39 Replies to “Two Skates Better”

  1. In other news CHINESE flights are still landing in Canada hourly.

    And in the middle of this nightmare of immense stupidity, the Conservative Party of Canada is doing it’s very, very best to elect a yeller dawg as party leader. Four nonentities no one ever heard of are debating for the crown.

    Has any of them said they’d like to stop flights from China during the pandemic? I haven’t heard.

    1. Phantom its time to stop calling them the conservative party. Call them what they really are the Regressive party.

  2. I’m hoping for Toronto.

    For the first time in decades TO will get to host a Stanley Cup final.

    1. Anyone thinking that a Canadian City will be picked is dreaming methinks…Given the Market is predominately in the US. I’d be surprised otherwise.

      1. Exactly, just more preening and virtue signalling.

        The players will want to do this in the US, their tax rates are predominantly less there, save for KKKalifornicastan, and New Yahk. But where would they play otherwise?

        Vancouver/Victoria made some sense, until the province put over a hundred derelicts and homeless druggie zombies into Victoria’s arena. A BEYOND STUPID decision there.

  3. Yep… the rules they create are not for them (or their friends). They are for the little people.

  4. Edmonton won’t get it, because: FUCK Alberta!
    Also, because Edmonton’s airport connections suck – Calgary is our flight hub. Curious then why Calgary wasn’t proposed.

    I’m betting Vancouver over Toronto, just slightly – to throw a sop to the Lib voters in BC.

    1. Can’t see Vancouver as the saviour Dr Henry will not allow it, I imagine. They are so averse to seeing positive cases they have one of the lowest testing rates in Canada now. I read an article today where a school was closed over ONE positive test. One.

      People gush over how great a job the woman has done, how compassionate, she cries apparently, and yet the results are pretty much the same as other jurisdictions. It is a virus, not the black death, jesus people, get over it.

      1. I think you should look at the numbers again. For my money, Dr. Henry has done an excellent job.

  5. People still give a sh*t about professional sports? They’re all a bunch of knee-taking, Burn, Loot and Murder supporters. F*ck the NHL and ever other league. Instead of defunding the police, how about we stop subsidizing the obscene salaries payed to semi-literate sports monkeys.

    1. It’s not often I will agree with the Community Troll…usually NEVER, bit when it comes to “professional sports” … it’s not their salaries so that piss me off, but arrogance of Billionaire owners who will always try to bone some city (Calgary) out of putting up millions of TaxPayer Dollars to build THEIR new Venue and then have the fking audacity to charge 150/seat/game in the 2nd tier.

      You want a new arena/stadium…??
      Pay for it yourself. Threaten to Leave…fine, Bugger off….Most of your avg working Folk n Family can’t afford a night that for 4 persons will typically cost near a G Note per game: Parking, Expensive food/beer and the tickets.

      NHL Live is 200/year….. And that gives me the ability to watch every game played wherever, whenever and with play by play announcing….and the ability to pause or do my own instant replay if need be

      As for Baseball, Basketball..?? I could care less, rather watch reruns of The Honeymooners..!! At least I’ll get a good laugh…

      1. Right, esp first 2 paragraphs.

        Back in the 70s in Montreal when my cousin wasn’t using his company tickets, he’d give them to our family.

        Best when it’s free. Saw all the greats.

  6. I choked on my morning porridge reading this outrage. Soy milk spewed out my nose and all over my lap top. I had to get one of the undocumented immigrants up out of the basement to clean up the spew. There should be no question as to which city is the hockey hub. Toronto. Anyone who says otherwise is a racist. Toronto is the most important city on the planet; for the nearest hundred light years, in fact. Disagreement with this is the moral equivalent of being a concentration camp commandant.

  7. Let me count the number of rolling donuts I can offer up to the world of professional sports…
    NBA: I’m nearly 60, five feet five and white. You can guess how much interest I can summon up for basketball. I tried watching that Michael Jordan Last Dance documentary until I realized I don’t care about Jordan, the Bulls or basketball.
    NFL/CFL: Take a knee, whitey. I was once a Redskin and Argo fan, and have been continually disappointed for years, although the refusal of Washington’s ownership not to cave to the libtards regarding the franchise name is a slight source of pride. Over on the CFL side, when’s west division team can play in the eastern final because the majority of the east sucks, there’s something wrong.
    NHL: The pro game has been diluted to a thin, watery gruel. I’m not talking about reverting back to the Original Six, but c’mon, Phoenix…Las Vegas…Nashville? Ugh. I am looking forward to the new Seattle franchise. Here are some names I’d like to see. The Seattle CHAZ/CHOP. The Seattle Soy. The Seattle Needle Exchange.
    MLB: This one hurts the most. As a lifelong baseball fan it pisses me off to no end how they are, well, pissing me off. Owners and players alike are doing everything they can to force what’s a great game into the third and fourth tier of relevance. Darts, WNBA and poker tournaments will draw more tv ratings if MLB doesn’t get its act together. The only hope for baseball, if and when it does come back, is to just say the hell with it and allow unfettered steroid use. And put McGuire, Clemens, Sosa, hell, even Rose in the Hall Of Fame and get it over with. But not Schilling. He’s a psycho right winger. And a Red Sox.

