trip home came to a screeching halt.
But it was far from over.
Rick Nash and Manny Malhotra were the first to approach the Customs agents, the first to get caught in the snare. They stood there. And stood there. And stood there. Both Nash and Malhotra spent more time standing at the booth than they spent on the ice in a 3-1 loss to Vancouver some five hours earlier.
This went on for more than 30 minutes.
Eventually, a Customs agent emerged from an umarked, gray door and spoke to the crowd. "Scheduled computer maintenance," he said. He vomited lots of other 10-cent words and phrases -- "protocol" and "proper avenues of procedure" and "procedures set in place in compliance with ..." -- before losing the attention of the tired, weary crowd.
At one point, TV producer Ed Milliken began singing "Oh, Canada!" (A stunning baritone, by the way.)
When the agent returned behind the umarked, gray door to consult his (no doubt) 6,000 page manual, the travel group started to get comfortable on the floor and the three steps.
There weren't even chairs.
Nash sprawled out right next to the booth, using his luggage as a pillow. Fedor Tyutin slumped against the wall, resting his head against a fire extinguisher on the on the wall. TV star Jim Day went flat on his back.
And then there was Ken Hitchcock: "If we would have known this, we would have stayed in Vancouver," Hitchcock said.
Here's the frustration: the Blue Jackets send an advance list to the Customs agents with the name and passport number of everybody on the plane, a means to expediate the process. This way the USA knows if somebody dangerous is trying to get in.
Nobody questions the USA's right and obligation to question people coming into the country. But this wasn't a security issue; it was incompetency. Why perform a scheduled maintenance on your system at the exact time a plane is bound to arrive?
When the Blue Jackets arrived in Canada the previous Sunday, it was a flawless process. Take the card, check the name, "Welcome to Canada."
But here it was, 4:50 a.m. now, and here we sat in an empty -- and yet overwhelmed -- Port Columbus.
I swear, I thought Hitchcock was going to have everybody clear out of the waiting area to do a "forecheck" walk-through with the players. We waited so long, interim goaltending coach Perry Elderbroom even stopped promoting his "Gold In Nets" program.
"A $5 million hockey player is sleeping on the floor up there," one observer panned.
One more caveat: hockey players are the most down-to-Earth athletes among the major sports. Most of them have ridden Greyhounds for 12 or 18 hours at a time. They've slepts in lots of different vehicles and airport floors while playing in the minors and junior leagues, all with the dream of playing in the NHL.
This wasn't outrageous because the almighty hockey players were inconvenienced. It was outrageous -- and embarrassing -- that Port Columbus was so ill-equipped to handle what should have been a basic process.
Imagine how this makes the city look to outsiders.
By 4:53 a.m., the man emerged for the unmarked, gray door to say that Columbus had been cleared by Chicago -- "and correct protocol," of course -- to begin clearing the traveling party via "verbal declaration."
The line started to move. Nash made it through, to a smattering of applause. The players all went first, then the Blue Jackets staffers and coaches. Most of the media allowed the flight crew to go through first.
At 5:23, the last of the party made it through.
"Have a good night," the agent said.
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jimotis4heisman;1420448; said:
this was posted on the dispatch
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You know, my first reaction to that article is to tell the author to get the fuck over him/herself. Travel snafu's happen when you cross borders and just because it went well the last time into Canada doesn't mean it's always perfect. Scheduled maintenance at 4:30 am sounds pretty reasonable to me. I guess the author would prefer they do it during the peak hours of commercial travel so the common folk can deal with it instead of the 50 or so CBJ party.

I'll take customs erring on the side of caution and the occasional snafu's that go along with it thanks. The part that really pisses me off is how many times I've seen everyday people have these kind of problems with travel since 9/11 and quietly deal with it because they know its for an overall good reason but the jock sniffer feels he/she and the hockey team are above it.

Maybe I'm completely misreading the authors tone but at this point I feel obliged to say fuck him/her.
 
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Jaxbuck said:
You know, my first reaction to that article is to tell the author to get the fuck over him/herself. Travel snafu's happen when you cross borders and just because it went well the last time into Canada doesn't mean it's always perfect. Scheduled maintenance at 4:30 am sounds pretty reasonable to me. I guess the author would prefer they do it during the peak hours of commercial travel so the common folk can deal with it instead of the 50 or so CBJ party.

I'll take customs erring on the side of caution and the occasional snafu's that go along with it thanks. The part that really pisses me off is how many times I've seen everyday people have these kind of problems with travel since 9/11 and quietly deal with it because they know its for an overall good reason but the jock sniffer feels he/she and the hockey team are above it.

Maybe I'm completely misreading the authors tone but at this point I feel obliged to say fuck him/her.
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multiple things
1-i think it was a tad snotty but i think the aim was to show the redic of the situation. the whole manual thing, kind of funny if youve been in the situation. i mean they have a flight schedule and who is on the plane and all the info. heck stories of players knowing the customs officers are common place as they clear custom dozens of times during the season.
2-humor. i mean nash a guy who some say might be captain canada someday sprawled on his bag. ever cool tyutin lounging on a fire extinguisher? the guy is never rattled and you can see his same old face no matter if hes pinching in for the gw, defending a 4 v 1 or turning the puck over in the neutral zone. then hitch setting up "forecheck" or perry pimping his goalie movies, thats funny stuff.


so it is redic. and funny. and just a tidbit into the life of these guys as they play 6 games in 9 nights, etc.
 
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jimotis4heisman;1420383; said:
the cross check was cheap. but you cant have the goalie stepping of if you cant touch them back. then nieds takes a dive and goes "oh im a future hofer" then crap goes on. they cant let goalies take cheapshots. zero tolerance, zero. its bs. or let the skater put him in his damn place.

do you think this would have happened with the instigator? nope.
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He never even got a cross check penalty. Neidermayer didn't even seem to care. JS should just stay in the nets and enjoy the victory.
 
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Jeebus. Brutal 2 minute stretch there in the 2nd. Glad they could hold on.

WTF was Mason thinking trying to play the puck out of the zone at the end? :tic:
 
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