If you wanna play politics in this country, you better lace 'em up

[marnanightingale]

I can't resist.

It's the last 10 minutes, you're down 3-1, we'd better pull the goalie soon."
— David Emerson, the industry minister, describing how the Liberal campaign is going. He later said he would define "pull the goalie" as "rough up a few Conservatives."


"I would say it's early in the third period."
— Martin, when a reporter asks if he agrees with Emerson's analysis of the party's situation.


"There's always a way to win; there's always a way to lose. And it's up to you to find that way before the final buzzer goes. And you know that if, in fact, that final buzzer goes and you don't find the answer, it's not that it wasn't there. It's just that you didn't find it. It was there. It was there all the way along."
— Ken Dryden, Liberal cabinet minister and former NHL goalie, as polls continued to look bad for the party.


"Wayne Gretzky used to always say, 'I never go where the puck is, I go to where it's going to be.' … Our government believes the puck is giving a third of a billion bucks to old-style auto production. We believe a better strategy is to go where the puck is going to be."
— Green party Leader Jim Harris.

Comments

[cortejo.livejournal.com]

ahh they will all puck it up.

[widget285.livejournal.com]

OK, I thought American politics was seriously fucked up, but at least we're not developing policy based on hockey strategy. Though come to think of it, that might acually be a step up.

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

Nah, we just explain it in terms of hockey strategy.

*was waiting for someone to invoke St Richard*

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

I think it would be! Because hockey is Just That Awesome. ;)

I'll Put a Girdle Around the Earth in Forty Minutes

[executrix.livejournal.com]

"Early in the third period" explains the cramps, of course.

And "where the Puck will be" = "increasing the number of asses."

[kd5mdk.livejournal.com]

And his campaign made a sound like a truck you forgot to plug in?