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  • lukin2006
    lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    polaris_x wrote:
    lukin2006 wrote:
    Unfortunately for CBC its only 4 years ... but they have absolutely no say in which game they get and how its produced. I suspect in 4 years time there will be no NHL over the air, you'll either have to have satellite/cable or whatever. One of the reports said Rogers wanted this deal so they could attract cable cutters back to pay for tv again. Hate to break it to Rogers it'll be a cold day in hell before i'll ever subscribe to cable/satellite again in this country.

    This is going to seriously hurt TSN. When I did have satellite Rogers and TSN were in separate packages, so I suspect many people will drop TSN and pick up Rogers. I think it's another bullshit move by Bettman towards Canada ... I think they could have easily split the NHL up with Sportsnet, TSN and CBC.

    i think most of the providers now include both tsn and sportsnet in their sports package ... i'm with bell and I get both those channels ...

    in the end - rogers offered A BOAT LOAD of money for the exclusivity ... what's good for the fans is obviously secondary ...

    If you have the basic bell package all you get is TSN ... so this deal will force hockey fans to add a package so they can get sports net. I really don't care whether TSN or Sportsnet has the NHL ... I really don't like CBC being cut out of hockey the way they were ... I know it'll be on the air for 4 more years, but that doesn't guarantee the cup finals will be broadcast on CBC. In 4 years there will be no over the air hockey ... and I'm currently a Rogers phone subscriber so I will be switching over as soon as possible.

    As for over the air ... I know plenty of people who just have antenna.
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  • lukin2006
    lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    How Rogers hockey deal compares with other sports

    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-o ... e15614190/

    The NFL just WOW ...
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,078
    damn, my beloved blues are looking pretty good right now. steen and halak are playing out of their minds.

    just wait, we are gonna get devoured by the injury bug, as we do every year.

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  • Vitalogensia
    Vitalogensia Posts: 2,197
    With Crosby's awesomeness continuing to heat up, I'm sure there's a puck to the face around the corner, a strange carom off the boards perhaps?
  • FrankieG
    FrankieG Abingdon MD Posts: 9,100
    Anyone have a video stream link for the Devil/Ranger game that's going on right now?
    Not on my tv and listening to it on the radio is lame... :lol:

    EDIT: Nevermind, got one on my normal site, finally.. 8-)
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  • fife
    fife Posts: 3,327
    In other news, it is believed that the cap for next year will be at 71 Million.
  • RoughMix
    RoughMix back of a lorry Posts: 385
    Datsyuk returns tonight!!
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  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,853
    that Neal knee to the head of Marchand was despicable, and in my opinion was more dangerous and severe than both the Bertuzzi incident and the McSorley/Brashear incident. Considering he is a repeat offender, 5 games is a joke.

    Thornton on the other hand. Slew-foots a guy from behind and pounds his face/head into the ice with a gloved hand. And you have Roenick and Jones on air last night defending him.



    Then you have John Scott administering a borderline hit on Erickson (who needs to learn to keep his head up by the way), and that walking Penis Pierre McGuire flips out and starts some sort of lynch mob to run John Scott out of the NHL. Mike Milbury went on for 3 segments basically calling for every person ever to be involved with the Sabres be tarred and feathered for this.

    Where is the outrage for this? It is 100x worse than John Scott's incident and he got 7 games, and had no prior history
  • lukin2006
    lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    MayDay10 wrote:
    that Neal knee to the head of Marchand was despicable, and in my opinion was more dangerous and severe than both the Bertuzzi incident and the McSorley/Brashear incident. Considering he is a repeat offender, 5 games is a joke.

    Thornton on the other hand. Slew-foots a guy from behind and pounds his face/head into the ice with a gloved hand. And you have Roenick and Jones on air last night defending him.



    Then you have John Scott administering a borderline hit on Erickson (who needs to learn to keep his head up by the way), and that walking Penis Pierre McGuire flips out and starts some sort of lynch mob to run John Scott out of the NHL. Mike Milbury went on for 3 segments basically calling for every person ever to be involved with the Sabres be tarred and feathered for this.

    Where is the outrage for this? It is 100x worse than John Scott's incident and he got 7 games, and had no prior history

    The people involved with the NHL should be embarrassed ... Not week goes by when guys don't get suspended ... A guy gets rocked by a clean hit and a scrum break out, some knucklehead chases the hitter down, what a joke. There are so many scrums after whistles ... And IMO it's because the NHL should only have between 21-24 teams, most of these 3 rd and 4 the liners are AHL material, and don't be surprised that they don't add Seattle and KC at some point.
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  • drivingrl
    drivingrl Posts: 1,448
    MayDay10 wrote:
    that Neal knee to the head of Marchand was despicable, and in my opinion was more dangerous and severe than both the Bertuzzi incident and the McSorley/Brashear incident. Considering he is a repeat offender, 5 games is a joke.

