Comments on: A Special Stick Is Staying Put (for now)

By: patrick

patrick — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:09:54 +0000

I agree with ANon, Donnie, and Mike Rucki, there’s probably still some goals left in that twig, especially in Green’s hands. Keep burying the biscuit with it, ’till it fails! All hail the Mean Green Machine!

By: OrderedChaos (Mike Rucki)

OrderedChaos (Mike Rucki) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:27:48 +0000

Donnie is right — since it’s still in good shape, Greener should keep the stick until it breaks. Then the Hall can glue it back together and stick it in a trophy case.

By: Donnie Knutts

Donnie Knutts — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:07:00 +0000

The key info here is that Mike Green is actually *still* using that stick… maybe if he goes a few games without scoring, he can give it up then. But why give it up now? It’s not like a homerun baseball, which will never be used again.

By: Victor

Victor — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:04:29 +0000

You have to include music, P&B. Lots of people think they can re-interpret classics, like Michael Bolton and “The Girl From Ipanema,” for example.

By: PenguinsExperience

PenguinsExperience — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:45:06 +0000

I would give it to the Hall.
Pepper is right. If it’s in the Hall it isn’t “gone.” It’s forever immortalized in there and it will be kept safe.

By: pucksandbooks

pucksandbooks — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:51:42 +0000

Filmaking seems uniquely the art form that insists on “remaking” classics. No one feels compelled to rewrite ‘The Old Man and the Sea,’ or “re-paint” the Mona Lisa. For good reason.
Sigh.

By: OrderedChaos (Mike Rucki)

OrderedChaos (Mike Rucki) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:33:15 +0000

Gee thanks, Victor, my day is now ruined. Actually a remake couldn’t be worse than “Slap Shot 2″ was, but it’s still an awful thought.

By: Victor

Victor — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:25:28 +0000

He can do whatever he wants with it. It’s his stick. I notice you didn’t mention this bit of blasphemy from the notes at the bottom of the article:
“Boudreau, who appeared as an extra in ‚ÄúSlap Shot,‚Äù was happy to learn that a studio is planning a remake of the 1977 classic hockey movie.” I almost barfed.

By: pepper

pepper — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:37:28 +0000

Notice that it’s not an entirely selfish motive – he was thinking about how he can score more goals with that stick
But I agree with Muddapucker — keep the puck if you can, and give the stick to dad, and dad can decide whether to give the implement of his son’s magical achievement to the Hall.
To me, you never “give it away,” because father and son, children, etc, can always visit the Hall to see it. And see it properly memorialized in the way that only the HoF can do it.

By: Muddapucker

Muddapucker — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:33:26 +0000

I’d give it to Big Dave… and when Big Dave was done with it, the Hall could have it.