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Saburo · « **Reply #1720 on:** June 22, 2011, 12:24:21 AM »

Assume y'all saw the details to The Party of the Year: http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/An-illustrated-guide-to-the-Bruins-8217-156-6?urn=nhl-wp7657

Kudos to Bruins ownership and boo! to this bar that comped only ONE (1) bottle of bubbly...

JFC · « **Reply #1721 on:** June 23, 2011, 12:17:34 AM »

Well, after the happenings of the past couple of weeks, the one and only possible roadblock to block the sale and move of the Thrashers to Peg Sheety has now OFFICIALLY been cleared, as the NHL's Board of Governors UNANIMOUSLY approved the sale and move of the team.

Also, we've also been officially been added to the NHL's official website:
http://winnipeg.nhl.com/index.html

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NHL Board of Governors approves sale of Thrashers to True North Sports & Entertainment
Tuesday, 21.06.2011 / 2:13 PM / News Articles

True North Sports & Entertainment, in conjunction with the National Hockey League, is pleased to announce the NHL Board of Governors today approved the sale of the Atlanta Thrashers to True North Sports & Entertainment and approved the immediate relocation of the franchise to Winnipeg, MB.

The NHL also confirmed today that due to concerns relating to the timely release of the 2011-12 regular-season schedule, and to allow sufficient opportunity for discussion and effectuation of planned divisional realignment for the 2012-13 season, the Winnipeg franchise will compete next season in the Southeast Division – joining Carolina, Florida, Tampa Bay, and Washington.

“We are very honored by the NHL Board of Governors unanimous decision today,” said Mark Chipman, Chairman of the Board, True North Sports & Entertainment. “We know that the fans of this province have an appetite for NHL hockey that is rivaled by few in the league and intend to work very hard to make Manitobans proud of our franchise for years to come.”

LINK - http://winnipeg.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=566556

daigong · « **Reply #1722 on:** June 24, 2011, 08:25:52 AM »

^ did u start following em on twitter? http://twitter.com/NHLinWpg First NHL home game @mtscentre will be Sept. 20 against Columbus.

Damn NHL Awards! What happened to best Riot Crotch shot??

so famous on TMZ! in case it gets taken down: mugeflashbangnutshotnucksvideoplayback.flv (2.21 MB) http://www.multiupload.com/RH9O6V2CH1

NHL Schedules out!! Y'all got Game 1 tickets??? Only one game vs Winnipeg and Oilers: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 Oilers Winnipeg 6:30 PM
http://oilers.nhl.com/club/schedule.htm

copped me Draft Party tickets!! See y'all tmr when Oil draft RNH!!

kuno_thunder · « **Reply #1723 on:** June 24, 2011, 07:29:48 PM »

Name coming tonight before our 7th overall draft pick! I've heard round the grapevine too that MTS Centre will be open for people who want to check out the draft there and one lucky person will win season tickets. Not bad, I must say. I'd totally go if I weren't working.

JFC · « **Reply #1724 on:** June 25, 2011, 01:04:58 AM »

News rumours have been flying over the last few hours about this...

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Winnipeg Jets name returns
CBC Sports | Last Updated: Jun 24, 2011 3:03 PM ET

Winnipeg's NHL team will be called the Winnipeg Jets, CBC Sports has confirmed.

Scott Brown, spokesman for True North Sports & Entertainment, which owns the franchise, told CBC News that it's possible an official announcement could be made just prior to the team making the seventh overall pick in the NHL entry draft on Friday night in Minnesota.

Brown said the final decision is up to True North chairman Mark Chipman.

Club representatives dodged questions about the team name at Friday's press conference introducing Claude Noel as the new head coach.

The Canadian Press reported that the team is expected to go with a logo different from the one used by the previous incarnation of the Winnipeg Jets until the franchise moved to Phoenix in 1996.

The player Winnipeg selects with its top draft pick on Friday night is not expected to don a Jets jersey. Instead, he'll put on a sweater bearing the black and grey colours of the NHL's logo, Winnipeg assistant general manager Craig Heisinger said Thursday.

