Via Twitter from our friends North of the Border:
Both Michael Del Zotto and Arron Asham left the ice early after participating in the non-optional morning skate at Bell Centre, and Marc Staal was not on the ice at all, back at the hotel with the flu, though not ruled out of tonight’s game.
And of course Rick Nash is not on the trip due to his double-super-secret injury. Martin Biron starts in goal.
Christian Thomas was recalled from Connecticut (AHL) last night, but had not arrived in time for the skate.
Here’s the official announcement of the recall, from the NYR:
RANGERS RECALL FORWARD CHRISTIAN THOMAS
NEW YORK, February 23, 2013 –New York Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather announced today that the club has recalled forward Christian Thomas from the Connecticut Whale of the American Hockey League (AHL).
Thomas, 20, has tallied four goals and three assists in the last six games with Connecticut, including a career-high, three-point effort on February 9 at St. John’s (one goal, two assists). He has registered 13 goals and 11 assists for 24 points, along with 13 penalty minutes in 52 games with the Whale this season. Thomas leads all Connecticut rookies in goals, points, power play goals (three) and shots on goal (104), and is tied for fifth on the team overall in points, ranks fourth in goals and shots, and is tied for third in power play goals. He has posted four multi-point performances, including multi-goal efforts on November 10 at Worcester (two goals) and February 15 against Portland (two goals).
The 5-9, 170-pounder registered one goal and one assist in five games with Connecticut last season. He made his professional debut with Connecticut on April 7, 2012, at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, and recorded his first professional points with a goal and an assist on April 13, 2012, against Manchester. Thomas also skated in six postseason contests with the Whale during the 2012 Calder Cup Playoffs.
Prior to turning professional, Thomas skated in 244 career games over four seasons with the Oshawa Generals and London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), registering 137 goals and 120 assists for 257 points, along with 91 penalty minutes. He established OHL career-highs in games played (66), goals (54), assists (45), points (99), power play goals (19), penalty minutes (38) and plus/minus rating (plus-20) during the 2010-11 season. He and his father, former NHL forward Steve Thomas, became the first father-son duo to record 50+ goals in an OHL campaign. Thomas led the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) in goals over a two-year span, registering 95 goals combined over the 2009-10 and 2010-11 seasons.
The Toronto, Ontario native was originally selected as the Rangers’ second round choice, 40th overall, in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft.
508 Comments
Can’t believe my poem was carped
Fugly
Hey, 3E, I know. Some of my most, ahem, cogent comments have been washed away with one of Carp’s sudden tsunamis.
We will see the ranger’s resolve tonight. I predict a huge win.
O’B – in answer to your last question, yes, both. I’ve yet to see McD take a hard breath. He’s like nails.
Tsunamis?? It’s called progress Koos.
Like a wave rolling high
Words erased in a heartbeat
Time continues, a collection of moments.
Sue not me
Pilgrim’s Progress. This has been going on since 1678, and where are we?
A buoy named Sue.
You are like a hurricane
There’s calm in your eye.
And I’m gettin’ blown away
To somewhere safer
where the feeling stays.
I want to love you but
I’m getting blown away.
In my yute, I used to listen to that one on the jukebox at 2 AM. Fond memories.
Boy named Sue ?
Poccahantus
No, newbear, a buoy. It’s an ad directed at boaters written on a buoy financed by the trial lawyers’ association.
Rangers ice hockey
The fans squirm: trepidation
Montreal gonna git some
That one, too eee.
Awesome
I fell into a burning ring of fire
Went down down down
And the flames got higher
And it burns burns burns
That ring of fire, that ring of fire.
That assoc where Manny presides?
Nasher is concussed
Staal and d man del zaster
Sit for victory
We do MOVIES, leave the films for the French!
Really awesome
Unlikely hero
Christian Thomas to rescue
Rangers from the flush
PBR is doing hockey haikus.
I fell for ya like a child
Oh, the fire went wild.
To the tables down at Manny’s, to the place where Willie dwells….
Heading down to Key West for a week. Parrot Heads beware, Angry Ranger fan in town.
Also would play, at 2 AM, Al Green’s ‘Love and Happiness.’ Loooove that opening!
I’d rather be in Philadelphia…
Hemingway country
i think its kind of comical that Biron always starts in MTL cause Lundy gets shelled there.
I predict a win
A shutout by Marty B.
Bickel gets winner
Is Phildelphia open?
Is Amirante playing tonight ? Wait, can he do “Oh Canada”...
In a hand painted night, me and Gypsy Scotti are partners
At the Hotel Flamingo, wearing black market shoes
This loud Cuban band is crucifying John Lennon
No one wants to be lonely, no one wants to sing the blues
Amirante lately makes me want to re-up. Almost.
Maybe in some way it would be better to not know what’s up, but how come there’s information available on Malkin already and nothing concrete on Nash?
What’s Sam gonna do now that he has no “good play by Staal” in his repertoire tonight.
My point about not knowing about Nash is you could still hope.
People are strange?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKUD9mix-I8
That opening is strong as steel. The rest of the song is pretty pedestrian, almost like 2 different people wrote it.
That wasn’t for 3C, that was for Papa’s contribution, just to explicate.
Suffering…. Reading that on Malkin … I have to believe Nash is not concussed. Slather and team will look like complete jackwagons if Nash is and they haven’t disclosed it, because it will definitely come to light at some point – probably when Carp spies him on the trainers table with an ice pack on his noggin.
