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| FutureKesler |
Posted - 05/09/2011 : 07:16:28
In most cities, its the white playoff towels, in Pittsburgh it the sea of white, and in Nashvillle its those god awful yellowish orange shirts, but I was wondering, what do other NHL teams do?
”If I play badly I'll pick a fight in the third, just to get into a fight. I'll break a guy's leg to win, I don't care. Afterward I say, 'Yeah all right I played badly, but I won the fight so who gives a damn.” - Derek Sanderson
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| ginks40 |
Posted - 05/11/2011 : 12:03:33
Thanks for the clarifications nuxfan and Alex!!! I didn't realize it went back as far as '02.
I was drawing a blank on Mark Donnelly's name when I originally posted so just didn't. I don't watch very many Canucks games other than the playoffs or when they are playing the Oilers and thus assumed Donnelly always sang the Canadian anthem at their games. |
| Beans15 |
Posted - 05/11/2011 : 11:01:37
Not really. The Leafs have made the playoffs, just not won the Cup. They are the longest running streak but not the only streak. Considering only the storied franchises (78 expansion or earlier) there are a number of teams that have never won the Cup or have waited decades to win. A few that come to mind are Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Vancouver, Los Angeles, St. Louis, and Toronto of course.
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| Guest7752 |
Posted - 05/11/2011 : 10:50:13
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Originally posted by slozo
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Originally posted by Guest7752
- The Habs bring in a veteran to light up a torch before every playoff game at home. (or some similar tradition...)
- The Flyers bring Kate Smith videos singing God Bless America.
- The Leafs watch the playoffs on CBC and TSN.
An open topic for all teams concerning the playoffs, and someone only made fun of the Leafs by the 17th post . . . .
NEW RECORD!!!
Pickuphockey is growing up, I tell ya. 
"Take off, eh?" - Bob and Doug
Topic is not actually open to all teams. Topic is about playoff traditions. Not all team have enough playoff history to actually have a playoff tradition.
What can be more traditional than going through the same motions for 47 years at playoff time?
Leafs watching playoffs on TV MUST the longest, most followed tradition in playoff history. |
| Alex116 |
Posted - 05/10/2011 : 16:29:13
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Originally posted by ginks40
Well this is my first ever post, I've been following the forum for about a year now and am just getting around to signing up now.
Personally, I like it when the anthem singers let the fans do the singing (only during the playoffs mind you, seems somewhat overkill during the regular season).
On a somewhat off topic note, I was discussing this with a friend of mine the other day. I always thought that doing it consistently from game to game started in Edmonton in '06 after the Canadian anthem was booed in Anaheim in the conference final, which then continued into the first few home games of the next regular season. However, my friend said that he heard it started before that in Vancouver before that. I know there are a number of Canucks fans on here so I'm hoping they might be able to shed some light. Or does anybody know of somewhere else that it started?
I realize that probably every stadium with a sports team has done it at one time or another. What I'm referring to is doing it on a consitent game to game basis.
The Mark Donnelly thing was discussed on here last summer when i found a blog with part of an interview with Donnelly discussing how it came to happen.
Here's a link to the old thread (i hate doing this because it's a thread that does nothing but start arguments). Anyway, the post i speak of is on page 2 of the thread.
http://www.pickuphockey.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1696&whichpage=2&SearchTerms=mark,donnelly |
| nuxfan |
Posted - 05/10/2011 : 15:38:53
in Vancouver, this tradition started with Mark Donnelly, but I don't know how long he's been singing the anthem - I don't remember him as far back as 2006 though, so EDM probably started it.
This tradition is not a Canucks tradition as much as a Donnelly tradition though - he is the only one of the VAN anthem singers that does it, and he doesn't sing every game in the regular season. He does however do every home game come playoffs. |
| ginks40 |
Posted - 05/10/2011 : 15:34:21
Well this is my first ever post, I've been following the forum for about a year now and am just getting around to signing up now.
Personally, I like it when the anthem singers let the fans do the singing (only during the playoffs mind you, seems somewhat overkill during the regular season).
On a somewhat off topic note, I was discussing this with a friend of mine the other day. I always thought that doing it consistently from game to game started in Edmonton in '06 after the Canadian anthem was booed in Anaheim in the conference final, which then continued into the first few home games of the next regular season. However, my friend said that he heard it started before that in Vancouver before that. I know there are a number of Canucks fans on here so I'm hoping they might be able to shed some light. Or does anybody know of somewhere else that it started?
