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NHL 2007 season

post #1 of 49
6/23/06 at 8:50pm
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One season over, on to the next.

Draft starts tomorrow and my Canucks just scored Luongo (assuming they can sign him) for Bertuzzi, Allen and Auld. Pronger apparently wants out of Edmonton...
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post #2 of 49
6/24/06 at 8:04am

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Jeff you don't know how hard it is being a Canucks fan in Alberta over these last two years. I should never have moved here.

Good to hear about Luongo, hope they can draft smart. should have a decent position, and maybe with the draft at home will pull a couple more rabbits out of the ol hat.

I missed the awards show, is there anywhere I can catch this online?

Thanks.
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post #3 of 49
6/24/06 at 8:13am

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What's the problem with Alberta? It's not like Calgary or Edmonton actually won the Stanley Cup.

Go Lightning!
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post #4 of 49
6/25/06 at 2:38pm

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What is up with Pronger, anyway? Didn't they retool that team around him this year?

Truth be told, I should be looking forward to this season as much as anyone outside of Raleigh, seeing as how columnists for both SI and MSNBC have called the Sabres preseason favorites. It's a strange feeling, I don't like it.

I read a few Sabres MBs and fans are already calling for a 'Stanley or bust' mentality this year. Not sure about that just yet. But if nothing else, they're apparently going back to a blue and gold color scheme (new logo, though) sometime in September. Time to get a new jersey, I guess.
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post #5 of 49
6/25/06 at 2:46pm
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Yes, Pronger signed a 5 year deal, but now wants out. Rumor has it his wife doesn't like it there. I don't know how much stock there is in that, but hey, it is Edmonton.

It will be interesting to see how all the pieces go together this year. The free agency market has some good players, but not tons of them. Even with a bigger cap, the low dollar guys are going to be the ones being snapped up. There won't be many teams carrying more than one or two big ticket contracts anymore, especially with the number of injuries that plagued everyone last season.
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post #6 of 49
6/25/06 at 5:39pm

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Great move by Nonis picking up Luongo before the draft.

Also have to like Calgary's move in picking up Tanguay to add a little offense to that team. I'm tired of dump and chase hockey in Calgary...
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post #7 of 49
6/25/06 at 8:20pm

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Originally Posted by Jeff Ulmer
Yes, Pronger signed a 5 year deal, but now wants out. Rumor has it his wife doesn't like it there. I don't know how much stock there is in that, but hey, it is Edmonton.

This appears to be a similar situation to Bryan McCabe in Toronto....he hasn't signed his overpaid contract. McCabe's wife is from the Long Island area. He suppose to make his decision this week though.

Dave
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post #8 of 49
6/25/06 at 10:24pm

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http://www.theonion.com/content/node/49761



CJ
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post #9 of 49
7/1/06 at 10:46pm

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the bruins got rid of mceachern and travis green, and signed chara and marc savard. if they dumped the old stiffs like fitzgerald and gill, i may enjoy watching the bruins again!

CJ
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post #10 of 49
7/3/06 at 8:20pm

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steve yzerman retires. can't imagine any other red wing wearing the C.

CJ
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post #11 of 49
7/4/06 at 10:25am

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Hey Christ, any rumblings on the radio there where Shanny might be heading off to?

Woo, Willie Mitchell!!! Now we need first and second line wingers.

Its going to be mighty tough to score against the Ducks. The two best Defenseman in the NHL + Bryzgalov

And how 'bout the goaltending in the Northwest Division?!
Vancouver - Luongo
Calgary - Kipprusoff
Edmonton - Roloson
Colorado - Theodore
Minnesota - Fernandez
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post #12 of 49
7/4/06 at 1:35pm
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JR just signed with Phoenix, too bad, I was kinda oping he'd head here. There are rumours of Shanny signing in Vancouver, but who knows, way too many rumours out there. Kinda sad we lost Ruutu to Pittsburg.
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post #13 of 49
7/4/06 at 7:53pm

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With Bertuzzi and Ruutu gone, the Canucks should have a huge reduction in their sin bin penalties. Those two took a ton of penalties.

