YOU'RE PAYING JORDAN STAAL $10,344.83 (US) PER POINT: THE NHL 2012-2013 THREAD (INCLUDING LOCKOUT TALK, STANLEY CUP CHAMPION LOS ANGELES KINGS HANGOVER AND OFFSEASON SHENANIGANS. HOCKEY IS THE BEST)

Last night, news broke that the Montreal Canadiens might be in violation of the Quebec provincial labour board and that their players might legally not be allowed to be locked out next weekend. Today, defenseman Josh Gorges said that if the players win in this dispute, Canadiens players will be paid while the rest of the League is locked out.

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=404989

loooooooong article on the lockout that sorta proves there are no winners, I'm still working my way through it

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/doomsday-clock.jpg

http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2012/01/0114_doomsday_clock_newreading_full_600.jpg

https://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_maezfnQOoR1qe1x8qo1_500.jpg

Team owners = pieces of shit

imo

Elliotte Friedman ‏@FriedgeHNIC
$200 million worth of contracts signed in last 48 hours.

The Kontinental Hockey League has reached an agreement with the US sports TV channel ESPN to broadcast games in the 2012/2013 KHL Championship. The games will be shown on the ESPN3 channel in the United States, Territories of the United States, and also in Great Britain....

During the first decade of October, the channel will broadcast five KHL games. The planned schedule includes:

Dynamo Moscow vs Ak Bars on Oct. 3rd;
Lev vs SKA on Oct. 6th;
Slovan vs Dynamo Moscow on Oct. 7th;
CSKA vs SKA on Oct. 8th;
Lev vs Dynamo Moscow on Oct. 9th.

Is this NHL Schadenfreude wrt ESPN? I might be using Schadenfreude wrong in this instance but I feel like there's a german word for this...

eh, it's just a web stream

but like, NHL couldn't PAY ESPN to take a contract on a season and now... all this...

ESPN fuckin 3, the bane of people who like some outlying sports stuff and want to watch it on fucking TV

I actually kind of like espn3, my computer monitor has a better picture than my tv anyway.

Might try to remember to watch Datsyuk play, he's with CSKA now iirc.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/brett-hull-halloween-pumpkin-trolling-buffalo-sabres-fans-012319384--nhl.html

Hey, all you guys prefer the Euro-style hockey anyway, so you should be enjoying this.

1.5/10 on the troll scale

didn't he do this already?

btw been watching college hockey online, school I grew up watching & graduated from tore up minnesota last friday including this kid's awesome goal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWY8iZTtwHQ

BREAKING: ISLANDERS TO BROOKLYN

i thought the barclays center could only hold like 14k for hockey? weirdness.

also it's gonna be a hellish two seasons out in nassau til the lease runs out

maybe everyone will be cool since brooklyn is on long island lol

http://nymag.com/daily/sports/2012/06/barclays-centers-funky-hockey-configuration.html

it's so infuriating that barclays wasn't built for ice.

ya seems like kinda a stupid plan

it was so obvious the islanders were going to move there

reminds me of the last generation of mls stadiums

i thought the barclays center could only hold like 14k for hockey? weirdness.

― mookieproof, Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:47 AM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

When's the last time they got this many people

according to wiki it holds 14,500 for hockey, making it easily the smallest building in the league.

oh, being in nassau county was never a great idea, but it's also hard to separate their attendance problems from the fact that they've played in four playoff series in the last 20 years and lost them all.

playing in a half-assed building with no seats at one end doesn't seem as promising as playing in hartford or quebec or seattle or toronto, that's all. i wouldn't recommend kansas city, but they already have an arena and would probably give the league a great deal.

http://blogimages.thescore.com/nhl/files/2012/10/BrooklynIslanderslogogogog-590x320.jpg

j/k, that's not real -- yet

Winter Classic cancelled ;_;

at this point, I'm just gonna assume that the season is cancelled and maybe in the future I'm going to be pleasantly surprised when they announce that there's going to be a 15 game regular season + playoffs.

like most people, I only watch hockey in the playoffs anyway

15-game season would be super-intense

I would be v cool with a single table season where every club played each other once, home & away.

would also accept a 30 team world cup style tournament

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8570106/the-nhl-lockout-manchester-monarchs-ahl-hockey

~20 years ago at a raleigh ice caps game (echl, played in the dorton arena, home of the nc state fair) i spent a fair bit of time yelling at terry koharski about doughnuts

I need hockey back. Badly. Really badly.

I need to see Girardi, Nash and Kreider lay on the ice to create an invincile shot blocking triple wall after the Rangers spent a good 4 minutes in their own end.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/pass-fail-ahl-rockford-icehogs-mexican-fiesta-los-155933995--nhl.html

http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/.I_DPO_Dem97C6IvqsOCsw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/sptusnhlexperts/LosIceHogs_12.jpg

http://deadspin.com/5958837/mike-keenan-the-nhls-last-great-asshole-coach

I don't know if I would call him the last asshole coach b/c I hate Ken Hitchcock a whole lot, but it's pretty otm otherwise.

I like the hats on the numbers, nice touch.

I love the Dave Manson shout out in that article, i loved him as a player.

http://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_md8ktawtAF1qe1x8qo1_1280.gif

je me souviens

http://www.broadstreethockey.com/2012/11/8/3616454/eric-lindros-hall-of-fame

Hofgtfo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVeqzYgTELk

http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/qz3Tfy.rlo1LVt8GNwsTEw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/sptusnhlexperts/cherryweirdstory.jpg

There is a strange dichotomy in NHL ownership. The owners, whether as companies or individuals, are extremely wealthy. Yet many teams reportedly lose money every year, and with few exceptions even the profitable clubs don’t make that much money. Why would phenomenally successful men sink money into a black hole like that? Is it simply a case of viewing hockey teams as luxuries where they can afford to bleed red a little?

While non-financial considerations undoubtedly come into play, the simplest explanation is that the financial picture for various NHL teams is a lot healthier than it is typically reported to be.

http://blogs.edmontonjournal.com/2012/11/16/nhl-lockout-why-do-billionaires-keep-buying-teams-that-lose-money/

Some shell game shit going on here imo.

bill simmons takes time out of his busy schedule of nba/pr0n/80s movies-watching to shit on gary bettman. he narrowly avoids saying 'can we make this happen?'

sounds like the hardline clubs are those in non-hockey markets like nashville/tampa/columbus that need extra concessions from the players to survive. philly daily news reported that flyers owner ed snider is getting fed up and wants to play, although the league has denied any dissension in the ranks.

also:
http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/c0.0.400.400/p403x403/602370_10151251831974826_1249691292_n.jpg

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f35_1329274782

Canadians playing outdoor hockey on a frozen lake. Kind of freaky but cool. How they even see the puck coming I have no idea.