Running 2007 NHL regular season thread

That's as good an answer as any.

 

He's an attention-whore.

 

As well as Anaheim and Dallas are playing right now San Jose is still the team to beat in the Pacific. They could be tied for first after tonight and they've played four fewer games than the Stars or Ducks. That's a lot of games in hand heading into the second half.

 

NHL European plans finalized for next season:

http://www.tsn.ca/ctvnews/sportsstory.asp?story_id=228084

 

So ... the Sens and the Pens are heading for Sweden ... doesn't it make sense, as the Big Head says, for the NHL to finally be going into areas that are bastions of hockey? I realize there's a presence of hockey in England and Japan ... but not to the extent there is in the Nordic regions. The NHL owes those countries a visit, considering the way they've been supplying talent for the last 20 years.

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=228084&hubname=

The plans to open the 2008-09 NHL regular season on two European fronts are now finalized.

The league is apparently ready to formally announce this weekend at the NHL All-Star Game in Atlanta that, as expected, the Ottawa Senators will play the Pittsburgh Penguins in Stockholm and the New York Rangers will play the Tampa Bay Lightning in Prague.

The teams will play each other twice on the weekend before the "normal" mid-week opening of the NHL regular season in North America. The games will be played in Stockholm and Prague on Saturday and Sunday with staggered start times so as to present them in "double-header" form for North American TV viewers. The games will, of course, count in the NHL regular season standings.

The Los Angeles Kings and Anaheim Ducks played a two-game set in London, England, to open this season.

The Sens-Pens and Rangers-Lightning games represent a move to more "traditional" European hockey markets in Sweden and the Czech Republic.

 

As an off-topic sidebar (only because I know some of you hockey fans like curling, too) ... Gushue is criticizing the way the Olympic trials are set up in Canada.

http://www.tsn.ca/olympics/news_story/?ID=228083&hubname=

I had Kevin Martin saying pretty much the same thing in a column while Gushue and Kleibrink were over in Italy ... only K-Mart is a far more compelling quote. It's on my old laptop but if I can get it off, maybe I'll post it ...

 

After watching the Packers/Giants game last weekend, the NHL should consider having an outdoor game in Green Bay on New Year's day.

Then every hockey writer in North America will get to use the phrase, "the frozen tundra of Lambeau" Doesn't seem fair that only the football writers get to use it.

 

Hey, stop with the curlingjack.

Start a damn threead.

 

Yeah, but only you and me would read it. :'(

 

Changing the subject again, Flash, but did you watch the Top Prospects game last night?

 

No, I totally forgot ... was packing up and cleaning in prep for a move to a new place tonight. Read that Boychuk had a great game.

 

He did. Two goals and two helpers

It wasn't much of a game.

Team White won 8-4.

Our guy Cody Hodgson from Brampton had three assists.

You moving? Back to Nova Scotia?