30 Thoughts: Lockouts chock full of familiar refrains | Hockey | CBC Sports The commish has three groups of owners: the ones who want to play; the ones in the middle, including Tampa and Nashville, who want a better collective…
Monthly Archives: October 2012
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“Does the fact that the team owned by the NHL is beginning to lay people off worry anyone else? See you in October 2013 NHL.” – Chemmy on Twitter
One more reason to drive to Ontario: Reign signs Setoguchi
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Report: Setoguchi to play in ECHL | ProHockeyTalk Devin Setoguchi is going to play for a California team once again, only this time ESPN’s Craig Custance reports that it’ll be the ECHL’s Ontario Reign. The team’s roster includes former NHL…
Bettman and Jacobs vs. the World?
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Kypreos on NHL: The silent majority – sportsnet.ca I find it so ironic that eight years after the last lockout, the course of events that eventually sunk former NHLPA executive director Bob Goodenow might very well affect Gary Bettman in…
Dwight King waiver issue clarified
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Niesy left this comment in the Dwight King post of a couple of weeks ago: OK, I did some searching and apparently other NHL clubs have been sending non-waiver-exempt players down to the AHL for a while. It seems to…
Then don’t play it like a game, Gary
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And the law firm that represents the NHL, NBA, NFL and MLB in labor disputes is…
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Donald Fehr Holds Tight to His Composure and His Principles – NYTimes.com Fehr has often spoken of a new “playbook” for sports leagues, in which they impose salary caps and lock out players to force them to accept pay cuts.…
How is Dwight King going to avoid waivers?
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Mayor’s Manor reports that Dwight King has “signed a minor league contract” and is going to play in Manchester. I assume more details are forthcoming. All of the Kings’ waiver-exempt players (Andrei Loktionov, Jordan Nolan, Slava Voynov) were loaned to…
USA Hockey: What are Tier I, Tier II, AAA, AA, A, B (and BB?)?
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When my kid joined the circus that is youth hockey, I was assaulted by lingo that had mutated wildly in the thirty years since my own youth hockey “career” ended. Then as now, there were mite, squirt, peewee, bantam and…
Found: my first comments
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I’ve been strolling down memory lane, in the form of the archives of Rich Hammond’s first Kings blog, Inside the Kings. I believe I found my first three comments on the blog, which are interesting (if only to me) because…