MHF - Hockey Thread

[Smitty-48]

The Maple Leafs Are The Best Joke In The World

I am both actually mad and laughing.

Normally, here on this website, we try to maintain perspective. We engage with sports through an analytic lens, to deal with probabilities and rational team evaluation. We accept the role of variance, and the fact that after all, we follow a sport played on a slippery surface with a bouncing disc of rubber. And so I’m going to try to look at the Leaf’s loss to Carolina through the lens of thoughtful detahahahaha I’m just kidding can you believe this fucking shit?

The Leafs lost a game last night to the Carolina Hurricanes who, for half the evening, were playing a 42-year-old emergency backup goalie. The other team had to play a rec goalie that they got from Toronto and the Leafs managed to lose 6-3. They played something akin to anti-defence as full partners in their own destruction. They got outshot by, I don’t know, a billion, by a team that played last night while I assume the Leafs were off getting drunk on the victory champagne they bought when they won one game out of four in the course of a week during the stretch run in between spending the other three games getting pantsed so hard THE TEAM OUGHT TO BE FUCKING CONTRACTED OUT OF EXISTENCE JESUS CHRIST!

All teams lose. All teams lose in disappointing fashion. But the Leafs lose in widescreen technicolour. They lose sideways and upside down and in dimensions hitherto unknown to physics. The Leafs lose with the creativity of a great artist, in ways mere mortals can’t even think of, at a cost no other team pays. And no matter what, we—maybe you and definitely I—never quite learn that Lucy isn’t just going to pull the football away from Charlie Brown, she’s going to dig a pit full of snakes and he’ll tumble into it prematurely bald head first. This team will ruin you, baby.

https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/2020 ... oni-driver

Lulz, naive optimistic Millennial fans r mad

[Montegriffo]

I might start watching the last one now while I'm waiting for the hockey to start.

This one's quite good, nothing I didn't already know, but I like the narration and production, the chain of events, the chain of command, formations, what have you, it's detailed and accurate.

Yeah, just finished part 2. The interviews are good and remind me of the ones in the World at War series.
It's easy to forget how bad the weather was, a 50 mile yomp over difficult terrain carrying 80-100lb packs would be bad enough without blizzards and horizontal rain to contend with. Tough men the Paras and Commandos.

[Smitty-48]

I might start watching the last one now while I'm waiting for the hockey to start.

This one's quite good, nothing I didn't already know, but I like the narration and production, the chain of events, the chain of command, formations, what have you, it's detailed and accurate.

Yeah, just finished part 2. The interviews are good and remind me of the ones in the World at War series.
It's easy to forget how bad the weather was, a 50 mile yomp over difficult terrain carrying 80-100lb packs would be bad enough without blizzards and horizontal rain to contend with. Tough men the Paras and Commandos.

The actual march was not really the problem, the Marines had the good boots too, the problem was the Paras Direct Molded Sole (DMS) boots which were not waterproof and so their feet got destroyed, and then also they used standing water to refill their canteens and even with water purification tablets, the troops had brutal diarrhea, so you're chaffing after shitting yourself, on top of the trench foot

[Montegriffo]

This one's quite good, nothing I didn't already know, but I like the narration and production, the chain of events, the chain of command, formations, what have you, it's detailed and accurate.

Yeah, just finished part 2. The interviews are good and remind me of the ones in the World at War series.
It's easy to forget how bad the weather was, a 50 mile yomp over difficult terrain carrying 80-100lb packs would be bad enough without blizzards and horizontal rain to contend with. Tough men the Paras and Commandos.

The actual march was not really the problem, the Marines had the good boots too, the problem was the Paras Direct Molded Sole (DMS) boots which were not waterproof and so their feet got destroyed, and then also they used standing water to refill their canteens and even with water purification tablets, the troops had brutal diarrhea, so you're chaffing after shitting yourself, on top of the trench foot

The loss of the Atlantic Conveyor with 3 of the 4 large helicopters was a huge blow. Logistical support became a serious problem.

[Smitty-48]

The loss of the Atlantic Conveyor with 3 of the 4 large helicopters was a huge blow. Logistical support became a serious problem.

Not really a problem when the Argentines just sit in place and wait, if it had been against a better opponent, then it would have been a problem

All problems were solved by the Argies breaking and running for it on the night of 14 June

[Montegriffo]

How many men are there in a Commando brigade? Is it around 1000?
They are not really giving numbers.

[Smitty-48]

How many men are there in a Commando brigade? Is it around 1000?
They are not really giving numbers.

3 Commando Brigade is around 3000, but they had 2 & 3 Para attached, which is another 1200 Paras

[Smitty-48]

lol, the Loafs are getting pilloried

https://twitter.com/TSN_Sports/status/1 ... 8224126976

Apparently they're all in hiding, nobody is coming out to face the media so far

[Montegriffo]

Fury - Wilder just started.
Straight into it, no being cagey. Both men taking big hits in the first 3 mins. The crowd are behind the Gypsy King.

[Smitty-48]

The parade of pathetic losers finally gets underway