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Official Hockey Thread

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A while back some of us had a great time talking hockey on an introduction thread. How this forum has survived without a hockey thread is beyond me.

Let us know who you follow. Don't forget your favorite minor league teams. Preseason is only a month and a half away. Plenty of real time trash to talk then.

I loved the Atlanta Thrashers, but they have moved on. Currently I follow the Lightning and Bruins. Atlanta has an ECHL team, the Atlanta Gladiators. I go to as many of their games as I can each year.
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It's pretty natural for me. 2016 STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS, PITTSBURGH PENGUINS.:thumbsup: :cheers:..No brag, just fact. Yea, I yelled that out. I can't be real civil when it comes to sports. :lol: (Note to above: My high school's mascot is Gladiators. )
 
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It's pretty natural for me. 2016 STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS, PITTSBURGH PENGUINS.:thumbsup: :cheers:..No brag, just fact. Yea, I yelled that out. I can't be real civil when it comes to sports. :lol: (Note to above: My high school's mascot is Gladiators. )
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I might have ruined this forum's reputation for civility with this thread.
 
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I might have ruined this forum's reputation for civility with this thread.
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It's on your head. Our previous rude posters are jumping at the bit ready to post crude, anti social criticism & critiques. The floodgates have been opened. :lol:
 
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It's on your head. Our previous rude posters are jumping at the bit ready to post crude, anti social criticism & critiques. The floodgates have been opened. :lol:
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I can't believe they'd do such a thing about such a civil and dignified sport.
 
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I can't believe they'd do such a thing about such a civil and dignified sport.
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Great hockey story. I was living in Toledo and they had a high minor league team, the Toledo Gold Diggers(formerly the Blade). They were playing Columbus the last game before the playoffs, which both teams were in. Toledo was a pure goon team, well known for it. Even worst than Phila.Flyers NFL Broad Street Bullies would be. The Slapshot movie, though it took place nearby me in Johnstown, Pa. , was more patterned after the Toledo team than the Johnstown Jets, who didn't really fight much. Anyway, my brother and I were at that season finale game. Every seat in the7,000 seat arena filled with screaming fans. The entire game was massive fights.It was taking forever to play. With about four minutes left, both benches emptied out onto the ice and "every single player" on both teams started fighting . It was just like that finale scene in Slap Shot. And then, the two goalies met at center ice and commenced to slug it out. Both goalies broke their arms fighting each other (and couldn't play in the playoffs). The players wouldn't stop fighting. The refs went off the ice as the carnage continued. After about a half hour the Toledo riot police, helmets on, and police dogs, arrived at the arena. It took a while, but they finally broke up the fight. I've never seen anything like that since, and probably never will again. They ended the game without completing it and the police escorted all the fans out of the arena. More riot police and police dogs in the parking lot as we departed.
 
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Great hockey story. I was living in Toledo and they had a high minor league team, the Toledo Gold Diggers(formerly the Blade). They were playing Columbus the last game before the playoffs, which both teams were in. Toledo was a pure goon team, well known for it. Even worst than Phila.Flyers NFL Broad Street Bullies would be. The Slapshot movie, though it took place nearby me in Johnstown, Pa. , was more patterned after the Toledo team than the Johnstown Jets, who didn't really fight much. Anyway, my brother and I were at that season finale game. Every seat in the7,000 seat arena filled with screaming fans. The entire game was massive fights.It was taking forever to play. With about four minutes left, both benches emptied out onto the ice and "every single player" on both teams started fighting . It was just like that finale scene in Slap Shot. And then, the two goalies met at center ice and commenced to slug it out. Both goalies broke their arms fighting each other (and couldn't play in the playoffs). The players wouldn't stop fighting. The refs went off the ice as the carnage continued. After about a half hour the Toledo riot police, helmets on, and police dogs, arrived at the arena. It took a while, but they finally broke up the fight. I've never seen anything like that since, and probably never will again. They ended the game without completing it and the police escorted all the fans out of the arena. More riot police and police dogs in the parking lot as we departed.
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Now that's a hockey story. :)

Speaking of fighting, I love this logo from the Norfolk Admirals. Love the big guns shooting hockey pucks.
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Now that's a hockey story. :)

Speaking of fighting, I love this logo from the Norfolk Admirals. Love the big guns shooting hockey pucks.
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I love a good logo.............When I was young, my friends and I would go to Pittsburgh Penguin games during their first years in the league as an expansion team. If they got 4 or 5 thousand a game, they were lucky. Believe this. We would arrive for a game, go to the box office, and purchase a first row corner seat on the glass for $5. We'd go to about 10 games a season and always be able to get comparable seats. I got to see a lot of the old time greats. Bobby Orr, Gordie Howell, the Esposito brothers. It was certainly a different time and game then. Only one or two players wore helmets, and they were generally scorned for it.
 
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I love a good logo.............When I was young, my friends and I would go to Pittsburgh Penguin games during their first years in the league as an expansion team. If they got 4 or 5 thousand a game, they were lucky. Believe this. We would arrive for a game, go to the box office, and purchase a first row corner seat on the glass for $5. We'd go to about 10 games a season and always be able to get comparable seats. I got to see a lot of the old time greats. Bobby Orr, Gordie Howell, the Esposito brothers. It was certainly a different time and game then. Only one or two players wore helmets, and they were generally scorned for it.
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That is what I love about minor league hockey. Reasonably priced tickets available the day of the game. Not to mention players playing their hearts out.
 
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That is what I love about minor league hockey. Reasonably priced tickets available the day of the game. Not to mention players playing their hearts out.
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Exactly. Some nice newly built compact arenas also, where you're close to the action.
 
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Exactly. Some nice newly built compact arenas also, where you're close to the action.
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I loved going to Atlanta Thrashers games, but it was also sad in a way. There were times when the visiting team's fans were louder than the Thrashers fans. I never saw a sellout. Atlanta is just not a hockey town. Most of the hockey fans in Atlanta are fans of the teams from their old cities. Admittedly, that did keep the ticket prices very reasonable.
 
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I loved going to Atlanta Thrashers games, but it was also sad in a way. There were times when the visiting team's fans were louder than the Thrashers fans. I never saw a sellout. Atlanta is just not a hockey town. Most of the hockey fans in Atlanta are fans of the teams from their old cities. Admittedly, that did keep the ticket prices very reasonable.
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Yeah, that happens. Just like Pittsburgh is not a basketball town. The teams in the old ABA & ABL couldn't draw a crowd.
 
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Yeah, that happens. Just like Pittsburgh is not a basketball town. The teams in the old ABA & ABL couldn't draw a crowd.
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Atlanta just doesn't see many ponds frozen over in the winter.:(
 
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Atlanta just doesn't see many ponds frozen over in the winter.:(
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I've always been surprised that Hockey has done OK in a few hot weather cities. I never though franchises would survive in any of them, but it's done OK in a few.
 
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I've always been surprised that Hockey has done OK in a few hot weather cities. I never though franchises would survive in any of them, but it's done OK in a few.
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I have heard the only way hockey survives in the south is with significant government subsidies, but I don't know if that's true or not.
 
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Team USA is already out of the hockey World Cup. This is embarrassing.
 
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Panthers fan/season ticket holder here, gotta miss opening night since we'll be up at HHN that night.
 
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Reviving this thread to congratulate the Florida Panthers (and our fearless leader @Brian G. ) on their first Stanley Cup win!
 
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Reviving this thread to congratulate the Florida Panthers (and our fearless leader @Brian G. ) on their first Stanley Cup win!
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