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I'm diggin' the hockey analogies. Hockey is life. Beauty and violence.

Slash Howe like that, King, and he'd go get stitched up and come back oot and rearrange your fookin' face.

You guys are nuts. The whole bloody lot of ya.

Probably not a good time to bring up the tariff, eh?


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Whenever I'm happy I elongate my diphthong. (It's a Canadian thing)

You can't do that anymore because that is what they want. Gordie Howe with a game misconduct and off the ice. That's why they surrounded Gretzky with 'Goons.'

Trouble was, Gretzky was so good that he made even their Goons good. And won how many Stanley Cups?

Nicknamed "The Great One",he has been called "the greatest hockey player ever"by many sportswriters, players, and the league itself. He is the leading scorer in NHL history, with more goals and assists than any other player. He garnered more assists than any other player scored total points, and is the only NHL player to total over 200 points in one season � a feat he accomplished four times. In addition, he tallied over 100 points in 16 professional seasons, 14 of them consecutive. At the time of his retirement in 1999, he held 61 NHL records: 40 regular-season records, 15 playoff records, and six All-Star records. As of 2014, he still holds 60 NHL records.

Nothing funny about no-pc'er Ovechkin possibly finishing career of world's greatest hockey player.

Nothing funny about posting anti-2nd Amendment rhetoric on a firearms forum either, eh King?

Come on King, hockey begins with Bobby Orr, ends with Wayne Gretzky, with the Montreal Canadians filling in all the rest.

You are very, very close. You just forgot the late 1970's Winnipeg Jets with Bobby Hull, Ulf Nillson and Andres Hedberg. Assessed by the Russians, after playing a bunch of NHL teams, as the best team in hockey at that time.

I sort of think that way at times but then along comes Crosby, who played street hockey five-on-one with my grandsons---"and he always won, Grampy."

Emotions are unfathomable in hockey: your opinion of Canadian eminence and my hopes for an American Stanley triumph because of Crosby.

Only yesterday in correspondence with another member, I commented that Crosby playing like a lion is one bad hit away from ending his career.

King, I'll bet that if you played against Crosby with your imaginary friends John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, you guys would beat him like a baby seal.

After the game, you could go to Oslo to accept the almost Nobel prize for Street Hockey Excellence. Then you could all celebrate with a glass of your award winning wine... which was actually made by someone else.

Don't you think this has gone far enough? Please stop this useless banter.

A solution to trolling and continual caterwauling messing up our great forum is embodied in Stan's apology, plain as pudding:

"I must attempt to make amends for what has become my sometimes rude and callous manner of posting. I have realized this because I have been made aware that I have alienated a longtime forum friend on here. He, very graciously, private messaged me, and in a very gentlemanly way, caused me to do some self evaluation. I realized that I had responded to a post of his in a sarcastic and caustic manner.

"I make no excuses, and apologize not only to him, but to all my friends on here to which I have become less than considerate. I especially thank him for being man enough to point out my indiscretions in such a way as to cause me to take a good look at myself. I am grateful for that.

"The very things I have disdained in a few here, I had carelessly become. That is hypocritical on my part, and I will work to correct such behavior in the future. I am grateful for the many friends I have here, and hope to restore your confidence by becoming more like what I admire in so many of you."

To have the forum we want, the one we joined for, and to be the men we want to be and not the ones we are, requires a modicum of common decency that we extend to face-to-face encounters: respect and no unwarranted accusations and designating as liars and anti-gun those of varying opinions.

Fifteen years of my almost daily visits here confirm there are no anti-gun members. There's no reason we can't participate in the same generous way we discuss our opinions of hockey and whisky. Nothing seems certain and no one knows everything. Stan's integrity is no sure cure. It's a good start.