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This is the twenty-fourth post of Deke Dangle RPF Anon, a community for all your ice hockey anon meme needs.
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Re: SCF Predictions Thread
From: (Anonymous)Maybe as fans we should just come to terms with the fact that we are obviously the heel going into this cup final. It's the Sharks first ever final. Pens have three cups.
Re: SCF Predictions Thread
From: (Anonymous)That's fair. The original comment was pretty annoying.
Even the people who hate them and call them evil are exaggerating for comic effect.
I would like to believe you, but some of the Pens haters on meme are really fucking aggressive about it. I don't think they're all doing it for comic effect.
Re: SCF Predictions Thread
From: (Anonymous)Re: SCF Predictions Thread
From: (Anonymous)What?
Re: Fandom Venting
From: (Anonymous)Okay, maybe there's a fourth reason: 4) name dropping the opposing team which leads to 1) & 2) where I will definitely pettily go "East Coast Bias"
Re: SCF Predictions Thread
From: (Anonymous)You're right, I didn't word that the best way. "Even the people who call them evil are exaggerating for comic effect" would have been better, without the "hate them" - of course people genuinely hate your team, and I'm sorry that they're nasty about it. But I don't think that's necessarily the same as thinking they're evil.
Re: Fic discussion - but always in tandem, youcouldmakealife
From: (Anonymous)Re: SCF Predictions Thread
From: (Anonymous)I gripe about the Pens a lot and find them annoying, but I would never think they're evil, or even hate them on the level I do other teams that have actually done stuff I find deplorable. Any complaining I do on meme about the Pens is just blowing off steam in a fandom where the Pens are kind of inescapable.
Re: SCF Predictions Thread
From: (Anonymous)The one where any given goal scorer who fails to score goals does it because he's "not a playoffs guy" (or worse, because he "doesn't want it enough") is the one that really comes to mind. Adam Gretz had a great cranky article about how goal scoring is always going to be streaky because of the low number of goals scored in general.
I feel like if the hockey media and fans could wrap their heads around the idea of small sample sizes (and by extension, luck), a lot of stupidity could go away. Although that's probably too optimistic on my part!
Re: World Cup of Hockey
From: (Anonymous)Re: World Cup of Hockey
From: (Anonymous)It's probably partially a marketing thing to get a top prospect playing and he'll probably be a Leaf too so that will help sell a few more tickets to those games as it's in Toronto (if they're not sold out already at least). Considering all that I probably would have not chosen JT Miller if I were them and put Galchenyuk in that spot from the start, but I guess that's the benefit of hindsight.
Re: SCF Predictions Thread
From: (Anonymous)I believe they were saying they find him more likable (as a character) when he is positioned as the antagonist. It was in the context of one of the 24/7 series.
Re: SCF Predictions Thread
From: (Anonymous)Re: Hockey Media
From: (Anonymous)Aaron Ekblad talked to hometown students.
Highlights: He's planning on working towards a business degree from Harvard online. Was going to take a course this year but couldn't because the exam period was over a back to back game.
On the WCH One of the Americans he’s looking forward to teaming up with is Detroit Red Wings’ forward Dylan Larkin.
“Larkin and I have been friends since we played together at the All-Star Game in Nashville (in January),” Ekblad said.
Re: Fandom Venting
From: (Anonymous)Re: SCF Predictions Thread
From: (Anonymous)Re: SCF Predictions Thread
From: (Anonymous)Re: World Cup of Hockey
From: (Anonymous)I was just gonna come in here with an angry comment about them having Mathews on this roster and not Chucky, but I see deke has my back. Chucky scored 30 goals this season, and that kid hasn't even been drafted yet. What a crock!
Re: Fandom Venting
From: (Anonymous)I don't need to read about a blowout loss to the Caps or Pens when we didn't have any while we sure as hell lost badly to other teams.
Re: Random Hockey Thread
From: (Anonymous)In recognition of the Blues having a great season, I donated 2500$ to the David and Kelly Backes charity @A4A_org #donateifyoucan
Well, I was already planning to root for the Sharks, but as a Blues fan this has me 500% more on board.
Re: SCF Predictions Thread
From: (Anonymous)Some of the Pens fans are pretty fucking aggressive in a much less tongue-in-cheek way, both in their pro-Pens and anti-Other-Teams opinions.
(And as an avowed Pens hater, I both passionately despise the team and every single player on it, some for reasons and some for Reasons, and use exaggerated language for comic effect when talking about the team. I'm a rational person who knows objectively that the Pens are just like every other team in the league. But also slime monsters from the deep whose success is the worst thing to happen to this planet since global warming and the series finale of Battlestar Galactica. Cue lots of bloody pictures of leopard seals eating penguins, because those make my heart feel light.)
Re: SCF Predictions Thread
From: (Anonymous)Re: SCF Predictions Thread
From: (Anonymous)I read a very entertaining comment the other day speculating that the Sharks logo is secretly a drawing of a Shark attacking and eating the Penguins logo, because they both have a triangle and a hockey stick.
Re: SCF Predictions Thread
From: (Anonymous)I am an avowed serial killer as well, of course. That was clearly implied.
Re: SCF Predictions Thread
From: (Anonymous)