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Yvan Cournoyer...
He was my first favorite hockey player...
I just loved saying his name...
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Corn...
Y...
A...
It just rolls off the tongue...
He was speedy...
They called him...
The Roadrunner...
And because of...
eee-VONN...
Corn...
Y...
A...
The Montreal Canadiens were my favorite...
This was pre-Kings, mind you...
Just six teams from which to choose...
They were the Yankees of the NHL...
But I liked ‘em anyway...
Thanks to...
eee-VONN...
Corn...
Y...
A...
Say it again, dvt...
eee-VONN...
Corn...
Y...
A...
I could say it a million times...
However...
You have to be very careful...
When you Google...
eee-VONN...
Corn...
Y...
A...
There is an asterisk, I think...
Because you might get this....
eee-VONN...
Corn...
Y...
A...
When you mean to get this...
eee-VONN...
Corn...
Y...
A...
So be careful...
You might see sumthin’...
You didn’t intend to see...
If you get my drift...
Anyways...
I loved, loved, loved the Montreal Canadiens...
So it was kinda challenging...
Back in ‘93...
When the Kings met them...
In the Stanley Cup Final...
But I was a full-fledged Kings fan by then...
Parents had season tix...
I got to go to Game 3...
Cool...
Except for the outcome...
But the game that turned the series...
Was infamous Game Two...
The “Stick” game...
McSorley...
The momentum moment...
Kings had a one game lead...
And winning late in Game Two...
But like The Supremes used to sing...
“And then it happened...”
McSorley’s stick was declared illegal...
The Kings get a penalty...
The Canadiens get a power play goal...
And then another to win the game...
And never looked back...
Winning the Cup...
Four games to one...
Now it’s hard to write this...
Without sounding like sour grapes...
But...
If Roger Maris is worthy of an asterisk...
So are the Canadiens in this instance...
It’s one thing to see the suspicious stick on the ice...
But completely another to hijack the Kings’ sticks...
And measure them...
During the intermission...
That’s right...
The truth is out...
According to Curtis Zupke at nhl.com, “McSorley said that the Canadiens knew he had an illegal stick because they wheeled the Kings' stick rack into their locker room.
" ‘I think that [former Kings coach] Barry Melrose, [former player] Luc Robitaille, [former trainer] Peter Demers, different guys, have basically said what happened: We all know that they pulled the stick rack into their locker room,’ McSorley said.
" ’That's honest and that's frank. Am I sitting here complaining? No. But that is what happened.’ " (http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=632920)
Canadiens???
You’re a bunch of vacuum cleaners...
You sssssuhhh....
Well...
You know what I mean...
You do what vacuum cleaners do...
That’s dirty, Montreal...
I thought you were better than that...
Apparently not...
And...
In an interview on KSPN 710 in Los Angeles...
McSorley revealed...
That the Canadiens' staff...
Shooed away a Montreal police officer...
In order to perform the heist...
The officer said he had a tough time sleeping that night...
'Cus he knew what they did was wrong...
True that Montreal still had to win that game...
And three more...
Which had nothing to do with the stick...
But now they had the momentum...
Are you proud of yourselves, Montreal???
So...
I’m still an...
eee-VONN...
Corn...
Y...
A...
fan...
But as far as I'm concerned, Montreal...
You’re a classless organization...
And...
I am done with you...
dvt
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