Sodboy13

Yeah, I feel like this is a case of a startup league needing a strong, motivated person at the helm to get things up and running, but the problem is that such a personality also straddles a very fine line, and can easily slip into League Overlord mode, which does no one any favors. If others step up and Rylan can either be just a GM or just a commissioner, that's good for the league. If she's allowed to keep wearing multiple hats, then it'll be That Time Women Got Paid To Play Hockey For Two Seasons. Ideally, I'd like to see the NWHL get to 6 stable teams in the northeast in 5 seasons or so, then be able to launch a second pod of six in the midwest in the early-to-mid 2020s. Also, maybe the CWHL could figure out how to start paying its players (any day now, ladies, we promise, just keep buying your own equipment to bring to games, okay?) and stabilize at 6 teams across Ontario and Quebec. Then you've basically got three very manageable bus leagues, and can do some sort of Memorial Cup-type postseason interleague tournament at the end.

In the interests of equal time, we now present OITGDNWHL: http://www.todaysslapshot.com/nwhl/sources-dani-rylan-discussed-firing-former-whale-coach-jake-mastel-secret-november-meeting-players/

So you didn't.

baaaaaahahahaha what a in' garage league. http://www.theplayerstribune.com/a-guy-like-me/

This exact version is somewhere in my parents' basement, with the Kansas City Kings and San Diego Clippers among those logos on the front. My friends and I would play that for hours on end. A few years later, they came out with an updated version that had Michael Jordan on the box. Those back shooting spots were circled in red to signify they were 3-pointers, and the hoops were made out of rigid plastic, instead of a thin, foldable sheet. Fantastic game.

"I call this 'Poorly Traced Varsity Block.' That will be fifty thousand dollars, please."

So, what happens when the Canadian dollar dips below 70¢ US, Winnipeggers start expecting more from their NHL team than mere existence, and the affordable, beloved AHL option moves back into town? Let's find out! http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/sports/hockey/jets/Get-your-Jets-tickets--theyre-available-365053741.html

Welp, hope you like a 31-team league, hockey fans! http://www.king5.com/story/news/local/2015/12/14/tukwila-arena-group-misses-payment-to-city/77329304/

Jim Cornelison sucks.

If they relocate to downtown or the East Valley, it could work. I'm all for it, as long as they do it with their own money. Let Glendale serve as a cautionary tale for the rest of the state - in a lot of respects. Also, if they get a downtown arena, and go back to being the Phoenix Coyotes, it'll be a hoot. As will the Glendale City Council meetings.

TSN's Rick Westhead is reporting several owners plan to vote against expansion, because that would mean a smaller piece of the Rogers TV money pie for each of them. Hmm, wonder which owners that could be? It's 1967/1979 all over again.

This is like an athlete dropping the "you never played the game" argument. People without talent in a given field can still make astute, valid criticisms of it.

That makes no sense. You need at least nine, so everyone on the field can wear one.

The Syracuse Chiefs are the 8-year-old who tries to put everything on his plate at once at a buffet. Yes, Jimmy, I know you like all of those things, but they probably aren't going to be so good when they're all together like that.

That Yard Goats Sunday jersey is something I'd probably never like if you described it to me, but looking at it, that's my favorite of the set. If they all came out of Brandiose looking like this, we probably wouldn't use Brandiose as an epithet. This is good work.

NHL decides to show all these nerdy-nerd bloggers how it's done when it comes to advanced statistics, hires a company that can't tell the ends of the ice apart.

That O-Bolt jersey looks like the byproduct of a Clockwork Orange-style rehabilitation in which the unwilling participant was forced to sit through countless hours of The Big Bang Theory, Diners, Drive-ins, and Dives, and 1999 MLB Turn Ahead The Clock games, with the audio tracks for all three randomly juxtaposed.

I assume this is equivalent to the old North American League or the Pecos League, except now they're admitting up front that the players aren't getting paid.

Beloit's logo is good. Their caps and uniforms are a disaster. They need to go back to navy as a base color with only Snappy on the hat, drop metallic gold and focus on yellow, and use the brighter green if they insist on having navy and green touching each other on the uniform.

NHL Network's new set has a video wall backdrop behind the desk, which typically has team logo banners slowly scrolling by as a backdrop. The banners are arranged by division, and then alphabetically by location. In the Pacific, the Coyotes are between the Kings and the Sharks. Also:

That's some second-tier summer collegiate league work. Seems rather low-end.

Firebirds may be one-and-done, though. Apparently the owner (who also owns the arena) bought the team primarily to get his son (and two of hus buddies) OHL ice time, so his special little boy could get into the NHL despite a relative lack of talent. He's a Marinovich for a new era.

Bonkers story coming out of the OHL tonight. The Flint Firebirds, playing their inaugural season, won 4-3 in overtime over Oshawa. After the game, ownership fired the entire coaching staff. In response, the entire roster quit. EDIT: Apparently the owner canned the coaches because they weren't giving his son enough playing time. This is wonderful. http://www.wingingitinmotown.com/2015/11/8/9694696/report-flint-firebirds-coaching-staff-fired-immediately-after

So just accuse a person of something, then sit back and enjoy how that person loses everything, without being found guilty ? Your co worker or neighbour could be plotting stuff right now . America yeah !"loses everything" http://www.generalfanager.com/players/498 Maybe stick to commenting on SportsMockery, kid.

Saw this beautiful "OITGDNorris Division" piece posted on Twitter. http://www.si.com/vault/1987/01/19/114715/how-they-bore-us-in-the-norris-welcome-to-the-nhls-sorriest-division-where-a-500-record-is-cause-for-jubilation-and-even-the-inept-earn-playoff-berths