Finally!! The Wings are now in Traverse City for training camp, with a little golf thrown in on the side.
Can't wait for the season to begin.
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Finally!! The Wings are now in Traverse City for training camp, with a little golf thrown in on the side.
Can't wait for the season to begin.
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Los Angeles Kinks.......YES, the Kinks.....
NO duck fans here.:D
Go Flames Go!! :D:D:D
Going to my first pre-season game on Tuesday!!! Woohoo!!!!
Go, Devils! (And RPI, too...college hockey.)
Igor Larionov will be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame tonight. Here's a great article from ESPN
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<tips hat to The Professor>
Now that is out of the way... The Dead Things ain't going nowhere. ;)
LOL
YES, I love/hate the Wings. They are the perfect pro sports organization. Making it easy to be a fan. LOL It is getting boring watching them win.
Not for those of us living in Michigan :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Puckstop31
Did you happen to catch the show? Also inducted was linesman Ray Scapinello. He never missed a scheduled game in 33 years!! The Cal Ripken of hockey!!
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Originally Posted by Grace
LOL
For some reason, part of my post got left out. I said at the top, "Tips hat to The Professor". Igor was a master playmaker.
I missed the show. But kudos to Ray... One of the best ever. And he had to be tough... Can you imagine the number of times he had to break up Probert/Domi fights? LOL
How bout' them Penguins tonight, eh Grace? ;)
LOL
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Was THAT a game or what?? Unfortunately, I didn't actually get to watch it, since Armstrong cable doesn't carry versus. I listened to a little bit of it and kept checking online, since I knew that it was going to be a good game. YAY to Staal for the hat trick, I am so excited to see him get that after his scoreless streak at the beginning of the season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Puckstop31
You'd think that the red wings would be selling more tickets, especially after winning the cup, but I keep reading about how they can never sell out their arena. Any idea why?
Well, that was an interesting evening :(
Yeah, Stall was en fuego. LOL The hat trick, plus he had the helper on the winning goal.Quote:
Originally Posted by JenBKR
Kudos to the Penguins for an awesome win. For whatever reason, the Red Wings defence just broke down. The Pens got the cycle going down low and the Wings could not keep up.
As for the Wings not selling tickets.... I remember when EVERY home game at "the Joe" was a sellout. Detroit is a city in decline, in so many ways. Very sad. :(
AND Staal got all 3 of his goals in the last 12 minutes of the game. Would have been such a fun one to watch. *sigh*
Dude,
Johnson of the Kings was really physical last night, I had to laugh at the check he threw. He put a player into the Kings bench and they had a good laugh about it.
Out of last place!
The NHL network is re-airing the Pens-Red Wings game on saturday at 2:00 since it drew such high ratings. Too bad that's the day of Ty's party - I am still going to miss it!
You could record it.Quote:
Originally Posted by JenBKR
But that would make sense! :eek: :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Grace
I would have to have someone else do it, since I don't get that channel :(, but that is a good idea.
Isn't a rebound a "sloppy second"?
I like Sean Avery!
No... sloppy seconds are what guys call it when someone gets with their old girlfriend or someone they slept with
Sean Avery is a scum bag and not just because of this.
After what he pulled in the playoffs last year in front of brodeur I have ZERO respect for that guy. I couldn't HAVE less respect for him.
It is one thing to play the game and be a hard a$$ but you don't be a pr!ck and you don't disrespect other players like that.
I can't stand Avery. Seems like his teammates aren't too fond of him right now either, and for good reason. I wonder how they will be towards him when he returns...
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Originally Posted by sparks19
So, Sloppy Joes are guy version?
What is a Groupie then?
No one ever talks about the idiot athletes that do and say stuff that's 10 times worse than what he said. The comment had nothing to do with hawkey and was, at the most, locker room BS.
Isn't beating the crap outta each other on the ice a little disrespectful?;):D
You know, if he had just mouthed off to Phaneuf during the game then fine. I wouldn't have had a problem with what he said. I think it was wrong for him to specifically call a camera crew out just to say it. It made no sense for him to even comment on that to a camera crew.Quote:
Originally Posted by RICHARD
I think his career is done now. There's talk of the Stars buying him out, and I doubt any team will want to pick him up.
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Originally Posted by Shelteez2
Does "former Lost Angeles King" mean anything?:rolleyes:
It's all sports and in the grand scheme of things, don't mean anything.
