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no worse feeling then turning on sportscenter looking for nba highlights, but instead, having to watch stupid hockey highlights
I know I don't......I didn't care much when it was around.
no worse feeling then turning on sportscenter looking for nba highlights, but instead, having to watch stupid hockey highlights
not at all...never cared about hockey....i was interested in the cheap beer nights with the local SA team though....i know the old team was done away with, and the new one is spurs/sbc affiliated.......do they still have a cheap beer night???? i wouldn't mind checking out a game in person for once in my life.....
somewhat.
When you have a favorite NHL team, you do to a point, but the Spur's great play, and the interesting baseball offseason has offset it.
I've never missed forbidden linking, and I never will.
Never will miss NHL.
I was celebrating when I first heard that the NHL was locking down last year.
Ginnnnnnnobili, i totally agree with you, i absolutely hate looking for NBA action and having to watch NHL....
Even baseball, I hate baseball too.
I miss it, but not as much as I did even a month ago. I usually go to about ten Stars games a season and I've grown to enjoy the game without being a uberfan like I am with basketball and football. They're much better live than on the tube.
They say on the sports talk stations that there's a plan to get a thirty game NHL season started by February 1st, but I'll believe it when I see it.
Why do you ask?
Is the season over already? I thought they played till April or May.
no i don't miss that bull , i hope they never settle on an agreement.
I guess I wish they were playing, but I really don't miss it. If I really want to watch hockey, I've got three excellent local choices, all within a short drive away:
- One of the premier (perhaps THE premier) college hockey program in the nation
- An AHL minor league hockey team
- A Quebec Major Junior League team...many future superstars go through that league. They play at a very high level.
I'm happy with those options. They are all cheaper, and in my opinion, more fun. And you'll see some quality hockey, too.
What's NHL?
Never had interest in it. Not even the "Stanley Cup Finals".....:zzz
Is that UPS' old logo?
Sorry to break your heart Dunce.
Supposedly Anaheim and Phoenix have ordered training camp equipment.
5 hour meeting today, another meeting tommarow.
Rumors are flying the season is gonna be saved, and is gonna start beginning of February.
a 25 game season with playoffs.
Damn, the Blues actually have a shot at the ring maybe this time if this happens.
eh,
doubtfull.
Not especially - although, the Preds were starting to progress last season so I woulda been keen to see how they went.
I'm Lost?!?!?!
Hockey, taco.
National Hockey League.
Thank you
When I looked earlier the Link with the logo was bad
Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma?
Nasal Hair Lice?
No Hamster Lube?
I miss it.... nothing like a good game of puck!
Besides, it gives me something to watch when the Spurs are not playing....
God Bless Herb Brooks!
Yeah I miss the NHL, I'm a big Avalanche fan. Nothing like hockey in the early part of winter to watch on TV.
An Ottawa hockey fan took his anger over the NHL lockout to his grave. Archie Bennitz, 84, instructed his son to let NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and union leader Bob Goodenow know how he felt. Bennitz's obituary in the Ottawa Citizen called Bettman and Goodenow "skunks" for denying him the pleasure of watching the NHL on TV...
It's a sad day, my friends.
Associated Press
NEW YORK -- The NHL canceled what little was left of the season Wednesday after a series of last-minute offers were rejected on the final day of negotiations.
A lockout over a salary cap shut down the game before it ever got a chance to start in October. Now the NHL, already low on the popularity scale in the United States, becomes the first major pro sports league in North America to lose an entire season to a labor dispute.
"As I stand before you today, it is my sad duty to announce ... it no longer is practical to conduct even an abbreviated season," commissioner Gary Bettman said. "Accordingly, I have no choice but to announce the formal cancellation of play for 2004-05."
"This is a sad, regrettable day that all of us wish could have been avoided," he said.
Bettman said the sides would continue working to get an agreement.
"We're planning to have hockey next season," he said.
The union scheduled a news conference later Wednesday in Toronto.
"The scary part now for hockey is do the fans come back? We're not baseball, we're not the national pastime," Nashville forward Jim McKenzie said.
The league and players' union traded a flurry of proposals and letters Tuesday night, but could never agree on a cap. The players proposed $49 million per team; the owners said $42.5 million. But a series of conditions and fine print in both proposals made the offers farther apart than just $6.5 million per team.
"We weren't as close as people were speculating," Bettman said.
Although Bettman was unequivocal in announcing the cancellation, Detroit Red Wings captain Steve Yzerman held out hope that some kind of a miracle was still possible.
"If you read into what (Bettman) said, it sounds like there is still an opportunity to get things done," Yzerman said. "The principles are there to make a deal, so I still think something can happen in the next day or two, because we're really not that far apart."
This will be just the second time the Stanley Cup isn't awarded since Canadian governor general Lord Stanley first had the idea for a North American champion trophy in 1893; the last was 1919, when a flu epidemic forced the finals to be called off in the then 2-year-old league. There was a lockout in 1994-95 that ended in time for teams to play 48 games, still more than half the regular season.
"We profoundly regret the suffering this has caused our fans, our business partners and the thousands of people who depend on our industry for their livelihoods," Bettman said.
"If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word _ terrible," he said.
Before Monday, the idea of a salary cap was a deal-breaker for the players' association but the union gave in and said it would accept one when the NHL dropped its insistence that there be a link between revenues and player costs.
That still wasn't enough to end the lockout that started on Sept. 16 and ultimately wiped out the entire 1,230-game schedule and the playoffs.
And now, that offer is off the table.
"By necessity we have to go back to linkage since no one knows what the damage to the sport will be," Bettman said.
The NHL's last game came in June, when the Tampa Bay Lightning beat Calgary 2-1 in Game 7 to win the Stanley Cup.
Since then, a lot of stars have moved on, going overseas to play. Jaromir Jagr, Vincent Lecavalier, Teemu Selanne, Joe Thornton and Saku Koivu are among the over 300 of the league's 700-plus players who spent part of this season playing in Europe.
For other older players, such as Mario Lemieux, Mark Messier and Dominik Hasek, the cancellation puts their careers in limbo.
"This is a tragedy for the players," Bettman said. "Their careers are short and this is money and opportunity they'll never get back," Bettman said.
And who knows when Canadian phenom Sidney Crosby will be able to get into the league, or what team he'll eventually play for. Since there was no season, there probably won't be an entry draft in June.
An agreement must be place for the draft to be held, and there is no clear-cut way to determine the picking order once a deal is reached. Washington had the No. 1 selection last year and grabbed Russian sensation Alexander Ovechkin. No doubt the Capitals would love to go first again to pick Crosby.
Taking a year off, or more, will only push the league further off the radar screen.
But this was known back in 1998 when NHL teams began preparing for this possibility by creating a $300 million war chest. The collective bargaining agreement, that expired on Sept. 15, was extended twice after it was originally signed in 1994. That allowed for the NHL to complete its expansion plans without an interruption of play.
"We lived through a decade of a collective bargaining agreement that didn't work," Bettman said. "It doesn't matter whose fault it was."
A year ago, pessimists said that at least one season was sure to be lost and that two was not out of the question.
"We never doubted that the union had the support and the backing of its players," Bettman said. "I hope when this is over they'll think that it's worth it."
For some reason, I'm not the least bit surprised.
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