Back in the early days of Superdraft 2005, the following email was sent by team Double Chili.
Guys, thanks for all your work putting this together. Saturday was a blast! I was working the phone like Mike Milbury on draft day! Hope I did just as well as he would have done...
I am concerned that with all this so called hockey knowledge floating around none of you guys were smart enough to pick up Yashin?
Rules are fine with me. With the club I picked, or should I say Ang picked, we're a lock for #1. My team name will be DOUBLE CHILI. (All the other Islander fans
in this draft will know what this means)
Based on the results of the first Superdraft season, and also based on the results from Milbury's years in office, I'd say there are some striking similarities!
So what is the Double Chili mystery? I have this friend named Dr. Google that told me all about it. Here are all the details:
In the early '80s, if the Islanders scored five or more goals, Wendy's offered a free bowl of chili to any fan with a ticket stub from that night's game. Toward the end of an Islander-Ranger game, the fans were geared up to get their chili. As the Islanders hit nine goals, the Coliseum announcer put on Allen Bernstein, then the owner of Wendy's franchises (one near the Garden), who said if the Isles scored one more goal, he would authorize double chili. The fans immediately began chanting, "Double chili!" Denis Potvin scored, and the fans got their double chili. The Rangers were steamed at the generous announcement, and"Remember the chili" would become their Alamo-inspired battle cry as they went on to win the next two regular season games vs. the Isles.
Truth is stranger than fiction? Today we have seen another banner day for the Islanders. Sometime last season, Milbury stepped down from the GM role and put a lot of thought into naming a replacement. Forty days ago, he brought in Neil Smith, the former Ranger's GM who brought the 1994 Stanley Cup to Broadway after a 54 year drought. What better way to re-establish the double chili days? Today, Charles Wang, genius owner, decided that it would be a good idea to fire Smith and hire the back-up goalie, Garth Snow, as the new GM. Snow promptly retired and became his former teamates' boss. Wow! As an interesting new NHL CBA aside, since Snow retired being older than 35 and under a valid contract, his contract salary will count against the salary cap he is now managing for the duration of the contract. Now he will realize what a poor negotiator Milbury was!
Let's hope that the Double Chili legacy will carry forward, and Craig will continue to donate to Superdraft 20xx!
3 comments:
He's worse then the Pens old front man...
"Many are blaming Patrick for last year's flop, the most disappointing regular season in Penguins' history. The signings of Sergei Gonchar, Ziggy Palffy, Jocelyn Thibault, Steve Poapst, Lyle Odelein, Andre Roy, plus the retirement of Mario Lemiuex and Palffy) proved to be absolutely disasterous."
All the action last season has left Shero gun shy to try and stab some free-agent hero's like Pronger. Too bad. Pens will be lucky to get into 3rd last this season unless Malkin makes it over from Russia and teams up with Crosby for a 100+.
Are the Penguins thinking of putting two centers on the same line? No wonder they never make the playoffs anymore!
I sheepishly admit that there may be some half-truths to the rumour being spread by DRRDs.
I was on the Oilers bandwagon this year. However, it's not really like I jumped on. I've always been an Oiler fan, just a quiet one. I suppose I was at an impressionable age at the time the Oilers were winning all of those cups. It's probably the same impressionable age that Barry was at when the Penguins were doing their thing.
Anyways, this year's bandwagon jumping was in part due to the hockey draft that Tim & I starred in (see officepools regular/playoff: goldcup/golcup). Tim was drunk when he picked it, and I was forced to cheer for the Oil to play in the maximum number of games. Anyways, it's easy to see who was the brains of that operation based on results in superdraft and in Barry's charity pool officepools regular season: rkdeadwings/wings2k5 hockey pools. Tim just provided the non-rational thoughts that it takes to win a playoff pool.
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