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05-29-2011, 02:45 PM
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im tryin to reach the team store on twitter and by phone to see how is the turnaround time for cresting
someone tipped me off sayin it was 2wks.....
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05-29-2011, 02:50 PM
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Originally Posted by darthchilli  im tryin to reach the team store on twitter and by phone to see how is the turnaround time for cresting
someone tipped me off sayin it was 2wks..... | I was there yesterday. There's a sign that said 2-4 weeks I believe it was.
Pretty dumb since the playoffs will be over by then.
Also if you are calling them, they don't pick up but they said they always return voicemails.
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05-29-2011, 02:51 PM
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#34928 | | 14 dolla balla aint got nothing on me!
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fuck...3 more days....cant wait till its wednesday!!
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05-29-2011, 02:52 PM
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thats for the names cresting...
i unno its pretty dumb if its 2/4wks
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05-29-2011, 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by DanHibiki I was there yesterday. There's a sign that said 2-4 weeks I believe it was.
Pretty dumb since the playoffs will be over by then.
Also if you are calling them, they don't pick up but they said they always return voicemails. | I have an authentic jersey without name....
I want to get that done and they are asking 1mth.....
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05-29-2011, 02:58 PM
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#34931 | | 14 dolla balla aint got nothing on me!
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Darthchilli's info is correct. The tipster is must be a smart guy LOL. Go to pacific coast cresting after buying the patch from the team store.. Same cost as team store, but 1 day turnaround time. Buy the patch monday, pick up tuesday, win wednesday!
Remember to bring your team store receipt or they will not be authorized to stitch on the patch.
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05-29-2011, 03:03 PM
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I can't believe its been 3 years already.
This year we are going to win the cup for Luc Bourdon.
R.I.P Luc Bourdon, we know you are watching us.
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05-29-2011, 03:19 PM
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Skys the Limit for Canucks Ryan Kesler http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news;...s_kesler052811 Quote:
Finally, about 2:30 a.m., the phone rang. As usual, Dad was asleep, but Mom was awake, lying in bed, tossing and turning, waiting for their son Ryan Kesler(notes) to call as he still does after virtually every game he plays.
Linda Kesler knew the call would come late Tuesday night. Ryan suffered a leg injury, so he needed treatment. He scored the tying goal with 13.2 seconds left in regulation, so he had to do interviews. The Canucks won 3-2 in double overtime in Vancouver, so the game didn’t end until about 1 a.m. Detroit time.
Ryan Kesler calls his mom, Linda, after almost every game.
(Courtesy of the Kesler family)
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She waited. She couldn’t wait.
Then the phone rang, and it was Ryan. She can’t remember anything in particular he said. She wishes she could. She can remember only one thing.
“It’s the most excited I’ve ever heard him,” she said. “Usually he’s just real low-key, and I usually ask the mom questions: ‘Are you hurt? Are you Okay?’ I always tell him I think he played a good game, because I think he always does. But it was just … It’s just unreal. I never would have dreamt this. I was just as excited. I just yelled into the phone, ‘Congratulations! I’m so excited for you.’ It’s just a dream come true for him.”
The Canucks are playing the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup final. It has been a long time coming for the teams and the towns. The Canucks haven’t made the Cup final since 1994 and have never won the Cup since joining the NHL in 1970. The Bruins haven’t made the Cup final since 1990 and haven’t won the Cup since 1972. But it has been a long time coming for many of the players, too.
After the Canucks eliminated the San Jose Sharks and the confetti rained from the rafters at Rogers Arena on Tuesday night, a reporter asked Ryan – all grown up now at 26, a candidate for the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoffs’ most valuable player – if he had envisioned winning the Cup the way Canadian boys do.
“Yeah,” Ryan said with a smile. “I was only a half-hour away from Canada, so that’s been my dream since I was a little kid, and we’re finally doing it.”
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Ryan Kesler grew up in Livonia, Mich., a Detroit suburb about a 25-minute drive to two Canadian border crossings. It was there that he and his older brother, Todd, played with mini-sticks and mini-nets while their sister, Jennifer, cheered on the sidelines. “They would literally play for hours,” said his father, Mike Kesler, “and it was always for the Stanley Cup.”
Kesler bounced between some of the Detroit area's elite youth hockey programs.
(Courtesy of the Kesler family)
It was there that his quiet intensity first came out, where he began developing into the top two-way player he is today, where he gained that chip on his shoulder – and where he still returns over the phone or in person to feel at home.
He was 4 when his father, a former college player and longtime youth hockey coach, now a scout for the U.S. national team development program, first took him onto the ice.
“He grabbed my hand, went around the rink once, and then he said, ‘Dad, I don’t need your hand anymore,’ ” his father said.
As he grew, his father taught him how to skate – edges, crossovers, stride, power. He also taught him why to skate – that if you can skate well you can catch people from behind, that you have to skate as hard coming back into your zone as you do into the offensive end. His father told him he would never judge his play based on goals and points, but he would hold him to a standard if Mom and Dad were going to drive all over the place so he could play hockey.
“I said, ‘I will demand that you give 100 percent barring injury or illness. You’ve always got to work hard,’ ” his father said.
