Fri Jan 23, 2009 12:05 pm EST
Puck Headlines: What's big, orange and eating a bowl of cereal next to you?
Here are your Morning Puck Headlines: A glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media.
• Forget about all this All-Star Game hooey. It's all about breakfast with Youppi! for me. [Canadiens]
• "Say you root for a team that never has won the Stanley Cup. Say your team never has hosted a game in the Finals – unlike Holland's Red Wings, who go almost every year. How would you feel if your team finally made it, and you didn't get to have one game in your own building?" [Newsday]
• "I see too many kids going the wrong way," he said. "They don't have the respect or the know-how to treat the sport — even Sidney Crosby. You see him bitching, whining and crying. He's supposed to be the poster boy of our league and yet every time he gets hit, he's grimacing and complaining to the referees. Veterans teach the kids the right way to play." Jeremy Roenick on a variety of topics, including Sidney Crosb. [Mercury News via Empty Netters]
• Here are your viewing options for this weekend's AHL All-Star Classic from Worcester, Massachusetts. See Rory Fitzpatrick actually play in an All-Star game. [AHL]
• It's the "Guns and Hoses charity hockey game between the Des Moines firefighters and police officers brought to you by the one and only, Iowa Chops. [Our Sports Central]
• Former NHL'ers Vincent Damphousse and Scott Thornton will be participating in this weekend's Canadian Pond Hockey Championships in Huntsville, Ontario. No word yet if the National Hockey League has considered the locale for a future Winter Classic game. [CBC] {YSB MORE}
• To help qualify for the NHL's revenue-sharing plan, the Nashville Predators are planning to purchase thousands of their own unsold tickets. [Tennessean]
• National Hockey League Players' Association representatives voted unanimously in favor or not reopening the collective bargaining agreement. The current agreement runs through the September 2011. [Sportsnet]
• Please welcome the latest NHL'er to join the Twitterverse, Patrik Elias of the New Jersey Devils. [Twitter]
• Chris Botta would like you know that past deals involved Zigmund Palffy, Roberto Luongo, and Pierre Turgeon are not the reason for the current state of the New York Islanders. [Point Blank]
• Los Angeles Kings All-Star Game representative Dustin Brown and YoungStar Drew Doughty will play at home next Thursday and then back in Montreal next Saturday. Rudy Kelly is not impressed. [Battle of Cali]
• Bruce Boudreau tries out for the next Subway commercial. [nhLOL]
• "At some point, even Charles Wang is going to say enough is enough." Gary Bettman talks with Scott Burnside on topics ranging from the Olympics, the NHL in Vegas, financial issues in Phoenix, and the arena situation with the New York Islanders. [ESPN]
• Finally, via DayWalk3r, here are TSN's top ten midseason shootout goals …
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If you are having breakfast with Youppi! Wysh, you better make sure he doesn't pull the old "breakfast sausage" trick and Expos himself to you...
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The guy faked being hurt during the lockout in order to collect disability pay, need I say more?
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Don't let the doorknob hit you on the way to Kansas City. Make sure you bring Garth Snow with you.
The Town Of Hempstead will NOT succumb to that succubus Gary Bettman. F Bettman with Wysh's cigar.
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How is purchasing your own tickets allowed for Revenue sharing? That's like paying yourself extra to do your own business taxes and then using that as a tax deducatble expense. Smells like Fisherman's Wharf during a heat wave to me...
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He's just using KC as a bargaining chip to get his project done. Any team moving to KC is just asking for financial trouble before the first puck is dropped.
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Don't even think I'm gonig this because I don't like Detroit. I hate Dallas 10 times more than I do Detroit.
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Just like the rest of them on welfare, he must be a democrat. I think the Hitler bit was a little out of line. By the way where did your Roenick info come from?
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Roenick has not attained as many impressive accomplishments over his entire career. At the pace Crosby is scoring, he will in his mid-20s' already have passed Roenick by on the stat sheet, barring injury. JR just exudes "class" by attacking a far superior (and young player) in the press. Roenick is not in any position to being offering Crosby any advice on how to behave, period.
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ribeiro move was slick. but the Datsyukian move is one of my all time favs. that is hard to do and i play ice hockey.
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And it's true Crosby is a helluva a player, but the kid should tough it out a bit. You see him dish it out and then crumple up in a heap when he's hit. Of course he's going to set some scoring records and be around for some time, but JR was referring to Claude Lemiuex and older players (like himself) that help culture the younger guys. The new rules in the NHL favor speed (which it should), but the problem is that with that there was an influx of young players after the lock out that need to have some veterans that can "teach" them how to be on and off the ice.
JR's the man, this year we'll get him his cup. He deserves it. Look at the body of his career; I don't think that anyone can say that the guy didn't play his @ss off.
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Quote: "JR is one of the highest scoring Americans in NHL history."
What is your point? In fact, the true all time "highest scoring American in NHL history", Modano, doesn't even rank in the NHL top 30 of all time, so how is such a nationalist based statistic like that even relevant to anyone other than Americans?
I guess that is why the NHL publishes such statistics for the benefit of the American viewers, so you'll feel better about your actual lack of relevance in the sport.
JR was I think also a part of a Team USA that featured players who trashed a hotel in Nagano, Japan after their abysmal performance there in the Winter Olympics, causing a mini international scandal and complete embarrassment for US Olympic & USA Hockey officials. You forgot to mention that one. Bet Crosby never sinks that low, because he is a winner.
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I think the whole point to the statement can be found within that simple sentence. For the record about Nagano, no player was ever identified as being the culprit. So don't try to link JR up with that. And the damage was $3k USD or $390K JPY, which Chelly foot the bill.
The NHL and all sports produce statistics of interest. I guess you would like to abandon all stats and records?
As for the lack of relevance to the sport? I grew up playing hockey in beautiful sunny California. I've followed the Sharks since their 2nd year in the league. Another statistic that you may not want to hear is that all but 6 NHL teams are in the US. The US is the market and thanks to the great one's popularity and growing the sport to places like Florida, Tennessee, Carolina, etc.
And another thing, Brett Hull has dual citizenship and played for the US squads in international competition and he's number 20 on the all time list.
Sharks are going all the way, tiny tim.
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