I dont know what teemu was talking about after the game, he had a direct quote asked from some reporter then selanne replied that "the ice in rexall was terrible"
I was laughing at this because 1) The ice in anaheim for game 1 looked brutal, puck bouncing etc. it did look better from watching on TV from game 2. I know that its california and its expected to an extent, im not complaining man straight up... I was just surprised when he said that, i know temmu isnt afraid to speak his mind, and thats cool, athletes who arent afraid to give the non-cliche answers, i got respect for, but lost some from that comment.
Obviously he knows more then I do playing on it himself and playing on many differnt ice surfaces over teemus career... the Humidity might have been a factor, the Ice at rexall a little bit, It did not look that horribly compared to the pond's ice or even the ice at Hp pavilion in san Jose... for the most part the game tonight was flowing good I thought, both teams had their legs going, esp. in the 3rd,
It just kinda sounded like Selanne was using it as a crutch for his team not winning, maybe it was out of context or whatnot, I think even anaheim fans would have to admit that the pace of game 3 was incredibily more entertaining in the 3rd period, then games 1 and 2 were combined, more forchecking, hitting, open ice play, and odd man rushes, and the quality of rexall place Ice is directly related to that.
we heard on the OLN broadcast the it was 70 and humid so sry
Ah, I see. Your first mistake was to believe something the OLN annoucers said. I do not see how Neil Smith was an NHL GM, he is completely clueless. The play-by-play guy is passable, but the rink side annoucers are downright bad.
His reference to your offense was a good one too. "Our scoring is like a Ketchup bottle, sometimes its hard to get out, but when you do it comes out fast" - classic!
MacT has had some good ones in the playoffs:
On the Larocque Cheechoo hit - "Sometimes your the windshield and sometimes your the bug" and on Pronger being a workhorse - "Yah, he comes back to the bench and we give him some straw and an apple and then send him back out".
He made a ketchup reference to Lupul's scoring four goals against Colorado. What the hell is his fascination with ketchup, anyway?
Ketchup bottle is a Finnish metafore often used to describe how a team/player can struggle to score but when they eventually do, (the bottle opens) they start piling them on. (Ketchup all over your burger/fries/fingers etc.)
It's quite funny when players use metafores from their own languages in english, as more often than not they make no sense whatsoever.
Are you actually listening to him be the color commentator? I am sure he knows something about hockey, but he does not sound like it on TV.
Isn't that the truth! He better enjoy his TV life, because the exposure he is getting there won't get him hired to be anything else.
As far as winning that cup goes, it is pretty clear how he put that team together. Other than Zubov/Leetch/Kovalev, all the key players came from Chicago and Edmonton. Credit for assembling them like that for one Cup run, I suppose, but it isn't like he was that crafty. Besides, getting to the Cup may have had something to do with Keenan working with those guys. So many of them were players that Keenan loves, it is almost like Mike was telling Neil which players to get.
GO DUCKS!
Yeah, that whole winning the Stanley Cup as GM of the Rangers...I'm sure you could do it.
