BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: bobad
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 12:31 PM

Yeah Steve, the Toronto-centric announcers were falling over their hyperboles praising the great Eddie. To my mind someone who allows 8 goals in his last 2 games is a little less stellar than he was being built up to be.

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 04:41 PM

I saw the game last night on the tube. The Canadiens (please note the spelling with the E) definitely kicked the butt out of the Leafs in the first period. Belfour DID play a great game (won the 1st star of the game award), but got really really lucky three times: he came out to play the puck or to challenge the shooter, and left the net completely open for a shot. Somehow, none of the Canadien players managed to pot the puck in those situations. He would have went from hero to zero mighty quickly!

Okay, Joke of the Day...

Didja hear? The Montreal coaches will only be dressing six players for their next game!!

    (the rest of the team have learned to dress themselves....)


GO LEAFS!!

Brian

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 09:34 PM

So it turns out the reason our Chicago radio guy wasn't telling us about line changes was that until the last few games, we didn't actually HAVE discernible lines. :~) Poor guy wouldda been calling personnel changes every 20 seconds while the Hawks played with their chemistry set. :~)

NOW we have a couple of lines and we know which one works offensively and which one should do well but doesn't and thus becomes the PKers.

And we won 3-1 tonight, amazing-- it took Mr. Magoo officiating, though, for it to happen! (I'm making him our personal mascot.)

I guess the Hawks are on some kind of roll-- 4-2 the last 6 games??? I dunno, we can usually only get them via radio and we are enjoying the Pens on TV so much we don't always tune in on the radio. Also I just discovered today that the NHL site doesn't list all the radio-only games-- just the TV-somewhere games, so we missed a lot by not double checking the Hawks' site for scheduling. Oh well-- the radio games are archived till the next afternoon, so we can still get Pens eye candy and Hawks ear candy!

~Susan

PS, the REAL good news isn't the Hawks' win... it's that NA beer is only 58 calories a can AND it's GOOD for me!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: Peace
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 09:42 PM

Yeah, Susan.

GO, OILERS, GO!

Susan messaged me, but she DID NOT GLOAT. Gracious she was and is.

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 09:50 PM

Can't afford to gloat when you a Hawks' fan!!

Go OILERS.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: Peace
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 09:51 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 09:54 PM

Chi fans DASN'T git their hopes up. Not unless they putting Viagra in they beer, and the players too. GO OILERS is how I gotta go or I'll jinx the Hawks for sure!

It was a good game and a nice visit with Peace while it ran, too.

Back to the beer!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: dianavan
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 11:00 PM

Yea - Can I change my mind?

Bobad you are right about the Bertuzzi thing. As if that wasn't bad enough, did you hear him say, "It is what it is." Three times! Takes a brain, eh?

Besides that, I haven't figured out this new 'who gets to play who' Just as I was beginning to understand it, they changed the rules again. So why do we play the teams we do?

I want to change teams but I suppose its too late so I'll just pretend that Bertuzzi isn't on the team. Pretty hard on the team, though, to hear the crowd booing because of one guy. Must effect their game at least a little.

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: Beer
Date: 13 Nov 05 - 11:13 PM

What the hell you want to change for??????
Bertuzzi has 2 goals already and he is playing a very controlled game. in fact, if he keeps this play up he will get a hat trick and be first star.
So no you can't.
Beer (Red Wing)
Carter just scored. 3-1 Vancover
4:45 of the second period.

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: dianavan
Date: 14 Nov 05 - 02:39 AM

OK OK OKkkkk

Go Vancouver!

Canucks rule.

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: Beer
Date: 14 Nov 05 - 08:01 AM

I can't beleive it. The bugger did get the hat trick and whipped our (lefty) wings.
Beer

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 Nov 05 - 10:35 PM

Did anyone else see Ovechkin's amazing ice dance? Hardi said it was like a Rapture moment! :~)

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 02:51 PM

with this "new" NHL, these young playmakers are pretty freakin' amazing. Ovechkin (now 3-for-3 in shootouts), Crosby, Stahl... these ain't names that are only going to be around for a year or so! the guard is changing folks, and it is a leaner and faster time for hockey. Like everyone, I hate to see the marquee players leave (yes, even Brett Hull), but the future is looking nice and bright.

Brian

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 16 Nov 05 - 06:15 PM

Penguins vs. Flyers tonight, OLN, 7 PM.

