Canadians more valuable than Americans

[Asher]

Originally posted by reds4ever
Asher, you may want to Google up a picture of GSP. He's got that clean cut, boyish look that a lot of gays seem to go for.

I've seen his picture, and yes, he is pretty cute.

Not as cute as Mike Ricci, but cute.

[Richelieu]

:barf:

[Pekka]

GSP was awesome. I wanted him to win so bad, I was so tired of that arrogant Hughes anyway. He was totally dominated by a true athlete and a gentleman. That's the kind of guy who is perfect for any sport to be an ambassador and spokes person. Close perfect.

GSP

And finally someone getting the belt in UFC who might actually have a shot against Pride fighters. I mean lets' face it, the belt holders (excluding GSP) are a JOKE in the UFC, Silva is decent though.

I mean they could prolly get into top 10 in Pride ranks, but that's it. That's it, but GSP would have a shot against anyone so yeah...

[Arrian]

A Canadian athlete has now been voted the most valuable player in baseball's American League (Justin Morneau)

Terrible choice, btw. There were roughly 10 better candidates.

-Arrian

[Asher]

Does it matter? It's a bush league sport, baseball.

[Arrian]

You do realize that "Bush league" is a baseball term, right?

-Arrian

[Asher]

No way!~

[Lord Avalon]

According to this ESPN article on Don Cherry,

• In 2004, he was named the seventh-greatest Canadian of all time, ahead of Wayne Gretzky and Alexander Graham Bell, in an exhaustive Canadian Broadcasting Company poll that drew 140,000 votes.

[Asher]

Don Cherry for prez.

[Richelieu]

Heeeee's a beauty.

[Dauphin]

I want to hear more about the Englishman winning the Rock, Paper, Scissors Championship.

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by Pekka
GSP was awesome. I wanted him to win so bad, I was so tired of that arrogant Hughes anyway. He was totally dominated by a true athlete and a gentleman. That's the kind of guy who is perfect for any sport to be an ambassador and spokes person. Close perfect.

GSP

And finally someone getting the belt in UFC who might actually have a shot against Pride fighters. I mean lets' face it, the belt holders (excluding GSP) are a JOKE in the UFC, Silva is decent though.

I mean they could prolly get into top 10 in Pride ranks, but that's it. That's it, but GSP would have a shot against anyone so yeah...

Silvias only top5 or so if he fought in Pride. His ground game is just trying not to get submitted.

[Asher]

Pride fights = *****slapping between trannies

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by Asher
Pride fights = *****slapping between trannies

Not a fan then?

[SlowwHand]

Blue Jackets hire Ken Hitchcock as coach

By RUSTY MILLER, AP Sports Writer
1 hour, 22 minutes ago

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The
Columbus Blue Jackets, seeking an experienced hand to develop their young players, hired veteran Ken Hitchcock as head coach Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT



Hitchcock, fired this season by the
Philadelphia Flyers, was to be formally introduced as the team's fifth head coach at a news conference Thursday. Team president and general manager Doug MacLean announced Hitchcock's hiring shortly before the team took the ice against St. Louis.

Hitchcock said what appealed to him about the Blue Jackets was more than their core of young players.

"It's that, but it's also that they have veteran players who have won the Stanley Cup before, guys who know what it takes," he said. "They've got people like Sergei Fedorov, Adam Foote and Fredrik Modin who know what it takes to win."

Hitchcock was asked if he would be behind the bench when the Blue Jackets play his former team, the Flyers, on Friday afternoon in Philadelphia.

"You bet," he said twice.

The 54-year-old Hitchcock replaces interim head coach Gary Agnew, an assistant to Gerard Gallant who was elevated to replace Gallant after he was fired on Nov. 14.

The Blue Jackets came into Wednesday night's game with the worst record in the NHL at 5-13-1-0 and riding a six-game losing skid.

Columbus has had a reputation for being a talented but soft team which features young stars such as Rick Nash and Nikolai Zherdev. Nash scored 41 goals during the 2003-04 season to share the Maurice Richard Trophy as the NHL's leading goal-scorer with Calgary's Jarome Iginla and Atlanta's Ilya Kovalchuk.

Zherdev has scored some of the most photogenic goals in the team's brief history but both he and Nash are not considered two-way players willing to help out on defense and the neutral zone.

Despite a roster that also includes proven pros Fedorov, Modin, Foote, David Vyborny and Anson Carter, the Blue Jackets are last in the NHL in goals this season with 40 in their 19 games.

Hitchcock, with 408 career NHL victories in 750 games, is seen as a veteran disciplinarian who sets high expectations for his players and then grinds at them until they reach them. In 503 games as coach of the
Dallas Stars from 1996-02, he had a record of 277-166-60-7. He guided the Stars to the Stanley Cup in 1999.

As those young stars he had helped transform into superstars got older, his effectiveness was seen by some to have waned and he was fired 50 games into the 2001-02 season.

He earned a gold medal as an associate coach with Team Canada at the 2002
Winter Olympics.

During the following offseason, he became the 15th head coach of the Flyers. They made the playoffs each of their three seasons under Hitchcock but many were disappointed with early knockouts in the playoffs despite a lineup that included Peter Forsberg and Simon Gagne.

When the Flyers got off to a 1-6-1-0 start this season, Hitchcock was fired in a purge that also saw general manager and former Flyers star Bobby Clarke step down.

Gallant had coached the Blue Jackets for one full season and parts of two others but was fired last week because his team also got off to a slow start at 5-9-1-0.

Hitchcock cut his coaching teeth as the head coach at Kamloops of the Western Hockey League from 1984-90, posting a winning percentage of .693. He then spent three seasons with the Stars' top affiliate in the International Hockey League before taking over as the head coach midway through the 1995-96 season.