Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Big Wood is, uh, big. And friendly!


As there continues to be no news whatsoever to report beyond the ever-popular "no news to report" story, we present another episode of Morning Skate theatre. Here we have the HMCS Hal Gill behind the scenes of his first visit to the Habs, at what looks to be their practice facility. He plays the role of the friendly giant who's "just like us" well. Look, he drinks coffee! He plays with the kiddies! He struggles to say two words in French!

And he's clearly a full head taller than everyone he meets. He's gonna make a hell of a pylon in front of TFS.

9 comments:

moeman said...

This fan heard four words from the new Hab , quinze, merci, c'est, bon.

Habsfan10 said...

Is he wearing a Triumph shirt? Triumph fuckin rocks, man.

Hadulf said...

@moeman

Actually, that's 5 words.

The " c'" counts as one word on its own. I know, its stupid, French language is crazy that way!

L Dude said...

merci = thank you, so can we consider that as 2 words?

moeman said...

@ hf10, we might start calling the very tall Gill L'Arche de Triumph.

Lukestar said...

Pretty sure I caught a faint soixante in there before the quinze as well...was a little thrown by the "I haven't been on the ice since we won the cup" comment.

@moeman: love the new name!

Jimmy G said...

There was definitely a "soixante" in there. He just mispronounced "quinze" and had to repeat that part...

The french media will like him more than Koivu already!

Anonymous said...

The whole "HMCS" thing would be so much less awkward if he wasn't actually American (it was why "USS" worked so well!). Silly NHL minorities.

So wearing a Union Jack shirt in Kay-bec is OK as long as you make the token effort? :) or at least preferred to any form of une feuille d'erable?

South Shore Habs Fan said...

So the big lumbering pylon's slapshots actually hit the net? Awesome, he really is an upgrade on Doucharek.