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In response to "love that you call them Habs! -- nm" by loosilu

That’s their nickname to just about any hockey fan.

Posted by spamlet Jun 6 '21, 16:59

Most understand the meaning.

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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

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