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In response to "Can we please stop giving penalties to the Habs? -- nm" by Winnipeg Jets

love that you call them Habs! -- nm

Posted by loosilu (aka loosilu2) Jun 6 '21, 16:57

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That’s their nickname to just about any hockey fan. - spamlet Jun 6, 16:59 27
- moppy is one of the few who know why. -- nm - loosilu Jun 6, 16:59 26
  - The irony is that this is not why there's an "H" in their logo. -- nm - Mop, Montreal Canadiens Fan Jun 6, 17:28 5
    - vraiment? why is there an H? -- nm - loosilu Jun 6, 17:29 4
      - Club de Hockey -- nm - Beaker Jun 6, 17:30
      - It's like how all the soccer teams have "F.C." for "football club". It's "Club de Hockey". -- nm - Mop, Montreal Canadiens Fan Jun 6, 17:30 2
        
        uh KAY -- nm - loosilu Jun 6, 17:31 1
        
        that is how you pronounce hockey in french canadian -- nm - loosilu Jun 6, 17:44
  - I'd say virtually any Canadian hockey fan does. -- nm - Reagen Jun 6, 17:18 2
    - in MODERN speech the word normally used is colons -- nm - loosilu Jun 6, 17:21
    - ok FINE -- nm - loosilu Jun 6, 17:21
  - pfft, I'll wager I'm the only STer with multiple autographed stuff from Guy Lafleur -- nm - Beaker Jun 6, 17:03 11
    - The Bay once did a promo celebrating the '72 Series with a bunch of stars doing autographs. - Mop, Montreal Canadiens Fan Jun 6, 17:38 1
      - in my experience it is very very rare to find a hockey player who is an asshole. I'm sure they are around, but most of the famous ones anyway are what - Beaker Jun 6, 17:40
    - Nope my wife got hat signed when he took one of her companies helicopters. -- nm - AJRimmer Jun 6, 17:33 1
      - "multiple" I kid :) Hat and Ice Bucket here :) -- nm - Beaker Jun 6, 17:34
    - (to be fair, I got lucky, my brother runs a golf tournament so essentially gets to pick who they have as a guest :) ) -- (edited) - Beaker Jun 6, 17:24 2
      - Guy is a superstar, that's beyond awesome. -- nm - loosilu Jun 6, 17:25 1
        
        they all agreed he was best kind (a good dude) -- nm* - Beaker Jun 6, 17:25
    - Patrick Roy lived in the condo upstairs from my aunt. - loosilu Jun 6, 17:05 3
      - most of the time his grandpa Jack lived there, he grew up in a frenchville in Maine US, we were friends with him -- nm - loosilu Jun 6, 17:14 2
        
        Nice! -- nm - Beaker Jun 6, 17:14 1
        
        he was like us, he was fully halfsies. Raised totally French Canadian and American. there are not many of us -- nm* - loosilu Jun 6, 17:24
  - Spoilers. - Beryllium Jun 6, 17:02 4
    - pssst -- (edited) - loosilu Jun 6, 17:05 3
      - Spoils - Beryllium Jun 6, 17:07 2
        
        if you are using a word that ends in oi, you are doing it for emphasis, it is never contracted -- nm - loosilu Jun 6, 17:12
        
        well duh -- nm - loosilu Jun 6, 17:11
Re-Habs? -- nm - budice Jun 6, 16:57 1
- it's a frenchie word, moppy can explain -- nm - loosilu Jun 6, 16:58

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