Ghi

[Stang]

Originally posted by CarlsBee
Not to me cause I dont fly.

You only drive gv's?

lol.

[Guppy35]

Originally posted by SteveBailey
Bellows, Maruk, Napier, Pavs, Payne, Maxwell, Broten, Giles, Mckegney Ciccarelli.

The visiting NHL teams practiced at Bloomington Ice Gardens.  I was a rink rat there.  I used to sneak back on to the ice after the Zamboni redid the ice after rat time.  There would be what seemed like 100 pucks thrown out on the ice by the teams' staff.  I'd goof off with the players on the ice until one of their coaches or a rink staffer tossed me.  Man that was fun.

I was fast... raced Denis Savard in a line drill once..heheheh he beat me big time.(and he smoked back then lol)

Youngster!

You want Minnesota North Stars, gotta go back further!

Goldsworthy, Grant, Williams, Parise, Nanne, Worsely, Maniago, Harris, Drouin, Ried, Gibbs, and on and on. Still have my copy of "The Goldy Shuffle", Goldsworthy's biography  

Oh it was good to be a kid in those days.  Interesting they get mentioned.  Today at an Antique store with the Mrs., I ran across a beat up old Coleco table hockey game......We had such good fun with those back in the day.....

[Kev367th]

Originally posted by 68ROX
I used to think that ghi (clarified Indian Butter?) was just a HO'in little IL2 dweeb, but over the years my attitude has changed.

I have seen him lead countless MASS B-26 raids.

When a dar-bar BLOB up's from Bishland on a weekend, and when one of the first to scout the mission says "...It's about 15 boxes of B-26's in-bound!".....(with sufficient fighter escorts) I know it's a ghi mission.

To gather the sort of cooperation in THIS game that he does.....?

My hat is off.

<> to a cunning and innovative foe.

68ROX

Does things I've never seen any of the other two countries do -

1) Took a base with an IL2 raid ,lol.
2) Just for fun a Hurri IIc raid.
3) After some jibes from the Rooks about Bish, we took a base with TBM's and A6Ms.

He definately does things differently, but a lot of fun.

Various things like that.

Not the usual Rook / Knit Lala raid (yawn).

[eh]

Originally posted by Guppy35
Youngster!

You want Minnesota North Stars, gotta go back further!

Goldsworthy, Grant, Williams, Parise, Nanne, Worsely, Maniago, Harris, Drouin, Ried, Gibbs, and on and on. Still have my copy of "The Goldy Shuffle", Goldsworthy's biography  

Oh it was good to be a kid in those days.  Interesting they get mentioned.  Today at an Antique store with the Mrs., I ran across a beat up old Coleco table hockey game......We had such good fun with those back in the day.....

The same list crossed my mind as well. I started to follow Goldsworthy when he came up to the Niagara Falls Flyers. He was one talented hockey player. I always thought that if he had graduated to Boston that he could have had the same kind of fame as Guy LaFleur, Yvon Cournoyer or any other of his contemporaries (with the exception of Bobby Orr... the finest player that pro hockey has ever seen). Ah well, memories. Great hockey... you don't see that kind of playing anymore.

[B@tfinkV]

ghi is the overshoot to 900yrds killshot master, he scares me on a regular basis.

when i grow up i want to be ghi.

[Atoon]

I think it is wonderful that so many of you have found a player to look up to.

Myself, I look up to Vets that absolutely refuse to fly La7s, and would never consider flying ANY plane that benefitted from a bug. But I guess I hold my heros to a higher standing than most.

[jhookt]

Originally posted by Atoon
IMyself, I look up to Vets that absolutely refuse to fly La7s

by all means throw a name in the hat then since you have no problem slandering a vet, give us a worthy substitution that meets your standards

[Guppy35]

Originally posted by eh
The same list crossed my mind as well. I started to follow Goldsworthy when he came up to the Niagara Falls Flyers. He was one talented hockey player. I always thought that if he had graduated to Boston that he could have had the same kind of fame as Guy LaFleur, Yvon Cournoyer or any other of his contemporaries (with the exception of Bobby Orr... the finest player that pro hockey has ever seen). Ah well, memories. Great hockey... you don't see that kind of playing anymore.

