There are probably two reasons for this:

1. Theo is Canadian. We tend to be a lot more lenient towards our good ol' Canadian boys as opposed to those dastardly Russians. How dare they celebrate and play with passion!

2. The internet wasn't around back then. It's so much easier for anybody to just spout off without thinking to hundreds, thousands, millions of people now so everyone hears ALL the opinons. I'm sure there was talk at certain bars and such between some old farts saying how Theo shouldn't have done that, and how Jean Beliveau or Stan Mikita never would have done anything like that.

Bottom line is, the NHL of 2013 isn't like the NHL of 1973 or even 1993... these players are no different from professional football players, basketball players or baseball players. Somebody said money changed it, and that's totally right. They're privileged individuals making money hand over fist for playing a game. Beliveau and Mikita wouldn't have celebrated like Yakupov or Fleury but it was a different time. Put your 19-year-old self in Yakupov's shoes, and try to envision how you would react to scoring a big goal to force overtime in front of 20,000 people and making a shitload of money doing it. You'd shit your pants. You'd probably also slide across the ice playing air guitar with your hockey stick. I say let them have their celebrations. As long as they're not flipping the bird at the opponents' bench or talking smack to the goalie they just scored on, I'm good with it.

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People who are saying Yakupov's celebration is classless, please elaborate.
I am almost 100 % positive that he had no intent to agitate LA in anyway with his celebration.

What about the celebration makes it 'classless'.
Its excessive? Define excessive. Should we have a list of appropriate celebrations?
What celebration is not 'excessive'. Every celebration is absolutely unnecessary. You can argue that anytime you celebrate any goal you are rubbing it in the other team's face.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with that celebration, although I found the face palming at the end extremely awkward.

I think it's time for teams to practice celebration routines. You know, stuff like they do in figure skating.

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Ya, I think you're just becoming a crotchety old fart tbh.

So, Selanne celebrating an INDIVIDUAL record is a better cause for celebration than Yakupov scoring with a second left to send his TEAM to overtime? How very un-old-fart-ish of you.

Yes, the whole team lines up and stares stoically at the scorekeeper while not moving a muscle. The goal is announced and they return to the bench. Otherwise they might show an inkling of emotion and god forbid we have that.

I don't know, if I was in Yak's position, scoring a huge goal in like my 3rd ever NHL game....I'd be going full strip tease like in Slapshot I'd be so excited. I wouldn't know what was happening, I wouldn't be able to recall any of it later, shit would just start flying off of me. I see absolutely no problem with someone getting excited to score a big goal as long as they don't take it too far, which Nail did not do.

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well to be honest? yeah sorta, I think it does. You gotta have some perspective and context here dude.

This is Selanne scoring his 54th goal in his rookie year and accomplishing something that no other player has EVER done before in the history of the NHL. Individual record or not, that's an amazing feat. And yeah the whole glove shoot thing is kinda douchey but it takes all of 3 secs then its over and he hugs his teammates.

Now contrast that to Yakupov. Its not even his first goal in the NHL or anything, its simply a game tying goal in a regular season game. Do you have any idea how many game tying goals that force OT there are each season? But despite all this he goes tearing down the ice on his knees like a rock star and flopping all over the ice like a fish for 20-30 secs. Not the same at all, not even close.

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yeah I'm really not getting why people think Yakupov's was cool. 100% embarrassing on his part, and it wasn't even the game winning goal. Maybe you get away with it then, but a tying goal? Get the **** up you clown. Another reason why the Russian Factor is a big risk. Yakupov is gonna become a locker room cancer no doubt.

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In an interview on TSN, Subban said Therrien is just trying to prepare him for life:


TSN: So PK, we heard the training staff just ordered more exercise bikes.

PK: Yeah, Coach wants me to ride them after the game during post-game interviews, and work on my "Wade Redden Monotone". Now that Wade's back in the bigs, I hope I can catch a few clips of him again, to help me perfect my interviews. I've always looked up to Wade and admire his ability to show absolutely no emotion.

TSN: Uh, that's great............so we heard you recently got engaged, congratulations!

PK: Yeah, thanks. You know my fiance and I don't want to get too ahead of ourselves. We're just gonna take life one day at a time, maybe we'll have a couple of kids so it feels like 'our backs are against the wall'. We know that life is taking it one shift, one period, one game at a time.

TSN: Great, so what are the wedding plans.

PK: Well, we're thinking of having a closed ceremony and a small reception with some family and a few friends. The last thing we want to do is get carried away celebrating our wedding in front of too many people. You know, marriage is a process, it takes a lot of training and preparation, and we don't want to make one or two individuals bigger than the marriage.........

TSN: Okay then, so, are there any specific ideas for the wedding.

PK: Well not really, but you know when the Minister says "You may kiss the bride"........yeah well I'm not going to do that. There is an "I" in kiss, but there is no "I" in team. And like coach says, if I'm gonna give one of my team-mates a 'low five', then I may as well just kiss them after the game. It's awkward. I don't know if that makes sense, but you know, we just want our wedding to be a low key, non-alcoholic occasion. It'll be a quick ceremony with a brief meal, and then we'll just get back to the day to day grind. Like coach says, "break a smile, skate a mile".

TSN: Well thanks for your time PK, and good luck in your game against the Bruins tonight, and with the wedding.

PK: No problem. My brother got called up and is in goal tonight. I was going to greet him before the game on the ice, joke around a bit and give him a hard time. But with all of this recent emotional training I realize now that I can just stare at him 'vulcan style' and accomplish the same thing. Coach wants me to be an emotional ninja.

TSN: That's great PK...........sounds like you're trying to be a new man.

PK: No comment....anyways, I'm just gonna walk backwards now and awkwardly stare at you. Enjoy the game...........or maybe don't enjoy it....coach would get mad if anyone enjoys it......I'm so confused....

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Did Galchenyuk have to do extra laps at practice for this one?

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No doubt. Definitely. Horcoff probably sat him down afterwards and went through the ins and outs of goal celebrations so that his teammates don't hate him.

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