Are we pre-excusing future poor play from Staal once he returns from the flu?
Players shouldn’t be allowed to explicate on the ice. Too many oysters.
Koos, Opening lyrics have that Key West vibe. Don’t particularly care for the song though.
Staal is a big boy. Too bad he doesn’t play a bit more to his size.
Papa…since he played after what most suspect was the cause, you would think there’s going to be some hell to pay.
The opening writing is dynamic
Sounds like Hunter Thompson and Hemingway out for a few.
New in town, stranger? Y’all from up north?
Biron in the nets
A québécois sur les glacé
He will win tonight!!
Love that place for about 4 or 5 days. Then it is time to leave.
Torts to Richie Rich: “Keep tryin’ that neat little drop pass to the opposition. I think you got ‘em fooled.”
Bring a hat with a rotating fan on it. Carp has a hat with a flashlight.
poetry? in here? what happened to this place? you guys turned into a bunch of homo sapiens!!
Sappy hominids
Trying to change the vibe. Poetry for victory
Papa, can we have more quotes from “Under the Milkwood”, please?
It’s a conspiracy. Torts and Ritchie want the buyout so hey can resurface together in Tampa with Vinny and Marty and go at another Cup on the 10th year anniversary of their first. Traitors I tell you. There are traitors within.
Try to find some poetry on the Islanders’ blog. They can’t spell cat even if you give them the c and the t.
Is newbear conversant with Dylan Thomas? Who knew?
Do not go gentle into that good Knight (ode to bobby’s players)
NB here’s a taste to wet your beak.
Open the curtains, light the fire, what are servants for?
I am Mrs Ogmore Pritchard and I want another snooze.
Dust the china, feed the canary, sweep the drawing-room floor;
And before you let the sun in, mind he wipes his shoes.
So there is an Islander blog
I made him switch to bourbon back in the day… Also wrote his short biograph.
Real men dont read poetry! Real man drink spoiled beer, fart and eat their own boogers!
i wonder why any islander fan would spend his time here, especially if he just wants to argue. is he too young for a wife?
amirite?
yea cccp! freshly picked still glossy with drippy snot on it, maybe a little blood and hair in it!!
Is that a mineral?
And into the valley of death rode the six hundred
i said drippy
If a guy named Drippy played for the Rangers, they’d call him ‘Drips.’
I was thinking about lunch until grabby came on board!!
Drippy would be his first name…last name Johnson.
Think I’ll skip lunch, too.
Koos Torts would call him Drippa
cannons to the left of me, cannons to the right…...wang in the middle
i’m sorry bear. truly. that was disgusting.
thrasher
Blue Flu(e)
Jesus. This team is a regular blue light district.
3c nickname . Clap
Dripper
drips mcgee
Grabby. Just kidding. I’m still thinking about lunch
You guys are coming over? Better tell Mrs. Manny to make more chili and put out the good silver.
Dangerous Drip McGrew
Dripping Wet
slivers of dust rising above
tattered and torn
the abyss calls my name
i listen closely
Tots: The Dripper left it all out on the ice tonight.
quick draw McGraw
Still hungry P O’B?
IManny…Just a few of your closest friends…all 90 of us.
Drippster McWetpants
oops. sorry carp.
hha nice one T
Koos, the reality is I’ll eat anywhere, anytime, with anyone. It’s truly sad.
Attention Seniors : There’s someone who calls himself Malkin on Ebay peddling pieces of the Chelyabinsk meteorite, caveat emptor !
iManny, have her count the silverware before letting anyone leave
manny – make way i have to poop
newbear speaks not only French, but also Latin. Be on your guard, 3C
i wonder what prusters doing right now
first thing i do when visiting a friend….is drop a duece
IManny do plastic…. No wash, no worry.
this thread is getting wet and heading south in a hurry!
i can handle newbear…. easy.
With Jeffrey Dahmer, O’McBear? He invited him mother to dinner and she told him she didn’t like his friends, so he told her to have salad.
E3 . Nice of you to come with a gift. Old fashioned. These young kids nowadays, no respect, show up empty bowled.
he’s probably helping an old lady cross the street while picking up a baby snail so it doesnt get run over
JR – “caveat emptor?????....stay away from my empty cave!!!”
cooz nooo ughhh!!!
newbear is fine….let’s call for a sit down with the 5 families, cccp and newbear
eddie dropped a deuce on the pizza delivery guy.
its pretty slippery down here cccp. humid too
Koos, I like the new name. Thanks for that.
kooz – good friend of mine went to Marquette at the time jeffrey dahmer was eating out….
manny – do you have a big plunger?
Guess he wasn’t on the undergraduate meal plan
E said plunger
Papa O’McBear – a totally delightful sobriquet.
This guy Dahmer, did he used to blog here?
warm and fuzzy still, but with a hint of danger
Jeffrey loved man tar tar
Koos please, no cursing
Intimidated…
mint sauce ala dude
Derbils down 1-0 in 2nd. Seems Wash had more coffee this am
Deuces wild. Be back in a few.
Son- of -a -sobriquet would be inappropriate
mmmm the blood pudding is delicious. whats in it?
ala dude!! thats fugged up e3.lol
Waiter, I’ll just have a glass of Perrier.
fresh veggies grilled in olive oil with jasmine rice and dude…...a rose champagne with asparagus soup
Dahmer family dinner – “Who wants the drumstick?”
papa bear – i just made my deposit…..steaming…...almost smokey
that sounds mouth wateringly scrumdilly umptious e3!
dahmer dinner argument – i want the leg!!!...No, I get it this time…
Smokey and the Bear
grabby – upon inspection, you can almost guess what i had for dinner last night….
