Hey you young'uns!

Nil d · Guru

Hey you young'uns!

Ando · Guru

And-o still can't believe that you are +50 years old!!! And-o usually is pretty good at guessing such things too!!!

norskipaul · Senior Member

Well, Nil, congratulations are certainly in order here! I'm not too far behind myself, come to think of it. I sure hope that elusive 25th cup rolls around before we're too old to really enjoy it...

brooklynhabfan · Guru

Nil d wrote:

As I sit here contemplating my second half-century...............
My wife ghave me a book today on great Stanley Cup dynasties. Of course there are a couple of chapters on the Habs. It occurs to me that being born in 1956, I was five before there was a reigning Stanley Cup champion other than the Montreal Canadiens!

Hey Nil, I was away, but Happy Bday and hope te next 50 are lumbago-free!

normie · Member

Hey NIL!!!!!!!!!!!!! Welcome to the club, now yer up there with normie, cleg, johnny, etc. Ya can now consider yerself a "seasoned veteran". Cheers buddy ..... BOSOX still in 1st place!!!

nufsed ........ normie

Nil d · Guru

Thanks for the well wishes, guys. Glad to be a member of such an elite club!

But I wasn't trying to draw attention to myself, rather to the fact that in my youth the Habs winning the Stanley Cup was a given - and a travesty when it didn't happen. Now it's a miracle on ice when it does, and we call it a good year when we make the second round of the playoffs!

It's a factor of (1) 30 teams vs. the Original Six - so the odds are one-in-30 rather than 1-in-6 to begin with, and (2) the fact that the Habs no longer have dibs on all Quebec-born players (Toronto had Ontario back then, too) - imagine Lemieux, Brodeur, Bourque, Lecavalier, St. Louis, etc. playing for us..........

-- Edited by Nil d at 16:55, 2006-07-05

-- Edited by Nil d at 20:50, 2006-07-05