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After 13 Years…Lemieux Is Still Garbage
by IwoCPO on 02/25/09 at 03:56 AM ET
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Make no mistake about it. Don’t let your foggy memory play tricks on you. Kris Draper’s back was to the ice. He was facing the boards. Claude Lemieux took his time, selected his angle, moved a few steps forward and brought his hands up high enough to place both fists between Draper’s shoulder blades.
Then he drove forward, smashing Draper’s face into the boards, almost at the edge of where the top of the bench ended.
Make no mistake about it. Claude Lemieux knew what he was doing. And let’s be real clear about something here.
Time hasn’t changed a thing about that incident. I don’t care about Draper “dusting off the old cliches”, which has ironically become one of the old cliches he can dust off. He still hates Lemieux. I don’t know if the Wings put “money on the board” in their room. I’d bet they don’t. Even if they did I doubt Draper or anyone else would be so stupid as to put a bounty on Lemieux’s head.
But I wouldn’t be surprised if there was one. I’m not going to count because that would take some serious research. But I’ll bet Kris Draper’s played in fifteen games against Claude Lemieux since ‘96. And I wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t casually put a thousand bucks on the trainer’s table before each of them, not saying a word, but letting the Wings know that anyone who takes Lemieux out can buy momma some new shoes…on Draper.
Claude Lemieux started a rivalry we all fondly remember. Of course it’s over now because Denver’s a terrible team, an inept organ-I-zation that’s lost its bandwagon base and its relevancy in their own city and state. But his hit on Draper started it. Had the Wings won that series? Maybe the hate toward Lemieux wouldn’t have escalated to the maniacal level it did. But the Wings lost and Lemieux’s role was cemented forever.
Time has changed a lot of things. Kris Draper won four Cups and a Selke while the guy who re-arranged his face with one of the dirtiest hits in history became a hockey hobo.
Now Lemieux’s return has actually become a feel-good story around the league. Claude wants to come back so his kids can see him play. He says the only thing his son knows about his career is what he reads on the internet.
In other words, the kid reads that his dad is nothing but a scumbag who made a living being a bitch and a cheap shot artist. If he wants to, he can read some of the same stuff today.
“Obviously, he (ticked) someone off last week when he got pummeled (by Edmonton’s Theo Peckham),” Chelios said. “He still managed to keep his mask (visor) on. What a surprise.”
Asked if he ever got in a fight with Lemieux, Chelios said: “When he was on my own team. Whether it was him cheating at cards or (ticking) someone off. He got under people’s skin on other teams as well as his own team, coaches, everybody. That was his thing. Not the most pleasant guy to be around.”
We’ve talked about hate here a few times over the years. Some would say that to hate another sports team, another group of fans, a particular player…is over the top. Some would say it’s irrational, even an indication your priorities are not what society says they should be.
I don’t know about all that, and I don’t really care. I’ve gotten over my hatred of the Dive. They’re a punchline now. I don’t care for their fans but, again, it’s hard to hate someone who has no ammunition to hate back. Even their bloggers are harmless little fruit flies, buzzing around from time to time trying to remind everyone that their team used to present a problem to the Wings.
But Claude Lemieux? Tha hate’s never going to fade because he won’t let it. He never apologized to Draper. Not one word. Not only that, he still doesn’t accept responsibility for it.
“I always said, I never hit Kris Draper. I hit a player that was there. I never went after him. I had no intention of hurting one guy verses the other. It just happened at that time, at that moment, he was there and he got hit and it was never intentional to try to hurt somebody, never mind hurt him. It happened, (in) a fraction of a second. It’s a quick game. It’s not like the guy had done something to me or I was trying to get back at him. There’s been a lot of hockey played since then.”
“Hit a player that was there…” What the hell is that supposed to mean? No, I don’t think Lemieux was targeting Draper specifically, just any Wing he deemed vulnerable. It could have been Primeau or Kozlov or Fedorov.
Or it could have been Yzerman.
Does the fact that he didn’t single out Draper make the hit any less cheap, or cowardly?
Of course, this wouldn’t be an issue if not for Doug Wilson and Todd McClellan. ‘97’s a long time ago and the different motivations that drove that team would have been historical footnotes, ones not likely needed this season…if the Sharks hadn’t decided to bring Claude Lemieux onto a first place team so he could play six minutes per night.