Not sure what else the Canucks can afford now. Their 2006-07 salaries are up to around $36 million and they still need a bunch of role players to fill the remaining roster.

Dave
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post #14 of 49
7/4/06 at 10:50pm

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Hey Christ, any rumblings on the radio there where Shanny might be heading off to?
not around here, i live in boston
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Its going to be mighty tough to score against the Ducks. The two best Defenseman in the NHL...
no, lidstrom just re-signed with the red wings!

CJ
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post #15 of 49
7/5/06 at 1:07pm

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Cloutier and Crawford reunited, in LA!!!

No details as to what Vancouver gets yet.
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post #16 of 49
7/5/06 at 1:29pm

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Originally Posted by Christ Reynolds
the bruins got rid of mceachern and travis green, and signed chara and marc savard. if they dumped the old stiffs like fitzgerald and gill, i may enjoy watching the bruins again!

CJ

Gill signed with Toronto. Fitzgerald was not offered a contract (just like Gill). Looks like Chiarelli is really turning things around. Now if we only could get our hands on a Hart and Art Ross trophy winner. Anyone know of one who likes playing in Boston?

Also, Shanny is in the picture for 4.1 mil/yr, but he's weighing offers. Zhamnov has played his last for the Bruins and probably for the NHL (disability).
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post #17 of 49
7/5/06 at 1:37pm
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Vancouver gets a second round and conditional pick for the 2007 draft for Cloutier - WAY more than most figured they'd get. $2.5M more cap room to play with, but it looks like Carter won't be coming back since he's looking for $3M/season for 3 years.... way too much.
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post #18 of 49
7/5/06 at 7:43pm

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yeah, i hear shanny wants to come to boston because he lives around here in the offseason. chiarelli is making all the right moves so far, imo.

CJ
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post #19 of 49
7/6/06 at 8:30am

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yeah, i hear shanny wants to come to boston because he lives around here in the offseason. chiarelli is making all the right moves so far, imo.

CJ

Yeah, doesn't he live in Craig Janney's old house?
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post #20 of 49
7/7/06 at 9:30am

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As far as losing Thornton goes, I kinda have the same viewpoint as happened with Clemens leaving the Sox. They were both a bit lazy and complacent with their respective franchises when they moved along. Had they stayed, it would have been more of the same (Clemens : .500 pitcher, Thornton : only interested in points and playoff non-performer). They both needed a kick-in-the-pants or change-of-scenery type event to get them to really buckle down and get back to business.

The only way I look at it positively is to say it hastened the exit of O'Connell and Sullivan after him. O'Connell was way over his head and had no clue how to manage an NHL team and Sullivan, while a real nice guy, had a nasty habit of demanding that every player on his teams play like he did - with no balls. He neutered Joe Thornton (6 pims in 20+ games for the guy who once led his team??), sat Andrew Alberts for being too "aggresive" and publicly castigated Nick Boynton for coming to the aid of his goaltender (which was the last straw for me). Plus I don't think the guy was too great at evaluating talent. He had Brad Boyes playing 2-4 minutes a game at first and he would have been a Calder candidate in a year without Ovchekin and Crosby, yet he kept Gill rolling over the boards to get holding call after holding call. Sheesh, I would have tuned him out also, never mind buying into his "dump and don't chase" style for a team that used to ram people through the endboards. Like I said, nice guy, but nobody ever won a cup with a team of Lady Byng winners.
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post #21 of 49
7/7/06 at 1:00pm

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Paul, if you want to hear something really sad, my brother was talking to a couple guys he knows from Toronto and they are looking at Gill as a "1C" type defenseman to go with McCabe and Kaberle (1-1A). Similar to the Habs fans who are all excited about their 'major signings' of "He who flops to the ice, scissors his legs like a skirt wearing soccer player and therefore shalt not be named" and The Boullion Cube, some people really, really overeact up there. Boy are they going to be disappointed when they see The Pylon in action.
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post #22 of 49
7/7/06 at 9:35pm

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i always got a kick out of dale arnold when he would say "gill plays so well against jagr". well why did jagr skate to the other side of the ice, only to undress gill time after time? gill sucks. if he was 6'1, he never would have had an NHL job.

