Ducks Gameday -- Where The Wild Are
by Earl Sleek on Oct 27, 2011 9:05 AM PDT
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PrintAnaheim Ducks (4-3-1) at Minnesota Wild (3-2-3), 5 pm
Anaheim Calling and Hockey Wilderness -- Anahype and Spinnesota.
Just a cartoon today -- you guys can provide the commentary and analysis in the comments. :)
Classic.
You might think I'm depressed after three straight games without a win, but perspective's still on my side. The Ducks have only three regulation losses through their first eight games; last year they had three regulation losses in their first three games. Progress!
I'll be around for game comments tonight, but only for the first period or so -- let's hope that's not too depressing.
Prediction: The Ducks start the game with impressive ferocity and the Wild are quickly subdued into obedience. Many adventures ensue, but eventually the Ducks suffer from homesickness and then find out it was all a fucked-up dream anyways.
Go Ducks.
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Although, I sort of imagine tonight’s game might resemble this old cartoon more than today’s…
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I predict former Sharks will cause the Ducks all sorts of problems tonight.
GO SHARKS!
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin (see profile for more info on this quote)
Teemu’s gonna kick the puck in his own net.
by meetyourmako on Oct 27, 2011 10:22 AM PDT up reply actions
awesome cartoon!! one of your best..drawing skill wise…
i loved the movie..anyone else?…how could u not with gadlofini?
not sure what to expect with the ducks tonite…just gonna watch and hope for the best…i might miss the last period of this one as well…
go drama i guess
just prefer to keep up with the stron pacific division
"Lots of people ride the waves of disruption that he provides."
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 27, 2011 9:23 AM PDT reply actions
i liked it…but it was a big budget movie..and everyone seems to hate those..whatever
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 27, 2011 9:28 AM PDT up reply actions
the kid throws a nasty tandrum in the beginning of the movie…I pointed hey son..thats how stupid u look when you throw a tandrum…he hasnt thrown any since…
thank you where the wild things are
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 27, 2011 9:39 AM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
That movie was great, even though I’m not sure what it was about.
by meetyourmako on Oct 27, 2011 10:23 AM PDT up reply actions
twice even!
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 28, 2011 8:20 AM PDT up reply actions
There were weird parts to that movie — when that kid got swallowed I was a bit uncomfortable. :)
But it’s a really, really fucked up book. I recently read it to my nephew thinking, “Ah, here’s a fun classic.” But it’s all about disobedience and drugs or something, and there’s really not any lesson or anything. His dinner was still warm.
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i think the lesson is..yea its fun to be a jack-off and pretend…but life isnt all fun and games and its important to be responsible…and he ended up being the adult on that monster island…and was suppose to think..ok thats why my mom acts like how she does..when i act like i do…
as far as the book..i think its more..be careful what ask for..might not be all its cracked up to be…
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 27, 2011 9:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Any movie that prominently features an Arcade Fire song in the soundtrack gets bonus points from me.
"We will come with our guns blazing, and we just blazed." - Tim Leiweke
by DodgerBlueBalls on Oct 27, 2011 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions
and what is with the wild?…u always seem to draw awesome depictions of them…there your muse?
cue the thundercats cartoon (was the thundercats?)
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 27, 2011 9:24 AM PDT reply actions
I think it’s that the Wild logo is so conceptual in the first place that it’s sort of easy to color different things red-and-green and get a pretty Wild effect. Unlike, say, the Predators — you can give lots of things long front teeth but very often they’ll look like walruses. :)
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or sharks like jets
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 27, 2011 9:34 AM PDT up reply actions
Dear Ducks,
I’d like a win for my brithday please.
Thanks,
Carl
P.S. Please chase backstrom from the game.
P.S. Please chase backstrom from the game.
touche carl…touche..
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 27, 2011 9:55 AM PDT up reply actions
Even your parentheses has an umlaut!
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by Earl Sleek on Oct 27, 2011 10:04 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Show-off.
GO SHARKS!
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
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Happy birthday! And hooray!
Via @cmasisak22 #NHLDucks F Devante Smith-Pelly participating in today’s morning skate; he was scratched last game with the flu.
Go Smellypants!
