02-25-2016, 09:35 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Player's Tribune: How we Play Hockey in America
By Ryan....ugh....Kesler.
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You know what really got me into hockey? NHL ’94 on Sega Genesis. Some kids got inspired by watching Wayne Gretzky on Hockey Night in Canada. I got inspired by playing with 16-bit Steve Yzerman. Remember the wraparound trick? You could score eight goals a game with Yzerman. I’d have my brother going nuts.
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http://www.theplayerstribune.com/rya...ey-in-america/
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02-25-2016, 09:36 AM
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Some kinda newsbreaker!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Learning Phaneufs skating style
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02-25-2016, 09:38 AM
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First round-bust
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: speculating about AHL players
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That article is so unabashedly patriotic that I wouldn't have been surprised if it was written in red and blue text.
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02-25-2016, 09:40 AM
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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO x infinity
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02-25-2016, 09:43 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Bay Area
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You know what really got me into hockey? NHL ’94 on Sega Genesis. I got inspired by playing with 16-bit Steve Yzerman. Remember the wraparound trick? You could score eight goals a game with Yzerman.
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Only eight? with "the move"? with yzerman? you wrap around, goalie gets stuck on one post, and have empty net and he only scored 8? lame.
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02-25-2016, 09:45 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Calgary, AB
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02-25-2016, 09:46 AM
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I think Kesler's lunge at Bollig the other night basically totally sums him up as a player, and likely a person. Two refs and a net in between them and he's trying to act like a tough guy.
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02-25-2016, 09:52 AM
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For a super competitive guy, he sure loses a lot.
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02-25-2016, 09:54 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Never the bride, always the bridesmaid.
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02-25-2016, 09:59 AM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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I can only imagine how many Ninja Turtles he was rewarded with for diving/embellishing to make that such a huge part of his game.
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02-25-2016, 09:59 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: the dark side of Sesame Street
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shouldn't the title read "How We Play HACK-ey in America"?
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02-25-2016, 10:00 AM
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What a POS article. I guess it makes sense coming from the biggest POS in the league.
Lately the Player's Tribune seems to be lowering the quality, especially the hockey ones. This article and the Gaudreau one were terrible.
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02-25-2016, 10:04 AM
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Originally Posted by TheAlpineOracle
What a POS article. I guess it makes sense coming from the biggest POS in the league.
Lately the Player's Tribune seems to be lowering the quality, especially the hockey ones. This article and the Gaudreau one were terrible.
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I think the only reason Flames fans thought the Gaudreau article was underwhelming is because we'd heard all of those stories before. To someone who hadn't heard them, it was probably a lot better.
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02-25-2016, 10:04 AM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by TheAlpineOracle
What a POS article. I guess it makes sense coming from the biggest POS in the league.
Lately the Player's Tribune seems to be lowering the quality, especially the hockey ones. This article and the Gaudreau one were terrible.
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The others in this series (hockey in Russia/Sweden) were really good at least. I'm guessing someone will write one from a Canadian perspective soon. Toews or Crosby is my guess.
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02-25-2016, 10:06 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: I don't belong here
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Take off your blinders when you read this. I despise Kesler and can't wait for him to be gone from the league, but this article was pretty good. He laid it on thick about being blue collar and working hard to prove people wrong, but it's true.
Reading about how his dad praised him for his backchecking and never mentioned his goals has given me new ideas on how to help encourage my kid, who is the most talented player on his team but he doesn't work hard enough.
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02-25-2016, 10:06 AM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Where ever I'm told to be
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Clearly has no idea how anything works outside of his postcode.
I wonder if his Dad gives him a hard time for diving and being a ######?
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02-25-2016, 10:11 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by Flaming Choy
The others in this series (hockey in Russia/Sweden) were really good at least. I'm guessing someone will write one from a Canadian perspective soon. Toews or Crosby is my guess.
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Yeah those were good. I find they are getting really hoke though. Now every player is lining up to write them and they just don't have a genuine feel to me anymore.
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02-25-2016, 10:22 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Calgary
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Hate Kesler as a player. Not gonna read the article out of principle.
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02-25-2016, 11:04 AM
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The title should be "How Kesler played hockey in America". Mostly just personal stories about himself growing up -- I only found a few paragraphs that were actually about hockey in America generally. Maybe it's because Sweden and Russia are more detached from Canada/North America but I found those articles much more enlightening.
+1 on the Jock Jams reference though.
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02-25-2016, 11:15 AM
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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
Hate Kesler as a player. Not gonna read the article out of principle.
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Wasn't going to read it because I hate him, and I didn't want to read an article that would make me hate him less.
Yep, hate him just the same, perhaps even a bit more.
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