Sodboy13

If Milwaukee could get its name from a refrigerator salesman, Nashville can get its from the affiliates.

Just rename the NHL club "Nashville Admirals." The city's already got Commodores.

Apparently, screwing the entire city of Edmonton just wasn't enough for Daryl Katz.

http://variety.com/2017/biz/news/greice-santo-daryl-katz-rj-cipriani-canadian-billionaire-1202021527/

5 hours ago, McCarthy said:

The other thing that sucks is Team USA was about to have the best roster we've had since they let NHLers play in the games.

Hahahahaha you actually think Brian Burke would put Auston Matthews on the national team roster aaaaaaaahahahahaha

Smooches, as always.

7 hours ago, Ice_Cap said:

*shrugs* 

I like Olympic hockey and I like it when the NHL participates. 

Well, it's your only opportunity to watch a Canadian team win a championship, so that's understandable.

9 hours ago, the admiral said:

Well, the league won't shut down for three weeks next year so that guys born in Minnesota and Michigan can eke out a 1-0 win over Latvia at 3 in the morning. That's their first good business decision in years. But other than that, no, it's always been half a step above carnies.

I want to thank you for posting this, because I see no reason the NHL should go to the Olympics, especially these next two, and I found myself alone in that sentiment and completely unswayed by anyone's argument in favor. I was concerned I had fallen into some personal alternative fact-o-sphere.

Bettman was in Calgary about two weeks ago to pull his "nice team you got here, shame if something happened to it" routine. The mayor has been pretty solid so far in telling the Flames and Stamps to go screw and build something with their own money. I say pack a bag for Ken and give him a Google Maps printout with directions to Atlanta.

The Guardian Project lives on! (in court)

http://www.avclub.com/article/stan-lees-failed-hockey-superheroes-are-center-500-252702?utm_content=Main&utm_campaign=SF&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMarketing

I mentioned in the NHL thread that Pittsburgh is the most fetid local sports media cesspool this side of Boston. I'm too dumb to properly embed tweets, so just click on this and slowly take it all in.

https://twitter.com/WPXIFinalWord/status/841114722288181248

Peoria is SPHL Country now, baby!

How much you wanna bet the Blues don't field an AHL team next season and just attempt to make do with their prospects scattered wherever roster slots are open in the A or the E? Either that, or they try to bunk up with another parent-owned franchise.

Get me PK and Luongo on a studio show, with Special International Correspondent Ilya Bryzgalov.

No, because he is still legitimately the smartest person in that league office since John Collins left, and yes, that is far more an indictment of the league than a compliment of Gary.

I'm glad admiral block-quoted, because I wasn't going to HFBoards and was just assuming the answer was "The Blues."

Also, good on you, local knob-polishing journalist. Your dereliction of duty saved the Portland Pirates!

...oh.

We've come a long way from them snapping a picture of a fax with a flip phone.

Here We Officially Go Again:

http://www.12news.com/mb/sports/nhl/coyotes/nhl-commissioner-coyotes-cant-and-wont-play-in-glendale/420599553

Unfortunately for our dear Gary, some isolated pods of elected officials are getting wise to the pro sports stadium shakedown, and one such group appears to be everywhere in Arizona but Glendale.

This thread is wonderful, and it's unbelievable that we don't have an NBA uniform database like we do for the NHL, NFL, and MLB.

The California teams all moved where they did to cut out travel. Putting Anchorage in would undo the compact footprint, and probably make the Kings and Sharks whine their way into making David Andrews let them play a 48-game season. If the Canucks bail on Utica and set up in Abbotsford, then maybe it's doable, with teams going north for 4 or 6 games between the two teams. Otherwise, Anchorage is no man's land in the current minor hockey landscape.

And TSN makes the return of Jay & Dan official.

If neither of your goalies can save 9 shots on goal out of 10 and the date on the calendar says anything past 1992 your NHL team is doing f k-all forever the end bye where's my contract for a weekly column.

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“I’m not a hockey fan but I’m a business guy and I want to save any business of this magnitude from leaving and impacting thousands of jobs,” Worsley said earlier this month

Sir, I have no doubt you aren't a hockey fan, but I question your "business guy" bonafides if you still think the Coyotes would impact thousands of jobs.

Elliotte Friedman is reporting five Vancouver Canucks are out with the mumps. They were in Pittsburgh on the 14th and St. Louis on the 16th, by the way.

TSN, already.

FS1 has axed Fox Sports Live and is firing Jay and Dan, so they can get jobs at a real network again. They're also canning Garbage Time with Katie Nolan and putting her in some new format that's a better fit with Fox Sports' overarching image of empty-headed crapulence. If the past month is any indication, Jamie Horowitz will probably have Katie doing standups in front of a flatscreen in-between segments of All Takes Matter, live-reading tweets.