On The Eve of the New Season: North of the Border Editio

Agreed!! Calgary and Montreal are some of the fastest teams in the NHL (though Buffalo has them all beat). There were solid hits, great playmaking, some outstanding saves - that game had it all!! And the telecast was in French!! Nice to hear Jacques Demers again, even if I can't understand that thick accent of his.

I'm already revisiting all my predictions. Buffalo coming out of the east, hands down. Still going with Anaheim and Calgary fighting it out for the west. Did you see that bitch slapping Buffalo gave Philly last night? Sweet….

yeah, buffalo looks the best now out of the east.


and dont forget Minnesota out of the west.

whats up with the Flyers all of a sudden? sheesh


no matter what though, i just hope the cup goes back to a city that actually gets snow. :)

Originally posted by le sonick:
yeah, buffalo looks the best now out of the east.

too bad buffalo has the worst jersey in the nhl. . now if only vancouver would wear their throwbacks for every game.

Originally posted by xcanuck:
And the telecast was in French!! Nice to hear Jacques Demers again, even if I can't understand that thick accent of his.

huh? in fronche? what station - NHL on directTV?

GO HABS GO

Originally posted by sweetcell:

Originally posted by xcanuck:
And the telecast was in French!! Nice to hear Jacques Demers again, even if I can't understand that thick accent of his.

huh? in fronche? what station - NHL on directTV?

GO HABS GO

On DirecTV. The only feed was apparently the RDS one (French TSN).

I can't believe the Habs lost to Chicago…after such a strong start!!

Originally posted by xcanuck:

Originally posted by sweetcell:

Originally posted by xcanuck:
And the telecast was in French!! Nice to hear Jacques Demers again, even if I can't understand that thick accent of his.

huh? in fronche? what station - NHL on directTV?

GO HABS GO

On DirecTV. The only feed was apparently the RDS one (French TSN).

I can't believe the Habs lost to Chicago…after such a strong start!!

same with Dish Network.

dish Network usually has two feeds for each game, so you can pick which announcers you want to hear…
Chicago, of course, blacks out everything!

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:

Originally posted by le sonick:
yeah, buffalo looks the best now out of the east.

too bad buffalo has the worst jersey in the nhl. . now if only vancouver would wear their throwbacks for every game.

worse than Nashville? can't be!

Originally posted by le sonick:

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:

Originally posted by le sonick:
yeah, buffalo looks the best now out of the east.

too bad buffalo has the worst jersey in the nhl. . now if only vancouver would wear their throwbacks for every game.

worse than Nashville? can't be!

uhhh, yeah. . .buffalo's logo and jersey are much worse than nashville. it looks like a slug.

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well, i dont think it looks like a slug, but i like they went back to their old colors.

im sure buffalo will be around during post-season. and i see san jose and calgary battling it out with minnesota somewhere in there. i detest san jose more than anything, but theyre looking good right now.

now how about those kings. what a f'ing disappointment they are right now. and where did all the fighting go.

Originally posted by xneverwherex:
i detest san jose more than anything, but theyre looking good right now.

what, did you lose out on the season ticket lottery in 91?

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:

Originally posted by xneverwherex:
i detest san jose more than anything, but theyre looking good right now.

what, did you lose out on the season ticket lottery in 91?

LOL! Nah, nothing like that. Just a die-hard Kings fan.

Originally posted by xneverwherex:

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:

Originally posted by xneverwherex:
i detest san jose more than anything, but theyre looking good right now.

what, did you lose out on the season ticket lottery in 91?

LOL! Nah, nothing like that. Just a die-hard Kings fan.

die-hard kings fan. . .ha ha ha ha. . .does that mean you show up mid-way in the first and leave mid-way in the third?

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:

Originally posted by xneverwherex:

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:

Originally posted by xneverwherex:
i detest san jose more than anything, but theyre looking good right now.

what, did you lose out on the season ticket lottery in 91?

LOL! Nah, nothing like that. Just a die-hard Kings fan.

die-hard kings fan. . .ha ha ha ha. . .does that mean you show up mid-way in the first and leave mid-way in the third?

hahahaha. except for the fact im in new york its hard to show up period. then again i havent made it to a rangers game yet this season.

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
die-hard kings fan. . .ha ha ha ha. . .does that mean you show up mid-way in the first and leave mid-way in the third?

The "joy" of being a Kings fan these days….

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Actress Sandra Bullock leans in to kiss her husband Jesse James during the Los Angeles Kings' NHL hockey game against the Anaheim Ducks, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2006, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

NHL, Google to show games on tape-delay
Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal -
2:19 PM PST Wednesday
by Eric Fisher

The National Hockey League has annunced a new multi-year video content deal with Google Inc., making full-length games from the '06-07 season and some classic games available for online purchase on a 48-hour, tape-delay basis.

Pricing is still being finalized, but games are likely to cost $2.99 each after a free trial for the first two weeks of November. The deal arrives after a beta test on Google Video, as well as an offering last spring in which condensed NHL playoff games were sold on Cupertino-based Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes store.

Financial terms were not disclosed, but the deal is a revenue-sharing pact common to video download agreements. Mountain View-based Google will create an NHL-themed portion of the store where the official league content will be joined by hockey-oriented, user-generated videos.

"This is obviously an on-demand world where people want what they want, when they want it, and where they want it," said NHL Interactive CyberEnterprises President Keith Ritter. "Google is a place where we definitely need to be."

Discussions about a future video content deal with Apple are still ongoing, Ritter said, as are efforts to offer live streaming of games online. No timetable exists for either initiative.

SportsBusiness Journal

feature-length article on ESPN about hockey's original redneck: "It's like if you took John Madden and overlaid him with Rush Limbaugh"

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=doncherry

check out the videos… such classics, brought a goddamn tear to my eye.

(did anyone predict that the sabres would be doing *this* well?!? 17-3-1!!!)

Originally posted by sweetcell:

(did anyone predict that the sabres would be doing *this* well?!? 17-3-1!!!)

Ditto for the Ducks. I knew they'd be good, but 15-2-5?!?!!

I watched them just whipe the ice with the Sharks last night, and I can tell you this - those aren't the Mighty Ducks.