Dahmer’s mother to father: ‘Did you see what Jeffrey just dragged through the soup?”
well, whatever it was, its not alive anymore
lol cooz
great movie…”Guess whose coming to and dinner and wager what i ate last night”
Jeffrey to waiter: “Can I see a manu?”
Dahmer’s mom “jeffrey, need anything from the store?”
jeffrey “yeah mom…bring back a couple of cashiers”
mm, guys, im going to have to excuse myself, my dinners running away
Hannibal Lecter to Dahmer: “You gonna finish all of that?”
cashiers, ha
jeffrey’s mom – “would you like some lunch son?”
Jeffrey – “I just ate, not hungry”
jeffrey’s mom – ” what did you have”
Jeffrey – “just some(one’s) liver and onions”
jeffrey will you please escort the guests into their plates.
Jeffrey to Herve Villechaize: “I’m thinking of going on a diet.”
hey coos, whered everybody go?? eddie? what are you doing with that axe?
Jeffrey – “mom, i could eat a horse”
jeffrey’s mom – “oh son, i am so proud of you…eating animals like normal people”
jeffrey – “uh, no…..i am about to eat the mailman…..i could eat a horse is just an expression”
Jeffrey’s mom: “Who eats with a hacksaw?”
youse meatballs better start bailing this water alot faster, or the 2013-13 season is gonna be under water real soon
‘Did the mailman come yet, dear?’ I’ll just leave that one alone.
Jeffrey – “I hate to eat alone”
another dude – “May i join you”
jeffrey smiles
My trailer park seems to be emptying out. Think I’ll pay a few visits, see what I can find.
Prust to switch sides for tonight, just to make the teams fair
i like my ovaries runny mom
You can’t have dessert until after you finish your spleen
gonna be a rough one tonight since all the Rangers’ goals got stopped at customs
Jailman – “jeffrey what would you like for your final meal?”
Jeffrey – “hmmmm, how about some soul”
Along with Don Murdoch
Will Carp be able to follow the game AND moderate this site all from Le Strip Clubbe?
Teacher – “jeffrey why can’t you play nicely with the other boys…..show some tenderness”
Jeffrey – “tenderness?, sounds good”
Jeffrey after having Rangers for dinner: “Michael tasted a bit Sour, but the Boil was good with bread and butter Bickles.”
Jeffrey – “i would love a rupp roast”
“I hope they don’t bring up Haley. I’ve heard he’s rather tough.”
Jeffrey – “i love Jon Hamm”
“I wish they’d trade for a large left wing.”
jeffrey “ill take soupy sales any day”
Jeffrey: “Duguay looks interesting. And he’s already dressed.
jeffrey would go nuts listening to joem talk about thighs
Duguay to Jeffrey: “Should I dress for dinner?”
Jeffrey: “Don’t bother, I have the 1000 islands.”
chris christie – “what are you looking at jeffrey?”
jeffrey – “OMG”
Jeffrey: “Did Micheletti just say there’s a big body in front of the net?”
“Is it alive?”
Marty Brodeur – “who is that jeffrey guy who always sits behind behind me?...he looks like he could eat me”
If Christie ate Jeffrey, would he be also eating all of Jeffrey’s victims by proxy?
Jeffrey’s mom – “jeffrey is that Arm and Hammer in the fridge?”
Jeffrey – “no mom….just Arm”
“He has that lean and hungry look.” Julius Caesar, Act 1, Scene 2
“Mom, did you see my Leggos?
Jeffrey’s mom – “would you like some hawaiian pineapple?”
Jeffrey – “keep the pineapple”
“I’ll have the Diet Coke. Don’t want to get too high before dinner.”
coos said coke
“Well, Jeffey, you’re back; where have you been?”
“Thailand.”
brb …i got a second line :)
Jeffrey – “i would like a Cheever’s melt please”
cashier – “a cheese melt?”
jeffrey – NO!! A Cheever’s melt”
3C is interested only in the hallucinatory refreshments.
THAT BE GREAT, COOS…THANKS!
“I’ll have John Cheever. Last time I had Jerry Seinfeld, but something tasted funny.”
Eddie,
I’m back from the bank. Happy to report, plumbing still working.
Good size, texture, consistency, color, leaning a little to the dry side though. Filled the bowl, courtesy flush in case I was being followed. Left the room window slightly ajar, in case mama decides to clean.
A day with a good turd is a happy day.
Waiter – “sir, would you like to try some Dolphin”
Jeffrey – “ahhh, yes…..bring me a Dan Marino, Raw”
Jerry Seinfeld is a world class prick…. speaking from experience and un-pleasure of meeting him more than once.
papa bear – i just launched a hindenberg”
Jeffrey: “I’ll have a Giant tight end. I think I’ll try Martellus Bennett.
cccp – seinfeld hasnt been funny in 20 years
seinfeld was on jon stewart last year and he was brutally bad…couldnt even read the cue cards….
3C never thought Seinfeld was that funny, Show worked, though.
Oh the humanity!
please pass the kochens anis for my cream collon
They optioned a pilot of mine, never aired, never will.
kooz – agreed…...never thought his standup was funny at all
“where did i park my car”
jeez jerry…probably in the parking lot somewhere…
ha
Saw him during his recent 5 borough tour Sandy relief tour. It was like watching the show without the other players. Didn’t expect it, but he was quite hilarious.
think i will create a show where i drive around in a car asking stupid questions…
oh the hilarity….
