All-purpose hockey thread...

Re: New NHL vs. the old NHL

HB
You should wait.

Apparently the definitive book on the Baby Jesus is coming out next year by a Ms. Richer of The Globe & Mail.

Mr. Miler may disagree however.  ;D

 

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Cool ... if you're really looking to save a buck or two, there are some $10.29 promos at the ESA (er, RBC Center ... this is a recording) still being promoted.

As for playoff prices, I'd be a bit worried. If Carolina duplicates what it did four years ago, watch out. That place was loud (yes, I'm a fanboy looser, too, but you'll just have to take my word for it).

The Triangle is starting to get it. Of course, Carolina's blazing-hot start has undoubtedly won a few more casual converts.

P.S.: Bring sleeping bags ... I'll find somewhere for ya, but those five-star, single accomodations aren't happening on my salary. ;D

 

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Hmm....a SportsJournalists.com hockey road trip. I'm in.

It's what....a 16 hour drive from Toronto to wherever the hell the Canes play?

And tickets would be, what, 40 bucks?

 

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I went with a group to Toronto from my hometown - about an hour SE of Raleigh - and it took almost 24 hours nonstop. Surely it wouldn't take a couple of hardy, healthy souls in a passenger vehicle that long, but if it tells you anything, I took a trip to Syracuse from my hometown and got there in 14 hours with one meal break.

See above for tickets. The upper-deck tickets are very reasonable, but $40 won't get you anything club level and forget about lower bowl on a budget ...

 

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Mr Beat,

Go with the hardcover. It wraps better.

YHS, etc

And Mr R,

I'm sure that Shawna's book will be good--I just wonder how you balance blog, beat and book on the tongue of a kid who does all his talking on the ice.

Available in better bookstores, etc

 

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Almost 24 hours from Raleigh to TO? We drove from here to the draft in '04 in a little over 12....

 

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I think the Canucks here could use a little hockey road trip. Raleigh might be fun.

Guys only.

 

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Hey! No fair. 

 

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Chicks can come if they can pass the Hoser Hockey Quizz.

Question #1: Who was the first Leaf to score 40 goals?

 

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Does your team need a speedy centerman? Todd Marchant can be yours!

From the Projo:

 

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Speaking of speedy, the Detroit/Oilers game last night was '80's style hockey.

Detroit goes up 3-1 in the second.

Oilers score 4 in a row to make it 5-3 but Detroit came back and tied the game up with 2 minutes left.

Oilers scored 33 seconds into OT.

It was kinda like one of those "Last goal wins" road hockey games.

 

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If it had been "80's style hockey," there would have been at least one good brawl. That's what made the 80s great in the NHL -- you got end-to-end offense AND a few good fights a night.

At least that's how we rolled in the Patrick Division. Boo-ya!