A tip of the mug to you Philly fans.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: Pseudolus
Date: 17 Nov 05 - 08:46 AM

Well that was my first look at the Pens Crosby. He looks like the real deal! Sure did in the Flyboys last night!

Frank

P.S. another overtime game, I think the Flyers should save themselves the wear and tear and just say, "Hey, let's meet back here in a coupla hours and just play an OT period!"

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 17 Nov 05 - 09:33 AM

It was pretty amazing hockey, Frank, all the way around. I LOVED the touch on the puck the Flyers have-- the accuraacy of passing and the way, when a pass arrives, it seems to come off the stick so sweetly. I loved the strategies of the #1 line and the wonderful adjustments to new defense rules--

I was watching hockey when the Flyers franchise was born. I always appreciated the physicality of their play. I'm glad to see they still have it-- plus, a lot more skill than I recall from those days.

But wow, those Pens! The whole game was exciting-- Lemieux should be so proud, how they did with the adversities of the evening.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: leftydee
Date: 17 Nov 05 - 10:04 AM

The Wings didn't look so hot last night, Beer. Even McCarty got a wrap-around goal on Manny. They looked good for about 10 minutes and then got beat to the puck the rest of the game. Oh well.... onward and upward!

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 17 Nov 05 - 10:31 AM

For US Teams--

Don't forget to check Fox Sports' regional TV coverage. We didn't have FSN programmed on our TV so it took awhile to realize we could watch most of the Pens' games. We liked them before we discovered that-- it's a happy coinkydink for us. Check and see who your regional FSN channel covers-- you might be missing some good games.

Between OLN, FSN, and streaming radio, there's almost a game every night, somewhere, that can be enjoyed.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 09:33 AM

The Wings, courtesy of Chris Osgood, stunk the joint up last night. It was pathetic. Osgood went into the 3rd period up 3 to 1, then gave up 4 straight. Last minute heroics by Shanahan and Yserman tied it up only to have Osgood whiff at the first shot in OT. Wings lose 6-5. OCSABB

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: Beer
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 10:21 AM

What are we going to do about Osgood? That was an unforgivable loss.
Beer

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: Chip2447
Date: 18 Nov 05 - 04:09 PM

not if you are a Blues Fan....who are currently 3-18 with a whopping 9 points scored.

it is slightly better than televised golf, and is quite handily a better show than Nascar.

Chip2447

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Nov 05 - 09:38 AM

I'm starting to really like Alberta. The folks in Edmonton were quite nice to our Blackhawks, cheering our top line as they left the ice, when they had played well. And Calgary proved an excellent host city as well, last night:

Blackhawks score four straight goals to end Flames' streak

CALGARY, Alberta (Ticker) -- The Chicago Blackhawks dodged
several bullets in the first period and rode out of the
Pengrowth Saddledome with an impressive victory.

Mark Bell and Mark Cullen each scored twice as the Blackhawks
netted four unanswered goals to begin their five-game road trip
with a 5-2 triumph over the Calgary Flames, who had their
eight-game winning streak snapped.

With wins in three of their previous four games, the Blackhawks
began their trek in unimpressive fashion, taking eight penalties
in the first period and ending the session with a 2-1 deficit.

But Bell cashed in on Chicago's lone power-play opportunity of
the game at 8:39 of the second and Matthew Barnaby tallied 84
seconds later to put the Blackhawks ahead, 3-2. Bell capped his
second straight two-goal performance with 72 seconds remaining
in the period and Cullen completed the first of his career late
in the third to seal the win.

Kyle Calder and rookies Matt Ellison and Rene Bourque each
collected two assists while Nikolai Khabibulin made 30 saves for
Chicago, which improved to 3-1-0 in its last four road games.

(from the Hawks' site)

And it's back to Edmonton again tonight, with a 10PM Eastern time start. Quite handy for us, timewise, as tonight we have our weekly Saturday night service, which gets us home about 9PM. Hope to "see" you at the game, Peace! :~)

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: Beer
Date: 19 Nov 05 - 10:15 PM

Hay Lefty! I think were in a slide............But not for long.

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: bobad
Date: 19 Nov 05 - 10:18 PM

Hey Beer

Ya can always jump ship you know...Ottawa doesn't look too bad.