Those guys have many, many writers on the payroll
Like Elvis – he never wrote a song
If E3 doesn’t get your humor, you ain’t got some.
i bet i am the only person on this blog that never liked the show….call me crazy
“Mom, did you see my baster?”
there are at least 30 people on this blog a million times more funny than jerry…
I often wondered if that show prospered in North Dakota.
its not that jerry seinfeld isnt funny (and he isn’t and the show wasnt! sorry, Carl) Jerry is a d-nuzzle that takes the cake in d-nuzzle competition all day every day!
25 at least. And it’s original, not hired guns.
cccp – you were right the second time…he isnt funny
However, I always laughed at Jerry Stiller. I liked him better when he wasn’t hired onto every sit com in the universe.
another non funny – richard lewis…...
richard lewis – “i bent down and hurt my back,,,i couldnt stand up…the doorbell rang…i couldnt answer it….it rang again…then the phone rang…..i couldnt believe it…...how could this happen….
jesus – that’s funny?.....gouge my eyes with a fork
vaguely remember Richard Lewis I don’t generally like or trust people with two first names.
How come when you say it it’s funny? Can’t figure that stuff out.
E3
Have you ever experienced the feeling of emptiness when you part with a deuce, kind of like you’re lost for about a half hour. Ya think its a form of separation anxiety???
i type it funnier than he says it…dunno…..i love to laugh and enjoy making people laugh…but most of my stuff is moronic :)
Of course, it’s the satire.
papa bear – i hold that Havana for as long as possible….but once that ship sails, i feel no loss
you mean Ray Lewis?
Moronic? BRILLIANT!
It’s our way of making babies, O’McB. And you don’t have to educate them.
guys, can we be a little more selective with the language please? thank you—the MGMT.
E3 do you have relationship problems?
Carp – that was funny :) Ray lewis would murder a crowd if he were a comedian
Indded. We should all be capable of couching our scatology with alternate and non offensive verbiology.
papa bear – I relate well to no one
As it were.
john travolta nd tom cruise – 2 famous scatologists
I find it difficult to see why anyone would entertain any religion initiated by a science fiction writer.
Everything is relative. If your relatives leave you money.
Carp, does this mean I’ll be spending time in spam folder again? Please I’ll clean it up, cooperate in the investigation , whatever it takes if it keeps me out of the spam folder. That’s hard time.
I’ll even talk nice to cmsense. Please no spam.
Assimilated Jews are never funny, not for lack of trying, though.
Try the Devils post game for laughs.
Marlon Brando, Pocahontas, Cooscoos, and Dahmer… :)
Papa O’McBear – You can confuse the electronic police by dropping your new found, but becoming Irishness. :-))
You say you will love me
If I have to go
You’ll be thinking of me
Somehow I will know
Someday when I’m lonely
Wishing you weren’t so far away
Then I will remember
Things we said today
You say you’ll be mine, girl
Till the end of time
These days such a kind girl
Seems so hard to find
Someday when we’re dreaming
Deep in love, not a lot to say
Then we will remember
Things we said today
Me, I’m just the lucky kind
Love to hear you say that love is luck
And though we may be blind
Love is here to stay and that’s enough
To make you mine, girl
Be the only one
Love me all the time, girl
We’ll go on and on
Someday when we’re dreaming
Deep in love, not a lot to say
Then we will remember
Things we said today
Me, I’m just the lucky kind
Love to hear you say that love is luck
Though we may be blind
Love is here to stay and that’s enough
To make you mine, girl
Be the only one
Love me all the time, girl
We’ll go on and on
Someday when we’re dreaming
Deep in love, not a lot to say
Then we will remember
Things we said today
Sounds like an equal opportunity law firm, Jonathan
that was the best song i ever wrote
richard lewis – “i was walking down the street and i saw this guy, and he looked at me…and then i looked at him…then we looked at each other….then i looked away…then i looked back at him and he was still looking at me….”
gouge my eyes with another fork
“I dreamed a dream that made me sad
Concerning myself
And the first few friends I had.”
“Where we together weathered many a storm
Laughin’ and singin’ ‘til the early hours of the morn.”
...and then I wrote…
“Pocahontas”, by Neil Young is one of my favorite songs…
when i dance on the floor
the band so far away
music nears my ears
things we said today
We’re running out of forks. Just rinse the old one off and keep using.
cowgirl in the sand….....dont let it bring you down…...my 2 favs
2 AM Juke Box Pocahontas. And, oh, I remember it well.
Koos, But I was hoping to hold it at least until St. Paddys.
Salvador on defence for the Devils, even looks like the proverbial cigar store Indian.
Sounds like tryouts for the Rascal’s gig have gotten out of hand.
Laughs on what appears to be a normal Ranger day as all wallow in despair.
Um, interesting thread, indeed…
But not more interesting than our 2nd defense pair. I was just thinking about lunch too…
Christian Thomas is small but he has a deadly shot
NHL quality
give him some open space.
And for goodness sakes, keep him off Brian Boyle’s line.
a place where wingers go to die.
Jonathan….Aurora borealis, the icy sky at night.
OMcB, Erin becomes you. May you be gone three hours before the devil knows you’re dead. And the wind at your back, etc.
The Rascals gig? Just groovin’
Where’s Manny? What times lunch?
spanky wang
cigar store indian. That’s the phrase I was looking for. Dead on.
