Matt Greene, Man

by RudyKelly on Mar 11, 2009 4:03 PM PDT

I still don't understand what I'm allowed to post here and what I can't, so I'll just link to this picture from Yahoo! (It's #2) Matt Greene is a man and here's why:

In case you missed it or you're at work, Matt Greene went down to block a shot, took the puck off his face, got back up and covered his defensive responsibility until the whistle sounded, and then went to the bench. Holy fuck. I grew chest hair just reading that. See, this is why I love hockey. What other sport is going to see a guy take a shot like that and not only shake it off but continue to engage in the play? Rugby, maybe, but who knows what the hell they're doing out there.*

*Rugby is one of those sports where the athletes are a little too secure in their sexuality. It's all well and good to have a little fun and not worry what people think about you, but they do a thing in rugby where they'll score a goal or whatever the fuck and then the goalscorer will stand in the center of a circle of teammates and strip naked. Call me old-fashioned but what the fuck does that have to do with sports? It's like 360 degrees from gay, or as I call it: " European."

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Who the hell says what you can and can’t post? Post whatever the hell you please. If anyone has a problem with that, fuck em.

I want my BoC pure and unadulterated, with all the blood, sex, and mind-twistingly disturbing thoughts that such implies.

by IAmJoe on Mar 11, 2009 4:24 PM PDT reply actions

I still don’t understand what I’m allowed to post here and what I can’t, so I’ll just link to this picture from Yahoo! (It’s #2)

I concur with IAmJoe. Post whatever you want.

In other news, I’m back on mainland soil, but will be spending today getting readjusted to the day job — I’m quite behind there. I’ll be catching up here probably by the weekend, but it’s priority #2 behind horizontal sleep. Stupid red eyes.

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by Earl Sleek on Mar 12, 2009 8:29 AM PDT up reply actions

Also, the best part of that I think is that not only did he take this shot right above the eye. Blocking a shot with your face is +1 manhood. But he gets right back up and continues playing defense. That is hardcore.

If I ran a professional sports organization, I’d have been down in the locker room before anyone went home, trying to give that guy a contract extension in front of the entire room.

by IAmJoe on Mar 11, 2009 4:29 PM PDT reply actions

If I ran a professional sports organization, I’d have been down in the locker room before anyone went home, trying to give that guy a contract extension in front of the entire room.

I’m sure they would have done just that if they hadn’t already signed him to a 5-year/$14.75M extension before the season. I would’ve, but what he did probably warrants double the money for the rest of the contract.

It’s only unfortunate that you can’t sign a player to a contract extension unless he is already in the final year of his existing contract. All contracts are decreased by one year on July 1; all unsigned UFAs are property of their teams before that day, and even if it is the final year of their contract, they can still trade their rights. That’s what the Leafs did this past offseason, trading the rights to Mats Sundin to some team (I believe it was the Canadiens).

Fuck you, Denis Gauthier. You deserved that 5-game suspension.

by Kevin Y on Mar 11, 2009 4:36 PM PDT up reply actions

The Best Part

After the final horn, he skated over and congratulated Quick and and a few teammates before leaving the ice. The look on Quick’s face in that Yahoo photo is priceless.

by LA Seitz on Mar 11, 2009 5:40 PM PDT up reply actions

He takes a puck off the face, gets up, finishes his assignment, gives props to his goalie and goes to the locker room.

I love this sport because there aren’t any bitch ass cry babies. Well, if there are any cry babies in hockey they get teased and eventually end up playing for the Ducks.

I hate basketball and soccer because they make a rolled ankle seem as though they’ve had a limb amputated.

by RealDrew on Mar 12, 2009 7:56 AM PDT up reply actions

I believe it was Rudy who had a good post during the NBA finals last year about whichever douchebag that was on the Celtics who hurt his knee, acted like he’d had his leg cut right off on the court, you’d think he was dying… and then comes back out and keeps playing. Fuckin pansies.

by IAmJoe on Mar 12, 2009 11:41 AM PDT up reply actions

http://battleofcalifornia.blogspot.com/2008/06/other-sports-are-ridiculous.html

Haha, basketball players are pussies. This, of course, is from last night’s NBA Final, where Pierce had a booboo on his knee and acted like he was going to die. I think the fact that Paul Pierce came back later in the game made it worse, because if you’re going to flail and cry like that you better need hours upon hours of surgery. The guy who got his arm shot off in the beginning of Saving Private Ryan didn’t cry like that. I haven’t been this embarrassed for a basketball player since Dwyane Wade separated his shoulder and needed a wheelchair to leave the court.

by IAmJoe on Mar 12, 2009 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions

The guy from SPR was probably a hockey player.

Nobody cares about your opinion.

by brokenyard on Mar 12, 2009 12:51 PM PDT up reply actions

I wouldn’t have cared so much about what Pierce did last year in the Finals if it weren’t against the Lakers. That right there made it seem like to me Pierce was trying to show them up.

Fuck you, Denis Gauthier. You deserved that 5-game suspension.

by Kevin Y on Mar 12, 2009 4:27 PM PDT up reply actions

I love this sport because there aren’t any bitch ass cry babies. Well, if there are any cry babies in hockey they get teased and eventually end up playing for the Ducks.

Really, you have to be careful with additions like this in a cap world. You don’t want to create another situation like the Lightning in recent years or the Penguins – among others – this year where you use too much of your salary room on one position. The Ducks already have a star first line center locked up in Getzlaf so adding Crosby at this point would leave little room to shore up other positions, especially when they have so few d-men under contract.

by Malurous on Mar 12, 2009 6:42 PM PDT up reply actions

I have so much respect for Greene after that play. He knows how important the two points was for the Kings, and the Canucks were coming very strong in the final minute to try to get the equalizer. A huge play, and Greene made the huge sacrifice.

With Lubo out for the season, and Stoll’s two power-play goals and Greene’s block on this play, I’m starting to wonder if perhaps we got the better end of the June trade. Safe to say the trade helped us beat the Canucks.

Fuck you, Denis Gauthier. You deserved that 5-game suspension.

by Kevin Y on Mar 11, 2009 4:32 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs

Bryan McCabe pulled a similar stunt...

…on Saturday.

Lost for last night’s shootout loss in PIT, and prolly tomorrow as well for Richard Zednik Night in Buffalo.

Scary stuff.

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by Donny Rivette on Mar 11, 2009 6:01 PM PDT reply actions

You're welcome

We suffered the development pain, the bad penalties and the shitty D in the Stanley Cup Fucking Finals, and you get the Young Jason Smith we were looking for.

If Visnovsky wasn’t all kinds of awesome…

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by Doogie2K on Mar 12, 2009 3:31 PM PDT reply actions

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