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Until there is hockey to be played, some potential topics include: the brutality of I-5 traffic, shipping fresh salmon from Pike Place market, how the Sounders get such good crowds, if you prefer Northgate or Southcenter malls, and your favorite Capitol Hill restaurant.

I played a bit of lacrosse in high school (it is really fun)... I knew of this John Tavares way before the hockey version and was really confused when the younger one's name started surfacing. (See also: Anne Hathaway).

Fuck Jim Benning with a tetanus-laced cheese grater. The guy is destroying the future, let alone the present. This has to be some sort of long con revenge for how the team dumped him in 1989. Almost everything he has done has been mind-numbingly awful.

I effing love seeing the Islanders doing well again.

I'm not sure how that works if the owners aren't the same, since Quebec's previous ownership was paying him $20,000 a year already. Montreal signed him for $21k per year, and I think in Quebec Beliveau got things like a new car and such.
Remember kids, hockey used to be good and pure, and only ...

E.L. wrote:Frank Selke didn't just buy the Quebec Aces - he bought the whole Quebec Hockey League!

Wikipedia says that's a myth, for what it's worth.

No disrespect meant to Brodeur, but given the very high goalie glut in the league right now, I'm kind of surprised by this. Although I suppose the upside is that they don't have to give anything up.

Av-merican wrote:Well, this is funny.

They left out "Mike Milbury vs. Common Sense".

Safety Dance is disqualified in my book. Men Without Hats were a punk band and that song was a joke about bouncers in clubs not allowing people to sl…login to view the rest of this post

I'm going with Men without Hats even though they were a two-hit wonder (to self-referentially quote the other one, "Everybody tell me have you heard '…login to view the rest of this post

In normal English use, "holding out" usually does just neutrally mean waiting for something that you think might happen ("Holding out hope for a rescue", etc.), so in the most literal terms an unsigned RFA rejecting a team's offer is "holding out" for a better offer. But from its beginnings the term ...

Will always have him indelibly associated with my starting to follow hockey, as he was the Canucks' GM at the time and it was right around when he took over coaching duties.

Rest in peace, Big Irishman.

OK, this is pretty awesome:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3FsWkhCUAEdLJ0.jpg

The Toledo Walleye and Evansville Icemen of the East Coast Hockey League wore special hero-themed hockey sweaters on Saturday night as part of a charitable endeavour.

The Walleye players were dressed in Batman jerseys ...

saskhab wrote:Side note: Funny how little some forums here get posted in. I mean, Belak's death is still on Page 1 of this forum, that was over 3 years ago.

We need Nomorekids back.

Maybe he had more kids.

Two seconds is insane. That basically means a player passes, takes a couple of strides, then you only begin to think about hitting him.

And I am all for instant tar-and-feathering of anyone who uses the term "admiring his pass" to justify a late hit. Find me NHL players who don't look up at players ...

By all reports from Uticans, he's been very good, but the Comets are also good now, so he hasn't been having the world's toughest time of it. They say Eriksson has looked extremely good too, though obviously his numbers won't be as gaudy.

saskhab wrote:Some loser gets a ridiculous feature:

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Nice!

I still stand by my Assistant GM prediction.

Relatedly, in March I'm going to head down to Utica with a Hab-fan friend to see the Comets and Bulldogs battle it out in the renovated Memorial Aud. I'm actually more psyched for this than seeing the Canucks here in December.

Basically just these again, no, with slight variation on the stripes?