OTTAWA, ON – JANUARY 28: Matt Read #24 of the Philadelphia Flyers and team Alfredsson tweets with his celephone during the 2012 Molson Canadian NHL All-Star Skills Competition at Scotiabank Place on January 28, 2012 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

Hockey Tweets of the Week – Week 1

Posted by on Oct 9, 2015 09:32

Welcome to our weekly “Hockey Tweets of the Week” feature on Puck Drunk Love. We will aim to give you the most entertaining tweets each week from hockey players, writers and fans.

This week we have a lot of topics to cover, but we’ll start with …

The Raffi Torres Suspension

GLENDALE, AZ - APRIL 15: Raffi Torres #13 of the San Jose Sharks lines up during a face off in the first period of the NHL game against the Phoenix Coyotes at Jobing.com Arena on April 15, 2013 in Glendale, Arizona. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

GLENDALE, AZ – APRIL 15: Raffi Torres #13 of the San Jose Sharks lines up during a face off in the first period of the NHL game against the Phoenix Coyotes at Jobing.com Arena on April 15, 2013 in Glendale, Arizona. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

Raffi Torres was suspended 41 games for his tenth … tenth … NHL suspension. Twitter was not without its reaction:

Are you saying gingers have no souls? That’s just mean.

https://twitter.com/mnms4mel/status/651176180624715777

Well, since you asked:

And just in case you had doubts about whether Raffi Torres fans were real and not just ironic:

https://twitter.com/ryanreal/status/651179529017278465

Okay, duly noted.

The Kings Get Nasty

The Sharks and the Kings have one of the fiercest NHL rivalries. Makes sense that they opened the season vs. each other, and there was no shortness of nastiness … especially with Milan Lucic wearing the black and silver. Lucic went across the ice to nail Logan Couture after Couture laid a hit on him:

https://twitter.com/TheCauldron/status/651994141245710336

That’s too many letters.

Until the next bacon related innovation, at least.

Dustin Brown also got into the act on Wednesday:

https://twitter.com/HockeyWebCast/status/651987136187637760

https://twitter.com/TheDodgerhater/status/651986162114949120

That may be evil, but is it an acceptable amount of evil? Discuss amongst yourselves …

https://twitter.com/DennisTFP/status/651996532980363265

At least Brent Burns is paying attention to those Department of Player Safety videos.

The Referees Ruin Banner Day

The Chicago Blackhawks were down 3-2 to the New York Rangers when an apparent tying goal by Patrick Kane was disallowed because the ref had intent to blow the whistle. It’s one of those rules that screws everybody equally (Lord knows the Rangers have gotten bitten by that rule multiple times.) But it didn’t stop one fan from thinking the worst:

Oh please. It’s not like the Rangers have any extra money to pay referees or anything.

The Roberto Luongo Tweet Of The Week

SUNRISE, FL - NOVEMBER 8: Goaltender Roberto Luongo #1 of the Florida Panthers skates prior to the game against the Calgary Flames at the BB&T Center on November 8, 2014 in Sunrise, Florida. The Flames defeated the Panthers 6-4. (Photo by Joel Auerbach/Getty Images)

(Photo by Joel Auerbach/Getty Images)

Possibly the most entertaining Twitter account in the NHL is that of Panthers goalie Roberto Luongo. But he also might be a trend setting influence on the league. Check this out from the middle of September:

And you all throught it was merely a pipe dream:

Your work on Twitter is done, Mr. Luongo.

The internet was pleased and confused at the same time.

https://twitter.com/EMN430/status/651164821283471360

https://twitter.com/IslandSoapBox/status/651167721225261056

https://twitter.com/sack_vegas/status/651178673421221889

The ironic part is that we all think that Jagr entered the league with the mullet. But Jaromir himself (or his representative) disproves that theory:

Weird.

3-on-3 overtime

Hey, we’ve already had our first three-on-three overtime of the year, and the Lightning and the Flyers didn’t disappoint on Thursday night.

Well … let me amend that: The Lightning didn’t disappoint.

Well it only looked like a shootout, because so many skaters went in alone. The Lightning actually won on a Jason Garrison breakaway during the 3-0n-3. But the Flyers missed not one, but two penalty shots!

https://twitter.com/HopDerek/status/652310182144421888

https://twitter.com/JoshOgron/status/652310375191347202

What’s with all the cocaine references?

Penguins vs. Flyers. January 21st.

Ben Bishop, the winning goalie, had to like the three on three overtime, right? RIGHT?

Well then.

The Toronto Maple Leafs

The Leafs lost their home opener to the hated Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday. This tweet makes me sad:

https://twitter.com/DrixterBun/status/651985953431678977

But it isn’t as if Leafs fans don’t see misery coming. Consider the following exchange from late September, when Blue Jays fans invaded Baltimore to see their baseball team clinch the A.L. East against the Orioles, when an Oriole fan tried to make Jays fans feel sad by hitting them where it hurts: The Maple Leafs. But he soon found out that their hockey scars are hard … and numb.

Oh, well. Better luck next year, Leafs.

 

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