Hockey is violent grace, or sometimes just silly.

May 14, 2013 9:19 PM

Kings and Sharks Dance Offs started when both teams first met in the playoffs. It took over the series talk thread and Game Day Threads until it got it's own thread. Since then, it has become a tradition.
posted by blob (18 comments total)

Shouldn't it be the Sharks and the Jets?
posted by Sys Rq at 9:30 PM on May 14, 2013 [7 favorites]

fantastic.
posted by brappi at 9:33 PM on May 14, 2013

Sometimes people say the same thing so much on the internets that it becomes meaningless. I'm happy to contribute to that.

"What is this I don't even."
posted by poe at 9:37 PM on May 14, 2013

The mark of a local rivalry in hockey is supposed to be unbridled contempt. This is what we get for letting Californians play hockey. We see you wearing shorts to the rink. We see your awesome dance-off and look down on you with envy disdain.
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 9:38 PM on May 14, 2013 [1 favorite]

The playoff photoshop threads over there can be lots of fun, too.

There's a lot of inside...puck... involved, but if you're following the playoffs, you'll get most of 'em.
posted by notyou at 10:30 PM on May 14, 2013

Oh yeah. Nice win by the Kings tonight.

Raffi Torres' next dance partner may be Brendan Shanahan of the League's Office of Player Safety.
posted by notyou at 10:47 PM on May 14, 2013

The mark of a local rivalry in hockey is supposed to be unbridled contempt. This is what we get for letting Californians play hockey.

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
posted by eddydamascene at 10:58 PM on May 14, 2013 [2 favorites]

Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man dude.

Dude is the preferred usage there.

Also, Quick was an animal tonight.
posted by 26.2 at 11:08 PM on May 14, 2013

My girlfriend has a theory that white people, secure in the knowledge that no amount of looking stupid can threaten their social standing, dance like they have zero fucks available to give. My enthusiastic but completely inept dancing has done little to dissuade her from this opinion, and if she someone finds this thread there will be absolutely no living with her.
posted by Parasite Unseen at 11:43 PM on May 14, 2013 [1 favorite]

Dude is the preferred usage there.

Nope, it's "man."
posted by dogwalker at 1:31 AM on May 15, 2013

Yep, I'm a Kings fan again. (I.e. the Ducks have been eliminated)

In 20 years the Kings and Ducks have never met in the playoffs, rarely even both making the playoffs in the same year. (By contrast the Ducks have faced the Red Wings about a dozen times)

When that finally happens, I expect great things. This is fun.
posted by ShutterBun at 1:41 AM on May 15, 2013

There's no crying dancing in baseball hockey!
posted by octothorpe at 4:56 AM on May 15, 2013 [1 favorite]

Needs more Hockey Haka.
posted by ChuraChura at 6:32 AM on May 15, 2013

There certainly is dancing in hockey.
posted by notyou at 7:24 AM on May 15, 2013

Okay, this is pretty silly.
posted by rmd1023 at 7:52 AM on May 15, 2013

Hockey is certainly a sport of excellent gifs
posted by ghharr at 8:18 AM on May 15, 2013 [2 favorites]

Did we break it? Link isn't working for me in Firefox or Chrome.
posted by EvaDestruction at 9:15 AM on May 15, 2013

Shouldn't it be the Sharks and the Jets?

I'm sad that the shortened season did not lead to the Sharks/Jets home game that I was promised. With the pending divisional realignment, Sharks/Jets in SJ may be a long way off.
posted by JDC8 at 9:55 AM on May 15, 2013