NHL 2010

[Northern Wish]

I cannot believe what I just witnessed on TSN. I was thinking it had to be a farce or something....

Hall calling out Eberle for showing him up in his debut?

"All I can remember is Eberle putting the puck in the net. I was #1, what was he he drafted? and like 4 years ago. I lost alot of sleep over it last night."

All kinds of in fighting beyond that statement too, the team didn't find his sensational goal that awesome as he looked off Horcoff who was open to take it himself.

[Hal Johnson]

Dude. That was hilarious! They're totally just having fun with the guy.

Edited October 8, 2010 by Guest

[Northern Wish]

Alright then, whew! Like I said I thought it had to be a farce, but they forgot the punchline I guess...

[ollie]

Or the purple font, if you will.

[Northern Wish]

:doh:

I was waking up from a nap and missed the "playful chirps from his teamates" intro.

Game on!

[Booche]

Your first mistake was smoking that bong right after you awoke from your nap.

[Guest Low Roller]

Karma is a bitch.

Earlier this summer Eklund was going to town about the Flyers showing loyalty to Leighton for signing him to a contract after a great playoff run and absolutely chastized the Habs for trading Halak and the Hawks for dumping Niemi... Now look how the tables have turned- Leighton absolutely FUCKED the Flyers by concealing an injury all summer long while he got under contract. Now he's going under the knife and the Flyers are going to have to turn to Boucher (again) to get them out of this mess.

Eklund- HA HA!

[dave-O]

Concealed injury? Where do you get this stuff??

[Guest Low Roller]

Kovalchuk is a healthy scratch?

[ollie]

Man the torpedoes Booche. A news item about the all star game:

An interesting twist would see the appointed captains for each conference draft a team from the players selected from the larger group assembled by Hockey Operations.

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=340505

[Guest Low Roller]

Let's just make every All-Star game about Sidney Crosby and get it over with.

[Booche]

All-Star game had stick-swinging start

NHL showcase began with bloody affair in 1947 as Cup champ leafs fell to rival original six stars

"We are going to be spending an obscene amount of money in here. So we're going to need a lot more help sucking up to us, 'cause that's what we really like. ... I think we need some major sucking up." - Richard Gere, as wealthy businessman Edward Lewis, to a boutique clerk in the 1990 film Pretty Woman. Or, pretty much any sponsor addressing NHL officials at the league's annual All-Star Game.

This much is not a secret: the National Hockey League's All-Star Game is a pseudo contest/sponsorship orgy that overflows the nets and splashes corporate logos on everything from skate laces to skills contests while generally spurning the hockey fundamentals of intensity, defence, goaltending and body-checking.

This isn't to say the NHL's announcement that it's retooling the All-Star Game is a bad thing. In fact, full marks for trying to spice up the shinny that's been meaningless for a half-century, without genuine value from more than 70 years.

The rosters for the Jan. 30 match in Raleigh, N.C., will be selected by two captains and their assistants, choosing from a pool of 36 league-selected players after fans have named six starters.

Ultimately, this will be a virtual road-hockey pick-up game, played by fantastically rich big kids who should be made to lift their nets and holler "Zamboni!" when the machines appear to resurface the rink.

The pick-up format is the brainchild of Brendan Shanahan, an eight-time all-star who is the NHL's vice-president of hockey and business development, conceived in concert with the NHL Players' Association.

Gone will be teams representing the Eastern and Western Conferences, a format used since 2003, replaced by squads drafted by captains who will make their picks using criteria only they will know.

Online fan balloting for the starters began yesterday, a process as objective as voting for the high-school carnival's king and queen. But once the ballot boxes have been stuffed, the live draft of players should be intriguing.

The whole exercise will bear no resemblance to the NHL's first official All-Star Game in 1947, the Stanley Cup-champion Toronto Maple Leafs losing 4-3 in their arena to a squad of stars culled from the league's five other clubs. The raised sum of $25,865, about 13 grand less than Alexander Ovechkin is paid per period this season, was divided among the league's newly created players' pension fund and Toronto charities.

