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  • #1081
    Re: He's dead, Jim.

    Originally posted by joecct View Post
    North Star hero J.P. Parise, 73.
    fyp

    http://www.startribune.com/sports/wild/287918141.html

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    • #1082
      Re: He's dead, Jim.

      Originally posted by joecct View Post
      Islander hero J.P. Parise, 73.
      Parise was one of the Islanders who just barely missed out on the cups. RIP, Uglier Dustin Hoffman.
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      ECAC Champion 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1980, 1986, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2005, 2010
      Ivy League Champion 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1978, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020

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      • #1083
        Re: He's dead, Jim.

        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
        Parise was one of the Islanders who just barely missed out on the cups. RIP, Uglier Dustin Hoffman.
        He was a North Star for 16 years (9 as player, 7 as coach) and 4 as an Islander. He also played two season for the Minneapolis Bruins prior to expansion. He was, and always will be, a North Star.

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        • #1084
          Re: He's dead, Jim.

          Golden-era Cowboys defensive lineman Jethro Pugh.
          What kind of cheese are you planning to put on top?

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          • #1085
            Re: He's dead, Jim.

            Originally posted by rufus View Post
            Golden-era Cowboys defensive lineman Jethro Pugh.
            Kind of ironic in a way, with the Cowboys and Packers about to meet in an ice bowl type game again. It was Jerry Kramer's block of Pugh that got Starr into the endzone in the original Ice Bowl.
            That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.

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            • #1086
              Re: He's dead, Jim.

              Originally posted by goldy_331 View Post
              He was a North Star for 16 years (9 as player, 7 as coach) and 4 as an Islander. He also played two season for the Minneapolis Bruins prior to expansion. He was, and always will be, a North Star.
              He may have had more wins as an Islander...
              Cornell University
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              ECAC Champion 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1980, 1986, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2005, 2010
              Ivy League Champion 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1978, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020

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              • #1087
                Re: He's dead, Jim.

                Originally posted by Spartanforlife4 View Post
                I've always been a fan of this story. Shirali Muslimov - the 168 year old man.

                Guy was probably lying out of his behind, but he did have a passport with the birthdate.
                I remember a TV commercial from years ago about a village in the Caucuses where all the men supposedly lived well into their 90s, and the commercial attributed it to their diet of yogurt.

                It turns out that 60 years earlier, there was forced conscription into the Russian army for all males under age 30. Somehow every male in that village was 31 or older at the time. They even had the birth records to "prove" it!
                "Hope is a good thing; maybe the best of things."

                "Beer is a sign that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -- Benjamin Franklin

                "Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." -- W. B. Yeats

                "People generally are most impatient with those flaws in others about which they are most ashamed of in themselves." - folk wisdom

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                • #1088
                  Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                  He may have had more wins as an Islander...
                  I believe he still has the quickest Stanley Cup OT goal. It eliminated my Rangers and spelled the end of the Emile Francis era.
                  CCT '77 & '78
                  4 kids
                  5 grandsons (BCA 7/09, CJA 5/14, JDL 8/14, JFL 6/16, PJL 7/18)
                  1 granddaughter (EML 4/18)

                  ”Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”
                  - Benjamin Franklin

                  Banned from the St. Lawrence University Facebook page - March 2016 (But I got better).

                  I want to live forever. So far, so good.

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                  • #1089
                    Re: He's dead, Jim.

                    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                    He may have had more wins as an Islander...
                    Well, at least more post season wins...

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                    • #1090
                      Re: He's dead, Jim.

                      Originally posted by FreshFish View Post
                      I remember a TV commercial from years ago about a village in the Caucuses where all the men supposedly lived well into their 90s, and the commercial attributed it to their diet of yogurt.

                      It turns out that 60 years earlier, there was forced conscription into the Russian army for all males under age 30. Somehow every male in that village was 31 or older at the time. They even had the birth records to "prove" it!
                      I remember that ad. Didn't know the rest of the story, though. Very nice.
                      Cornell University
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                      ECAC Champion 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1980, 1986, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2005, 2010
                      Ivy League Champion 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1978, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020

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                      • #1091
                        Re: He's dead, Jim.

                        Originally posted by joecct View Post
                        Islander hero J.P. Parise, 73.
                        Originally posted by goldy_331 View Post
                        fyp

                        http://www.startribune.com/sports/wild/287918141.html
                        Fixed both your posts. RIP J.P.

                        The degree to which Parisé was held in respect in the hockey world resulted in being named to play for Team Canada in the Summit Series in 1972. He was a surprise pick to the team and didn't expect to see much ice time, but ended up playing in six of the eight games. He played on a line with superstar Phil Esposito and had two goals and two assists.

                        Parisé was best known in the series for nearly attacking unpopular referee Josef Kompalla with his stick in the eighth game after Kompalla had handed out a series of questionable penalties against the Canadians. Parisé held back at the last minute from striking Kompalla and was ejected from the game in consequence. As a silver lining, the officiating of the game improved considerably after Parisé's threat which allowed his teammates a chance to get back in the game.
                        Growing old is mandatory -- growing up is optional!

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                        • #1092
                          Re: He's dead, Jim.

                          I was lucky enough to have met with JP a few times. He couldn't have been any classier or more humble had he tried. Very sad to hear about this.

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                          • #1093
                            Re: He's dead, Jim.

                            Originally posted by Slap Shot View Post
                            I was lucky enough to have met with JP a few times. He couldn't have been any classier or more humble had he tried. Very sad to hear about this.
                            Like most hockey players of that era
                            Growing old is mandatory -- growing up is optional!

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                            • #1094
                              Re: He's dead, Jim.

                              The Birds and The Time Machine-lost their shine today-Rod Taylor dead at 84.
                              Take the shortest distance to the puck and arrive in ill humor

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                              • #1095
                                Re: He's dead, Jim.

                                Originally posted by DrDemento View Post
                                The Birds and The Time Machine-lost their shine today-Rod Taylor dead at 84.
                                From his IMDB I would say he had either the worst agent on Earth or one king hell of a drug addiction.
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                                ECAC Champion 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1980, 1986, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2005, 2010
                                Ivy League Champion 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1977, 1978, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020

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