CJ
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post #23 of 49
6/6/07 at 7:50pm

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To steal a bit from Bill Simmons:

"Right now there are many neurotic 13 year-olds all across Canada wondering - will I get to see a Canadian team win the Stanley Cup in my lifetime?"
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post #24 of 49
6/6/07 at 9:47pm

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Congrats to the Anaheim Ducks on winning the Stanley Cup, mighty-less as they are.

Bring on 2007-2008.
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post #25 of 49
6/7/07 at 4:58am

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Wow, participation in a hockey thread!

This is three straight non-hockey cities winning the Cup -- Tampa, Raleigh and now Anaheim. Last Saturday night's game had the worst prime time rating for any show in NBC's history. The NHL is hanging on by life support at this point.
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post #26 of 49
6/7/07 at 8:21am

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Wow, participation in a hockey thread!

This is three straight non-hockey cities winning the Cup -- Tampa, Raleigh and now Anaheim. Last Saturday night's game had the worst prime time rating for any show in NBC's history. The NHL is hanging on by life support at this point.

Places that shouldn't have a hockey team to begin with, especially Anaheim when they started out because of a movie. Bettman expanded the NHL way too fast.

I lost total interest in the playoffs when the Sabres got eliminated, and even then, my interest was low, because the Flyers were not in it.
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post #27 of 49
6/7/07 at 8:41am

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I was rooting for the Ducks simply because they were the toughest team in the league last year and led the league in fighting majors. The playoffs are a marathon and a certain amount of grit is needed to outlast the other teams and Anaheim had it. I would hope Bettman would see this and stop his silly "we need to eliminate the violence in the sport to attract the same new fans that we haven't been able to attract for the last 30 years" plan, but I know better. Congrats to the Ducks, they are a well balanced, talented team and deserved the win. I just wish I lived out west so I could see more of their type of hockey.
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post #28 of 49
6/7/07 at 8:42am

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I lost interest in the playoffs when Detroit got knocked out. I was really hoping for a Buffalo-Detroit finals. The league did expand too fast and some contraction while painful would help in the long run. Scheduling has been an issue of stupidity as well. How many times am I supposed to care about Detroit playing Nashville? This isn't baseball. Not being able to watch hockey on ESPN is also a major problem. I mean how many people actually get VS? Oh and the strike...hockey has almost killed itself. They have at least made the game irrelevant to the overwhelming majority of the USA. Which is a shame. It is a brilliant sport and playoff hockey is awesome.
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post #29 of 49
6/7/07 at 9:33am

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I watched very little of the playoffs this year. I'm probably one of the few non-Wings fans in Michigan (I'm a Habs fan), and was pulling for Buffalo.

We did attend a lot of Plymouth Whalers games this year, though -- probably about 18, including numerous playoff games. The Whalers won the Ontario Hockey League title this year. The OHL is juniors (16-21), and is the equivalent playing level as NCAA hockey, for those unfamiliar with it. We actually sat behind former Rangers and Wings goalie Eddie Giacomin at one game of the finals against Sudbury. He's a native of Sudbury and played his junior hockey for that team in the early 1960's. We chatted about the game. He's a very nice guy.
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post #30 of 49
6/7/07 at 10:01am

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Wow, that's insulting. Shouldn't have a hockey team to begin with? Why? Because there are no frozen ponds in winter?

Only Montreal and Detroit outdrew the Lightning this season, and last season the Bolts were the #2 draw in the league. 29 games with capacity at or above 98%, and no games where capacity was under 75%.

There are far worse "hockey towns" in this league than Tampa.

For the record, the NHL teams in double digits for less than 75% capacity for games this season were Boston (10), Chicago (37), Florida (14), New Jersey (20), NY Islanders (15), St. Louis (30), Washington (19).


There are times when that subscription to Sports Business Journal really pays off.
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