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go third line…go back to your early season awesomeness
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 27, 2011 9:57 AM PDT up reply actions
This Pelley fellow, is he looking to stick this season?
"Its not so much me as it is Roenick, hes good" - Vince Vaughn
"Its not so much Kontos as it is me, I'm good." - Angryjay93
With the Rat’s injury, I think it’s likely he stays past 10 games. There’s another contract thing that kicks in at 40 or so games — we shall see what happens when Blake returns.
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I’m not too familiar with this kid, is he on the WJC radar?
Perhaps this isn’t the right place to be asking such questions…impress me anyhow!
"Its not so much me as it is Roenick, hes good" - Vince Vaughn
"Its not so much Kontos as it is me, I'm good." - Angryjay93
I know he went to the Canada junior camp thingamajig and performed very well there. So I believe he is.
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At 40 games, he loses a year off his unrestricted free agent status. If returned before 40 games he only loses the first year of his ELC, but maintains his 7 years of experience before becoming unrestricted.
"Its not so much me as it is Roenick, hes good" - Vince Vaughn
"Its not so much Kontos as it is me, I'm good." - Angryjay93
by angryjay93 on Oct 27, 2011 10:10 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I think we just filled our hockey analysis quota for the day.
Back to the usual, carry on!
"Its not so much me as it is Roenick, hes good" - Vince Vaughn
"Its not so much Kontos as it is me, I'm good." - Angryjay93
yea anymore and my brain might explode……
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 27, 2011 10:34 AM PDT up reply actions
Happy Birthday – I think. Is that a Spade type typo? :)
GO SHARKS!
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
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welcome to the army carl….you can command the 2nd spell-check buster bomb divison..
"Lots of people ride the waves of disruption that he provides."
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 27, 2011 10:37 AM PDT up reply actions
your a quick learner luetienant!
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 27, 2011 10:39 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Oh yeah, I forgot to ask, Ang — commenting problem from yesterday fix itself without any effort from me? Or am I still on the ball to do something? :)
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It’s fixed. Not sure why or how. And seems I wasn’t the only one with SBN issues yesterday, but nevermind. :)
GO SHARKS!
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin (see profile for more info on this quote)
Just wanted to pop my head in
and say that’s an AWESOME cartoon Earl.
One of you best ever, imo.
Proud member of the "Bring Back Semenov" Club
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"You are down with the homies, my friend." - Randy Hahn
Kent Huskins cares.
"Don't fart on my chair mutha fuckah!" - Randy Hahn
"Pavs with great feed but what a release by Wingels Peanut Butter Baby!"" - Jamie Baker
And also, it sounds like Georgeli may be a scratch tonight anyways. Stupid reality fucking with my abandoned sagas!
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add foster?..7 dmen?
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 27, 2011 10:41 AM PDT up reply actions
foster on that 2nd PP unit would help though…sit mcmuffin a game perhaps…motivate him
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 27, 2011 11:20 AM PDT up reply actions
I was thinking maybe Sbisa could use his annual confidence boosting break.
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by Earl Sleek on Oct 27, 2011 11:38 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Somebody shoot this guy in the head so his dreams come true.
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by Earl Sleek on Oct 27, 2011 1:21 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
The sad thing is that would barely beat the Sharks record for most losses in a season. Didn’t they have something like 72 losses in the early 90s?
Proud member of the "Bring Back Semenov" Club
"The only crying allowed in hockey is when you lose a playoff series, retire or JR is speaking publicly." - Jamie Baker
"You are down with the homies, my friend." - Randy Hahn
Kent Huskins cares.
"Don't fart on my chair mutha fuckah!" - Randy Hahn
"Pavs with great feed but what a release by Wingels Peanut Butter Baby!"" - Jamie Baker
record low
11 wins in 1992-1993, featuring record-tying 17-game losing streak.
by meetyourmako on Oct 27, 2011 3:19 PM PDT via iPhone app up reply actions
Kings were awesome, Sharks were terrible, Ducks didn’t exist: the best year.
by RudyKelly on Oct 27, 2011 3:28 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
That’s just off the top of my head; that may have been a winless streak, not a losing streak.
by meetyourmako on Oct 27, 2011 6:13 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, this seems kind of bullshit, but whatever.