This was hardly the goofy exercise of today. Ontario Premier George Drew paid a sombre pregame tribute to Maple Leafs captain Syl Apps, saying the player "had carried forward the feeling of good sportsmanship we want to see spread all over Canada throughout our young teams."

And then referee King Clancy dropped the puck.

Chicago's Bill Mosienko sustained a broken ankle when he was checked by Toronto's Jim Thomson. The Canadiens' Ken Reardon drew the blood of Bob Goldham in receipt for a cross-check, then swung sticks with Bill Eznicki and Gus Mortson at game's end. Eznicki and Canadiens nemesis Butch Bouchard rumbled at the final bell and Montreal great Maurice Richard refused to speak to one-night teammate Ted Lindsay of Detroit, the personal thorn whom he said he detested no matter his sweater worn.

Four benefit games preceded the 1947 contest, beginning with the pre-NHL match in 1908 to aid the family of drowned Montreal Wanderer Hod Stuart. Others were played in 1937 and '39 to respectively support the survivors of Canadiens superstar Howie Morenz -killed by a coronary embolism after suffering a broken leg in a game -and just-named Canadiens coach Babe Siebert, the former Montreal Maroons star who drowned before he could step behind the bench.

Most famously, a benefit was played in Toronto in 1934 for injured Leafs star Irvine (Ace) Bailey, whose skull was fractured two months earlier when he was checked heavily by Boston defenceman Eddie Shore.

Bailey recovered from near death but never played again, receiving nearly $21,000 from gate receipts of a game first proposed by a Montreal newspaperman.

Canadiens Morenz and Aurel Joliat and Maroons Hooley Smith and Jimmy Ward were among the 16 all-stars who played in a 7-3, penalty-free loss to the Maple Leafs on Valentine's Day; the faceoff was preceded by a tear-provoking handshake between Bailey and Shore, the latter having long before forgiven the man who had ended his career.

Detroit's Larry Aurie and Herbie Lewis and New York Americans' Normie Himes and Red Dutton flew the following morning from Buffalo to Newark for their next game, the first time an NHL player has travelled by air to a match. The night's only levity was the pregame presence of all-star mascot Howie Morenz Jr., age 7, who wore a Canadiens jersey with the number 1/2 on its back.

The All-Star Game has morphed into comparative comedy, the Bell Centre's goal lights nearly burned out in 2009 in the East's 13-12 shootout victory. Even that fell three pucks short of North America's 14-12 win over a World team in 2001. Most depressing today is that casual fans in non-hockey markets use this modern novelty game and its outdoor Heritage Classic cousin as the yardsticks by which they measure a great sport.

In the end, the all-star weekend is mostly harmless fun, lots of goals and sponsorship tie-ins and sucking up. The latest version will be fine as long as it's viewed as showbiz, not a showcase.

[Guest Low Roller]

Carolina trades Tom Kostopoulos and Anton Babchuk to Calgary for Ian White and Brett Sutter.

[dave-O]

This is an incredible work of genius. How Mark Messier was traded for Jim Vandemeer, Jordan Eberle and Ladislav Smid.

http://oilfans.com/tradeTracker.php?firstname=Mark&lastname=Messier&type=out

1991-10-04 Mark Messier traded to NY Rangers with future considerations (Jeff Beukeboom for David Shaw, November 12, 1991) for Louie DeBrusk, Bernie Nicholls, and Steven Rice.

1991-11-12 Jeff Beukeboom traded to NY Rangers for David Shaw (completed Mark Messier trade of October 4, 1991).

1997-09-23 Louie DeBrusk signed as free agent by Tampa Bay.

1993-01-13 Bernie Nicholls traded to New Jersey for Zdeno Ciger and Kevin Todd.

1994-08-30 Steven Rice signed as free agent by Hartford--Oilers receive Bryan Marchment as compensation.

1992-01-21 David Shaw traded to Minnesota for Brian Glynn.

