All-purpose hockey thread...

HC · Jan 1, 2006

Re: New NHL vs. the old NHL

hokie said:

Attended my first new-look NHL game today at MCI Center, watching the Caps (somehow) beat the Flyers in a shootout. Ovechkin scored an absolutely sick goal in the second period and just getting to watch him was worth the price of admission. The game definitely looks more open. Seemingly a lot more play on the boards instead of trapping in the middle of the ice. I had a blast.
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Saw that goal on the highlight reel on TSN and hollered the length of the apartment to the BF with a description. A thing of beauty!

Aside: For the second time this week, I hit the looser fan girl trifecta - Brampton beat Oshawa, Leafs beat New Jersey and Canada beat the US. Happy New Year everyone!

hockeybeat · Jan 1, 2006

Re: New NHL vs. the old NHL

HC said:

hokie said:

Attended my first new-look NHL game today at MCI Center, watching the Caps (somehow) beat the Flyers in a shootout. Ovechkin scored an absolutely sick goal in the second period and just getting to watch him was worth the price of admission. The game definitely looks more open. Seemingly a lot more play on the boards instead of trapping in the middle of the ice. I had a blast.
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Saw that goal on the highlight reel on TSN and hollered the length of the apartment to the BF with a description.Â A thing of beauty!

Aside:Â For the second time this week, I hit the looser fan girl trifecta - Brampton beat Oshawa, Leafs beat New Jersey and Canada beat the US.Â Happy New Year everyone!
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Who doesn't beat the Devils these days? ;D 8)

HC · Jan 1, 2006

Re: New NHL vs. the old NHL

hockeybeat said:

HC said:

hokie said:

Attended my first new-look NHL game today at MCI Center, watching the Caps (somehow) beat the Flyers in a shootout. Ovechkin scored an absolutely sick goal in the second period and just getting to watch him was worth the price of admission. The game definitely looks more open. Seemingly a lot more play on the boards instead of trapping in the middle of the ice. I had a blast.
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Saw that goal on the highlight reel on TSN and hollered the length of the apartment to the BF with a description.Â A thing of beauty!

Aside:Â For the second time this week, I hit the looser fan girl trifecta - Brampton beat Oshawa, Leafs beat New Jersey and Canada beat the US.Â Happy New Year everyone!
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Who doesn't beat the Devils these days?Â ;D 8)
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Okay, true.Â And Oshawa is the worst team in the OHL.Â :-\

But we beat the US!Â

hockeybeat · Jan 1, 2006

Re: New NHL vs. the old NHL

HC said:

hockeybeat said:

HC said:

hokie said:

Attended my first new-look NHL game today at MCI Center, watching the Caps (somehow) beat the Flyers in a shootout. Ovechkin scored an absolutely sick goal in the second period and just getting to watch him was worth the price of admission. The game definitely looks more open. Seemingly a lot more play on the boards instead of trapping in the middle of the ice. I had a blast.
Click to expand...

Saw that goal on the highlight reel on TSN and hollered the length of the apartment to the BF with a description.Â A thing of beauty!

Aside:Â For the second time this week, I hit the looser fan girl trifecta - Brampton beat Oshawa, Leafs beat New Jersey and Canada beat the US.Â Happy New Year everyone!
Click to expand...

Who doesn't beat the Devils these days?Â ;D 8)
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Okay, true.Â And Oshawa is the worst team in the OHL.Â :-\

But we beat the US!Â
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Canada did Team USA, but the American Juniors hate each other. ;D 8)

HC · Jan 1, 2006

Re: New NHL vs. the old NHL

hockeybeat said:

HC said:

hockeybeat said:

HC said:

hokie said:

Attended my first new-look NHL game today at MCI Center, watching the Caps (somehow) beat the Flyers in a shootout. Ovechkin scored an absolutely sick goal in the second period and just getting to watch him was worth the price of admission. The game definitely looks more open. Seemingly a lot more play on the boards instead of trapping in the middle of the ice. I had a blast.
Click to expand...

Saw that goal on the highlight reel on TSN and hollered the length of the apartment to the BF with a description.Â A thing of beauty!

Aside:Â For the second time this week, I hit the looser fan girl trifecta - Brampton beat Oshawa, Leafs beat New Jersey and Canada beat the US.Â Happy New Year everyone!
Click to expand...

Who doesn't beat the Devils these days?Â ;D 8)
Click to expand...

Okay, true.Â And Oshawa is the worst team in the OHL.Â :-\

But we beat the US!Â
Click to expand...

