ANAHEIM, CA – OCTOBER 16: Alex Tanguay #40 of the Colorado Avalanche battles for position with Jakob Silfverberg #33 of the Anaheim Ducks during the first period of a game at Honda Center on October 16, 2015 in Anaheim, California. (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)

Hockey Tweets of the Week – Week 3

Posted by on Oct 23, 2015 13:32

Welcome to our weekly “Hockey Tweets of the Week” feature on Puck Drunk Love. We will aim to give you the most entertaining tweets each week from hockey players, writers and fans.

This week, we have a plethora of tweets reacting to the happenings of the National Hockey League. And there were plenty of them. We’ll start with the debut of new sweaters in Anaheim, as the Ducks brought back the famous “Mighty Ducks” logo from the Disney years, set with a backdrop of their current color scheme of orange.

Plenty of Ducks fans loved it:

But for some it brought visions of …

https://twitter.com/Team_CVD/status/655205809371025408

I guess the new sweaters make a lot of people … hungry.

https://twitter.com/TeoPasculli92/status/655213869145726976

No wonder the Avalanche skated like they were taking part in a skills competition.

GLENDALE, AZ - APRIL 11: Head coach Bruce Boudreau of the Anaheim Ducks watches from the bench during the first period of the NHL game against the Arizona Coyotes at Gila River Arena on April 11, 2015 in Glendale, Arizona. The Ducks defeated the Coyotes 2-1. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

GLENDALE, AZ – APRIL 11: Head coach Bruce Boudreau of the Anaheim Ducks watches from the bench during the first period of the NHL game against the Arizona Coyotes at Gila River Arena on April 11, 2015 in Glendale, Arizona. The Ducks defeated the Coyotes 2-1. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

I don’t know. I think that would be more … eggplant. But that was an original Ducks color, so it works out.

Phil Kessel returns to Toronto

PITTSBURGH, PA - OCTOBER 17: Phil Kessel #81 of the Pittsburgh Penguins skates on the ice against the Toronto Mapleleafs during the game at Consol Energy Center on October 17, 2015 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Matt Kincaid/Getty Images)

PITTSBURGH, PA – OCTOBER 17: Phil Kessel #81 of the Pittsburgh Penguins skates on the ice against the Toronto Mapleleafs during the game at Consol Energy Center on October 17, 2015 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Matt Kincaid/Getty Images)

The Toronto Maple Leafs welcomed former favorite son Phil Kessel back to Maple Leaf Gardens as his Penguins defeated the Leafs 2-1 on Saturday. Background: The one Maple Leaf game I ever attended at MLG featured two guys to our right calling Kessel “Fatty” whenever he touched the puck. (And this was a preseason game so you know hockey in T.O. is intense.) So if you see a lot of food references from the Twitterverse, you’ll understand why:

https://twitter.com/corey_langan/status/655548547518042112

To be fair, our burgers are pretty gosh darn good.

https://twitter.com/kikkerlaika/status/655552703188242433

Raccoon Kessel?

Kinda like …

And just in case you think Leafs fans forgot about some of their other former heroes …

… you were right. They did.

The Roberto Luongo Tweet Of The Week

Maddie Meyer/Getty Images

Maddie Meyer/Getty Images

It’s from earlier than this past week, as our buddy Strombone reacted to the first 3-on-3 overtime between the Lightning and the Flyers:

But it became relevant as Luongo took part in his first 3-on-3 gong show. And unfortunately it was against the Penguins, who took advantage of him on the power play:

No wonder he sobbed wearily into his pillow

John Tortorella Returns To The League

NEWARK, NJ - MAY 25: Head coach John Tortorella of the New York Rangers speaks to the media after being defeating by the New Jersey Devils by a score of 3-2 in Game Six of the Eastern Conference Final during the 2012 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at the Prudential Center on May 25, 2012 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

NEWARK, NJ – MAY 25: Head coach John Tortorella of the New York Rangers speaks to the media after being defeating by the New Jersey Devils by a score of 3-2 in Game Six of the Eastern Conference Final during the 2012 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at the Prudential Center on May 25, 2012 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

There’s no more divisive figure in today’s hockey world than John Tortorella. Ask your fair share of Lightning and Rangers fans and they will have fond memories of the coaching pepperpot. Ask Canucks fans (and maybe Larry Brooks), you might get different memories.

Now that he’s back in the league to try to turn around the 0-7 Columbus Blue Jackets, you just knew that social media’s reaction would be just as colorful as the man himself:

https://twitter.com/Ryan_Michaud/status/656937950639476736

Line Brawls > Starting Goalies … I guess.

https://twitter.com/iAlexGutteridge/status/656948034547396608

See? The people love their line brawls.

He’d probably say that his soul needs more salt.

https://twitter.com/BmoreDaveS/status/656912248242327553

And you thought safe was death.

https://twitter.com/CascadeMatters/status/656924547963187200

So you’d give Biden the cannon instead? Think of what you’re asking here, man.

Well that’s good, maybe he’ll do the Aaaaaayyyyyyy sign and we’ll get to see his thumbs!

https://twitter.com/DN_Floyd/status/656923293396705280

Ixnay on the Onziefay.

And this:

https://twitter.com/rickshanley/status/656947697023365120

Meow Dog Cat

The Jackets would do better pretending their losses are wins.

(P.S. Tortorella’s debut didn’t go so well … they lost to the Wild on Thursday to go 0-8. Maybe they would have a better chance if they were coached by an actual cat.)

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