#24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

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Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

This makes me equal parts happy and scared that he might risk his health for this game, hope he's really fine and a hundred percent alright to play!

Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

Assuming he's 100% cleared by his doctors (which I'm gonna assume he is, he seemed pretty freaked out by the risks involved in interviews) this is honestly all I could hope for. Even if he sucks and we lose it's better than losing without him in what's probably his final season with the team. I hope this is safe, and I hope he doesn't pull a Stralman and throw off his linemates by coming back but I'm happy with this.

Re: Writing Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, broadcasters mess up on names, but that's not the same thing. In Sekera's case, he actually changed his "official" pronunciation between Carolina and LA and then again in Edmonton. I have no idea what is close to the real pronunciation. But all hockey players have an official pronunciation. At the beginning of each season, each team has to call the NHL and read out the proper pronunciations, and then the NHL spells them as you see in the link, and the person who reads it out is supposed to confirm that the phonetic spelling is the one they expected, and then that's the pronunciation all the broadcasters etc. are supposed to use.

http://www.hockey-reference.com/friv/pronunciation-guide.html

You're somewhat dependent on how your GM (or whoever ends up making the call) does in reading them, and on the person at the NHL, but the pronunciations mostly stay consistent from year to year, right or wrong. The spelling key they use has a lot of limitations. I just heard a guy on the radio say that Jason Zucker's last name rhymes with looker, which I had not realized before, if true.

Re: What's Up With Your Team - Third Round and Counting

[(Anonymous)]

SA
BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY THIS MEANS THAT MATT FUCKING CARLE IS OUT!! PRAISE THE LORD!

Re: Writing Thread

[(Anonymous)]

This would be a lot easier if they just used IPA. I hate those dumb "phonetic" spellings, ugh.

(Sorry, it's just my personal pet peeve lol.)

Re: Writing Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Not a whole lot of people can read IPA, and the announcers generally couldn't then pronounce the names consistently during game play.

"Phonetic" spellings are useless and annoying for you and me, but that's about what you cam expect all the media as a whole to be able to do.

Re: Writing Thread

[(Anonymous)]

The Sekera thing makes me laugh because he's changed it so many times that it seems like even the broadcasters don't know what to do so you end up with a three pronunciation call. "Sekera from the blue line, err Se-ker-a, ahh Se-kra??"

Re: Writing Thread

[(Anonymous)]

I had to learn IPA back in school when we learnt English, so I feel like announcers who get paid for saying names could at least try!! IPA isn't even that hard! ... But yeah, I know it's an unrealistic wish, lol, I just like to vent about it from time to time, sorry. :x

Game Day Thread: May 26, 2016

[(Anonymous)]

TBL @ PIT 8pm EST, game 7.

Re: Writing Thread

[(Anonymous)]

That pronunciation guide is hilarious. Lol at all the Allens having different phonetics while they all agree on Smith. Also seeing Crosby as KRAWZ-bee cracks me up.

Re: Game Day Thread: May 26, 2016

[(Anonymous)]

I am vibrating out of my skin. *vibrates some more*

Re: Game Day Thread: May 26, 2016

[(Anonymous)]

I've been dreading the possibility of this game 7 since the schedule was announced. It's my birthday. This is Too Much.

Re: Game Day Thread: May 26, 2016

[(Anonymous)]

Also the Ontario Reign play the Lake Erie Monsters. It's 1-0 Monsters.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

https://www.nhl.com/news/joe-thornton-patrick-marleau-could-join-select-groups/c-280811364

NHL.com has this article up with a bunch of random factoids, including that if a certain team wins the cup, their draft year will become only the fourth draft year ever where both the first and second overall picks went on to win cups. I find that amazing considering how much importance we place on teams needing those picks to win.

The other years are 1969 (Rejean Houle, Marc Tardif), 1984 (Mario Lemieux, Kirk Muller), and 2003 (Marc-Andre Fleury with the Pens in '09 & Eric Staal with the Canes in '06).

Possible draft years that could still do it:
1998, if David Legwand wins a cup
2002, if Rick Nash & Kari Lehtonen win cups
2004, if Alexander Ovechkin wins a cup
every year after that

1999, 2000 & 2001 are already out of the running.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

one of the people i follow has "bossy ice nerd" as their crosby tag. (i tag "player name for ts", personally).

Re: Fandom Goggles

[(Anonymous)]

yeah, my brain went to stiletto porn too, but i am down for just about any domi/duclair/maybe domingue newsletters.

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

I was so disappointed when I realized that that was not in fact an anagram of his name. He doesn't have enough y's. :(

Re: Fandom Goggles

[(Anonymous)]

iirc, there is a coyotes video somewhere that has domi and duclair talking about doing a spa day together in niagara or something that's usually billed as a romantic-type deal. it's kind of cutely awkward. don't remember the link, sorry :(

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

The actual anagram is "bossy icy nerd".

Re: Fandom Venting

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Oops, my mistake. He has too MANY y's.

Re: Game Day Thread May 25, 2016

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I am rooting for the Sharks purely for the "old dudes without a Cup" factor (does Paul Martin count for that, too?)

Re: Things You Wouldn't Admit Unanon

[(Anonymous)]

Fans of my team chant the old goalie's name on purpose. We give no fucks about learning your names. That's how much we think of your team.

Re: Writing Thread

[(Anonymous)]

That would require someone at the NHL to actually know IPA, which is unlikely.

Re: Writing Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, my. I never noticed that about the Allens before. SMH.

Re: Writing Thread

[(Anonymous)]

It wouldn't kill the announcers to learn the basics of the limited English IPA, which is really all they would need for reasonable approximations.