Speculation had swirled about the team's name since it announced plans to relocate from Atlanta to Winnipeg on May 31.

The most popular choice appeared to be Winnipeg Jets, which was the name of the city's NHL team before it moved to Phoenix in 1996. Other rumoured options included Manitoba Jets, Manitoba Moose, and Winnipeg Falcons — a nod to the 1920 Olympic champions.

FULL ARTICLE LINK - http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/story/2011/06/24/sp-nhl-winnipeg-name.html

Guess we'll find out for sure later tonight when the team makes it's first draft.

daigong · « **Reply #1725 on:** June 25, 2011, 01:27:00 AM »

^ NOICE!!! Can't wait for the new jerseys!

RYAN SMYTH NOT CONFIRMED AT THIS POINT.....

Looking good in dem classic white jerseys RNH just drafted #1!! Centre of the FUTURE!

GO OILERS GO!!

JFC · « **Reply #1726 on:** June 25, 2011, 02:18:53 AM »

Even though everyone expected this "other announcement" to be coming here at the draft, I love how Chipman kept it almost as an afterthought.

http://video.nhl.com/videocenter/console?id=119229

And here's the reaction of the crowd at the MTS Centre as they watched the live broadcast and found out the news.
http://bcove.me/5dtblm9w

And as an even more awesome Winnipeg link, the kid that we drafted, Mark Scheifele, comes from the Barrie Colts of the OHL, where the head coach is none other than one of the best players ever to wear a Winnipeg Jets jersey, Dale Hawerchuk!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Scheifele

Tom Green · « **Reply #1727 on:** June 25, 2011, 06:19:39 AM »

So I put this up on my store sign tonight

It's official It's the Winnipeg Jets!
Go Jets Go!!!

I hope this will be our new logo

kuno_thunder · « **Reply #1728 on:** June 25, 2011, 09:03:42 AM »

Technically, they're not being welcomed back, its just a marketing thing cuz there's so many people that just so t let go of the past, and there's nothing wrong with that really in this situation. I'd love to see Shane Doan or Teemu come back just for one more season in the jets colours before retirement though, that would be awesome. Now THAT would be a homecoming.

Mugen · « **Reply #1729 on:** June 26, 2011, 06:39:44 AM »

Canucks passed on Zach Yuen! WTF!

JFC · « **Reply #1730 on:** June 26, 2011, 07:40:33 PM »

^
We got him.

I find it more interesting that the Oilers didn't get Kevin Lowe's son.

Tom Green · « **Reply #1731 on:** June 27, 2011, 05:10:50 AM »

FROM THE WINNIPEG SUN

JASON HALSTEAD | WINNIPEG SUN
Winnipeg hockey fans who support the idea of a female cheer team for the city's new NHL team are getting a cold shower from True North brass.

While 58% of respondents in a Winnipeg Sun online poll were in favour of the idea of a female cheer team at MTS Centre, the club's owners aren't busting out the pompoms.

The Atlanta Thrashers, the franchise being brought to Winnipeg by True North Sports and Entertainment, had its own cheer team known as the Blue Crew Ice Dancers, a squad made up of 18 scantily-clad young women who cleared snow, led cheers in the stands and took part in team promotions. But they won't be heading north.

"There are no plans for anything like you see in the States," said True North spokesman Scott Brown. "We will stay consistent with the approach we've had with the Moose over the past few years."

Last season, 23 NHL teams had a cheer team or a crew of young women who cleared snow from the ice during a mid-period break.

While several Canadian teams already had ice crews, the Edmonton Oilers were the first franchise in this country to start up a cheerleading squad, the Oilers Octane, last December.

The cheer team in Edmonton sparked immediate controversy when a petition was started by those opposed to the cheerleaders. The petition stated that the cheer team would ruin the traditional hockey experience in Edmonton. In an Edmonton Sun poll about 57% of respondents were against the idea of cheerleaders.

The Oilers' cheer team mainly performs in the Rexall Place concourse and in some areas of the arena's upper bowl.

