Go Canada!!!

[Mavrik]

We may not have done well in the Olympics but Canada proved once again we play the best hockey and won the world cup.GO CANADA!

[AKLGT]

go canada! i'm required to root for you! lolbut yes, that's awesome! who was in the championship game?

[nismo]

boooo!!!

[Mavrik]

Yup, was last night and I guess you missed it.

[ToolGuy]

Yippeee! Canada Rocks! I do business over there...

[Mavrik]

whats sad is that might have been the last bit of hockey we're going to see for a while. Today at 2 is when the talks start to see if there is a strike tonight. The strike broke baseball... hockey could be next.

[nismo]

Tha's some BUll!Inder

[ArcsVibe]

Ahh yes Olympic and now WORLD champions Vive le Canada!!!

[drunkenmaxx]

>Canada, BOOOOOO!!!

[ArcsVibe]

Sorry not to go off topic but to me it looks like MLB never really wanted to Expos to be in Montreal in the first place.Sad to see hockey go on strike especially after seeing how the players on all teams played their hearts out. They got to find a solution fast.

[Mavrik]

yeah, probably no season this year, I feel sorry for all the smaller teams out there, this might put a few right out when the league starts up again. I heard already that a few of the hockey players are already signing to teams in Europe...bunch of greedy *******s...

[rasermon]

I expect the no-play, strike, lockout, whatever you want to call it, to cost about 6 teams in all seriousness. Many teams barely break even, many lose money. The league expanded too much and moved some teams out of great markets to so-so markets. I think when it is all said and done, a league contraction will be coming out of the gate, and the players will REALLY have to think twice about what their paycheck means to them. Not the size of it, but the mere existence of a paycheck.

[rasermon]

Quote, originally posted by Salsa! »6 teams?Which do you have in mind?Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Tampa Bay Lightning, Atlanta Thrashers, New York Islanders, Minnesota Wild. I could be totally wrong about this, but thats how I see it. Let's hope not.

[rasermon]

Quote, originally posted by Salsa! »Oh btw, you only named 5.... I can't come up with another team, so I'll let you pick the 6th.

[millster]

Quote, originally posted by rasermon »I can't come up with another team, so I'll let you pick the 6th. As long as it's the Wings, I'm cool. (This post is intended as a joke, please don't kill me!)

[drunkenmaxx]

Quote, originally posted by millster »As long as it's the Wings, I'm cool. (This post is intended as a joke, please don't kill me!)im right with you and i am serious!

[rasermon]

Quote, originally posted by millster »As long as it's the Wings, I'm cool. (This post is intended as a joke, please don't kill me!)"Escape from New York"http://www.snakeplissken.net/p...w.mp3Hauk: You going to kill me, Snake?Plissken: Not now, I'm too tired.[pause]Plissken: Maybe later.

[Mavrik]

Quote, originally posted by rasermon »"Escape from New York"http://www.snakeplissken.net/p...w.mp3Hauk: You going to kill me, Snake?Plissken: Not now, I'm too tired.[pause]Plissken: Maybe later. Not sure what thats from lol but sounds like Metal Gear Solid II and any word? its after 3 and I'm at work with no idea of finding out. I'm guessing.... no season.

[VibeChick]

Official word:Game off, NHL board delivers unanimous vote to trigger player lockout Updated at 14:39 on September 15, 2004, EST. NHL chief Gary bettman. (CP) (CP) - The puck stops here. The NHL board of governors, at a meeting in New York, unanimously voted Wednesday to "not play again until there is a new economic system." With the current collective bargaining agreement expiring at midnight Wednesday, the decision means the NHL season is officially on ice. A lockout has begun. "Twenty of our clubs are losing money," commissioner Gary Bettman said at a New York news conference. "There have been too many bankruptcies and too many other close calls. I have had too many owners tell me they will get out of this game if the economics are not repaired." "This game's future depends upon getting the right economic system," he added. "In the absence of such a system, there is no future for our game." The NHL Players' Association was scheduled to respond to the league announcement later in the day. Bettman, in a prepared text, said the league had "done everything possible to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement that works . . . "Sadly, those efforts have not achieved their objective. And as the league stands at the threshold of the conclusion of the current CBA, which occurs at midnight tonight, it is my sombre duty to report that at today's meeting, the board of governors unanimously re-confirmed that NHL teams will not play at the expiration of the CBA until we have a new system which fixes the economic problems facing our game." The optimistic prediction is for an end to the labour impasse in January, seen as the cutoff point for an NHL season to be salvaged - just like 9 ½ years ago during the last lockout. Some believe the whole 2004-05 season could be cancelled. That means the Stanley Cup not being awarded for the first time since 1919 - when an influenza epidemic stopped the Montreal-Seattle final.

[Mavrik]

so no hockey this season... guess no more watching the leaf's get close and lose again. No more hockey night in Canada.

[VibeChick]

Quote, originally posted by Mavrik »so no hockey this season... guess no more watching the leaf's get close and lose again. No more hockey night in Canada.Yeah, it's gonna be pretty strange I think. There's always been hockey

[Mavrik]

exactly Carrie, so what will fill that time spot? lame (removed) reality shows? Already we got to many of those... hell they gave ellan a for day time and if showing it once wasn't enough it replays later in the day.

[VibeChick]

Hmm, good year to take up skiing again I guess. And ice skating. And tobogganing...wheeee!

[Big_Red]

1. GO CANADA GO2. Had the jersey on yesterday for support...today for celebration3. Had the Canadian Flag on my car yesterday for support, today for celebration.4. Watched game yesterday because it may be a long time until we can watch NHL hockey again.5. It was an awesome nail-biting game.Oh yeah...and 6. GO CANADA GO

[AKLGT]

well it's too bad no hockey this season. pretty lame!