Expansion!There are rumors that the NHL is thinking of expanding to Kansas City, and more interestingly Las Vegas, with the Vegas franchise being owned by Jerry Bruckheimer. Yes, the same Jerry Bruckheimer who brought us the Oscar-winning Kangaroo Jack. I think he's been involved in some other projects as well.
This is tough because I'm a huge fan of moving a franchise to Vegas. What I'm not a fan of is a 32-team league. As someone pointed out in the comments on James Mirtle's blog, a 32-team league means a lot of fans will go their entire life without seeing their team win a title, and I think you'd have a hard time keeping a lot of fans if they never get to experience the most exciting part of hockey. Also, if the league wants to market a player like Sidney Crosby, or potentially John Tavares, it's going to be difficult if they're only playing in certain parts of the country every other year or so.
King Carter!Minnesota State's Ryan Carter and St. Cloud's Joe Motzko both played about two and a half minutes for Anaheim in Game 4. Since they played in the Stanley Cup final, they'd get their name on the Stanley Cup if Anaheim wins one more game. Carter would be the first Maverick, and Motzko would be the third Husky to get their name on the Cup. It's probably the only slightly positive thing about Burke's Jerks winning the Cup.
The Bike! The Columbus Post-Dispatch had an article on on the most grueling part of the NHL Draft Combine.
Goons!I enjoyed Anaheim coach Randy Carlyle's comments about "People have long memories" in response to Daniel Alfredsson shooting the puck at Scott Niedmayer. Apparently his memory isn't long enough to remember Chris Kunitz's hair-pulling, Brad May's suckerpunch, Chris Pronger's elbow to head, any number of goalie runnings, Chris Pronger's elbow to head: the sequel, and anything done by Corey Perry. My point is, if you live by the goon, you're probably not in much position to complain when some of it comes back to you.
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Le Waaah ...
Oh wait ... The Sens are a team full of Gretzky's and Talafouses ...
Is there really some hard and fast rule about who gets their name on the cup? I've always figured it was up to the winning team as to who's names were engraved.
Yes there is a rule. You have to play at least 40 regular season games or 1 game in the Stanley Cup finals to get your name on the cup. If you do not meet these standards the team can petition the league to get a players name on the cup.
The rules are:
1. 40 games played during the season.
or
2. Play in at least one Stanley Cup final game
or
3. The team can petition the NHL to get someone's name added to the Cup
The reason I asked is because of this Danton Cole dude who's resume was quoted in every article I read about his hiring said he was a member of the 95 Devils Stanley Cup winning team. The bitch played 12 games ... it's cheesy he pretends his name is on the cup when I seriously doubt that it is.
Sorry, Donald
http://www.newjerseydevils.com/njd/history/stanleycup/names/images/1600/1995.jpg
He played one playoff game, which I'm assuming was in the final.
Well then there's nothing wrong with him putting it on his resume. Surprising to me ... but totally legit.
The Post-Dispatch is in St.Louis. Columbus just has the plain old Dispatch, or as it is known locally "The Dipsatch!"
That "bitch" played 318 games in the show. Not sure, but I'll go out on a limb here... how many games in the NHL did you play Don?
Do your homework before you beak.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.newjerseydevils.com/2005/html/history/stanleycup/names/images/1600/1995.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.newjerseydevils.com/2005/html/history/stanleycup/names/index.php&h=1319&w=1600&sz=1986&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=_J26FxvnLSpzRM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3D1995%2Bstanley%2Bcup%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den
cole would be 5th on anchorage's all time scoring list. what a bitch.
1 career NHL Playoff game ...
1 Name on Stanley Cup ...
1 very lucky "BITCH" ...
I'd say that a guy who scored 1g and 2a in 12 regular season games with a team that won the Stanley Cup has probably one of the least deserving names on the thing.
So my assumption that the bitch was "overpromoting" himself on his resume while not accurate certainly wasn't that far off-base was it?
How many games did I play in the NHL? Um ... the same number as the dolt who asked the question.
Didn't know the cup had undeserving names inscribed. I'm sure if you were danton cole, you'd be running around telling people, "hi, i'm the undeserving stanley cup champion. I really only played one playoff game."
admit it, you apply for a head coaching job - and just happen to have your name on the stanley cup after a respectable nhl career, you'd put it on your resume. dolt.
Motzko is the 4th Husky.
Brimsek, Hedican, Cullen, Motzko
There's still an outside chance of getting a fifth Husky on "The Cup"... Mark Hartigan. He would have to be one of those "petition the league" guys, but there reason why the Ducks might do so. First, he was called up to the Ducks before the playoffs because he was the AHL affiliate's best center... just meaning that he probably deserved his call-up. Second, he played in the first playoff game, but COULDN'T continue. Third, the reason he couldn't continue is that his mom died of cancer shortly after that playoff game. He went to the funeral, and didn't even dress for warmups since.
It might be a scenario where, if they can't find all 52 names, they'll just ask Mark if he wants to be on "The Cup". Mark would then have to decide if he wants it like that, or if he'd rather "earn it".
I'm not privy to Anaheim Ducks internal information, but I'd probably guess that with the injuries and suspensions, Mark would have had about a 75% chance of playing in the Finals if his mom hadn't died. Speaking as an SCSU fan, and considering the circumstances, it wouldn't bother me if they put him on "The Cup".
You can't expand the NHL, because a "few fans won't get to celebrate a championship?" Boo hoo.
Lets not keep score because we don't want some fans to leaving the arena feeling like a Loser.
The fact is if you want to criticize a organization that has one of the biggest uneven playing fields in all of sports, look no further than the NCAA.
It doesn't matter if its the Pairwise System, the BCS, March Madness or any other D-1 sport. Huge advantages are built into the system to support the wealthy schools, the most powerful conferences and the status quo.
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