Showing mountains of ridiculous self-pity on national television is pretty much perfect for them.

Maybe like a week in one of those super humane Nordic prisons, but American? 0.

Endzone, though.

I seriously think him pushing the linesman and getting his ass booted helped them over the hump in the conference finals.

It's also not weighing the result properly by considering the terrible position the other team is in if it is stopped.

Was actually at a game there on Fri night, nice little setup they have. $16 tickets, beer, perfect sized OHL rink with a ridiculously large jumbotron.

Very strange for something like that to happen in Mississauga, unless it's club team kids hockey related.

I wouldn't even say, when comparing the communities themselves whether it would be a "recent" thing, or more a "non-assimilated" thing.

I get what OP was getting at, and it is an interesting sociological comparison, but the post reeked of that "TO is a special place and deserves to be treated that way" some folks get…

Chicago, NY/NY, and Philly would probably all have them beat. It's not a reason to prioritize them to this extent.

None of what I say is contradicted by that.

Plenty of Italians in just about every urban area of the US.

Don't forget 2008 either...

Like how you sneaked that hot take in there.

I'm with you on best of his era, but there's definitely an argument against him as GOAT: the position and the expectations around it have completely changed 5/6 times in the NHL's existence.

Police Officer: HANDS UP!
Ohio State Fan: [makes "o"]
Ohio State Fan: [makes "h"]
Ohio State Fan: [makes "i"]
Police Officer: [uses entire can of spray]

Ohio State, in their last three games, curb stomped #11 and beat the #1 and #2 teams in the country on neutral sites. They're the champs. Get over it.

There's a perfect group of leagues (NCAA/Finland/Sweden/KHL) that could be compared with the NHL, AHL, and minors to test this hypothesis (which is what it is), yet nobody ever really does a good comparison.

meant the OP

Odds this fellow is from Florida, Arizona or SoCal?

I'm guessing that if that happened today 3/4 of the pendings would be some variation of "OLD MAN STEP UP OLD MAN GET BEAT"

If you interpret my original comment as you apparently do, I guess there can a slight irony, but it runs into an infinite regression problem (you responding to me, etc.) that traditionally happens with internet comments.