Richie Rich to coach, “who’s on my wing tonight?”
Coach: “Have you met Jeffrey?”
jeffrey’s mom – “who should we invite for dinner”
jeffrey – “matters not to me…I’LL eat anyone”
Groovin
Couldn’t get away too soon
I can’t imagine anything that’s better…
Than groovin’
Down a crowded avenue
Doin’ anything I like to do…
“Mom, pass the gravy. Seinfeld’s too dry.”
They may as well recall that clown Haley. It’s going to look like circus anyway.
“And may you be
Forever young.”
Wasn’t Haley once a Comet?
Anudda Yoot! I love it. I like Marty in net too. They’ll inevitably get steam rolled tonight so why not!
He was some kind of an abrasive cleanser. Maybe Babo.
Wow! Our boy’s can’t seem to catch a break lately.
watch this bunch of amateur-hour half-wits win the game 5-1. Two goals by Richards, one by Gaborik, one by a Pyatt/Boyle/Halpern type, or something like that.
Bring up the yutes!
jeffrey fav movie…”my dinner with Andre”
If Lundqvist stands on his head, does that mean there’s an upside in that?
Eating Raoul.
Jeffrey’s gav beatle song “i want to hold your hand….then eat it”
“Malkin has symptoms that include a severe headache and mild disorientation, the newspaper reported, citing multiple sources” ESPN.
We might suck in the defensive zone but at least we are good at protecting vital information. Take that Pittsburg. No leaks here.
“Mom,would you pass the gall bladder?”
Wouldn’t surprise me, Carp.
So the big truck came by this morning and totally broke Verizon FiOS wires. No TV, no Internet. Gamecenter blacked out. Lovely. Luckily, I have friends and strong LTE. Will be watching someone’s computer at their home tuned into MSG.
Koos… Quoting Bob Dylan & Dylan Thomas on a hockey blog. We have come so far from that dark drury place we once occupied on the wire.
That would a family run surgical center, Coos.
Birds on a Wire
We haven’t done Spaceballs for long time. Where is Manny?
ilb, CCCP told me last night you spoke Yiddish and I imagined an office visit”
“Can you tell me what’s wrong?”
“What’s wrong? What’s Right?”
“I see.”
ILB… Feel your pain. We had just gotten power back 5 days after Sandy when an out of state crew came barreling down our street with there man bucket slightly raised and proceeded to take out all cable and phone lines for about 5 blocks. It took another week to have cable and phone lines restored.
Babette’s Feast
E3, have you heard the cover of your song by The Plastic People of the Universe ?
“By the old wooden stove where our hats were hung
Our words were told, our songs were sung
Where we longed for nothin’
And were satisfied,
Jokin’ and talkin’ about the world outside.”
Malkin’s “symptoms” might be used to describe the Ranger’s high command.
Manny invited us all to lunch and then proceeded to disappear, like Houdini. He is probably trolling the Islander blog as the reverse cmsense.
Nbear, I hear the Beatles covered it.
Instead of hiring Marvin Mitchelson, Sather’s ex wife attempts to humiliate him in the blogosphere, hoping for a revised settlement.
Speaking of talent, Yoko Ono is still searching for some and time is running out.
Reading the musings of the blog bards I am transported back in time to those heady days when liberal arts majors were all the rage in musty book shops and village coffee houses where similar musings were essentially tool tools for the ladies.
Or occasionally lip service?
Did you know Cole Porter personally?
Manny in reverse does have it’s possibilities!
Cooze, maybe I slept with him as he hummed “Night and Day”! ;)
In olden days, a glimpse of stocking was looked at as something shocking…
And poets who used to know better words now only use four letter words
Writing prose.
Anything goes.
You slept with a coal porter?
Jeffrey’s mom – “is there someone at the door?”
jeffrey – “there was…..”
BTW Cooze, Cole Porter easily the most literate song writer in American history,folllowed closely by the Greshwins,Berlin and one of my faves Jerome Kern.
An artist is never poor
Coos,maybe you should produce the Coos songbook,and no coal….............just a little fossil fuel! ;)
Jeffrey: I would eat the devil himself were I not unfond of Hellitosis.
Newbear – yes i have…...lovely rendition …
Jeffrey’s dentist – “open wide”
Jeffrey – “dont ask ME twice”
Comnsns – As one cruise ship said to the other, ‘I do like your list.’
and finally – My Breakfast With Blassie
Paul Simon, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan,
McO’B, obviously you have never read Kafka’s “The Hunger Artist.” :)
The breakfast club
Koos, is it so obvious?
“I’m not the kind of man who tends to socialize;
I seem to lean on old, familiar ways
And I ain’t no fool for love songs
That whisper in my ears
Still crazy after all these years…”
I was speaking meterologicail or sump fin like that
I don’t recall just when Jean became Lean ValJean in Les Miserables, but all he wanted was a sandwich. He took, the loaf and they sentenced him to Life on the Galleys ( those big floating arks and were navigated with rows of Oar men who sat on benches and no bathrooms so what went on there, there stayed there. beside they had a big rough Bosn’s mate with a long club that he bashed anybody who looked as if he was dogging it. Great job. Victor Hugo knew how
to squeeze the pathos out of his readers ( like Hunchback of Notre Dame “Quasimodo etc.)
Just jestin’ OMcB
I’m not escared of Bos’n Mates with big clubs, but no bathrooms makes we wince.
Don’t you just pity folks who say escared?