Patrick LaForge, the Oilers' president and CEO, said the team created the cheer crew to enhance the entertainment value at games.

True North president Jim Ludlow didn't completely rule out the idea of an ice crew or cheer team further down the line though.

"I don't think that's on our radar screen right now," Ludlow said. "There are lots of things to look at, now and over the years. But I wouldn't think that's at the top of our list."

- With files from Ross Romaniuk

JFC · « **Reply #1732 on:** June 27, 2011, 05:14:01 AM »

^
Meh, no big loss. Like that Ludlow guy said, there are other things that are more important that they should be dealing with first. I'd actually prefer that True North stick to making sure that they've got the franchise running properly first before they even consider something like this.

daigong · « **Reply #1733 on:** June 27, 2011, 08:37:05 AM »

^ HAWT!! dem cheerleaders are always accessible

but there's a lot of ugly ones - hope they get a new squad this upcoming season

FUCK WHATTA WEEKEND!

WELCOME BACK SMYTTIE!!!

One of the few Oilers that bleed the Copper n Blue. FINALLY getting back a player who has desire to finish and go straight to the net and not fucking make that fancy play. smyttie got a few more good years left I'm sure, and to just give up massive underachiever Colin Fraser was a bonus. LOL at the "THERE IS NO CHALLENGE. THERE IS ONLY ONE MULLET" when asked to compare his vs Ryan Jones. Wonder if he'll get the "C"

Listen to the press phone conference here: http://s3.amazonaws.com/the-jason-gregor-show/highlight_reel/clips/Ryan_Smyth_June_26.mp3

Digging the FUTURE. RNH. Taylor Hall. Jordan Eberle. Gonna be an exciting lineup!

like wtf, picking Craig Simpson and Frank Musil's kids - Oilers so gangsta. Keepin it in The Fam but dem Finnish goalie Samu Perhonen is pretty unorthodox even tho his last name means "butterfly" - could develop into the future goalie waay down the line.

lol also got me a Taylor Hall Bobblehead at the baseball game Saturday, when Canseco was in town

daigong · « **Reply #1734 on:** June 28, 2011, 07:14:42 AM »

Have fun Pierre in the US!

lol like TSN has nothing but Versus feeds so.

JFC · « **Reply #1735 on:** June 29, 2011, 06:39:29 AM »

Congrats to Doug Gilmour, Mark Howe, Ed Belfour and Joe Niewendyk, as they join the Hockey Hall of Fame as part of it's 2011 class!

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Gilmour, Howe head Hockey Hall of Fame class
By Chris Iorfida, CBC Sports | Posted: Jun 28, 2011 3:24 PM ET | Last Updated: Jun 28, 2011 6:33 PM ET

The Hockey Hall of Fame committee on Tuesday selected Ed Belfour, Doug Gilmour, Mark Howe and Joe Nieuwendyk for induction into its 2011 class.

The committee of 18 went with a class made up entirely of former NHL players, with no admissions this year in the women's or builder categories.

The quartet of former players will be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame on Nov. 11 in Toronto.

Belfour was the only player in his first year of eligibility to gain admittance. Howe waited the longest of the four, having been eligible since 1995.

A top flight goaltender for about 14 seasons, Belfour won the Vezina Trophy twice, in addition to the Calder and William Jennings honours.

"It is hard to put into words what this means to me," Belfour said in a statement issued by the Stars. "I would like to thank all of my teammates and people along the way who helped me achieve my hockey dreams."

Belfour posted 76 shutouts — tying him with Tony Esposito for ninth on the all-time list — and won a Stanley Cup with Dallas in 1999. He also played in two other finals, with Chicago in 1992 and the Stars in 2000.

Gilmour scored 450 goals and 964 assists in a career that lasted two decades.

Gilmour was nominated for the Hart Trophy in 1993 when he tallied a career high 127 points for the Toronto Maple Leafs and won the Selke Trophy for top defensive forward in that same season.

