Sid the Kid drinks Jack

posted by Mike Boone at 17h16 EST on Aug 3


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In an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Sidney Crosby says his alcoholic beverages of choice are Crown Royal and Jack Daniels.

On Thursday Crosby turns 21, the legal drinking age in Pennsylvania and most other states. In Nova Scotia it's 19 – as is the case in every Canadian province except Quebec, Alberta and Manitoba, where it's 18.

Crosby also talks about Marian Hossa's decision to sign with Detroit:

"To be honest, if you look at (the Red Wings), they haven't lost anyone. We came within two games, but they won, and they haven't lost one guy. Maybe on paper they have the best chance to win the Cup and, in his mind, that is what he thinks. If you ask anybody else, that's the way it looks. I'm not mad at him or anything like that. That's just the way it is." 

 

 



In his Boston Globe column, Bruins beat man Fluto Shinzawa wonders why no one has signed Bryan Smolinski:

Somewhat surprising that no team has signed ex-Bruin Bryan Smolinski. The 36-year-old Smolinski, last seen centering Montreal's crash trio (arguably the most effective threesome against the Bruins in the playoffs) between back-cracker Steve Begin and Tom Kostopoulos, could be an inexpensive one-year pickup for third- or fourth-line duty. Smolinski might have to go the tryout route to earn an NHL job come October


Shinzawa also points out that nine of the NHL's top 10 faceoff men played in the East:

1. We Dare Not Speak His Name, Toronto 945 wins
2. Bobby Holik, Atlanta 877
3. Rod Brind'Amour, Carolina 851
4. Vincent Lecavalier, Tampa Bay 815
5. Marc Savard, Boston 802
6. John Madden, New Jersey 786
7. Joe Thornton, San Jose 785
8. Eric Staal, Carolina 767
9. Chris Drury, Rangers 746
10. Jason Spezza, Ottawa 729


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24 Cups's picture
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Dude ,you are the most...It is true about the early bird getting the worm and you prove it.Don't you sleep?

Y's picture
Crown Royal and JDs? Bah, I'm guessing OV drinks 90 proof moonshine vodka Granted, I know nothing about alcohol :D

the real vinnydj's picture
Did you know that when the boogeyman goes to bed at night he checks his closet for Mats Sundin?

Robert L's picture
Sundin checking into customs at Trudeau airport, hot off YouTube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFagfhuSfF8

good one!!

check out the new cd 'Wake The Sleeper', by the legendary rock band URIAH HEEP. Their 21st studio album and its a fantastic cd. The title reminds me of THE HABS....the franchise has finally awoken thanks to Bob Gainey!!

DD's picture
Didn't the main guy die, playing electric guitar, in the bathtub?

no that was the bass player Gary Thain (great bassist 2nd to no one) and he wasn't playing in the bathtub. they found him in the bathtub after he overdosed.

Robert L's picture
That's was I call "Easy Livin".

dying was Easylivn?

Robert L's picture
That was the Spinal Tap drummer #17!

DD's picture
No, I'm pretty sure one of Uriah Heep's guitar players died in a tragic, yet stupid, electric guitar / bathtub accident.

DD you'e got your story mixed up. Gary Thain was once electricuted on stage during a concert in Dallas and lied to tell

Robert L's picture
Funniest stage story I ever heard was when Boy George (!) was in a play in London. He standing on X spot at center stage delivering lines during a rehearsal. He turned to walk towards the director to ask a question when the mirror ball suspended above let losse and crashed to smithereens on the X. Boy George later said that the world just missed out on hundred jokes roasting him, as he admitted it would have been the perfect way for a prima donna like him to go. Classic!

DD's picture
Thanks L. I got my stories crossed. Forgive me but that was the '70's. I was probably stoned out of my mind on speedballs in my jacuzzi, playing a Les Paul through a Cry Baby wah-wah with a fuzz tone pedal, plugged into a Marshall stack and playing "the Wizard" while servicing seven groupies when I heard that story. I can't believe they lied to me!