It always starts out with ‘I just want a sandwich,’ then the next thing you know…
For a poet I’m a one man band.
I told them that I was a poet and a genius and they said they were all filled up.
The kids down at Penn State started a pre- St. Patrick’s day drunkfest some years back and there was so much revelry on that day that the city council this year authorized 5 grand of taxpayer money to every bar that didn’t open that day. Wonder if the kids will figure that out and postpone it to next week, duh.
Those two guys have to be the most creative set of twins ever born Paul & Neil Simon. Almost as good as Peyton and Eli.
If the Kids don’t figure it out, I’m sure the bar owners will. You don’t need Dt. paddy to fill up with 2 for 1 specials.
As yutes, Garfunkel and Simon were sitting in a car smoking and BSing, I think in Queens, when their first song actually came on the radio. They were speechless. Simon looked at Garfunkel and said, ‘man, bet those guys aren’t sitting in a car somewhere BSing about nothing and smoking cigarettes.’ True story, told by Paul years later.
Fran said loaf and long club
Who’s Fran?
I went into a shoe store near MSG and asked if they had any loafers and they said that Richie Rich would be right with me.
Who did everyone like better, Franny or Zooey? Class?
Hand is raised from the back of the room – “Will this be on the test?”
Coos and Co., Steve Allen once said,”the majority of good music was written before 1950”. I tend to agree with only the Motown/Memphis exception.
While this art form is both subjective and generational,what do you believe?
Pinch a loaf
I believe Steve Allen is dead
Richie Rich a betrayer of honorable men, off to the tower!
Papa, but real talent never dies. Don’t step on any cats this weekend.
With some notable, but comparatively scanty exceptions, (of course,) yes. I still listen with enjoyment occasionally to some old LPs handed down to me. Pennsylvania 6-5000!
koo koo ka choo
Whoops, O’McB just stepped on an old Cat Stevens eight track.
Tutu Twain
Denis Potvin’s voice and intonations still reminds me of listening to a gaggle of co-eds discussing fashion in the Bryn Mawr ladies’ showers.
Coos, listen more frequently to harmonious sound and lyrics easily understood…...................except for the occasional “Mairzy Doats” and “Hut Sut Ralston” on the rilla rot and a braul a braul a suet”
Are you old enough to remember those?
Well…back to hockey.
That Malkin injury looks BAD. Wow. How many top flight players can get injured this year?
Ooh Baby it’s a wild world
Manny where you been hiding?
No Salty language. The Mgmt
Marsy dotes? Who do you think I am, Methuselah?
All Torts can do now is run his shorts up the flagpole and see who salutes. He’s tried everything else. Almost.
Coos he could also hire a PP specialist
Malkin – can you say Karma?????
Coos, the translation is “mare’s eat oats and Does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy’.
This could be an apt description of the Ranger roster,yes?
I’d put McD on the point, but can he play 35 minutes?
Malkin gonna look good in Ranger Blue in 2014/2015.
You continue to offer your paltry bag of horsefood, Cmnsns.
Hoping for a Bell Centre beat down
Malkin’s injury = KARMA
He’s not only one of the dirtiest players out there, he does it knowing full well the NHL will NEVER do anything against him.
Yeah, I know…when it comes to superstar players being dirty we all idolize perhaps the greatest of them all – Mark Messier
But Mess dished it all out daring you to give it back to him. Malkin and the Pens learned from the Mario Lemieux Cry-To-The-Refs-Til-They-Give-You-A-Power-Play school of hockey.
Mario Lemieux – Never in my life have a seen such a big guy go down to the ice as if he’d been shot if you so much as sneezed at him.
As for tonight’s game…I predict a horrific loss. Rangers have been barely holding on…tonight the floodgates open. Expect at least one Montreal goal off a Brad Richards turnover and expect Biron to give up 2-3 goals in the span of a few mins.
Just my gut feeling. Could be wrong.
Very disappointing turnout today. I guess we lost a lot to the Mets Preseason opener.
“Put me in, coach. Center Field.”
I was getting my haircut in anticipation of this game tonight, Papa!
You bought a rabbit, Manny?
I did, Coos. He’s a hoppy little bastard though. Kind of annoying me already. He also ate all the carrots Mrs. Manny bought. I might end up eating him in a delicious rabbit stew.
These Kings throwbacks are awesome compared to their regular, hideous uniforms.
Torts to Slats:
I got a bad feeling on this one, all right? I mean I got a bad wfeeling!..................................................D’ya understand what I’m sayin’ to you?
Can I ask a serious question? (Assuming you guys say yes)
How in the heck does a professional athlete end up getting the Flu? Dozens of people a day attempt to stab me with flu vaccines. How does Marc Stall not get one?
Flu like symptoms? That could be a bad sign for Staalsie.
Manny, goof thinking, Change of luck hair cut for the game.
Good
you think the Kings black/silver/whites are hideous? I think they are one of the best/cleanest modern uniforms out there, and a throwback of sorts in their own right the the Gretzky era.
They have had some of the worst in the black and purple era…..the purple and yellow is pretty fresh though
Actually, Papa. I ordered a “JT Miller Time” shirt and it arrived today, in time for the game. Sadly, the stitching is not complete so the side has a hole in it. SO SYMBOLIC of our season, right?
Good question, M. A flu running around your locker room can set you back weeks, and in this shortened season, that’s a death wish. You would think they’d be mandatory unless you’re a Scientologist with a letter from your rabbi.
