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Mike Boone
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I grew up in Park Extension, within walking distance of Dickie Moore's Dairy Queen on Jean Talon. Moore had a place on L'Acadie Blvd., and we used to see him driving around in his convertible with a Samoyed and a very dishy wife.
While "studying" at McGill University during the 1960s, I used to attend games at the old Montreal Forum. My fellow undergraduate reprobates and I would scramble up the stairs to get centre-ice spots in the top standing room section, where aged ushers didn't know or care what we were smoking.
I stood out in the cold for six hours to get tickets to the 1975 New Year's Eve game between the Canadiens and Central Red Army. With the exception of the birth of my daughter, the 3-3 tie was the greatest event I've ever seen in my life.
The Canada-U.S. Gold medal game comes close .... but I wasn't there.
I've been a professional journalist since 1974, when I joined the Montreal Star sports department. I've covered the 1976 Olympic Games, the 1979 Expos, pop music and MSO tours of Europe and Asia (classical musicians are WAY more fun to drink with than athletes). I wrote a TV & Radio column for 20 years and, since 2000, have written a City column for The Gazette.
The best part of being a Habs Inside/Out contributor is attending games at the Bell Centre. I think it's a great building: noisy, raucous and packed to the rafters with Montrealers and visitors who live for hockey.
And I still get goosebumps every time Michel Lacroix booms out "Accueillons nos Canadiens ..."
Having seen the Boston Red Sox win two World Series and the Pittsburgh Steelers add a couple Super Bowl titles, I suppose I can die happy ... but not before another Stanley Cup parade. And I'd really like my daughter to see a historic New Year's Eve game.
I like all the players. Covering baseball gives me a profound appreciation of pro athletes who aren't jerks.
My weltanschauung was summarized by the late great Bill Hicks when he said "all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves."
Have a nice day.
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damn sergei is way hotter when he is mad
This is truly hilarious. And it's nice, too.
They finally realized they have a union I guess...
Are you for real......What happened to the bad blood MAN!!!!!!!! I was going to call Dana white and put them in the cage for UFC 103 (SK vs MG)
Boone, your slant on this one is nothing less than a moronic inducement for the trolls to fly their idiot flags. Not the usual fare I have come to expect here.
S.K. is a kid. Sure, a professional athlete who is accountable for his on-ice peformance but a kid nonetheless and the non-hockey off ice slander (in comments below), is reprehensible.
A fan site like this will surely add fuel to S.K.s firey desire to come back and do his best for Montreal.
Suck in T.O. - Well you certainly have the bona fides to recognize moronity. Or is that moroness? Come in from the rain and try to have some fun, eh.
id totally have sex with them both.
There is no truth that you can always tell the bride at a Belorussian wedding merely by who has the beard.
my least fav hab sk, grabovski the punk, and some loser leaf fan.
whatever.
From the expression on Grabovski's face, he's already picking out china patterns. I take it that the kid in the Leafs jersey will be the ring bearer?
HI-larious, Dragon.
That hair is hideous: looks like David Coverdale and Jack Wilde.
Alright BOONE... Time for YOU to LLLLLOAD up some pics of YOU from the SEVENTIEES!!!!!
do it. I want to see your full hairstyles!!!!!!!!!
LLLLETS SEEE IT!
my GF thinks tha ladies need to KNOW....personally I think she has a point-
2 Lovers, I mean losers
I think they have hair stylists. Except it's only one hair stylist and they all go to him.
Next time I go for a haircut I'll have to ask for a "Minsk Mullet"!
Hey, awesome! HIO is only about a week behind the rest of the Habs hockey sites with this. The good one's anyway. I guess Retromikey speaks 86 languages really slowly.
only four days... :)
Besides, how many news stories out of Russia/Belarus media outlets are credible anyways?
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HIO is a great site, What site did you get your "early" info from? Not as if this is anywhere close to relevant hockey news anyway.
Bah. Kick his *** Sergei!
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These two guys need to mature, and this was a good sign.
The coming season is very important to Sergei.
Hmmm I thought this was part of the story RDS mentioned the other day about SK74 but it appears to be a diffrent one.
From the translation, does it read that Glen Hanlon is running the Belarusian Olympic team???
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Who's the kid in the Laffs shirt? Their hair-styling consultant?
Next article: Tofu stir-fry recipe from BGL
ahhh...summer...the bane of hockey fans!
XXIV...and counting
Zen and the art of asking a partner to dance!
You just have to know the right code...
XXIV...and counting
Wow, Grabo has definitely out-trained SKost. When will SK realise he needs to care about his job to keep it?
Hamilton bound unless he dazzles us in training camp.
He may be bigger, but hockey players are not all about muscles...
Your right... but it doesn't hurt to get strong.
"How would you like a job where when you made a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?" Jacques Plante
Isn't that sweet, just in time for Vancouver Pride this weekend.
i agree. we must be getting pretty desperate and its only the end of july. Can't wait to see the story lines in the middle of august. maybe it will be a gay wedding lol.
i like it.
rainbows, unicorns, and perspective.
WHAT? NO! Kick his *** Sergei!
Or wait - maybe he's trying to secretly learn his weaknesses....
Check it out, Grabs has some serious guns goin'. I think he could take little K,.. or win a Rik Emmet look alike contest.
That's who he reminds me of!!...lol
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haha solid hair
Anyone else think Sergei's hair make him look 10?
Belarussian have short memories! Won't be surprised if it's all gone out the window in October.
P.S. Boone is clearly too old to know but Sergei looks amazing!
Carey Price is THE future of the Habs. I believe!
"Last year was just an episode." -SKos
too insecure
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Meaning Boone is too hetero to know ...
Double snort.
http://moeymusings.blogspot.com/
WORST STORY OF THE SUMMER!!!
- thanks for everything, saku koivu.
Shake hands now and he wont see it comming in Oct.
Revenge for Markov!