His father wasn’t always sure he would. He had put together a program of basic off-ice drills, but he said Ryan never really wanted to do them. “It was like I was pushing him,” Mike said. “I said, ‘Ryan, for you to get the benefit out of this, you have to understand the importance of it and you have to be willing to do it, not because I’m your dad telling you that you have to do it. You have to really in your heart want to do it and understand what it’s going to do for you.’ ”
Ryan told Sports Illustrated that if he didn’t give his best effort in a game, he would have to do “the basement drill” when he got home – full gear, no skates, basically a half-hour of cardio – and he didn’t like it at the time.
At one point, Ryan’s grandfather, Robert Kesler, asked Ryan’s father what he thought. Can Ryan really play? How far can he go? Ryan’s father was frank. He told him that Ryan had the talent to play at a high level – thinking college, not the NHL – but needed one thing to get him over the hump. “I said … ‘I don’t know if he has the heart and the willingness to compete and understand how important it is and how hard you’ve got to play every single shift – no matter how much talent you have – to really excel,’ ” his father said.
Ryan went through a rough period when he was about 12 and 13. He suffered Osgood-Schlatter disease, a rupture of the growth plate in his knees, a painful condition not uncommon among young athletes. He bounced between some of the Detroit area’s elite youth hockey programs for various reasons. He became so frustrated that, according to his father, he considered quitting the sport.
But he didn’t quit. His father had told him he could prove people right by giving up the game, or he could prove them wrong. He started looking at ingredients on boxes of food – carbs, fat grams. He started asking for training books and doing off-ice work on his own. His father coached him for one season, and then he made a team that, according to his father, hadn’t invited him to a 47-player tryout the year before. He led that team in scoring with 117 points in 72 games.
Heart? Now he was earning a reputation as a heart-and-soul player. He made the U.S. national team development program, based in nearby Ann Arbor, Mich. His junior and senior years of high school, he learned everything from how to fight to defend himself to how to perform when dog tired. Mike Eaves – then the coach of the U.S. 18-and-under team, now the coach at Wisconsin, told the Detroit Free Press: “The essence of Ryan is his will, his determination, his wanting to get better. He’s always looking for that edge, whether it’s mental or physical.”
Kesler played one season at Ohio State before moving on to pro hockey and quickly making the jump to the NHL.
(Courtesy of the Kesler family)
Throughout all of this, Ryan’s mother never thought about the NHL. Even when college coaches starting calling, even when Ryan’s eventual agent assured her he would have a long NHL career, she didn’t believe it.
“I said, ‘Oh, it just can’t be,’ ” she said. “It’s probably because he was never the superstar on any of the teams he played on, because he didn’t score the goals. Everybody liked the player that scored all the big goals. Ryan was a playmaker. I think he was just never given the kudos.”
Reminded that Ryan is getting the kudos now, she laughed. “Yeah,” she said, “he sure is.”
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When the Canucks came to play the Detroit Red Wings in March, their team bus pulled up to a ranch home in a suburban subdivision – Ryan Kesler’s house. He had asked his mother to make a home-cooked meal for the entire team.
“Can I cater it?” his mother asked, according to her recollection.
“No, Mom. A home-cooked meal.”
“Okay. We’ll pull this off.”
With help from family, friends and neighbors, the Keslers served the Canucks steak, pasta, turkey, vegetables, cheesy potatoes, you name it. While some kids waited outside for autographs, the players ate in the same basement where Ryan and his brothers used to play with their mini-sticks.
Ryan had come full circle. After a year at Ohio State and a steady climb in the pros – minor leagues to the NHL; fourth line to third line to the top six – he was now a team leader and a family man. He and his wife, Andrea, had a daughter, Makayla, 3, and an infant son, Ryker.
Once known as an agitator on the ice, Ryan had begun to keep more of an even keel, partly at the direction of management and coaching staff, partly because he didn’t want his young daughter asking why Daddy was sitting alone in the penalty box.
Ryan finished the regular season with 41 goals – 15 more than his career high. He became a finalist for the Selke Trophy as the NHL’s best defensive forward. After finishing second in the voting last year, he is the favorite to win it this year.
“He has more energy at the end of games now, because he’s focused on the play and not focused on the external stuff that’s going on,” Canucks general manager Mike Gillis said. “It’s a maturing process for everybody, and he’s part of the group, and I think we’re all better for it.”
Kesler has lead the Canucks to their first Cup final since 1994 and is a leading candidate for the Conn Smythe Trophy.
(Harry How/Getty Images)
In the first round of the playoffs, Ryan shut down another top two-way player, Jonathan Toews(notes), as the Canucks eliminated their nemeses, the Chicago Blackhawks. In the second round, he factored into 11 of the Canucks’ 14 goals as they beat the Nashville Predators, sparking teammate Alex Burrows to say: “He wants to be our leader. He wants to be our guy that leads us to the promised land.”
How badly does he want it? He took a puck in the face during one game against the Predators, but missed little time because he refused anesthetic while receiving seven stitches inside of his mouth and seven more outside of it.
“Ryan, was that not frozen?” his father asked, according to his recollection.