Yesterday is over we have today and tomorrow. We can turn this thing around. Team needs some leadership.
Staal comes from a close family though, so he should be fine…
I’m sure the blog captain can answer better, but vaccines generally protect against certain strains of flu, but not all. & players do get flu shots.
chimney flue
200 strains of flu…..flu shot only about 65-70% successful
celebrity rehab is the place to go and get better…
Ovechkin waking up
There was only One flu over the cuckoo’s nest, to the best of my recollection.
Flyers starting to right the ship? We better start winning consistently.
Bring up Lindsay Lohan. She can use Hag’s extra helmet.
(Reuters) – A U.S. government analysis of this season’s flu vaccine suggests it was effective in only 56 percent of people who got the shot, and it largely failed to protect the elderly against an especially deadly strain circulating during flu season.
Staal must be over the hill.
So if almost half of the people who got the shot got the flu anyway, what if no one got the shot? Half the people in America surely don’t have, and won’t get the flu. Seems like a placebo, only worse.
I defer to E3 on the mathematical calculations.
As he furiously licks his pencil. Hmm, maybe I should strike that. Very harmless, I assure all.
Papa O’McBear to E3 at 4:00 pm
Who’s Fran?
Sorry Fran. I missed your earlier post. No disrespect intended.
7 + 2 = 9
I KNEW it! Thanks for the backup, e
Kooz – would need to see the data…and a very large sample….flue vaccines only are geared to the mega strains expected…
forgive me for asking stupid questions.I feel like I just got out of aacoma and I am catching up! When did we get Matt Gilroyd back? And who the hell is “honey Boo Boo”!?
flu
tony – we signed Gilroy in the off season….honey boo boo is a breakfast ceral
honey boo boo is the latest callup from Hartford
funny, Anthony. Like Warhol’s 15 minutes of fame. Blink and you miss it. Such is the age.
A honey-boo-boo is when a jar of Tupelo falls on your toe.
Just lounging here listening to Puccini ala Pavarotti, waiting for face off. These guys ain’t bad together.
Honey boo boo is when my wife screws up the checking account. “honey, I made a boo boo”
Shes as sweet as tupelo honey
Shes an angel of the first degree
Shes as sweet as tupelo honey
Just like honey from the bee
Just before Nuclear Power Plant explosion: “Boss, I made a slight boo boo that I think I should tell you about.
I knew some bright light would pick up on the Tupelo honey!
Sorry, Coos, somehow you have a tree in a jar and it falls on your toe? This is really starting to make sense now…the honey is made by honey bees from the blossoms of the black tupelo tree in the late spring, you seem to have found a time warp, or you are not writing from NYC. Paging Salvador Dali.
Hey anyone remember the last time Staal made a good offensive play? Or remember when his shot hit the net. I have never seen a guy miss the net or hit an opposing player on a shot as much as he does. HIs brothers got any offensive skills that he was supposed to get. The guy is so overrated i can’t stand it
wildplaces cloning commnsnse
Koos, Hopefully for his sake that confession come via long distance telephone.
Thanks Koos.
Lobster , he scored in OT during the playoffs. Last I remember.
I am no relation to commnsnse…would he mention Salvador Dali? Hey, he’s as clone to me as Rod…
Givin’ it all up in one fell swoop
Wildplaces said rod
cooscoos February 23rd, 2013 at 5:44 pm
“wildplaces cloning commnsnse”
Was it the ” starting to make sense” in his post” that did it for you?
Lobster – we ate you for dinner last night
I can tell a burgundy from a Budweiser.
I just happen to like black tupelo trees…sorry to disappoint you. If you have seen its crimson and orange leaves in the fall or tasted its sweet purple berries in the spring you wouldn’t have maligned it that way!
Along with some big assen shrimp
Wild places, Rod, Cmnsense…...if you invite them over for dinner, only one place setting required.
Budweiser – the king of water and a rusty nail
with drawn butter. Butter drawn by Dali.
Wow papa you are going back to last year to prove your point…
Make that Wild places, Rod, Cmnsense and Lobster…......if you invite them over for dinner, only one place setting required.
Papa – I disagree——I think those be all unique bruthas
And thank whatever higher powers that be
that
I didn’t recite Joyce Kilmer’s poem about a tree…
Not my point to prove Loch Ness Lobster.
Wang time is our game? 7 eastern I spoze
OK, three is a crowd…
Adieu
I be correct. It be 7. Yo yo werd
We’ll serve Schizophrenia Bouillabaisse
E3, if i’m wrong, they eat from the same plate.
Wild places – dont let brutha papa bear be runnin yo assen far away. My brutha.
I’ll serve Lobster
Lobster, if you are a true solitary crustacean, we welcome you back.
I mean to chase no one. I’m trying to get them a dinner invite.
Brutha Rod always be showin his assen as brutha rod. The Utha bruthas from Utah muthas,,, undig?
goldilocks bear coming for dinner?
and, of course wildplaces, especially if you are Oscar Wildeplaces.
Rock Lobster, Rock.
My iPad don’t be digging my Ebonics
Goldilocks is an acquaintance, not a family member. Only when I serve porridge and Black Bush.
I needs me a way to be turnin off my autocorrect spellin – sit
I loves to eat me black bush
Lobster….She’s my side dish. Mama Bear don’t know about her if you get my drift.
I know what you be sayin. On the side and down the slide…. Let it ride, hang glide
Eddie, no chewing allowed. Black Bush neat, swirl it around in your mouth for a while then swallow hard. Nothing like it, especially on St Paddys day. Makes you want to dance a jig.
