Friday Link Dump and Thoughts
by Mike @ MHH on Aug 27, 2010 7:40 AM MDT
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- Captain Lou is "unsure" if he wants to steer the ship that is the HMS Cunuck. Since he's technically the definition of a backseat driver in this hole "captain from the crease" thing, maybe he shouldn't wear the C.
- Here's an article over at Copper & Blue regarding the best forwards in the NHL. Our own Duke of Wristshotistan is omnipresent.
- I'm pretty pessimistic about the news of Donald Fehr taking the reins of the NHLPA. I'm willing to see what happens over the course of the season before I get really REALLY worried, but his hiring feels like a Tara Reid in American Pie 2 kind of bad omen.
- Meanwhile, I'm in neutral over the whole ownership switcharoo. Frei's latest opinion piece seems to fall along those lines. Again, it's a little bit of a wait-and-see approach from this basement dweller, but I wish the transfer would happen swiftly and not muddy around till 2014. Hat tip to horbayj for the linkage.
- Looks like I'll get to see the boys of Clevaland early this AHL season. Hopefully it won't be an exhibition of the two worst teams in the league. But hey! All AHL hats are 50% off in the store!!
- Here's a quick wrap-up of the World Hockey Summit.
- Anyone But Detroit summarizes the recent Avalanche jersey number changes with visual aides.
- And finally, SBN bunkmate Behind The Net has a poll up on who will win the West in 2010-2011. As Adam, Mike, and Mike would say, "Check, check, now check it out!"
UPDATE: WE DID IT PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!! This article is proof that if we spam enough intraweb sites with "Svatos would work well in Pittsburgh" crap, somebody will believe us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I just thought I’d add this to the links ‘cause it made me chuckle. DGB’s take on players in the olympics.
Con: The three-week tournament can impact the rest of the regular season by creating significant injury risk and increased fatigue for star players, resulting in an unfair competitive advantage for teams like the Oilers that don’t have any.
http://www.downgoesbrown.com/2010/08/should-nhl-keep-going-to-olympics.html
ABD’s visual jersey changes = brilliant
Duke of Wristshotistan = also brillian
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by David Driscoll-Carignan on Aug 27, 2010 8:41 AM MDT reply actions
brillian is like brilliant, but without all that Tucker stench
The 8th month is the month for Wolskis
by David Driscoll-Carignan on Aug 27, 2010 8:42 AM MDT up reply actions 1 recs
I thought the picture caption was my best work, personally.
If we don't get our sauce, we ain't watching the game!
by Mike @ MHH on Aug 27, 2010 9:01 AM MDT up reply actions 1 recs
missed that. I agree
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by David Driscoll-Carignan on Aug 27, 2010 9:30 AM MDT up reply actions
So he's a moyle?
/read that snipper initially
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I voted SJ to win the west. It’s too bad they didn’t have a follow up pole for who will flame out in the first round, I would have stuck with them too.
Son, when you participate in sporting events - it's not whether you win or lose, it's how drunk you get.
by An Unmitigated Disaster on Aug 27, 2010 9:23 AM MDT reply actions
I expect a slight step back for them — Blake is gone with no real replacement, and Nabokov is a better goalie than Nitt….Nitty.
OTOH, LA looks absolutely beastly. The D is absolutely shockingly good, the goaltending is good and cheap, the offense is solid and deep…they’re my pick.
I could see that, I had forgotten about the goaltending situation there, I want to change my vote.
Son, when you participate in sporting events - it's not whether you win or lose, it's how drunk you get.
by An Unmitigated Disaster on Aug 27, 2010 10:05 AM MDT up reply actions
I disagree. I don’t think Nabokov was a particularly good goaltender. League average at best. I think Nittymaki is probably worse, but not a whole lot. I don’t think SJ will notice much difference in net.