Robert L's picture
Good news for ya, Cheech and Chong are reuniting.

G-Man's picture
Gimme that wawa, Carl! Gilbert 2008/09 is the season of the Habs

DD maybe that was you playing guitar in the jacuzzi

DD's picture
Hence, my brain damage issues. Brilliant! It happened to me over 30 years ago, and I never figured it out. I tell you once and bingo. Thanks, if you ever need your taxes done or need representation in court, I'll be there for you.

Robert L's picture
He plays a wicked underwater slide!

Robert L's picture
I thought only Spinal Tab brought bathtubs onstage! Careful when correcting DD! You might be likened to his ex!

Robert trust me I know my Heep! I'm a Heepster

Robert L's picture
I'm sure you are, but it's all not my cuppa.

Gary Thain was replaced by John Wetton in 1975. Wetton stayed for 2 albums.

Robert L's picture
Wouldn't it have been more appropriate had a guy named Wetton gotten gotten zapped in the bath?

Robert that funny about Wetton getting zapped but then he wouldn't have gone on to form Asia and have the great success that they had.

Robert L's picture
I must've missed that great success, I thought Asia were the most boring so called super group ever.

Robert boring yes but never the less very successful

Robert L's picture
All in the ear of the beholded. I thought the Ramones were successful by lasting as long as they did while never selling much of anything. I've never measured musical success by the amount of sales or how many keys one can play in or chord changes a guitarist can rip at light speed. I measure it by what happens between my *** and heels when the tune cranks up. Like Gary Coleman would say to george Michael, it's different strokes.

DD's picture
I'm with you brother, some guys can play four notes and have more feeling than some wanker who plays 200. It all in the soul. Not that Heep were wankers, L. I'm just making a point.

Robert L's picture
True, I shoulda been a bluesman named Blind Magic Melon Bellydick.

G-Man's picture
You gonna go downtown to see your girl. Sing her a song and show her your ding dong? :) As Hab fans the double CH of Cheech and Chong make them naturals for favorite comedy team. Gilbert 2008/09 is the season of the Habs

hey I'm with you guys too!

Robert L's picture
I always wanted to see how thin this thread will go if this conversation carries on! Carry on!

its better than talking about Sundin all the time....oops I did it again

FSLN's picture
It gets thinner than this, but we should really keep it up and see just how skinny it gets! :) Reply to this post!

Robert L's picture
Yup, there isn't much to add to all the nothingness that has been said already.

Robert L's picture
A classic Champ bit from one half of McLean and McLean One night me and Don Cherry went out for dinner. We talked about sports and me, the Champ making a comeback. The next week I met Dennis Hull and he says to me. "Hey Champ I heard you went out to dinner with Don Cherry and Blue the dog". I said "pardon.!" I heard you went out to dinner with Don Cherry and Blue the dog". I LOSE IT!! I SNAP!!! I headfake him with a box of cornflakes the knucklehead goes for it, uppercut to the face, left hook to midsection and a FLURRY to the solarplexes. I shellacked him like a shithouse toilet seat So he is sprawled out all over the table and I says 'hows that Dennis Hull? is that "you went out to dinner with Don Cherry and Blue the dog" enough for ya? Ever since I've been, the champ.

TommyB's picture
LMAO....love it.

Bugs's picture
C'mon Sidney. Let it out. Tell us what you really think of the guy. C'mon. He's a traitor, right? He USED you, kid. He wanted out of Atlanta and he USED you, man, plain'n'simple. You were just a means to an end, baby. A stepping-stone to better things. He's a coattail-rider, say it! Say it, Sid, c'mon. You thought he was a frined and he has joined the enemy, them's the breaks. Unfornately, these sad times for you are NO excuse to drink something as nasty and uncouth as Jack Daniels. It's swill, kid. Anyone who says different is a peasant. Switch to Jameson's, kid. Hossa's turncoating will hurt much less. Peace Out

Robert L's picture
Some good one liners by Dennis Hull as a guest speaker. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE9KAB0soXI

DD's picture
That was freakin' hilarious. I loved the gambling joke.

