Ah yes - the penalty box I do so remember that. That team was the Seacoast Midgets (of course none of them were midgets -all high school age & 6 ft tall at least) Yup they came out with some beauts!
I also remember the time that I was asked to open the door on the bench for the players when they changed shifts as some assistant coach couldnt' be there (this was for PeeWees another mis-nomer where Kev was concerned but 12 yr /olds) anyway it was interesting to note how many of them used profanity even then. And of course when the players asked Kev is that was his mother - well yeah that was the last time I did that. I told them they not only were they vulgar but they smelled too! Ain't that the truth !!
Memere - yup she also called you guys
Tete de Pioche (literally translated - head of rock!)
I was all set to put a vulgar Slap Shot quote up here but then your mom posted...and I was most certainly not raised by hockey parents.....
Dude, you've met my mom. Do you really think she'd be offended?
Aw, fuck it.
"McCracken: Dunlop, you suck cock.
Dunlop: All I can get. "
Heh.
Sorry, Mrs. Merrill.
Hee. Dick jokes are always warmly welcomed on the internet, I'd say.
And in the Merrill household, it would seem. Hee.
A few years ago I covered a women's adult hockey game for the newspaper between the "Chicks with Sticks" against the "She-Wolves". I don't recall a lot of profanity from the ladies but there was a two-year old child of one of the players in the stands among the ten or so spectators, for chissakes! So maybe the profanity is a guy thing, no?
Anyway, looks like you got the DVD hookup thing figured out last night, huh?!
"All of this is to say, I guess, that hockey fans are a different breed." I think it's a result of the sleep deprivation involved in hauling kids to practice at odd hours because 27 different teams are competing for ice time.
The picture of the Hanson brothers makes me nostalgic for Kurt Rambis. I wish that wasn't my automatic reaction to them.
Ah... Slap Shot. A Cinematic Classic.
By the time the movie came out I was out of hockey (a knee having sustained too many slapshots from kids trying to emulate "Number 4 - Bobby Orr"; it now bends in all directions!). It made me sad for the sport I loved so much as a kid though.
The movie is on the list of cultural touchstones I have to introduce my kids to, so hat they understand why daddy is as he is. 
Thanks for the reminder...
More Led Zeppelin!
Well...I can't believe I wasn't FIRST to comment here.
The film that was instrumental in my formative years, the film I have to watch twice a year or I dry up and float away, the film that makes me happy ...just happy...every time.
SlapShot...the first R rated movie my parents took me to. Yes, I am that old. When we were on the way in, I said, "Dad, this movie's rated R." And he said, "I take you to Nordiques games every Friday night. There's nothing in this movie that you haven't seen before." (I don't think he reckoned on the tittie scene.)
But STILL!
Have you watched the DVD with running commentary by the Hansons?
Oh, and yes...Denis Lemieux...one of the most underrated characters in film.
Owns-uh, owns-uh...
"Fuck! I lose my blouse."
"Shirt. SHIRT."
"Poor baby. Was it VERY painful?"
"No, it 'urt like 'ell."
"It make me sick. My allergy, puke every time, bleugh! Like that, puke."
"You stupit when you do dat, some stupit Henglish pig wid no brain."
"I chose "the penalty box" as my place."
Again, I can't believe I didn't know you at Emerson.
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