I realize that probably every stadium with a sports team has done it at one time or another. What I'm referring to is doing it on a consitent game to game basis.
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| doublechamp7 |
Posted - 05/10/2011 : 13:59:13
I can tell you the worst tradition- Patrick Kanes mullet, he must have lost a bet to Slozo too!
Bring back the Jets! |
| Guest2712 |
Posted - 05/10/2011 : 13:31:15
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Originally posted by Beans15
I'll tell you one tradition I hope disappears soon and that is the playoffs manscaping. It's a playoff beard people! The point is not what you grow, it's that you don't shave until you are out. I would rather see a guy like Toews, with the 11 hairs on his face, then the guys with the perfectly shaped "playoff" goatee.
Shave or don't shave - nothing in between.
I don't think anyone's playoff beard can compare to Samsanov's when the Oil went on their run in 2006. he was Wolverine! |
| n/a |
Posted - 05/10/2011 : 13:17:45
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Originally posted by Guest7752
- The Habs bring in a veteran to light up a torch before every playoff game at home. (or some similar tradition...)
- The Flyers bring Kate Smith videos singing God Bless America.
- The Leafs watch the playoffs on CBC and TSN.
An open topic for all teams concerning the playoffs, and someone only made fun of the Leafs by the 17th post . . . .
NEW RECORD!!!
Pickuphockey is growing up, I tell ya.
"Take off, eh?" - Bob and Doug |
| fat_elvis_rocked |
Posted - 05/10/2011 : 11:19:16
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Originally posted by Guest7752
- The Habs bring in a veteran to light up a torch before every playoff game at home. (or some similar tradition...)
- The Flyers bring Kate Smith videos singing God Bless America.
- The Leafs watch the playoffs on CBC and TSN.
Now that's humour....nicely done. |
| Guest7752 |
Posted - 05/10/2011 : 06:55:41
- The Habs bring in a veteran to light up a torch before every playoff game at home. (or some similar tradition...)
- The Flyers bring Kate Smith videos singing God Bless America.
- The Leafs watch the playoffs on CBC and TSN.
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| n/a |
Posted - 05/10/2011 : 05:09:40
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Originally posted by FutureKesler
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Originally posted by nuxfan
I believe that beans bet with slozo that the leafs would finish bottom-4 in the conference - loser takes other team logo for the duration of the playoffs. there were so many bets in september, its hard to remember...and a lot of changed avatars now.
Cool, thanks for telling me
Ryan Kesler is a BEAST!
The bet was for Toronto to finish in 10th place or higher, which they did, so Beans had to put on a Leafs avatar. We made another bet on the Detroit/SJ series, with myself taking the Sharks, and if the Sharkies can close it out, Beans will sport that Leafs avatar for the playoffs, AND the entire summer right up until the first game of the season.
He is a sucker for Leaf punishment, that Beans.
I, on the other hand, lost a bet to Pasty on Iginla getting 35 goals or less . . . and had not guessed that Iggy was going to go superhuman on us and score more than 40 playing with a bunch of Leaf cast-offs. Credit to him, and I will never bet against Iggy again, so I wear les habitants coleurs, c'est domage. Merde!
On topic: I was never a fan of the towel. To me, waving a white towel means "surrender", not exactly something I want my team to be doing or what I want to be promoting . . . so I never got why fans bought into this marketing crap.
I do like the octopus, the salmon thrown out in Vancouver was fun . . . just as long as it doesn't happen too often to stop the flow of the game too much - it's good fun.
But the corporate-styled "everyone has to wave the same towel or wear the same shirt" thing is not my bag, baby.
"Take off, eh?" - Bob and Doug |
| Alex116 |
Posted - 05/09/2011 : 22:20:46
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Originally posted by nuxfan
I believe that beans bet with slozo......
AND, as far as putting up a Flames logo, Slozo is a Leafs fan. That'd be the reason he's sporting the blue and white!
Just thought i'd add that seeing as Slozo's posting with the Habs logo for his own lost bet! |
| FutureKesler |
Posted - 05/09/2011 : 21:15:33
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Originally posted by nuxfan
I believe that beans bet with slozo that the leafs would finish bottom-4 in the conference - loser takes other team logo for the duration of the playoffs. there were so many bets in september, its hard to remember...and a lot of changed avatars now.