Robert L. - He's pretty good and its hard to believe cuz when he was with the Black Hawks in his hay day he was so quiet and shy and really introverted. I use to go to the Hawks practises at the Old Forum with my buddy who was a Bobby Hull fanatic and you would see Dennis Hull signing autographs and fans would ask him questions and all he do is smile and slip away.

Robert L's picture
I've heard the same, he was all business then. While I was rooting around for stuff on him, I dug this up. Dennis, Bobby and Eddy Shack are driving (very late at night) from North Battleford to Regina. Shack was behind the wheel. The small Prarie streets were quiet on that night so to save some time Shack would not stop at the stopsigns, but just slow down. As luck would have it a cop was hiding behind a sign and watches Shack drive right through the stop sign. The cop puts on his lights and pulls Shack and the Hull boys over. The officer comes up to the window and Shack asks him what seems to be the problem. The cop replies "Well Sir, it seems to me that you did not come to a full and complete stop at that sign, but instead you just slowed down. Shack, laying on the charm replies "Officer, stop...slow down, I mean is there really a difference? The cop tells shack to get out of the car and to remove his cowboy hat. When he removes the hat the cop pulls out his nightstick and starts to wail on Shacks head. As he is doing so he asks Shack "now, do you want me to stop or just slow down"

yathehabsrule's picture
Interesting to note how many of those top faceoff men played in the playoffs or got past the first round.

Exit716's picture
I'm surprised Bill Lindsay wasn't on that list. Signed Michel Therrien Circa 2002.

MikeMcLaren's picture
Zing. /\\ike GO HABS GO!

yat - Good point for those face-off fanatics.

Robert L's picture
But they are only a stat for most faceoffs won, and not a percentage. In Detroit, they likely have puck possession too long to ever need to win that many faceoffs. I think that for every stat that correlates into a Cup champion, there is another that contradicts it.

DD's picture
I'm really nice to hear that Sid is going to be the age of majority in his home state. Now that the Penguins have no back bone left, I have the feeling little Sid is going to need to start hitting the bottle quite a bit more. To help alleviate all the aches and pains he will be feeling now that big Georges is watching our guys backs, and not his.

J.T.'s picture
I don't know why everyone's always raving about what a great GM Shero is. I think he's let way too much of his team go in an attempt to push a very young team to the top based on pure talent. He doesn't seem to understand it doesn't work that way. Talent needs a supporting cast, and it also needs time to develop a team identity and some character to go along with the skills. The Pens weren't ready, and Shero bet on them too early. The window to win is smaller than ever and if a team isn't nurtured properly, it can miss the window altogether. I think the Pens, unless they clean up at deadline time, might miss it. http://habsloyalist.blogspot.com

DD's picture
It's funny, J.T., I had a similar discussion with someone else, who was singing the praises of Chicago. Sometimes people miss the fact that being the cellar dwellers of the league, year in year out, almost guarantees the fact that you will pick up the Crosbys and the Toews when it's your turn to draft, unless of course you're the leafs (Good shot, eh). This, in my opinion, does not make the GM a genius, maybe competent, but a great GM, I don't think so. It's the picks you make in the later rounds of the draft and how you nuture them as you said, that seperates the men from the boys.

J.T.'s picture
Completely right. A monkey could have chosen Sidney Crosby, just because he was the face the monkey saw on TV the most right before the draft. Ditto Malkin, Staal and Fleury. What Bob Gainey and Trevor Timmins are doing, drafting mid-to-late round and developing the players correctly in Hamilton, is much, much tougher than what Shero's had to do. And yeah, nice shot on the leafs. Leave it to them to bugger up being rotten. They'll stink this year, but heroically manage to finish out of the lottery yet again. Toskala alone will win them just enough games to keep them from drafting top five. http://habsloyalist.blogspot.com

DD's picture
L.A. I'm hoping they do flop and then lose the lottery. Now wouldn't that be funny!