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: Beer
Date: 19 Nov 05 - 10:23 PM

Bobad, you got balls. Great dig, but when your talking to a fan who lived through that Ass of a Ned Harkness and yet never jumped ship you are talking to a true fan.
Ottawa is still in there and should be until we meet.........

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: Beer
Date: 19 Nov 05 - 10:42 PM

Hay Lefty!!!   Get out of bed. I want to share a little story about the first time I saw the Wings. The rest of you can tune in as well. I don't mind. I'm having a few Canadian Beer so my spelling may not be the greatest..
Left Nova Scotia in 1963 for the land of what was called "The milk and honey". Ontario.. Took me two days using my thumb. Got to St. Thomas Ont. and said to my sister at the door "Surprise". Well after a month looking for work I was getting a little concerned. But hell, who would hire a drifter at 18.
Started work for a garbage company at a dollar and hour and all I could eat. When I look back after spending 35 years in hospital adminstration they were (truth) the best years of my life.
Back to the story. Lefty.!!!! are you there??
One day, one of my co-workers asked if I was comming to the hockey game. Detroit was playing against Stan Mikita, Bobby Hull and the rest of thos f Hawks.
To make a long story short I climbed aboard a buss that was full of friends and where the suitecases are placed it was full from one end to the other with beer. (cases of 24's) "DOW"
I'm going to bed, will relate the rest some other night....................

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: Peace
Date: 19 Nov 05 - 11:38 PM

Thanks, Susan. I didn't know there was a game tonight. It tends to pass me by because I seldom listen to radio and I have no TV. I have got to find a way to stay tuned.

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Nov 05 - 10:23 AM

Peace, it took me awhile to develop the habit that there may be a game on that would be more fun than Mudcat BS threads. Just remember, in the BS threads you don't get to hear the hitting, nor does anyone go to the penalty box. :~) I'm actually thinking that my browser's start page ought to be the Hawks' game schedule.

Check your PMs for a set of links.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 20 Nov 05 - 10:56 AM

Ahhh... a happy Sunday... why? Let me count the ways...

Toronto won! 5-1 over Atlanta, and did it without scoring power play goals.. shows they can actually play with full lines.

Montreal lost! One less Monday at work that I will need to listen to a co-worker extol the glories of Les Canadiens... schweet!

Both St Louis and Chicago won! Okay, they each need one once in a while.

Now, if Ottawa would have lost too (to allow the Leafs to close the gap), I dunno if I could have handled it (from a hockey fan's point of view).

Brian.

PS... Oh, it's also a good Sunday cuz my girlfriend made me a great breakfast this morning, heheh.... it ain't ONLY about hockey, you know!

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Nov 05 - 11:22 AM

PS-- ssssh! about the Hawks' game-- we only caught the first period and we'll get the rest this afternoon!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Nov 05 - 03:34 PM

Aw crap-- the archive was taken down early today because it's a weekend and there were new games for the afternoon, to put up.

I know we won, but what was the game LIKE? ALl they show are highlights, and to me the fun is often not in the goals!

And I was gonna run the Philly-Pittsburgh rematch too, today--DRAT!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Nov 05 - 11:01 PM

Hey Beer

I think we need to hang tough and have a little faith. The Osgood factor is troubling but some of the new kids are playing well and Datsyuk and Zetterberg are about ready to really produce.

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: Beer
Date: 21 Nov 05 - 06:51 PM

Go Wings Go

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: Beer
Date: 21 Nov 05 - 09:02 PM

I'm jumping to conclusion here but I think the game is going to be cancelld. Jiri Fischer went down around 7:20 into the first period and taken to hospital..

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: leftydee
Date: 21 Nov 05 - 09:06 PM

It was scarey Beer. Fish had a seizure they're saying now but watching them pound on that kid's chest was sobering. They just annouced the cancellation. Wow.....

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: Beer
Date: 21 Nov 05 - 09:42 PM

Thanks Lefty. Guess I'll catch it on late sports.

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 21 Nov 05 - 09:50 PM

NHL Radio is still running live, but when they quit bloviating you'll be able to hear or re-hear the game coverage as events unfolded. The archive is usually up till afternoon of the next day. But to land on the page where it sits, which is not marked as an archive, you have to bookmark it on the day of the game you want to re-hear. (Like now, in other words.) The URL will be the same as it always is, but the page will show "Monday's Games" at the top. Go figure.

