Anyone else missing the NHL?

[Tfbandie]

I was occupied during football season, and got a few months til baseball really begins, and basketball just doesn't satisfy. I blame the players for this more than owners (or acually players union head). But good news is I'm going to watch Phantoms play AHL hockey next week

[Xavier]

Yeah.... I'm missing just having something random to watch on the weekdays... I never got around to picking a team to follow.

I also place most of the blame on the player's union.

[Tfbandie]

I had my Flyers, and the NHl had free wemcasts, so I could listen to the games while doing homework. Games weren't something I'd make a schedule to see, but I enjoy catching ti when it's on

[Mike H.]

Yes, but we have a minor league team in town so it doesn't hurt as much. I have tickets for Sat.

[Trout]

YES

[Mike H.]

The NHL season is expected to be "un-canceled" Saturday in New York.

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[Trout]

There's still hope!

[Gideon Brown]

YES

:yeahthat: Looks like it's old episodes of Don Cherry's Rock 'Em Sock 'Em for me...

[learning]

Actually, we're enjoying the movies they show now on CBC instead of hockey on Saturday night. But it doesn't seem right that Hockey Night in Canada isn't on.

I heard on the CBC news, a person said that the Stanley cup was to go to the highest hockey team in Canada, and now they are saying that is should probably be awarded to maybe one of the provincial teams or something? I would like to see something like that. The Ontario hockey teams are seeing more turn out, and if the best of Ontario and other provinces played each other, than one of them should get the Stanley cup, I should think!

[Arnold]

Saw Wayne Gretzky whining about the NHL predicament. It was very ironic, considering he started the unaffordable escalation in players' salaries in the first place.

[Dee Dee Warren]

Is there still hope? I miss going to a few games each season.

(yes I like Hockey and Football)

[Raptor]

Is there still hope? I miss going to a few games each season.

(yes I like Hockey and Football)

[themuzicman]

*cough* soccer *cough*

[Cyrus Johnson]

Actually, we're enjoying the movies they show now on CBC instead of hockey on Saturday night. But it doesn't seem right that Hockey Night in Canada isn't on.

A lot of people say that the movie night is actually not too bad, assuming a decent supply of movies can be kept up.

Tonight's line-up is Remember the Titans/Gladiator/Deliverance.

As I write this, meetings are going on that may (or may not) cause the un-cancellation of the season.

I heard on the CBC news, a person said that the Stanley cup was to go to the highest hockey team in Canada, and now they are saying that is should probably be awarded to maybe one of the provincial teams or something? I would like to see something like that. The Ontario hockey teams are seeing more turn out, and if the best of Ontario and other provinces played each other, than one of them should get the Stanley cup, I should think!

I've heard that too. Apparently the original intent was to give the Cup to the best hockey team, not the best NHL hockey team.

Lord Stanley's original message and conditions -

"I have for some time been thinking that it would be a good thing if there were a challenge cup which should be held from year to year by the champion hockey team in the Dominion (of Canada).

There does not appear to be any such outward sign of a championship at present, and considering the general interest which matches now elicit, and the importance of having the game played fairly and under rules generally recognized, I am willing to give a cup which shall be held from year to year by the winning team."

- The winners to return the Cup in good order when required by the trustees in order that it may be handed over to any other team which may win it.

- Each winning team to have the club name and year engraved on a silver ring fitted on the Cup.

- The Cup to remain a challenge competition and not the property of any one team, even if won more than once.

- The trustees to maintain absolute authority in all situations or disputes over the winner of the Cup.

- A substitute trustee to be named in the event that one of the existing trustees drops out.

Since 1926 only NHL teams have competed, and since 1946 the NHL has held exclusive control. That means no NHL, no Cup, the first time since the influenza epidemic of 1919 (when Montreal and Seattle would have tangled).

We shall see.

Abused, abandoned and neglected at various times; no matter, still one of the most revered trophies in sports.

[Tfbandie]

It is, in my opinion the best trophy, with the legacy behind it, the names of all the winners, the history. of any sports trophies it is by far the one i would make a trip to go see.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=1994750

There might be an NHL season, after all....

...the Hockey News reported the two sides had reached an agreement in principle that includes a $45 million salary cap.

Is there hope?