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[John Simon Ritchie]

It starts TONIGHT.

GO HAWKS!!

Yep. You misspelled FLYERS.

[John Simon Ritchie]

Tough game. Definitely not thrilled with the piss-poor defense and ton of turnovers though. Flyers better tighten that shit up with the quickness in this series.

[Kid-Wicked]

and the refs need to blow the whistle when needed.

[Lardbucket]

It starts TONIGHT.

GO HAWKS!!

Yep. You misspelled FLYERS.

Where?? I didn't even mention the losing team...


Kind of a sloppy game, but a good result!

[John Simon Ritchie]

Antti Niemi was a badass tonight. Flyers still better tighten it up and get going.

[WhiteHouseSubsAC]

You can't have that many chances and not cash in on them. Aside from Gagne, they don't have a pure scorer and that may do them in against a team like Chicago. The D played very tough, though, at least the physical part of the game showed up.

[johnk5150]

This is the actions of a defeated man.

"Chris Pronger took the puck after Philadelphia's losses in Games 1 and 2 of the Stanley Cup finals.
Rather than let the one of the victorious Chicago players claim the momentum, Pronger snatched the puck after both games and threw them in the garbage. Pronger's actions got under the skin of Chicago's Ben Eager, who scored the winning goal in Game 2. Both players received a game misconduct after the game had ended. "Apparently, it got him upset," Pronger said. "So I guess it worked, didn't it?" Jun. 2 - 10:53 am et
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer & Daily News"

[John Simon Ritchie]

This is the actions of a defeated man.

"Chris Pronger took the puck after Philadelphia's losses in Games 1 and 2 of the Stanley Cup finals.
Rather than let the one of the victorious Chicago players claim the momentum, Pronger snatched the puck after both games and threw them in the garbage. Pronger's actions got under the skin of Chicago's Ben Eager, who scored the winning goal in Game 2. Both players received a game misconduct after the game had ended. "Apparently, it got him upset," Pronger said. "So I guess it worked, didn't it?" Jun. 2 - 10:53 am et
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer & Daily News"

Nope. Just a superstitious hockey player.

[johnk5150]

This is the actions of a defeated man.

"Chris Pronger took the puck after Philadelphia's losses in Games 1 and 2 of the Stanley Cup finals.
Rather than let the one of the victorious Chicago players claim the momentum, Pronger snatched the puck after both games and threw them in the garbage. Pronger's actions got under the skin of Chicago's Ben Eager, who scored the winning goal in Game 2. Both players received a game misconduct after the game had ended. "Apparently, it got him upset," Pronger said. "So I guess it worked, didn't it?" Jun. 2 - 10:53 am et
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer & Daily News"

Nope. Just a superstitious hockey player.

Pronger is frustrated as fuck by Byfuglin. I can't say I blame him.

[Bob Sacamano]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zjzxP3utNM

[johnk5150]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zjzxP3utNM

That's fucking awesome.

[John Simon Ritchie]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zjzxP3utNM

*Zing!*

Best hit of the game!

[pieceofme]

This is the actions of a defeated man.

"Chris Pronger took the puck after Philadelphia's losses in Games 1 and 2 of the Stanley Cup finals.
Rather than let the one of the victorious Chicago players claim the momentum, Pronger snatched the puck after both games and threw them in the garbage. Pronger's actions got under the skin of Chicago's Ben Eager, who scored the winning goal in Game 2. Both players received a game misconduct after the game had ended. "Apparently, it got him upset," Pronger said. "So I guess it worked, didn't it?" Jun. 2 - 10:53 am et
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer & Daily News"

Nope. Just a superstitious hockey player.

Pronger is frustrated as fuck by Byfuglin. I can't say I blame him.

Really? He seems to be dealing with him quite well imo.

[John Simon Ritchie]

Pronger is frustrated as fuck by Byfuglin. I can't say I blame him.

Really? He seems to be dealing with him quite well imo.

Was just coming by to say the same thing myself.

[Kid-Wicked]

the hawks kinda gave up in ot.

k.w.
vote for my band
http://cfox.supernova.com/Drunk1

[pieceofme]

Glad Philly won. Makes it more of a series.

[johnk5150]

Pronger is frustrated as fuck by Byfuglin. I can't say I blame him.

Really? He seems to be dealing with him quite well imo.

Turned the tables on the black Blackhawk last night.

[pieceofme]

Pronger is frustrated as fuck by Byfuglin. I can't say I blame him.

Really? He seems to be dealing with him quite well imo.

Turned the tables on the black Blackhawk last night.

All series so far he's been dealing with him fine.

[John Simon Ritchie]

Pronger is frustrated as fuck by Byfuglin. I can't say I blame him.

Really? He seems to be dealing with him quite well imo.

