06-24-2013, 01:06 PM
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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20 years of awkward Bettman Cup ceremonies.
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06-24-2013, 01:39 PM
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#2
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Powerplay Quarterback
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hahahahaha #1 was awesome. The text was almost better than the vids........well donee!!
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06-24-2013, 05:43 PM
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#3
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#1 Goaltender
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I don't think you can watch the '01 Ray Bourque cup celebration without getting goosebumps
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06-24-2013, 06:10 PM
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#4
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: The Void between Darkness and Light
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cheerio
I don't think you can watch the '01 Ray Bourque cup celebration without getting goosebumps
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The Red Wings cup with Konstantinov brings me to tears every time.
My wife just came in after doing her nails, "Why are you crying?"
"BECAUSE VLADY JUST GOT PRESENTED THE CUP IN A WHEELCHAIR *blubbering*"
Gets me Every.Single.Time.
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06-24-2013, 06:13 PM
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#5
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Makes me hate Raymond even more that piece of garbage can suck it. Guys on that team went to war to get him a cup and then he calls Tampa to give them words of inspiration, while the opponent has yelle and reinprecht.
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06-24-2013, 06:25 PM
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#6
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That Brind'Amour one was hilarious. I watched that final with a bunch of Oiler fans and the TV was probably off by then. Too funny.
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06-24-2013, 06:40 PM
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#7
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sunshine Coast
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I pretty much don't watch the ceremonies for any sports. I find them mostly boring and pretentious. The game is over, the race is over, change the channel.
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06-24-2013, 06:52 PM
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#8
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First Line Centre
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I was too busy celebrating at a bar in Vancouver when the Canucks lost I didn't see any of that ceremony. Probably couldn't hear all of it over the fans cries
Worst fans in the NHL
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06-25-2013, 01:20 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Field near Field, AB
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Agreed. I think that watching a team win is glorious. That watching the race be won is fun. When it's not your team, the celebration is voyeuristic.
You can say this team is going to win or this team is going to win. You can have a bet which makes it more exciting. However, I don't think there is the replacement of a celebration when your team actually wins!
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06-25-2013, 01:25 AM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: At a garage sale
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#1 was hilarious! Bettman wasn't even finished talking before Rod skated away with it...lol!
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06-25-2013, 01:49 AM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada aka Flames Country
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Someone posted this on Twitter, it got a laugh out of me:
"I love how much they boo Bettman whenever he opens his stupid, useless, lockout enabling mouth."
Bettman just seems awkward when presenting the Stanley Cup, lol.
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06-25-2013, 02:39 AM
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#12
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Calgary
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Think you can add this one tomight to the list as well as Jim Hughson couldn't help but talk through the beginning of Betmans speech.
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06-25-2013, 07:37 AM
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#13
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Calgary
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Bettman doesn't deserve the treatment he gets during presentations. People are just sheep and boo mindlessly.
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06-25-2013, 07:47 AM
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#14
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by JeanLucPicard
Bettman doesn't deserve the treatment he gets during presentations. People are just sheep and boo mindlessly.
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Completely agree. If you asked most of the person in the building why they are booing they wouldn't be able to give you reasonable response. Bettina gets way too much credit when things go wrong with the league nod not enough credit when things go right. He has done a great job growing the game and saving the Canadian franchises when all but two could have folded. He deserves the reect of the fans not what we saw and heard last night.
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06-25-2013, 08:08 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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This year's verdict: https://twitter.com/DownGoesBrown/st...62268632399874
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Originally Posted by @DownGoesBrown
Initial thoughts: 8/10 crowd, 3/10 handoff, 3/10 awkwardness. That was a solid performance by Bettman. Not a top ten presentation.
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06-25-2013, 08:12 AM
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Self-Ban
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"Bettman greets Brown by grabbing him by the arm, probably to prevent him from reacting to the contact by instinctively diving."
Nice.
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06-25-2013, 08:16 AM
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CP Pontiff
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: A pasture out by Millarville
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JeanLucPicard
Bettman doesn't deserve the treatment he gets during presentations. People are just sheep and boo mindlessly.
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I think every commissioner is booed in every sport at the championship hand off ceremony.
Pick a sports commissioner name, google it with "booed" attached and you're off to the races.
Is there actually a sports league commissioner who is popular?
Cowperson
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06-25-2013, 08:41 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Haparanda
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If you're a commissioner, don't expect to be loved. NHL has 30 teams, 30 different fanbases, he can't please all of them at the same time, of course you are hated. Still he's doing a good job, even though he's awkward. 
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06-25-2013, 08:43 AM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Sweden
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People watch these things?
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06-25-2013, 08:50 AM
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#20
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Calgary
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This is an early-NWO era level of heat. Remember, many of these fans left the building and immediately rioted. They are not happy.
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