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June 09, 2011
SportsFilter: The Thursday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
All you need to know about Milbury is the following:
Traded Bill Muckalt, Zdeno Chara and 1st round pick (Jason Spezza) for Alexei Yashin.
Traded Roberto Luongo (their 1st pick the previous year) and Olli Jokinen for Mark Parrish and Oleg Kvasha, so he could then draft Rick Dipietro with the first overall pick.
posted by grum@work at 01:03 PM on June 09, 2011
So, he's a better announcer or player than manager.
posted by kokaku at 01:38 PM on June 09, 2011
That's not saying much.
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 02:53 PM on June 09, 2011
I call Mike Milbury the Matt Millen of the NHL, if that tells you anything...
posted by MeatSaber at 07:11 PM on June 09, 2011
Heat fans turn to voodoo to help team against Mavs.
posted by graymatters at 08:14 PM on June 09, 2011
The seventh division playoff final in Italy between Dro and Termeno goes to a penalty shoot out with the winner gaining promotion to the sixth division.
In which we discover that goalkeepers still haven't learned their lesson :
posted by Mr Bismarck at 09:44 PM on June 09, 2011
Classic, Mr. B.
posted by tselson at 10:49 PM on June 09, 2011
It's a shame the cameraman wasn't more on the ball.
posted by apoch at 06:21 AM on June 10, 2011
Hate to be a party-pooper, but according to the reports on that match, the losing side got the result overturned on appeal and a replay was ordered, even though the interpretation of when the ball is dead during a shootout is contentious.
(It's amazing how broad the pyramid gets in Italy: the equivalent tier in England has three regional divisions, with 70 clubs in total, but the Promozione has nearly 900.)
posted by etagloh at 08:02 AM on June 10, 2011
Mike Milbury refers to the Sedin twins as "Thelma and Louise", and Tony Gallagher of theprovince.com defends them. People of Vancouver: pay no attention to Mike Milbury, unless of course, he happens to grab your shoe.