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[CountDeMoney]

TEAM OF DESTINY!!!111

Choke now, or choke later.  Your choice.

[CountDeMoney]

Stay classy, Boston.

Posted at 03:00 PM ET, 04/26/2012
Joel Ward gets body checked by the N-word
By Jonathan Capehart

Racial animus isn't confined to racially charged events, such as the killing of Trayvon Martin. It has now made its way to the hockey rink. Joel Ward, the black hockey player with the Washington Capitals who scored the winning goal against the Boston Bruins last night in overtime, has been board-checked by irate Bruins fans. Instead of hurling their bodies at him for eliminating the 2011 Stanley Cup champions from the playoffs, they're body checking him with a barrage of N-words.

The Post's Dan Steinberg links to some of the sites where commenters have unloaded hate on Ward, who is from Canada. But be sure to check out Chirpstory for some choice invective from Twitter. Here are a few to ponder.

    A n----- beat us in #OT Are you kidding me?

    stupid n----- go play basketball hockey is a white sport

    F---ing stupid arrogant, smelly, useless, waste of life, sad excuse for a NHL hockey playing N-----!!!!

    Who let that n----- on the ice

    Haha that n----- actually did something

Sickening. Only idiots — and cowards — hide behind protected Twitter feeds or fake Twitter handles to spill bile anonymously. And for what? A hockey game?! Ward, being one of more than 20 blacks in all of professional hockey, has heard this before, I'm sure. He's probably used to it or doesn't even notice it. And that's fine. But that doesn't make seeing such hate any less shocking or any more acceptable.

[Barrister]

Just speaking of black hockey players...

Jarome Iginla's dad is a lawyer in Edmonton.  His name is Elvis Iginla.  And he sometimes does criminal files.

Anyways any time Elvis shows up in my courtroom I smile from this small connection to a future hall of famer.

Plus the name Elvis is awesome.

[crazy canuck]

When my boy was in LA he and his friends saw Iginla and his kids at Disneyland.

Conversation went like this:

group: excuse me sire, are you Jarome Iginla?

Iginla: No, you got the wrong guy.

group Ok, sorry *as they start walking away*

Iginla: Psych!

Good fun, autographs and a group photo followed

[jimmy olsen]

When my boy was in LA he and his friends saw Iginla and his kids at Disneyland.

Conversation went like this:

group: excuse me sire, are you Jarome Iginla?

Iginla: No, you got the wrong guy.

group Ok, sorry *as they start walking away*

Iginla: Psych!

Good fun, autographs and a group photo followed

How formal of them. Do hockey players truly rule Canada as kings?

[viper37]

Pool update

[Barrister]

When my boy was in LA he and his friends saw Iginla and his kids at Disneyland.

Conversation went like this:

group: excuse me sire, are you Jarome Iginla?

Iginla: No, you got the wrong guy.

group Ok, sorry *as they start walking away*

Iginla: Psych!

Good fun, autographs and a group photo followed

[Josephus]

When my boy was in LA he and his friends saw Iginla and his kids at Disneyland.

Conversation went like this:

group: excuse me sire, are you Jarome Iginla?

Iginla: No, you got the wrong guy.

group Ok, sorry *as they start walking away*

Iginla: Psych!

Good fun, autographs and a group photo followed

How formal of them. Do hockey players truly rule Canada as kings?

Pretty much, yeah.

[crazy canuck]

When my boy was in LA he and his friends saw Iginla and his kids at Disneyland.

Conversation went like this:

group: excuse me sire, are you Jarome Iginla?

Iginla: No, you got the wrong guy.

group Ok, sorry *as they start walking away*

Iginla: Psych!

Good fun, autographs and a group photo followed

How formal of them. Do hockey players truly rule Canada as kings?

ooops    In my defence, it was pretty early in the morning when I typed that.

[katmai]

Coyotes seem to like this Winning series business, up 2-0 on Predators now

[Neil]

Coyotes seem to like this Winning series business, up 2-0 on Predators now

Yeah.  The last few years, I've been a supporter the Coyotes in the playoffs, but ever since they picked up Rafi Torres from the Cowardly Canucks, I've soured on them.

[Barrister]

Now that Winnipeg has a team, I feel I can cheer for the 'Yotes.  I approve of the comments about how the franchise has not made it to the second reound since 1987.

Although... I  feel like continued success in Phenix is holding Viper and Co back from having a team.

I R conflitced.

[Jaron]

At this point, I'd be happy to back the Flyers as my current team I favor to win the Stanley Cup, but all I really care about now is watching the Kings go down.

(I usually follow the Sharks or the Red Wings as a barely acceptable substitute, but since all the teams I enjoy watching are out I takes what I can gets)

[Grey Fox]

I'm starting to think we're going to have Reunion Final between the Flyers and the Kings.

[viper37]

Coyotes seem to like this Winning series business, up 2-0 on Predators now

yeah, they are surprising.  They are really good on attack, much better than the Preds, wich should be better on paper, at least.