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NHL Cancels Season
Vanity

Posted on 02/16/2005 10:04:46 AM PST by Loyalist

Gary Bettman makes it official: 2004-05 NHL season has been cancelled.

Damn you.


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To: hobbes1
What if they cancelled a season and nobody cared?

I thought that just happened.

61 posted on 02/16/2005 10:14:40 AM PST by Recovering Hermit
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To: notigar
Now is the time for someone to start up a more violent alternative league


62 posted on 02/16/2005 10:14:40 AM PST by Question Liberal Authority (Dear Howard Dean: Please Protect Me From Your Righteous Followers)
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To: soccer_linux_mozilla
If bored, check out Major League Soccer's website

I'll never be that bored.

63 posted on 02/16/2005 10:14:47 AM PST by Glenn (The two keys to character: 1) Learn how to keep a secret. 2) ...)
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To: retrokitten

I plan to come on FR threads and comment on sports I know nothing about and tell everyone who DOES care how much I don't care.


64 posted on 02/16/2005 10:14:50 AM PST by Betis70 (I'm only Left Wing when I play hockey)
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To: Loyalist

stanley cup stays in tampa for another year, right?


65 posted on 02/16/2005 10:14:54 AM PST by the invisib1e hand ("remember, from ashes you came, to ashes you will return.")
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To: Hat-Trick; Betis70; CurlyBill

Ping.

Not like this is really shocking or even really news. I was surprised that the NHLPA accepted the cap and from news reports I have seen so were most of the players!

But I would have been more surprised if they had actually played this year.

I'm really glad we will get to have Kari Lehtonen for the rest of the AHL season. I cannot wait to see him in the playoffs.


66 posted on 02/16/2005 10:14:56 AM PST by retrokitten (By Grabthar's hammer, by the sons of Worvan, you shall be avenged.)
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To: DocJ69
What's Hockey?

I think that is a so-called sport that starts out as a fight and the ref throws down a thing called a puck. That is when the game is supposed to start - I think. Could be wrong.

67 posted on 02/16/2005 10:15:21 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 ("I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for," - Howard Dean 01/29/2005)
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To: Snakeyes2
Sounds like a NASCAR fan.

Somewhat, but just being funny. I have always been an avid sports freak, but I grew up in Texas, and hockey wasn't exactly the stuff the 8 year old Texas boys strived for.

I've lost a lot of interest in Baseball since the strikes, and the gangsta mentality in Basketball is wearing on me. I'll stick with it as long as the likes of Tim Duncan and hopefully (seems like a good kid so far) LeBron James are around.

Football and Golf, and some Nascar keep me going.

68 posted on 02/16/2005 10:15:27 AM PST by cspackler (There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.)
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To: Loyalist

Cool! More time for slot cars!

.


69 posted on 02/16/2005 10:15:56 AM PST by itsamelman (“Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh.” -- Al Swearengen)
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To: Loyalist
Q: How do you spell NHLPA?

A: PATCO

70 posted on 02/16/2005 10:15:58 AM PST by ken5050 ("Joe Biden is the dumbest person in the Senate"......the Great One, Mark Levin)
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To: bicyclerepair
I'm tempted to toss every bit of NHL stuff I have and say screw them...

I almost tossed my Hartford Whalers sweats this past weekend. But only because they have a hole in them.

71 posted on 02/16/2005 10:16:21 AM PST by Pappy Smear
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To: johniegrad

Baseball recovered.

These idiots will do the same.

Just another sport I will not follow.


72 posted on 02/16/2005 10:17:01 AM PST by WakeUpAndVote (Got it Bad, Got it Bad, Got it Bad, I'm hot for Teacher! (and she's hot for me too))
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To: demnomo
I place most of the blame on the owners, mainly because the Gary Bettman era has been a disaster for hard-core hockey fans right from the very start.

I'm not the kind of fan who is going to turn my back on the NHL over this like I did with baseball (mainly because I understand this dispute from both sides), but I would gladly support any new professional hockey league whose first order of business was to hire Wayne Gretzky or Ken Dryden as commissioner.

73 posted on 02/16/2005 10:17:12 AM PST by Alberta's Child (I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert.)
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To: tfecw
"A sport the pisses liberals off because it's too violent."

There is still boxing and UFC.

74 posted on 02/16/2005 10:17:12 AM PST by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (Never play leapfrog with a unicorn!)
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To: Pappy Smear

Heresy! ;-) Get some green thread and stich those bad boys up.


75 posted on 02/16/2005 10:17:59 AM PST by Betis70 (I'm only Left Wing when I play hockey)
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To: Betis70
I plan to come on FR threads and comment on sports I know nothing about and tell everyone who DOES care how much I don't care.

LMAO!! Don't forget the long string of "z's" and "yawns".

76 posted on 02/16/2005 10:18:06 AM PST by retrokitten (By Grabthar's hammer, by the sons of Worvan, you shall be avenged.)
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To: Loyalist

And I should care because, after all there is the professional curling league, and professional wrestling to make up the difference?


77 posted on 02/16/2005 10:18:10 AM PST by dts32041 (When did the Democratic party stop being the political arm of the KKK?)
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To: kevkrom

Why would I, or you, or anybody want to assume that the owners (who had a massive millions of dollars war chest for this lockout) were on the up-and-up about their finances?

Good guys? Not.


78 posted on 02/16/2005 10:18:26 AM PST by ColoCdn (Neco eos omnes, Deus suos agnoset)
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To: trubluolyguy
I think that is where two teams fight on the ice with long sticks....there is a small vulcanized rubber disc involved but no one seems to know why.

The disc is what they are fighting over.

79 posted on 02/16/2005 10:18:56 AM PST by Mark17
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To: wrathof59
At least the players are all in Europe and Russia making mucho bucks :^)

And as the NHL is about to find out, they are going to have a much tougher time keeping the world's best players in the NHL even when they do come back.

80 posted on 02/16/2005 10:19:10 AM PST by dfwgator (It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
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