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2014 NHL Offseason Thread - Free Agency Starts July 1st (1 Viewer)

Got my B's games for the upcoming season ... Blackhawks, Oilers, Sharks, Stars and the Fightin' Ruds (who, for some reason, I haven't seen play live since I don't know when).

 
Dickie Dunn said:
Got my B's games for the upcoming season ... Blackhawks, Oilers, Sharks, Stars and the Fightin' Ruds (who, for some reason, I haven't seen play live since I don't know when).
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my BIl said our tickets came in. Now we have to split them up. I'll probably go to a few less games this year since my son is playing mite hockey. Maybe 10-15
 
Dickie Dunn said:
Got my B's games for the upcoming season ... Blackhawks, Oilers, Sharks, Stars and the Fightin' Ruds (who, for some reason, I haven't seen play live since I don't know when).
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Probably easier to scalp those Sabres tickets for a huge profit each year.

I may get a chance to catch a Sabres game at the Shark Tank this year.

 
Aaron Rudnicki said:
Dickie Dunn said:
Got my B's games for the upcoming season ... Blackhawks, Oilers, Sharks, Stars and the Fightin' Ruds (who, for some reason, I haven't seen play live since I don't know when).
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Probably easier to scalp those Sabres tickets for a huge profit each year.

I may get a chance to catch a Sabres game at the Shark Tank this year.
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I've been dying to get to SJ. Also looking into maybe catching a game on the Island again before they move.

I had a chance to do the Stadium back around '94 but didn't pull the trigger. Really regretting that.

 
I'm kind of over the whole outdoor hockey thing. last year ruined it a bit.

I'm still excited for 24/7 though.

 
Aaron Rudnicki said:
I'm kind of over the whole outdoor hockey thing. last year ruined it a bit.

I'm still excited for 24/7 though.
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24/7 dead now too. Hopefully it will be played in the rain again, what a wonderful event.
 
Aaron Rudnicki said:
Raider Nation said:
Rule changes

No more Spin-O-Rama penalty shots.
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lots of good changes in there. spin-o-rama rule is stupid but not a big deal imo.
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It should be interesting to see how much they enforce the tripping revision.

Kind of scratching my head on penalizing the coach personally for excessive diving. I wonder if the incidences are only per individual player or aggregated. It would be rather funny if the players didn't like the coach and every player took a dive in a single game.

 
Rule 84 – Overtime

* Teams will switch ends prior to the start of overtime in the regular season. :thumbup:

* The entire ice surface will undergo a "dry scrape" prior to the start of overtime in the regular season. :thumbup: (They should do this for the shootout too since they screwup the "partial" scrape anyway AND many players go super wide anyway. Or, get rid of this scrape altogether (since they now have the scrape after regulation)

Rule 85 – Puck Out of Bounds :thumbup: i really like these amendments.

 
face-off rule is completely stupid. they are essentially giving the center a free chance to cheat on the first drop since he is forced to stay in the dot. I get what they are trying to do, but they completely whiffed and gave the defending team a further advantage.

 
Bill Brasky said:
face-off rule is completely stupid. they are essentially giving the center a free chance to cheat on the first drop since he is forced to stay in the dot. I get what they are trying to do, but they completely whiffed and gave the defending team a further advantage.
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That seemed a bit strange to me. I can just imagine the #####ing which will go on if they ever handed out a penalty for a second infraction since there's got to be a good measure of subjectivity involved in that.

 
kentric said:
Bill Brasky said:
face-off rule is completely stupid. they are essentially giving the center a free chance to cheat on the first drop since he is forced to stay in the dot. I get what they are trying to do, but they completely whiffed and gave the defending team a further advantage.
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That seemed a bit strange to me. I can just imagine the #####ing which will go on if they ever handed out a penalty for a second infraction since there's got to be a good measure of subjectivity involved in that.
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it's rare, but it's called. that part of the rule isn't new.

 
AcerFC said:
Dickie Dunn said:
Got my B's games for the upcoming season ... Blackhawks, Oilers, Sharks, Stars and the Fightin' Ruds (who, for some reason, I haven't seen play live since I don't know when).
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my BIl said our tickets came in. Now we have to split them up. I'll probably go to a few less games this year since my son is playing mite hockey. Maybe 10-15
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Think you could snag any Red Wings tickets at the garden? I want to hit a Wings game at every original six venue.

 
Foosball God said:
AcerFC said:
Dickie Dunn said:
Got my B's games for the upcoming season ... Blackhawks, Oilers, Sharks, Stars and the Fightin' Ruds (who, for some reason, I haven't seen play live since I don't know when).
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my BIl said our tickets came in. Now we have to split them up. I'll probably go to a few less games this year since my son is playing mite hockey. Maybe 10-15
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Think you could snag any Red Wings tickets at the garden? I want to hit a Wings game at every original six venue.
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yup, probably. Are we going together or do you want both.
 
Didn't even realize the Rangers signed Malone to a two way deal yesterday.

Rangers have taken some very nice chances this offseason. Considering the salary cap squeeze they were in, and lack of high draft picks, I like what they've done. Even if just one or two pan out, team shouldn't be decimated and may even be able to make another nice playoff run again.

