NHL awards/draft/off-season/training camp/preseason running thread

JC · Sep 19, 2007

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hockeybeat said:

Sam Mills 51 said:

Cansportschick said:

At least we are getting some sort of NHL preseason game here. Montreal is playing Boston on Sunday.

Why can't they just bring a normal NHL game to a neutral place like Halifax? Why is it always preseason?
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No one is willing giving up a regular-season home game. Too much revenue lost and to boot, the players wouldn't go for it because that's more time on the road.

Preseason? 'Nother story ...
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When the Rangers won the Cup in 1994, they beat the Devils 4-1 in a regular season game in Halifax.
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That is when they played an 84 game schedule and every team had 2 neutral site games

Flash · Sep 19, 2007

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Huggy said:

JR said:

Flash said:

Another case of Donna not checking her facts:

3. NHL players Jarome Iginla, Shane Doan, Mark Recchi and Darryl Sydor have formed a group wanting to buy the Kamloops Blazers, but the Blazers aren't yet selling.

The team has been sold to River City Hockey. The sale was approved in June or July.

Nice work.
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Flash,
I'm confused. Who's Donna and where did the story come from?
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Donna Spencer covers junior hockey for CP.
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She also got No. 8 wrong.

Flash · Sep 19, 2007

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Sam Mills 51 said:

hockeybeat said:

Sam Mills 51 said:

Cansportschick said:

At least we are getting some sort of NHL preseason game here. Montreal is playing Boston on Sunday.

Why can't they just bring a normal NHL game to a neutral place like Halifax? Why is it always preseason?
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No one is willing giving up a regular-season home game. Too much revenue lost and to boot, the players wouldn't go for it because that's more time on the road.

Preseason? 'Nother story ...
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When the Rangers won the Cup in 1994, they beat the Devils 4-1 in a regular season game in Halifax.
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Wonder if MSG or Byrne Arena was overbooked? Was that game scheduled well in advance?

I'm not saying it never happens - even the NFL is scheduling elsewhere on rare occasion during the regular season - but I wouldn't count on any of the major sports leagues to crank out a robust schedule of regular-season games all over North America and the rest of the planet.
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Why the hell would they? People pay good money to bring a professional franchise to a city for people who pay good money to buy season tickets there and support the team on home ice.

Sam Mills 51 · Sep 19, 2007

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Well, there's another reason Can. What Flash said.

Flash · Sep 19, 2007

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Look ... if people in Lower Buttfuck, Nova Scotia, want to go see the pros play, get in a plane. Taking the game to small population areas for a visit is not good business.

JC · Sep 19, 2007

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Flash said:

Lower Buttfuck, Nova Scotia
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Is that Boots hometown?

JR · Sep 19, 2007

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Flash said:

Look ... if people in Lower Buttfuck, Nova Scotia, want to go see the pros play, get in a plane. Taking the game to small population areas for a visit is not good business.
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That's close to Antigonish from what I hear.

Flash · Sep 19, 2007

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You haven't heard the story about the Goalers, have you?

JR · Sep 19, 2007

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Flash said:

You haven't heard the story about the Goalers, have you?
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Uh, no, I haven't.

Flash · Sep 19, 2007

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Hee hee hee, maybe you should tell your boys to go into town and ask around. Hee hee hee.

JC · Sep 19, 2007

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Flash said:

You haven't heard the story about the Goalers, have you?
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Please share

Flash · Sep 19, 2007

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'Tis a story from a long, long, long time ago ... around the mid-80s. One of the national news networks happened upon a story of family values unlike any in our fair region. These folks lived in a commune just outside of Wolfville, home of Acadia University.

Now this family had no trouble extending its legacy without the input of others. After all, as one gentleman said, looking seriously into the camera, 'what's a man to do when his 14-year-old daughter hits on him?'

Another was asked if they knew of the ramifications of incest. He replied, 'Insects? What do you expect me to do? We swat 'em away with a newspaper!'

For a long while, the ultimate insult in Nova Scotia was to call someone a 'Goaler.'

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