The coach was pretty good again tonight, went for a while, volunteered some internal statistical stuff. Almost expected him to wish the assembled press a Happy Valentine’s Day!
John Tortorella:
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John Muckler: 1934 – 2058
He was alive from just after half past seven until just before nine o’clock on his first day with the Rangers.
eddie eddie eddie February 14th, 2013 at 6:04 pm
is the yellow river in china?.....cause i swear i am looking at it right now
Internal statistical stuff? You had a Corsi discussion?
My file wasn’t found either, tomb. Sup wit dat?
tomb – we were just writing about you
sorry, tomb. ... fixed it. my fault.
i found the file.
i hate getting carped
Muckler’s bio includes teams such as the Detroit Hettche, Chatham Maroons and Wichita Wind.
The only places those teams have ever existed are in the 1800s and Doc Emrick’s vocabulary.
is Muckler mounted on anyone’s wall?
i shot the sheriff.
freeze dried or stuffed…matters not in the end
swear to God, a Rangers’ staffer—and not like an intern, but somebody pretty important to the team—told me Muck made him drive to Buffalo and back one time because Muck left his meds on his dresser.
JR – “but i didnt shooted the assistant sheriff”
carr – i think those meds were to prevent rigor mortis from setting in
i just a notice to slow dow, i am posting too fast…that’s my wife’s biggest complaint too…how odd
carp not carr…not carl….
not sure but i thought i read that Muckler was on the mayflower…
Sorry listening to the PC. Back.
Sounds, from what Carp says, he was the captain of the ‘Bounty.’ Shiva me timbers! (that’s a Jewish nautical epithet, if I spelled it correctly)
land ho
I shot Omar Sharif. The girls thought it was funny. They were funny girls.
that is a hooker’s launch bay term
land ho
Whose blanket will Duguay be wearing tonight? Funny Cide’s?
I think someone said on Asham’s tweets that he looked like he combed his hair with a bent beer can, and Asham asked him which tooth he would like knocked out first.
from his wiki page John Mucker 1582-1665 Brilliant hockey mind. Developed the insane notion of turning a Norris trophy winner into a winger to shut down an opposing forward that would have all been unnecessary had the defenseman been left as a defenseman….
see also phi donahue – windbag TV host married to this or that or some other girl
awesome pre-game.
thank you Carp. Now I am ready.
I remember reading somewhere years ago that Donahue and that girl knocked down a house in Connecticut and put up a McMansion blocking all their neighbors’ views of the lake. Law suits. Not a very nice thing to do when you’re moving into the neighborhood.
winning colors more likely
which girl?
Richie Ritch, coming home after game, to wife – ‘Did you see my jam tonight?’
She says, “it is the cabinet where you left it next to the peanut butter.”
e3, it should also read: did it on a game day without the benefit of a practice to implement such a complicated system, and for a road game when it would be easy for the home coach to dictate the matchups, and succeeded in getting his team shut out by breaking up his only scoring line and using his only offensive defenseman as a checking winger … oh, and the guy it was designed to stop also scored the game-winning goal.
rich girl. I can’t give you the rest of the Hall and Oates here, or Carp will pull out his blackjack.
Carp – yeah, but come on…he’d beed dead for almost 30 years when that happened…
coos, not because of the lyrics as much as because I can’t stand that song.
One day I will get a moment alone with Torts and ask him about that game … I am pretty sure it happened the year Torts was his assistant (and then interim head coach when Muck was mercifully shot).
Carp February 14th, 2013 at 6:35 pm
e3, it should also read: did it on a game day without the benefit of a practice to implement such a complicated system, and for a road game when it would be easy for the home coach to dictate the matchups, and succeeded in getting his team shut out by breaking up his only scoring line and using his only offensive defenseman as a checking winger … oh, and the guy it was designed to stop also scored the game-winning goal.
ah, you are just nit picking now…
It is rather lame. Used to know Hall. Liked to talk about money more than music.
carp – didnt Richter play center that game as well?
monty hall and adam oats
weren’t hall and oats married to each other?
Torts doesn’t send messages, except when he does.
right Gabby?
Carp, your intolerance of Muckler ranks up there with some of the fans feelings about Boyle or Drury or holik
No, much worse, because the fans who hated those guys didn’t know them, and weren’t hated back, twice as much.
Muckler to his assistant outside MSG locker room: “Hand me my Mont Blanc. It’s on the dining room table at my house in Albany.”
Hall and Oates split up. Darryl was too pretty.
Went to an art gallery last week and a Hockney fight broke out.
Tortarella is the best coach to coach the rangers since herb brooks.
tommy G said Herb
Hedberg – you show me another dead coach that coached while dead and did it better than muckler….
As I Rembrandt the story, David left the gallery and jumped into his vehicle which wouldn’t start and he was hollering ‘why doesn’t this Van Gogh?’
Almost post time.
i didnt ear that last comment kooz
um. new post.
the horses the horses are on the track
Rangers mind set. Take there aggression on the islanders for giving up a 3 goal lead last game. The rangers do that, they will win.