And since he’s joined San Jose? He hasn’t done jack squat.
Is this all there is to Claude Lemieux? Activating him Jan. 19 was a calculated move to give him six weeks of audition time before the trade deadline. No one expected the 43-year-old Lemieux to be a big scorer. But he has not injected as much consistent adrenaline as I thought he might — even when joined on the Monsters of Medicare line with fellow old guys Jeremy Roenick and Jody Shelley. Let’s see what happens Wednesday in Lemieux’s return to Detroit (where he is villain No. 1). If he has no effect on the game’s vibe or outcome, Wilson may wish to pursue another bang-it-up veteran for the fourth line.
Now that would be real justice right there. Lemieux was signed to give the Sharks an advantage in one matchup and one matchup only. And if he’s a non-factor tonite? How funny would it be if he were given his release? Maybe his son can read about it in the transaction wire.
Here’s what I’d like: a Kronwall explosion around center ice, early on. A collision that reminds Lemieux what the cold JLA ice feels like against his bloody head. Then? A Wing win, a convincing one. And then tomorrow or the next day? No fanfare, just a small announcement from San Jose that Claude Lemieux’s been released. Nice attempt, sir. Good effort. But we brought you here to have an impact against Detroit and all we got out of it was watching you try to pick yourself up like Creed in II after Kronwall blasted you into oblivion.
If you’re going to the Joe tonite? Don’t feel like you have to hold back because Lemieux’s attack on Draper occurred thirteen years ago. Let him have it.
And if he needs help leaving the ice after that Kronwall hit? No need for stunned, concerned silence. Nope. Go ahead and cheer because no one deserves it like that piece of trash.
Welcome home motherfu**er.
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I would laugh if he tried to smash Hudler, missed, and knocked himself bloody and out cold against the boards.
I never root for career-ending injuries, but this is the exception. He’s a despicable primate.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 02/25/09 at 06:23 AM ET
i hope Brad Stuart hip checks him through the glass and into the lower bowl, where he proceeds to get pummled by beer, a la Pistons vs Pacers a couple of years back…
then he comes back to the ice and gets checked into next week by Kronwall
Posted by Pharazon from England on 02/25/09 at 06:28 AM ET
Not here to debate the validity of anything you’ve said here- the treatment Lemieux receives tonight, and every game going forward, probably is very much deserved.
All I know is Mark Purdy is a fuc*ing moron, and has been a fuc*ing moron since the day I learned to read. He may about football and baseball, but hockey has never been his thing. If he refers to the Sharks one more time as “our beloved Los Tiburones” I’m jumping off the Golden Gate.
Claude has been a good contributor on the ice for that fourth line. Period.
Posted by Mr. Plank from San Jose, CA on 02/25/09 at 06:55 AM ET
what would be even sweeter is if drapes somehow mustered all his strengh that is left in him, caught this a-hole with his head down in the trolly tracks and sent this prick to h-e-double hockey sticks in an f-ing handbasket because there is no better place for him…but Drapes is unable to line him up, a flying Nick Jr. leaving his feet, elbow to the jugular, knee to the groin for extra measure, would be great too, and i don’t care if he gets suspended for it…I would take someone getting suspended for a Lepeaux a** kicking anyday. And after this devestating hit is going to take place, I don’t want to see Miss Lemieux back on the ice ever again!
Posted by yzer19man from Chicago on 02/25/09 at 07:19 AM ET
If he refers to the Sharks one more time as “our beloved Los Tiburones” I’m jumping off the Golden Gate.
But I think that’s an adorable nickname for the Sharks. The fans don’t like cute, I take it? 
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 02/25/09 at 07:23 AM ET
“our beloved Los Tiburones”
I believe the Tuna moniker has been replaced. Los Tiburones from here on.
D-Mac beat down The Turdle left & right literally and figuratively many times. The Turdle and Mac have made ammends, it’s all behind them.
Drapes hasn’t ever spoken to him, nor will he. Thats just something you dont forgive and never forget. No matter how you look at that incident, there’s no way to look at it and say it was a hockey play.
I never root for career-ending injuries, but this is the exception.
Well, his career was over once already & there’s a chance it’s on the brink again. That will either make him do something noticeable tonight in one of 2 ways; The cock$ucker will score or do something dumb.
