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[Palehorse]

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When I was growing up, my family owned hunting dogs and those dogs loved to hunt and train. They also received better treatment than I did.

And that is an absolute surrounding any responsible owner of a working animal; treat the animal well and it will serve you well for the duration of its life. Does not matter if it a a dog, horse, or animals being raised for food-stores.

Like anything else that lives in this place, they too have a purpose which they are genetically pre-dispositioned to fulfill. Humankind has in many cases served to bastardize this via crossbreeding and ill advised "training" that drives an animal toward behaviors and dispositions that are not the norm for a given animal.

When you see an animal in its natural state, it isn't hard to understand its state of contentment or discontent; taking only a bit of effort to observe. And yet 90 % of humanity does not feel it important enough to learn to do, and even less important to understand if it requires some output from the owner.

From my view, anyone deciding to take on any animal should approach it with the same reverence and commitment as having a child; don't do it if you cannot commit to doing what is necessary to properly train them, care for them, and meet their needs before expecting them to meet your expectations of them. And make certain your expectations of them are well within their abilities.

[Palehorse]

Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals in Chicago with the Hawks up 3 games to 2.

The cup is in town this night, so let's bring it back home and into the house by the end of period 3 boys!

LETS GO HAWKS!

[Bo D]

Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Finals in Chicago with the Hawks up 3 games to 2.

The cup is in town this night, so let's bring it back home and into the house by the end of period 3 boys!

LETS GO HAWKS!

I heard that the last time they won the Cup on home ice, they won game one with a drunken goalie they found in a bar just before the game.

[Palehorse]

I heard that the last time they won the Cup on home ice, they won game one with a drunken goalie they found in a bar just before the game.

Yup! He was their emergency goalie and they had to look for him; eventually finding him in a bar.

Also, when they won the cup at home in 1938, the friggin cup was up in Toronto as the league figured there was no way the Hawks would win it. So no trophy presentations In front of the home crowd. 👿

That all changed last night! (. And while there was plenty of celebrating, no riots or burning and looting too place!). 😬

[Palehorse]

I know some of this story is likely trumped up to build human interest in the sport, but I have to say that hearing it from  Kimmo Timonen himself lends it a whole lot of credibility.

After years in the pro league in Europe, he comes to the US and spends 16 years here; getting into the playoffs a number of times only to be eliminated early, and then when he gets to the Cup final, his team loses to the Hawks. . .

Last summer, his doctors informed him that due to blood clots in his lungs, he likely would not be able to play another game, and he worked hard to come back; and once he did his team traded him to the Blackhawks.

I'm sure Jonathan Toews is likely a fairly arrogant individual in real life; and in some ways he has a bit of a right to be that way. It is still early in his career and he is already sporting three Stanley Cup Championship Rings, all of them earned with the Blackhawks. I don't know how he really is in day to day life, but I suspect such lofty success breeds a giant level of self-confidence that can be perceived by the regular folks as arrogance.

Still, with  Kimmo Timonen playing the final season of his professional career as a player, having never been able to lift Lord Stanley's Cup in victory throughout that career, Toews made him a promise on Monday morning: "Be ready. When we win it tonight, I am going to accept the cup, but you will be the first one I will hand it to.(paraphrased).

Timonen said it brought tears to his eyes when he told him that.

And true to his word, when Toews hoisted the cup after accepting it, he skated straight over to the blue line and handed it straight to Kimmo.

And Kimmo didn't even know what to do with it after his initial hoist, and had to be encouraged to skate a lap around the rink to show it off to the fans that were cheering their heads off.

It brought tears to my eyes to see that last night, and not just for Kimmo, but for the entire team. A team that, despite it's successes in the past 6 years, has not lost its humanity and goodwill toward others. Kimmo tried to hand it off to one of them and every one of them refused and told him to skate it around. And they did so because it was what they wanted.

