All-purpose hockey thread...

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As I recall, it's how you choose up sides for road hockey.

 

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You throw them in one pile, then what?

 

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When I was a kid, the two captains took turns grabbing sticks out of the pile. Whoever's stick you grabbed was on your team. But we're talking veeeeery long term memory here. JR? Huggy? Where are you guys when you're needed?

 

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Makes sense. Figured it was something like that.

Great commercial too.

 

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Yup.

Do it for games of shinny as well.

Prevents one captain from stacking the team.

 

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Also prevented them from excluding the girls.

 

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No girls in our dugout.

Just ask Keith...

 

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This did fall into the NHL playoff thread, so I thought I would revive this old one.
Has anybody seen any highlights or video from this?

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=2440125

Sounds like that historic rivalry between Italy and the Ukraine finally boiled over last night at the World Hockey Championships ...

 

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It was just posted an hour ago. The clips will probably be on TSN/Sportsnet/The Score tonight.

Speaking of the World Hockey Championship, Canada beat the U.S yesterday on Shanahan's goal.

Tomorrow we play Latvia. Apparently the Latvian home crowd will be absolutely deafening.

The kids are playing all right, particularly Crosby & Bergeron.

 

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They have looked pretty solid, and from what I can tell in the very few highlights I have seen Auld has looked steady in net.

Is Irbe playing for Latvia? If so I would be careful not to be too over confident, even if I have a Maple Leaf on my chest. The guy has been known to steal a game or three completely on his own.

 

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Auld's an OK goalie. No worse than a lot of the guys in the playoffs.

Star has a World Cup section:

http://tsf.waymoresports.thestar.com/thestar/hockey/extras.cgi?wc2006-preview

No Irbe for Latvia according to the preview.

 

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And to no one's surprise, Paul Maurice is named new coach of the Leafs:

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...140&call_pageid=968867503640&col=970081593064

Was the youngest coach in NHL history when he took over the Hartford Whalers at 28.

Seems like a good fit with lots of the young'uns coming up.