As Dub said yesterday, “I miss #16”. The Impaler would be all over the Turdle on his first shift. Let’s hope Vladdie is in the house tonight and his spirit takes control of JR for a bit.
Posted by MOWingsfan19 on 02/25/09 at 08:21 AM ET
Very well put Chief. That puke Lemieux is the one sports figure I have ever known that I only wish the worst for.
Ever look at his eyes. Looks like a freakin wolf hybred.
Posted by Jeff from Loveland, CO on 02/25/09 at 08:44 AM ET
Who would collect on that bounty Chief, c’mon. This team is missing that type of element. It sure would be nice to see a Wings guy put him through the boards but won’t happen
Posted by bababooey on 02/25/09 at 08:50 AM ET
I see a lot of Red Wing Fans throwing out hate in this blog, yet if Lemiuex was on Red Wings and Draper was on the Avalanche when the hit happened. Lemiuex would be considered a hero in Detroit.
Get over it, it happend so long along NO ONE I MEAN NO ONE cares anymore.
Posted by SoundsLikeJealousytoMe on 02/25/09 at 08:59 AM ET
Epic post for an Epic Villain. I remembered Draper barely being able to talk, face swollen and stitched up, having to suck food through a straw.
I swear I would shed a tear if any of the boys took him out.
Posted by Osrt on 02/25/09 at 09:04 AM ET
Lemiuex would be considered a hero in Detroit.
Are you FU$#%$ Kidding me??? A lot of Dive fans think that moment was horrible, even if they appreciate the Cup he helped them get.
If you don’t get how Chief’s post could be written and why we all feel the same way, then *You* don’t Fuching get it. Go away.
Posted by Osrt on 02/25/09 at 09:07 AM ET
I see a lot of Red Wing Fans throwing out hate in this blog, yet if Lemiuex was on Red Wings and Draper was on the Avalanche when the hit happened. Lemiuex would be considered a hero in Detroit.
Get over it, it happend so long along NO ONE I MEAN NO ONE cares anymore.
Posted by SoundsLikeJealousytoMe on 02/25/09 at 08:59 AM ET
Sounds to me like you love the taste of puke and douche.
Lets Go Red Wings!!!!!
Posted by Kate from Pa.-made in Detroit on 02/25/09 at 09:10 AM ET
I see a lot of Red Wing Fans throwing out hate in this blog, yet if Lemiuex was on Red Wings and Draper was on the Avalanche when the hit happened. Lemiuex would be considered a hero in Detroit.
Get over it, it happend so long along NO ONE I MEAN NO ONE cares anymore.
Posted by SoundsLikeJealousytoMe on 02/25/09 at 08:59 AM ET
I’m pretty sure Kris Draper still cares, and that’s good enough for me.
Posted by J.J. from Kansas on 02/25/09 at 09:11 AM ET
Funny how the writer forgot to mention the fact that the Bad Teammate, the Bad Apple The bad person won HOW MANY STANLEY CUPS. I guess his cancer that he spread as a teamate must have gone over real well then. And by the way how did his team do the year that Leimeux took out Draper?
Hmmm, its seems to me the Cancers team did pretty well that year. Least we let facts get in the way.
Posted by SoundsLikeSourGrapes on 02/25/09 at 09:14 AM ET
I see a lot of Red Wing Fans throwing out hate in this blog, yet if Lemiuex was on Red Wings and Draper was on the Avalanche when the hit happened. Lemiuex would be considered a hero in Detroit.
Get over it, it happened so long along NO ONE I MEAN NO ONE cares anymore.
Since the Wings are still winning Cups, and Draper is still a Wing and Lemieux is atill breathing somewhere (through his mouth of course), we care…
Since the Avs have HEARD of winning, but aren’t entirely sure what it is anymore, and are playing in front of about about only 15,000 disinterested fans a night (that’s 24th out of 30 in the league—for God’s sake, terrible Tampa Bay is outdrawing The Dive), of course it’s no longer an issue for them.
And since the Sharks know only about big games and big moments though the filter of losing… it’s no issue for them. Yet.
Besides, Kris Draper can’t hear you—he has 4 Cup Rings plugging his ears.
Posted by Primis on 02/25/09 at 09:21 AM ET
All this hate from a organizations fans who seemed to have no problem with Todd Bertuzzi playing on there team.
I wonder how some people felt about that great rightous organ i zation acquired that great nice guy Bertuzzi. Talk about double standards.