“No, there wasn’t enough time. I had to get back out.”
“Didn’t that hurt?”
“Dad, they’re putting a needle through your skin and in and out. You feel it. You feel every bit of it.”
In the Western Conference final, Ryan backchecked so hard against San Jose Sharks defenseman Dan Boyle(notes) on Tuesday night that he came up lame and dragged his left leg off the ice. His father turned to his mother and suggested he wouldn’t come back, not the way he went to the dressing room. But he did come back. He scored that dramatic tying goal and growled when a reporter asked if he could describe what he had gone through physically.
“I was battling, just like everybody else out there,” he said.
He didn’t sound much different when asked how it felt to make the Stanley Cup final.
“It feels good,” he said, “but it’s going to feel even better fighting to win it.”
Not just to win it. Fighting to win it.
Imagine if the Canucks do win it. Imagine the conversation Ryan Kesler will have with his parents after that game. Imagine the Cup party he might have back home.
His mother still can’t imagine it. She thought the ultimate was when he won silver with Team USA at the Vancouver Olympics last year. Could he win even sweeter silver in Vancouver this year?
“I mean, what else can he do?” Linda Kesler said. “He’s just a normal kid. We’re just a normal family. It just doesn’t seem like this should be happening, but it sure is.”
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05-29-2011, 03:22 PM
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someone guy is selling authentic ones on ebay $10-11 shipped
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05-29-2011, 03:30 PM
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there's gotta be some on craigslist thats legit. For those (like me) who dont know how to spot a fake, how can you tell if the ticket is fake or not?
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05-29-2011, 03:32 PM
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“It feels good,” he said, “but it’s going to feel even better fighting to win it.”
Not just to win it. Fighting to win it.
| What an awesome read. The humility and his drive are unbelievable. Knowing our players are this focused, with the the level of skill the team has, brings a lot of confidence.
Like a lot of you, I was hoping to face TB in the finals but Boston made it in. After some thought, when we beat them and hoist the cup, there won't be any bitching or whining that we beat the team we're supposed to. We will beat the best opponent and be truly recognized as the best in the league.
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05-29-2011, 03:33 PM
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#34938 | | Everyone wants a piece of R S...
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anybody know if they'll be showing AWAY games at Roger's arena and how much it would cost?
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05-29-2011, 03:37 PM
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i think they are? i rmb they said they were for game6 last round
and i read it was 10bux all proceeds goto canuck place
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05-29-2011, 03:38 PM
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Originally Posted by blackGS? anybody know if they'll be showing AWAY games at Roger's arena and how much it would cost? | yes
ive heard between $10-15
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05-29-2011, 03:39 PM
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Originally Posted by blackGS? anybody know if they'll be showing AWAY games at Roger's arena and how much it would cost? | yes, they are, and it's rumored to be a suggested $10 donation to enter.
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05-29-2011, 03:43 PM
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can you buy tickets in advance for away game viewing? tried googling, can't find alot of info
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05-29-2011, 04:14 PM
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can anyone confirm it though? i dont wanna head to the stadium only to find out the doors are locked lol and rush to find another place to catch the game.
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05-29-2011, 04:16 PM
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Stupid question but is there a stanley cup champion patch...?
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05-29-2011, 04:27 PM
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dont think so, if there was it be a canucks thing where u can buy. Although there are no rules that state the canucks can't have a patch added to next years jersey
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05-29-2011, 04:29 PM
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Originally Posted by b0unce. [?] can anyone confirm it though? i dont wanna head to the stadium only to find out the doors are locked lol and rush to find another place to catch the game. | i confirmed it for you. 
june 6, 8, 13 though internal memo
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05-29-2011, 04:36 PM
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Originally Posted by darthchilli dont think so, if there was it be a canucks thing where u can buy. Although there are no rules that state the canucks can't have a patch added to next years jersey | its some bs nhl license agreement, where you can only apply the stanley cup patch during the stanley cup finals and only stores with authorization are allow to put them on  | |
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05-29-2011, 04:37 PM
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Originally Posted by haymura there's gotta be some on craigslist thats legit. For those (like me) who dont know how to spot a fake, how can you tell if the ticket is fake or not? | There really is no way. A seller could sell you legit tickets then turn around and report them as lost or stolen which automatically cancels your tickets. With that said, there are some things you can do as a buyer to try and protect yourself. If they are a season ticket holder which is common, ask for some proof. On top of that always ask for ID and take a picture of it or something. If a seller is legit they should have no issues with it but if they do I would just walk away. You may also arrange to meet a seller at the game and meet at the door making sure you can get in.
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05-29-2011, 04:43 PM
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Originally Posted by winson604 There really is no way. A seller could sell you legit tickets then turn around and report them as lost or stolen which automatically cancels your tickets. With that said, there are some things you can do as a buyer to try and protect yourself. If they are a season ticket holder which is common, ask for some proof. On top of that always ask for ID and take a picture of it or something. If a seller is legit they should have no issues with it but if they do I would just walk away. You may also arrange to meet a seller at the game and meet at the door making sure you can get in. | Yup. But not everyone is comfortable with having their ID pic taken. What you can do is copy down their name and address.
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