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NHL 2013 post season thread!

OK, OK, maybe I overdid it just a little...they are having "controlled fun" ;)

Still though, and I'm not saying this is good or bad, but you wouldn't see Kings fans doing that. Maybe that's because we just don't take our hockey as seriously and are more laid back?

Fair enough. I think the west coast fans are similar to the football fans in Florida; love the games but the weather is so nice that they have other fun, outdoor things to do so they are not as crazy. I was in Santa Monica on Thanksgiving weekend and my wife and I had dinner at a bar on 3rd Street (Yankee Doodles as a matter of fact), and USC was hosting Notre Dame (some guy with a made up girlfriend was LB), and the atmosphere was "blah". I was more excited as a Masshole in SoCal to watch the game than the locals. Very chill, indeed.

By the way, Santa Monica was a blast!
 
Fair enough. I think the west coast fans are similar to the football fans in Florida; love the games but the weather is so nice that they have other fun, outdoor things to do so they are not as crazy. I was in Santa Monica on Thanksgiving weekend and my wife and I had dinner at a bar on 3rd Street (Yankee Doodles as a matter of fact), and USC was hosting Notre Dame (some guy with a made up girlfriend was LB), and the atmosphere was "blah". I was more excited as a Masshole in SoCal to watch the game than the locals. Very chill, indeed.

By the way, Santa Monica was a blast!

Glad you had fun! IIRC you posted a thread back then about what to do here? Right? You stayed beachfront?

The fans here are of a "convenient" nature, if you will. They wouldn't likely brave the rain, (can't believe I just said "brave" the rain) or the elements like East coast fans would to see something no one here would really care all that much about.

Yankee Doodles was/maybe is considered a meat market, at least in my heyday. I had many a night of extreme debauchery there. If I posted any details, I'm afraid they would end up as someone's sig, so I'll refrain. :p
 
Fair enough. I think the west coast fans are similar to the football fans in Florida; love the games but the weather is so nice that they have other fun, outdoor things to do so they are not as crazy. I was in Santa Monica on Thanksgiving weekend and my wife and I had dinner at a bar on 3rd Street (Yankee Doodles as a matter of fact), and USC was hosting Notre Dame (some guy with a made up girlfriend was LB), and the atmosphere was "blah". I was more excited as a Masshole in SoCal to watch the game than the locals. Very chill, indeed.

By the way, Santa Monica was a blast!

Yes Santa Monica is supa chill. LOTS of birds there. Oh my neck! + a black eye from my gf.
 
Glad you had fun! IIRC you posted a thread back then about what to do here? Right? You stayed beachfront?

Yes sir, the Loews Santa Monica. I believe it is on Ocean Drive. We flew in from Boston to LAX, drove up to Santa Monica just in time for the sunset on the pier on Thanksgiving Day. My 2 teenage girls loved the ferris wheel and their Dad enjoyed a couple of tasty beers!
If you were one who gave me tips, thanks! We did the cheesy Hollywood Tour (5-6 hours), which the girls loved; saw the Getty Museum which was really cool, hung at the beach and did a lot of walking around SM. Very chill and expensive area. Even drove up through Malibu Sunday before heading down to San Diego for the conference. All in all a great time.

Only "bummer": I kick myself now, however; after I got home I Google'd the Whitey Bulger pad and realize I went jogging 2 blocks over every day on the beach! Would've been wicked pissah to see the hideout of Boston's most notorious mobster. :cool:
 
Kings looked cool under pressure last night against their bizarro West Coast rival Sharks. Two similar teams not too flashy but solid solid netminders. Good old fashioned checking, puck control, solid defense, then patient subtle scoring chances. I love it.
GO KINGS
 
They play open-ice hockey, so turnovers are part of it.

They're fun games to watch, but coaches hate these types of games specifically because of the high turnover rate which can obviously lead to goals.

Crawford played a hell of a game. That toe save he did was sick!
 

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