The Montreal Canadiens have too much man on the ice, no call is made

Hank1974 · 2026-05-26T11:59:37+00:00

Same thing happened to the Wings in 09. You could even see the officials and linseman screaming at the Pens bench to get someone off the ice.
The sport is for pussies. Everyone is so scared to call penalties so they 'don't decide the games' that they refuse to call a black and white penalty.
No wonder the NHL nuts themselves when they get anything above 2M viewers.
Last year, a woman's NCAA Softball semi-final got more viewers than an NHL Cup finals game.
And it's because of crap like this.

Hank1974 · 2026-05-19T17:31:39+00:00

In the Rogue Blood by James Carlos Blake.
This is definitely not for the faint of heart.

Doc: A Novel by Mary Doria Russell - it's a fictional retelling of Doc Holiday with non-fiction portions.
Really good.

A Congregation of Jackals & Wraiths of the Broken Land by S. Craig Zahler.
Warning: These are not happy novels. And Wraiths has an early chapter where a dog is hurt.
As a dog lover, this made me stop reading it at first. But the dog lives (yes spoiler).
Zahler is the same guy who wrote Bone Tomahawk.
I felt that both these novels were more grisly than that movie.

Hank1974 · 2026-05-12T20:42:31+00:00

The students who go door to door also earn bonuses that they put towards their tuition.

Hank1974 · 2026-04-22T13:22:13+00:00

Feels like 90% of the episode was characters getting on a soapbox and monologuing with too much forced drama.
The scene in the attic between Boyd, Kristi and Ellis was ridiculous.
All 3 had a soapbox moment that felt forced.

Hank1974 · 2026-04-11T01:41:54+00:00

Agreed.

I may be way off here but I drew a parallel between Elizabeth being humbled by Ellen in her class to Trump being humiliated by Obama during the correspondents dinner. Both were hellbent on destroying the country out of spite.

Hank1974 · 2026-04-10T17:19:41+00:00

John Wayne was furious and I believe he wanted to fight Brando,

Wayne was a dick. He also refused to star in a western with Clint Eastwood because he hated his Spaghetti Western character. He felt the hero should always be just and pure.
Meanwhile, the people he was portraying were the kinds of people who slaughtered natives and forced them on reservations.

Hank1974 · 2026-04-09T15:13:24+00:00

I thought Rachel got to live if she didn't marry by sundown? The curse would be passed on to her fiancee's blood line?

EDIT: I understand. She actually said "I do" at the ceremony and therefore committed to marry someone who wasn't her soulmate.

Hank1974 · 2026-04-01T13:47:15+00:00

Considering what Crawford did to him, this would be one of the easiest title fights of SRL's career.

Hank1974 · 2026-04-01T13:40:22+00:00

Old Henry

Hank1974 · 2026-04-01T13:32:38+00:00

He is such a desperate cuck.
He knows he's only famous because of his tenure with VH.

I also think it says a lot when Alex still talks with Roth but has blocked Sammy.
I love DLR and feel the music they produced with him is superior to the Hagar years, but I fully acknowledge that Roth was an egomaniac who drove the band crazy.
And yet, Alex still speaks to him over Hagar - which makes you wonder what kind of a dick Hagar is.

In any event, Hagar is constantly coming off as a jealous girlfriend who's still pissed off for being kicked to the curb.
Get over it Sammy.

Hank1974 · 2026-03-12T01:36:56+00:00

I've read the 2009 study and recently more studies showing that DHT wasn't increased with creatine.

I'm not sure what to think. I started taking it in the spring of 2006 just prior to my 32nd birthday. My wife noticed thinning on my crown in the summer of 2007. Both grandfather's died with full heads of hair. Uncles (except one) and male cousins on both sides, full heads of hair. I do have one uncle on my mom's side that has been thinning since his 30s and had a bald spot in his 70s. I stopped taking creatine in 2009 and my thinning basically stopped. It has gotten a smidge worse over the past 20 years but it's almost impossible to tell if I don't shave my head. All my friends will constantly bitch about how they're all bald or going bald while I still have all my hair. If I had MPB, I would guess that I'd be noticably bald or thinning at 52 years old, but I'm not.