J.T.'s picture
Yeah, the leafs ninth forever makes me happy. http://habsloyalist.blogspot.com

Cable Guy's picture
Now that Pittsburgh has lost Laraque, Ruutu and Roberts it is open season on Sid the Kid and Malkin, can't wait to play them.

DD's picture
Remember the pens will be a team with real cap issues in the future, not unlike Tampa Bay when they had St. Louis, Lacalavier and Richards. Team like these end up trying to piece together second, third and fourth liners with the chicken feed that's left over after the big boys eat. Detroit will be in the same boat next year. You know Staal, Zetterberg and Datsyuk are going to want their piece of the pie next. Also, as we have learnt in the past, it's not easy to find tough solid hockey players who can actually skate and play in the new NHL. Thank God, we have Mr.Gainey and Trevor Timmins, who have addressed most of our needs, without selling the farm. If their style of management proves anything, it's that you have to have a solid farm system to keep up with the eventual loss of your next over paid, so-called super stars.

Robert L's picture

DD's picture
Geez, here we go again! Thanks Robert (said in a whinny submissive voice) Seriously though, how much are they paying him? Will his salary and Zetterbergs along with Lidtroms put them in the Tampa Bay catergory because it might still play into my theory of paying your top players too much and having to sacrifice the quality of your subs, for lack of a better term.

J.T.'s picture
Sorry, but Detroit is seriously sick when it comes to signing players for less than market value. Lidstrom making what, seven million? In a world where people are offering Mats Sundin ten per? If there's any player in the league deserving of the player maximum of eleven mill, it's Lidstrom. Yet, he makes seven with Detroit and they have the power to tell anyone else, "Sorry, you can't make any more than Nic." And players AGREE to that and sign with them anyway! They're like the twilight zone of the salary cap. http://habsloyalist.blogspot.com

DD's picture
L.A. I wonder if they start to slip a bit, if players would be willing to take the "hometown discount"?

J.T.'s picture
Jeez, it's not only the hometown discount. It's the "sign with the favourite discount." Do you think Hossa would have taken a one-year deal with them if he thought they wouldn't repeat? No way! He's there to cash in on their success. What he doesn't realize, though, is that Detroit has had the same team for the last few years and they only won the one Cup recently. That's because they're consistently good, but in other years, there's a "team of the year" that's just beating everyone. Detroit kind of waits in the wings to grab the Cup if there's no one else outstanding at the time. Next year, it could be a resurgent Ottawa (don't really think so), a supernatural Brodeur (always possible), or a hot young Habs team (hoping) that rises to the top and puts Detroit in the back seat. I think if the Wings take the back seat for very many years in a row, they'll lose that unholy advantage. http://habsloyalist.blogspot.com

Robert L's picture
Datsyuk is at 6.7 for 5 more years, a freaking steal. Detroit has only 41 million committed to next year's cap, and Zetterburg and Franzen are the only 2 important re-ups not counting Hossa.

J.T.'s picture
You know, it's probably just me, but I found Datsuyk kind of human this year. He scored a lot of points, but a lot of teams in the west figured out how to control him too. I don't know how well he did against Chicago, but they beat the Wings consistently last year. I think Datsuyk will struggle a bit before that contract is up. http://habsloyalist.blogspot.com

DD's picture
You also have to wonder if meatheads like Pronger and McLaren will be lining him and Zetterberg up, simply because of Detroit's Cup last year and they can do it without fear of reprisals. You'd think that they have to have targets on their backs now, especially after Burke's boys had such a sad showing in the play offs.

J.T.'s picture
I've no doubt, especially considering Pronger's boorish behaviour being basically ignored (one game suspensions...whatever) because he's also talented. He has free licence in the NHL, and I think Bettman's afraid of Burke too. http://habsloyalist.blogspot.com

DD's picture
I think Bettman's afraid of his shadow. You have to wonder if the owners are one step away from $#it canning him. I mean, the shellacking they took in the CBA alone with the NHLPA leaves him venerable, and thats not even mentioning his promise of billions of dollars from television revenues in the States that has never materialized. Are they stupid or do they like having a boot licker running things?