I have to say that when athletes get shot, shoot people, beat the crap outta people/SOs or get involved with drugs or kill someone when they are DUI-that might be a little more serious than calling out a player over his squeeze.
I have sat rink/courtside for games and the stuff I have heard players scream at each other is really funny when compared to this.
hHe did make it a point to tell everyone to enjoy the game........
Wins and losses are the only thing that count?:rolleyes:;):D
Well... that would probably be the case if this was an isolated incident...Quote:
Originally Posted by RICHARD
however he has said A LOT of inappropriate things in the past and has been suspended before for unsportsmen like conduct on the ice.
And no... beating the crap out of each other on the ice is not disrespectful... CHEAP sucker punches are disrespectful. If two players agree to fight there is no disrespect there and (for the most part) they probably end up having a beer together at the end of the night.
HOWEVER, the things Avery does and says ARE disrespectful. I do wish other sports took that kind of cr@p seriously and didn't allow players to get away with saying stuff like that. not only is it disrespectful to a fellow hockey player... but there is NO need to say such a disgusting thing on national television about a girl you once dated just because she dumped you and you have a hard on about it.
I do not... and never will condone the things Avery has done.
he was ordered to take anger management classes and I think they are much needed.
it is one thing to jabber at each other on the ice, have a man to man face to face fight, etc. But cheapshots, baiting, and inappropriate comments about someone's partner is NOT part of the game... sorry.
an isolated incident... I might let it go... but this is NOT an isolated incident and he has pushed the envelope more and more.
You know why they really took him out of that game? because he probably would have suffered a career ending injury. You can't just let them run wild because "it's sports and it's guys". saying something on the ice when the only people that can hear you are within 10 feet of you and you are in a heated game is one thing... a premeditated offensive comment like THAT on national television... you can't just let that go. especially when it is not the first time or the second.
He got traded because the rangers didn't want to put up with his nonsense anymore... he's not a team player at all and there is no room for that. I would be very surprised if dallas keeps him around especially since his teammates already have a hate on for him.
And for the record... I think you know I am not a PC type person. But at some point you have to put a stop to this stuff and hope he takes it seriously... or someone ELSE will and he will suffer for it.
Poor Sean, I hope he hooks up with at team.
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What is the purpose of playing a game in a baseball stadium on NYD?
Really?
Come on Gary, get the 'twists' out of the game and make it watchable again!
The LA Kinks play out in Lost Vegas-outdoors- in the preseason and they have a very intimate rink setup- This put a rink at second base and let the people TRY to watch the game is really dumb.
The game last year was so poorly set up I watched about 5 minutes of it and then changed the channel.:rolleyes:
Hey Gary B!
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/article/1010/42/373445.htm
I watched this game and found it WAY more enjoyable that your Winter-where-is-the-puck? Near-the-shortstop! debacle.
Good camera shots and they were outdoors. Again, the Russkies know how to do good hockey!
I wonder if the Red Wings can fit a 1 or 2 game Bob Probert contract under their salary cap. I'd like to see this nonsense ended with one punch.Quote:
Sharks recall recall Claude Lemieux
Monday, 01.19.2009 / 12:03 PM / News
San Jose Sharks Executive Vice President and General Manager Doug Wilson announced today that the club has reassigned forwards Brad Staubitz and Tom Cavanagh to the Worcester Sharks, the team’s top development affiliate in the American Hockey League and recalled forward Claude Lemieux.
Lemieux has played in 23 games with Worcester, posting 11 points (3-8=11), 24 penalty minutes and a +2 rating. He was originally signed by San Jose as a free agent on Dec. 29, 2007.
the wings play the coyotes tonight! woot!
HEY HEY HOCKEY TOWN! :D
Henrik Zetterberg has been given a new contract - 12 years, 72 million. He's 28 now, so this ensures he will be with us until retirement.
This is the longest contract ever by the Wings. How refreshing to see an athlete more concerned about where he is, than how much he will rake in. Not that 6 million a year is chicken feed. Just compare him with Manny and A-Rod; actually there is no comparison.Quote:
"I've never seen any reason to go anywhere else," Zetterberg said. "I really like it on the ice and off the ice. I have great teammates, a great coaching staff, owners who we know will have a good team every year. I don't see any reason why I shouldn't stay. I love it here, and I want to be here forever."
