The AHL homepage announced that Lenny was traded to Planet USA for tonight's game! Each side only has two goalie's now. More playing time perhaps?
http://www.canoe.ca/AHL/04AllStar/2004/02/09/341748.html
Bait and switch. :-( You bastard. :-P
Clever. Very clever.
Wrong. Very wrong.
Lenny's gonna be playing alongside former Hobey Baker winner Ryan Miller, who may be inadvertently responsible for Lenny *not* getting the Hobey last year. I know it's not really Miller's fault, but still...grr...
Uh-oh, does this mean Melissa will have to root for the USA? :-}
she has no choice ... ;-)
Lenny didn't sound too excited about the switch in his pre-game interview.
At least someone finally figured out that LeNeveu's CU is Cornell, not Colgate.
[Q]Lenny didn't sound too excited about the switch in his pre-game interview.[/Q]
I thought that was pretty funny...
Interviewer: So for tonight, you're proud to be an American, right?!
Lenny: ...
Lenny: ...I guess so.
Quotecanucksfan wrote:
At least someone finally figured out that LeNeveu's CU is Cornell, not Colgate.
Those of us sitting in #lynah are taking credit for that, since we all simultaneously used the Fox Sports feedback form to notify them of their error. :-D
jerk ;-) ::grumbling to myself::
Thanks. I wanted to call someone, but didn't know who tho bitch to. I figured that the way they repeatedly mentioned Cornell at the end of the period meant somebody got to them.
JH
Come on John. You know better than that! :-P
I was perplexed when I saw him playing for planetUSA last nite. Cheered loud for Canada all the same. One player (albeit a Cornellian) does not a traitor make!
Quotemelissa '01 wrote:
Come on John. You know better than that! :-P
I was perplexed when I saw him playing for planetUSA last nite. Cheered loud for Canada all the same. One player (albeit a Cornellian) does not a traitor make!
Really? I rooted for both Canadian teams in the Olympics because of Joe and Dana.
I was also cheering for the Swiss guy on PlanetUSA. B-]
And that's cool - but Canadians seem to align themselves with their national hockey teams to a huger extent than Americans do. Despite having Lenny on the team I was rooting against PLUSA wholeheartedly. I cheered everytime we scored on him - and then felt a little bad for doing it but was happy all the same. For a country that prides itself on hockey and views it as such an integral part of its identity there are few reasons whatsoever to cheer for the opposition - tho I'm sure Lenny's parents were at least riding the fence - and rightfully so with a famaily member playing!
I should also point out that when Canada is out of contention I normaly cheer for the US. I'm not a hater - just have to exhibit my "true patriot love"!
hmmmm, k ::screwy::
Quotemelissa '01 wrote:
For a country that prides itself on hockey and views it as such an integral part of its identity there are few reasons whatsoever to cheer for the opposition
One only need read Dryden's Home Game to realize how truly important hockey is to Canada's cultural identity. It's sorta like the Superbowl, the 4th of July, apple pie and the Marshall Plan all rolled into one.
Americans align themselves to a national team proportional to its likelihood of winning.
What this says about us, I leave as an exercise for the reader.
But Canadians seem to stick by their national teams, at least their hockey teams, no matter what.
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Greg's point about winning teams may say something negative about the US, but I think the fact that Americans don't care as much about national teams is very much a positive thing. I at least don't feel any need to rally behind my country's national sports teams with an us vs. the world feeling.
Example: there's been some publicity lately about a new baseball World Cup tournament. As a huge baseball fan I couldn't care less, as long as it doens't interfere with the season. I'd rather root for the Dominicans and Puerto Ricans and Japanese players on the Yankees than root against them to support the US national team.
... you anti-american bastard!!!;-) :-}
btw ... no one cares about baseball here, stop bring it up!::smashfreak::
[enter baseball fans to rip me a new one]
Keith wrote:
[Q]I at least don't feel any need to rally behind my country's national sports teams with an us vs. the world feeling. [/Q]
Was that true in 1996 for the hockey World Cup?
Going into the tournament, I don't think the Americans were expected to win, or even finish in the top 3, but I know many hockey fans who took a big interest in those games.
The same is true for me in baseball -- although I haven't known many of the players on the US baseball teams in the Olympics, I've still been rooting hard for the US (unfortunately, we won't have that chance this year). And if the World Cup comes off, I think Americans will rally around the team, because for a large number of people, baseball is still national pastime (somewhat like hockey in Canada, it is ingrained in the fabric of our lives growing up).
We stick by them but when they don't meet our expectations we shred them to pieces - as was the case with this year's junior team and the 2002 Olympic team for the first 2-3 games. It is funny that while we're tearing our underperformaing team to shreds we are still cheering for them, defending them against outside criticism and expecting a turnaround. We Canadians are a weird society when it comes to hockey, our expectations on a national level and our claim on it as our one true passions and areas of excellence. Tho some people seem a bit peeved at Lenny's pre-game comment I understand entirely. What else did the reporter expect from a Canadian guy that represented his country in a highly regarded international competition just over a year ago?
Hayes - good way to sum it up. I'm hoping that "Miracle" might help make the sport a little more important down here (at least for a short period of time - perhaps long enough to help prevent the predicted and highly dreaded 04/05 NHL stoppage).
Well, what is says is that our enemy in the world doesn't have teams in the sports we care about. Back in the 60's and 70's it was extremely im[portant that we beat the Russians (or their proxies) at everything we did.
Now that we are the big dog, I think it's less important. However, if al-Qaeda had a basketball team...
JH
Melissa '01 wrote:
[Q]It is funny that while we're tearing our underperformaing team to shreds we are still cheering for them, defending them against outside criticism and expecting a turnaround[/Q]
Sounds to me like a typical Boston sports fan.
QuoteCUlater '89 wrote:
Melissa '01 wrote:
[Q]It is funny that while we're tearing our underperformaing team to shreds we are still cheering for them, defending them against outside criticism and expecting a turnaround[/Q]
Sounds to me like a typical Boston sports fan.
Except that lately our teams haven't been underperforming much. :-D
Edit: Unless you count Harvard and BU...
Post Edited (02-10-04 17:26)
I was trying to say something along those lines but couldn't phrase it right. When it was "us vs. them" with the Soviets, then there was more reason for national rallying. But we won that war and the one we're in now is totally different.
Wouldn't it be great if bin Laden would show up in Athens to captain a basketball team?
QuoteKeith K '93 wrote:
Wouldn't it be great if bin Laden would show up in Athens to captain a basketball team?
Well, given the screen door approach to security that Greece has exhibited in the past. . .