Copper & Blue Year-end Awards?
by Yeti# on Dec 27, 2011 10:10 AM MST
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PrintWhile pondering whether Sam Gagner would ever have enough collective hairs on his chinny-chin-chin to make remotely convincing facial hair, I figured it would be nice to perhaps collect together suggestions for the C&B posts of the year. I'm hoping people might consider making suggestions in the comments below, if possible adding a link to the post they suggest. Perhaps it was one of Scott's pieces that push the envelop in terms of 'saw math good'? Or did you take a fancy to Ben's unrestrained verbal massacre of one more Oiler performance that simply didn't cut it? Could it be one of the great reports we've had from the farm? Or maybe it was Derek giving the Minnesota Wild a statistical golden shower?
There's been lots of great articles on these pages in 2011, so why not make suggestions below and then we then collect them into a poll to separate out the literary Halls from the Seguins.
Cheers,
Yeti.
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http://twitter.com/dean_papadatos/status/151718667674075137
Editor of The Copper & Blue, and leader of The Cult Of Hartikainen.
OK. I’ll get the ball rolling. I greatly enjoyed the day that a 9-2 ass-kicking of Chicago interfered with the poisonous vitriol Ben had planned for his post-game review. And yet he still somehow manages to sound bitter. Go figure.
One gem from that post:
Duncan Keith? Sit down, son; you’re getting your ass kicked by an 18-year-old who can’t pick a last name.
by Yeti# on Dec 27, 2011 10:56 AM MST reply actions 3 recs
I don’t know if anything can top this rant (at least until the post-game for game 82 this year).
by melancholyculkin on Dec 27, 2011 12:28 PM MST reply actions 1 recs
This is one of my very favorite things ever written here.
You are an enormous, fetid lump of stupidity, like scientists found away to distill pure awfulness into a solid and then molded it into the shape of a man, a shambling, mindless Frankenstein’s monster who stumbled around and was capable only of hideous vocalizations, almost but not quite human, about “rebuilds” and “competing” and “the future”.
That feels good just to read. I can’t imagine the catharsis involved in writing the sentence.
Editor of The Copper & Blue, and leader of The Cult Of Hartikainen.
You know, I actually feel sort of bad about that one looking back on it. I mean, I stand by what I said about the strategy behind the trade but I gave Teubert a way harder time than he deserved.
Manager at Vancouver Whitecaps and western Canadian soccer website Eighty Six Forever and infrequently-posting flunky at Edmonton Oilers blog The Copper & Blue.
by Benjamin Massey on Dec 27, 2011 1:24 PM MST up reply actions
I’m doing well so far.
Manager at Vancouver Whitecaps and western Canadian soccer website Eighty Six Forever and infrequently-posting flunky at Edmonton Oilers blog The Copper & Blue.
by Benjamin Massey on Dec 27, 2011 12:41 PM MST reply actions
I also particularly liked when Derek, after all the kerfuffle with Wild fans, goes with the only logical headline for the post-game last week.
by melancholyculkin on Dec 27, 2011 12:42 PM MST reply actions 1 recs
There was a verse by Scott earlier this year, but I’ll be damned if I can find it.
Editor of The Copper & Blue, and leader of The Cult Of Hartikainen.
Scott's Verse
This is one of his all-time best.
Editor of The Copper & Blue, and leader of The Cult Of Hartikainen.
by Derek Zona on Dec 27, 2011 12:49 PM MST reply actions 1 recs
Being the self-righteous, navel-gazing douchebag that I am, I’m still rather partial to this gem:
http://www.coppernblue.com/2011/1/9/1919407/a-theory-of-hockey-pessimism-nihilism-and-the-search-for-truth
but despite shamelessly plugging my own writing, (and feeling guilty for rarely contributing anything here or at my own blog anymore as I am too involved in my own research project to emerge from my nerd cave), I have to say that Massey’s quote from above really does express most of the vitriol and loathing I feel about this team on a day to day basis and is definitely one of the best things I’ve ever read on any blog ever…
I don’t know if I could pick one in particular, but reading dawgbone’s strategy pieces is always a fun and educational experience.
Loyal fan of the Edmonton Oilers. Don't you judge me.
by Ben Johnston on Dec 27, 2011 1:06 PM MST reply actions 2 recs
Agreed. I’ve learned more about hockey in 3 months from dawgbone than an entire lifetime of Don Cherry.
by melancholyculkin on Dec 27, 2011 5:23 PM MST up reply actions
Just a short one, but delivering the best news of the season so far: http://www.coppernblue.com/2011/11/15/2565546/cam-barker-out-for-a-month-oiler-fans-secretly-pump-fists
by Kavy on Dec 27, 2011 5:31 PM MST reply actions 2 recs
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