the REAL new nhl

[jimotis4heisman]

http://en.rian.ru/sports/20060606/49106187.html

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="533"><tbody><tr><td class="mainnewstitle" colspan="3" id="withoutphoto" valign="middle">Hockey fans set for feast as Russia, NHL ink club clash deal


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</td> </tr> </tbody></table> </td> </tr> </tbody></table> MOSCOW, June 6 (RIA Novosti) - The Soviet-era battle for world hockey supremacy is set to resume again after officials agreed on a series of exhibition matches between top teams from Russia's Superleague and the NHL.
The agreement was clinched at talks in New York between Vladislav Tretyak, Russia's hockey commissar, and top officials from the National Hockey League (NHL) including Commissioner Gary Bettman, the Russian Hockey Federation (RHF) said Tuesday.
"The sides have agreed to exchange exhibition matches next season," press secretary Vladimir Gerasimov said. "The schedule and teams have yet to be determined."
Hockey fans on both sides of the Atlantic are now savoring a modern-day recapitulation of a series of clashes between the Soviet Union and Team Canada starting in the early 1970s, and subsequently between top club teams from North America and the U.S.S.R.
The Summit Series brought together the world's top two national teams, which could not compete at official major competitions as the Canadians were all professionals in the NHL, while international rules stipulated only amateur athletes could take part - which players under the Soviet system officially were, despite being effectively full-timers.
The Big Red Machine - as the Soviet national team was known - trounced Canada 7-3 in the first game in Montreal on September 2, 1972, but the Canadians rebounded to win the series with four victories, three defeats and one draw, making a shock comeback from 1-3-1 before the last three games in Moscow in late September of that year. The Soviet Union won the second Summit Series 4-1-3 two years later.
The 1980s saw several series involving Moscow clubs CSKA and Krylya Sovyetov, representing the Soviet Union, and NHL clubs.
Tretyak, who was last month elected the head of the RHF, also discussed the possibility of Russia's joining an agreement between the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) and the NHL that regulates transfers between European clubs and the American league, RHF press secretary Gerasimov said.
The three-time Olympic gold medallist - a legendary goalie who played in the Summit Series and the first Russian to be named to the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto - is believed to want to step up cooperation with the NHL.
NHL executive vice president Bill Daly will visit Moscow in September at Tretyak's invitation, Gerasimov said.

 

[jimotis4heisman]

<center>Breaking news: Tretiak talked the clubs into NHL agreement</center>

According to RIA Novosti Russian hockey clubs agreed with the position of the president of the Russian Hockey Federation Vladislav Tretiak regarding the IIHF-NHL transfer agreement. This agreement was achieved today at the meeting held by the Federation for the management of the Superleague clubs. The formal documents will be signed on June 16th.

 

[jimotis4heisman]

http://bruins.bostonherald.com/bruins/view.bg?articleid=171478

B’s Kessel being treated for undisclosed medical condition
By Associated Press
Monday, December 11, 2006 - Updated: 01:52 PM EST

BOSTON - Bruins rookie Phil Kessel, the fifth pick in this year’s NHL draft, is being treated for a medical issue unrelated to hockey and will miss Boston’s game at Montreal on Tuesday night.
The team issued a statement from his family that he would receive treatment Monday. No further details were released at the family’s request, team spokesman Matt Chmura said.
Kessel did not take part in Monday’s practice.
The speedy Kessel has five goals and four assists in 27 games. He played one season at Minnesota before signing a multiyear contract with the Bruins in August. The center led Minnesota and was sixth in the Big Ten in scoring with 18 goals and 33 assists in 34 games.
He also was the career leader in goals for USA Hockey’s national development team.
The family’s statement said, “At this time there is no further update on Phil’s condition. When there is an update, and it is appropriate to do so, we will update everyone on Phil’s health.”

dont know where to put it, not really relevant of its own thread i dont think

 

[greatwhitenorth]

BOSTON (AP) - Bruins rookie Phil Kessel was shocked when he learned he had testicular cancer.
''I couldn't believe it,'' Kessel said before Boston's game against Florida on Saturday night. ''It was tough. I had a hard time with it.''
Kessel, 19-year-old former University of Minnesota player drafted in the first round this year, is expected to rest for two weeks before getting back on the ice. Dr. David Judge, a team internist, termed the prognosis ''excellent.''
On Saturday, Kessel and the Bruins confirmed that the centre had surgery Monday for testicular cancer. Follow-up tests showed the cancer had not spread.
''We had some additional evaluations, some scans and some blood work, and all of that was very reassuring,'' Judge said. ''It had not spread anywhere. It was very localized to the testicle. The outcome of all this is excellent and a very low likelihood of any recurrence.''

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A little more than a week ago, Kessel wasn't feeling great and went to visit Judge.
''One of the things we talked about was a lump he felt on one of his testicles,'' Judge said. ''I had an exam with him that day and an ultrasound that confirmed there was a lump - a very small lump.''
Kessel knew he had cancer last Saturday night, when he played in a 5-1 home loss against New Jersey. Three days later, he underwent the operation to remove his right testicle, which confirmed he had embryonal testicular cancer.
And he wasn't relaxed until tests were completed Friday, confirming the cancer was confined to his testicle.
''I was relieved (Friday),'' Kessel said. ''I was a little nervous the last week or so.''
Kessel is the second Boston athlete this year to be diagnosed with cancer. Red Sox left-hander Jon Lester was diagnosed with lymphoma in August, but doctors labelled him cancer-free earlier this month after he underwent chemotherapy treatments.
The discovery of cancer and surgery has helped Kessel put hockey in perspective.
''You become more a spokesperson with stuff like this. I had to deal with stuff that a lot of people had to deal with,'' Kessel said. ''If you're not feeling well go get checked out and make sure you're all right.''
Kessel has five goals and four assists in 27 games this season.

