Pensblog Fallout…
So some joke in TO thinks we’d stop supporting GR and stop living the WWGRD lifestyle if he goes a game without a point tonight??? He apparently has no clue. Missing half a season did nothing to slow down WWGRD or the man himself. That misplaced Sens fan = joke.
@Jyo : Um that’s not what I said… I inferred that you guys seemed to only jump on his bandwagon after Game 1… (I assumed as much as I’m not going to go back into your archives…. dirty… so dirty…) And by that reasoning you’ll leave after tonight’s game… I can’t be blamed if I’m too lazy to read you old posts…
if that’s a Sens fan in Toronto, he must be used to an epic amount of failure.
@J.S. : Not really, it’s actually quite fun to walk the streets of TO wearing my Sens gear and not getting heckled…
Isn’t it odd that all the fans of these other teams become obsessed with our team, fans, blogs, lifestyles?
@Sooska : Obsessed? Hardly. Beyond the obvious, how do you think that klime actually found my and my compatriots blogs? Two way street it seems.
He musta been busy jumping on & off the Sens bandwagon that he lost track of time.
@Dr. Turkleton : Yep, bandwagon that’s it… If that was the case I would have jumped back in November. In effect, I’ve been far too busy with the day job.
I would have left a comment to the Sens Fan in Toronto, but I figured he’d never see it, what with all of those other comments he has to wade through. It must take him HOURS.
To say that he hid behind the refs is revisionist history to say the least, though. He challenged all of them and they just stood around hoping that someone else would fight him.
@dying alive : Actually most Leaf fans don’t seem to have much spirit in this town. Heck, they don’t even wear Leaf jerseys on game days… As for your second comment, Gary did hide behind the ref knowing full well that if any Senator took a swing at them they’d be gone a game for ‘abuse of an official‘: see rule 41 section f. Technically they could have charged Gary with section g if they had wanted to.
So I certainly don’t expect the fan of a team that didn’t show one iota of the energy or heart that Roberts himself displayed in Game One to understand why Roberts is…you know…kind of a big deal. Roberts exuded more energy and heart in one drop of sweat than the entire Ottawa team did the other night.
Don’t get us wrong “Sens Fan in Toronto”, we appreciate and love our star players like Sid and Malkin (mostly because they play with an element of toughness reminiscent of Roberts). But players like Roberts are almost as hard to find and that’s why he’s achieved this status here.
Players like Roberts make you WANT to be a hockey player; make you want to drag your lazy, out-of-shape ass off the couch, lace up your skates and go run someone into the boards, and not give a damn if you blow your own shoulder out in the process because it’s what it might take to win a playoff series, a game, or even a shift.
I don’t care where your allegiances lie as far as teams go; if you couldn’t watch what Gary Roberts did on Wednesday night and appreciate that as a hockey fan, maybe it’s time to start watching something a little less intense….like golf or the NBA.
@Stoosh : To set a few things straight:
- You are right, Ottawa did not show up on Tuesday. Only Gerber did. You’ll see better from us.
- Sid does not have an element of toughness reminiscent of Roberts. I have some respect from Roberts have watched him hold aloft and carry the Leafs through the playoffs a few years ago. Sid does not have that quality. Sid is a cry-baby and whines to the refs when things don’t go his way. We see this all the time on the tubes. Remember we’re hockey mad up here, we see it all.
- Players like Roberts don’t make me want to be a hockey player. He cross-checks players from behind into the boards with mere moments left on the clock in a non-contest. That is not leadership, grit, touchness or anything. That is intent to injure and has been the source of debate form many years up here in Toronto since the last time he did it in the playoffs: a few years back against Alfredsson.
- Are you truly telling me that if you had a team of Garys out there you’d love watching the product? Last time I checked a one-dimensional team doesn’t win enough games to far. Nor is it entertaining at all.
- I admire players who have skill and can get the job done despite what is going on around them. Alfredsson, Fisher, Sundin, Ovechkin all fall into that category.
- Hockey fans leave team allegiances behind all the time. Nobody likes a bully in playground. And that’s what Roberts is. Most people in Toronto know that as well, and as soon as he skipped town, they hated his ass again since he wasn’t doing it for their Leafs anymore.
Thanks guys it’s been fun. You can register here to follow up, provided you find your spines… Apparently I’m not allowed to read another team’s fan’s blog. It speaks poorly of my social skills…
April 11th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
I can’t be blamed if I’m too lazy to read you old posts
Yes, you can. That’s called horrible research skills leading to misguided information and a pathetically childish whine-fest. Nearly every one of your “facts” about Pensblog, the Penguins, Gary Roberts and Penguins fans in general are horribly misinformed. Please check your facts before you bitch about something, and maybe it’ll make some sense.
You can be blamed 100% for not giving the proper time to find if your “argument” has any sticking point. You didn’t do the research for your argument. The argument is wrong. Therefore you are wrong.
April 11th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
You are right on the count of not reading the old posts and finding out about the WWGRD bracelets. A wee bit of an overblown response tho don’t you think?
All is fair in love and war. As for the rest:
I don’t think I lay down a single ‘fact’ about the PensBlog itself. So you are wrong there.
I’m certainly not wrong about the rule book. Nor am I wrong about gary Roberts. He did provide a late hit in Game 1 when the puck wasn’t even nearby. He did cross-check Alfredsson from behind many moons ago. Leaf fans immediately started hating his style of play as soon as he left town.
Care to prove me wrong?
April 11th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
I’m not talking about what Gary Roberts did “many moons ago.” Did I say ONE THING about the rule book?
Some “facts” you wrote, and by publishing them, you accept that they are, in fact, your thoughts/ideas:
You claim the wristbands are $5, making what was merely a gathering of like-minded fans appreciative of what Roberts brings to the team seem like a cheap, money-making scheme to capitalize on a player’s success.
You wonder aloud if Penguins fans will turn their back on a guy who happened to have a ridiculous game, as if we didn’t have ample time to do that while he sat out for most of the season with a broken leg. He is a respected player in the locker room and in the city, and the fanbase has accepted him since day 1. We aren’t fairweather fans, as you assume.
You claim our team and fans are overconfident, although no one is claiming victory or looking past the current series, let alone the current game. We know what Ottawa did to us last year. There is NO overconfidence.
Hell, I’m not even looking past this period, and all I see is a 1-0 score in favor of Pittsburgh.
Beautiful hit by Lapointe after the buzzer blew to end the period. But I guess only Gary Roberts does that.
April 12th, 2008 at 9:17 am
…Fantastic reply. Consider myself owned.