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Recent Blog Post: The Fastest Game on Earth is Back
The new NHL season has begun, and there are many questions to start the new year. Unfortunately none of them are hockey related.
Like why is the NHL starting the season in London when they have enough trouble getting people to show up to games in the States. And why would you have the opening game be the Los Angeles Kings versus the Anaheim Ducks. There is a reason why the NBA, NFL and MLB send out two of the best teams in the league to open their season. Not the defending Stanley Cup Champion versus a team that is rebuilding. There is also a reason to why these leagues advertise their openers like crazy. I didn't know the season began until hours after the opener was over. Not only were the teams a poor choice, and the advertising dismal, but a noon (Eastern Time) game on a Saturday, are you serious?
While each night of the week will have MLB playoff games, through the first week in November. Saturday's are for College Football, Sunday and Monday night are for the NFL, Tuesday and Wednesday night have nothing, Thursday and Friday are College Football Night games. Rather than start the season on one specific night, why not start with a week of the NHL's best match ups at night? And the rest of the league will begin their game the next week. I don't care that the idea and match up is extremely gimmicky, the NHL needs to in order to get their ratings up.
Night #1 (NY Game)
San Jose vs NY Rangers
In order for hockey to be popular in the states it starts and stops in New York. Just like everything else, so why not give the people a possible Stanley Cup Preview.
Night #2 (Canada's Opener)
Edmonton vs Calgary
Toronto vs Montreal
Ottawa vs Vancouver
Though Canada is already on board with the NHL, why not give them a gift of seeing all their teams play on one night.
Night #3 (Future's Game)
Pittsburgh vs Washington
Let people get the chance to see the future of the league in Sidney Crosby vs Alexander Ovechkin.
Night #4 (Stanley Cup Rematch)
Ottawa vs Anaheim
Nothing to say here.
Night #5 (Original Six)
Detroit vs NY Rangers
Boston vs Toronto
Montreal vs Chicago
Nothing to say here either.
Night #6 (Eastern Rivalry)
Buffalo vs New Jersey
Or here.
Night #7 (Western Rivalry)
Anaheim vs San Jose
Or even here.
And why is the NHL making their fans pay an additional fee for center ice online, even when they already get it for their television.
I almost feel its not that people do not like hockey, but they do not know about hockey. The NHL has done a great job of squashing any progress it was making after the lockout. The league needs to stop worrying so much about making their older fans happy, and doing things in the traditional sense, and start making the league more hip. Now the Chris Drury is playing with the New York Rangers he needs to be the face of the league, even though he is not the best player. He is American and is the closest thing in the NHL to Derek Jeter. He has the intangibles, he works hard, a team first player, and knows how to win. Though he does not have the Captaincy yet, because he just signed with the Rangers. If the league wants growth, than it needs to start changing its way of going about doing things.
Posted by Josh Pearlstein at 9/30/2007 11:57:00 AM
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Recent Atlanta Thrashers Player News
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| Ron Hainsey (D) ATL
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11/20/2009 |
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| Pavel Kubina (D) ATL
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11/20/2009 |
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| Bryan Little (C) ATL
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11/20/2009 |
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| Maxim Afinogenov (RW) ATL
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11/19/2009 |
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| Tobias Enstrom (D) ATL
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11/19/2009 |
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| Ondrej Pavelec (G) ATL
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11/19/2009 |
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| Ilya Kovalchuk (RW) ATL
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11/19/2009 |
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Kovalchuk has recorded a whopping 11 points in his four games since re.....Join now for all of our fantasy news and analysis. |
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| Nikolai Antropov (LW) ATL
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11/19/2009 |
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11/19/2009 |
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| Johan Hedberg (G) ATL
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11/19/2009 |
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| Ondrej Pavelec (G) ATL
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11/19/2009 |
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Recent Atlanta Thrashers Team News
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6/20/2008 |
| Another minor league championship has led to an NHL job for John Anderson. Less than two weeks after leading the Chicago Wolves to the American Hockey League’s Calder Cup title, John Anderson was named coach of the Thrashers, according to a report by TSN of Canada on Thursday. Anderson will take the helm from general manager Don Waddell, who took over behind the bench after firing Bob Hartley on October 17. A native of Toronto, Anderson also coached the Quad City Mallards to the Colonial Hockey League championship in 1996-97, his only season with the club. Drafted 11th overall by Toronto in 1977, Anderson spent 12 seasons in the NHL, recording 282 goals and 349 assists in 814 games with the Maple Leafs, Quebec Nordiques and Hartford Whalers. A five-time 30-goal scorer, he scored a career-high 37 goals with Toronto in 1983-84, one season after notching a personal-best 80 points. After his final NHL campaign with Hartford in 1988-89, Anderson split the next five seasons between the AHL, IHL and Italy. He began his coaching career in 1995-96 with the Winston-Salem Mammoths, leading them to the Southern Hockey League finals in his only campaign with the club. |
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Afinogenov, Maxim RW
Antropov, Nikolai LW
Armstrong, Colby RW
Bartovic, Milan RW
Bogosian, Zach D
Boulton, Eric LW
Brathwaite, Fred G
Crabb, Joey RW
Denny, Chad D
Enstrom, Tobias D
Esposito, Angelo C
Flache, Paul D
Forney, Michael LW
Garnett, Michael G
Gratton, Josh LW
Hainsey, Ron D
Hedberg, Johan G
Hoffman, Mike RW
Holzapfel, Riley C
Kaip, Rylan C
Kane, Evander C
Klingberg, Carl LW
Kovalchuk, Ilya RW
Kozek, Andrew W
Kozlov, Vyacheslav LW
Krog, Jason LW
Kubina, Pavel D
Kwiatkowski, Joel D
Lehman, Scott D
Lehtonen, Kari G
Leveille, Daultan C
Little, Bryan C
Machacek, Spencer RW
MacIntyre, Drew G
Mannino, Peter G
McCarthy, Steve D
Naumenko, Nick D
O Dell, Eric C
Oystrick, Nathan D
Paquette, Danick RW
Pavelec, Ondrej G
Peverley, Rich C
Pilar, Karel D
Pohl, John C
Popovic, Mark D
Postma, Paul D
Reasoner, Marty C
Salmela, Anssi D
Schubert, Christoph D
Siddall, Matt RW
Slater, Jim C
Stapleton, Tim C
Sterling, Brett LW
Stevenson, Grant C
Stewart, Anthony RW
Thorburn, Chris C
Turple, Dan G
Valabik, Boris D
Vernace, Michael D
Welch, Noah D
White, Todd C
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