Canada did Team USA, but the American Juniors hate each other.Â ;D 8)
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No more than we do! ;D

hockeybeat · Jan 1, 2006

Re: New NHL vs. the old NHL

HC said:

hockeybeat said:

HC said:

hockeybeat said:

HC said:

hokie said:

Attended my first new-look NHL game today at MCI Center, watching the Caps (somehow) beat the Flyers in a shootout. Ovechkin scored an absolutely sick goal in the second period and just getting to watch him was worth the price of admission. The game definitely looks more open. Seemingly a lot more play on the boards instead of trapping in the middle of the ice. I had a blast.
Click to expand...

Saw that goal on the highlight reel on TSN and hollered the length of the apartment to the BF with a description.Â A thing of beauty!

Aside:Â For the second time this week, I hit the looser fan girl trifecta - Brampton beat Oshawa, Leafs beat New Jersey and Canada beat the US.Â Happy New Year everyone!
Click to expand...

Who doesn't beat the Devils these days?Â ;D 8)
Click to expand...

Okay, true.Â And Oshawa is the worst team in the OHL.Â :-\

But we beat the US!Â
Click to expand...

Canada did Team USA, but the American Juniors hate each other.Â ;D 8)
Click to expand...

No more than we do!Â ;D
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Be careful with that kind of talk! If you keep it up, Lyman, MLB, trounced and bobblehead will ruin this thread with their inane blatherings!

HC · Jan 1, 2006

Re: New NHL vs. the old NHL

hockeybeat said:

HC said:

hockeybeat said:

HC said:

hockeybeat said:

HC said:

hokie said:

Attended my first new-look NHL game today at MCI Center, watching the Caps (somehow) beat the Flyers in a shootout. Ovechkin scored an absolutely sick goal in the second period and just getting to watch him was worth the price of admission. The game definitely looks more open. Seemingly a lot more play on the boards instead of trapping in the middle of the ice. I had a blast.
Click to expand...

Saw that goal on the highlight reel on TSN and hollered the length of the apartment to the BF with a description.Â A thing of beauty!

Aside:Â For the second time this week, I hit the looser fan girl trifecta - Brampton beat Oshawa, Leafs beat New Jersey and Canada beat the US.Â Happy New Year everyone!
Click to expand...

Who doesn't beat the Devils these days?Â ;D 8)
Click to expand...

Okay, true.Â And Oshawa is the worst team in the OHL.Â :-\

But we beat the US!Â
Click to expand...

Canada did Team USA, but the American Juniors hate each other.Â ;D 8)
Click to expand...

No more than we do!Â ;D
Click to expand...

Be careful with that kind of talk! If you keep it up, Lyman, MLB, trounced and bobblehead will ruin this thread with their inane blatherings!Â
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Hey, some of my best friends are American (true!)

But none of them play for Team USA (also true!)

Elmer_Ellsworth · Jan 1, 2006

Re: New NHL vs. the old NHL

i attended a game last week and thought it was awesome. the great game is in much better hands.

hockeybeat · Jan 1, 2006

Re: New NHL vs. the old NHL

HC said:

hockeybeat said:

HC said:

hockeybeat said:

HC said:

hockeybeat said:

HC said:

hokie said:

Attended my first new-look NHL game today at MCI Center, watching the Caps (somehow) beat the Flyers in a shootout. Ovechkin scored an absolutely sick goal in the second period and just getting to watch him was worth the price of admission. The game definitely looks more open. Seemingly a lot more play on the boards instead of trapping in the middle of the ice. I had a blast.
Click to expand...

Saw that goal on the highlight reel on TSN and hollered the length of the apartment to the BF with a description.Â A thing of beauty!

Aside:Â For the second time this week, I hit the looser fan girl trifecta - Brampton beat Oshawa, Leafs beat New Jersey and Canada beat the US.Â Happy New Year everyone!
Click to expand...

Who doesn't beat the Devils these days?Â ;D 8)
Click to expand...

Okay, true.Â And Oshawa is the worst team in the OHL.Â :-\

But we beat the US!Â
Click to expand...

Canada did Team USA, but the American Juniors hate each other.Â ;D 8)
Click to expand...

No more than we do!Â ;D
Click to expand...

Be careful with that kind of talk! If you keep it up, Lyman, MLB, trounced and bobblehead will ruin this thread with their inane blatherings!Â
Click to expand...

Hey, some of my best friends are American (true!)

But none of them play for Team USA (also true!)
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Good thing! They might have been passed over for the Olympic team in favor of Derian Hatcher's lack of mobility.

cjericho · Jan 1, 2006

Re: New NHL vs. the old NHL

Hank_Scorpio said:

Memo to NY Times:

NHL is NOT hyphenated. Nor is any other sports leagues initials. Please make a note of it for future reference.
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sometimes the Times knows more than the actual league. How about Nascar not being in caps.

fleishman · Jan 1, 2006

Re: New NHL vs. the old NHL

i was at the devils game tonight and i can't ever remember seeing a worse period by the devils in the last decade then the second period against Toronto - four goals in a span of 6:40.

hockeybeat · Jan 1, 2006

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For ConnSportsJournalists.com, from the Hartford Courant...