1993-10-07 Kevin Todd traded to Chicago for Adam Bennett.

1998-10-05 Zdeno Ciger claimed on waivers by Nashville.

1997-12-30 Bryan Marchment traded to Tampa Bay with Jason Bonsignore and Steve Kelly for Paul Comrie and Roman Hamrlik.

1993-09-15 Brian Glynn traded to Ottawa for 8th round pick in 1994 (Rob Guinn).

Adam Bennett retired in 1996.

1997-12-30 Jason Bonsignore traded to Tampa Bay with Steve Kelly and Bryan Marchment for Paul Comrie and Roman Hamrlik.

1997-12-30 Steve Kelly traded to Tampa Bay with Jason Bonsignore and Bryan Marchment for Paul Comrie and Roman Hamrlik.

2000-06-24 Roman Hamrlik traded to NY Islanders for Eric Brewer, Josh Green, and 2nd round pick in 2000 (Brad Winchester).

Paul Comrie retired in 2000.

2005-08-02 Eric Brewer traded to St. Louis with Doug Lynch and Jeff Woywitka for Chris Pronger.

2002-12-12 Josh Green traded to NY Rangers for future considerations.

2007-07-06 Brad Winchester signed as free agent by Dallas.

2005-08-02 Doug Lynch traded to St. Louis with Eric Brewer and Jeff Woywitka for Chris Pronger.

2006-07-03 Chris Pronger traded to Anaheim for Joffrey Lupul, Ladislav Smid, 1st round pick in 2007 (30th overall traded with 36th overall pick for 21st overall (Riley Nash)), 1st (Jordan Eberle) and 2nd (Travis Hamonic (NY Islanders)) in 2008 for Chris Pronger.

2007-07-01 Joffrey Lupul traded with Jason Smith to Philadelphia for Joni Pitkanen, Geoff Sanderson and 3rd round pick in 2009 (Cameron Abney).

2010-06-26 Riley Nash traded to Carolina for 2nd round pick in 2010 (Martin Marincin).

2007-07-01 Jason Smith traded with Joffrey Lupul to Philadelphia for Joni Pitkanen, Geoff Sanderson and 3rd round pick in 2009 (Cameron Abney).

2008-07-01 Joni Pitkanen traded to Carolina for Erik Cole.

Geoff Sanderson remains unsigned.

2009-03-04 Erik Cole traded to Carolina with 5th round draft pick in 2009 (Matt Kennedy) for Patrick O'Sullivan and 2nd round pick in 2009 (Jesse Blacker (Toronto)).

2010-06-30 Patrick O'Sullivan traded to Phoenix for Jim Vandermeer.

» Jim Vandermeer member of the Oilers.

» Ladislav Smid member of the Oilers.

» Jordan Eberle member of the Oilers.

[Guest Low Roller]

Nice!

I did the same thing once with Patrick Roy and tracked it all the way to Mathieu Schneider a couple of years ago.

[dave-O]

Just manually replace the first name and last name in the link above and you can check on any Oilers trade.

See Andy Moog for Kent Manderville.

or

Grant Fuhr and Glenn Anderson for Sergei Samsanov.

[Guest Low Roller]

Here's the one for the Eric Lindros trade.

[Guest Low Roller]

Unrelated to anything, but here is Sean Avery at Bonnaroo:

[Guest Low Roller]

Crosby is still a dick:

[Guest Low Roller]

How awful is Kovalchuck right now?

He looks like someone who just doesn't care anymore.

[Guest Low Roller]

Bergeron signs in Tampa Bay for $1M. That's quite the generous contract for a guy with a slapshot and nothing else.

[Schwa.]

I guess I'd better get some skates. Is there an option for casual skates for men? I can only seem to find hockey skates. I've heard that there is a recreational type of skate.

[Guest Low Roller]

[Booche]

This is great. HD cameras worn by Miller and Pominville augmented by video and audio recorded from the HSBC Arena stands.

[Schwa.]

augment'd.