Intelligent opinion does not follow the transitive property
Jibblescribbits: C'mon over and waste some time
by Jibblescribbits on Aug 27, 2010 10:25 AM MDT up reply actions
ok so here's how I found this
I’m irish so I like to drink, and I’m part scottish too so I like a good bargain. So 50% off hats seemed like a good idea, only the Monsters only have 9 items and two of them are picture frames (side note: Really? Are people clammering for a monster’s picture frame?) So then I kept going on the interwebs and found the team site (where they really are moving merchandise t’s and hats for $9.99ea.) and found this:
http://www.lakeeriemonsters.com/news/news/index.html?article_id=866
sure it looks like it was done on someone’s phone camera but it outdoes every avalanche ad since the late 90’s way to get upstaged by little bro avalanche.
Son, when you participate in sporting events - it's not whether you win or lose, it's how drunk you get.
by An Unmitigated Disaster on Aug 27, 2010 9:33 AM MDT reply actions
Yeah I was checking out that link too (I’m also Scotch-Irish). There’s no OKC Barons gear up at all, I guess ’cause their stuff is too new to go on sale?
the LE team store on their site had way more stuff then the AHL store, i’d be willing to bet the OKC is the same way.
Son, when you participate in sporting events - it's not whether you win or lose, it's how drunk you get.
by An Unmitigated Disaster on Aug 27, 2010 9:40 AM MDT up reply actions
Yeah they have more there, but it’s all full price. They do have a great t-shirt that I’ll be talking Mike into though. And it’s not pink!!!
wow to that video.
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by David Driscoll-Carignan on Aug 27, 2010 9:48 AM MDT up reply actions
saucy
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by Bob in Boulder on Aug 27, 2010 10:09 AM MDT up reply actions
That's it...
The exploding dog is sleeping IN THE BED WITH YOU TONIGHT!!!!!!!! The boy and I are going to a strip club.
If we don't get our sauce, we ain't watching the game!
You sir are a good dad.
Son, when you participate in sporting events - it's not whether you win or lose, it's how drunk you get.
by An Unmitigated Disaster on Aug 27, 2010 10:29 AM MDT up reply actions
My Grandfather told my mother and his wife (Grandma) that when my cousin and I hit 16 (we are 6 months apart in age) he was taking us to his favorite brothel to “learn us up right.” Two things about this. One, how awesome is that? He just couldn’t bring his heart to last longer then 8 years after I was born (major bummer). The second thing is, “favorite” brothel? I really think I would have liked that man.
And They Shall Know No Fear.
by i2strange97 on Aug 27, 2010 12:24 PM MDT up reply actions
I can't foresee the LEM / COL association going beyond the end of this season.
After all, they do that strange “marketing” and “promotion” stuff in Cleveland! The horror!
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I think that video is a failure
it shows a hockey game as something that can be enjoyed by a family, it personalizes the players who play for the team, it gives specific dates that hockey can be enjoyed, and it gives incentives for attending the hockey game.
if it were me, the video would be a lot more vague, maybe say things like “This is……..stick……puck…….ice……..skate. This is……..the local hockey concern.”
The OT: All that AND a bag of meat.
by frightened inmate #2 on Aug 27, 2010 11:59 AM MDT up reply actions
so, neither of those guys under the bed are actually LEM players, right? That guy on the left looks he drives a bulldozer for a living
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by David Driscoll-Carignan on Aug 27, 2010 1:43 PM MDT up reply actions
What the Avs are really doing wrong this summer
More than just doing nothing, which sucks, but they are flying under the radar while every other major franchise in this town is at least giving people something to talk about. The Broncos drafted Jesus. The Nuggets are going to lose Melo. The Rockies had the best pitcher in baseball for a while and stay in the news by running hot and cold, providing hope and taking it away. To be honest, I don’t think I’ve heard a single debate on where Daniel Winnik is going to fit in this season on the radio. How in the hell do they expect to sell tickets when nobody in this town even knows they fricken still exist? Wake up Enos/Josh/Sherm. Please, wtfu.
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by Bob in Boulder on Aug 27, 2010 10:16 AM MDT reply actions
I don’t think I’ve heard a single debate on where Daniel Winnik is going to fit in this season on the radio.
That would be riveting radio
Intelligent opinion does not follow the transitive property
Jibblescribbits: C'mon over and waste some time
by Jibblescribbits on Aug 27, 2010 10:26 AM MDT up reply actions
I don’t think that word means what you think it means…
If we don't get our sauce, we ain't watching the game!
by Mike @ MHH on Aug 27, 2010 1:11 PM MDT up reply actions 1 recs
Hmm, I think you’re sarcasm meter is broken. Or mine is. Or Both of ours are.