There was some late news on the Red Wings' site (click there from the NHL site). It was on the thin side, tho positive.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: bobad
Date: 21 Nov 05 - 09:53 PM

9:20 PM EST, 11/21/2005
Fischer taken to hospital after having seizure on Red Wings bench

DETROIT (AP) -- Red Wings defenseman Jiri Fischer had a seizure on the Detroit bench late in the first period of Monday night's game against the Nashville Predators and was listed in stable condition at a hospital.

Fischer was given CPR at the bench and a defibrillator was used before the 25-year-old native of the Czech Republic was removed on a stretcher. The game was called off with no makeup date immediately announced.

Team spokesman John Hahn said Fischer was taken to Detroit Receiving Hospital and was stable, breathing on his own and responsive.

"It looks like he's going to be OK," Hahn said.

Play was stopped with 7:30 left in the period after the Red Wings alerted officials to a problem. Medical personnel worked on the 25-year-old Fischer at the door to the bench for several minutes before he was wheeled back toward the Red Wings dressing room.

The decision was made to resurface the ice then, and the remaining time was to be added to the second period. But the game was postponed instead.

Red Wings captain Steve Yzerman and forward Brendan Shanahan helped escort Fischer's fiancee across the ice to the bench area.

Fischer was diagnosed with a heart abnormality in September 2002, causing him to miss two days of practice. The problem was found on an electrocardiogram as part of a routine battery of tests during the Red Wings' preseason physicals. When the result was abnormal, Fischer was given a stress test that he passed.

"There is a little abnormality, but nothing that will stop me from playing," Fischer said at the time. "It's nothing that will bother me emotionally."

He said that his heart essentially is a little thicker than normal.

"I wasn't scared about the abnormality," Fischer said. "But I was scared
about not playing hockey again. That was a shock for me."

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: Beer
Date: 21 Nov 05 - 10:23 PM

Thanks Bobad
Ad.

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: leftydee
Date: 22 Nov 05 - 12:11 AM

I heard on the late news that Juri was awake and talking

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 22 Nov 05 - 10:06 AM

I think it was a mighty fine decision to postpone the game. It shows folks are human, and that it isn't all about big business and such. I am sure that a number of fans in the crowd would be disappointed (for example, those travelling a far distance to the arena), but there is no way either team would have been able to play to their full abilities.

B.

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: leftydee
Date: 22 Nov 05 - 11:29 PM

Hey Beer,

Did you have that surgery today? I hope all is well. Lefty

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: Beer
Date: 23 Nov 05 - 08:34 AM

Next Tuesday..

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: Beer
Date: 23 Nov 05 - 11:09 PM

Just back from my Wednesday evening at the local Legion playing darts and checked on the Wings. Took a good one tonight.

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: GUEST,Texas Guest
Date: 24 Nov 05 - 12:10 AM

Beer has it right; and, please know that down here in good old HOCKEYTOWN SOUTH we know that there are only two words that anyone needs to know about the game of hockey - RED WINGS!!!!!
Go git 'em Shanny, Chris, Pavel, Henrik, Stevie, Lang, Nicklas and
the rest of the RED BRIGADE - YOU ARE LOVED IN TEXAS - GO RED WINGS!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: Beer
Date: 24 Nov 05 - 05:11 PM

Hay Texas!! Join up. We can always use some strong Wing Support. Right Lefty??

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: leftydee
Date: 24 Nov 05 - 11:53 PM

That's right, Beer!

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: Peace
Date: 25 Nov 05 - 12:09 AM

RED WINGS

I don't get it.

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: ToulouseCruise
Date: 25 Nov 05 - 10:49 AM

actually (going back to what Gnu had written), not many of the nicknames make much sense...

-- Do you feel intimidated by a bunch of foliage, even if they are from the mighty Maple?

-- "Attack of the Killer Penguins"? Nope, I don't think so.

-- Really, the Senators? never really been known to do much by way of government...

-- The Anaheim Mighty Ducks. 'Nuff said.


Now, on another note, there are a few which are a little more interesting...

-- Yes, it is tough to outrun an Avalanche, though they are a little unpredictable ("shhhh....")

-- If they do not win another cup, does that mean that Lightning truly does not strike twice?

Any other offerings?


Brian (who still cheers for the Toronto Make-Believes)

Subject: RE: BS: Hockey's back...Are ya happy about it?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 25 Nov 05 - 10:55 AM

who would have thought that a thread about a game played by girls would reach 400 posts?