Posted by RememberToddBertuzzi on 02/25/09 at 09:21 AM ET
Wow 15,000 fans, just about the same amount the Flings play to every night. HOws that sell out percentage in Detroit right now?
Posted by Sellout the Arena then Talk on 02/25/09 at 09:23 AM ET
Actually, if you search through the archives, we were very annoyed that Bertuzzi joined our team; we called him Stillwoozy. The only thing that gave us hope was our trust in Ken Holland (GM).
And were talking about that a$$holes hit on Draper, not how many Cups he won. He and Draper are equal on that count, and it’s irrelevant to a conversation about one of the dirtiest hits in hockey.
Posted by Osrt on 02/25/09 at 09:27 AM ET
A lot of Dive fans think that moment was horrible
I’ll back you up on that one. Lemieux did a lot of good things for the Avs, and I loved the rivalry that resulted. But that hit? That hit was only slightly less vile than what Bertuzzi did to Moore….and I don’t see a whole lot of Avs fans forgetting about that one and letting it go.
Posted by 19fan on 02/25/09 at 09:33 AM ET
Lemieux’s cheap hit on Draper made me very sad. It is just sports-fan stuff but he has a special place for me, and it is bad. Can’t put it into words.
Posted by Interference on 02/25/09 at 09:51 AM ET
Although I enjoyed D-Mac’s beat-down of Claudia as much as the next Wings fan, I was never comfortable with Draper having someone else do his fighting for him. No, Draper is not a fighter, but neither is Turtle. Some things you just have to take care of yourself, not have others do if for you.
If Draper had any sack, he’d steamroll that Buttmunch first chance he got and start wailing, even if his “punches” were Malkin-like sissy slaps—just get that monkey off his back once and for all.
Posted by O-Joe on 02/25/09 at 09:53 AM ET
All this hate from a organizations fans who seemed to have no problem with Todd Bertuzzi playing on there team.
I wonder how some people felt about that great rightous organ i zation acquired that great nice guy Bertuzzi. Talk about double standards.
Yeah, nobody here was happy about having Bertuzzi on our team.
Furthermore, a great captain like Joe Sakic can keep a team together, despite that Puke Lemieux being there. No Joe, no cups. Don’t give Lemieux any credit he doesn’t deserve.
Posted by J.J. from Kansas on 02/25/09 at 09:53 AM ET
Don’t give Lemieux any credit he doesn’t deserve.
Amen.
Posted by MOWingsfan19 on 02/25/09 at 10:31 AM ET
Wow 15,000 fans, just about the same amount the Flings play to every night. HOws that sell out percentage in Detroit right now?
3rd in the NHL at 98.6%, or 19,786 a game. Thanks for asking.
Oh yeah, and the Wings’ average ROAD attendance is 106.6% capacity so far, 18,835 a game.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/attendance
All this hate from a organizations fans who seemed to have no problem with Todd Bertuzzi playing on there team.
I wonder how some people felt about that great rightous organ i zation acquired that great nice guy Bertuzzi. Talk about double standards.
Wings fans hated it. Merchandise with his number and name on it didn’t sell, he was booed at home at times, and he was predictably washed-up and shuffled along.
Posted by Primis on 02/25/09 at 10:43 AM ET
Funny how the writer forgot to mention the fact that the Bad Teammate, the Bad Apple The bad person won HOW MANY STANLEY CUPS. I guess his cancer that he spread as a teamate must have gone over real well then. And by the way how did his team do the year that Leimeux took out Draper?
Yeah, Lemieux played on some good teams. But you notice he never spent very long with any one team. His BS ran pretty thin pretty quickly. And once those teams weren’t winning, they couldn’t stand to be around Claude anymore themselves.
I just hope the Wings win and if someone nails Claude’s head to the boards in the meantime, excellent.
Posted by bobby lang from Columbus, OH-IO on 02/25/09 at 10:46 AM ET
As satisfying as it would be to see him leave the ice on a stretcher, it might be just as satisfying to see Pavel and the gang skate circles around this waste of a human being.
Shame him on the ice. Turn his comeback into a mockery. Make him look out of place. I want to see him get turned inside out and burned by every player in red, especially Lils.
Bear down, crush the fish.
