The magic of concern trolling: the two aren't mutually exclusive.

Fitting that the only guy with real job security, Anderson Cooper, was the one on TV saying that this was only a few blocks.

Hooray concern trolling!

He didn't play in '84. He just got on in '85. Habs won in '86, he won with the Oilers in 87, 88, and 90.

The confusion might be that he won his personal 5th with the Oilers in '94.

He didn't, that was the joke.

Cmon dude he obviously means Esa Tikkanen.

Who are you?

Of the major North American sports, yes, with baseball running second.

It's a general statement, not a clause in the Constitution.

There was a good debate in Twitter about whether to play God Save the Queen if the Jays make it to the series, just to piss everyone off.

I was being facetious about fans' tendency towards confirmation bias in these situations.

"games that were settled by bounces, posts, and bad calls"

Which is every hockey game ever played.

Nobody accused them of being a fluke last year. Pittsburgh choked and Montreal ran out of defencemen and NY proved they were up to their level, so there wasn't anyone else who could compete in the East, and they got obliterated in the finals like any of the other teams mentioned would have.

Keep in mind "second-half…

If he'd suplexed Trudeau at some point, I'd give it to you. ;-)

He didn't. Looking at the list, Richard was 23, Gretz was 9, Hart was 38. That and looking at the results it's pretty obvious Quebec wasn't sampled correctly.

I'm not saying anything against the guy or his family (I loved him as a kid), but to compare him to Richard is hyperbole.

He was popular, but was he "loved and respected" enough to get a state funeral when he dies?

"Basically Bret didn't want to drop the title in a Canadian city where in a lot of people's minds he was loved and respected nearly as much as Rocket Richard and Wayne Gretzky."

Um....no.

And that, children, was the only time a referee has ever made a bad call at the Bell Centre.

Ever read the coda of F451? http://www.cato.org/blog/censoring…

Bradbury was pretty far gone mentally when he said censorship had nothing to do with it, he probably said it because people overlooked the second theme of television replacing books.

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