Intelligent opinion does not follow the transitive property
Jibblescribbits: C'mon over and waste some time
by Jibblescribbits on Aug 27, 2010 1:16 PM MDT up reply actions
Let me check….tap, tap… Nope, mine works. Your’s too, most likely. My humor is difficult for others at times.
If we don't get our sauce, we ain't watching the game!
You forgot to put “humor” in quotes.
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by Bob in Boulder on Aug 27, 2010 1:39 PM MDT up reply actions
Just like you forgot to put “Boulder” in quotes. Just because it’s Dan’s nickname doesn’t mean it’s a proper noun.
If we don't get our sauce, we ain't watching the game!
And you misspelled “the Mrs.’ doghouse” as “MHH.”
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by Bob in Boulder on Aug 27, 2010 2:09 PM MDT up reply actions
PS:
Aren’t things fun when our f’ing team gives us absolutely nothing to talk about?
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by Bob in Boulder on Aug 27, 2010 2:10 PM MDT up reply actions
and this has been a relatively busy week
The 8th month is the month for Wolskis
by David Driscoll-Carignan on Aug 27, 2010 2:58 PM MDT up reply actions
Disagree. If he’s given top 6 ice time with a world class centerman, I think he’s got a better than even chance of really rebounding. I hope he does.
That, and getting Svatos would fill their enforcer need. Somebody’s got to protect that douchecanoe Cooke.
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lol
The 8th month is the month for Wolskis
by David Driscoll-Carignan on Aug 27, 2010 11:06 AM MDT up reply actions
Svatos will likely get a better deal from the KHL. If the Penguins brought him in, it would be for a very low price.
"Half the game is mental; the other half is being mental." -- Jim McKenny
True. Question is, with an American wife and a young baby, how much of a “North American” discount does he take so as not to end up in Siberia (literally)? I’m thinking it’s pretty big.
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I’m thinking Arby’s
MHH- A drinking site with a hockey problem
Hockeytown was a marketing invention to draw fans to a team that had less gate than the atlanta thrashers.
Nope. It’s in reply to the post title, Friday Link Dump and Thoughts. This was my thought.
MHH- A drinking site with a hockey problem
Hockeytown was a marketing invention to draw fans to a team that had less gate than the atlanta thrashers.
In keeping with the themeless theme,
DDC, is the blogger roundtable going to happen again this year?
Personally, I’ve always enjoyed the idle and baseless speculation.
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by Hopfenkopf on Aug 27, 2010 12:48 PM MDT reply actions 1 recs
That’s my baby. I wanna do it but I’ve found the format to be cumbersome. It’s a serious pain to organize so I’m thinking a paired down approach might be best. Plus I’ve got a kid on the way, an 8-hour professional test on the horizon, coaching, hockey, work, sleep, sandwich punching and nickname creation all looming this season.
If we don't get our sauce, we ain't watching the game!
Gotcha. I’d agree that the format seems to be highly work intensive. Maybe if you were to simply post the questions (say, one per day) as an article and invite the collective stupidity of MHH along with an email to the bloggers that you’ve had on before to comment?
That would seem far less labor intensive and would still help satisfy the collective (Dr.) Jonesing for season forecasts and speculation, along with the opportunity to refer back to those forecasts at the end of the season to see just how foolish and lacking in insight we all are?
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I agree that the format is really holding this thing back. Maybe we should do a podcast or internet radio thingy?
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by David Driscoll-Carignan on Aug 27, 2010 1:41 PM MDT up reply actions
That would be cool, but it seems to me that the primary work generator is trying to distribute all of the questions and collect and collate the responses. Not sure that the audio element (though I would totally dig a podcast element to MHH, btw) makes that any less a burden.
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yeah, that’s probably true
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by David Driscoll-Carignan on Aug 27, 2010 1:50 PM MDT up reply actions
I’m in favor of an actual roundtable where all of us meet (in a dark dingy basement, naturally) where we drink beer and talk about hockey questions, and we just videotape it.