 
ItsOnlytheRiver said:
Not sure how I like the tripping revision, but I'm willing to give it a go. Like the diving rules.
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The tripping rule is really only a player/forward safety rule. What they are trying to do is stop the D man from chasing a guy down from behind, both going full speed, and taking him out so that both players end up crashing into the boards. Wether you 'got' the puck or not is irrelevant b/c 9 out of 10 times you can't play it and while yes, you broke up a (very good) scoring chance, you added more opportunity for injury to the forward and the goalie.

I don't mind the rule, it will cut down on injury, increase the chances of a completed breakaway and possibly increase scoring.

 
Off topic, but being a bunch of hockey fans, you can appreciate.

I had the opportunity to skate with Adam Graves and Stephen Matteau last weekend in a 24-hour charity game. I'm a referee and I donated some time to officiate the games. Both guys were super fantastic and very giving of their time to everyone who showed up. Had a few laughs with Graves and (as it turns out) Matteau is friends with an old co-worker of mine who I saw there. So he had Matteau do some chirping at me and give me some #### on the ice while I was working the game for fun.

Brian Leetch was there too but did not play.

Here are a few shots

While i'm actually an Islander fan, I hate the Raggies...but those were guys who I respected as great hockey players. Graves especially is a fantastic person and very charitable.

Here is a little write up on the game. They'll do it again next year with a few more former pro's added to the event.

 
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The NHL has finalized plans to team with premium cable network Epix to film and broadcast an all-access television show preceding the annual Winter Classic, an individual with knowledge of the situation confirmed Monday.

The news of the partnership, which will be formally announced at a news conference at Nationals Park on Sept. 23, was originally reported by ESPN.com.

According to ESPN, Epix will produce four episodes leading up to the Washington Capitals-Chicago Blackhawks afternoon outdoor game on New Year’s Day, each showcasing the behind-the-scenes material made popular by the previous installment, HBO’s 24/7. Last week, both HBO and the NHL confirmed that they had parted ways, but the league made promises to create a similar venture with another network. As it turns out, that network will be Epix, a cable collaboration of Lionsgate Entertainment, MGM and Paramount Pictures, per ESPN, and the two sides have also planned a similar reality series leading to the Los Angeles Kings-San Jose Sharks game at Levi’s Stadium, the new football stadium for the San Francisco 49ers.

“The great thing you see with the all-access, you see it in the NHL and the 24/7 types of things, those are things people don’t see,” Capitals Coach Barry Trotz said Monday. “Even those, there are some great stories, but it’s also the individual aspect. Sometimes people forget that players have families.

“They’re regular people doing something that’s extraordinary in their field and you tend to forget that there’s a really good human side to everything. There’s a reason why a guy’s maybe not playing, you see the behind the scenes a guy’s hurt, he’s dealing with that, maybe some personal problems, whatever. Those are the things that people don’t see, which I think opens and sheds a great light.”

Last season, as the Red Wings and Maple Leafs got the all-access treatment, coaches Mike Babcock and Randy Carlyle both booted cameras from their locker rooms. Trotz said he understood the sentiment, but didn’t anticipate any issues because “Anything to help the Capitals or the NHL, we definitely want to do that.”

“On the bad side of that is you always talk about the locker room being sacred,” Trotz said. “The men that go in the locker room, for a lot of people, are the people who sweat and broke bones together. It’s a very tight group, then you open it up and it’s not as sacred. There’s a fine line. Everybody says oh it’s great to have access. But at the same time there’s a sacredness of being at this level in that locker room. It’s their room. Sometimes by opening it up too much it becomes, to me, less sacred and therefore you lose a little bit of that tradition, that order that makes those things go. Membership has its privileges, and if you’re not a member, sometimes maybe you shouldn’t have that privilege. That’s the dilemma that coaches have with all-access sometimes.”

Like many hockey fans, Trotz found himself watching the “24/7” series for its unfettered access and candidness. Now he and the Capitals, who were filmed for the 2011 installment, find themselves on the other side. Here’s more on Epix, from that ESPN story:

But with HBO’s parent company, Time Warner, looking to reduce costs across the board, NHL officials became concerned about whether the same quality would be produced for a product that garnered 15 Emmy nominations and three Emmy awards. Enter Epix, which was exploring producing more original content as opposed to simply airing Hollywood movies. Epix was launched in October 2009. President Mark Greenberg has a long history working for HBO, and producer Ross Greenburg is the former HBO senior executive who helped launch the original “24/7″ in 2011 that featured the Washington Capitals and the Pittsburgh Penguins. Officials with Epix reached out to NHL officials to discuss the possibility of working with the league as a way to expand their sports documentary library. Their most recent project, an examination of how the color barrier was broken in the NFL in the 1940s entitled “The Forgotten Four,” is produced by Greenburg and is gaining significant buzz in advance of its release.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capitals-insider/wp/2014/09/15/nhl-partners-with-cable-network-epix-for-winter-classic-all-access-show/

 
wtf is epix?

the NHL Revealed series that the NHL did last year regarding the stadium series games was very good and along the same lines as 24/7. I'm sure they can put out something solid here.

 
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