Posted by Nate A from Detroit-ish on 02/25/09 at 11:27 AM ET
As much as we are all hoping for a little confrontation (I’d love to see the Turtle relive his 1996 collision with Konstantinov thanks to Kronwall), I just don’t see it happening. They are too classy to get involved with him and his presence will be a tiny little blip on their radar.
As for the fans, give him a nice Detroit welcome. 
Posted by Aimee in Austin on 02/25/09 at 11:30 AM ET
As for Fraude LePuke, let the Wings ignore him and skate circles around him. Burn him for a goal or two. That would give me the best satisfaction. He is a known locker room cancer. Why do you think Roy was the only one that would stand up for him on 3/26? Hmm, maybe because no one else could stand him?
Oh and as for the Avs, they are lucky if they are pulling in 13,000 a night. I’ve been to several games this year where they were only expecting 9,000 people.
It still grates on me that Bertuzzi wore the Winged Wheel. He didn’t deserve to wear that sweater much as he shouldn’t be playing in Calgary right now. He never should have been allowed back in the league and that is how I will always feel about it.
Posted by hockeychic from Denver, CO on 02/25/09 at 11:37 AM ET
Oh get the F@#$ over it allready, it was 12 years ago. Hardly surpring Wings fans will never admit that their hero McCarty sucker punched Lemieux and then pounded a defenseless man while he was down. You brush it off as “Turtling” and “Justice”... it’s obvious where Bertuzzi got the idea from when he did the same thing. Where were your comments when Dirt Claude showed major stones taking on your goon from the faceoff and clearly holding his own?
And before you get your panties in a wad, I don’t give a rat’s A$$ about either Detroit or Colorado. Other than Sakic and Yzerman, there is a serious lack of class on either squad. .. and their fans.
Posted by sean from T O on 02/25/09 at 11:39 AM ET
Perspective. I gotta quote Malik on this one.
“the Wings have to focus on bringing their best games forward and working on the shift-by-shift details”
The Sharks know who they have to get past in the playoffs. Lemieux was brought back for one purpose, to get in the Wings head. Todd, Todd, Todd wants the Wings playing that game from yesteryear.
Screux Lemieux. He is only as big as the Wings allow him to be. Play 60 and win.
Posted by Rumbear from Top O da Hasek, when in doubt, pinky out on 02/25/09 at 11:43 AM ET
Detroit or Colorado. Other than Sakic and Yzerman, there is a serious lack of class on either squad. .. and their fans.
Well, that retarded statement just invalidated anything else that might escape your jizz encrusted lips.
Douchebag.
Posted by TeamDub from The gratch. on 02/25/09 at 11:53 AM ET
Don’t argue with an Idiot. He’ll drag you down to his level and then beat you with experience.
Posted by RWBill from the Land of 12 in 12. on 02/25/09 at 12:15 PM ET
Todd, Todd, Todd wants the Wings playing that game from yesteryear.
um, OK. I’d be fine with that. if Todd really wants that, he doesn’t know what he’s messing with.
since they brought back Lemieux, can we bring back Rouse, Kocur, and Ward? heck, what’s Gerard Gallant up to these days?
Posted by PaulinMiamiBeach on 02/25/09 at 12:18 PM ET
^lol. Agreed.
And if you wouldn’t beat the Sh#$ out of someone who broke your best friend’s face then you have no idea what class is.
Besides, I’m sure we can get that classless goon Lidstrom to beat your a$$.
Posted by Osrt on 02/25/09 at 12:21 PM ET
Other than Sakic and Yzerman, there is a serious lack of class on either squad. .. and their fans.
You wear special shoes, don’t you?
OT: Wings were scouting Atlanta-Dive last night:
http://blogs.ajc.com/atlanta-thrashers-blog/2009/02/24/happy-homecoming-so-far/
Eeeeeeeeeeeeen!
Posted by O-Joe on 02/25/09 at 01:00 PM ET
“I want to fight him,” Chelios said, smiling. “We’ll set it up at Cheli’s Chili Bar afterward. Pay-per-view. It would be awesome. Everyone in Detroit is waiting for something to happen.”
please. Claude wouldn’t make it from his limo to the front door before a pile of fans beat Chelios to the punch, as it were.
Posted by PaulinMiamiBeach on 02/25/09 at 01:01 PM ET
There wasn’t a day that Bertuzzi was with Detroit that I didn’t root for him to blow out his knee. The man shouldn’t be playing for what he did. It doesn’t matter what uniform he wore then or what uniform he wears now, and if he catches hell from opposing fans in every arena then I have no sympathy for him.
