Originally Posted By thenurmis Ok you hockey pucks, who is going to call it ? One week into the season, new rules, out of shape players(injury prone),and new lines with new players. Right now with out hesitaion call it . Lord Stanlys cup will be hoisted high by..... The Sen's and this from a Cunacks fan
Originally Posted By Beaumandy The Senators traded my main man Marion Hossa.... this might have a huge effect on them finally hoisting the cup.
Originally Posted By Jafar30 Question to all you hockey fans. Will you agree that the NHL is going to have to work ten to twenty times harder than MLB or the NBA had to to get fans in the United States to care about their game again? You know what I would do I was the NHL hire some of them NASCAR AD and PR firms to make this sport relavant to fans in the United States. I was never a big fan of the sport, but me and my friends always had big tournaments playing NHL 94 on the Sega Genesis. And Hockey is responsible for the greatest moment in US sports history, of course I speak of the 1980's Olympics. I still bawl like a baby when I see the game.
Originally Posted By Spree Hossa............kinda reminds me of my last visit to Spokane...way back in 98'
Originally Posted By itsme >>I believe it was a "different" Hasik that was the backup to Belfor, I may be wrong though. ------- No it was the Dominic Hasik, He had just come into the league and wasnt known at that time. >>Regarding the left wing lock(trap): It IS used by teams using the neutral zone trap and in most instances is considered part in part of the same strategem -------- Some of the stuff in that article is wrong, If you want I can get into it a little in few days, i have a bum wrist right now and cant type. It came from the europeans who have used it for a long time, And Bomans ast coach Barry Smith who spent alot of time in euorpe learnig it from back when they were with the Pens, was who brought it to the Wings. I had studied it alot when i was coaching high school hockey casue i was gonna try to use it.
Originally Posted By Beaumandy I have the Center Ice package on my dish and I had 4 NHL games going last night. The game is a LOT more open and fun to watch than in years past. Saw a shootout last night in the Toraonto - Sens game, very exciting. Lindros sucks.
Originally Posted By Fe Maiden <<Lindros sucks. >> I'd have to agree. But I guess he's happy now that he's in Toronto close to his mom and dad.
Originally Posted By Beaumandy Lindros got his bell rung again last night. Makes you wonder how long he can play with so many concussions.
Originally Posted By Jafar30 How many has he had?? If it's a lot then he should hang it up. Troy Aikman and Steve Young would have been vegetables if they had played football any longer. And just look at Ali. Granted I know he has Parkinson's but still I thought some of that was from boxing.
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <Hey V, I had to laugh i heard a Blackhawk fan the other day on the radio talking about the last time they made a run at the cup, how Belfour was the starter and they had some guy named Hasik who was only good enough to be the backup. He wanted to know how is it they have struggled to find 1 decent goalie now.< always a heritage of good goalkeeprs -- however old man Wirtz refused to pay Hasek more than backup money -- and Belfour ( like Roenick) was too outspoken for Pulford. What a mess the front office is for 25 years. And remember these goalies were on the heels of Tony Esposito ( and Murray Bannerman - who is actually a neighbor of mine now ) - So far Khalibukin has been far less than impressive
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <The problem with the Black Hawks is that no matter how bad they get their fans keep showing up paying their gate prices...........why pay high $$$$ for talent when just so-so players will fill the stands just as well? < Dale Tallon trying to change this as they now put 2,000 tickets on sale each game for $20 - yes in the nosebleed section but this has to kill Wirtz. Of course he'll just raise beer prices again so that it can be $9 / beer - LOL ! They had a captive audience for years - but that fan base has dwindled -- and even lost some people permanently to the Wolves....
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <I believe it was a "different" Hasik that was the backup to Belfor, I may be wrong though. < Nope, it was Dominick Hasek, the one and same..........traded from Hawks to Buffalo for 4th round pick who turned out to be Eric Daze
Originally Posted By mickeymeg I am very surprised that Auld didnt take over sometime in the middle of the Canucks game last night.
Originally Posted By Jafar30 Come you hockey fans, answer my question about what the NHL has to do to win fans back in the U.S.? You have to admit it will be hard for them to get fans back here. If I were to rank the current fan interest of what I considered to be the ten major sports it would be: 1. NFL 2. MLB 3. NASCAR 4. College Football 5. NBA 6. College Basketball 7. PGA 8. NHL 9. LPGA 10. Indy/Cart racing And I think there's a huge gap after the PGA.
Originally Posted By Beaumandy The problem with hockey is that it's a bad TV sport, where the NFL is a great TV sport.
