Uh, oh another hockey thread!

Although i think the correct term is sweater - jersey is home to the devils.

How can you play hockey in Dallas anyway? I guess if the Jamaicans can have an Olympic bobsled team, Dallas can field a hockey team.

ChrisL

Si,
Are you 01?

ChrisL

I’ve always been Dukes of Hazzard fan...

...but couldn’t get them to write “OpenType” in Cooper Black. ;-)

As an ex-Texan, I can tell you the games are very well-attended. There are minor league teams in the DFW area also. I guess they are called minor league. I thought it was stupid when I heard about the purchase of the Stars but they are popular.

Si, I always thought they were a bunch of Hobos anyway.... ;-)

Sharon, until lately, so did Nashville: my guess is that there are a lot of DFW types who’ve spent time up here in our oil patch and know the game. Heck, most of the kids I went to high school with had dads who had come up with the big strikes in the 1950s....

I never thought of that Linda. Makes sense. :-)

i think the correct term is sweater

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>Blurb for the above image:

I’d counter with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockey_sweater - but I guess the sweater vs jersey controversy is the hockey equivalent of Mac vs Windows.

>Si, I always thought they were a bunch of Hobos anyway…. ;-)

That’s another Dallas team...

going through hockey withdrawal syndrome, must not lose control

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=%22hockey+sweater%...

So yeah, sweater is correct :-)

Nick, do you think I’m really going to argue with a Canadian about hockey?

Linda, at least the Flames went down in a double OT blaze of glory. The cowboys went down on a muffed field goal snap. ;-)

If - if - if we had made it into the playoffs and then into the finals (why can’t I stop laughing?), I was going unleash the ring of power...

...sigh - oh well ’08!!!.

_________
Hiro

This was great pro sport when there were 6 teams and each team meant something culturally significant. Who are the Canadians? What’s Texas got do with hawkee!? Ahh, the good old days when every single player in the league would have been an all-star today, dentistry was an unknown science, Stan and Bobby boiled their sticks and helmets were for soldiers.

But David, Howe can you say that? :-)

ChrisL

The MINNESOTA North Stars were from an era when you could still get $10 walk-up seats.

Now we have the Wild. Bad name. Better stadium. Overpriced Seats. Somewhat interesting logo:

Sadly for me it’s all been downhill since 1917 when Seattle last won the Stanley Cup - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Metropolitans

At least that’s more recent than Ottawa, Si!

(And we were pretty bad against Detroit, particularly in games at the Joe.)

“But David, Howe can you say that? :-)”
I’m an Imp, no a van Imp.

“The MINNESOTA North Stars were from an era when you could still get $10 walk-up seats.”
Ah, to see Ceasar Maniago take one on the forehead for a 10-56 team, while being outshot 430-12 by the MapleLeafs, (the MAPLE LEAFS!) those were the days? Not! but well worth the 10 bucks, was it? Gump Worseley, “Elbows” Erik Nestorenko, Wayne Maki, Pie Mackenzie, Guy Lapointe, Yvan Cournoyer, Roger Crozier, these were players who left splinters after just being talked about.

Now, even Americans tink de can play eh?. ;) Anyway, happy 30th (the Hanson bros. screen de butte).

Cheers

Ahh, another of the Broad Street Bullies, eh?

ChrisL

“Now, even Americans tink de can play eh?”

Even worse. Now even the sun-belt states think they can play. ;o)

Hockey? In Florida? C’mon Canada...you shouldn’t stand for that. ;o)

Or Phoenix — as a born-and-bred Winnipegger, it’s a travesty.... :-(

Or Phoenix...it’s a travesty

Gretzky doesn’t seem to think so. :^p

Uh, oh another hockey thread!

Hockey? In Florida? C’mon Canada…you shouldn’t stand for that. ;o)

At the sake of continuing this thread...TWO teams in Florida while Quebec (with centuries of hockey tradition) merits only one! I guess when the snowbirds go south for winter they take their hockey with them.

Gretzky doesn’t seem to think so. :^p

Given how bad they stank up the joint, how he’s since sacked most of the front office — including his former agent! — and how much money they are losing, the consensus among the cognoscenti is that he’s looking for a way out.

(Or he could get Janet to place bets on a few winners.... ;-) )

Linda is just bitter about the Jets, obviously. :P

(Or he could get Janet to place bets on a few winners…. ;-) )

That requires winning. Unless you’re betting on a good team.

*note I don’t even pay attention to hockey a whole lot.

Nice call Nick. Too bad my Canucks didn’t look so good last night against the Ducks.

Linda: take that back. The Sens won in 1927.

Damn, you’re right — strange that I never saw a banner for it when I was last in Scotiabank Place though. Granted, that was 7+ years ago....

(And then there’s Kenora!)

>Too bad my Canucks didn’t look so good last night against the Ducks.

Nick’s comments put the Shinn curse on them :-(

> two teams in Florida

Well, there are probably more Canadians in Florida in the winter (the snowbirds) than in Quebec City.

curse

It was in 1992/93 when the DEG from Dusseldorf, Germany’s “Little Paris” became Champion in hockey.
5 matches in the play offs agaist Cologne.
Cologne and Dusseldorf are like dogs and cats - but only approx. 40 miles from each other.
The 4th match was in Cologne, but 6,000 fans stood _in front of_ the Dusseldorf stadium. There was nothing - no big video screen, nothing. The stadium was closed. But the police insisted to open it because the people were standing aroung on the streets in the traffic.
A stadium speaker told us details from the match. And they played the german hockey songs we all singing together. - We lost.