On Lemieux, the best outcome would be if by the end of the game (whatever the outcome) he had been so invisible that no one could really remember if he had even been on the ice or not. A complete non-factor for the beloved Los Tiburones.
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 02/25/09 at 01:05 PM ET
‘PROVIDERS’
Posted by Lurker on 02/25/09 at 01:18 PM ET
Get over it. How many years ago now? How many discussions? How many times has Lemieux’s ass been kicked? Enough already. Living in the past - might as well stick one foot in the grave.
Posted by Lurker on 02/25/09 at 01:18 PM ET
@ Lurker: Why stick around when you disagree with everything said here? To save us with your rational brilliance?
Posted by Osrt on 02/25/09 at 01:57 PM ET
Living in the past - might as well stick one foot in the grave.
You mean like Claude Lemieux? funny you don’t tell him to stop living in the past.
Posted by PaulinMiamiBeach on 02/25/09 at 02:14 PM ET
OK, who did it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Lemieux
Claude “The Canoe” Lemieux aka The Turtle Bitch (born July 16, 1965 in Buckingham, Quebec) is a Canadian professional turtle impersonator with the San Jose Barfs of the NHL. He is one of only eight players in NHL history to win the Stanley Cup with three different teams and his 80 career playoff goals are the ninth most in NHL history. Lemieux is also a former president of the ECHL’s Phoenix Roadrunners. He is perhaps the biggest assbag in the history of the NHL, although current NHL player, Sidney Crosby, is on track to stealing Lemieux’s decades long title.
Posted by O-Joe on 02/25/09 at 02:15 PM ET
Great Wiki link O-Joe!
Scroll down under Awards & Acheivements…
Oldest Turtle able to skate on ice
Posted by Rumbear from Top O da Hasek, when in doubt, pinky out on 02/25/09 at 03:47 PM ET
Ah…reminder, Lemieux has 4 stanleys and a conn smythe. As previous commenter mentioned, Detroit had no problem signing Todd Bertuzzi, so don’t act all high and mighty. Besides, any hit on Kris Draper is a good hit.
Posted by sharkie9000 from delaware on 02/25/09 at 04:20 PM ET
Hockey fans, in general, have long memories.
Wings fans have very, very long memories with Fraud Lepuke.
And for you outsiders who don’t get it? Just leave.
Posted by SYF from a "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp" on 02/25/09 at 05:01 PM ET
Sellout the Arena then Talk
WIN A CUP, then Talk.
Muerte a los Tiburones. Enfermos de la concha sidosa!
Posted by Juan Caballero from Paraguay on 02/25/09 at 05:08 PM ET
First it was Colorado and their cheap shots and big talk but where are they now?
Then it was Trashville and their cowponey fans and their big talk but where are they now?
Then it was Anahaslime and thier Might Duck dribble but where are they now?
Then it was Dallas and their redneck sewer trash talking but where are they now?
Now its these “never won anything” Sharks and their fans.
Take note Shark fans we have heard it all before. You are nothing but the flavor of the year. We all know that everyone wishes they could be a Red Wings Fan and we dont blame them for that. Maybe if someone could hang around for more than a year or two we might show you a little respect. Win something and put together a few seasons of being competitive. Until then f**k off or jump on the band wagon.
Posted by Surfer Ken from San Clemente on 02/25/09 at 05:37 PM ET
@ Lurker: Why stick around when you disagree with everything said here? To save us with your rational brilliance?
Posted by Osrt on 02/25/09 at 01:57 PM ET
You should examine your implicit assumptions…
Living in the past - might as well stick one foot in the grave.
You mean like Claude Lemieux? funny you don’t tell him to stop living in the past.
Posted by PaulinMiamiBeach on 02/25/09 at 02:14 PM ET
Lol - Chelios is 47! I actually admire Claude for his comeback. How can you not, a simple-minded model of reality notwithstanding?
Posted by Lurker on 02/25/09 at 05:40 PM ET
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As pointed out in no uncertain terms he is a cancer that will spread through the Sharks organ-I-zation, and poison their season. The Sharks are weak for signing Claudia.
Posted by Interference on 02/25/09 at 05:50 AM ET