Okay. So this is long overdue. But here's my response to Dr. SlapChicken's diagnosis of the upcoming NHL season, otherwise known as the 2nd to last NHL season. And by the picture above, I'm sure you've already gathered that I'm going to be uber-immature about this.
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The Islanders suck.
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Let me repeat that: the NEW YORK ISLANDERS suck. In a way, they have always sucked, even when they were romping the league in the early 1980's. For they are the Islanders, and lo' was it written, in the sacred texts handed down by Jehovah "engraving" His Word upon the Holy Ice with his mildly-warm and highly-acidic golden stream of omnipotence. And yey, the Words upon the Ice read: "Thou shalt never charge more than $16 for shitty seats." (A Commandment which was immediately off-set by "Thou shalt charge $7.50 for a Heineken whilst claiming it to be an 'Exotic Beer'").
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However, NO MATTER how badly the Isles suck, nor how many games the Rangers defeat them in by scores that resemble those of an NBA team playing against 6 avocadoes, they will never, ever, EVER...........and the Rock means: EVER! suck as badly as the Rangers do in their dark and lonely souls. And though the Devils will always be worse, and the nigh-unmentionable Flyers will trump even the aforementioned fanless Stanley Cup-factory, the Rangers will always, ALL-VAYS, be worth just about as much as a smudge of fecal matter on the tip of a nuclear ICBM about 3 seconds before airburst over Haiphong.
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And, as my aqua-luminescent* colleague noted earlier, spending the gross domestic product of France on acquring new players is not necessarily a good idea. Unless you wear pinstripes on your jersey. And even then it works about half of the time......... plus you have to be playing baseball...... And that just sucks period.
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Ok, I lost my train of thought. But the crux of it is this: the sole purpose of the upcoming hockey season is to fulfill my secret masturbatory dream of watching Chris Simon kill Sean Avery on ice, or failing that, sleeping with Elisha Cuthbert whilst doing the chicken dance and concordantly shitting on a VHS copy of the Mark Messier number retirement ceremony.
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* - And yes, SlapChicken glows when placed in water. The reason behind which is too horrible to discuss aloud. (see: "Tuskunga Event")