Q Game Thread

RichH

Trotsky

Scersk '97
when your alternative is the wonderfully pugnacious but diminutive Ian Burt, you do what you have to do.

Was he "We gonna go?" "Um. No? "Wrong." "Oh. I guess so then."

And who was that? Yacey's Mom?

Leeor Shtrom, I believe.

God, that's right. Now he's going to be my neighbor.

Weder

Trotsky

Scersk '97
when your alternative is the wonderfully pugnacious but diminutive Ian Burt, you do what you have to do.

Was he "We gonna go?" "Um. No? "Wrong." "Oh. I guess so then."

And who was that? Yacey's Mom?

This was by far the best player quote from that era.

This was the exact wording from Ian's recounting:

"We were just having a conversation, I just asked him how the game was," Burt said. "I asked him why he didn't jump me and he was like, 'Oh, your back was turned.' He was like, 'You want to go with me?' and I [said], 'Not really, you'll probably beat me up.' He said, 'Well, let's go then,' and throws his gloves off."

Trotsky
"We were just having a conversation, I just asked him how the game was," Burt said.

It was 5–2 with less than two minutes to go in the third, and Shtrom had been getting absolutely shelled. Burt's clearly trying to make himself sound very innocent, and how he reports that conversation surely doesn't convey the acidic nature of his seemingly innocent query.

I have always imagined it was more, "So, how's the game going, eh?!" The goalie to goalie equivalent of "scoreboard, scoreboard." Kind of, "So, you've been seeing a lot of pucks tonight, eh? Too bad they keep going in the back of the net."

For a great discussion, see Give My Regard's wonderful hockey-l posting and Beeej's report of the conversation.

When Ian Burt told the story the following day, the acid was not lost on the listeners. It was Canadian humour, eh?

Scersk '97

Trotsky
"We were just having a conversation, I just asked him how the game was," Burt said.

It was 5–2 with less than two minutes to go in the third, and Shtrom had been getting absolutely shelled. Burt's clearly trying to make himself sound very innocent, and how he reports that conversation surely doesn't convey the acidic nature of his seemingly innocent query.

I have always imagined it was more, "So, how's the game going, eh?!" The goalie to goalie equivalent of "scoreboard, scoreboard." Kind of, "So, you've been seeing a lot of pucks tonight, eh? Too bad they keep going in the back of the net."

For a great discussion, see Give My Regard's wonderful hockey-l posting and Beeej's report of the conversation.

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