as a hockey fan and a goalie myself in the mens league let me just say....

He said "athlete", not "Title IX Participant".


//I'll just leave that right there, and run like hell.

What awesome goalie masks look like:






What subby thinks an awesome goalie mask looks like:


Conclusion: subby is adjective impaired.

That's a gay goalie mask, subby.

This is why the NHL is awesome. It's the only professional sports league that allows the players to have even a modicum of fun and individuality.

Don't get me wrong, they clamp down on most of it. But they allow *any* fun, which is more than the NFL, MLB or NBA.

varmitydog: What awesome goalie masks look like:

No. Those are all pretty pedestrian, predictable designs that may as well have been drawn on a Trapper Keeper.

cameroncrazy1984: And a mask that looks like your mom's fridge in 1976 is....what, creative?

Well, it's not something you see everyday.

cameroncrazy1984: And a mask that looks like your mom's fridge in 1976 is....what, creative?

A mask with the picture of every player on the team with moustaches drawn on them?

Yeah, that's creative as hell. And funny.

Most goalie masks these days look the same. They usually look pretty cool, but I wouldn't call most of them "creative." This mask is creative precisely *because* it looks like your mom's fridge in 1976. Doing something new and different is practiaclyl the definition of the word "Creative."

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THIS.

The Homer Tax: This is why the NHL is awesome. It's the only professional sports league that allows the players to have even a modicum of fun and individuality.

Don't get me wrong, they clamp down on most of it. But they allow *any* fun, which is more than the NFL, MLB or NBA.

Yup. Also how the NHL treats the All Star game is worthy of respect. They don't try to take it seriously since everyone knows players are going to lay off the hitting to avoid injury. So they embrace the fact it is going to be offense heavy game and let everyone show off. Hell they even send the goalie in to try to skate down the ice and take a shot at the other goal. So much better than the NFL and all the butt hurt that came out of Sean Taylor actually playing when the AFC tried to fake punt.

I was always partial to everybody's favorite flash in the pan, Blaine Lacher:

swahnhennessy: varmitydog: What awesome goalie masks look like:

No. Those are all pretty pedestrian, predictable designs that may as well have been drawn on a Trapper Keeper.

Ha. That's an awesome way to put it. I love seeing a goalie in the intimidating mask, but the I would consider the mustache one more creative, or at least more unique.

discgolfguru: The Python fan in me always liked this picture. Needs more black knight, though.

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Which Schneider is that?

The Homer Tax: This is why the NHL is awesome. It's the only professional sports league that allows the players to have even a modicum of fun and individuality.

Don't get me wrong, they clamp down on most of it. But they allow *any* fun, which is more than the NFL, MLB or NBA.

One of the other things I like about hockey versus other sports, in terms of attire:

Hockey coaches wear suits and look like professionals. As opposed to NFL coaches who dress like slobs, wearing sweats or hoodies or whatever. An NFL head coach should dress a little better than the average fan. And MLB managers are even worse, cramming their pudgy middle-age bodies into baseball uniforms. Who are they trying to kid? Most of them cannot pull it off.

NFL coaches used to wear suits, but then the NFL realized that Joe Slobbo would buy whatever the fat man on the sidelines was wearing, so they made coaches wear licensed merchandise. For what it's worth, coaches here in the SEL do the same thing.

I like the suits, though if you consider it, it's also pretty silly. Though thank god most NHL coaches don't feel the need to be flashy, ala the NBA. It's like Don Cherry sitting courtside at every game.

As for baseball, it's a pretty stupid holdover from an era long-gone. I'm not sure even most die-hard MLB freaks would be sad to see it go.

keylock71: Doc Daneeka: Hockey coaches wear suits and look like professionals. As opposed to NFL coaches who dress like slobs, wearing sweats or hoodies or whatever. An NFL head coach should dress a little better than the average fan. And MLB managers are even worse, cramming their pudgy middle-age bodies into baseball uniforms. Who are they trying to kid? Most of them cannot pull it off.

Bingo. Couldn't agree more.

And when they don't wear suits, it's still professional.

boooooooooooo to the ducks

SavaThePriest: keylock71: Doc Daneeka: Hockey coaches wear suits and look like professionals. As opposed to NFL coaches who dress like slobs, wearing sweats or hoodies or whatever. An NFL head coach should dress a little better than the average fan. And MLB managers are even worse, cramming their pudgy middle-age bodies into baseball uniforms. Who are they trying to kid? Most of them cannot pull it off.

Bingo. Couldn't agree more.

And when they don't wear suits, it's still professional.

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Would like to have a word.

This looks like a job for the mustaches fiend.

Jacques Plante would not have been impressed with all these mask shenanigans:

I'm now convinced that I have no idea what awesome means anymore and will try to stop using it in the future.

swahnhennessy: NFL coaches used to wear suits, but then the NFL realized that Joe Slobbo would buy whatever the fat man on the sidelines was wearing, so they made coaches wear licensed merchandise. For what it's worth, coaches here in the SEL do the same thing.

I like the suits, though if you consider it, it's also pretty silly. Though thank god most NHL coaches don't feel the need to be flashy, ala the NBA. It's like Don Cherry sitting courtside at every game.

As for baseball, it's a pretty stupid holdover from an era long-gone. I'm not sure even most die-hard MLB freaks would be sad to see it go.

WTF? I can't think of any NBA coaches who dress flashy at all.

Hoplite
boooooooooooo to the ducks

Well, yes, of course, especially as we have to wait until November 16/17 for the first head-to-head. At least the Ducks have flushed the Guppies twice. Doesn't that count for something?

capngroovy: Hoplite
boooooooooooo to the ducks

Well, yes, of course, especially as we have to wait until November 16/17 for the first head-to-head. At least the Ducks have flushed the Guppies twice. Doesn't that count for something?

I have tickets to three Kings/Ducks games this year. I'm going to jail for sure.

Good lord, the Jets and Flyers have scored 15 goals between them this game. Guess this whole "goaltending" thing is just so passe.

FreakinB: jekostas: Good lord, the Jets and Flyers have scored 15 goals between them this game. Guess this whole "goaltending" thing is just so passe.

How about DiPietro making his season debut in tonight's shootout? What the farking fark? Nabokov played the whole game...

Who puts a cold goaltender in for a shootout?

Better question, how many legs did DiPietro break?

Oh, and also total was 17 goals in the Jets/Flyers game, and 9 different players scored for the Jets.

jekostas: Good lord, the Jets and Flyers have scored 15 goals between them this game. Guess this whole "goaltending" thing is just so passe.

They haven't played each other since 1996 and they put up a score from 1986. There's a headline in there somewhere.