I must have watched that clip 100x's last year. he had to get harrased in the locker room after the game.
- Stinkfitz

He apparently went to the Joe Besser School of Pugilism.

Their motto - Stop it...I'll give you such a pinch!

McGinn lived, so it was cancelled.
- Flyskippy

Actually, after Tye returned o the game I expected to hear that his game misconduct got rescinded.

He apparently went to the Joe Besser School of Pugilism.

Their motto - Stop it...I'll give you such a pinch!
- tangent_man

Great, there's a gag that three, maybe four people on the board will get without googling Joe Besser.

How does it matter? Orr's job is to fight. It's likely he won't be the one taking the run at a Flyers star, but will have to fight Shelley because another Leaf did.

How does that settle anything?
- Jsaquella

A quick Youtube search shows that Orr has no problems with taking runs at skill players. I understand his main job is to fight other enforcers, but hitting anything that moves is also part of his job description.

Great, there's a gag that three, maybe four people on the board will get without googling Joe Besser.
- Jsaquella

As long as they look it up.

He apparently went to the Joe Besser School of Pugilism.

Their motto - Stop it...I'll give you such a pinch!
- tangent_man

He apparently went to the Joe Besser School of Pugilism.

Their motto - Stop it...I'll give you such a pinch!
- tangent_man

I feel honored/old that I got, and found this very funny!

Joe Besser aka Stinky!

Orr can take a clean shot at Giroux, hurt him, and not get tagged with a penalty. In scenarios like that, it still deserves a response from the Flyers.
- steelydan

I thought we were all of the mind that a hard, clean check does not call for an immediate fight. Looks, hitting is part of the game. If a star player is in a position to get hit, and a more physical player does it within the rules of the game, why should he have to fight?
Case in point: Brayden Schenn laying that huge hit in Game 3 and getting cross-checked in the throat by Asham. It was a huge, devestating, clean (the call was BS) hit, well within the rules, so why did he have to face retaliation?

I feel honored/old that I got, and found this very funny!

Joe Besser aka Stinky!
- PLindbergh31

I knew there were a few of you hanging around, so it wouldn't be lost on everybody.

Great, there's a gag that three, maybe four people on the board will get without googling Joe Besser.
- Jsaquella

Three Stooges? (did not Google)

I knew there were a few of you hanging around, so it wouldn't be lost on everybody.
- tangent_man

The Stooges rule! I wasn't a fan of Joe DeRita though, I must admit.

exceptional defensive awareness and hockey sense. How do you measure this and how does it differ from the three people I mentionned . Stats are all very similar. Others didn't have Weber as a linemate.
- strongsupporter

Who has been the better player since they've parted ways? Suter or Weber?

If you want to argue small sample size, take a look Weber's stats in games when Suter wasn't available. A stark contrast to games with Suter.

Suter allowed Weber to become an offensive force. He wasn't simply the guy giving him the puck.

A quick Youtube search shows that Orr has no problems with taking runs at skill players. I understand his main job is to fight other enforcers, but hitting anything that moves is also part of his job description.
- steelydan

It certainly is. Again, how does Shelley stop that? He won't. At best he can fight Orr and take him out of the game for 5 minutes. Far more effective if he knows that if he breathes on Giroux, the crazy little bastard Zac Rinaldo will take a run at Phil Kessel and knock his brain into next month, and then ignore Orr's attempts to fight him.

If Orr has a clean run at Giroux, he's going to take it, Sheelley or not.

As long as they look it up.
- tangent_man

The Stooges rule! I wasn't a fan of Joe DeRita though, I must admit.
- PLindbergh31

Not a fan of DeRita or Besser, myself.

Pacioretty says he got a tetnis shot. I'm sure he's making up the entire story about being bitten.

Not a fan of DeRita or Besser, myself.
- tangent_man

Besser was probably in a dozen shorts or so. I thought he was pretty funny. Certainly not as good as Curly or Shemp.

Three Stooges? (did not Google)
- Scoob

Yeah, and he played Stinky with Abbott and Costello.

*wondering how many will now have to google Abbott and Costello*

how about just signing carle at that point w/o leaving us short a puck mover and scorer? we could have always traded a plyr if weber or suter had signed here. why go searching for a puck mover and then trade for a guy w/ a similar skill set to grossmanN? that said, Luke's bad moments have been few so far.
- isaiah520

Look at everything that happened. The Flyers were looking to add a physical defensive defenseman for the future. And they were looking to add a top defenseman in either Suter or Weber, to replace Carle. There is a big picture to consider.

he didn't have to wait to sign carle and homer had lots of exp trading assets to clear cap space.
- isaiah520

A GM doesn't have to do anything. But he obviously had a plan. It didn't all quite work out. But again, it's easy to sit back and evaluate after the fact.

No suspension for Grabovski. My apologies for calling it a lock.
- bmeltzer

Bill, 99 times out of a 100. What you said is accurate.

Besser was probably in a dozen shorts or so. I thought he was pretty funny. Certainly not as good as Curly or Shemp.
- PLindbergh31

The one that I keep seeing is 'Horsing Around', where their sister Birdie is reincarnated as a horse. Not bad, but the boys were getting a little long in the tooth at that point.

I thought we were all of the mind that a hard, clean check does not call for an immediate fight. Looks, hitting is part of the game. If a star player is in a position to get hit, and a more physical player does it within the rules of the game, why should he have to fight?
Case in point: Brayden Schenn laying that huge hit in Game 3 and getting cross-checked in the throat by Asham. It was a huge, devestating, clean (the call was BS) hit, well within the rules, so why did he have to face retaliation?
- jmatchett

I'd be willing to say that less than 50% of fans are of that mindset, and I'm sure the percentage of players are much less. The "level-headed" analysts will say that, but it's easy to be level-headed when there is no vested interest.

The fact of the matter is, if Giroux is crushed into the boards via a legal hit and gets knocked out of the game, there is little-to-no-doubt in my mind that someone will retaliate. Legal or not, no team wants to be perceived as a pushover, and that is what will happen if hits go unpunished. Hockey is simply not as cut-and-dry as people want to make it out to be. These are human beings with emotion on the ice and they ultimately have a group-mentality of sticking up for each other, clean or not.

But in my defense, I'm not saying it automatically deserves a fight. It certainly does deserve some sort of response.

The one that I keep seeing is 'Horsing Around', where their sister Birdie is reincarnated as a horse. Not bad, but the boys were getting a little long in the tooth at that point.
- tangent_man

Yep. Once Larry and Moe went to the "Gentleman's haircuts" (hair slicked back) the Stooges had jumped the shark.

Yeah, and he played Stinky with Abbott and Costello.

*wondering how many will now have to google Abbott and Costello*
- tangent_man

My family watched A&C, not the Stooges (as much).

Loved Shemp in the third Thin Man movie, though.

"They didn't say you had to be a father they just said you had to have a kid!"