Did he say 'goober?'

My thoughts
The Bs won game 1 too easily, largely due to game 7
hangover, not unusual. Games 2-4 the Canes were
much the faster team, the Bs looked like they were
skating in sand to me.
How do you beat speed ? Play physical. That's how
games 5-6 looked to me. Although when the Canes
has pressure, the Bs had difficulty clearing the defensive
zone - again team speed.
But generally, speed doesn't like being hit.
The Canes have been physical in return. Don't even
call Walker's punch anything but what it was - a
sucker punch. Rutherford sure is a good talker.
We saw a number of the current Canes up here
when they played with the local AHL team. You knew
Staal was going to be very good but Ward never
struck me as anymore than average. He looks better
to me now and stole a game for the Canes.
Good coaching or experience ?
I'm hoping for a very close game tonite. Let's call it
a 1-0 or 2-1 game and may the team that wants it
the most win, just keep the refs out of it, they are
awful, and keep it clean. Skating, passing, hitting.
Lastly, most of us up here stopped reading
'Shank' Shaughnessy a long time ago, lost
credibility. And when you lose that you'll say most
anything to get read.

Really? I thought that the magnolias were made of steel down south? Then again, when you've got a carpetbagger from the Land of Lincoln defending Southern Pride, things may tend to get a bit squirrelly. Hey, DeCock, go back to Evanston, get a deep dish from Gino's and let your adopted neighbors defend their heritage on their own. They might not use that fancy verbiage of yours, but it'll at least be authentic. Who knows they may not have even gotten their wee little knickers in a bundle like you did, then again I doubt your readers are suburban middle class twits, so their mettle may be a bit stronger. Now run along and break out your Michael Jordan memorabilia as you know absolutely nothing about the game of Hockey.

Are you serious in your assertion that goober and redneck are worthy of a racial slur classification? These type of ridiculous statements lend creedence to your ignorant country bumpkin persona. The past two articles that you have written do not distinguish yourself and your fellow carolina fan-base from shaughnessy and Ryan. I understand that you write to create controversy and draw attention to your writing because you are in such a small market, but saying that goober and redneck are comparable to other racial slurs borders on absurd. Your journalistic integrity has certainly suffered in exchange for your feeble attempt to gain national exposure. Many of the Boston fans, myself included, will not feel remorse for you and your fellow Carolina fans as we complete a historic comeback and whomp your silly goober redneck asses back to Raleigh.

" "We have won one Game 7 and we will win another." Swell. What a bunch of goobers. Imagine playing at your own rink and seeing a message that basically states that the game you are playing is already over." He is calling the folks who put that up on the jumbo goobers, not all of "cane nation". Little sensitive aren't we? Could it be the fear creeping in?

I lived in MA 18 years before I moved to NC. When I first moved to MA, Shaughnessy was fresh and witty. I used to look forward to reading him in the Globe. The problem is, his writing in 2009 is pretty much the same as it was in the 80's. One of his standards is to find these little side issues to pick on. He isn't a hockey beat writer who really understands the game.

Ignore Shank. He has no clue what he is talking about. He only decided to write about the Bruins now since they're in the second round and Bob Ryan got dibs on the Celtics. This is the same guy who thought UConn wasn't part of New England and thought people in Hartford cared about the Canes. The Boston Globe rarely if ever talks about hockey or college sports unless they want to degrade someone. Their more focused on the Celtics and the Sox (they do own 17% of the team).

Luke & Others -- c'mon, you're taking this too hard. Although I have lived in the South for most of my life, I have spent many years in the Northeast and still have many friends who are died-in-the-wool Yanks. Just about everyone up there is from flinty stock and they consider trading barbs to be a fine art. We can't wear our hearts on our sleeves; we look like silly delicate flowers when we do.

Consider this: If the Canes weren't such a threat and the fans a factor in these games, they wouldn't even bother with the insults. Consider the jabs and wisecracks as badges of honor and thicken the skin a bit.

Amen, Luke. Well said.
I still hate Mitch Albom and vow to never read one word of his trite little "death" books because of all that "Moonshine" nonsense from a few years back.

Have only starting reading this guy since this series started, but he's awful.  Is he always such a suck up?

Luke, you do a great job covering the Canes, and Shaughnessy indeed is hacktastic... but for Mayberry cliches, one need look no further than your June 20, 2006 Page 1 story about the Hurricanes' Stanley Cup win.

No one reads him up here anyway, and the paper he works for is going to fold (literally), so anything that f-tard writes is garbage.

He wrote a book about how great his kid is in baseball.(seriously, the kid is in HS,that's how big a tool he is.) By the way, HS= 'High School' because we all know that below the Mason-Dixon, schools only go to the 6th grade.

Was in the same bar he was in before a B's game a few months ago and every minute on the minute someone would walk by and call him an a-hole.

The only reason he called you "goobers" is because he couldn't think of anything funnier. He could have said, The tailgating at the RBC Ctr., looked like fun but I had no idea they had enough room for 10,000 combines.

Go B's.

Up here in Boston, we all think he is a hack whose relevence has long passed. Ryan, however, is a treasure.

That being said, Canes have no shot tomorrow night.

Hey, don't take anything Big Dan says personally. He's the biggest bandwagon guy around -- sometimes you think he WANTS bad things to happen in Boston sports so he can beat up on athletes. Trust me, we don't like him much up here, either.

Who cares! Lets get back to the game. I could care less what anyone calls this Raleigh native.
Go Canes!

And by the way, I have never watched Nascar in my life so that stereotype is way off.