That one I took as a joak

My apologies for missing the turn of the page. The previous photo of Ms. R does meet with my approval, even though it's lacking in detail.

So here's something new. (Actually, probably old. Like the rest of us, she ain't getting any younger.

Not sure what to make of this strange piece of business,,, some might take that slur as a compliment
“The league reinforced, in an emailed statement to The Free Press, that a player may not target another member of the OHL community in an attempt to provoke them on the basis of their religious or cultural background.

“All forms of harassment and abuse including, but not limited to, taunts and slurs and comments based on race, age, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, marital status or disability will not be tolerated and are completely unacceptable under any circumstances,” the statement said.”

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Not sure what to make of this strange piece of business,,, some might take that slur as a compliment
“The league reinforced, in an emailed statement to The Free Press, that a player may not target another member of the OHL community in an attempt to provoke them on the basis of their religious or cultural background.

“All forms of harassment and abuse including, but not limited to, taunts and slurs and comments based on race, age, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, marital status or disability will not be tolerated and are completely unacceptable under any circumstances,” the statement said.”

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"This is not the first time Sim has been disciplined by the OHL. He was kicked out during warmup before Game 5 of last year’s Western Conference Final against the Saginaw Spirit for language used toward a Spirit defender. The OHL suspended him for five games after “contravening the league’s diversity, maltreatment and bullying policy and its pre-game warm-up policy.”

I think running off at the mouth should be tolerated, if not encouraged ... so long as we call it gamesmanship, all should be right with the world.  

Actually some of the "banter" can be pretty witty, so I wouldn't like a total ban; I dunno just how/where to draw the line or how to "enforce"* the rule/"code"/??.

* - Hmmm ... "enforce"  ... now there's an idea worth investigating .... I wonder if it's been tried before.

Too late to edit:  Occasionally the UngerReview https://www.ungerreview.com/ pops up on my Facebook page, and though I don't follow it much, occasionally it has something funny (?) ... IMNSHumbleO.

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Too late to edit:  Occasionally the UngerReview https://www.ungerreview.com/ pops up on my Facebook page, and though I don't follow it much, occasionally it has something funny (?) ... IMNSHumbleO.

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Your link had another story that caught my eye,, and since I mentioned pacifist Mennonites in regard to DC/MD's poppy rant ,,,,, well.....

What the *(&^*%  ?!?!?   

Washington vs. Maple Laffs just now. On what might have been a third goal for Wash. it was ruled "no goal" because the Wash. player made contact with Woll in the crease.   But Woll didn't even see the shot and was making no attempt to move to stop it ... so, even though there was contact, there was no impeding of Woll's movement and therefore there was NO INTERFERENCE >>>> "We [should] have a good goal." 

... Aren't you glad you asked??? 

The reverse of when a batter doesn’t move or even moves part of his body in the way of an inside pitch,,,, he gets first (foist in Brooklyn) base

as for the Woll situation, methinks the refs are told "zero tolerance" bumping the goalie. Sorta like a guy accidentally gets his stick up and hits an opponent in the head.  The nuanced judgement it takes to discern the sin or non-sin is too much for on the ice (hice in Moan-ray-all) calls.

And there you have it facebook.com/reel/146264822108...&s=TIeQ9V

So, in effect the refs are being told to ignore:  "Goals should be disallowed only if: (1) an attacking player, either by his positioning or by contact, impairs the goalkeeper’s ability to move freely within his crease ...  ."  Wouldn't it be better to change the wording of the rule to match how it's gonna be called?

Since Woll made no attempt to move how could his movement have been impaired?   Even more disconcerting is that none of panel of experts even mentioned that Woll made no attempt to move.  

I'm gonna hafta pay more attention to beisbol ...  [i.e. reduce either my snoozing or my TIMing]. I thought they weren't awarding foist base when the batter kinda, sorta leaned in.... unless I'm getting whether or not the batter "offers at" a pitch mixed in there.

To split hairs, if Woll wasn’t able to move even if he had tried, it’s still the possibility that he wouldn’t have been able to stop the biscuit. Headache… ouch
In the playoffs this year some batter (I forget who or which game now) was awarded first base after he stuck his padded arm/elbow out and got hit. The commentators, eatin’ fried taters, remarked with incredulity….

What was stopping Woll from moving or trying to move?  There had been slight contact [i.e. Woll was not knocked off balance or out of position] as Dowd passed through the crease... and Dowd was out in front of the crease, screening Woll when the shot was taken ... Woll had the crease all to himself.  The only reason Woll didn't move was that he didn't even see the shot being taken.  The "situation room" (??) blew it.   

However it was nice to see the Laffs take advantage of the Caps lackadaisical play [i.e. absolutely no "urgency" to score what would have made it 4-2].  Also nice was seeing Marner go to the far side on the tying goal, rather than to the short side right to where the goalie was moving to .... unlike probably +90% of the players in a similar situation.  I guess the +90% see Ovechkin do it and, "What the hey?? ... I'm as good as he is, so why not?"]