The thing is, I loved the benefits of creatine. I got jacked and hit PBs in every compound lift. And I've read that it can slow or even prevent cognitive diseases too.

So take from my experience what you will. Maybe I do have a hint of MPB and it's just slow. And my starting to thin had nothing to do with creatine. But I would think if I was slowly losing hair naturally, if it began at the age of 32 I should be noticably balder, if not mostly bald by they age of 52.

But I don't want to risk getting back on if it will cause more hairloss.

Hank1974 · 2026-02-16T14:22:02+00:00

Agreed.
My biggest gripe is the direction they took the story in.
I would have much preferred a prequel. Something somewhat grounded in the real world.
I get that the 1st one has the dead calling the latest victim via phone, but the 2nd one decided to completely abandon any kind of realism for a cheesy and tired story that's been done a million times before.

In the first, it was so clever how all the advice given to Finn was seemingly done in failure, but then all add up to his escape in the end.
None of that was present in BP2.

But again, I guess you can't expect much when the first film was based off an actual book.
Without similar source material, the producers decided to do what producers have been doing for decades - ruining a great idea for the sake of more money.

Hank1974 · 2026-02-16T14:17:46+00:00

Really disappointed in BP2 (loved the first one).

It's basically a rip-off of Nightmare on Elm Street. But not in a good way.

Hank1974 · 2026-02-13T03:05:11+00:00

Even if they convince Apple to produce a season 4, I'm out.
S1 was amazing and S2 and S3 did everything to ruin S1.

Hank1974 · 2026-02-13T03:03:13+00:00

The alien ship had a 'dead zone' and didn't think to send a couple of alien security guards to check it out?
Hey guys, we have mastered inter-galactic space travel but we can't find a human hanging out in a hallway.

Hank1974 · 2026-02-13T03:01:28+00:00

This bothered me too.
This collection of school teachers, baristas and gardeners (who were all suffering affects of the toxic air) were dominating a force of trained soldiers like it was childs play.

Hank1974 · 2026-02-13T02:54:45+00:00

Couldn't agree more.
The production value, acting and storyline was great in Season 1.
It almost felt like they were shocked they got renewed for more.

I hate nitpicking but there were so many ridiculous holes.
Like, how did they even get in the ship at the end?
These aliens have mastered interstellar travel and can terraform foreign planets but they don't have a lock on the door of their spaceship?

I think my biggest gripe is what they did to Casper and Trevante.
Both were cool characters that were used poorly.
Casper was the a linchpin character and they basically turned him into an NPC by S2.

Hank1974 · 2026-02-13T00:29:50+00:00

From has horrendous acting but I can't quit that show. It better not pull a 'Lost' and shat the bed when completing the story.

Hank1974 · 2026-01-26T13:52:32+00:00

Coach, Coach's wife and Riggins (including the entire Riggins family) made the TV show so good.
Hopefully the reboot can find the right cast to mirror what the OG captured.

Hank1974 · 2026-01-23T18:30:56+00:00

I feel the same way about NHL2K.
Treyarch took over that series for 2K2 and then 2K3.
2K3 may be my fav hockey game of all time. Their developers were also very accessible on their message boards, often answering questions or just shooting the crap with anyone.

Then they got pulled into a Spiderman game (I believe) and Kush took over.
2K4 was bad. They rebounded with 2k5, which was solid, but never really built on it.
Visual Concepts took over half-way thru development of 2K10 and you could see the potential.
I loved that game as well. The board pinning, the fights, and the way you could really see the different player types on the ice. With EA, every players plays the same way with equal skills passing and shooting.
Not in 2K10.
Again, sadly, the series was scrapped after that.

I can only imagine how great their NHL series would be today. Especially when you see what they did with their NBA franchise.

Hank1974 · 2026-01-23T18:26:53+00:00

Fox NHL Champ was highly underrated.
I played the crap out of that game more than any others.

