"You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much" (youcantellafinn)
11/05/2013 at 11:48 • Filed to: OTBA, NHL, CHRIS CHELIOS
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"You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much" (youcantellafinn)
11/05/2013 at 11:48 • Filed to: OTBA, NHL, CHRIS CHELIOS | 1
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Pretty cool !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! and how his Hall of Fame career got started. And how close it came to not starting at all. Pretty impressive that he played the most regular season games of any defenseman and the most playoff games of anyone. Of course when you retire at 48, it probably means that you've had a pretty long career.
Parker gave Chelios the number for the coach, Larry Billows. Chelios threw it in the glove box of a buddy’s car and forgot about it. A couple of days later, he and the buddy were headed back to the same beach. He remembered the number. He pulled it out and called Billows – collect – from a payphone near a lifeguard tower.
“What position do you play?” Billows asked.
“What are you looking for?” Chelios responded.
“D-men.”
“I play ‘D.’ ”
Chelios had never played defense before. He had been a forward, an undersized forward at that. “I had nothing to lose,” Chelios said.
TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
11/05/2013 at 11:58 |
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Also helps that the Red Wings make the playoffs every year.
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You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
> TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
11/05/2013 at 11:59 |
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Not every year. Just the last 21 or so.
Victorious Secret
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
11/05/2013 at 12:01 |
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I love the NHL.
It takes 82 games of hell just to get to the playoffs. It takes 16 wins more to walk home with that prize.
Some of the best sportsmanship I'll ever see comes out of those 16 games.
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TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts.
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
11/05/2013 at 12:03 |
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To be fair for a large portion of the fan base, that's longer than they've been alive.
Here's to another 21 years.
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You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
> Victorious Secret
11/05/2013 at 12:12 |
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Nothing better than watching playoff hockey. Except playoff overtime hockey.
Last month I made it to my first game in a few years. It was my first time getting to see Datsyuk live and wow is he fun to watch. Doesn't matter if he has the puck or not, stuff happens when he is on the ice.
Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
11/05/2013 at 12:13 |
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I have a Love/Hate with Cheli.
As a native Detroiter, I grew up hating him when he played for the Blackhawks. But when he signed with Detroit, that changed.
Anyway I have a Cheli story. Back when he played for the Blackhawks, my aunt got tickets for us to see the Detroit Jr. Red Wings (so this had to have been like 1993 or so) at Joe Louis Arena. We got there early enough to watch the Hawks practice (they were playing the Red Wings later that night). Two memorable things happened.
1. Eddie Belfour slammed his stick against the glass as he was heading off the ice and gave it to a young kid who was near the tunnel.
2. Some yahoo was taunting Chelios about a row in front of us. Calling him a pussy, flipping him off, etc. Cheli finally had enough and climbed up on the dasher and started talking shit right back to the guy. Smartly, the guy sat down and shut up, but not before Cheli flipped the guy's hat off his head with his stick. The hat made it to the ice, and Cheli skated a little with it, then shot it into the penalty box.
I just sat there, wide eyed at what happened. And then we all laughed at the jackass as he started crying to security about his hat.
DailyTurismo
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
11/05/2013 at 12:34 |
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True story - I used to play midnight pickup hockey with Steve Chelios (Chris' little brother). Dude was small, but wicked fast.