2008/09 NHL Thread

Did you know that, until 1884, major league baseball pitchers were not allowed to throw overhand to batters?

As JC said, I'm just pointing out that rules have changed as games have evolved. Hockey teams used to play seven a side. They also couldn't make forward passes, let alone passes from blue line to blue line which were illegal as recently as 2004. Shockingly, the world didn't fall apart when they were reintroduced.

 

I'll grant you introducing the forward pass was big in the game -- the two line pass was not monumental, as it had existed previously without it. It's part of the tinkering. However, neither of those changes I think would be as fundamentally earth shattering as eliminating an entire position from the game fulltime. It's something the game has been built on for almost 100 years. I'm still not even a hug fan of it for overtime. But that's my opinion.

 

When the game was 6-on-6, was the extra skater a third defenseman, or what was the alignment?

 

I believe he was called a rover. JR can probaly better answer this as I believe he played when it was still 6 on 6

 

The rover went everywhere on the ice - he was an extra forward, he was an extra defenceman...it all depended on where he needed to be.

Keep in mind, this is back in an era when players went up and down their lanes as if they were built into a table-top hockey game. The rover was the only player who was actually encouraged to roam.

 

Third item in this Puck Daddy post made me laugh.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/Minor-League-Malarkey-Star-Wars-and-Hockey-Coll?urn=nhl,136331

Cops and Robbers and Rod Blagojevic.

 

Very funny but you're actually half right.

I have a photo of the 1908 Ancaster (Ontario) Hockey Club My grandfather was the rover on that team. Double J can back me on this. He's seen the photo in question.

PS. If I can figure out how to post the photo here, I will.

 

I have indeed seen the picture. It's pretty cool. Considering I have one picture of one of my grandfathers and zero of my other one, it's something to be treasured.

 

Love to see that if you can post it

 

A scary incident in the AHL tonight as a player suffers a seizure following a fight off the opening draw.

http://tsn.ca/ahl/story/?id=264386&lid=headline&lpos=topStory_main

Apparently didn't hit his head on the ice or the dasher.

 

Here you go:




My grandfather is top right, beside the guy in the topcoat.

 

What no colour? [/bluefont]

That's cool though. Gotta love the styles and equipment from back then.

I have one of my grandfather from when he caught Texas A&M to a conference championship in baseball, but that's only from I think 41 or 42 before his classed got rushed out to war.