The Rest of the NHL

smeags · May 28, 2010, 12:19:39 PM

Quote from: Rome on May 28, 2010, 12:17:39 PM
The Yankees & Red Sox are hateful enough. Having them crammed down our throats by every sports media outlet in the country makes it worse. That's what PG was inferring, I believe.

and joe west agrees.

ice grillin you · May 28, 2010, 12:20:03 PM

i dont even mind the yankees...and the red sox are so hatable because their fans are more annoying that the next three worst fan bases combined...has nothing to do with espns lovefest with them....christ just dont watch the game

i mean are people that hard up for philly teams to be on national tv?

MDS · May 28, 2010, 12:24:14 PM

no old cranky people just complain about everything

BigEd76 · May 28, 2010, 02:12:02 PM

Looks like there's a second outdoor game in February.....Montreal/Calgary at McMahon Stadium (where the CFL's Stampeders play)

SD · May 28, 2010, 02:23:48 PM

I don't understand the big deal with the Winter Classic. They play a game outdoors, whoopty doo.

My only problem with the league promoting Crosby/Ovechkin is they're putting certain players on a pedistool like the NBA did, which leads to favoritism when it comes to getting calls. Kobe Bryant basically has a 2 foot shield around him when he plays.

ice grillin you · May 28, 2010, 02:25:54 PM

yeah it was cool at first...but now its like whatever...would still be kinda cool to go to but i watched penn state (for the most part) over the flyer bruin game this year

MDS · May 28, 2010, 02:47:40 PM

Quote from: SD on May 28, 2010, 02:23:48 PM
I don't understand the big deal with the Winter Classic. They play a game outdoors, whoopty doo.

My only problem with the league promoting Crosby/Ovechkin is they're putting certain players on a pedistool like the NBA did, which leads to favoritism when it comes to getting calls. Kobe Bryant basically has a 2 foot shield around him when he plays.

didnt this happen to gretzky and lemuix and jagr and even lindros?

the best players always get the calls. every sport does this.

ice grillin you · May 28, 2010, 07:00:25 PM

to be fair its hard to market anything when your sport really wasnt on tv as was the case for much of gretzkys and marios careers...they also didnt have a buisnessman owner like bettman...they had hockey people running the league then

SD · May 28, 2010, 07:10:10 PM

In terms of greatness its Gretzky/Lemieux >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Crosby/Ovechin

That being said they weren't marketed on the scale Crosby/Ovie are. The NBA showed marketing a player is a better means to promote your sport than marketing a team is. The NHL has gone out of their way to make them the face of their league. NBA officiating got REALLY bad during the Jordan years, and it's continued with Kobe Bryant. Basketball in the 80's was entirely different, Laimbeer would be kicked out of the league for the crap he pulled.

MDS · May 28, 2010, 07:33:20 PM

waiting for rome to come in and say he liked it better when there more white players

BigEd76 · June 17, 2010, 03:17:57 PM

Halak's reward for a run to the ECF? A trade to the Blues.....

BigEd76 · June 22, 2010, 04:17:12 PM

Scott Niedermayer is hanging em up

and Florida traded Nathan Horton and another player to Boston for Dennis Wideman, #15 overall and a pick next year

ice grillin you · June 22, 2010, 04:19:01 PM

and dino ciccerelli is the only member of this years hof class

SD · June 22, 2010, 07:51:49 PM

Bonnie and Carl weep

PhillyGirl · June 23, 2010, 06:26:35 PM

QuoteByfuglien, Sopel, Eager to Atlanta for first round pick (New Jersey's), 2nd round pick (new jersey's), Reasoner and Jeremy Morin.

# Note on Atlanta/Chicago deal: Prospect Akim Alou also goes from Chicago to Atlanta, but he's not ready to play in the NHL next season. 28 minutes ago via web

# In the Atlanta deal, Chicago gets the No. 24 pick, not Atlanta's No. 8 pick.

Tweets from USA today

and ESPN just picked it up

http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/nhl/news/story?id=5320715