State Puts NHL Idea On Hold

Agency Decides On Lengthy Study To Find Best Use For Civic Center

The Connecticut Development Authority on Wednesday approved a long-term study of the future of the Hartford Civic Center - a vote that puts the short-term hockey dreams of Whalers fans and former team owner Howard Baldwin on hold.

Saying that the building is obsolete, that the Whalers never made money and that the NHL "couldn't wait to get out of town," authority Vice Chairman Richard T. Mulready said that the prudent course is to study the Civic Center's potential - or lack thereof.

There are too many questions before a decision can be made about what to do with the building, Mulready said. The study is expected to take several months.

But the move upset those who were hoping that hockey could return, and that the state would move more quickly to take up Baldwin's offer to take over operations of the Civic Center.

"I'm not surprised that the Connecticut Development Authority basically has decided to turn Hartford sports and entertainment into a bureaucratic quagmire," said House Speaker James Amann, D-Milford. "I can't sit idly by and watch the Civic Center continue to drain taxpayers while the CDA basically sticks their heads in the sand."

Amann said he was frustrated that the authority is ignoring Baldwin - a private investor willing to bring his own money to the table at a time when the state is losing about $4 million a year on the Civic Center.

Amann said that he wants to speak with the governor on the matter, and that he wouldn't rule anything out - from legislative remedies that would "change the authority of the authority," to repopulating the authority's board, to setting up a legislative committee that would be the center's steward.

"We can basically go over CDA's head," he said. "But I'd rather not."

Baldwin said Wednesday that he loves the Hartford market and still hopes to bring an NHL team back to the city. But the authority's vote disappointed him, too.

"Every day and every year and every season that goes by, the job gets tougher to bring the market back," Baldwin said. "What they did today was to take this off the table and defer the problem."

And, he added, the Whalers didn't lose money when he ran the team.

"Mulready - and you can quote me - is full of beans on that one," he said. If the Whalers lost money in the 1990s after Baldwin sold the team, they weren't alone, Baldwin said. "Every team in the mid-90s, except for maybe four or five, was losing money. And a lot of money," he said.

Two issues have made this an interesting time for the Civic Center, which is owned by the city, leased to the Connecticut Development Authority and managed by Madison Square Garden.

First, attendance at Wolf Pack games has fallen just below the minimum required by the authority's contract with MSG. As a result, the state could exercise an option to get out of the roughly eight years remaining on its contract with Madison Square Garden, but it has to do so by mid-January.

Second, the state has been losing, and will continue to lose, between $3.5 million and $4 million a year on the Civic Center. Authority officials say that the annual losses have nothing to do with the contract with MSG, but are the result of rent payments, debt service and capital improvements that must be paid each year.

On Wednesday, Mulready reminded the board that, should it want to, it will have numerous opportunities in the future to get out of its contract with MSG, which runs through 2013. At this point, he said, haste is not in the authority's best interest.

L. Scott Frantz, chairman of the authority's board, defended the authority's move.

"We appreciate [Amann's] interest in the future of the Hartford Civic Center very much; we'd love for him to participate in our analysis," Frantz said. "Our meetings are public, everybody's phone numbers are publicly available and we'd encourage him to give us his ideas directly."

The authority's move also upset Mayor Eddie A. Perez, who wants a bigger seat at the table.

"We got a call this week from [the authority] and I reminded them that, since we own the place, we shouldn't be considered a stakeholder - we should be considered the whole steak," Perez said. "I opposed the fact that a decision is being made [to have a study], and we were not part of that decision."

Frantz said that the mayor should - and would - be involved in any major discussions about the center.

Adding yet another wrinkle to the picture, another potential player emerged Wednesday.

Chuck Coursey, a spokesman for Northland Investment Corp. - the developers of Hartford 21's 262 luxury rental apartments on the site of the old Civic Center mall - said that the company is interested in the future of the Civic Center.

"Do you upgrade the existing coliseum, or do you go out there and build a new one?" Coursey asked. "I think it make more sense to build a new coliseum, and that's something we're also interested in."

"We'd consider becoming an equity investor if that's a path that all stakeholders pursued," he said.
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They're playing hockey? When did this happen?

I don't like hockey, but I love the fights.

Is Wayne Gretzky still playing?

Is Sidney Crosby a girl?

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They're playing hockey? When did this happen?

I don't like hockey, but I love the fights.

Is Wayne Gretzky still playing?

Is Sidney Crosby a girl?

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