Nope, we don't.  Just read the recent Bobby Orr biography.  A very good read about that time.  He was something to watch.

Cournoyer was one of my favorites from the Canadians.  Fast and smooth.  I still remember when the North Stars beat the Canadians in a play off game to become the first 67 expansion team to do so.  Took em to a 6th game and appeared to have sent it to overtime on Ted Hampson's last second goal, but the red light did not go on, it was a second too late.

Great memories.

[jhookt]

my grandfather was a bus driver after he got out of the Corps. He and Mr Orr knew each other by first names but i was only 7 when i met him and got that stick.

[eh]

Originally posted by jhookt

my grandfather was a bus driver after he got out of the Corps. He and Mr Orr knew each other by first names but i was only 7 when i met him and got that stick. [/B]

WOW WHAT A PRIZE. I would have that in a vault somewhere.

[Guppy35]

Originally posted by eh
WOW WHAT A PRIZE. I would have that in a vault somewhere.

Agreed.  Orr was the best I've ever seen.  Oh but if those knees of his had held up.

[LTARghst]

Ok First what bug are we talking about. Second I dont care about what you say about ghi, 75 percent of the Bish couldnt not operate without him. He is a Bish Hero to alot of the Bish mostly the Noobs who have no guidance or feel for the game. Being an LTAR I know the in's an outs of the games and never have seen one person effect a country more than ghi. I have personally went on some of his missions an found not to many people put one together as well as him. I have never seen one of his missions fail. Karaya you can say what you want cause IMHO feeel you are jealous of his skills. The only other person who might effect gameplay is Shawk an his minions but IT WILL NOT BE SHAWK by himself, he will have his cronies doin HIS will cause they cannot function on their own. I will offend some on this but I am not afraid to say it as it is. Not taking anything away from Shawk because he is a talented player WHO PLAYS the games SMART. But to hit Strats to keep your Rank High is pretty Lame. I will take ghi as a fellow countryman over just about anyone in the game except my fellow LTAR brothers...If I offended anyone..I really dont care.. ALL

[SlapShot]

There are those that will argue that Bobby Orr is not the greatest ... but that is because they never really saw him play.

Orr did things on the ice, that I still haven't ever seen others do and am not sure they could do what he did ... he is kinda like the Jimmy Hendrix of hockey ... "How the hell did he do that ?" ... often imitated, but never replicated.

I was a huge Ranger fan back then, but loved Bobby Orr and Derick Sanderson.

"Old School"

Jean Ratelle - Walt Tkaczuk - Brad Park - Rod Seiling -   Glen Sather - Ed Giacomin - Gilles Villemure - Pete Stemkowski -    Derek Sanderson (74-75 season)  - Rick Middleton

Went to the Boston Garden to see the Blackhawks play the Bruins. Mid ice, 15 rows up. Bobby Hull skates right be me ... gets the the blue and lets go his famous curved stick slapshot ... upper left hand corner of the net ... that was his 500th goal. They stopped the game and made a big presentation out it.

The power and speed of his slapshot left my jaw hanging on the floor.

[jaxxo]

i can talk some trash but this witchhunt is ridiculous...ghi is about the nicest guy you could meet...

even if IL2 was "bugged" when do ever see one? Do 6 Il2's creep up on your 6 and than bnz you from 15k? Does a roving band of Il2's vulch you after killing your ftr hangars? does a pack of low alt  suicide  IL2'S kill your cv? mmm no

The only time you see one is when your trying to cherrypick/vulch and you overshoot and get your *** handed you...only in today's AH can a player get lambasted for defending his own friggin field from a mindless horde  

[SteveBailey]

Orr certainly was the best of his time.  Coffey had comparable skills and a much better  cast of mates.