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Tag: Lockout

  • Morning Links 12/4

    Morning Links 12/4

    Maybe I’m wrong but this reporter should probably Get Smart: CBS

    Owners and players to meet today and neither side will bring their Kingpin: TSN

    The players side of the table will be Larger than Life: PHT

    While the owners send a few faces from the hardliner’s mt. Rushmore: PHT

    Meyers says the NHLPA may have to change its Stripes: CSN

    But when crossing the boarder some of the labor laws get Lost In Translation: ESPN

    Proof that its not just fans who can act/think like Meatballs: SI

    Jesse points out the mistakes made by The Man Who Knew Too Little: ESPNChi

    For goalies With Friends Like These…: PD

  • Morning Links 12/3


    This meeting could signify an End of Days: (Sportsnet)

    This stipend could let the players Jingle All the Way:(TSN)

    Because of the Lockout you could call this Team Conan the Destroyers:(CBC)

    These Canadian Ex-Pat’s Junior(s) are thriving:(Toronto Sun)

  • Morning Links 11/29

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Maybe there is a Ransom:(Kukla’s Korner)

    Maybe the Mediator can be a Lethal Weapon: (TSN)

    Is Fehr missing the message of The Patriot of Pro Sports Unions: (Sportsnet)

    Greg Jamison likes the Signs he got from the Glendale City Council: (CBC)

    Payback could be a bitch: (Toronto Sun)

    Apparently Mathieu Darche doesn’t stay at the Million Dollar Hotel: (Montreal Gazette)

  • Morning Links 11/27

    Mission:Impossible: (TSN)

    For a Few Good Men this is their third lockout: (Sportsnet.CA)

    Some fans are Losing it on the players:(Reddit)

    Interview with the Vampire or Criminal: (Sportsnet)

    The new OHL fighting rules are Far and Away an improvement:(Backhand Shelf)

    Some Outsider hacked Guy Serota’s Twitter: (SN)

    A look at the Top Gun’s that retired after the last lockout: (Down Goes Brown)

     

  • Morning Links 11/23

    Alfred Hitchcock Hockey Goalie

    The Union might be about to get a bit Psycho: (Globe and Mail)

    Hopefully the season isn’t lost in the Rear Window: (Sportsnet)

    Gary clearly doesn’t have Vertigo: (CBC)

    One Owner is optimistic that this season hasnt gone to the Birds: (Montreal Gazette)

    These jerseys may leave other teams Spellbound: (Puck Daddy)

  • Have You Seen The Little Piggies?

    Have You Seen The Little Piggies?

    I hadn’t been to a Wolves game since their inaugural season in 1994 on Hanson Brothers night, which was two lockouts ago. I hadn’t been to the Horizon at all since Adam Jones, Justin Chancellor, and Danny Carey were polishing off the last notes to “Lateralus.” So to say I was in for a new experience of sorts would be right on the mark last night.

    I hadn’t seen the new re-model of the interior of the Horizon, and I have to say I’m a fan. It feels cozier than it did, the sight-lines for hockey are better than they were, and it just feels like a more-modern arena, whereas the old layout felt dated probably from the moment the place opened. The constantly turning concourse could have used some work, but there’s only so much you can do. And the search for a beer other than Coors is mind-numbing. If Killion ever makes the trip there he’s probably going to have a seizure.

    Anyway, other thoughts on my night watching the Hogs and Wolves:

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  • Saturday/Non-Opening Night/Hogs-Wolves Thread

    For those of you watching the game between our two most local, actually-playing professional teams, you can use this to discuss what’s going on. Or maybe just the frustration that we’re not talking about the opener. Or whatever you want. Fire.

  • Lockout Insurance – Frozen Piggies

    Lockout Insurance – Frozen Piggies

    Well, we come to it. Your other AHL option in the “area”, but the one that will probably interest you most. There are many benefits to the Hogs, and one crucial drawback. But we’ll focus on them here.

    Venue: The Metro Center, or I guess now it’s called the BMO Harris Bank Center. Which only makes me want to call it the BM Center, and I think that’s pretty apt because it’s in Rockford. But anyway, people who have been there (namely Chris Block) say it’s a pretty cool place to see a game because it’s small. That makes the atmosphere a little more tense and the sightlines great. So there’s that. It’ll be a much more intimate setting than the airplane hangar the UC can feel like at times.

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  • Morning Links 10/10

    Morning Links 10/10

    Always cite your sources before you get the hammer of the gods brought down on you by the hockey starved interwebs:(Twitter)

    Apparently the AHL is fine, but the I-90 shuffle is better (Autoplay) (CSN)

    Hockey is back with lots of ads and Russians on some fly-by-night tv station:(RT)

    Can’t hold down a grinder:(GnM)

    Hatred Growing: (SN)

    Probably at the time the most hated team in Chicago:(TSUN)

  • In Davy Jones's Locker

    In Davy Jones's Locker

    I think that picture perfectly sums up where we are now and what we’re all feeling. Confusion in a desolate place that we have no control of getting out of ourselves. We only need an army of crabs to guide us to the sea. Maybe we should start with Patrick Kane’s.

    There are just some thoughts rattling around my head as we come up to the actual date that will mark the first time we really should have been at the UC and discussing other things. They’re all kind of infuriating.

    -It’s been mentioned before, but the staring contest part of this is by far the most deplorable aspect of this. I know, negotiating tactics and all that. But this inhabits a different stratosphere than say, a bunch of machinists striking against the airlines or something. “Well we put our proposal out and now we’re waiting for their proposal but they said that they made their proposal and now they want our next proposal but we didn’t think it was a proposal and ours was  a proposal and they’re bad men and stupid heads and we just need a proposal.”

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