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

Re: 2007 NHL awards and off-season running thread

According to TSN.ca the Predators are Hamilton bound

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=210671&hubname=

can only guess that a new name would be in the works

Hamilton Steelheads anyone?

Still don't think this is a smart move. What's capacity at Copps and is itup to NHL standards or is it in line for a major reno?

 

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Shoalt's column in the Globe throws the dirt around:

http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070613.wsptpredators13/GSStory/GlobeSportsHockey/home

And not everyone's amused:

If you join a club or a fraternity, it is a bunch of people who have to work together in a partnership," the governor said. "Sometimes you have to give up what you want for the greater good of the league. This is not the way to come in [to the NHL].

"In my travels, I've already had people, unasked, say, 'Who is this clown?' I've had three clubs mention this to me."


I think capacity at Copps is around 17,000. Biggest problemw would be lack of corporate boxes.

It'd be a temporary home in any case.

Steelheads would be a problem because that's the name of that jock-sniffer Frank D'Angelo's brewery.

Hamilton Tigers.

(That was the team in the very early NHL that moved to NYC and became the NY Americans)

 

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That little bitty article mentions nothing of the Leafs and Sabres, who could stop any move to Hamilton if they felt like it.

 

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Ducks just gave Carlyle a one-year contract extension to 2008-09.

 

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Guess it's time to send a resume to the paper in Hamilton... ;D 8)

 

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Canadian press looks at the NHL awards and makes their predictions:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news;_ylt=AlFuoVjCqdpZ0wbpTgw3o6J7vLYF?slug=cp-nhl_awards&prov=cp&type=lgns

 

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(Insert your own punchline)

TORONTO (AP) — The Calgary Flames have hired Mike Keenan as their new head coach, The Canadian Press reported Wednesday.

 

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Well, one thing's for sure, Mad Mike won't be able to throw the Flames goalie under the bus

 

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Good god... O/U for this relationship to last?

And yeah, Copps is a temporary fix... and I just cant see Buffalo and Toronto letting a franchise go into Hamilton

 

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Kipper, Iginla and Phaneuf will be fine. It's the remaining Flames that have to worried about being traded for the 1992 Blackhawks.

 

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Well, according to the NHL constitution, my understanding is that the Leafs/Buffalo (or any other team) do not have veto powers over franchise start-ups or relocations. It's the Board of Governors who have the final say.

There's also talk that Balsillie will challenge any talk of preventing a move to Hamilton by getting the Canadian Competition Bureau (a federal agency) involved. They may take a dim view of any attempt of restraint of trade in the Leaf's market.

However, the Preds deal still has to be approved by the NHL board--not necessarily a slam dunk.

And hell, if it's approved, maybe Balsillie will do an Al Davis.

However, the SW Ontario market is grossly underserved by professional hockey. 7 million people (about 20% of the country's population) and there's only one hockey team? And about 20% of Sabres season ticket holders come from the other side of the border.

 

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I agree that it's underserved, but is Hamilton the place? London, I think, is the best geogrpahical spot but not population wise... I still think Quebec, then Winnipeg, would be better...
Can Toronto/Hamilton/Buffalo support three teams like NYR/NYI/NJ?