    Agreed.
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  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    hi rygar! :wave: :mrgreen:
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    norm wrote:
    hi rygar! :wave: :mrgreen:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vgoEhsJORU

    :lol:
  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    and fighting has done what to make the game safer!??
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    Rygar wrote:
    norm wrote:
    hi rygar! :wave: :mrgreen:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vgoEhsJORU

    :lol:

    :lol::lol:
  • ShawnKemps7Kids
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    The Flames have just fired Jay Feaster and John Weisbrod. These moves were destined to happen, just kind surprised they happened now and not in the offseason.
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,302
    Scientists Believe Hockey Players May Communicate By Banging Sticks Against Boards

    Sports News in Brief • Sports • hockey • ISSUE 49•50 • Dec 13, 2013

    PALO ALTO, CA—Shedding light on how hockey players convey information without an advanced verbal language, a study published this week by Stanford biologists has found that players may communicate by banging their sticks against wooden boards surrounding the rink. “We found that hockey players can use stick-banging to indicate anything from disagreement with a referee to encouragement of their teammates,” said lead researcher Dr. Margaret Cundiff, who explained that players typically strike the boards a single time with force when they want to display anger, or use multiple softer taps in order to display approval. “Sometimes, an entire bench full of players will begin banging the boards in unison—either signaling that a goal has occurred, or that the players want a goal to occur. This actually lets hockey players ‘speak’ to each other, if you will, in surprisingly complex ways far beyond what was previously anticipated. They are truly magnificent creatures.” The study also concluded that hockey fans’ common behavior of pounding their hands against the glass while emitting a series of guttural grunts serves no discernible purpose
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  • righteousbabe
    righteousbabe Posts: 662
    Jason P wrote:
    Scientists Believe Hockey Players May Communicate By Banging Sticks Against Boards

    Sports News in Brief • Sports • hockey • ISSUE 49•50 • Dec 13, 2013

    PALO ALTO, CA—Shedding light on how hockey players convey information without an advanced verbal language, a study published this week by Stanford biologists has found that players may communicate by banging their sticks against wooden boards surrounding the rink. “We found that hockey players can use stick-banging to indicate anything from disagreement with a referee to encouragement of their teammates,” said lead researcher Dr. Margaret Cundiff, who explained that players typically strike the boards a single time with force when they want to display anger, or use multiple softer taps in order to display approval. “Sometimes, an entire bench full of players will begin banging the boards in unison—either signaling that a goal has occurred, or that the players want a goal to occur. This actually lets hockey players ‘speak’ to each other, if you will, in surprisingly complex ways far beyond what was previously anticipated. They are truly magnificent creatures.” The study also concluded that hockey fans’ common behavior of pounding their hands against the glass while emitting a series of guttural grunts serves no discernible purpose

    Is this serious? Pretty funny stuff if so. It is like an article about the intelligence of dolphins and how they communicate.
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,302
    righteousbabe wrote:
    Jason P wrote:
    Scientists Believe Hockey Players May Communicate By Banging Sticks Against Boards

    Sports News in Brief • Sports • hockey • ISSUE 49•50 • Dec 13, 2013

    PALO ALTO, CA—Shedding light on how hockey players convey information without an advanced verbal language, a study published this week by Stanford biologists has found that players may communicate by banging their sticks against wooden boards surrounding the rink. “We found that hockey players can use stick-banging to indicate anything from disagreement with a referee to encouragement of their teammates,” said lead researcher Dr. Margaret Cundiff, who explained that players typically strike the boards a single time with force when they want to display anger, or use multiple softer taps in order to display approval. “Sometimes, an entire bench full of players will begin banging the boards in unison—either signaling that a goal has occurred, or that the players want a goal to occur. This actually lets hockey players ‘speak’ to each other, if you will, in surprisingly complex ways far beyond what was previously anticipated. They are truly magnificent creatures.” The study also concluded that hockey fans’ common behavior of pounding their hands against the glass while emitting a series of guttural grunts serves no discernible purpose

    Is this serious? Pretty funny stuff if so. It is like an article about the intelligence of dolphins and how they communicate.
    Nah, I forgot to post the link to the onion. :P

    (Although the onion seems to be more reputable then most major news feeds these days :| )
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  • smarchee
    smarchee Windsor, Ontario Posts: 14,539
    uh oh Malkin just played D on a 2 on 1 and fell and when flying into the boards behind the net feet first

    right knee absorbed the shock, did not look good
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  • lukin2006
    lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    smarchee wrote:
    uh oh Malkin just played D on a 2 on 1 and fell and when flying into the boards behind the net feet first

    right knee absorbed the shock, did not look good

    Didn't see it read about it though ... Guess he was moving around with a noticeable limp after the game, just have to wait for the MRI.
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