Intelligent opinion does not follow the transitive property
Jibblescribbits: C'mon over and waste some time
by Jibblescribbits on Aug 27, 2010 1:53 PM MDT up reply actions
or an Arby’s
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by David Driscoll-Carignan on Aug 27, 2010 1:57 PM MDT up reply actions
That would be awesome. I want to see a video of Mike talking hockey while in a drunk, sauceless rage.
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by Bob in Boulder on Aug 27, 2010 1:59 PM MDT up reply actions
googling Mike Arby’s sauce returns this site as the 6th hit.
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by Bob in Boulder on Aug 27, 2010 2:03 PM MDT up reply actions
Agree
I don’t think there are enough posts with Mike Arby’s sauce in them.
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by Bob in Boulder on Aug 27, 2010 2:08 PM MDT up reply actions
Mike Arby’s sauce has been shamefully neglected in our discussions of late.
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If our discussions were a sandwich, Mike would have punched them by now.
Intelligent opinion does not follow the transitive property
Jibblescribbits: C'mon over and waste some time
by Jibblescribbits on Aug 27, 2010 2:18 PM MDT up reply actions
Leaving us with Mike’s punched Arby’s sandwich without sauce
MHH- A drinking site with a hockey problem
Hockeytown was a marketing invention to draw fans to a team that had less gate than the atlanta thrashers.
Between 960mg and 2200mg depending on which sandwich
they held the sauce since its another 180mg of sodium.
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This is about the highest praise I have seen on Duchene and from a Sharks fan. Overboard? About right?
by MalachiConstant on Aug 27, 2010 1:25 PM MDT reply actions
Overboard IMO but I love the props.
I just like the fights.
by Cheryl Bradley on Aug 28, 2010 12:24 AM MDT via mobile up reply actions
He does make Dario seem succinct by comparison.
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Dude, apostrophes? what, are you like, all into the brevity thing now?
MHH- A drinking site with a hockey problem
Hockeytown was a marketing invention to draw fans to a team that had less gate than the atlanta thrashers.
Ecklund is reporting that new Kovie deal with NJ is good
e5. My guess at terms: 500K per for the first 16 years. 110M in year 17. e0.
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by Bob in Boulder on Aug 27, 2010 2:48 PM MDT reply actions 1 recs
also, if you guys are doing the blogger round table this season, I’d love to contribute!!
Is it October yet?!
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absolutely
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by David Driscoll-Carignan on Aug 27, 2010 5:29 PM MDT up reply actions
i should add, you know how to get a hold of me David, if you do indeed have it this year.
Is it October yet?!
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Who was in the round table last year?
Sandie
"We called him Clark Kent because away from the rink, he was just a nerd. Then he'd go into the Colorado dressing room and put on his Avs jersey, and all of a sudden he was Super Joe"- Theo Fleury
by Sandie Gauthier on Aug 28, 2010 1:01 PM MDT up reply actions
King Arthur Sir Galahad
Sir Lancelot Sir Kay
Sir Gawain Sir Bors de Ganis
Sir Geraint Sir Lamorak
Sir Gareth Sir Tristan
Sir Gaheris Sir Percivale
Sir Bedivere
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Hockeytown was a marketing invention to draw fans to a team that had less gate than the atlanta thrashers.
by TheRed on Aug 28, 2010 3:37 PM MDT up reply actions 1 recs
Smartass
Sandie
"We called him Clark Kent because away from the rink, he was just a nerd. Then he'd go into the Colorado dressing room and put on his Avs jersey, and all of a sudden he was Super Joe"- Theo Fleury
by Sandie Gauthier on Aug 28, 2010 4:19 PM MDT up reply actions
UPDATE: WE DID IT PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!! This article is proof that if we spam enough intraweb sites with “Svatos would work well in Pittsburgh” crap, somebody will believe us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Darcy Tucker would make a valuable addition to the Detroit Red Wings. Spread the word.
Son, when you participate in sporting events - it's not whether you win or lose, it's how drunk you get.
by An Unmitigated Disaster on Aug 27, 2010 9:01 PM MDT reply actions
And he’s old enough….
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I'm The Canary - but I'm not cute nor cuddly, and I don't sing.
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