Turned the tables on the black Blackhawk last night.

He can't be too frustrated.
'cause stats appear to reveal otherwise.

http://blackhawks.nhl.com/club/player.htm?id=8470834

Other than being a nuisance (which I guess is "frustrating") he's been neutralized and is a -3 in the series.

Now, here are Pronger's stats...

http://flyers.nhl.com/club/player.htm?id=8459424


And from Chicago's own Sun Times...

"Pronger, the Flyers' 35-year-old vet, has moved Buff around and flustered him and done stuff that only a very savvy man could do. Amazing that a guy like Pronger seems to be everywhere on the ice, creating mayhem, averaging more than 30 minutes a game, snatching the postgame puck, and doing it against Chicago's young-kid team."

http://www.suntimes.com/sports/telander ... 04.article

[johnk5150]

What in THE fuck is wrong with people in Philly?


Police ready for potential Flyers flash mob
The Flyers, Blackhawks and Philadelphia Police are prepared for the worst.

But they’re hoping it doesn’t come to that.

FOX 29 reported a notice brewing on Facebook and Twitter today about Flyers fans preparing for a flash mob this afternoon in Center City to attack the Blackhawks’ bus as it leaves for the Wachovia Center.

The group allegedly plans to arrive at the Four Seasons, at Logan Square on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, to cause havoc. A group of bikers – though it was not clear whether bicyclists or motorcyclers would take part – are to follow Chicago’s bus on its route to South Philadelphia.

The Flyers will not comment on the issue, other than to say that the Blackhawks’ bus will have a full police escort to the arena.

Similarly, the Philadelphia Police have acknowledged the threat but will not comment on specific deterrents, as per department policy. They are prepared to take action.

Flash mobs, or groups of people – generally younger high school and college-aged students – convene rapidly on a location and word is spread via social media and text messages. As the New York Times said in a recent story, flash mobs are part bullying and part running of the bulls. They have caused thousands of dollars worth of damage on multiple attacks on South Street.

They are not unique to Philadelphia, having surfaced in Boston , Brooklyn, N.Y., and South Orange, N.J. The FBI has monitored social media networks to try and prevent future attacks.

[Lardbucket]

The loonier people in Philly seem worse than the loons in other cities.

That said, I don't think police will have to worry about any riots if the Hawks keep playing like blind armless retards.

[johnk5150]

The loonier people in Philly seem worse than the loons in other cities.

That said, I don't think police will have to worry about any riots if the Hawks keep playing like blind armless retards.

The Hawks first line not so good.

[WhiteHouseSubsAC]

What in THE fuck is wrong with people in Philly?

Bulls' NBA Victory Sparks Chicago Riots

By Michael Abramowitz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 16, 1992; Page A01

CHICAGO, JUNE 15 – As Michael Jordan and the newly crowned professional basketball champion Bulls partied with 18,000 delirious fans inside Chicago Stadium Sunday evening, an ugly orgy of violence and looting unfolded in neighborhoods scattered around this city, authorities said today.

Police reported more than 1,000 arrests on charges of burglary, theft, mob action, disorderly conduct and damage to property, all in the hours following the Bulls' dramatic come-from-behind victory against the Portland Trail Blazers in Game 6 of the National Basketball Association Finals for their second consecutive championship.

There were scores of injuries, nearly all of them minor. No one was killed. Among those injured were 95 police officers, two of whom received minor gunshot wounds. Three civilians were shot, two by storekeepers and one by the police, according to a police spokesman. The owner of a South Side liquor store and an employee received second-degree burns when looters attacked their establishment.

Although drunken revelry is still the most common mass response to sports championships, violence of the type that occurred here late Sunday and early today is becoming more common. Last year, after the Bulls' first NBA championship, the looting was less widespread, there were 100 arrests and no serious injuries or deaths.

But in Detroit in 1990, seven were killed after the Pistons won the NBA title and one died in 1984 after the Tigers won the World Series.

Sunday night, thousands of people poured out of the Rush and Division Street bars after the game, destroying two taxicabs and dancing in the streets.

But looters also burned 14 buildings in poor neighborhoods on Chicago's South and West sides and looted an uncounted number of stores, carrying away armloads of shoes, clothes, carpeting and other merchandise, the authorities said. Looters even ignored a plea from Bulls superstar Jordan, who went on local television shortly before 11 p.m. and urged, "Let's not tear our city apart."

"This had nothing to do with the Bulls – it was much too violent to be celebrating something," said Ron Wells, owner of the Heavenly Hair Beauty Salon in West Garfield Park, the site of some of the worst looting. "It was terribly scary. People were running on top of cars and everything."

Wells was lucky; his establishment escaped serious damage. But only a few blocks away, Kenneth Kim watched with red eyes as firefighters finished hosing down his smoldering Diana Department Store, a four-story clothing and shoe store that was almost completely destroyed by looters.