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=188686&hubname=

Its good to see that he is doing ok and appears to be cancer free and hopefully will stay cancer free.

 

[jimotis4heisman]

http://www.nhl.com/nhl/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=287169

brett hull aritcle on his new job for nbc covering the nhl.

 

[jimotis4heisman]

http://tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=194496&hubname=nhl

NEW YORK (CP) - The NHL says it set an all-time record for January attendance.
Despite empty seats in places like Chicago, New Jersey, Washington, Long Island and St. Louis, the league announced Thursday that it attracted 3,193,093 fans to 187 total games and posted a per-game average of 17,075 in January, the highest in the NHL's 89-year history.
The per-game figure, which represents 92.3 per cent of capacity, was 1.7 per cent higher than last January's 16,795 average.
Overall, the league is down 0.5 per cent from last season through the same number of games.
The NHL says league-wide average attendance has increased month by month: 16,537 in October, 16,538 in November, 16,850 in December and 17,075 in January.

 

[Mike80]

AS much as I hate to see the NHL struggle, there's no doubt in my mind that they are cooking the books in some form of fashion there.

Gary Bettman is the most inept commish ever seen and he's NOT helping the game at all at this time....

And believe me it took some doing to unseat Bud Selig....

 

[greatwhitenorth]

I don't disagree that Bettman is a bad Commish, but they're not cooking the books. Yes attendence is down this year, but only by .5 from last year which was a record setting year. They also just set the record for attendence in January so in terms of actual fans going to the game they're fine. TV on the other hand isn't great in the US, but it wasn't great last year. So really they are in about the same position as they were last year which isn't that bad. They do need to get on a major network in the US but the league is more competitive then it has been in a long time with small market teams at the top right now.

 

[Mike80]

I don't disagree that Bettman is a bad Commish, but they're not cooking the books. Yes attendence is down this year, but only by .5 from last year which was a record setting year. They also just set the record for attendence in January so in terms of actual fans going to the game they're fine. TV on the other hand isn't great in the US, but it wasn't great last year. So really they are in about the same position as they were last year which isn't that bad. They do need to get on a major network in the US but the league is more competitive then it has been in a long time with small market teams at the top right now.

It isn't even counting people in the seats. The NHL changed how it counts attendance.

The NHL just announced that attendance rose for the fourth straight month in January. But critics say check the fine print: The NHL now allows "tickets distributed" (read giveaways) to be counted, not just tickets sold, and eyewitnesses report that plenty of arenas from Boston to Nashville to Nassau Coliseum are barely half-full some nights regardless of the announced crowd figures.
-- Newsday

Better yet, I'm a big hockey fan (i'll watch just about anyone play) and yet tonight, with my entire sports package on DirecTV, I can't watch ONE FUCKING NHL GAME. Bettman is a retard and I can't wait until the owners fire his ass.

This is a league struggling to get TV viewers, yet can you find hockey on AT ALL except on some Sundays?? The TV deal this idiot Bettman signed is the worst thing ever for hockey fans.

 

[jimotis4heisman]

http://tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=196834&hubname=nhl

article on gm meetings

highlights, need to protect sid the kid...and the discussion about instigation majors and 3 inst leads to a suspension

The 30 GMs split up into breakout groups Monday and discussed other issues as well:
- Goalies freezing the puck too often;
- Player development in the AHL, with a AHL president Dave Andrews on hand;
- The length of pre-game ceremonies;
- The standard of enforcement on obstruction;
- The idea of going to one-minute penalties in overtime, an idea also brought forward by Burke.
"I don't know how far that one's going to get," said Burke. "The logic of it, obviously, if you take a tripping penalty in the first period it's 10 per cent of the period and it's a 5-on-4 power play.
"That same foul in overtime is 40 per cent of the period and it's a 4-on-3 power play which has a dramatically higher conversion rate. So to me it makes sense. But I'm not sure my logic will carry the day here."

 

[Mike80]

If you want to see some great hockey, look up the Buffalo - Ottawa game from last night.

Freaking great. Both goalies got ejected for fighting.

Buffalo ended up winning 6-5 on a shootout.

Awesome stuff.

Early 90s type intensity.

 

[Best Buckeye]

If you want to see some great hockey, look up the Buffalo - Ottawa game from last night.

Freaking great. Both goalies got ejected for fighting.

Buffalo ended up winning 6-5 on a shootout.

Awesome stuff.

Early 90s type intensity.

So your definition of "great hockey" is when there is a bench clearing Brawl, One goalie fights two guys, both teams get total ejection and they have a shootout ? I thought the team that wins the fight wins the game ???

 

[jimotis4heisman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywUHnI5pKT8

 

[crazybuckfan40]

What a bunch of thugs...

 

[jimotis4heisman]

not really, that game was a lot better than last nights jackets game if you ask me... i saw 3 or 4 third man ins in the jackets game...