The Lynah and E-Lynah Gestapo

[Killer]

[Q]Jeff Hopkins '82 Wrote:

On the other hand, if they have cops coming down to take pucks away when they leave the rink, that's just too much.  Next thing you know they'll keep people from throwing hats on the ice after a hat trick.  There's a reasonable compromise here.  Work with The Red Line and Schafer to make it happen.

JH [/Q]

Do they really take pucks away now?  During games or just warmups?  Anyway, that's absurd either way.  One of the joys of being at a game, rare as it might be, is going home with a souvenir puck.  In all my years of going to games while a student, I only came away with one.  But it was a memorable one: 8-4 over Harvard, 2/11/76 (the game wasn't as close as the score).  I still have that puck, labeled with a piece of old athletic tape.  Just let those bastards come and try to take that one away.  They'll have to take away my guns too. :-(

[Pete Godenschwager]

[Q]Do they really take pucks away now?[/Q]

I've picked up a bunch of pucks during warmups and never had them taken away.  I think it may have just been for the Clarkson game.

[canucksfan]

I can't believe that they would start taking pucks away...one of my favorite pieces of memorabilia from last year's undefeated home season is a puck that hit me in the stomach. The bruise was definitely worth it.

[CowbellGuy]

The cops were told to take away pucks after that puck was tossed back on the ice on Friday and bounced off a player's glove (surely resulting in a compound fracture and the end of his playing carreer ::rolleyes:: ). So far, I've only seen them do it during warmups, but it's just another case of overreaction in Lynah. I have to think if conditions weren't getting so ridiculous, we wouldn't see things like bottles and other crap being thrown on the ice. People are just finding other ways to vent (not that I condone it).

Oh, and Facetimer, if you end up with a nasty cold, consider it a present from me to you.

[Facetimer]

[Q]CowbellGuy Wrote:

Oh, and Facetimer, if you end up with a nasty cold, consider it a present from me to you.
 [/Q]

Wink wink. ;-)

[Erica]

[Q]8-4 over Harvard, 2/11/76 (the game wasn't as close as the score). [/Q]

That doesn't sound particularly close.

[Ben Rocky '04]

I sorta see it like this:  Bringing your kids to lynah means that you accept that they might hear people screaming "hey Dannis, your mom called, she said : you suck" & that they might see a fist fight on the ice.   Its just like showing them an R rated movie.  
Now society is currently leaning towards the concept that 'naughty' and 'obscene' words destroy and damage children's minds.  What a load of shit.  
Yes, I understand the back of my ticket may say that I cannot 'curse like a trucker', but that doesn't mean I agree with it, or that I intend to oblige their request.  At the rate the rules are changing, soon they only thing we'll be able to chant is "good luck!" and "lets go red."  To me, that is a loss of everything Lynah stands for.

[Facetimer]

[Q]Ben Rocky 04 Wrote:

Yes, I understand the back of my ticket may say that I cannot 'curse like a trucker' [/Q]


I find it appauling the way we stereotype truckers.  Not everyone gets the opportunity to attend an Ivy League institution.  Perhaps some of us should try to become slightly more tolerant of others.

[ugarte]

[Q]CowbellGuy Wrote:
Oh, and Facetimer, if you end up with a nasty cold, consider it a present from me to you.
 [/Q]CG and FT sittin' in a tree...

[Ben Rocky '04]

Well said.  Let's not act like a bunch of classist c'gate fans.

[Ack]

Yeah, I've also walked away with a few this season from warmups.

[Ack]

[Q]ugarte Wrote:

 CowbellGuy Wrote:
Oh, and Facetimer, if you end up with a nasty cold, consider it a present from me to you.
 CG and FT sittin' in a tree...

[/Q]

...blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah

[Killer]

[Q]Erica Wrote:

 8-4 over Harvard, 2/11/76 (the game wasn't as close as the score).

That doesn't sound particularly close. [/Q]

That's the beauty of it.  As bad as that seems, it was even more one-sided than 8-4 would indicate.  I think Harvard got a meaningless goal or two somewhere late in the game.  It just pained me to have to put a "4" on the puck for them.  "2" would have been much nicer.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

I agree.  Age, you may run the board, but this time, I have to say...

Take it offline!

[billhoward]

[Q]canucksfan Wrote:

 I can't believe that they would start taking pucks away...one of my favorite pieces of memorabilia from last year's undefeated home season is a puck that hit me in the stomach. The bruise was definitely worth it. [/Q]

Tell them it's being retained as evidence, under instructions from your attorney.