Well, I had to look it up,, looks like he barely bumped him in the blue paint, not enough to hinder his movement, imho. So when is a bump not a bump not contact hindering the goaltender? I say it’s a 50/50 call,, Woll did move as the puck flew by him.
sportsnet.ca/nhl/video/capital...hallenge/

as for Marner, Ovie firing bulet-like shots , Ovie's one-timers will garner him a seat in the HoF

Geez Chuck ... 50/50 ???    More like 100/0!!   [And, I'll have you know I did will in math thru high school ..... although I really "hit the wall" with first year calculus].

On another "replay" matter, I'm no more conversant w.r.t. the technology than with ^^, but I figure it would be pretty easy to have a "pellet" in the center of the puck that sensors would detect so it would be easy to determine if it was deflected* in by a high stick.   Can do / should do question???

I suppose the same could be said for beisbol's strike zone, but somehow I'm less in favor of that.

* - same as "re-directed" I'm led to believe.

Methinks any sensor in a puck would go wonky after a few slappers,, but waddueye know about technology other than I can operate an electronic e-log in a semi.
I say it’s 50/50 from a ref’s point o’ view,, or the war room review beer drinkers. A bump in the blue paint as a shot is being fired and all that rot, y’know

... a steel (?) pellet (?) in the puck .... the sensors (?) or computer AI (?) generated algorithms (?),  or ??  "strategically" placed [around the rink, or up in the rafters, or ?] so as to detect when the pellet is above [or below ?]  5'7" Logan Stankoven's shoulder, or 6'7" Logan Stanley's shoulder, or the height of the crossbar, or  ???

On further thought (?) maybe a non-magnetic pellet.

[...and most of those ?? and (?) aren't "real" questions .... just indicating my uncertainty... or the possibility that there might be a better word.]

The "war room beer drinkers" reminds me of listening to Blue Bumblers broadcasts as a kid .... "Cactus" Jack Wells and his stats. man Mo Simovich (?). As the game wore on Jack's math deteriorated [eg. "First down ... Leo Lewis churns out 8 yards ... second and six as Kenny Ploen moves up under center... ." but his reminders for Mo to "... be careful and not knock my "Coke" (TM) over" increased in frequency.

Sounds like the old TeePees broadcaster Rex Stimers,, by the 10 minute mark of the third period his colour man Tommy Garriock would have to take over,,, Rex would be hoarse and teetering on the brink.

& not to be dismissive of our thread personality,, when the Barrie Flyers, DC/MD's junior team, were owned by Hap Emms (later Boston GM) , Rex brought up a few cans of paint from St. Catharines, gave them to Emms and said, "Here, why don't you paint this old barn; it looks terrible."   
btw, Hap Emms was a very religious man; he went into the dressing room and said a prayer with the players before every game. ('Course now you see baseball players looking and pointing to the heavens after a home run). Anyway, his son Paul , who coached junior for a while , ended up playing steel guitar in a country band that played the C&W bars and clubs around southern Ontario...wonder if he said a prayer every night in those bucket of blood joints. I saw him playing in a dive in Kitchener around 1983 , told him the Stimers/paint story - he laughed and admitted his Dad was a bit of a cheapskate. 

I'm guessing ^^ was radio .... IF it was TV, it could well have been a template for "reality" shows.   

Just t'other nite announcer mentioned a "a ten bell (something-or-other)"   ... it was for something other than a save, but it had me recalling you telling me/us about RS and wondering if the guy that said it was aware of the important hockey trivia.  

Harry Neale, when he was doing colour on HNIC, mentioned Rex and the origins of the bell rating of saves a couple of times.

Not bad for a kid from the Bluenose province
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Mike is scratching his head

my inter-city bus travels took me to Trawnna from St. Kitts , the hustle & bustle of Yonge St. got me revved up,,  'course we had to roam around Yorkville ,, that was in the folk-scare days when small coffeehouses like the Riverboat had big name talent booked.  & Sam the Record Man had the latest folk , blues (acoustic), & bluegrass LP's. 

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Memories! At the Riverboat (not all at once): Steve Goodman, Eric Andersen, and Kristofferson and his band who'd obviously been, er, toking, and were practically comatose (which is the way I feel, having to use my reading glasses after last Wednesday's cataract surgery - they did the second eye, now waiting to schedule the third). Did you get to Massey Hall? Livingston Taylor (opening for Tom Rush) was the first performer I saw there (first of many).

Yorkville was still buzzing. I brought my (cheap) guitar down once, met another guy, and we started playing and singing. A shop owner shooed us away, told us to try the parking lot down the street. We did, got a crowd singing, and drew a cop, who asked, "Who's in charge here?" Funniest thing anyone said all day. (We were singing "Down by the River" - maybe "I shot my baby" attracted the cop?)

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Huh???  I thought Ken Harrelson was "The Hawk."   

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Huh???  I thought Ken Harrelson was "The Hawk."   

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"Dawson's nickname, "The Hawk", was given to him by an uncle at a very early age. Dawson used to work out with a men's team that would hit him ground balls at practice. Dawson's uncle told him that most kids his age would shy away from the ball, but Dawson attacked the ball like a hawk."

"Kenneth Smith Harrelson (born September 4, 1941), nicknamed "the Hawk" due to his distinctive profile."

...so now we know, obviously