    Add to the mix of sheer annoyance is the wokeness of the likes of TSN and Sportsnet. For the past several weeks it’s been a nonstop Racism Roundup…white man bad 24/7. Yes, there’s bugger all to report on but is the need to create content so intense they need to fill 70% of their highlight shows with the constant drumbeat of how I’m such an evil bastard for being white?
    I’m done with the big four. If the NHL wants a Canadian “hub city”, which is highly unlikely so stop dreaming Leaf fans, they’ll have to play by the same rules that have been foisted upon us Canadian citizens over the past four months.
    Sorry for the length of this rant but it’s been percolating for awhile.

  8. I have fond memories of watching the Broncos at the civic center in Swift Current in the 80’s. Watching Joe Sakic and Sheldon Kennedy and all the other great players of that Bronco era. My first year in high school in grade 10 I’d see Sheldon walking around the hallways at the comp and Kimbi Daniels sat next to me in science class. I was always ready to sing Pop Goes The Weasel with the organist and the packed civic center whenever Theoren Fleury and the Warriors came to town from Moose Jaw. Good times when you’re young.

  9. Not so fast there, Kaputnik. Three thousand new cases in Florida today, including members of the Blue Jays and the Tampa Bay Lightning.

  10. Waste of time and money.

    Our pampered virtue-signalling millionaires play games better than your pampered virtue-signalling millionaires? So what?

    The annoying part is that you have to hear all about it at work, including things like so-and-so hurt his pinky and might not get as many millions this year. Absurd.

  11. “Move would allow league to bypass 14-day quarantine for anyone entering country”

    File this under Masks, Social Distancing in riots, transmission through touch, transmission from children to older people, Easter Egg Hunts on Easter weekend after being told not do have any and a myriad of other constantly changing edicts from people who sit in Ivory Towers.

    Rules for thee but not for me.

    Another proof that these economy killing rules don’t really matter, in the long run.

  12. If its ‘no fans in the stands’ then its proof that these pole-smoking, half-witted, shitheads don’t give a flying fuck about anyone but a pay cheque.
    Anyone who supports pro sports without fans in the stands is a fuck stick.

  13. I watched The Original Six when I was a kid. Six teams of thugs, who’d kick all the overpaid douche bags of today skating around the Ice Capades of pro-fresh-‘nal ‘ockey offered today. Gretzky? Stomped by the Road Runner, or slammed and skewered by Pulford in the corners. The Gump caught pucks with his teeth. Gap toothed grins.
    Away tabernac!

  14. Spectator sports are a racket. They only manifest themselves in cities whose incompetent leadership think that throwing millions of dollars into a sports stadium only the very rich will ever see the inside of is how you make your Third World-infested cesspit “world-class.”

    Blow up those sports stadiums. Then get out of the way of those willing to build something useful and make useful things within those buildings—and to bulldoze the favelas standing on their way and force their denizens who will not take an honest job to move on, because citizenship should be a privilege, not a right.

    That’s all urban development is. Tearing down slums, making the thugs, whores and junkies move on, and replacing both with better classes of buildings and inhabitants. Capitalism does the rest.

  15. Who cares, the damn fatality rate is still at or below 2 tenths of one percent. The world is not going to perish. Jeez the stupid is strong in this country.

  16. What is worse?
    Situation one. Folks fly in from USA for essential purposes (whatever that may be, maybe they are farm workers on their way to a farm near Saskatoon who are exempted under existing Order). At Vancouver they are told to self isolate for 14 days. They fly to Saskatoon and infect their host family and family friends.

    Situation two. Hockey teams and supporting staff fly into host city. Then they quarantine as a cohort. They get regular checks to ensure they are not Covid positive. The health care these guys will be getting will ensure there is no outbreak.

    And I think there is a chance the Wild will upset the Canucks.

  17. Kate (or anybody), serious question: What does “Two Skates Better” refer to other than the obvious? You were quick to pick it up from DS.

    1. The wife says it is from Animal Farm. The pigs who stood on two feet were more equal than the other animals?

  18. Oh snap!
    Four legs good, two legs bad.
    Four legs good, two legs better.
    It’s sad when you’ve forgotten more than you know.
    The wife is pretty sharp.

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