I don't think he can make much more than that anyway with the salary cap can he?
Good for him
The Wings do have two players, right now, who make more than 6 million/year. Lidstrom and Hossa both get 7.45. Datsyuk is at 6.7 - his contract is for 7 years. Actually, Zetterberg get 7 - 7.5 over the first 10 years; then drops to 3.35 in year 11 and 1 million in the last year.Quote:
Originally Posted by sparks19
A few of the Wings have structured their contracts so that the team can sign players like Hossa. And Zetterberg could have gotten 8 million easily, if he had become a free agent. The players like it in Detroit - especially the Swedes!! They are treated well here.
I am happy for Zetterberg. But in the era of the salary cap, the Wings better hope he does not suffer some sort of career ending injury because they will be on the hook for his salary... AND it will count against the cap I think. I don't know if the current CBA allows for removing his contract if he gets hurt.
Think again; it appears the Rangers might have him back eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shelteez2
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The Rangers have conducted thorough internal discussions regarding the feasibility of bringing Sean Avery back to Broadway and appear to be on the verge of allowing Dallas to send Hockey's Public Enemy No. 1 to Hartford in what would be the first step of the process, The Post has learned.
The organizational meetings included management personnel, coaches and players. They yielded a consensus that Avery's return to the Rangers New York Rangers is very much worth pursuing and that his injection into the lineup this season would be a constructive move.
Huh. Well good for him. Hopefully he can make the best of it and stop being an arse to everyone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grace
The owners of the Red Wings continue to amaze me -
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Ilitches give Wings' alums, including Pronovost, Stanley Cup rings
Posted by George James Malik February 10, 2009 11:32AM
The Windsor Star's Dave Waddell spoke to New Jersey Devils scout and former Red Wings defenceman Marcel Pronovost about the tremendous gift from Mike and Marian Ilitch recently:
February 10, Windsor Star: As he worked his way through the packaging, Marcel Pronovost couldn't remember being this curious about a gift since he was a child.
When he reached the bottom and opened another tiny box, he felt like a kid again too. Staring back at him was a glittering version of the 2008 Detroit Red Wings Stanley Cup ring with his name on one side with four extra diamonds symbolizing the quartet of cups he won with Detroit in the 1950s.
"My reaction was instantly to flashback to those teams," said the 78-year-old Pronovost, who was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1978 after a 21-year playing career and five cups with the Wings and Toronto.
Pronovost was one of 20 to 30 retired Red Wings to receive a gift last week. The team sent rings to every living Wings' players that won a cup in Detroit prior to their 1997 championship.
"It was Mr. and Mrs. Ilitch's idea," Wings general manager Ken Holland said. "They're special owners. They wanted to remember our great past. Players from the past didn't receive rings. They wanted to honour them.
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"When UPS called to see if they could deliver it, they wanted to know if I was a jewelry dealer because of the value of it," said Pronovost, who also got a personal note from the Wings owners along with the ring. "I was really shocked by this. It was a grand gesture and I called Mr. Ilitch to thank him. I was so proud I took it (to the OHL All-Star Game) and showed it to everyone."
Is that classy or what? I'm floored by this myself.
The Wings are going to open their 2009-2010 season in Stockholm in October. They will be playing the Blues.
The tickets sold out in less than one hour. If you didn't get yours, you are out of luck!
From Wednesday night - another amazing goal by Zetterberg.
Colleen Howe, wife of Gordie, passed away from Pick's disease. She was 76.
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did anyone watch the Devils game last night?
Marty Brodeur is now officially the winningest goaltender of all time... and he's pretty darn close to setting the record for most shut out wins.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist but how wierd is it that his Record TYING game was IN Montreal and he got to have his winning game on home ice. lol
Last night was a good game. the last few minutes was especially tense.
I loved how he cut the ENTIRE net off... well he cut half of it but he had these ridiculous rinky dink scissors that probably have trouble cutting butter lol... so halfway through his teammates stepped in and helped him cut the rest. I thought that was pretty cool. not just a piece... the WHOLE D@MN THING lol.
Congrats Marty
I agree with you on the coincidence of his tying and record breaking games. Someone in Hockey Heaven did an amazing job with the schedule!!
We saw highlights of the game last evening. That cracked me up when he was cutting the net. Great idea!!