Celebrating 55 today. Thanks to the Canes for an early birthday present last nite.

@sunsporter1649 Are you in the TB area. Team always among the class of the NHL

@Slade 180 miles southeast, but a loyal fan from day one

@sunsporter1649 Everyone in NY wants a Lightning/Rangets semi since there are so many ex Rangers have gone through there

@Slade Including #7, Phil Esposito, who by the way does radio for the Bolts

@sunsporter1649 I hear him on SIRIUS. He sounds like a crotchedy old man these days. Too critical of such an excellent team

I'm very familiar with Espo, coming from Boston. Those were FUN teams (brawling, tremendous offense, great characters, Bobby Orr)

@Slade I catch him on the radio, synced with the tv, I love his commentary.

And who can forget the boss, Grapes himself, fun times those were....

@sunsporter1649 early 70's they had the Turk. Great player and wild character. Had the 'stache and wild hair

@Slade Stan Jonathan, Terry O'Reilly, Jean Ratelle, and Blue picking the goalies. Wild times, for sure

@sunsporter1649 Early 70's they had what should have been a dynasty

@sunsporter1649 Blue lol. Which incarnation? He names all his dogs blue

@sunsporter1649 You could go to those games for $5 in the upper, upper deck. The drunken Irishmen from Southie dominated - man what a gritty crowd. They used to bet on the size of the rats scurrying by. We called them the gallery gods!

These guys were so drunk sometimes they'd sleep through goals. But NEVER a fight🤣

@Slade Never sat up there, was warned about the rats. Sure enjoyed the clam chowder and corned beef before the games, and the hot pretzels with mustard after

@sunsporter1649 It was a great place to go for a game long tutorial on archaic racial slurs (even though I doubt there was one black person in the building). My dad said that he hadn't heard [b]stovepipe[/b] since the 40's 😳

@Slade The old barn was the first place I heard that a ref had a town named after him....Marblehead

@sunsporter1649 As of about 10 years ago the Islanders fans chanted "a rope, a tree, let's hang the referee"

@Slade LOL, and with two refs now gonna need extra rope

@sunsporter1649 we got plenty!

@sunsporter1649 man are they getting outplayed tonight

@Slade Awful tough to beat the pussycats and the refs....two goals disallowed....sucks

@sunsporter1649 The Big Rig scores! ...maybe

@sunsporter1649 Both those calls were good

@Slade Not sitting where I was....

@sunsporter1649 Nah, rules are rules

@Slade 8 down, 8 to go!

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