Happy 10-11-12.
The NHL and NHLPA met again: (ESPN)
Which allowed the game of; “you go first,” “no you go first,” to continue: (PHT)
Wysh thinks sides conceding things will help negotiations: (PD)
As someone who pays no attention to their health this is terrifying: (TSN)
Speaking of bad health: (TFP)
CSN takes a look at Eddie O before he goes into the USAH HOF, and when PHT picked up the story they attributed it: (CSN) (PHT)
Oh yeah, actual hockey: (Blackhawks.com)
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)
PHT brings you the latest from Harry and Lloyd: (Daly) (Fehr)
The Blackhawks, who are still working out, have enlisted help: (CSN) (autoplay)
Power rankings are stupid, if you don’t think so tell me how they can change week to week during a lockout: (ESPN)
This is why I don’t want the Blackhawks going overseas: (PD)
Icehogs getting help from locked out Blackhawks: (Icehogs.com)
Mac the knife? Carruth’s demotion means someone getting cut: (BTN)
Kaner is the best winger under age 25? Oh yeah and that Toews guy isn’t bad either: (ESPN Insider)
Hello Friends..
You may remember me from such names as ChelisChili7 from SCH. Well since he has officially passed another DeutschBank test and I felt like using my real name, here I am. I also used to be Ken Oda’s bitch for a now-defunct Junior Hockey team. Which involved a lot of unnecessary stat keeping and keeping the Jameson stocked.
The Great One is optimistic:(TSN)
Is the NHL Naive on steroids?(SN)
Hockee Night Puckcast:(HN)
Can Pat LaFontaine save hockey on the Island?:(TSUN)
Oiler fans weren’t considered:(GnM)
ESPN will broadcast hockey after all:(PD)
Ryan Kesler is far behind in his recovery:(PHT)
The latest round of CBA negotiations:(DGB)
So yeah I’m the new links guy, I’ll try not to suck. I was a life long Chicago guy, until six weeks ago when I moved to Minot, North Dakota to work for a junior team. I miss 5 a.m. bars… oh and my family.
I’m just shocked the kid’s parents aren’t trying to sue… (PD)
Zawzer takes a look at Barch’s drunken twitter poetry (RLD)
Because the lockout needs a Robin Hood figure? (PHT)
Daley and Fehr speak (NHL.com)
Oh yeah and something good for Hawks fans that has to do with hockey that is actually being played (BTN)
A lot of people, mostly outside our strange little world, were trying to draw connections between the NHL lockout and that of the NFL referees. However, the issues were very different. The refs were locked out over disputes over pensions and job security. In that sense, the NFL referee lockout was much closer to the teachers’ strike than it was the NHL Lockout.
But the furor over it this week and the resolution last night was an excellent demonstration of why it sometimes hurts to be a cult/niche sport, even though that’s part of the attraction for a lot of us.
Perhaps you’re like me and every other hockey blogger you read. Maybe you’ve been inundated with emails from someone imploring you to join some sort of fan protest or walkout against the lockout. If you have, you’re probably like me in seeing the futility of it. Obviously, no one cares what we really think, as the return of our asses to arena seats and our eyeballs to the TV screen whenever these jerk-stores deign to return the game we love to us is pretty much assured. No matter how big of a crowd one gathers outside the NHL offices, you can bet Bettman and Jacobs would laugh at us.
So, in the coming weeks, I’d like to spend my time with something a bit more productive. Instead of just shouting at the rain on both sides, I think it’s more beneficial to try and come up with solutions. It has about as much chance as ending the lockout as these silly protests and walkouts do. But it’ll be more productive for us and at least maybe, if others catch on, we can feel that we did something to try and end the madness. At least we’ll feel better.
Admittedly, this is a crack-ass theory (see, we can totally swear even earlier in the posts!). The NHL inhabits a different atmosphere than the NBA or NFL, and whatever applies to them probably doesn’t apply to the NHL. But let’s just have some fun with this, because we’ve got nothing else to do here. And this has nothing to do with how whatever agreement they come to will affect the league and teams.
It’s strange. Even when you’ve known it was coming for months (and in your darker parts, years), when it 10:59 Central time passed on Saturday night, there was still a pang in the heart. And as some of you probably noticed on Twitter, an attempted drowning of that pang. It certainly wasn’t helped by the email I and other season ticket holders got yesterday outlining our refund options.
