Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for November 11, 2009

maybe that is why the stanly cup fell apart a couple years ago, all those teeth were too heavy

if you know a veteran, tell them thank you

I’ll bet dentists’ love hockey.

The Stanley Cup may not be the best looking sports award, but, it’s the best one out there. It was of course, originally intended ONLY for Canadian amateur hockey leagues, but since 1926, has been given exclusively to NHL teams. I’d like to see the Stanley Cup become a CHL cup again, and the NHL can take another trophy… just MHO.

Teeth aren;t very heavy. There must be a whole bunch of them in there.

“impessive”? No spell check today or what?

im-pes-sive (ĭm-pěs’-ĭv) adj (14c) [fr It pestare to pound, L pistare, + im-]: incapable of grinding, chewing, pulverizing, in the manner of a pestle.

Perhaps used ironically in the instant example, as a goalie’s intact teeth should be satisfactorily pessive for anyone (absent a habit of chewing ice, or orally cracking Brazil nuts).

The variant etymology tracing the word’s origin to the Greek “pessos”, an oval stone for playing checkers, is attractive (given the resemblance of the tooth-strewn hockey rink to a field of loose pebbles), but unsupported. Also, given that “pessos” survives in modern English as “pessary” (a vaginal suppository to prevent conception), an impessive goalie would be one who cannot sufficiently perform his function, and its use here would similarly be inapt or ironic.