The fifth and last match was in Dusseldorf.
John Peter Lee, Chris Valentine, Benoit Doucet.
They did it.
When Ben Doucet shot the 5:4 - he was close to God - we all were.
Champion. In my hometown. Against Cologne. This was magic, men...

“Oh, Du wunderschöööne DE EEE GEEEE...
Du soooollst ewig Deutscher Meister seeiii hein...”

Georg

Islanders went on to get last playoff spot.

And where are they now??? That Shinn curse is mighty powerful :)

Georg: That’s a lovely story.

“Moose Jaw Canucks logo, 1958-66, Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League”

Priceless Nick! Dat’s a Hawkee logo wit real kwotes, or do I need retape my glasses?

I know he is not a hockey player, but Jack Lambert went (or perhaps didn’t go at all) to the same dentist as the old school hockey guys.

ChrisL

@ descom

The only man who’s no professional, but his hockey picture is acceptable, is Paul Newman in Slapshot.

Georg

I guess you didn’t know Jack :-)

ChrisL

“I know he is not a hockey player, but Jack Lambert..”
...was used as the puck from age 3 until age 9, when he was promoted to stick until age 13 when he discovered a helmet without a facemask. But by 16, he was playing football with a mask. This was when he finally lost his first tooth; while trying to bit through said mask at an opponents fingers.

“while trying to bit through said mask at an opponents fingers.”

Now HE KNOWS Jack :-)

ChrisL

ok. Good old retro 70s Canucks logo, I had table hockey players with Canuck shirts like that, my original 2 teams where Montreal vs Toronto and they were metal but they started making flat plastic ones as well with stick on uni’s. I later bought a game with 3D players and painted them Boston Bruins vs Chicago Blackhawks. I still have that.

Dallas has had professional ice hockey teams since at least 1945 and there is a well known rink in a mall in Dallas. Jim Gallagher when he was at Macromedia (Fontographer) use to play ice hockey in a Dallas men’s league.

I grew up playing ice hockey on ponds, rivers, flooded backyards and fields but when we got older and more competitive you had to play only indoors on rinks and never use your good skates on ponds since they aren’t smooth and have lots of twigs and sand in the ice. You can play the game anywhere there is refrigeration and aircon. I use to play at the old Sky Rink in Manhattan which was on something like the 17th floor, 33 between 10th and 11th.

Go Canucks!

p.s. As the story goes Bobby Hull invented the curved ice hockey stick when one day after practice he put his wet stick against a heater and it caused the blade to curve. I use to try to curve my own stick by soaking it then wrapping it with tin foil and putting it in the oven. This unfortunately makes the fibreglass tape on the blade come loose.

You going to cheer for the Sens too, Vince? ;-)

I love the Canucks logos.I hate it when it looks like all the logos were assigned on the same day of the year. Our “distinct” color pallette really helps date it, as well. At least ours has bigger teeth. Perhaps The Wild needs to get with the program and use an x-treeem sabertooth bear for a model.

It’s in the blood...

“As the story goes Bobby Hull invented the curved ice hockey stic...”
Stan Mikita invented the curved stick. You dated yourself when you mention fiberclass getting in the way. A raw stick blade was boiled and then placed under a door with brick to adjust the curve, sometimes twice. Then shaping was done with a hand plane and then laces were wrapped around the handle and taping began. When you were done, unlike in the old days, you could now put a wrist-shot up someone’s nose from 4 feet away, and the race to make safe masks was on, enter Plante.

“As the story goes Bobby Hull invented the curved ice hockey stic...”
Stan Mikita invented the curved stick. You dated yourself when you mention fiberclass getting in the way. A raw stick blade was boiled and then placed under a door with brick to adjust the curve, sometimes twice. Then shaping was done with a hand plane and then laces were wrapped around the handle and taping began. When you were done, unlike in the old days, you could now put a wrist-shot up someone’s nose from 4 feet away, and the race to make safe masks was on, enter Plante.

Ok I saw a Hull interview who said he did it but I guess they were wrong and telling a fib but Hull sometimes gets credit for being Mikita’s teammate and one of the first users.

http://www.iowastarshockey.com/newsandstats/pressreleases/index.html?art...

say’s:

As legend has it, one day at practice Mikita accidentally split the flat, straight blade of his hockey stick into a V-shape. Without pausing to change sticks, Mikita continued playing in the scrimmage. To his surprise, he found that he could rip off faster and harder shots with the crooked cudgel. Soon, he and Hull began using severely curved blades in games. Hull played with up to a one-and-a-half inch curve on his stick.

p.s. I was looking through stuff and saw I had almost only the 6 NHL shirts... (no toronto had one as a kid though)

Boston (Black), Montreal (Red) , Chicago (Red), NY Rangers (White), Detroit (White no logo), also... Team Canada (white), Team Finland (Blue), Microsoft Windows 2000 Ronald McDonald Challenge (teal).

“Windows 2000 Ronald McDonald Challenge” , a game on thin greasy ice?
” Without pausing to change sticks...” normally a 2 minute penalty,,,Wayne’s World did a lot for his career though.

I had all six teams in all metal for my table hockey and I had all the cards of all the players. But I was to be damned if I was gonna go out and get more just to be complete to the last of Charlie Finley’s California “Golden Seals” or the dreadfully small but slow Penguins.

Unless you consider the hammer throw as tossing an on-curve and off-curve point as far as you can, I think hockey is about as close to type design as you can get. Don’t you?