Espo, Bucyk and McKenzie would've drank them under the table

I love that there's one Corona on the bill.

 

Heck of a recollection and rings familiar. NFL QB I covered pulled the same stunt. Unfortunately, there were no NHL players present and the server stayed stiffed.

Insofar as Espo, Johnny, Pie, etc, my understanding is many a hangover were slept off overnights at Boston Garden..

 

Liquor is so friggin' overpriced it's pathetic.
Restaurants and bars kill folks with audacious pricing.
It's awful, but they do it because they want a certain clientele in their establishments.
They don't want poor people and they'd prefer pretty people.
Money and pretty often run in the same circles. Anyone ever notice this?

 

Um, poor people drink too. They just go to less fancy bars.

 

I'm trying to think if I've ever paid $15 for a drink.

I've been at dinners where port or scotch more expensive than that was served, but I sure as hell didn't order it.

 

Hate to be the one to say this ... and I've covered the Bs for years and know this group to be great guys, and their triumph is well earned and certainly something to be celebrated in grand style ... but .... I think $154k could do a lot of good for a lot of people ... just sayin'

 

so what is an appropriate number? And a what point should they have stopped? These things are all relative, on average a ticket to the Stanley Cup final was about 950 bucks in Vancouver. I'm thinking that money could also go to something more important.
They won, they deserved it and they deserve to whatever they want to celebrate.

 

What sucks for her is, now that it's public she has to declare all of it to the Revenoor man!

 

Um, yeah ... I get that.
The point I'm making is, the fancy bars charge extremely high prices in hopes of keeping the poor people out of their joint.

 

When Chicago won the Stanley Cup, I bet they went to a bunch of high end bars. But the cup came to my very blue collar bar in the home of David Bolland. I'm okay with that.