Cool, thanks for telling me
Ryan Kesler is a BEAST! |
| nuxfan |
Posted - 05/09/2011 : 21:07:34
I believe that beans bet with slozo that the leafs would finish bottom-4 in the conference - loser takes other team logo for the duration of the playoffs. there were so many bets in september, its hard to remember...and a lot of changed avatars now. |
| FutureKesler |
Posted - 05/09/2011 : 21:04:37
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Originally posted by nuxfan
Kesler, you do know that Beans is an oiler fan, right? The avatar is because of a lost bet...
NSH apparently throw catfish on the ice before the game. Mustard shirts, the "tootoo whistle", seafood on the ice, country singers doing the anthem, and I saw 2 blue-leotard men in the crowd. They're all over the place!
Nuxfan, what was the bet? And whoever he lost to should of made him change his pic to a flames logo.
Ryan Kesler is a BEAST! |
| nuxfan |
Posted - 05/09/2011 : 20:15:24
Kesler, you do know that Beans is an oiler fan, right? The avatar is because of a lost bet...
NSH apparently throw catfish on the ice before the game. Mustard shirts, the "tootoo whistle", seafood on the ice, country singers doing the anthem, and I saw 2 blue-leotard men in the crowd. They're all over the place! |
| FutureKesler |
Posted - 05/09/2011 : 20:04:32
People get back on topic!
Beans, I used to think very high of you, but this oiler nonsense? Come on! (Unless it was a joke, in which case)...... RIGHT ON!
”If I play badly I'll pick a fight in the third, just to get into a fight. I'll break a guy's leg to win, I don't care. Afterward I say, 'Yeah all right I played badly, but I won the fight so who gives a damn.” - Derek Sanderson
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| Oilearl |
Posted - 05/09/2011 : 17:07:05
I guess you'd have to add AN H for Vancouver fans....... and yes right after the W.
BTW
They've had deep runs every decade since the Oil have been in the league not bad and 2006 was not that long ago. |
| Beans15 |
Posted - 05/09/2011 : 10:46:13
Well, I didn't say the Oiler tradition is to get to the playoffs often. However, when they do get there, they win. The Oilers have made the playoffs 20 times in 31 years. Of those 20 times, the Oilers made it past the 1st round 13 times.
I'll tell you one tradition I hope disappears soon and that is the playoffs manscaping. It's a playoff beard people! The point is not what you grow, it's that you don't shave until you are out. I would rather see a guy like Toews, with the 11 hairs on his face, then the guys with the perfectly shaped "playoff" goatee.
Shave or don't shave - nothing in between. |
| fat_elvis_rocked |
Posted - 05/09/2011 : 10:34:03
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Originally posted by Beans15
Edmonton has a really great playoff tradition. That is, when the get to the playoffs. It is a difficult tradition to participate and few teams can do it. Edmonton has done it very well.
It's called :
WINNING!!!!
Typical Leafs fan,
Making fun of the Oilers, I mean, really.....
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| Pasty7 |
Posted - 05/09/2011 : 09:18:05
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Originally posted by Beans15
Edmonton has a really great playoff tradition. That is, when the get to the playoffs. It is a difficult tradition to participate and few teams can do it. Edmonton has done it very well.
It's called :
WINNING!!!!
Charlie?? Mr Sheen is that you?
"I led the league in "Go get 'em next time." - Bob Uecker
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| nuxfan |
Posted - 05/09/2011 : 09:01:36
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Edmonton has a really great playoff tradition
do you mean golfing? |
| leigh |
Posted - 05/09/2011 : 08:26:57
That was a tradition in the eighties Beans. You can't call it a tradition if it's barely ever been done since. I believe they tried to revive the tradition a few years back but failed |
| Beans15 |
Posted - 05/09/2011 : 08:06:18
Edmonton has a really great playoff tradition. That is, when the get to the playoffs. It is a difficult tradition to participate and few teams can do it. Edmonton has done it very well.
It's called :
WINNING!!!! |
| nuxfan |
Posted - 05/09/2011 : 07:34:42
CGY and WSH both have the sea of red, and PHX seemed to have some sort of sea of white going on. |