A prolific scorer in junior hockey for the Cornwall Royals, Gilmour transitioned into a role of checking forward during his first pro stop in St. Louis, who drafted him in 1982. He continually increased his offensive production, and by 1987 was a key two-way forward for his country at the Canada Cup.

The Kingston, Ont., native was dealt to Calgary and won his only Stanley Cup with the Flames in 1989. He had a reputation for coming up big when it mattered most, with 60 goals and 128 assists in 181 playoffs games.

After leaving the Leafs, he went on to play for New Jersey, Buffalo, Chicago and Montreal. A return to Toronto in 2003 lasted less than a game due to a devastating knee injury.

Nieuwendyk finished with 564 goals, putting him in the top 20 in that category when he retired in 2005. He added 562 assists in a career that lasted 1,257 regular season games.

Nieuwendyk won the Calder Trophy in 1988 with Calgary and scored 192 goals in his first four seasons, ranking among the best ever over that span to start a career. The Oshawa, Ont., native scored 50 goals in each of his first two NHL campaigns, and finished with over 30 goals in eight seasons.

"I am humbled and honored to be voted into the Hockey Hall of Fame," Nieuwendyk said. "This is a tremendous honor."

Another father-son combo

Nieuwendyk led Dallas to the Stanley Cup in the 1999 playoffs, recording 21 points in 23 games to earn the Conn Smythe Trophy.

A teammate at different points of his career with both Gilmour and Belfour, he also won a Cup later with the New Jersey Devils.

Howe played 22 seasons in pro hockey, beginning with six in the World Hockey Association, where he played alongside his legendary father Gordie as well as older brother Marty.

"I was elated to have this dream come true," Howe said Tuesday. "To actually have my name in the Hall of Fame with my dad will mean so much to my family."

Gordie Howe, now 83, was inducted in 1972. The Howes will join Bobby and Brett Hull as just the second father-and-son combo in the Hockey Hall of Fame

Howe starred as a forward with the Toronto Marlboros and as a 16-year-old played on the 1972 U.S. team that won silver at the Olympics. He eventually transitioned to defence and would be a three-time Norris Trophy finalist as top NHL defenceman.

He scored 197 goals and added 545 assists in 929 NHL games with Hartford, Philadelphia and Detroit. Howe joined the ranks of great players never to win a Cup, reaching the final three times.

Factoring in his WHA points, he finished with 1,246 points in 1,355 pro regular season games.

The committee opted not to induct anyone in the builder category, whose candidates include the likes of Pat Burns and Fred Shero. There was widespread criticism last year when the ailing Burns, the only three-time winner for coach of the year, was passed over. He died in November after a lengthy cancer battle, just days after the 2010 class was inducted.

After an inaugural women's class in 2010 that consisted of Angela James and Cammi Granato, retired players such as Geraldine Heaney will have to wait at least one more year.

With files from The Canadian Press

FULL ARTICLE LINK - http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/story/2011/06/28/sp-hhof-inductees.html

daigong · « **Reply #1736 on:** June 29, 2011, 06:55:01 AM »

it smells mostly of Leafs writers but shit man, love that Belfour FUCK YOU mentality.

Heard nothing but blahblablah Lindros blahblablahblah Bure. The fuck did they do but put up numbers. CANT WAIT FOR SOME KEVIN LOWE and Clare Drake, legendary collegiate coach.

daigong · « **Reply #1737 on:** June 30, 2011, 09:09:30 AM »

Great times Todd Marchant!

plus Paul Kariya hangs it up, fuck if he was healthy, he'd have way over 1000 points by now.

Oilers 2011 DEVELOPMENT CAMP SCHEDULE!! Go support your NHL Team!
http://oilers.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=567697

daigong · « **Reply #1738 on:** July 01, 2011, 06:55:59 PM »

FREE AGENCY!!! BEGINS

Ben Eager signs with the Oilers!

Mugen · « **Reply #1739 on:** July 04, 2011, 06:20:13 AM »

SJ traded Heatley for Havlat from Wilds!!!!

GEEE ZUS!