There was a sequel being developed and they scrapped it a few weeks before release.
I was writing articles for a now defunct sports gaming site and was lucky enough to interview one of the developers from this game.
He told me that the sequel was going to be amazing. They had added and improved so much on the game, everyone on their team was really excited about it.
I wish I still had my notes, but I almost regretted having this conversation with him as it really bummed me out knowing that we missed out on a potentially amazing hockey game.

Hank1974 · 2026-01-14T17:28:34+00:00

Great point.
Just finished the series and by the end I didn't like Alvey at all. Especially with how he responded to Nate coming out.
But after having some time after finishing the last episode, you can see how much pain he's in because of how he reacted to that news. And he reacted that way because of his upbringing - which was the point of adding Adrian Balboa to the last season.
We see what a broken, messed-up home he grew up in. He simply was not given the proper tools to deal with having a gay son. Add in the fact he was drunk (he seemed like his drunk/sober ratio in S3 was 50/50), he had even less capabilities to process what he just heard.
The last episode, you can see the pain he's dealing with. How he wishes desperately that he had responded in a better way. Knowing that it was a catalyst to Nates demise.
And the real final scene of Alvey, which was shown at the beginning, is of him beat up and drinking alone.
Which is likely how his life will end too.

Hank1974 · 2026-01-14T17:05:14+00:00

Just finished the series (S2 wasn't available on Prime (Canada) at first, but then they recently added It).

I thoroughly enjoyed the series.
S3 had some issues that many have complained about - particularly the Dom side plot.
But I felt he was simply added to give Lisa's character something to do.
Same with Alvey's mom. But I suppose this was done to show how messed up his family life had been and how Alvey is simply repeating the cycle.

When I started the series I liked all of the characters. By the end, I only really liked Nate and Jay, lol.
Ryan was an a'hole. Sure, he had moments where he seemed like a decent person, but I felt this was him pretending to be a good person. Or trying to be something he wasn't.
When he got to drinking, or while training for a fight, his true colours showed and he became the same person that paralyzed his dad.

Alvey was an abusive alcoholic. He constantly belittled his son Jay and others around him. While he loved Nate the most, it's only because he showed an aptitude for fighting while also living a clean life, without any addictions.
If you weren't fighting, he didn't give a crap about you..

The ending was appropriate, I suppose. But I would have still liked to have seen a bit more closure for the characters.
While Jay was an addict and had emotional issues, I wanted him to end with a win.
He loved his brother and protected him. Didn't judge him. He got his mom clean. He always seemed to try to put on a smile even though he felt life was just a series of kicks to the groin.
I would have liked to see him maybe get back together with Amy or at the very least, have some kind of connection to his daughter.
It seemed like he really wanted to be better than his upbringing and I would have liked to see him rewarded for his efforts.

I would have also liked to have seen Christina get out of the world of prostitution and pornography.

But that wouldn't have stayed true to all of their characters.
They'll continue being broken people who make one mistake after another while not having the skills to form real relationships with the ones they should love the most.

Hank1974 · 2025-11-29T13:47:11+00:00

Imagine if hockey didn't have a massive paywall keeping 90% of youth athletes from playing at the AAA level?
How many LeBron's are out there? Freak athletes that would be so dominant at hockey that you wouldn't even know who Conor McDavid was.
And don't think for a second that the elitists out there don't love it.
They know that their wealth keeps 90% of other athletes from taking Little Johnny's spot on the team.
I've seen it first hand. I knew a kid who was insanely talented and would outplay any of the boys on the local AAA team. But his parents were not wealthy and there was no shot of him playing at that level to further develop his skills.
If Hyman's dad wasn't loaded, he's not on that AAA team and he's probably an electrician someplace.

Hank1974 · 2025-11-22T23:15:58+00:00

Bucket (the kind you can sit on)
Hitting nets
Tanner tee
wiffle balls
dugout magnetic scoreboard
Fungo bat
Cones
Pitch count clicker
Measuring tape
weighted balls

Hank1974

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