08-30-2024, 10:18 AM
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#701
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Chicago
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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Bull####. You can write a much more accurate headline that does not flirt with any defamation:
Father and Uncle to two young children struck and killed by motor vehicle
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This is a Columbus Dispatch headline
Columbus Blue Jackets' Johnny Gaudreau killed in NJ crash involving suspected drunk driver
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08-30-2024, 10:18 AM
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#702
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Calgary, AB
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I don't know how Ryan Leslie was able to do that interview this morning on 960. Kudos to him for sharing those stories and doing that while still so raw. Him and Jonny were clearly very, very close friends.
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08-30-2024, 10:18 AM
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#703
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#1 Goaltender
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"I think the eye test is still good, but analytics can sure give you confirmation: what you see...is that what you really believe?"
Scotty Bowman, 0 NHL games played
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08-30-2024, 10:19 AM
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#704
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Franchise Player
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Still extremely hard to come to grips with the fact that this actually happened.
Can't stop thinking about what the Gaudreaus are going through right now.
The wedding, their young children, the drunk driver... everything about this is beyond tragic.
No words.
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08-30-2024, 10:20 AM
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#705
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Alberta
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Originally Posted by blankall
If he admitted to 5 or 6, he probably had around 10. Not only driving drunk but also speeding and driving recklessly, blindly swerving around other vehicles at high speeds. Throw the book at him.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Bull####. You can write a much more accurate headline that does not flirt with any defamation:
Father and Uncle to two young children struck and killed by motor vehicle
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I don't think anyone needs concern themselves with defamation. Read the NBC article, the police say that he admitted to being drunk and continuing to drink alcohol while driving when he struck the Gaudreaus.
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08-30-2024, 10:21 AM
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#706
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Franchise Player
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Terribly sad news. I really loved him in his time here in Calgary. What a huge blow to the Gaudreau family with both of them being taken, and right before their sister's wedding. Just heart-wrenching to hear that this morning.
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08-30-2024, 10:21 AM
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#707
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Crash and Bang Winger
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If you think of your flames fan experience as memories,one of the greatest in all sports is a a game 7 overtime winner. I’m too lazy to look up but the only other one’s I remember are Otto’s goal against Vancouver in 89 and Gelinas in 2004. Memories like that make the make all the disappointments and frustrations worth it. RIP.
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08-30-2024, 10:21 AM
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#708
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Pent-up
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Plutanamo Bay.
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Originally Posted by united
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Still will… I’d be quite sure of that.
The added layer of reckless drunk driving makes this unbearably sad.
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08-30-2024, 10:22 AM
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#709
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Voted for Kodos
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Originally Posted by Jiggy_12
I don't know how Ryan Leslie was able to do that interview this morning on 960. Kudos to him for sharing those stories and doing that while still so raw. Him and Jonny were clearly very, very close friends.
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Its available on Fan 960 website now:
https://www.sportsnet.ca/960/big-sho...ny-gaudreau-2/
Ryan Leslie starts at about 1:09:00
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08-30-2024, 10:22 AM
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#710
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#1 Goaltender
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"I think the eye test is still good, but analytics can sure give you confirmation: what you see...is that what you really believe?"
Scotty Bowman, 0 NHL games played
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08-30-2024, 10:24 AM
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#711
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Calgary
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just wanna talk about the mental health aspect of this news today. For a lot of us, this might be the first celebrity death that hits close to home. we might be asking ourselves why we feel these powerful emotions for someone we didn't know personally.
We are grieving more that just the individual today, we also grieve for our own emotional connections to johnny. Watching him play with friends, family, our community of flames fans and hockey fans creates a deep emotional bond, its painful when its severed. It also targets our identities; as flames fans we share that collective identity that johnny symbolizes and it feels like part of that is gone now. We mourn both the past and also what could have been.
it's important to remember self care today, to reach out to others and share our grief. check in on your fellow fans and share a memory or two. eat a good meal, get some rest, take a break from the screens.
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08-30-2024, 10:26 AM
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#712
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
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Out of thanks but thank you.
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08-30-2024, 10:28 AM
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#713
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Turn up the good, turn down the suck!
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08-30-2024, 10:33 AM
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#715
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#1 Goaltender
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"I think the eye test is still good, but analytics can sure give you confirmation: what you see...is that what you really believe?"
Scotty Bowman, 0 NHL games played
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08-30-2024, 10:33 AM
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#716
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by SutterBrother
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I won't post the link in case I am wrong, but someone in the r/canada Gaudreau thread seems to have found the driver's rap sheet. If it's true, apparently he is a former detective with a rap sheet so long, it took my mouse a few seconds to scroll all the way down. Basically, an absolute piece of ####. Will wait to see if it's actually confirmed to be him.
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08-30-2024, 10:33 AM
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#717
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by rohara66
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I've been sitting waiting for this to start since about 9:45, and they've pushed the start back twice already... Definitely going to be tough.
EDIT: #### I don't think I can listen to this, I'm gonna be a god-damned wreck at the office...
Last edited by timun; 08-30-2024 at 10:39 AM.
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08-30-2024, 10:34 AM
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#718
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Van Island
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Quote:
Originally Posted by shogged
just wanna talk about the mental health aspect of this news today. For a lot of us, this might be the first celebrity death that hits close to home. we might be asking ourselves why we feel these powerful emotions for someone we didn't know personally.
We are grieving more that just the individual today, we also grieve for our own emotional connections to johnny. Watching him play with friends, family, our community of flames fans and hockey fans creates a deep emotional bond, its painful when its severed. It also targets our identities; as flames fans we share that collective identity that johnny symbolizes and it feels like part of that is gone now. We mourn both the past and also what could have been.
it's important to remember self care today, to reach out to others and share our grief. check in on your fellow fans and share a memory or two. eat a good meal, get some rest, take a break from the screens.
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Thank you for this. Thank you very much.
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08-30-2024, 10:35 AM
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#719
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Crash and Bang Winger
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Everyone at my work that cares about the Flames has been walking around in a bit of a fog this morning. I suspect there are going to be some early long weekends.
The Flames have lost people in the past, Beast, Mickey Renaud... but this one is just different.
There was lots of anger when Johnny left Calgary, but it wasn't a result of hatred. It was an expression of hurt at losing someone that fans loved so much. Pretty clear from social media and boards like this that Flames fans never fell out of love with their superstar.
RIP Johnny.
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08-30-2024, 10:36 AM
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#720
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First Line Centre
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Still can’t believe this news. Hockey doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things but the posts on this thread show how much Johnny meant to Flames fans. Can only hope his family can somehow cope with this loss. Just awful.
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