– Jean-Francois Jacques has a regular seat on the Syracuse shuttle as the winger was recalled from the Crunch of the American Hockey League to knock off another of his five-game NHL suspension for instigating a fight with Vancouver prospect Mike Duco during an exhibition game.
Including tonight, Jacques will have served three games. He was sent down Wednesday so that he could play for the Crunch against the Lake Erie Monsters and he had two goals and an assists in a 7-0 road win.
The plan is for Jacques to chip off games while also seeing some action in some form. With the Ducks on their road trip to the Midwest and the east, it is a lot easier to get the winger back and forth.
"We can’t access him until he burns the games off," Carlyle said. "So that’s where we’re at. He’ll play the back and forth a little bit there until that happens."
Go technicalities.
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On the plus side, this means Jean-Francois Jacques isn’t actually playing for the Ducks.
by RudyKelly on Oct 27, 2011 3:05 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
yea…i dont really see the point of him…we got the stache…seems like a crunch player
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Oct 27, 2011 3:16 PM PDT up reply actions
This cartoon is fantastic, Earl. I agree with others — one of your all-time best.
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“there’s something badly wrong when 41 year old Selänne leads the team in points”
that’s just mean :/
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the dude who is announcing this game :/
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looking for a game feed
Does any one have a feed for this game?
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"The Sharks got the better deal. They got a Burns. The Wild lost a Burns. You need a Burns to be good." KFAN's Jacques Lemaire 6-25-2011
by minnesotagirl71 on Oct 27, 2011 5:16 PM PDT reply actions
Thanks!
"Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever." Shane Falco
"The Sharks got the better deal. They got a Burns. The Wild lost a Burns. You need a Burns to be good." KFAN's Jacques Lemaire 6-25-2011
by minnesotagirl71 on Oct 27, 2011 5:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Haha, phew! I nearly played Bobrovsky today since Quick and Lehtonen couldn’t both win today, but I went for the safe one guaranteed win instead. Yay!
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ducks scored? or is this replay from stone age?
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SBN really needs to do something bout the fact that no one else can comment when they have a baseball game going on. You can’t even get to the other sites. Ridiculous!
GO SHARKS!
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
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yeah
my reaction whenever sbnation is down
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by sleza on Oct 27, 2011 5:48 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Hi Everyone,
We are investigating the increase in errors over the past few minutes. We don’t have insight as to the cause at this point but we are investigating and will keep you updated with as much information as possible.
Probably fucking baseball.
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Of course it is … It always is. And their lack of planning for it.
GO SHARKS!
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
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the almost own goal?
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Yeah. The last time I remember the Ducks benefitting from one was G6 in 2007. :)
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too many men on ice penalty? that’s lame
and there is no such a thing as too many men…
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there is no such a thing as too many men…
Nobody’s gonna touch this? Really?
by meetyourmako on Oct 27, 2011 6:20 PM PDT up reply actions
still over 17 minutes left in the Jets / Flyers game … score is 6-6
GO SHARKS!
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin (see profile for more info on this quote)
make that 7-6 Flyers
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Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
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I’m waiting for it to get into the double digits. :)
GO SHARKS!
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
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important questions – how many goals enström has scored?
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2 assists. I’m about to trade him for Cam Fowler in one of my leagues (I know, I’m a sucker, but it is a keeper league).
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trade enström??? but he’s so awesome
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there’s no goalies in that game?
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both teams have used their time outs and both teams have switched their goalies
GO SHARKS!
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin (see profile for more info on this quote)
by ryan i think
poor heatley :/
Мы в любовь играли,
И как кровь из вены капает слеза.
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Boo — well, that PK streak was running a bit way too long anyways. Almost stopped caring when we took penalties.
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dallas leads against kings? :(
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Okay, gang, I’m out of here for the night. Enjoy the third period drama without me!
And try not to break the servers again. :)
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Madness? THIS IS PHILIADELPHIA GOALTENDING!!!!
by Dixie Normus on Oct 27, 2011 6:42 PM PDT up reply actions
yay, ducks win
and i can go to sleep now
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