Despite achieving another milestone that prompted the commissioner to publicly announce it the "Dynasty", that team recognized the importance of winning the first cup of a very long career, on the last game of that career, and honored Kimmo despite the fact he has only been with them since March.

That says a lot to me about Toews, the team he captains, and the values they hold. And it's all good man. 

http://www.cbssports.com/nhl/eye-on-hockey/25215734/stanley-cup-final-kimmo-timonen-gets-to-leave-nhl-as-a-champion

The look on his face as he hoists the cup says it all! 

[duke jupiter]

I know some of this story is likely trumped up to build human interest in the sport, but I have to say that hearing it from  Kimmo Timonen himself lends it a whole lot of credibility.

After years in the pro league in Europe, he comes to the US and spends 16 years here; getting into the playoffs a number of times only to be eliminated early, and then when he gets to the Cup final, his team loses to the Hawks. . .

Last summer, his doctors informed him that due to blood clots in his lungs, he likely would not be able to play another game, and he worked hard to come back; and once he did his team traded him to the Blackhawks.

I'm sure Jonathan Toews is likely a fairly arrogant individual in real life; and in some ways he has a bit of a right to be that way. It is still early in his career and he is already sporting three Stanley Cup Championship Rings, all of them earned with the Blackhawks. I don't know how he really is in day to day life, but I suspect such lofty success breeds a giant level of self-confidence that can be perceived by the regular folks as arrogance.

Still, with  Kimmo Timonen playing the final season of his professional career as a player, having never been able to lift Lord Stanley's Cup in victory throughout that career, Toews made him a promise on Monday morning: "Be ready. When we win it tonight, I am going to accept the cup, but you will be the first one I will hand it to.(paraphrased).

Timonen said it brought tears to his eyes when he told him that.

And true to his word, when Toews hoisted the cup after accepting it, he skated straight over to the blue line and handed it straight to Kimmo.

And Kimmo didn't even know what to do with it after his initial hoist, and had to be encouraged to skate a lap around the rink to show it off to the fans that were cheering their heads off.

It brought tears to my eyes to see that last night, and not just for Kimmo, but for the entire team. A team that, despite it's successes in the past 6 years, has not lost its humanity and goodwill toward others. Kimmo tried to hand it off to one of them and every one of them refused and told him to skate it around. And they did so because it was what they wanted.

Despite achieving another milestone that prompted the commissioner to publicly announce it the "Dynasty", that team recognized the importance of winning the first cup of a very long career, on the last game of that career, and honored Kimmo despite the fact he has only been with them since March.

That says a lot to me about Toews, the team he captains, and the values they hold. And it's all good man. 

http://www.cbssports.com/nhl/eye-on-hockey/25215734/stanley-cup-final-kimmo-timonen-gets-to-leave-nhl-as-a-champion

The look on his face as he hoists the cup says it all! 

And that my friend sez it all about being a team.

Best regards,
Duke (team work can and will bring great success) Jupiter

[Henry Hawk]

Well said palehorse, it was a classic moment in sports history.....I really, really enjoyed it this year thanks to my son who insisted I watch it with him and he got me hooked!

[Palehorse]

 Question: "How can someone be racist if they have friends who are Black?"

Answer: The same way serial killers can have friends who are alive.

[Anne]

Question from my granddaughter, "Why do they wear white gloves to hand the Stanley Cup to a bunch of sweaty men to slobber all over?" I told her so it will be nice and clean for them.

[Palehorse]

[Henry Hawk]

Richard Matt, one of the two New York prison escapees, has been shot and killed by law enforcement officers....

[Locutus]

Sweat will be nearby somewhere.  They were still traveling together. 

[Locutus]

Sweat shot and captured. 

[Purplelady1040]

Sweat shot and captured.

Yep and only 3 miles from the Canadian border! That was scary but at least people can be a little more relieved now!

[The Troll]

Yep and only 3 miles from the Canadian border! That was scary but at least people can be a little more relieved now!

  I'm really surprised they didn't shoot him in the head three time too.