What the fu*kin' hell?! What was up with all the plants at the Patrick Roy Habs shindig? I mean they handled it with the up most of class, but why the plants? Why?!
I know it is a strange think to harp on, but, really, what were they thinking, "if we just toss some house plants around the ice people will think this tribute is being held at the Holiday Inn"? Does Roy get the plants to take home? You know like some parting gift. Here is your banner and some plants. Godspeed Patrick Roy!
Or maybe, since Roy ditched the Canadians and won two cups with the Avs, Montreal hired ninjas and the only way they could hide on the ice was behind some plants? Then when Patrick least expected it they were supposed to jump out and ninja the sh*t out of him (I really don't know all that much about the workings in the ninja community so this is all just guess work).
Like I said it was a classy ceremony. The Avalanche and the NHL could learn a lot from the way the Canadian organization handled it. Drop the classic rock crap songs, drop the fireworks, drop the lame over-the-top p.a. announcer and just let the moment speak for itself. The viewer does not need to be pounded upside the head to get that this is meaningful. It is sport, not show business. 
Montreal got the last laugh though by placing Roy's banner right under the one for those MLB bastard Expos who left town to suck in DC. Here's your honor fu*ker...
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Yeah, where the f*ck is Chico Resch's plant? Tell me that!
When the Rockies skedaddled off the Jersey Chico received a hat box (empty), 37 playing cards, a size 11 right dress shoe, black and a size 4 left dress shoe, brown, but no potted plants.
The ceremony took place at Stapleton Airport in the newsstand in concourse B and was attend by the press and a troop of Barbary Apes, visiting Denver on the "Crazy Ape Tour of 1982". By all accounts it was surreal and quite uncomfortable to watch.
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