Dater's Recipe For NHL Success
by Joe Dunman on Aug 12, 2008 12:09 PM MDT
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PrintPuck Daddy hit up Drafty's boyfriend for five suggestions on how to improve the NHL as part of a series Greg Dubs is doing over at his Yahoo hockey empire.
As far as the suggestions go, they're probably some of the best so far, other than Matt Bradley's request to always be on the ice at the same time as his teammate Alex Ovechkin---you know, to improve the game of hockey.
My personal favorite was Dater's possible sideswipe of Denver Post colleagues Woody Paige and Mark Kiszla:
4. Ban newspaper columnists who never went to a regular-season game from coming to playoff games and making asses of themselves and their papers. True story: I was once asked by a U.S. newspaper columnist, covering his first game of the year, how many "quarters" were in a game.
Of course, I don't know if Paige and Kiszla ever go to regular season games, but I know Paige has a busy television schedule for ESPN and Kiszla rarely writes anything coherent, so the evidence would suggest they're not frequent attendees at The Can.
I think Adrian should create a user account and comment as to who he was specifically referring to. Otherwise we'll just have to assume he hates his coworkers. I know most of us do.
ADDENDUM: Oh, and Dater says Sakic coming back is a sure bet. I'd love to give him the benefit of the doubt on this one, but the name "Tony Granato" keeps popping into my consciousness. Sorry.
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i have a suggestion
remember when the put microphones o the goalies for that one all-star game. What if they did that for players and goalies for some if not all games and listen to them while they;re playing. that would be fantastic to watch and hear instead of just listening to broadcasters.
I’d like that too. But after 3 matches you realize that most players don’t have anything interesting to say. Because they’re professional athletes, I doubt they’ll start discussing Sartre’s works and you’ll likely hear the same 3 sentences every night:
“Well done, man”
“Yeah”
“Damn, defense!”
Something like that
26 Card Jet
It’s a great idea and i love hearing the goalies but it only really works with a funny/talkative goalie and at the All Star game because very few goalies will won’t to be distracted by a mic during the regular season, hell, half of them don’t do interviews on game day. Turco was good in the ASG, he joked around with everyone but they gave one to Brodeur i think it was and he didn’t say anything interesting/insightful or funny, everything was in the same uninterested voice.
Depends
On which goalie. Patrick would gave been a hoot. I don’t mind cussing, I grew up in Iowa; it’s what we do. I remember watching Danny Hinote when he spoke into a mic during a game. He was congratulating the Podein’s on their new baby.
hockeynana
by hockeynana on Aug 12, 2008 7:52 PM MDT reply actions
The sad thing is 99% of people watching don’t mind cussing. It’s the 1% that does who then goes and complains and the media makes a huge deal out of it. Over here in Australia the winner of a best on ground in a biggish match was interested and said “lets have a fucking good year” and everyone pounced on it and he got fined $5000. This was a guy who really won any awards, wasn’t interviewed that often and had just helped win a big game.
The media and league bosses have made it so you can’t say anything at all remotely insulting to umpires, or league officials and you can’t swear or raise your voice unless you want a suspension/fine, therefore making every one say the same cookie cutter response.
That’s my rant for the day done.
5. Have the home team wear white, for god’s sake. But at least the NHL has improved in the uniform dept. some in the last couple years. Gone are some truly hideous “third jersey” getups, including that one by the Dallas Stars—the one with the logo that, depending on one’s abstract perspective, looked like a hammerhead shark with a lamprey attached to the side, or an overfed jellyfish.
Is he blind, I would MUCH rather see Dallas with that 3rd than their current Black DALLAS long sleeve NBA jersey and rumoured white DALLAS long sleeve NBA jersey. The NHL has actually ruined the jerseys with this stupid EDGE design. Name one team that has seriously improved their look, not logo but actual jersey design with the introduction of the EDGE design.
Wow that’s a lot of capital words.
The Boston Bruins look better than they did before. But that’s about it.
I think he’s right about how bad a lot of 3rd jerseys were, but I’m no fan of the atrocious Reebok crap we now have to endure, either.
Go Avs! Let's get some goals!
I agree. The B’s did minor tweaks and were an upgrade. The Caps too, in my opinion, went the right direction going back to the font logo and the red, white, and blue scheme. The ‘Yotes are rumored to have a black third on the way…cuz that will sell well in the hood, yo.
I don’t like the Caps new ones at all, I hate the wordmark on the front. They should have gone with their secondary logo on the fornt instead.
The’ Yotes rumoured 3rd sounds good, apparently it’ll have a ful coyote and not just the head on it. Does the desert really have hoods, isn’t it like one gigantic sand pit in Phoenix.
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I actually like the Dallas jerseys. I like their old ones a little more, with the star implied, but with the new jerseys they certainly faired better than some of the other craptacular entries (like ours)
"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
by Jibblescribbits on Aug 13, 2008 9:49 AM MDT up reply actions
I feel the new DALLAS ones are too plain, this is the NHL, put a damn logo on the front, this includes Vancouver. Ban any words in place of a logo like the ducks and Caps. If your fans are too dumb to know where their team’s from without reading it (I’m looking at you Dallas) then you don’t deserve a team.
But at least the NHL has improved in the uniform dept. some in the last couple years
so, he doesn’t watch Avalanche games?
by David Driscoll-Carignan on Aug 13, 2008 7:05 AM MDT reply actions
the other 4 suggestions were a-ok
by David Driscoll-Carignan on Aug 13, 2008 7:06 AM MDT up reply actions
Or
Panthers, or Oilers or… Wait they are all the same jersey’s
"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
by Jibblescribbits on Aug 13, 2008 9:48 AM MDT up reply actions
The best part of that article was the “Dater-ade comment”. As soon as I read it, I thought about the possible love triangle that would create here at MHH.
Home whites
Make a ton of sense to me because then fans get to see all of the other teams’ colors. The switch to home dark was Bettman (lame).
My biggie would be no more points for an OTL. Every game ends with a winner and a loser. And just use W-L in the standings. OTLs are very Bettman.
MHH: Shagging Dater one contributor at a time.
by Bob in Boulder on Aug 13, 2008 10:17 AM MDT reply actions
I’m in favor of counting overtime losses as 1 point but only if regular wins are counted as 3 points and overtime wins counted as 2 points. It would take some mental adjustment (a 50-win team could finish the season with more than 150 points, for example), but it makes a lot more sense than the current system.
There are three points up for grabs in every game. If you win in regulation, you get all three. If you win in overtime, you get two points and the loser gets one. If you lose in regulation, you get nothing and like it.
Go Avs! Let's get some goals!
Soccer
Why not take a page from soccer and 3 points for a win, 1 for a tie (i know, god forbid ties) and 0 for a loss.
"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
by Jibblescribbits on Aug 13, 2008 11:58 AM MDT up reply actions
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