What is a Utah mother? A Derrick Favors parent?
I hope brutha Rhode Island ranger be showin his assen. That is one kool and the gang brutha
Not Utah – shoulda been Utha mutha
E3, like James Joyce, has to incapacitate his spellcheck.
Utah be one serious state of crazy.
I need me a keyboard that speaks brutha, you dig?
I just put my Black Bush bottle in a dusty corner so when I call upon it after the game, it will look seriously aged and nasty.
Crazy white dude in utah – Hi we are LDS
E3 – yo I just ate LSD
I smell skank
Don’t you hate it when your working on a song, and you type “Everybody’s Talkin’ at Me,” the deus ex machina prints “Everyone is Talking To Me?”
Koos, it will be celebratory bush 2 nite. We are going to tame the tiger in Montreal.
Damn – someone open a window… There be some serious filet of nasty creepin in
I love some bush
Reminds me, I had a junior editor once at Viking who changed one of my character’s words in a galley proof from “Hey, what it is?” to “Hey, What is it?”
Stymie’s mom – Stymie? Where is you?
Stymie – I is here
Stymie’s mom – well, u come away from where you is to ova here where I is.
I can’t watch the Rangers and drink. I just can’t. Once Duguay appears, I’m ready.
It’s all good, know what I’m sayin?
I gots ta get my assen some bush
Faulkner won the Nobel for that Stymie stuff.
Duguay dresses like the gypsy acid queen
For those of you who dont want to consume your Black Bush neat, here is asuggested alternative called a Hells Kitchen
1 oz Bushmills® Irish whiskey
1 1/2 oz Bailey’s® Irish cream
Pour both ingredients into an old-fashioned glass over ice cubes. Stir well, and serve, enjoy
Stymie you want some artichoke?
Stymie – uh uh, it may have choked Artie, but it ain’t gonna choke stymie!!
If Sam and Dave go into that John Giannone hit by the puck shtick again tonight, I’m going to start drinking early.
I like colt 45 in a brown bag
Is 4 PM early Koos?
E3 that called ghetto bush where I come from.
I have some Bailey’s, too. Might give it a try. I haven’t had diabetes in a dog’s age.
Stymie Wang – I don’t think covered that yet.
E3 and Papa:
I smelled an Irish whiskey reference a moment ago.
As good as Black Bush can be (very), Redbreast and Middleton can be even better. And you can stick it to the original Evil Empire by not buying the Six-County plantation squeezins. (26+6=1)
I fear we might need to get ecumenical tonight and use all three to kill the pain coming from Montreal.
Papa – dont you be mocking my hood
RIR – my brutha
Montreal is overrated, he said (as we give up our first shorthanded goal)
Koos 3 of those in the 1st Period and Duguay and Pidto might make sense during the 1st intermission.
If I hear any, “Duck, John, ha ha ha” nonsense, I’m scramblin’ for the holy water.
RIR – once you go black , there’s no turning back.
Schools go into lockdown whoever Pidto is near
whenever
Black is black
I want my baby back
If yo yellow do be mellow
If yo brown stick around
If yo black, please come back
If yo white, it’s alright
Koos, It be nice if we could watch the game with the radio volume instead of Sam and Joe. Not synced, the radio is always about 30 – 60 seconds ahead of the HD Broadcast. Makes for a confusing view.
I’m as much for charities as anyone, but could Sam please stop with the Garden of Dreams during a two on one?
Kooz – good song
Sam is lame
I listen to radio feed…. Dave and Kenny are superb
However, if during the game I’m Hitting the water of life heavy, by the 3rd period it really doesn’t matter if its not synced.
RIR – rangers biggest problem/concerns ???
Sam the sham is a shrill shill
I knew a guy who after late golf used to watch Jeopardy in a local bar on some odd cable station, then go home and and watch it “live” and amaze his girlfriend with his acumen. She thought he was the cat’s meow but couldn’t figure out why he couldn’t balance the checkbook.
See ya’s on the other side of Go Time. Time to launch a Hindy.
Does Sam the Sham play Pharaoh?
E3:
No Nash. No Avery. Lotsa Torts. No Fun.
I have now to see if Richie Rich is on “Beginnings” again and polish the leather on my Lazy Boy. Catch y’all on the rebound. Ciao.
Dubinsky’s wearing “A” for CBJ… good for him.
RIR – no argument there. This team sorely lacks the spark Avery provided. I know we are the minority opinion on this but so be it.
Cccp – good for Dubi indeed….
Au revoir kooz
Nosen is the biggest shill in the MSG stable.
This guy actually takes pleasure in doing the commercials with his nasaly,whiny voice with no volume control.
He sucked up so obviously to JD when he did color that rumor had it JD had to slap his hand off his knee more than once.
However, the final assault on the senses is when he stands sideways and the proboscis looks like the elephant’s trunk while the dead thing on his head occasionally moves!
Common sense – that was funny
E3:
Would love to hear from an insider what the dynamic in the Ranger room is really like this year. In my experience, it’s not healthy over the long term if the coach is the dominant personality in the room. The ‘94 crew had Messier to trump Keenan when he had to. Is that even conceivable with this group?
Do they have enough ruthless bastards? Do they have enough comedians to liven things up after the jamberry tirades?
new post.
the coach is rarely in the lockerroom, RIR. He leaves it to Callahan, Richards, etc.
Kreider needs to get into the dirty areas…