TommyB's picture
Burke would be a percect fit for the leafs....a man who sees himself as the centre of the universe, could actually sit in the centre of the universe.

DD's picture
Tom Did you get that e-mail I sent you?

TommyB's picture
Yeah, I only gave it a quick listen but it sounded pretty good. I'll give it a more thorough run this week. You know how busy I am. By the way, that's not you singing, right?

DD's picture
No, I let the drummer have one. I feel sorry for him, you know how it is, they don't even play a real instrument.

TommyB's picture
LMAO...ok, I thought it had that Ringo-ism to it.

J.T.'s picture
Hey Tom...yeah...the centre of the universe as viewed from Southern Ontario. http://habsloyalist.blogspot.com

DD's picture
I also wonder, if the Wings have been able to float a bit more in the regular season then most teams, simply because they are in the new age SNorris division. I know they didn't fare as well last year in that division, but it still can't hurt to be playing sub par teams 8 times (6 now, Robert) a year.

Robert L's picture
Hahaha!

DD's picture
Subtle, eh?

Robert L's picture
In your own special way!

J.T.'s picture
Bingo! I think that's why so many teams (hello, Washington) did so well last year. If you're playing sucky teams for so many games, you're bound to at least make the playoffs. Considering the demise of the leafs and Sabres, and the question marks over Ottawa's head, I'm sorry the Habs don't play the northeast eight times this year. http://habsloyalist.blogspot.com

DD's picture
I really think there will be a lot of sens fans jumping ship this year. They blew it when they had kick at the can. Gerber is a back up goalie at best and they still haven't addressed their glaring needs, in my opinion, which are a power play quarterback and something they have never had, a real second line center. Shut down their first line and they are nothing. We are really fortunate because we will get to witness to the fall of the Roman Empire and no matter how many hokey actors Melnyk brings to that $#ithole in the middle of no-where to rally the troops, is going to change that.

Robert L's picture
When they jump ship, will they play a video of it on the jumbo screen with Melnyk nudging them off! That was so distasteful running that clip a week after Bob's daughter drowned!

DD's picture
Robert I've always said they are a mickey mouse organization. Everytime I deal with them, I'm left wondering how they stay in business. Last year I stood in line in the middle of January for 4 hours to buy the Coca-Cola zone tickets to a Habs game. ($20.00 a pop) Only to be told 10 minutes before they went on sale, by a sercurity guard no less, that I would have to buy an equivalent amount of tickets to a week night Buffalo or Carolina game. They didn't even have the balls to have a front office person do it. They leave it to a poor $8.00 an hour schmoe. Classless. You should have seen the guy beside me who was going to buy 3 seats to a Pens game for $150.00 each for him and his two young sons. He was going to strangle the guy. Can you imagine having to spend $900.00 just so your kids could see Sidney play? Funny thing was, it was only leaf, pens and Habs games where they had the balls to do this. I wrote Melnyk a letter telling him that it wasn't too long ago, that they almost went tits up and not to take me for granted. He never wrote me back. What do you expect from a closet leaf fan?

DD's picture
I, for one, really enjoy when it when you and Robert are on line together. You two, really are true hockey people. I always leave these sessions a bit smarter and with lots of ammo to throw at my leaf and sens comrades here in Ottawa. I love picking your minds, while I do the best I can, and feel like I'm picking my nose.

Ian Cobb's picture
DD your bang on, if you draft well, train them well, be demanding but fair and promote within. You develop a team with loyalty and purpose. It starts with Gillett, from top to bottom.

There was a time when they thought Olli was a flop , washout or a bust so Who is the Next Olli Jokinen .. by Brian Costello .. The Hockey News ..... http://www.thehockeynews.com/articles/17447-THNcom-Blog-Whos-the-next-Ol...