Kim said about 100 youths charged in the back door and set fire to the merchandise with lit newspapers. He estimated the damage at more than $5 million.

"I don't deserve what happened," said Kim, 38, a Korean American who opened Diana in the late 1970s and is the president of the neighborhood Chamber of Commerce. "I gave 12 years community service in the area. I spent a half million dollars to fix up the place, remodel the store. They blew it. I know they're hurting me. But they're hurting themselves more."

Although a number of the establishments torched Sunday night were owned by Korean Americans, anti-Korean sentiment appeared to be only one ingredient in the violence, according to area residents and the authorities. Kim and other Korean businessmen interviewed said they did not appear to be a major target of the looters, as Korean businesses were in Los Angeles during the deadly riots there a few weeks ago.

"People were just crazy," Kim said. Much of the mayhem appeared to be indiscriminate, with looters breaking windows in targets as diverse as the Post Office and telephone payment center in West Garfield Park and swanky boutiques along North Michigan Avenue.

Chicago Police Superintendent Matt Rodriguez told reporters this morning that there was so much criminal activity Sunday night that more than 1,300 extra officers deployed on the streets could not stop every act of lawlessness, especially at the outset of the looting. He cited several reasons for the explosion, including the hot weather, the excitement of the final game and the "post-Rodney King" environment.

"What happened was very sporadic. It happened all over the city," he said. "We got a handle on it in a couple of hours."

Rodriguez appeared at a news conference with Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, who sought to play down the night's violence by noting that "ninety-nine point nine percent of the people aren't out there looting and shooting and doing things."

"What can you do?" Daley asked. "When people have an excuse to loot, they loot. When people have an excuse to shoot, they shoot."

The night's mayhem represented a setback to city officials and community leaders, who have worked assiduously in the weeks after the Los Angeles riots to keep the city cool.

"There was a recognition that things could blow," said Robert Sampson, a sociology professor at the University of Chicago and an expert on crime.

To a great extent, these efforts seemed to have been working. There was only scattered violence in the aftermath of the verdict in the Rodney G. King beating case, despite high unemployment, urban blight, crime and the same hopelessness in some Chicago neighborhoods that characterized south-central Los Angeles.

Garfield Park, for instance, was torched during the last great urban riots, during the late 1960s and remains a neighborhood marked by vacant property, abandoned storefronts and a thriving drug trade. Mary Nelson, who has lived in the neighborhood since the last riots, said many of the looters were motivated by a "now mentality" that says, "Here's my chance to get something without thinking of the consequences."

"I have no excuses for it; it was honest to goodness hooliganism," said Nelson, who heads a local community group. But, she said, "Underlying it is the economic need."

A disconsolate Jong Park, 32, sat on a chair amid the broken glass and rubble that had been his Madison's Men's Wear store. Looters used a crow bar to smash through the protective metal wall covering his store and took or burned everything.

He said he pleaded for protection from police who told him they were too busy then to come to his aid.

Similar scenes were playing out along affluent North Michigan Avenue, the collection of expensive department stores and boutiques known as the "Magnificent Mile." Although the damage was nowhere near as great as on the South and West sides, about nine stores had their windows smashed and some merchandise was taken.

At Stuart Brent Books, a well-known bookstore in the city, looters smashed the windows and simply threw books all along the sidewalk. The stunned proprietor could barely conceal his anger and frustration. "I have no explanation for it," said Brent, who has operated the store for 47 years. "Think of the shame they brought to one of the three or four great streets in America. The thing that frightens me is how close we are to barbarism."

[John Simon Ritchie]

Hopefully the series momentum is now turned our way for the duration. Loving this series.

[johnk5150]

According to local radio here in Chicago, the world is ending.

[John Simon Ritchie]

According to local radio here in Chicago, the world is ending.

Ya know, yesterday while I was glancing at some articles online about the series, I ran across a few articles from Chicago based sites/papers that were already talking like the 'Hawks were pretty much done for...this was even before last night's game. This thing is far from over.
I usually just expect that kind of stuff here in "Negadelphia" haha.

[johnk5150]

John, if you want some real entertainment, listen to the local feed here. Everyone is sick because if the Hawks blow this all we have is our shitty baseball teams until training camps start in 60 days or so.

http://wscr.cbslocal.com/

[johnk5150]

This is not the same Philly team that owned us in game 3 and 4.

[Garbageman]

I need the Blackhawks to quit scoring at home... because I'm really tired of that annoying Fratellis song!

[johnk5150]

I knew there was something about Pierre Mcguire that bothered me. His real name is Regis. He switched to Pierre to sound more Canadian. He's from New fucking Jersey. Drop the accent you fraud.

Niemi just said no!