The Jets will have to learn to fly with the pigeons before they soar with the Ducks.
Prior to this year’s run, the last time the Winnipeg Jets clinched a playoff berth, the Anaheim Ducks were just a three-years-old franchise. Needless to say, there was a sizable gap since playoff fever flooded Winnipeg’s streets. And although short-lived, it was great to see it return.
This past off-season when the Ducks’ general manager, Bob Murray, went hunting for a gritty, two-way weapon, instinct lead him to the doorstep of the most-hated man in Canada, Ryan Kesler. Despite having to part ways with two of the club’s best young talents in Nick Bonino and Luca Sbisa, the veteran center’s early post-season success has been exactly what the doctor ordered.
While the Jets were preparing to lift off the tarmac, the Kesler-lead Ducks declined the invitation to becoming the punch line of a Winnipeg fairy-tale ending. Even with Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, in attendance last night, Kesler’s two-goal performance helped render that raucous white-out crowd useless.
After completing the opening-round series sweep, the Ducks are moving on to the second round for the second-straight year. For now, it is all rainbows and butterflies. But the Ducks know they have a tough road ahead of them if they want to return to their 2007 form. Now, they’ll have to patiently sit and wait the outcome between the Calgary Flames and the Vancouver Canucks.
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Birds of the same feather fly together
He may have won the Selke, but Jets fans have renamed it ‘Suckie’.
See ya in Round 2 Vancouver…oops, never mind! Hello Calgary…
The jets fought very well against the mighty ducks. unfortunatelyfor winnipeg ryan kesler was at his best yesterday .
YES! I’m finally on a team that can beat L.A.
Yes! I still have more hair than Getzlaf!
Great post season so far.
Guys help me – there is something tickling me inside my boot!
U put your left skate in
U take your left skate out
U put your left skate in
And u shake it all about
You put your right foot in, You put your right foot out….Everybody do the Hokey Pokey…
King of the Kesler downs the Jets through 4 straight, dousing the whiteout in Winnipeg, Canada.
DUCK!!!! Haha just kidding. I sometimes just quack myself up.
HAHA, you doubted me, but I told ya that i could score goals with only one skate and one hand! Better stick to your end of the bet, time to retire, buddy
Booyah! Victory Is Assured!
Got a lil Captain in ya?
Drink Responsibly!
We are gonna be the Champions this year!
That’s one giant leap for Anaheim!
Kesler says: I sure was a little sucky baby in Game 1 when I lured Scheifele into slapping me and then snapping my neck back like I had been short in the face with a .22 rifle. 😛 Way to draw a penalty, eh?
I don’t always pose for my hockey card picture….but when I do, I’m sure to be cocking my leg and ripping a good one.
LA and Winnipeg series on the golf course.
” After I have my drink from the Cup” I will join you all on the golf course.
Got a leg up on the Jets. Who’s next. Quack Quack
we beat the kings that makes me royalty .bow kings bow
ew why is my stick all wet..
eh is that getzlafs ear hair on my stick
I let’er rip!!!
“Emilio Estevez never had this much swag when he was with the Mighty Ducks”
“What moves fast and is something you want to avoid at all costs, it’s ducks…the Anaheim Ducks!!”
” I can’t believe I got a charlie horse”
“BET THEY’VE NEVER SEEN THE RAY LEWIS DANCE ON ICE !!!”
This is how a real duck walks the walk.
High Stepping isn’t just for football!
Shake shake shake, shake shake shake, shake your booty
To the left,
Take it back now y’all,
Once hop this time,
Right foot lets stomp,
Left foot lets stomp,
Cha cha now y’all,
Now it’s time to get funky.
“Aww c’mon guys, who wants to see my pedicure!?”
look at the booty!!!
The flying V has been very good to me!
Puck kissed a net and I liked it.
NOBODY MOVE, NOBODY MOVE
I dropped one of my contacts.
If I just keep celebrating, maybe the refs will think it went in…
“You put your left leg in shake it all about do the Hokey Pokey thats what its all about!”
Waynes World! Party on! Waynes World!
NOBODY THOUGHT WE HAD A DUCKIN’ CHANCE!
I DON’T NEED A STICK – GIVE ME A BROOM BECAUSE WE SWEEPED ‘EM!
“This Old Man,
Swept Round 1,
Doesn’t look like the Nuks,
Are Having much fun,
With a nik, nak, paddy whack,
Sitting at my home,
Waiting for a witty tweet,
From Strombone”
WOOO don’t have to play the Kings in the playoffs!
I finally feel like a winner now that I’m away from the Sedin’s!
This stick is so hot that it’s burning my fingers off. I will make sure it’s enough to use it four games in each of the playoff match-ups. Then I can recover my hands by holding the Stanley Cup.
Anaheim do the stanky legg, do the stanky legg, do the stanky legg!
My god !!! It is true !
With that jersey on … I can really fly !!!
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